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<v Speaker 1>Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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<v Speaker 1>Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and

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<v Speaker 1>Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yeddy. The new Supreme

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<v Speaker 1>Leader has made his first statement since being named. Ayatola

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<v Speaker 1>have that next, But first we give you Bill Maher

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<v Speaker 1>talking to Adam Schiff. This statement from the administration.

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<v Speaker 2>The President had the constitutional authority to direct the use

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<v Speaker 2>of military force because he could reasonably determine that such

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<v Speaker 2>use of force was in the national interest.

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<v Speaker 1>That's too vague for you. Totally vague, okay, because that's

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<v Speaker 1>from Obama. About Libya.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, Obama made the argument initially that he could go

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<v Speaker 3>into Syria without an authorisation. I and many others pushed

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<v Speaker 3>back on that argument. Ultimately, he did not go forward

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<v Speaker 3>with going after Assad, even though aside was gassing his

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<v Speaker 3>own people, because he thought he might lose the vote

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<v Speaker 3>in Congress. But I respect the fact that that was

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<v Speaker 3>important to him, and the fact that he did not

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<v Speaker 3>have the support of Congress meant that we weren't going.

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<v Speaker 1>To go forward.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, he's a weasel, a talking weasel. That's really our headline.

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<v Speaker 2>Ladies and gentlemen, trainers or scientists have taught a weasel

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<v Speaker 2>to speak.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a pretty good move by Bill Maher.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, though, sure, yeah, yeah, well, and then Schiff's

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<v Speaker 2>argument not to dwell on it too long because he's

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<v Speaker 2>a lyne piece of garbage, but that we got.

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<v Speaker 1>The smallest and his neck i've ever seen.

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<v Speaker 2>It ended up being a good thing that Obama promised

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<v Speaker 2>a red line and then destroyed American deterrence for a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of decades because he would have lost a vote

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<v Speaker 2>in Congress.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, it's a complicated thing, though, and that's a problem

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<v Speaker 1>we've got right now, and why presidents aren't going to Congress.

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<v Speaker 1>If Trump had gone to Congress, it might not have passed.

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<v Speaker 1>And then so you've got the president and the people

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<v Speaker 1>around him who firmly believe this is a necessary thing

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<v Speaker 1>for the United States to do for our world safety,

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<v Speaker 1>our own safety, and for the safety of the world,

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<v Speaker 1>and Congress, because they're all a bunch of freaking cowards,

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<v Speaker 1>I think, said no, So I guess we'll just let

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<v Speaker 1>them get a nuclear weapon eventually, or continue to harass

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<v Speaker 1>the world or whatever. And Obama did decide, Okay, we'll

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<v Speaker 1>put it to a vote, find out that it was

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<v Speaker 1>going to lose, and so didn't enforce his own red line,

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<v Speaker 1>which the commander in chief. So the commander in chief

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<v Speaker 1>can't make red lines anymore without going to Congress first,

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<v Speaker 1>I guess. And what I'm about to say is not

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<v Speaker 1>a good thing. It's a bad thing.

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<v Speaker 2>But not only are they cowards like you described, but

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<v Speaker 2>they're flaming, flaming partisans. If there was an act that

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<v Speaker 2>would cure cancer for all time, and Trump, the Trump

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<v Speaker 2>White House, you know, or was promoting it, the Democrats

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<v Speaker 2>would vote almost unanimously against it, and to put it

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<v Speaker 2>to a vote would make it like an ink. A

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<v Speaker 2>part is an issue, a strictly part is an issue.

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<v Speaker 2>If he went before Congress, that's a bad thing. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not saying therefore he was smart to not go. It

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<v Speaker 2>highlights what a bad situation we're in as a country

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<v Speaker 2>in a constitution. Honestly, but right, I don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>dwell on it because it's unsolvable.

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<v Speaker 1>If everybody in Congress is scared to ever vote yes,

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<v Speaker 1>you won't get in trouble for voting no, but you

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<v Speaker 1>could get in trouble for voting yes. Hillary had the

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<v Speaker 1>voting for the Iraq War hung around her her entire

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<v Speaker 1>presidential campaign. It's probably the main reason she lost to

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<v Speaker 1>Barack Obama in two thousand and eight for the nomination

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<v Speaker 1>because she voted for the Iraq War. So now nobody

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<v Speaker 1>ever wants to vote for it. John Kerry had the

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<v Speaker 1>same problem on the Iraq War vote. So no, no,

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<v Speaker 1>nobody ever wants to vote for it. But then you

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<v Speaker 1>got the problem of do you want to have one

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<v Speaker 1>guy deciding wars all the time, which doesn't seem like

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<v Speaker 1>the best system.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we don't have time to philosophize too long on

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<v Speaker 2>this point, but the trolley card dilemma makes it just

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<v Speaker 2>so infinitely clear. People's sins of omission completely different than

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<v Speaker 2>they've view sins of commission. Not doing something, even if

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<v Speaker 2>you know that is a horrifying choice, is seen as

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<v Speaker 2>less of a sin than doing something that might end

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<v Speaker 2>up having a bad result.

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<v Speaker 1>Humans are strange. I don't like you people.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I do like you people, I don't like humankind

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<v Speaker 2>in general anyway. So, speaking of Donald Trump and his

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<v Speaker 2>motivations and blah blah blah.

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<v Speaker 1>Got the statement from the Supreme Leader to come.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, right, yeah, yeah, do you want to do

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<v Speaker 2>that first your choice? Eh, eh, written comments.

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<v Speaker 1>Written comments from the new Supreme Leader. First time he's

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<v Speaker 1>said anything using my finger quotes since he was voted in.

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<v Speaker 1>Is he alive? Is he able to speak?

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<v Speaker 4>Oh?

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<v Speaker 2>He sure hell doesn't want to go on camera. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>if anybody could possibly discern where he is, that's the

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<v Speaker 2>last thing he wants. Staying alive's his main goal right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Anyway, his message was that Iran will keep fighting and

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<v Speaker 1>they are going to keep the straight of horror moves

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<v Speaker 1>closed or straights of horrormons. I'm going back to Straits.

