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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jackie and now he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 3: I am saying this because I'm really afraid that my

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Speaker 3: country's going to be further weakened by this. I think

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Speaker 3: we're going to see the end of American empire. Obviously

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Speaker 3: other nations would like to see that, and this is

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Speaker 3: a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on the

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Speaker 3: shoals of Iran, but it's also going to end, I believe,

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Speaker 3: Trump's presidency and effectively end it.

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Speaker 4: Trump responded to Tucker Carlson, call him kooky, and nobody

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Speaker 4: knows what he said, get a TV show. I think

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Speaker 4: he said Tucker has got way bigger following than if

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Speaker 4: he had a TV show. Actually, so if he had

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Speaker 4: a TV show, it would be very popular and he

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Speaker 4: would have his following online, so he would be bigger maybe,

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Speaker 4: But he's better. He's bigger than any of the current

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Speaker 2: He just is. It's just statistically true.

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Speaker 4: So this segment, we're going to really get into the

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Speaker 4: whole various shades of MAGA and that whole thing, And

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Speaker 4: is Trump betraying America first by wanting to go to

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Speaker 4: war with Iran, which he seems to be hell bent on,

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Speaker 4: And I'm I think he's right. And for instance, here's

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Speaker 4: Tulcy Gabbard in a hearing a little while back saying

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Speaker 4: Iran's not going to get a bomb.

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Speaker 1: The ICY continues to assess that Iran is not building

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Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon, and Supreme Leader Kamani has not authorized

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Speaker 1: the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and three. The ICY continues to monitor closely if Tehran

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Speaker 1: decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program.

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Speaker 4: So I see the international community, that intelligence community, intelligence community. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I don't think that's right. But anyway, here Trump was

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Speaker 4: asking about delusion. Yeah, here's Trump responding to his DNI,

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Speaker 4: the Director of National Intelligence, she has access to everything,

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Speaker 4: saying Iran's not about to get a bomb.

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Speaker 2: Here's what Trump says about that. How close do you

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Speaker 2: personally think that they were to get it on?

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Speaker 5: Because Tulsa Gartt testified at March the intelligence community said

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Speaker 2: What she said, I think they.

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Speaker 4: Trump says, I don't care what she said when she

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Speaker 4: testified that Iran's not closing to getting above Trump decided.

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Speaker 2: I think they're very close to having one.

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Speaker 4: He said, yeah, So he's speaking about the intelligence around

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Speaker 4: the most important issue right now, in the biggest decision

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Speaker 4: of his entire presidency. The first person you would go

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Speaker 4: to would be the DNIS. Like I said, they have

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Speaker 4: access to all of it in all the different departments.

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Speaker 4: And he says, I don't care what she said because

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Speaker 4: she's wrong, right, He's basically just saying, I mean he's

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Speaker 4: he's basically saying, she's part of that non interventionists don't

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Speaker 4: ever attack anybody crowd that I kind of catered to.

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Speaker 5: But in this case, I don't believe is right. She

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Speaker 5: cannot be in her job a week from now.

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Speaker 4: But just to make it more complicated, I would agree

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Speaker 4: to make it more complicated. You got John Fetterman, Democratic Senator,

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Speaker 4: arguing that supporting Israel and taking down the regime in

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Speaker 4: Iran will be the key to lasting piece in Middle East.

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Speaker 2: He's pro regime change, not just.

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Speaker 4: Bombing, but regime change, which of course is a dirty

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Speaker 4: phrase for a lot of people after.

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Speaker 2: Iraq, which I saw somebody point out earlier.

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Speaker 4: You have a whole bunch of hosts on cable news

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Speaker 4: who are four years old when the regime change in

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Speaker 4: Iraq has because that was twenty three years ago, twenty

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Speaker 4: two years ago. So if you're twenty eight, you were

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Speaker 4: Another interesting wrinkle from Who's Where on Politics and Weird

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Speaker 4: Bedfellows Josh Rogan, who we generally really like, although I

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Speaker 4: don't agree with everything he said a lot from The

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Speaker 4: Washington Post said, if Trump attacks Iran based on a

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Speaker 4: flimsy claim of preemption, what after running on a foreign

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Speaker 4: policy criticizing Bush for attacking a raq on a flimsy

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Speaker 4: How is it think comparing.

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Speaker 2: Those two is? It's a canard, It's not accurate.

