1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,159 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. I want to 3 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: be clearer because sometimes I run out of time and 4 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: I want to be clear that I'm accurate. I read 5 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: all the emails, and it was a lot of emails 6 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: related to your reactions to Iran and what's going on there. 7 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: I started with the minority of emails, which was opposition 8 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: to what's going on in Iran. The vast majority were 9 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: in favor, and I tried to give voice, although I 10 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 1: was in a bit of a rush, but I wanted 11 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: to be clear. It was probably twenty percent against eighty 12 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: percent in favor, and of those in favor, in general, 13 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: related to a number of things. Each person has a 14 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: different thing. One of them was the nineteen seventy nine 15 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: hostage taking. One of them was a we're going on 16 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: fifty years of Iran's saber rattling and terror causing a 17 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: number of folks noted the Irani involvement which was heavy 18 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: and consequential in Iraq, including family members of individuals and 19 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: individuals who served in Iraq and some who didn't come home, 20 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: and Iran's heavy involvement there, and a number of things 21 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: on that level, there was the sense by most people 22 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: that Trump gave them every opportunity to dial back what 23 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: is believed to be their nuclear capability, especially putting that 24 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: on a delivery system to make it like an ICBM 25 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: where it could do us harm on American Shore America Shores. 26 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: Is that true or not? I don't know. I don't 27 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: believe anything I'm told. Doesn't mean that everything's a loie. 28 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: I just don't believe any of it. I think it's 29 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: healthier not to believe of it. And anyway, so now 30 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: we get to your calls. I just wanted to be 31 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: fair in kind of synthesizing the results. I will be 32 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: getting to those emails in the coming days, maybe some 33 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: of them today, but I just wanted to be fair 34 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: as to where those numbers were coming out. All right, Robert, 35 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: you're up, Go ahead. 36 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 2: So Michael, a little bit outside the box this time. 37 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 2: It's vastly different than what we experienced with the perception 38 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 2: of fear in having to fight against communism. 39 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:30,799 Speaker 3: That is not what this is. 40 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 2: This is a fear of a hateful, religious, crazy bunch 41 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: of people who want us dead. And I, for one, 42 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 2: I'm over the age of seventy if you were added 43 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 2: up a bunch of us old red nick seventy year 44 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: olds and sent us over there, we'd just kill all 45 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 2: of them. So I say, no holds barred. They don't 46 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 2: negotiate in good faith, they never have, and they're likely 47 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:00,040 Speaker 2: never to ever do it. 48 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 1: All right, Robert, thank you for the call. 49 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 3: Mike, you're up, Hey, sir, I am neither four against 50 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 3: the action. But what I really want to understand is 51 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 3: what's the strategic intent? What's the upside for the United 52 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 3: States on this? I just don't get that unless it's 53 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 3: a squeeze play on China and Russia to manipulate energy 54 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 3: prices and deny them Iranian oil. 55 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: But what do you say? I sound like a thoughtful 56 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: guy who doesn't jump to conclusions. What do you suspect? 57 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: I mean, maybe that's is that what you think is 58 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 1: an economic play. 59 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 3: It may be an economic and strategic play. It may 60 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 3: indeed be a portion of an Israel play. I don't know. 61 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 3: I don't get it, and until Trump or somebody in 62 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 3: the administration articulates it for me, I can't support it 63 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 3: or not support it. It's just like, what are we 64 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 3: doing there? 65 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: I'm just asking asking mode? So I'm not in any 66 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: way trying to advocate. Have you watched much of what 67 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: Trump said? Do you feel like he has laid out 68 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: the reasoning behind this or not? 69 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. 70 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: You don't have you watch right? 71 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 3: No, I haven't watched much of it. I've read more 72 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 3: than i've watched. You know. I like to think I'm 73 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 3: a relatively smart guy when it comes to politics and geopolitics, 74 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 3: and having been in the energy energy industry, it's like, 75 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:19,720 Speaker 3: what's the outside? What are we doing? 76 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: Why? 77 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 3: Okay, right, inkes nukes in the Middle East? Who cares? 78 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 3: As we always have nukes, Let them pop them off? 79 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,239 Speaker 3: You know, it's it's not our play. 80 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: But you wouldn't count yourself against this. You're just asking questions. 81 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: You're unclear. 82 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 3: The question is why? 83 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: Why? 84 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 3: Why not? Why there? 