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<v Speaker 1>I just saw the best map I've seen yet of

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<v Speaker 1>that area. So you got that little island that's a

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<v Speaker 1>straight between the island and that, and then the island

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<v Speaker 1>is in the strait, so you have a straight on

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<v Speaker 1>each side of the island. Oh, You've got a straight straight.

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<v Speaker 1>So I think Straits is fine. I'm at a strait.

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<v Speaker 1>This is not the biggest problem we have in America.

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<v Speaker 1>But he vowed that the new Supreme Leader that they

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<v Speaker 1>would avenge the blood of the martyrs. He has not

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<v Speaker 1>appeared on video or in public since he was appointed

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<v Speaker 1>on Monday. There are reports that he is injured. Uh

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<v Speaker 1>how bad, we don't know, but like everybody around him

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<v Speaker 1>was killed. His whole family is dead, including his dad.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's kind of an interesting story, right there. Is

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<v Speaker 1>there a chance that the Revolutionary Guard needed a religious

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<v Speaker 1>figurehead to point as the leader while they get their

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<v Speaker 1>act together, and he's either dead or barely old mon or.

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<v Speaker 2>Not very much of a force, breaking speculation, breaking speculation.

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<v Speaker 2>The New York Post is reporting reports have circulated that

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<v Speaker 2>the new Supreme Leader is in a coma having lost

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<v Speaker 2>his leg.

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<v Speaker 1>Who's reporting that? A New York Post? I believe? Is that?

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<v Speaker 1>What I just said? Wow, Yeah, he's in a coma.

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<v Speaker 1>Who knows? Fogg of wore? So I think that could

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<v Speaker 1>be psyops because we want the Revolutionary Guard or whoever

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<v Speaker 1>might be following the Supreme Leader to think, oh my god.

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<v Speaker 2>He shows himself. And when he shows himself, kerb.

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<v Speaker 1>Lewis, yes, you will be missed. I st it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's tough work being the Supreme Leader these days. So

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<v Speaker 2>I think Barton Swim is correct. In the Wall Street Journal,

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<v Speaker 2>he wrote a great piece today about what's motivating Donald

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<v Speaker 2>Trump and the various disparaging answers that are kicking around.

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<v Speaker 2>Wants to distract attention from the Epstein files. I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>a violent man, but I would like to slap anyone

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<v Speaker 2>who says that at least a couple of good firm

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<v Speaker 2>times two. He likes to be in the big shot,

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<v Speaker 2>in the center of attention. Well, that's unquestionably true, but

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think it's primary here.

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<v Speaker 1>He wants to profit somehow.

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<v Speaker 2>He's following the dictates of Benjamin Netnah, who read the Jews.

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<v Speaker 2>But then Marton Swam points out none of these work.

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<v Speaker 2>Trump's taken by far the biggest risk of his public life,

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<v Speaker 2>approving Epic Operation Epic Fury. Now he staked his presidency

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<v Speaker 2>on a better than pyrrhic outcome, I mean better than disaster.

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<v Speaker 2>He's antagonized a material faction of his MAGA coalition, something

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<v Speaker 2>he's not really done before. He's probably annoyed as vice president.

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<v Speaker 2>The idea of Trump as a political animal cynically weighing

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<v Speaker 2>the war's likely outcome in electoral terms also doesn't satisfy.

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<v Speaker 2>He could have launched a few Tomahawk missiles, declared the

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<v Speaker 2>mission of success, and blah blah blah in the manner

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<v Speaker 2>of Bill Clinton.

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<v Speaker 1>But Trump didn't do that.

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<v Speaker 2>He authorized a full on complex assault on what a

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<v Speaker 2>predecessor deemed a member of the Axis of Evil, and

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<v Speaker 2>nearly two weeks later, despite relentlessly negative press coverage and

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<v Speaker 2>the prospect of economic troubles, he has not called it off.

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<v Speaker 1>The question is why.

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<v Speaker 2>If mister Trump is either the unserious buffoon his detractors

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<v Speaker 2>on left assume he to be, or the anti war

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<v Speaker 2>peacenick as some of his MAGA supporters thought he was.

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<v Speaker 1>Why did he do it?

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<v Speaker 2>What's driving both Camp's battie is that the only plausible

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<v Speaker 2>motivation for his order to strike Iran is a judicious

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<v Speaker 2>and honorable one. And I should point out Marton swam

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<v Speaker 2>is no Trump honk okay, but he says it's a

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<v Speaker 2>judicious and honorable one. That the regime in Tehran constantly

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<v Speaker 2>menaces America and its allies, that its rulers can be

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<v Speaker 2>counted on to continue the pursuit of a nuclear weapon,

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<v Speaker 2>and no bizarre ulterior motives are necessary. They're a violent, hateful, bloodthirsty,

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<v Speaker 2>malign regime that's trying to get nukes.

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<v Speaker 1>As fast as they can period.

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<v Speaker 2>Mister Trump's disaffected anti war supporters of compiled video clips

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<v Speaker 2>of the present and it's saying he won't start wars,

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<v Speaker 2>he'll end them.

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<v Speaker 1>Sure, you've probably seen those clips.

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<v Speaker 2>Although he is a pretty solid counter argument, namely that

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<v Speaker 2>the Islamic Republic started the war and has sustained it

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<v Speaker 2>on an offer for the past forty seven years. The

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<v Speaker 2>internal reasonings for mister Trump's decision on most subjects are

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<v Speaker 2>protean difficult to discern, his explanations for them confusing, But

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<v Speaker 2>bear one thing in mind. He's old fashioned. Recall some

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<v Speaker 2>remarks he made a few weeks into his first term.