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Speaker 4: How the hell is it a flimsy claim of preemption

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Speaker 4: when the IAEA and everybody has been reporting that they're

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Speaker 5: Bomb, When both the Ayatola and the chief negotiator of

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Speaker 5: Haran said one thing we're not going to give up

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Speaker 5: is enrichment. You don't enrich uranium to get the light

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Speaker 5: bulbs to light up and have civilian electricity.

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Speaker 2: You do it to build a nuclear weapon. Period. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if Josh is off his rock or what,

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Speaker 5: but I completely disagree with him on this.

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Speaker 2: I will concede this point.

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Speaker 5: And it's a the idea that this could lead to

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Speaker 5: regime change in Iran than what?

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Speaker 2: Then?

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Speaker 5: What is a penny door's box of Middle East style?

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Speaker 5: God help us?

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Speaker 2: Do we have to? Well, Iran can't have the bomb.

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Speaker 4: No, that's the bottom line, and that's what makes the

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Speaker 4: decision easier. No matter what happens, there's nothing that is

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Speaker 4: worse than letting them get a nuclear weapon, is there?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the question I think. I don't think it's possible.

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Speaker 4: I can't even imagine a scenario that would be worse

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Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson disagrees with you.

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Speaker 4: Even if it devolved into full Iraq chaos, which I

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Speaker 4: it than Iran getting a nuclear weapon?

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Speaker 5: Depends who ends up in charge. You know what happens

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Speaker 5: five ten years down the line. But no, I agree

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Speaker 5: with you. It's not an open and shutcase. But I agree.

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Speaker 5: A couple of notes very quickly from the online world.

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Speaker 5: First of all, I came across this the great David Berg,

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Speaker 5: Iowahawk blogger. The worst consequence of the Internet is the

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Speaker 5: almost universal delusion that your opinions are shared by the majority.

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Speaker 5: Once again, the worst consequence of the Internet is an

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Speaker 5: almost universal delusion that your opinions are shared.

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Speaker 2: By the majority.

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Speaker 5: It's even worse than that, though, David, It's that my

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Speaker 5: opinions are shared by enough people that they're right anyway,

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Speaker 5: He says. The countdown of the top four sufferers of

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Speaker 5: acute delusions of popularity Number four, transactivists number three true

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Speaker 5: uh yeah, no kidding, and then the stupid idiot corporations

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Speaker 5: too anyway. Moving along, Number three Neo Nazi podcast bros.

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Speaker 5: Number two campus garbage babies.

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Speaker 2: What's a garbage baby?

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Speaker 5: It's your It's I don't know, it's your campus cafea

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Speaker 2: Number one Caitlin Clark haters.

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Speaker 5: An He mentions, there's this weird cult of paleo WNBA

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Speaker 2: Good luck with that.

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Speaker 5: That is the reason I bring that up is that's

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Speaker 5: a pretty good encapsulation of the Internet. It's an echo

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Speaker 2: And the algorithms.

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Speaker 4: Algorithms are built to feed you people that agree with you,

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Speaker 4: to help reinforce it.

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Speaker 5: The whole for you, you know, section at Twitter for instance.

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Speaker 5: So anyway, as Maga America is at each other's throats

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Speaker 5: over the whole helping Israel thing.

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Speaker 4: Jacob, I gotta jump in on that because you just

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Speaker 4: said this drives me crazy. This is just the way

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Speaker 4: politics works. But you always claim that the other side

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Speaker 4: is doing something unique to them and it doesn't happen

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Speaker 4: with you. I watch MSNBC and CNNA fair amount lots

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Speaker 4: of discussion about the civil war within the Republican Party

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Speaker 4: the magamum Maga movement is a coalition of different groups

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Speaker 4: that don't agree and it's coming apart and blah blah blah.

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Speaker 4: Are you gonna tell me the Democratic Party hasn't been

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Speaker 2: Right, give me a break.

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Speaker 5: Virtually every political party, every political party, yes, but the

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Speaker 5: Democrats especially. Oh yeah, yeah, what a trans people have

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Speaker 5: to do with militant Muslims in Hamtramck, Michigan, for instance,

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Speaker 5: have in common. Yeah, church go will go ahead and

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Speaker 5: finish that up.