85 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: Yeah? No, it's it's interesting. I think one of the 86 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: theories would be that one of the theories, whether one 87 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: believes it or not, is that Iran is on the 88 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 1: cusp of a point at which you can't go back 89 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: because once they have a capability, you cannot disarm them 90 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: without considerable costs. Now you're free to believe that or not, 91 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 1: but that's one argument There is also the argument that 92 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: the economic argument, as you noted, that this absolutely cuts 93 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: China off at the knees. The I don't know if 94 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: I can lay my hands on it fast enough. Let 95 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: me see if I can. The percentage of China's oil 96 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: that they get from Iran is I believe thirty percent 97 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: of their total capacity. The percent that they okay Venezuela 98 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: is believed to be about four percent of Chinese estimated oil. 99 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: Imported oil, I'm sorry, Iran is estimated to be between 100 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: fifteen and twenty three percent, so you've got six times 101 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: as much. China was very concerned over Trump's involvement in Venezuela. 102 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: They have to be apoplectic over Iran. You're talking about 103 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: getting close to almost a third of their oil supplies. 104 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: Now Elon Musk has come in it, and he's very 105 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: big obviously in the electric space. But Elon has commented 106 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: sort of in their defense that may sound wrong, but 107 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: sort of in their defense, that China is increasing reliability 108 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: and production of electricity and getting away from oil, and 109 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: I believe that to be true. That's also why they're 110 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: spending so much money lobbying in the United States, using 111 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: green groups to reduce our oil capacity. We have oil 112 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: dominance in the world that is unquestioned. Whether we give 113 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: that up because the American left nags us and guilts 114 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: us to death funded by Chinese dollars will be a 115 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: political decision that we will fight for the next ten 116 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: to twenty years and we either win or lose badly 117 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: and bigly. But that is the economic factor here is 118 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: not to be overlooked. I do think we should note 119 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: that there has been a loss of American life. Three 120 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: US service members were killed, five others seriously wounded during 121 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: Operation Epic Fury, and those are not expendable casualties. Those 122 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:19,559 Speaker 1: are Americans who were serving their country. And I think 123 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: in the midst of all of this, I understand that 124 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: there are lives lost at war, and I understand that 125 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: it might seem tough to say we expect that and 126 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: that because it wasn't your kid that didn't come home. 127 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: I think that the point at which you make that 128 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: seem acceptable and gloss over it. I think you send 129 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: a statement to everyone who serves in uniform. Yes, they're 130 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: prepared to die, but when they do, we grieve them, 131 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: we count them. They are seeing them as young people 132 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: like to say all right, your costs coming up seven one, three, nine, nine, nine, 133 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: one thousand. If you are concerned about a particular incumbent 134 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: losing who you think has overstayed, they're welcome, or a 135 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: particular candidate winning because you like what they stand for. 136 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:17,679 Speaker 1: Don't underestimate your own influence. Post to your social media page. 137 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: Make it short, succinct, direct, don't wait for engagement. You 138 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: may follow accounts that get lots and lots and lots 139 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: of engagement, and you may not, but that's not the 140 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: reason you do it. You do it because you might 141 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: effect vote here and there, and if you drops in 142 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: the ocean after a period of time, add up to 143 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: be a real movement and a real difference. And remind 144 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 1: people to vote tomorrow seven eight to seven p and 145 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: feel comfortable saying these are your choices, and then turn 146 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: it off. You don't have to read the comments. People 147 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: take criticism far too personally, myself included. You don't have 148 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: to do that. And if someone responds to you in 149 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: a very nasty fashion, it is perfectly acceptable to block them. 150 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: You wouldn't let somebody walk into your office or your 151 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: kitchen while you're cooking and tell you what an idiot 152 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: you are for your opinion on this or that. You 153 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: wouldn't just stand there and tolerate that. You throw them out, 154 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: throw them out of your life. Get comfortable throwing them 155 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: out of your life. They're not your friend, regardless what 156 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: social media calls them. They're another person feeling real tough 157 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: behind the keyboard, and you're not required to listen to them. 158 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 1: If people go, ah, oh you block me, I damn 159 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,719 Speaker 1: sure did? How do you know? Because if you say 160 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: I blocked you, I blocked you because I block people 161 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: because I don't need you in my life. You don't 162 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 1: matter to me. You are not important to me. Well, 163 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: but yeah, you said something stupid and I don't have 164 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: to listen to you. But you need it tough enough. Again, 165 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: you're telling me what I need to do. I don't 166 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: need to do that. I live my life. I go 167 00:09:58,120 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: to bed, I get up and live my life again. 