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<v Speaker 2>We have to start winning wars again. I have to say,

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<v Speaker 2>when I was young, in high school in college, everybody

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<v Speaker 2>used to say, we never lost a war. We never

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<v Speaker 2>lost a war. You remember we now we never win

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<v Speaker 2>a war. We never win, and we don't fight to win.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. The whole idea of the Pirate victory of it's

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<v Speaker 1>from a famous battle where the general said something along

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<v Speaker 1>the lines of we just won this battle, but I

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<v Speaker 1>think we're going to lose the war because the expenditure

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<v Speaker 1>of troops and treasure and all that sort of stuff

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<v Speaker 1>would be that, you know, we have this great, big

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<v Speaker 1>blast at the beginning, take out the supreme leader. But

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<v Speaker 1>ultimately history decides it was a bad idea. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>that's the way Trump has bet his entire presidency is

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<v Speaker 1>how it eventually turns out. I mean, that's way history

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<v Speaker 1>will judge it. Indeed.

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<v Speaker 2>Indeed, and oddly enough, I want to get into the

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<v Speaker 2>fatwah against Solomon Rushdie and how significant it was and

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<v Speaker 1>we need not.

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<v Speaker 2>I will tell you this though, the fatwa against Rushdie

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<v Speaker 2>was much much, much, much more than a bunch of

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<v Speaker 2>religious extremists who are mad at an author. It's significance,

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<v Speaker 2>it's ripples continued today and it was a signal we.

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<v Speaker 1>Should have he died. Yeah, it's way back in the

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<v Speaker 1>day and never forgotten. I read mem last year and

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<v Speaker 1>I kept having that moment. I was like, how was

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<v Speaker 1>this not a bigger deal at the time? And I

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<v Speaker 1>hate with this headline. We'll get to later. Florida mom

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<v Speaker 1>with face tattoo d Miles in mugshot after allegedly trying

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<v Speaker 1>to murder sister, I think I can top that one. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>that's a pretty good story, big murder trial going on.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, this one's wild and wooly. Okay. So, and

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<v Speaker 1>how about that drone threat on California? That was a

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<v Speaker 1>big story all day, Yes, California or the whole West coast.

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<v Speaker 1>That was the whole West Coast? I guess, well, right, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>my god man, what the hell the listeners all over?

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<v Speaker 2>There are people in Portland right now, in Seattle who

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<v Speaker 2>are completely unaware.

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<v Speaker 1>Of the practically non existent threat. I feel like La

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<v Speaker 1>such a target. San Francis so much sodomy. Anyway, we

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<v Speaker 1>got all that stuff on the waist to hear. The

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<v Speaker 1>book to read on this topic is called Joseph Anton.

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<v Speaker 1>I read it a couple of years ago by Salmon Rushdie.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the name he lived under, not a pseudonym he

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<v Speaker 1>wrote under because he wanted to have a cool pen name. No,

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<v Speaker 1>it's the name he hid from murderist Islamic thugs. He

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<v Speaker 1>had to live under that name for many, many years,

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<v Speaker 1>away from his kids and wife and all of his friends,

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<v Speaker 1>for fear of being killed by Islamists because of a

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<v Speaker 1>book he wrote.

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<v Speaker 2>Right Jonathan Rosen wrote a brilliant piece for the Free

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<v Speaker 2>Press that really made an impression on me, and he

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<v Speaker 2>talked about the very things Jack mentioned, and he remembers

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<v Speaker 2>hearing about the Fatwah. He had recently dropped out of

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<v Speaker 2>graduate school. He was a writer himself, and he said

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<v Speaker 2>it seemed to have served that a best selling novelist

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<v Speaker 2>born in India, living in London, famous around the world

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<v Speaker 2>might be murdered because the octogenarian ruler of an Islamist

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<v Speaker 2>deocracy thousands of miles away had called for his head

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<v Speaker 2>like the Red Queen shouting off with their heads and

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<v Speaker 2>Alice in Wonderland. And then he said, and though the

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<v Speaker 2>Iahtola died four months later, it soon became a parent

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<v Speaker 2>that Rushdie's novel was no match for a few sentences

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<v Speaker 2>read over the radio, calling on quote, all valiant Muslims,

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<v Speaker 2>wherever they may be, to kill the author of the

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<v Speaker 2>Satanic Versus and anyone else who helped bring his blasphemous

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<v Speaker 2>book into the world. And there's a lot more to this,

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<v Speaker 2>and I touch on it as Timer allows, but the

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<v Speaker 2>takeaway for me was the calling card the announcement by

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<v Speaker 2>the Ayahtola on behalf of fundamentalist Islam is that if

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<v Speaker 2>you offend us, we will kill you and everyone you

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<v Speaker 2>work with wherever you are on earth till the end

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<v Speaker 2>of time, because we have that right. See the bombing

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<v Speaker 2>last weekend in New York City, right, bombing, right, right,

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<v Speaker 2>which goes on, and he makes the point among others

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<v Speaker 2>that Rushti was persuaded to make a public apology in

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<v Speaker 2>the early days of his death sentence, his forever a

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<v Speaker 2>global death sentence, and the dying Eyetola fired back quote,

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<v Speaker 2>even if Solomon Rushdi becomes the most pious man of

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<v Speaker 2>all time, it is incumbent on every Muslim to employ

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<v Speaker 2>everything he has, his life and his wealth to send

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<v Speaker 2>him to hell. That's fundamentalist Islam, folks, there, it is there.

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<v Speaker 1>It is well. And what rushed He couldn't believe. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>first of all, he got stabbed. What now a couple

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<v Speaker 1>of years ago he got attacked on a stage by

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<v Speaker 1>a Muslim lunatic, almost died, lost his eye. And I

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<v Speaker 1>haven't read knife where he describes that whole thing, because

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<v Speaker 1>it sounds too gruesome for me. But back in the

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<v Speaker 1>time of the Fatwah, Rushti was so amazed at how

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<v Speaker 1>many governments, including his own where he lived in Great Britain,

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<v Speaker 1>made statements of we shouldn't be offending Muslims, and that's

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<v Speaker 1>you know we we stand on the side of you know,

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<v Speaker 1>those respects. Yes, exactly. They didn't take the side of

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<v Speaker 1>free speech. They took the side of let's not offend

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<v Speaker 1>radical Muslims.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, I just asked you to, you know, get some

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<v Speaker 2>of the garbage off your lawn, and you're gonna murder me. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think the sin was asking, hey, any chance

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<v Speaker 2>you'll clean that up? But you know, I haven't come

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<v Speaker 2>up with much to worth listening to in the past

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<v Speaker 2>thirty years, I know. But one thing I used to

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<v Speaker 2>say about Portland is they think they can passive their

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<v Speaker 2>way out of this, and a lot of the Western

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<v Speaker 2>world thought, and some still think, although like in Britain

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<v Speaker 2>and France that are waking up in hurry and Germany

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<v Speaker 2>and Sweden and other places, they think they can passive

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<v Speaker 2>their way out of fundamentalist Islam. It's a terrible, terrible mistake.