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Speaker 4: Church going black women who are the least likely to

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Speaker 2: With all the other people with queers for Palestine, Yes,

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Speaker 2: in the same political party.

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Speaker 4: Right, okay, Union leaders who had to hate illegal immigration.

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Speaker 5: I mean, there's all kinds of examples, so really interesting

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Speaker 5: study of how this works. Jade Vance is just tweeted, Look,

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Speaker 5: I'm seeing this from the inside and admittedly biased towards

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Speaker 5: our president and my friend, but there's a lot of

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Speaker 5: some things directly on the Iran issue. Then he gets

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Speaker 5: over ten years that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

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Speaker 5: this goal. The President has made clear that Iran cannot

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Speaker 5: have uranium enrichment, and he said repeatedly that this would

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Speaker 5: see a single good argument for why Iran needs to

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Speaker 5: to see a single good pushback against the IAEA's findings. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 5: the President has shown remarkable restraint in keeping our militaries

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Speaker 5: That decision belongs to the president. And of course people

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Speaker 2: Gap toward that crowd, which.

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Speaker 2: Whatever he does, that is his focus. And so that

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Speaker 5: But the reaction, including some pretty significant accounts.

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Speaker 2: One guy says, yeah, it makes sense to me. Death

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Speaker 2: to America. He can't get away with it. Then this other.

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Speaker 5: Blue check mark Twitter account, he has a bunch of

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Speaker 5: tweets over the ears from Trump's from Trump in order

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Speaker 5: to get elected, Barack Obama will start a war with Iran.

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Speaker 5: Barack Obama will attack Iran in order to get reelected.

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Speaker 5: A year later, I've predicted President Obama will at some

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Speaker 2: There's a list of them that he shows.

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Speaker 5: That's interesting, nice words, but it's still another war in

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Speaker 5: the Middle East provoked by the Israelis.

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Speaker 2: That will suck up a lot of resources.

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Speaker 5: People are just tired of seeing Israel first, not America first.

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Speaker 4: Van and he doesn't need ever run again. So you know,

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Speaker 5: Interesting, The only pushback to JD that I've seen on

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Speaker 4: It proves that Trump is on the Epstein list and

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Speaker 5: It's much easier to fools people than to convince them

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Speaker 4: After trillion's and dollar dollars and thousands of lives wasted

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Speaker 5: And you think Donald Trump's going to try to install

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Speaker 4: proud that Tucker Carlson is standing his ground against the psychotic,

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Speaker 5: By preventing Iran from having a new exactly.

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Speaker 4: So, yes, we're bringing the world to the edge of

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Speaker 5: Exactly is that they've been making that plea about Russia

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Speaker 4: Right, and Russia does have nukes obviously, does Alex Jones

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Speaker 2: It's gonna happen, Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 7: The ability to destroy Israel through nuclear weapons and ballistic

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Speaker 2: That's the victory. That's our victory.

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Speaker 7: And if the people in Iran then choose a different government,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, your whole regime change statement is absolutely true

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Speaker 4: See France from seventeen eighty nine until Napoleon arrived.

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Speaker 5: And so the guy who asked is somewhat bligerent question

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Speaker 5: in what ways do you believe this is a different

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Speaker 5: Now, that's the way like a civilized human would ask

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got George W. Bush.

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Speaker 5: And and you know, if I had to leave my life,

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Speaker 5: another one, and in the Middle East it's the fundamentalist

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Speaker 5: Muslim lunatics who usually have that concentrated enthusiasm, like, oh.

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Speaker 2: What's his name? Al Baker or fat You remember fat

441
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Speaker 2: Head in Iran?

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Speaker 5: What was his name? I can't remember, It'll pop into

443
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Speaker 5: my head. She leader, He had very close ties to Iran,

444
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Speaker 5: the guy in Irakaman. Anyway, you've got to be brutally

445
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Speaker 5: realistic that those people are gonna come gun and for power,

446
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Speaker 5: and you have to have a plan to suppress them.

447
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Speaker 5: I remember being fed the line, and I think inside

448
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Speaker 5: the White House the actual Neokans believed this Iraq is

449
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Speaker 5: really a secular society. I mean people, I mean people

450
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Speaker 5: are sites and Sunni's like you're a Baptist and I'm

451
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Speaker 5: a Lutheran. Well that was because Saddam repressed them like crazy.

