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Speaker 1: I think there’s some kind of deviated previd Hello, it

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is Elan Ray? Is something that with Alan Ray? I

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am your humble host, Alan Ray. What’s going on? Guys? Wow?

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Three weekends in a row. Nobody’s shot me yet. Welcome.

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Just heard in the crease with Jeff this season premier,

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great show up. Maley loved it, loved it. And now

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I hate to disappoint you, but you have to put

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up with me for the next hour. But we’re gonna

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have a lot of fun. It is. It is going

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to be a night of questioning a lot of things

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because oh my gosh, there’s just so much weird crap

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going on right now. And believe it or not, last week,

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think about this. Seven days ago. Okay, seven days that’s it.

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That’s it. Yeah, you get all my windows straightened around

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with this new computer and everything. Come on, thank you

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very much. Seven days ago, one week. We have gone

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from USA Hockey gold to immediately followed by Mexican drug cartels,

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then back to men’s USA hockey and how much the

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left wing media and their ILK is disappointed by them.

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And now we’re bombing Iran, this is crazy. Oh my gosh.

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It is Sunday Night with Allan Ray the show when

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we look around this great, big, giant blue ghetto rock

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that were hurtling through space and imaginable speeds, and we

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asked the eternal question, what the wide wide world is?

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S fortunes are going on here? I at this point,

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I have no idea. I really don’t when you’re when

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you’re trying. And I’ve said this before, and Rick Rowdy

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Rick has said it before. A lot of people said

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it before. When you used to be used to be,

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I used to pre record this show back in the days.

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I would pre record this show in the morning and

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I would queue it up. I’d upload it into uh

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into spreaker, I’d queue it up, and at eight o’clock

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at night or something like that during the week, somebody

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would hit play and they would play it on Kilron

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try to get myself into the chat, you know, make

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sure everybody was happy and things were going right. And

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it was really easy. You could plan like two three

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days in advance, put something out there and it was

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pretty secure. Then it went from if you release something

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in the morning, by that night, everything would be different,

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everything would be changed. Now if you try to get

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something ready in the afternoon, just trying to get it ready,

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just trying to get some show content ready. When you

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do a show like mine, when you try to just

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you know, discuss things that are happening, discuss things people

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may not know about. Two hours before, you might be

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saying something that’s completely wrong and off base, and the

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facts have changed, it’s almost impossible to get ready for

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a show like this. Guys in the chat, thanks for

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joining in tonight. We got Raptor, we got Jeff, we

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just heard in the crease, we got already spooned. I

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like that. Thanks guys, thanks for checking in this morning,

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Thanks for this evening, thanks for reposting the stream. But anyways,

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so first of all, we got to ask the question, okay,

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what happened to the whole drug cartel thing? Forty eight

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hours and it dropped completely off the face of the media,

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like it didn’t even exist. I wanted to give you

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a nice update. Hey, this is what’s going on. You

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know what I found? This is what I found. I

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found one article that was about three days old by BBC.

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And of course it’s one of those almost like an

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NPR article. Oh, Pj’s in the house, PJ. Glad to

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have you here, Bud. It’s almost like one of those

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NPR articles. You know, you have to do it, like

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an NPR voice. Driving into Mexico’s western city of Guadalajara,

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the evidence of Sunday’s terrifying cartel rampage is still the’s

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hard debris of burnt cars sits on roadsides and there

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are scorch patches of ashphalt on the highways. After Jalisco

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New Generation Cartel, one of the most powerful and feard

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cartels in the country, set scores of vehicles a light

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with response to the killing of their boss, Nemessio Elmento Asuerro. This,

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of course is Donald Trump’s fault, because Trump Trump Trump Trump,

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Trump Trump Trump. This is Alan Ray from NPR. No.

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about one guy that it’s been stayed open and he’s

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like a cafe, coffee shop, and people are thankfully stayed

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open because there’s nowhere else to go because a lot

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of people are terrified. They close down. But there’s really

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no more cartel activity in the streets. There’s a lot

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of burned out buses and crap that they haven’t cleaned

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up yet. But it just disappeared. It’s just gone, poof.

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I hour after I said, Trump and you gotta do it, MPR.

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So Donald Trump, you know, they don’t say President Trump.

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They don’t say Donald Trump. They go Trump Trump is bad.