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<v Speaker 2>But let me read just a little more Rosen's piece.

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<v Speaker 2>The question remains urgent even after the joint American and

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<v Speaker 2>Israeli strikes on the early morning of feb twenty eight

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<v Speaker 2>to mark a new phase in the long war wage

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<v Speaker 2>by the Islamic Republic of Iran, which came into the

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<v Speaker 2>world chanting death to America and death to Israel. I've

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<v Speaker 2>been thinking a great deal about the Fatwa now that

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<v Speaker 2>the murderous regime the Iyatola founded in nineteen seventy nine

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<v Speaker 2>is teetering on the bloody brink, because it may yet

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<v Speaker 2>be that all of the proxies nurtured over the years

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<v Speaker 2>by the Islamic Republic for its apocalyptic showdown with the

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<v Speaker 2>Jewish state in the West. After all the billions spent

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<v Speaker 2>on Islamist militias, ballistic missiles, and global terrorism, plus half

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<v Speaker 2>a trillion dollars on its nuclear weapons program in pursuit

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<v Speaker 2>of its endlessly repeated aim of quote wiping Israel off

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<v Speaker 2>the map. It is a few sentences read aloud on

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<v Speaker 2>Radio Tehran mere breath that will remain its most successful

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<v Speaker 2>method of exporting the Islamist revolution even after the murderous

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<v Speaker 2>regime it created goes down. And again, this is several

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<v Speaker 2>pages long. It's brilliantly written.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll post it.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if you'll get paywalled, but we'll post

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<v Speaker 2>it at Armstrong and Giddy dot com under hot lengths.

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<v Speaker 1>You had two guys get beaten down in a really

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<v Speaker 1>nice shopping area yesterday near here San Jose because they

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<v Speaker 1>were speaking Hebrew. And there's some Muslim fanatics round, folks.

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<v Speaker 1>We're all salmon Rushdie, Armstrong and Getty. The New York

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<v Speaker 1>Post will not let up on the fact that the

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<v Speaker 1>Supreme Leader, the new Supreme Leader can't get an erection.

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<v Speaker 1>That has been their story now for a week and

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<v Speaker 1>particularly apparently the guy spent time in the hospital to

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<v Speaker 1>try to deal with the fact that he couldn't get

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<v Speaker 1>it up enough to impregnate his wife so that they

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<v Speaker 1>could have a male heir, because he needed to have

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<v Speaker 1>a male air. As you can see, he's now the

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<v Speaker 1>Supreme Leader because his dad was. It's like you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the Middle Ages over there. Sure, But anyway, so the

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<v Speaker 1>new Supreme Leader put out a statement like an hour

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<v Speaker 1>or so ago. We'll get into that a little bit later,

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<v Speaker 1>but their headline in the California Post is soft launch

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<v Speaker 1>a round. Supreme Leader puts out.

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<v Speaker 2>A hour I'm not sure that's fundamental to what's happening.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, maybe it is. I don't know, Okay, we got

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<v Speaker 1>a little game show, this very very silly game show

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<v Speaker 1>thing we're gonna do here coming on, but we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>play a sound and you got to guess what the

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<v Speaker 1>sound is. Okay, So that's coming up in just a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit. But first gonna be a tough one. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>First I'm gonna have to listen very carefully. But first seriousness.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, Just a quick follow up on the Solomon

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<v Speaker 2>Rushdie Fatwah thing. If you're not familiar with the history

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<v Speaker 2>of the thing, I just wanted to point out that

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<v Speaker 2>ten days after the Ayatola Komeni issued the Fatwah, two

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<v Speaker 2>bookstores in Berkeley, California, were fire bombed. Both had been

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<v Speaker 2>selling the Satanic Versus. One of bookstores one of the

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<v Speaker 2>author's favorites. Bookstores pulled it off the shelves, the publisher

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<v Speaker 2>yanked it all over. The Salmon Rushi couldn't believe that

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<v Speaker 2>everybody caved to the Iyatola's threats rather than saying, no,

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<v Speaker 2>damn it, free speech.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a Western society. We will write and read

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<v Speaker 1>what for the hell we want. No, that's not how

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<v Speaker 1>the world reacted. The world reacted with fear, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>helped give these nut jobs the idea that they could

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<v Speaker 1>boss us all around, and that's why they've been bossing

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<v Speaker 1>us around for fifty years.

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<v Speaker 2>If you didn't hear the last segment, number one, get

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<v Speaker 2>it via podcast Armstrong and getting on demand. And secondly,

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<v Speaker 2>just a very brief recap. We were talking about how

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<v Speaker 2>the fatwa against Rushiti was really a calling card to

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<v Speaker 2>the world from fundamentalist Islam before anybody understood where it was,

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<v Speaker 2>and how a lot of wise during governments thought we'll

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<v Speaker 2>pass of our way.

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<v Speaker 1>Just don't anger the Muslims, they thought, and we'll be okay.

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<v Speaker 2>But anyway, so you had those fire bombings in Berkeley, California.

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<v Speaker 2>Rushdie's Japanese translator was stabbed to death in nineteen ninety

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<v Speaker 2>one outside the university in Tokyo where he taught. Rushdie's

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<v Speaker 2>Italian translator had been stabbed in Milan the week before,

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<v Speaker 2>but survived. In October nineteen ninety three, as Norwegian publisher

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<v Speaker 2>was shot in Oslo, and though gravely wound, it survived.