452
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Speaker 5: And now those lessons having been learned, you know, whether

453
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Speaker 5: Trump and the Israelis and the Gulf States just.

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Speaker 2: Somebody has got.

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Speaker 5: To approach it in a realistic way and not make

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Speaker 5: the horrific mistakes of Iraq.

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Speaker 4: Even if you took a religion out of it, which

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Speaker 4: is a hell of an even if since it's a

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Speaker 4: theocracy for the last forty some years, Even if you

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Speaker 4: took that out of it. Though, whoever's in charge of

461
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Speaker 4: the army might decide I want to be the leader,

462
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Speaker 4: and the person who's in charge of the Revolutionary Guard

463
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Speaker 4: might say, no, you're not, I'm going to and they

464
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Speaker 4: go to war like you've hardly ever seen before for

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Speaker 4: the next ten years, trying to decide who's going to

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Speaker 4: run the place.

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Speaker 2: That's absolutely true.

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Speaker 5: And then, you know you, folks, we historians are going

469
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Speaker 5: to say, would we better have been better off just

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Speaker 5: letting Iran have the new No, I don't think so.

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Speaker 5: Having to sign agreements non aggression packs like the other

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Speaker 5: nuclear powers on Earth an uneasy relationship, but blah, blah blah,

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Speaker 5: the difference being that the Mullas mean what they say.

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Speaker 5: A lot of those people are actual religious fanatics.

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Speaker 4: But the classic Caesar crossing the Rubicon moment was he

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Speaker 4: decided to take his army after whoop an ass all

477
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Speaker 4: over the place. You know what, I'm going to run

478
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Speaker 4: the Roman Empire and crossed the river headed back into

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Speaker 4: the country and everybody knew, okay, it's on. He ended

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Speaker 4: up winning. But yeah, sometimes the generals decide they want

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Speaker 4: to be in charge.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I suspect that that's what will happen, So

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Speaker 5: it would be a fair question. Then if our questioner

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Speaker 5: were to follow up, he'd say, all right, so how

485
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Speaker 5: do you see the post regime change Iran taking shape?

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Speaker 5: That isn't way worse for humanity than if they got

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Speaker 5: the nuke.

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Speaker 2: It's a great question. It's impossible to answer.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I could spin you out a scenario, but

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Speaker 5: it's unlikely to happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: It is a classic example of being caught between a

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Speaker 5: rock and a hard place, having two absolutely awful alternatives.

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Speaker 5: There's a certain school of thought you run into a lot,

495
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Speaker 5: especially online, that likes to pretend not making a decision

496
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Speaker 5: is not a decision in and of itself, that if

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Speaker 5: you don't make.

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Speaker 2: It, that Obama's really right? Is Obama? Don't do stupid s?

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Speaker 2: Was their motto?

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Speaker 4: Okay, well, not doing stupid s allows Russia to just

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Speaker 4: keep gobbling up land.

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Speaker 5: For instance, the late great Neil peart, if you decide

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Speaker 5: to this is well, if you don't make a decision,

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Speaker 5: you've still made a choice. And there is a belief

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Speaker 5: I think that if you just don't act, everything's frozen

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Speaker 5: in amber, and that the status quo continues.

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Speaker 2: It's it's not.

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Speaker 4: True, no, no, in your child rearing, marriage, career, whatever

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Speaker 4: it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, two miserable options. Pick one. That's life.

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Speaker 4: I think Mark Alpern wrote this today. I think we

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Speaker 4: agree that the most likely scenario is the United States

513
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Speaker 4: is going to help Israel here in the next forty

514
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Speaker 4: eight to seventy two hours bomb the but Jesus out

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Speaker 4: of Fordoh to the point that it can't make a

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Speaker 4: nuclear weapon, and and we're gonna we're going to help

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Speaker 4: in that.

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Speaker 2: Now. I assume at that point we're done.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there will be diplomacy and aid and that sort

520
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Speaker 5: of thing, and pulling of strings behind the scenes, trying

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Speaker 5: to either get a more friendly regime in place, or

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Speaker 5: just saying, all right, mullas, if you can still run,

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Speaker 5: if your people will still let you run the place,

524
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Speaker 5: go ahead and run the place. Just remember what happened.