168 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 1: You're not part of it, and you don't get to 169 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: be part of it because I don't want you in 170 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 1: my life. But no, no, that's just it. You don't understand. 171 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: You play by different rules than I do. What are 172 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: you You're gonna boycott me? Now? You can't. I blocked you. 173 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 1: I say things on the internet, I don't want to 174 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: hear what you have to say back. Do you see 175 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: the difference. I'm just not that into you, and you 176 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: shouldn't be into people who are negative in your life. Period, 177 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: end of story. And when you take back that level 178 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 1: of control in your life, you'll be shocked and how 179 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: much more productive you'll be. You be shocked at how 180 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: much less fatigued you are, how much you dread work less, 181 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: how much you dread going to this or that less. 182 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: When you learn to say no to negative influences in 183 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: your life, you'll be shocked what the weight of the 184 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: world is off your shoulders. Ashton, your thoughts on Iran 185 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: or other things related there too. 186 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 4: Hey, Michael, I just wanted to give some stark context 187 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 4: to thirty eight. 188 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,719 Speaker 1: Okay, there were no Ashton's, and then all of a 189 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: sudden there were a bunch of Ashton's. And I don't 190 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: know why, if it was a movie or what happened, 191 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: but they just Ashton's everywhere. 192 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I never never hear any other thing. 193 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: It's like Jeremy, Josh and justin Like there was a 194 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: big convention. Women were like, we're gonna get drunk and 195 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,319 Speaker 1: get pregate tonight and in nine months Wenn name of 196 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: our kids, Jeremy, Justin and Josh and it just happened right. Oh, anyway, 197 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: go ahead, Ashton thirty eight. What do you do? 198 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 4: I actually I work at BUCkies? 199 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: Oh which one? Uh? 200 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 4: It's one of the smaller ones. 201 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: Oh you don't want to say which one? 202 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 4: You know what. 203 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: I shouldn't have asked you that, because now I don't 204 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: feel as comfortable. That's on me. No, no, no, this 205 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: was not the question, Ashton, go ahead. I'm sorry. 206 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 4: So a little historic context to the whole Iran thing. 207 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,839 Speaker 4: I used to be very conservative, but I learned a 208 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 4: lot more that a lot of the conservative foreign policy 209 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 4: is just based on lies. So everybody wants to go 210 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 4: back to nineteen seventy nine and talk about the taking 211 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 4: of the hostages, but they forget about nineteen fifty three 212 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 4: when the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected leader so that 213 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 4: British Patrolum could go back in there and take the oil. 214 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 4: And they had a dictatorship for twenty six years until 215 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 4: they were in and people said, we don't want a 216 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 4: dictator anymore. And then then they took the hostages. 217 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: First of all, you're absolutely correct. It is something that 218 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 1: is not discussed very often. There is there is a 219 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: sense that Iran was in a good place in nineteen 220 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 1: seventy nine and the bad people took over. That is 221 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: not true. You're absolutely right about what happened in nineteen 222 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: fifty three, and there was Western involvement, the British really 223 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: leading the charge on this. There was Western involvement that 224 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: propped up a fellow that we could control, and that 225 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: was Shapaulavi, and I think it was Mohammed race of Paulavi, 226 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: and then his son would have originally would eventually ascend 227 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: to what was effectively a throne. Had quite a similar 228 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: thing happening in Syria at the time, yet a similar 229 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: thing happening in a Rock to a lesser extent. But 230 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 1: the Assads were a similar case in Syria as well. 231 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: And there was a growing, burning resentment toward Western, British 232 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: and American involvement in the region. And there is a 233 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: bitter resentment of our influence to this day, not because 234 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: of the radical Islamic that rose up out of that, 235 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 1: but because of our involvement in propping up individuals who 236 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: were not such good guys, and I think that is 237 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: underestimated here, and it is why you know iranis sentiment. 