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<v Speaker 2>A Zizna is in a Turnish editor, an intellectual who

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<v Speaker 2>had announced his intention to translate the Satanic Verses Versus

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<v Speaker 2>into Turkish narrowly escaped being burned alive in July of

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<v Speaker 2>ninety three when his hotel in eastern Turkey was torched

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<v Speaker 2>by an angry mob after the artist, musicians and writers

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<v Speaker 2>inside refused to send out the seventy eight year old

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<v Speaker 2>Nessen to be murdered. Thirty seven people died in the fire.

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<v Speaker 2>He was helped down a ladder by firefighters who began

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<v Speaker 2>beating him once they realized who he was, and someone cried,

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<v Speaker 2>this is the devil we should have really killed. And

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<v Speaker 2>there's more. But yeah, that was the calling card a

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<v Speaker 2>fundamentalist Islam. This is how we are, this is what

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<v Speaker 2>we do. You will bow before us.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, and then just a couple of years ago, rush

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<v Speaker 1>To himself was almost stabbed to death. Forty years after

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<v Speaker 1>that book came out, is it longer? Yeah? Crazy, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so they have a memory for this sort of thing.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, so probably a little transition music is necessary here, Michael.

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, I'm not sure it's ever been more necessary.

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<v Speaker 2>Little Soviet era transition music appropriates At the time we were.

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<v Speaker 1>Discussing, do you know, you probably don't know this, do

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<v Speaker 1>you kdie You've been too new to the show to

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<v Speaker 1>know this transition music. This is a fascinating story. We

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<v Speaker 1>should we should show you the video. Okay. It was

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<v Speaker 1>a hit song in the Soviet Union. The song had words,

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<v Speaker 1>but the Soviet Communist government thought the words were too

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<v Speaker 1>too there's a love song. They're too much for society.

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<v Speaker 1>They couldn't handle. So they had to turn this hit

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<v Speaker 1>song into la la la la la to get past

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<v Speaker 1>the communist government. Oh wow, no yah. They actually tried

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<v Speaker 1>a couple of times. In the review board or whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>it always said no, still not good enough. They're like,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, so well, for the sake of the show,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm kind of happy they did that great transition music

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<v Speaker 1>so the guy would sing this on you know, variety shows,

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<v Speaker 1>is a hit song with no words, just because the

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<v Speaker 1>Communist party doesn't think we should have work. Good grief,

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<v Speaker 1>I know. Isn't that crazy? Yeah that is okay.

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<v Speaker 2>Zorondami got elected in New York City. All right, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>try to identify this song. You can't.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, this sound. Try to identify this sound. You can't.

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<v Speaker 1>I just tell you right off the bat. You're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>guess wrong. Oh you've ruined the game. But try to guess.

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<v Speaker 4>Betty, Please don't be careful. Oh my god, he's doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, what was the grunting about? Why was

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<v Speaker 1>that guy grunting?

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<v Speaker 2>Fifty year old John Stevenson, a kickbox boxer, proved he

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<v Speaker 2>had balls of steel after becoming the first person in

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<v Speaker 2>the UK or probably anywhere else, to pull a car

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<v Speaker 2>using justice testicles. Hmmm, is that what you guess, Katie?

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<v Speaker 2>That spot I actually have a spot on. Thought it

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<v Speaker 2>was a pickup truck. I thought it was a guy

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<v Speaker 2>pulling a pickup truck with his testicles.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought it was a guy pulling a train with

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<v Speaker 1>his tongue. But I was close, but just not right.

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<v Speaker 2>And he munched on a bag of nuts while completing

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<v Speaker 2>his challenge. He joked afterwards, quote, when I'd finished, my

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<v Speaker 2>plums were bright purple.

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<v Speaker 1>But I'm still firing on all cylinders. How did it

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<v Speaker 1>not just yank them off in the way that he

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<v Speaker 1>into it, in the way that I have participated in

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<v Speaker 1>castrating hogs?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh lord, the details are unairable. He is trying he

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<v Speaker 2>was trying to raise awareness of men's mental health issues.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh that's well he did. So you say he's the

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<v Speaker 1>third person to No, it turns out.

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<v Speaker 2>He's the first person oh to pull a car in

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<v Speaker 2>the UK with his testicles, but Jack an excellent question.

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<v Speaker 1>Whether you realized it or not.

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<v Speaker 2>Using your genitals to pull a vehicle isn't a new concept.

0:25:03.800 --> 0:25:09.320
<v Speaker 2>Chinese ki kwong Qui kong gum Quigong master Tu Jingsheng

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<v Speaker 2>has earned himself the nickname of iron Crotch for his

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<v Speaker 2>displays of penile power.

0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:17.959
<v Speaker 1>Iron Crotch kung Fu master yeong Wai.

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<v Speaker 2>He went to even greater lengths to pull a five

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<v Speaker 2>ton military helicopter, but there's no record of it ever

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<v Speaker 2>being done.

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<v Speaker 1>In the UK before, I, uh, do you work up

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<v Speaker 1>to it?

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<v Speaker 3>Like?

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<v Speaker 1>Do I start with lightweight and work up to it?

0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:36.879
<v Speaker 1>Start with like two pound dumbbells and like move up

0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:39.480
<v Speaker 1>to a kettlebell and then exactly then I'm pulling maybe

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, a bicycle.

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<v Speaker 2>His sister Sherry was among those who turned out to

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<v Speaker 2>cheer for his latest feet. She said, quote, it was amazing,

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<v Speaker 2>It was bizarre to watch, but we're all really proud

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<v Speaker 2>of him.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure, Oh yeah, you gotta be super proud. What's

0:25:57.760 --> 0:26:02.520
<v Speaker 1>the apparatus that attaches to you? What is that?

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<v Speaker 2>Like some sort of silk scarf, like a lasso around.

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<v Speaker 1>All of this sounds like a terrible idea.