525
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Speaker 5: If you try to get a nuke again, it's gonna

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Speaker 5: happen again. You want to keep to yourself and like

527
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Speaker 5: revive your economy and be reasonably friendly to the nations

528
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Speaker 5: around you, Go ahead, knock yourself out. Don't try to

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Speaker 5: get a new kigin.

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to be open minded for the other side

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Speaker 4: because I'm pretty hard shore. I think this is a

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Speaker 4: good idea. You know, nobody saw what was coming in

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Speaker 4: Iraq in that Isis was gonna get created and become

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Speaker 4: a thing. Maybe there's some sheite version of that that

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Speaker 4: comes out of Iran when you unleash the dogs of

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Speaker 4: war that nobody could possibly imagine with a year's long

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Speaker 4: insurgency of a deaf Cultis sheeite version of this?

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Speaker 2: Who knows?

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Speaker 5: Not impossible. Nope, I didn't see ices coming to anybody else.

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Speaker 5: Don't disband the army that would.

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Speaker 4: Help let them go to work. And she said it'd

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Speaker 4: be better than isis anyway, we will finish strong next.

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Speaker 4: You can always text on this topic. This is a

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Speaker 4: thorny one.

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Speaker 2: This is a big deal. This is I do.

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Speaker 4: I absolutely agree with the idea that this is the

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Speaker 4: biggest decision of Trump's life that he's going to be making,

548
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Speaker 4: depending on how it plays out. Our text line is

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Speaker 4: four one five two nine KFTC.

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Speaker 8: A man was recently arrested at a Florida strip club

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Speaker 8: after he allegedly called nine one one from a private

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Speaker 8: room to complain that he had to pay three hundred

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Speaker 8: dollars but the dancer refused to have sex with them.

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Speaker 2: Of course, it's still Florida.

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Speaker 8: Nine one one, so I'm sure they were like, try

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Speaker 8: five hundred.

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Speaker 4: So God, it's hard to not continue on this same theme.

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Speaker 4: We don't usually cover one topic this much, but this

559
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Speaker 4: is new. President Trump just tweeted out he actually did

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Speaker 4: a different whatever I'm gonna call everything a tweet that

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Speaker 4: comes out like this fine.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump said.

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Speaker 4: We now have complete and total control over the skies

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Speaker 4: over Iran. I read that and said to Joe, I

565
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Speaker 4: think the key word there is we. So somebody apparently

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Speaker 4: thought the we stuck out. Also, he didn't say Israel

567
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Speaker 4: has complete control over the skies over ran, so somebody asked,

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Speaker 4: According to a White House official, though we that President

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Speaker 4: Trump is referring to here is the United States, not Israel.

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Speaker 2: HM.

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Speaker 4: So so Trump meant to say, we, the United States

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Speaker 4: now have complete control over the skies of Iran.

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Speaker 5: Therefore, we are willing to send in our b twos

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Speaker 5: with the moab bombs. I got is the unspoken end

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Speaker 5: of that sentence. I guess, so my final thought on

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Speaker 5: the previous discussion is that there's got to be something

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Speaker 5: transitional if indeed the current regime falls, and you've got

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Speaker 5: to it's got to be a temporary quote unquote military

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Speaker 5: dictatorship with people we can work with. We assure there's security,

580
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Speaker 5: tell them you just keep stability, don't try to go

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Speaker 5: for a bomb. We'll make sure none of the Arab

582
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Speaker 5: states decide they want snatch up your oil refineries or whatever.

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Speaker 5: And you go forward from there. It's a likely choice,

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Speaker 5: but it's a good one. Greed heads because the military

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Speaker 5: Iran is a bunch of greed heads. They make tons

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Speaker 5: of money. They have a like a societal hold on

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Speaker 5: big chunks of the economy.

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Speaker 2: There are number of countries that are like that. It's

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Speaker 2: very typical.

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Speaker 5: But you deal with the greed heads, not the religious fanatics.

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Speaker 5: The greed heads you know how to deal with.

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Speaker 4: If there's an LCC in Iran like there was in Egypt,

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Speaker 4: to take over after m bark the dictator fell, I

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Speaker 4: don't know if there's one person or they'll be warring

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Speaker 4: amongst themselves as we talk.

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Speaker 2: Ol There may have been last week, but they're all

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Speaker 2: on now.

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Speaker 4: If you don't follow OSI in t Defender Open Source

599
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 4: Intelligence Defender. On stories like this, you're missing out. You

600
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Speaker 4: will know so much, so much, sooner than you'll ever

601
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Speaker 4: get it from cable news or the newspaper.