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Trump is very evil and he’s bad. I’m Alan Ray

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from NPR. Do I get the job? You think I

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can get a job that way? So anyway, the drug

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cartel just vanished. It’s gone, just disappeared. I did last

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I heard the Mexican president. She was just like, well,

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we can’t really prosecute them because that would be bad

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and good. It’s like, you know she’s in on it.

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elected because she’s a cartel member. So that’s disappeared. They

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flashed up, it’s gone. How about the hockey the hockey

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gold thing, Well, we all know what happened there. The

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left wing media failed to make it about politics. They

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tried their hardest to make it about politics. The men’s

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team went to the White House. The women’s don’t. Men’s

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team were supposed to be bad. They made this political. No, No,

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it political. Meanwhile, the men’s hockey team is getting cheered

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everywhere they go, every time they stepped into a hockey arena,

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every game. They all went back to their home teams,

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and every time they stepped out under the ice they

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got standing ovation. Only the frothy mouth Kamis adopted the

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narrative that this was political and it was a bad

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thing because they went and saw Donald Trump at the

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White House. The story just wasn’t enough to feed the

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hate machine, I guess, so now it’s gone too. They’ve

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milked it down to the point where just nobody cared.

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Nobody cared. In fact, all of the just hundreds of

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articles out there on the interwebs and on the social media’s,

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and all of these people just with this bitter attitude. Yeah,

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they should be a shit aimed at themselves in solidarity

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with the team. You know what they sounded. They sounded

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like whiny, emotionally compromised toddlers who needed a nap. That’s

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what all these people sounded like, just bitter, whiny, nasty people.

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And everybody started pointing that out going. God, you sound terrible.

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Even people on the left are like, why can’t you

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just be happy they won the gold. I’m happy the

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men’s team won the goal. Gus what, I’m happy the

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women’s team won the gold. Did you see that goal

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by that girl from Michigan, by the way, that girl

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for the women’s team that won the gold. My god,

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it was beautiful. I think most of the NHL men’s

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teams would have had a hard time stopping that shot.

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That was a good shot, and I’m proud of them.

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I’m proud of everybody that took home a medal for

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the USA. I don’t care who they voted for. I

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don’t care if they’ve got one of the nose rings

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and purple hair, as long as they don’t go around

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using their brief fifteen seconds of fame to say how

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much they hate living in the USA while simultaneously, you know,

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fueling themselves off of USA money and USA fame because

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they won the goal for the USA. You start that crap, Boy,

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you’ve lost me. But now here we are a week later,

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now we have Iran. Ha, well, boy, Iran, here’s a

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blast from the past. Here is a score that needed

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to have been settled. Oh, I don’t know, twenty years ago,

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forty years ago. Let’s let’s look at the whole Iran

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thing starting, starting when I was a tender, young, fourteen

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year old, seventy nine Islamic Revolution. Let’s just go back

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the US Backshaw of Iran was deposed. Okay, Jimmy order

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was advised, let’s just throw this out here and call

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it what it is. Jimmy Carter was advised by his

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own administration not to bring the Shaw of Iran to

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the United States. He was sick, he was in he

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was had issues, and they said take him somewhere else

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and we’ll just take care of him there. No, he

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brought him right to the United States. What that was

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seen as. That was seen as something that the USA

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was going to back the Shaw of Iran no matter what.

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And the people who were trying to take over Iran

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at the time, the Iatola Comane Cohomane or whatever Comane

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and his people whipped the frothy mouthed Islamists in Iran

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and thinking that that was the US’s signal that they

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were going to back the Shaw and probably bring people

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in there and kill a bunch of people because they

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were opposed to the Shaw. The Shaw of Iran was

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not an angel. He was not, but at least he

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believed in a lot of Western civilization type ideologies like

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I don’t know, giving women certain rights and making people equal,

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and trying to make his country not a backwoods third

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world inbred hellhole. But in November nineteen seventy nine, Iranian

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students seized the US embassy in Tehran, and they held

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fifty two Americans for four hundred and forty four days.

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Jimmy Carter’s handling of this situation made me the conservatorian

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I am today, made me the anti Democrat that I

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am today made me. Somebody look at the Democrat Party said,

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what a bunch of buffoons, What a bunch of crown clowns.