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<v Speaker 2>A long orange like scarf looking, how do you not

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<v Speaker 2>just end up garrotted, I don't know, castrated like a goat. Yeah,

0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:28.280
<v Speaker 2>you've got to fashion exactly the right kind of not.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you remember when I boy, this is I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if anybody wants to hear this. Do

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<v Speaker 1>you remember when I probably not? You remember when I

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<v Speaker 1>brought that tool in and I ask everybody what this is?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And it was for castrating male goats. And it's

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<v Speaker 1>an interesting piece of handheld equipment. And you put rubber

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<v Speaker 1>bands around it, and then when you squeeze it, it

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<v Speaker 1>opens up the rubber bands into a big circle, and

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<v Speaker 1>then you put that around the junk of the goat,

0:26:54.920 --> 0:26:56.679
<v Speaker 1>and then you slide it off the piece of equipment,

0:26:56.720 --> 0:26:58.840
<v Speaker 1>and then the rubber bands go tight around the bottom

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<v Speaker 1>underneath the test and then eventually it just cuts off

0:27:01.440 --> 0:27:05.720
<v Speaker 1>the blood circulation and the testes just drop off handy,

0:27:06.000 --> 0:27:09.760
<v Speaker 1>And then, having observed it myself, owls fly in and

0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:12.919
<v Speaker 1>grab the testicles and fly off with them, delighted with

0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:16.560
<v Speaker 1>their find. Well, you know, it's circle of life or something.

0:27:16.840 --> 0:27:18.879
<v Speaker 1>My life is better now that I know that. Yeah,

0:27:18.920 --> 0:27:21.679
<v Speaker 1>it's interesting though. I love the version of Show and

0:27:21.720 --> 0:27:23.600
<v Speaker 1>Tell is bringing in a castration tool.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, no kidding. I knew most people in the

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<v Speaker 2>Middle Ages. I knew most people wouldn't be able to

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<v Speaker 2>guess what that was.

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<v Speaker 1>No, you were right on that. Not to turn this serious,

0:27:34.440 --> 0:27:35.440
<v Speaker 1>because I do everything.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why I'm rarely invited to gatherings. The grit and

0:27:40.240 --> 0:27:45.880
<v Speaker 2>reality of farm life, which used to be known damn

0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:51.720
<v Speaker 2>near universally among Americans, is now so distant. Most people's

0:27:51.800 --> 0:27:58.119
<v Speaker 2>lives are so you know, sterile and no unintended, not intended,

0:27:58.640 --> 0:28:04.959
<v Speaker 2>so you know, and safe and careful and in a

0:28:05.040 --> 0:28:07.119
<v Speaker 2>life and death and where meat comes from and all.

0:28:07.160 --> 0:28:09.800
<v Speaker 2>It's just we all pretend it's not happening.

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<v Speaker 1>I've told this story before.

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<v Speaker 2>I hope it's every bit as good as the last one.

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<v Speaker 2>Do owls eat anybody's balls in this one.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm from a small town Kansas. I had a girlfriend

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<v Speaker 1>from small town Nebraska. She was even from a smaller

0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:26.760
<v Speaker 1>town than me. And their field trip that they did

0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:29.480
<v Speaker 1>in grade school was they walked down the street in

0:28:29.520 --> 0:28:32.040
<v Speaker 1>this town of three hundred people. They walked down the

0:28:32.040 --> 0:28:35.640
<v Speaker 1>street to the butcher where they had a steer standing

0:28:35.640 --> 0:28:38.280
<v Speaker 1>in the back room, and the guy shot the steer

0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:41.200
<v Speaker 1>in front of the kids and then butchered it so

0:28:41.280 --> 0:28:44.560
<v Speaker 1>the kids would understand where meat came from. And how

0:28:44.560 --> 0:28:47.800
<v Speaker 1>old are these This was not an eighteen ninety eight.

0:28:48.120 --> 0:28:50.880
<v Speaker 1>This would have been in She was five years younger

0:28:50.880 --> 0:28:53.840
<v Speaker 1>than me, so this would have been in the late seventies.

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<v Speaker 1>I guess around nineteen eighty. Wow, yeah, shoots you think

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<v Speaker 1>fifth grade? She said, Wow, fifth grade shoot a steer

0:29:04.040 --> 0:29:05.240
<v Speaker 1>in front of you. They probably didn't do that in

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<v Speaker 1>the Bay Area of California, did they?

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<v Speaker 4>Caty?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, No, I did not go on that field trip.

0:29:10.920 --> 0:29:14.080
<v Speaker 2>And have to shoot the genderbread person and butcher him,

0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:15.040
<v Speaker 2>hurt them.

0:29:15.280 --> 0:29:18.320
<v Speaker 1>They them. So do you think it's a meaningful in

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<v Speaker 1>any way that we're further away from the from that

0:29:21.080 --> 0:29:22.640
<v Speaker 1>grit do we need to be? I mean, we're further

0:29:22.680 --> 0:29:25.400
<v Speaker 1>away from other really really gritty things from the Middle

0:29:25.480 --> 0:29:27.080
<v Speaker 1>Ages that I think we're probably better off for.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>In Dave Grossman's book on Killing, which is really an

0:29:31.360 --> 0:29:33.760
<v Speaker 2>interesting read even if you don't agree with every bit

0:29:33.800 --> 0:29:37.480
<v Speaker 2>of it, he talks about how we've become so distant

0:29:37.480 --> 0:29:40.120
<v Speaker 2>from death because it used to be ninety nine percent

0:29:40.120 --> 0:29:42.680
<v Speaker 2>of people died in their home with the family around

0:29:42.680 --> 0:29:44.360
<v Speaker 2>and the rest of it, and you'd call the undertaker

0:29:44.400 --> 0:29:47.040
<v Speaker 2>and everything, but everybody understood that Grandpa's passed and now

0:29:47.040 --> 0:29:48.600
<v Speaker 2>they're going to take his body and his soul is

0:29:48.600 --> 0:29:53.360
<v Speaker 2>with God or whatever. And animals were frequently slaughtered in

0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:55.280
<v Speaker 2>the yard and then they were on your plate an

0:29:55.320 --> 0:29:58.280
<v Speaker 2>hour later or whatever. And we've gotten so far from that.