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Speaker 2: I look at it constantly anyway. They have this, Joe,

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Speaker 2: you'll like this.

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Speaker 4: Internet and cellultor outages occurring right now across Iran admitst

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Speaker 4: reports Iran Cyber Authority that they are currently under a

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Speaker 4: large scale cyber attack from Israel. So their cellutor outages

607
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Speaker 4: and they're in celliator and internet has gone down. That

608
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Speaker 4: might be the leading thing before we start bombing today,

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Speaker 4: like in the next couple hours.

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Speaker 5: They have Israel has the cyber equivalent of a pager

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Speaker 5: in every network, every system in Iran, and it's about

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Speaker 5: to shut it down.

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Speaker 2: That's my guess, something like that.

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Speaker 4: Before we, along with Israel bomb the but Jesus out

615
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Speaker 4: of them. Can you say when you got Jews bombing Muslims?

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Speaker 5: Probably not, Yes, you can, you can absolutely free speech,

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Speaker 5: my friend defended.

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Speaker 2: Final thought.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

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Speaker 5: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew

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Speaker 5: to wrap things up for the day. There he is

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Speaker 5: Michael Angelo pressing the button as Michael Well.

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Speaker 2: That news kind of ruined my final thing.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna guess that they were gonna text everybody

625
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Speaker 5: if they had wont to prize, send them.

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Speaker 2: All to one building and the blow up the building.

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Speaker 2: I'll give the Super Bowl tickets. This classic Katie Green knows.

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Speaker 5: Something about law enforcement and that sort of thing. Our

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Speaker 5: esteemed newswoman, Katie final thought has nothing to.

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Speaker 2: Do with law enforcement.

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Speaker 4: But I did just write grape nuts down on my

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Speaker 4: grocery list for today.

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Speaker 2: I love grape nuts. Yeah, I hope you your teeth

634
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Speaker 2: are good and harden.

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Speaker 4: They are bland and you need tough teeth. Jack final

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Speaker 4: thought for us, I'll look into the picture of Tucker

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Speaker 4: Carlson with Alex Jones. Alex Jones lost a ton of weight,

638
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Speaker 4: looks fantastic, and he's no zimpic guy, I think, or

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Speaker 4: one of those drugs.

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Speaker 2: Man, Why aren't we all doing that? We all got

641
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Speaker 2: to get on that. My final thought. You know me,

642
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Speaker 2: I'm kind of a real estate freak. I love it.

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Speaker 5: If you were thinking of purchasing a property anywhere near

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Speaker 5: the fod Oh reactor in Iran, I would hold off.

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Speaker 2: I would go ahead and wait week before you sign

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Speaker 2: that contract.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're going to vacation and do an airbnb

648
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Speaker 4: somewhere near.

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Speaker 2: There, right, get a tour of the reactor. That sort

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Speaker 2: of thing in Richmond's.

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Speaker 4: Site Armstrong and Getty wrapping about. Oh they're grueling for

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Speaker 4: our workday.

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Speaker 5: It's housed within a mountain that's soon to be a

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Speaker 5: former mountain. So many people who thanks so little time

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Speaker 5: go to Armstrong geddy dot com hot links. Are there

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Speaker 5: our email address that we linked to a mail bag

657
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Speaker 5: at Armstrong and geddy dot com. You disagree, we want

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Speaker 5: to hear from you. Make your points.

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Speaker 4: You know that will be a spectacular show if it

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Speaker 4: goes down the way we think our planes with some

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Speaker 4: of the biggest bunker busters that exist.

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Speaker 2: On Earth, over and over and over again. That'll be

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Speaker 2: something to watch. We'll see tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: God bless America.

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Speaker 2: I'm strong and ghett.

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Speaker 5: He has to stop like the day before yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Are you sure? Oh? Dead show audio smofo, fuzzo ye

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Speaker 2: and boom goes to dynamite. You made it rights riding

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Speaker 2: a long time.

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Speaker 4: One final message, Maybe the joke we've been making forever

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Speaker 4: will come true.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's beard will explode.

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Speaker 4: I'm on your beard, your beard, ah, and they run

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Speaker 4: out of their room.

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Speaker 2: Beard's on fire, armstrong and getting