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He could not have screwed that whole situation up worse

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than what he already did. But nonetheless it to the

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US to break diplomatic relations and freeze Iranian assets. Now,

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the hostages were released in January nineteen eighty one, minutes

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after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration under an agreement where the US

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pledged not to intervene in Iranian internal affairs. Now here’s

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the deal. For years now, left wing media types, the

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same ones who are very disappointed in you all for

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celebrating the USA hockey team goal, those exact same ones

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have been trying to rewrite history to say that Jimmy

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Carter headed all of this up, that he actually had

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everything rounded up, and boy, they were ready to just

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bow to his whims and release the hostages. Now here’s

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the truth. Here’s the truth behind this. And the reason

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I I know this, it’s because I actually know somebody

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who was there in Iran. He’s Iranian. I’m not gonna

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say who his name is, but he had a relative

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who was one of the students who took the hostages,

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and he said, flat out, this is a couple of

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years later, this is when I was in college. Is

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where I met this guy. We became pretty good friends.

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Told me flat out, when they heard that Ronald Reagan

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had been elected president, they could not get rid of

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those hostages fast enough. They were under the assumption that

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Reagan was just gonna nuke the whole country hostages and

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all just vaporize everybody because the media, the left wing

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media in this country, basically said Ronald Reagan was unhinged,

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he was a cowboy, he was gonna nuke the whole thing.

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He’s gonna start World War three. Remember all that crap. Well,

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they took it to heart. That’s the truth behind this

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is and I believe that one hundred percent. I really do.

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Because it was just a little too convenient. So there

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you go. Well, over the years, there have been some

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proxy wars. If you remember, the US supported Iraq during

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the eighty through eighty eight comp providing intelligence and aid

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to Iraq against Iran following the nineteen eighty eighty three

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Baruta to bear Root Barracks bombing. You can’t say that,

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Why did I write that the barracks bombing was blamed

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on the Iran backed group has below, And the US

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designated Iran a state sponsor of terrorism in nineteen eighty four.

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My first year of college. Yeah, I took a year

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off between eighty three and eighty four. I graduated in

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eighty three, but I screwed off for a year. I’m

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not gonna lie about that. No regrets either, Just so

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you know. Now, in two thousand and two, President George W.

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Bush included Iran in that Axis of Evil speech, accusing

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it of pursuing weapons of mass destruction after years of sanction.

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The twenty fifteen Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action saw Iran

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supposedly limited’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief and

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also in return for big piles of cash. Do you

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remember that crap? Well. In twenty eighteen, President Trump withdrew

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from the JCPOA and launched a maximum pressure campaign of

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renewed economic sanctions so that brings us more close to

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the president. January twenty twenty, a US drone strike killed

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Iranian General Kassam Sulimani in Baghdad. Iran retaliated with missile

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strikes on US bases in Iraq Down twenty twenty five.

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US military struck Iranian nuclear facility and in probably in

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twenty twenty six. And this is where we are today

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now Reuters, believe it or not, of all, people have

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been kind of giving us a rundown of and they’re

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doing a pretty good job. It’s just kind of scaring

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me lately. It’s not even really that biased, a little bit,

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but not biased. They’ve got kind of live stream that’s

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been up and it’s been keeping people updated with Jesus’s

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Little Blogs, says what happened this weekend. Israel unleashed a

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new wave of strikes on Tehran on Sunday, saying it

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aim to dominate the skies after killing Iran Supreme Leader

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iotol Aatola Ali Kamani and leaving the Islamic Republic scrambling

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to rebult its leadership amid its biggest test in five decades.

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Commani’s death prompted both celebrations and protests around the world.

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They’re telling both sides of the stories. It’s kind of

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worrisome something else is going on there. US and Israeli

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strikes and Iranian retaliation rippled through global markets, hitting sectors

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from shipping to air travel to oil. Analysts warn of

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rising energy costs and disruptions to business in the Gulf,

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a strategic waterway and global trade hup. Iranian President Massad

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of Pazak pozzeskimor whatever his name is, set a leadership

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council that temporarily assume the duty of Supreme Leader following

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Kamani’s death. Supreme leader who had built Iran into a

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powerful anti US force and spread its way across the

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Middle East during his thirty six year iron fisted rules.

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Working in his office at the time of Saturday’s attack,

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State Media said, and it goes on and on and on.