238 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: I do not believe the majority in Iranis sentiment was 239 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: for homony, the original homony to I like to put 240 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: a in my homony that the revolution in seventy nine. 241 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: But I do think they had enough public support because 242 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: Paulave was considered such a self dealing bastard, which he was. 243 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: So we're trying to tell the world now, oh, we 244 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: got Paulave out here, he's a really good guy, we 245 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: can bring him back. But that's not entirely true. He's 246 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: a guy that was willing to do what Western interests 247 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: wanted in exchange for getting to keep a lot of 248 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: money and all the power. He was a puppet and 249 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: he was not necessarily a good leader of Iran. The 250 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: older folks who've left would tolerate him going back. But 251 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: this is why young people in Iran who don't remember him, 252 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: who have only lived under homony and the horrible terror 253 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: of that regime, that's why they're excited for change and 254 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: don't care who it is. Just yet, Jean bon Jovi's 255 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: birthday to day, how old is he? Joe Ramon just 256 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: had to leave us. He's having an emergency colonoscopy? Is 257 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: it emergency? 258 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 3: Is it? No? 259 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: He is having klonosophy? Isn't he what's he having done? 260 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 4: You know? Oh? 261 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: Okay, well he did have to go to a scheduled 262 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: medical appointment. Bon Jovi's only sixty four. Feels like he 263 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: should be older than that. Jerry, you're only Michael Berry show. 264 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 5: Go ahead, Jerry, Yeah, yeah, the greetings were NATO sixth country. 265 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, go ahead. 266 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 5: I think you need to those who don't learn from 267 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 5: history or doomed to repeat. It is a true statement, 268 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 5: and I would be shocked and disappointed if we hadn't 269 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 5: put feeders up to the Chinese saying or assure him, 270 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 5: then we're not going to check with their old supply. 271 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: Are you calling from love It? 272 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 5: Okay, I'm on the tractor here. I'm going to hang 273 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 5: up at listen Victoria show. 274 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Jerry. He got nervous. Maybe the 275 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: FEDS were on to him. I like a good conspiracy theorist, 276 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: old town farmer in a small town. It's my kind 277 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: of people right there. Yes, indeed, Lovebook Texas shall Paulavey 278 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: went to school in Lovebook Texas at Texas Tech. Interesting 279 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: little ted bit. So the question is going to be 280 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: after the strikes, what is Iran going to look like? 281 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: Is Iraq better for the fall of Hussein? Is Syria 282 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: better for the fall of Asad? Was Egypt better for 283 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: the fall of their leadership? What about Libya with Kadafi? 284 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 1: Was Cuba better? Although a little more complicated question is 285 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: how that overthrow went. You know, one criticism of Trump, 286 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 1: the Democrats have to criticize Trump afe cured cancer. They'd 287 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 1: figure out a way to say, you know that it's 288 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: going to increase unemployment at the cancer drug clinic. So 289 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: they're going to have to criticize him, whether fairly or not. 290 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: So what they're going to do now is you take 291 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: so that he may not be able to control that 292 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: you can campaign on and you use those to your advantage. 293 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: That's a natural trick. And one of those is going 294 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 1: to be the uncertainty over the future of Iran. And 295 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: you're talking about a major power militarily, you're talking about 296 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: a state run industry of considerable note, talking about a 297 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 1: very strategically geopolitically important country. So you've got a lot 298 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: of foreign interest. There is going to be an all 299 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: out battle. Questions who the forces are going to be 300 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 1: in it to take control of Iran, And there is 301 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: to be clear, there is a massive retinue of people 302 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: in this country who are in Trump's ear right now 303 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: for us to send your boys to be killed there, 304 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: and the way this kind of thing works out there 305 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: is a lot of red blooded, corn fat Americans. We're 306 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 1: gonna go over and whoop in my Iranian's ass in 307 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 1: the main, perhaps yes, on the whole, but we're going 308 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,199 Speaker 1: to suffer casualties if that happens, and they're going to 309 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:31,640 Speaker 1: be dramatic. We suffered a lot of casualties in Iraq 310 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: and for that matter, in Afghanistan at the hands of 311 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:42,160 Speaker 1: the Iranis. This is not a lightweight uh fighting force. 312 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: Whatever that fighting force looks like, it can be Afghanistan 313 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 1: where it's balkanized into all sorts of different groups. But 314 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: these guys live for war. It's all they've ever done. 315 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: They may not be able to write their own name, 316 00:19:56,119 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: but they are worthy adversaries. And go ask the arcas 317 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: Latreill in your neighborhood what he thinks of those boys 318 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,160 Speaker 1: in the Middle East. It's not a joke. And there 319 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: is a retinue of people. It is massive. Who is 320 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 1: ready to start sending MRIs and body bags and fuel 321 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 1: and everything else into Iran. I think it's going to 322 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: be easier to eliminate the government than to engage in 323 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: the latter phase of regime change. This is where regime 324 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: change becomes very dangerous, especially in an election year, because 325 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:46,199 Speaker 1: Trump goes from the success perceived success in the public. 