0:29:58.320 --> 0:30:02.000
<v Speaker 2>We've kind of fetishized death a weird way. It's distant,

0:30:02.040 --> 0:30:04.680
<v Speaker 2>but we're obsessed with it. And I'm not doing a

0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:07.120
<v Speaker 2>good job of explaining. But perhaps I've sold a book

0:30:07.200 --> 0:30:07.480
<v Speaker 2>or two.

0:30:07.880 --> 0:30:10.080
<v Speaker 1>Or is it the flip side that we value life more?

0:30:10.200 --> 0:30:11.240
<v Speaker 1>Is that the case?

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<v Speaker 2>Or no, that's an interesting question by God length the

0:30:17.880 --> 0:30:19.280
<v Speaker 2>response required by God.

0:30:19.280 --> 0:30:20.800
<v Speaker 1>But life was cheap in a lot of parts of

0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:23.760
<v Speaker 1>the world for and still is. Or it just doesn't

0:30:23.760 --> 0:30:26.600
<v Speaker 1>seem to have hardly any meaning whatsoever. So here's the question.

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<v Speaker 1>If your brother, you find out your brother is gonna

0:30:32.000 --> 0:30:34.720
<v Speaker 1>pull some heavy object with his testicles, do you tell

0:30:35.000 --> 0:30:38.520
<v Speaker 1>the news anchor I'm so proud of him. I don't know,

0:30:38.720 --> 0:30:39.080
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Depends if he succeeds or fails I mean, if you

0:30:41.720 --> 0:30:43.760
<v Speaker 2>like chickens out or gives up when you know the

0:30:44.640 --> 0:30:46.880
<v Speaker 2>thousands of pounds of pressure are applied.

0:30:47.040 --> 0:30:49.240
<v Speaker 1>What if they just proud of him, pull right off.

0:30:51.840 --> 0:30:56.520
<v Speaker 1>I think I would pretend I didn't know him. He's

0:30:56.600 --> 0:30:58.960
<v Speaker 1>trying to draw attention to men's mental health.

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<v Speaker 3>Just kind of do the Homer Simpson back into the

0:31:01.320 --> 0:31:02.680
<v Speaker 3>bush thing exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Yeah, good job, good yeah, Okay, more

0:31:07.560 --> 0:31:08.160
<v Speaker 1>on the way next.

0:31:11.760 --> 0:31:19.160
<v Speaker 4>It of course the big investigator.

0:31:19.200 --> 0:31:21.880
<v Speaker 1>But you have a lot of things happening, and all

0:31:21.880 --> 0:31:24.000
<v Speaker 1>we can do is take them as they come. We

0:31:24.120 --> 0:31:27.440
<v Speaker 1>know where most of them are. We've got our all

0:31:27.520 --> 0:31:30.880
<v Speaker 1>of them, I think. So that's Donald Trump yesterday talking

0:31:30.880 --> 0:31:34.320
<v Speaker 1>about sleeper cells, Iranian sleeper cells across the country, that

0:31:34.360 --> 0:31:37.680
<v Speaker 1>he says, we have our eye on them, all of them,

0:31:37.800 --> 0:31:41.880
<v Speaker 1>we think. Which that was a question asked out of

0:31:41.920 --> 0:31:45.800
<v Speaker 1>the news floating around throughout the day of this threat

0:31:45.840 --> 0:31:47.560
<v Speaker 1>of a drone attack on and I guess it was

0:31:47.600 --> 0:31:54.200
<v Speaker 1>specifically California drone attacks on California by the Iranians, but

0:31:54.240 --> 0:31:57.840
<v Speaker 1>that that story was from back in February. Wyatt just

0:31:58.000 --> 0:32:01.720
<v Speaker 1>erupted yesterday and then became chatter. I'm not exactly sure.

0:32:01.720 --> 0:32:03.360
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if that was on I don't know

0:32:03.360 --> 0:32:05.600
<v Speaker 1>if it just reached the media somehow, or if somebody

0:32:05.880 --> 0:32:08.920
<v Speaker 1>leaked that out on purpose to have a you know,

0:32:09.000 --> 0:32:11.440
<v Speaker 1>get people's attention. Hey, this is serious. I don't know.

0:32:11.600 --> 0:32:12.000
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:14.760
<v Speaker 2>It does have a bit of a rally around the

0:32:14.800 --> 0:32:17.320
<v Speaker 2>flag feel to it, but it's still so hard to say.

0:32:17.280 --> 0:32:20.080
<v Speaker 1>No one other thing before we get to the Supreme

0:32:20.160 --> 0:32:24.800
<v Speaker 1>Leader making his first statement. Well not really, but Ian Bremer.

0:32:25.040 --> 0:32:28.000
<v Speaker 1>Ian Bremer tweeted out, the streets of horror moves aren't

0:32:28.000 --> 0:32:32.600
<v Speaker 1>completely closed. Iranian tankers are still passing through, bringing oil

0:32:32.640 --> 0:32:35.160
<v Speaker 1>to China and oil revenue to the Islamic Republic. Yeah,

0:32:35.160 --> 0:32:37.680
<v Speaker 1>the Wall Street Journal had the story that Iran is

0:32:37.760 --> 0:32:41.240
<v Speaker 1>actually exporting more war oil than they were before the

0:32:41.320 --> 0:32:46.680
<v Speaker 1>war started. Ian wrights. The United States could stop them,

0:32:46.760 --> 0:32:49.920
<v Speaker 1>but that would antagonize China and further escalate the war.