326 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: You've got Irani's in the streets of Tehran and basically 327 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 1: every major city is Fahan, you name it, doing the 328 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: Trump dance. You've got the pretty girls who've replaced the 329 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 1: pretty Swaling girls, and they're doing the Trump dance and 330 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 1: everyone loves it, loves it, and the people are cheering. 331 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: And you've got the Irani's here in la big Irani 332 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 1: community and they're cheering in the streets and in DC 333 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: and they're cheering in the streets, and most Americans are 334 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: looking around, going, damn, I don't realize there was somebody 335 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 1: y'all here and they're loving America and they're loving Trump, 336 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: and that bad guy is gone. Okay. That's easier than 337 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 1: phase two, which is where you talk about who's actually 338 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,120 Speaker 1: going to leave the government whatever, Trump does, He's going 339 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: to catch hell for what his immediate reaction has been, 340 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: much like with Venezuela, is to take the reading of 341 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: who do we have the cell phone number for already 342 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: and we can have a conversation with to create some 343 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:02,360 Speaker 1: level of stability. And then I'm already seeing New York 344 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: Times in Washington Post and these guys saying if they 345 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: were so bad that we had to destabilize them, why 346 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: would you allow any of them to remain? Not that 347 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 1: they would disagree if Obama did. Then I think Trump 348 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: recognizes what happened in Iraq, the complete elimination not just 349 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 1: of Saddam Hussein, but the entire Bath Party. His entire 350 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:32,719 Speaker 1: government was wiped out. You don't simply overnight leave a 351 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 1: vacuum that is filled by good government reformers. If the 352 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 1: entire government is whacked, somebody is going to move in there. 353 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 1: It's sort of like expecting after Sheila Jackson Lee died 354 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 1: that now all of a sudden, the eighteenth Congressional district 355 00:22:53,160 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: deserves a good congressmaney oh oh, Sylvester Turner, Ah, I'm 356 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: not sure Sheila wasn't better than not. And then sylvestradize 357 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 1: who we're going to get now Christian Menefee, the guy 358 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: that Rodney Ellis groomed to be the congressman, or Al Green, 359 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: the guy he after dumping Menifee. So you've got this 360 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: guy that's eighty years old, caveman, you know, carrying signs 361 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: that say Blacks don't rent or blacks don't Yeah, blacks 362 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,199 Speaker 1: don't rent apes or black's rent apes. I guess it 363 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,160 Speaker 1: said because the a was covered. I'm not sure you're 364 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: getting any level of improvement from that. And the reason 365 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: is Iran does not have established institutions. This is where 366 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: the fall of America's institutions comes into play. If you're 367 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: looking for an analogy, Iran doesn't have universities and political 368 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: parties and a political culture for over fifty years that 369 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: could establish replacement that has developed a B team. They 370 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: don't have that waiting. I think there's going to be 371 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: a lot of ups and downs and developments in Iran 372 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: over the coming days and months. The overnight success of 373 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 1: this effort will be forgotten by summer. If there is 374 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: a civil war, and particularly if America is putting boots 375 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:30,440 Speaker 1: on the ground, and there will be a pull from Iran. 376 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 1: An emotional plea to send our boys and there will 377 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: be a push in this country. Irani's living in this country, 378 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: of multiple generations, are a very influential group, very very 379 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: They are doctors to a lesser extent, lawyers, businessmen, activists, professors, 380 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: and there is a deep understandable desire by the way 381 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: every group of immigrants who comes to this country and 382 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: the generations after it, who identify with their homeland. When 383 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: I say that they should not be setting American foreign policy, 384 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: that is not to criticize them. That is to remind 385 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 1: you that America is America. It's not a country of 386 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: Jews from Israel or Saudis from Saudi Arabia or Lebanese 387 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 1: or Iranis, or Indians or Pakistanis, or Chinese or Japanese 388 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:37,360 Speaker 1: or Vietnamese or Mexicans. That is to remind you that 389 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: there are people among us who have a loyalty to 390 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: another country, even if it's not a primary loyalty, and 391 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:51,160 Speaker 1: that does not always put America's best interests first. And 392 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: one has to be careful of that because most Americans 393 00:25:54,920 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: are walking around without this deep connection to a foreign country. 394 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: There are Indians who live in this country whose primary 395 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,479 Speaker 1: allegiance is to India, or at least enough of it. 396 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,919 Speaker 1: Same is true of Pakistan, same is true of Israel. 397 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: The same is true of Ukraine. And we've seen what 398 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: kind of mess that can get us into, and you're 399 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: going to see that with Iran. The fall of Iran 400 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: in seventy nine was a precursor to a lot of 401 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: human and financial capital coming to Europe, but especially to 402 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 1: the United States. And they're very, very successful people, much 403 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: like the Cubans. A lot of the Cubans are game 404 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: in fact, probably more so per capita, and so those 405 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 1: individuals are now going to flex and and they're not 406 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: necessarily wrong. We just have to be careful to make 407 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: good decisions for this country. We have to we have 408 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: to make decisions that are in our best interest a nation. 409 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: And it is my favorite prayer that we not put 410 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 1: boots on the ground. That that would be a terrible 411 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 1: terrible thing, a terrible terrible thing, and that would hurt 412 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: Trump in the polls. It'll give him a boost and 413 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: then hurt him bad. Hey, it's ramon about independence. 414 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,199 Speaker 6: Webster defines independence as the fact or state of being independent, 415 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 6: freedom from control, influence, support, aid, or the like of others. 416 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 6: Let us celebrate today Independence Day. You no doubt know 417 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 6: the stories settlers on New Land, angry at their tyrannical 418 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 6: ruler ruling from far away, an active defiance, a declaration 419 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,880 Speaker 6: of independence, fighting a bigger army with the rag tag squad, 420 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 6: a general who was quickly losing his troops to injury, disease, famine, 421 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 6: and an uncertainty from their troops who would wonder if 422 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 6: their leader one worth following. And of course you remember 423 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 6: the river crossing and the final battle that won the 424 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,919 Speaker 6: war and changed the United States and her young history forever. 425 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 6: Nothing I can say now will give those heroes the 426 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 6: proper respect or those stories their proper contexts. Those words 427 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 6: are just beyond me. How must it have finally felt, 428 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:27,879 Speaker 6: after losing battles, finally miraculously winning and becoming your own country, 429 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 6: gaining independence, able to govern your citizens as they see 430 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 6: fit and not by the hand of some distant ruler. 431 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 6: Monuments would be built so that generations would know these battles. 432 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 6: Statues erected so generations may be reminded of the soldier's greatness. 433 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 6: And the flag, a mighty flag whose existence represented defiance, pride, 434 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,719 Speaker 6: and mostly its independence. And oh what a flag, the red, 435 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 6: the white, the blue, and its sloane star representing the 436 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,959 Speaker 6: Republic of Texas. See the United States story of freedom 437 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 6: is a great and powerful story, arguably just as great 438 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 6: and powerful as the story of another band of ragtags 439 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 6: that fought and died for freedom. The general whose tactics 440 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 6: were doubted until that final victory, except this country would 441 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 6: be Texas. Sam Houston was losing his soldiers not just 442 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 6: to sickness and injury, but to doubt too. After retreating 443 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 6: past the Colorado River, many troops deserted. Finally, on April 444 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 6: twenty first, the Battle of San Deracino was fought and 445 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 6: won by the Texians in only eighteen minutes. 446 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: When time came to bring. 447 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 6: Texas into the United States, it entered as the twenty 448 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 6: eighth state in the Union. Given the US more push 449 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 6: west and upsetting Mexico so much that they declared war 450 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 6: on the United States. The US, with Texas now in tow, 451 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 6: won that war and added an additional five hundred and 452 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 6: twenty five thousand square miles to the United States territory, 453 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,720 Speaker 6: including the land that makes up all or part of 454 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 6: present day Arizona in California and Colorado and Nevada and 455 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 6: New Mexico. 456 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: Utah and Wyoming. 457 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 6: Our Declaration of Independence at Washington on the Brazas was 458 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 6: declared on March second, eighteen thirty six, one hundred and 459 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 6: fifty two days after the Battle of Gonzales, only four 460 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 6: days before the fall of the Alamo, in fifty days 461 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 6: before Texas ultimately won her independence. Cacinjasono declaring her independence 462 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 6: and taking her independence in one month and nineteen days later. 463 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 6: Anyone from Texas would expect nothing less from Texas. 464 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: Happy Independence Day, Texans. 465 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 6: God certainly has blessed us and those of you not 466 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 6: lucky enough to live in Texas. 467 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: Bless Yell's hearts for Texas would never cross Austin. 468 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 4: Want stop it can. 469 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 5: If it wasn't for Texas. 470 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 1: It made me the man I am, thank God for 471 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: my whole stomping ground. Wouldn't be standing ride here. 472 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 6: Riding now. 473 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 1: If it wasn't for Texas, if it wasn't for Texas, 474 00:31:36,400 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 1: if it wasn't for Texas,