0:32:50.040 --> 0:32:55.360
<v Speaker 1>So here we are. That's an interesting one. So China

0:32:55.440 --> 0:33:00.280
<v Speaker 1>gets seventy percent of its energy from other places. Thank

0:33:00.320 --> 0:33:04.160
<v Speaker 1>god we are not in that situation, but so we

0:33:04.360 --> 0:33:06.800
<v Speaker 1>think it would antagonize China if we stopped the oil

0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:10.200
<v Speaker 1>shipments from Iran. Well, this is a delicate balance. We

0:33:10.280 --> 0:33:18.840
<v Speaker 1>got going here anyway, Iran's new Supreme leader. This is

0:33:18.880 --> 0:33:22.400
<v Speaker 1>the way this went down. So apparently I had it

0:33:22.480 --> 0:33:25.600
<v Speaker 1>backwards in my head. So first the rumors were floating

0:33:25.600 --> 0:33:33.600
<v Speaker 1>around the Middle East that he is in a coma.

0:33:33.680 --> 0:33:39.240
<v Speaker 1>So that story was first, the story that the Supreme

0:33:39.360 --> 0:33:43.560
<v Speaker 1>leaders he's in a coma, had his leg amputated and

0:33:43.680 --> 0:33:46.480
<v Speaker 1>is badly hurt. That story has been floating around I

0:33:46.480 --> 0:33:49.440
<v Speaker 1>guess Iran. So then they put out this no here,

0:33:49.520 --> 0:33:51.560
<v Speaker 1>here's a statement from the Supreme Leader. And then they

0:33:51.600 --> 0:33:56.000
<v Speaker 1>put out a written statement read on Iranian state TV

0:33:56.240 --> 0:33:59.040
<v Speaker 1>without any explanation of why he was not on camera

0:33:59.280 --> 0:34:02.560
<v Speaker 1>or you weren't hearing his voice right, which is a

0:34:02.720 --> 0:34:11.560
<v Speaker 1>little who's that for the Iranian people? I don't know.

0:34:12.000 --> 0:34:15.240
<v Speaker 1>I need proof of life. Yeah, he says he's alive.

0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:19.120
<v Speaker 1>RAN's new Supreme leader allegedly released his first statement today,

0:34:19.360 --> 0:34:21.799
<v Speaker 1>vowing to use the lever of closing the Strait of

0:34:21.800 --> 0:34:26.759
<v Speaker 1>Hormuz to international energy shipping after reports circulated that he

0:34:26.800 --> 0:34:29.799
<v Speaker 1>was in a coman had his leg amputated from those

0:34:29.800 --> 0:34:32.160
<v Speaker 1>strikes that killed his dad and pretty much all of

0:34:32.160 --> 0:34:35.560
<v Speaker 1>his family. No explanation provided for why the fifty six

0:34:35.680 --> 0:34:38.600
<v Speaker 1>year old did not appear or read out his purported words.

0:34:39.120 --> 0:34:42.200
<v Speaker 1>We are in the audio business. We know very well

0:34:42.280 --> 0:34:48.040
<v Speaker 1>that recording somebody at this point in world history is effortless.

0:34:48.960 --> 0:34:50.800
<v Speaker 1>If you own a phone, if you own a computer,

0:34:50.920 --> 0:34:53.879
<v Speaker 1>if you've got anything, you could record somebody's voice. Now,

0:34:53.880 --> 0:34:57.200
<v Speaker 1>it is possible that they're just so concerned about somehow

0:34:57.800 --> 0:35:01.759
<v Speaker 1>it being tracked to his location, because hiding him is

0:35:01.760 --> 0:35:04.960
<v Speaker 1>going to be of the utmost importance Israel or US.

0:35:05.000 --> 0:35:07.439
<v Speaker 1>We're going to kill him the first chance we get.

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<v Speaker 2>I wonder what security protocols he does have in place

0:35:11.960 --> 0:35:15.000
<v Speaker 2>right now, because, for instance, you could put your phone

0:35:15.000 --> 0:35:19.920
<v Speaker 2>on airplane mode, record his message hand curry you're at

0:35:20.200 --> 0:35:23.880
<v Speaker 2>somewhere else, and then broadcast it with never never connecting

0:35:23.920 --> 0:35:26.239
<v Speaker 2>to the internet. But I wonder if they just don't

0:35:26.239 --> 0:35:28.160
<v Speaker 2>even want to see a currier coming and going from

0:35:28.160 --> 0:35:30.560
<v Speaker 2>wherever he is, right they think we're watching from the

0:35:30.800 --> 0:35:32.120
<v Speaker 2>clouds and we are.

0:35:32.280 --> 0:35:35.040
<v Speaker 1>Well, they got to be pretty paranoid. Oh yeah, yeah,

0:35:35.400 --> 0:35:38.799
<v Speaker 1>after the first couple of rounds of snuffins, Yeah yeah.

0:35:38.840 --> 0:35:43.319
<v Speaker 1>But to not have a picture at all or hear

0:35:43.360 --> 0:35:46.000
<v Speaker 1>the voice when you're trying to show that you're still alive,

0:35:46.239 --> 0:35:48.960
<v Speaker 1>that's not usually the way it works. Yeah, maybe he

0:35:49.040 --> 0:35:49.640
<v Speaker 1>isn't a coma.

0:35:50.480 --> 0:35:53.400
<v Speaker 2>So many question marks about what's next, what we can do,

0:35:53.440 --> 0:35:55.360
<v Speaker 2>what we probably will do. We'll have Mike Lions on

0:35:55.440 --> 0:35:57.120
<v Speaker 2>in just a couple of minutes. Hope you can hang around.

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<v Speaker 2>If you can't podcast Armstrong, you getting on demand.

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<v Speaker 1>My main questions for Mike Lions is because don't understand this.

0:36:02.480 --> 0:36:09.359
<v Speaker 1>How can we not take out whatever Iran has that's

0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:11.560
<v Speaker 1>allowing it to fire on these ships? They hit five

0:36:11.600 --> 0:36:15.400
<v Speaker 1>ships yesterday, tankers trying to go through the straight of

0:36:15.440 --> 0:36:17.200
<v Speaker 1>horror moves. How can we now take that out? I

0:36:17.200 --> 0:36:20.000
<v Speaker 1>want to hear what Mike's explanation for that is. Armstrong

0:36:20.080 --> 0:36:20.600
<v Speaker 1>and Getty