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But they’re doing a pretty good job there. That’s a

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pretty good little I marked it because it’s just throwing

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things out there that hey, this is going on. Hey

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that’s going on. Hey this is going on. It’s not

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really getting political. It’s just throwing facts out there. If

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I can’t, all stories be like this. So anyway, I

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don’t know this will escalate or not. I really can’t

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tell you. I do know a few things though. One China,

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for those of you who don’t know, is joined at

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the pelvis to the current Iranian leadership or what was

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the current Iranian leadership. They have been found to be

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providing real time intelligence to the Iranians on US military

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movements for quite a while. Now, now you think about this,

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you think about the big picture, take a step back,

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look at the global part of this. We just a

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few months ago, practically all a month ago, practically kicked

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it China out of Venezuela. We took down an illegitimate

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Venezuelan government right in front of a Chinese gathering, a

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diplomatic I don’t know parade that was sent to Venezuela,

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probably to discuss oil and to discuss ways of blocking

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the United States. We just kicked the crap out of

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the Venezuelan government right in front of them, Right in

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front of them. The delegation was sitting right there. Now

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we’re taking out their Iranian buddies and making it harder

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to get their hands on Iran’s oil. So we’ve taken

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out Venezuelan’s oil from China. Now we’re taking out Iran’s

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oil from China. This is all politically and strategically significant,

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and it’s not by accident, mark my words. They are

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backing China into a corner strategically. Now, I want you

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to keep this in mind. Think about this and consider

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it about what you see and hear from over the

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next few days, and it will make more sense. Now

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here’s a side note from the whole Iran thing. The

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fake posts an ai from sketchy Middle East accounts is

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off the charts. It’s almost funny. Just a little while

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ago I caught one that originated from South Asia. Oh,

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at the stroke of midnight, we are going to show

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Dubai our power and there’s like, I don’t know, ship’s

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burning and all this stuff. It’s just nasty. Exactly after

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Trump is doing the same thing to China that Reagan

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did to Russia. China is not our friend. Yes, we

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do business, there a lot of business there, but in

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the meantime there is a war going on on the

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higher levels between the United States and China, and then

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it has been going on for a while. I still

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I still no facts, and I’ll tell you, and I

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don’t know if there’s facts involved or not. I still

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believe that the whole COVID thing was China trying to

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get out of basically US and other European nations backing

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them into a corner economically because we basically had them

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just about crippled. And all of a sudden, from China,

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who had all of the personal protection masks and everything,

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making all of our medicines, which was stupid, all of

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a sudden, we have this pandemic that came from China.

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That’s why I have a really hard time believing that

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it was accidentally leaked. Yeah, we all know it was

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man made. I don’t care what doctor Fauci says that

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little garden Nome needs to have his head caved in.

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But we also wonder if this is something that was

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intentional You and I, miss d and missus America, mister

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and missus lowly peons. We’ll never know for sure, but

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I just get the feeling it makes sense if it

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was so. Anyways, X, the social media X and I

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don’t know. Probably all of them faced the Book of Faces.

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What’s the other one? I don’t know. All of them

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are just flooded, flooded with AI videos, misinformation, video game videos.

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They’re they’re trying to pass video game videos off. Is real.

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The funniest one was just like a couple. When I

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woke up the next morning, turned on, you know, looked

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at X and went, oh, we attacked Iran. Cool. One

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of the first things I saw. One of the first

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things I saw just a few hours after the initial

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strike was some posts from some guy claiming to be

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from Iran that Iran was facing mass starvation and was

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begging for money. They hadn’t even missed breakfast yet, they

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hadn’t missed dinner yet, and this guy’s saying, old people

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in Iran are starving. It’s a war torn it no

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it’s not fake. AI videos have flooded social media and

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most don’t even look like decent AI. They need to

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try harder, But nonetheless, idiots will think that they are truth.

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One idiot who actually quoted the same guy that I

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just told you about in the same thread was none

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other than Rashid Talib, the moron from the Dearborn area

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who resides in Washington, d C. Now, God help us,

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Rowdy Ricks in the house, Oh Rick, good to see you, Bud.

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So I say all this just because I want you

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to be aware. Let’s get out of politics for a

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little while, kind of. I’m just gonna say. Right now,

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right now is one of those good times that you

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should have a decent shortwave radio, a tech Sun or

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a Cato and Radioity. Radioity has been selling some really

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good stuff too. Radioity’s got one radio. Oh I’m gonna

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have to pull the trigger on this one later on.

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It’s got like all of the frequencies from the lowest

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all the way up to some UHF VHF stuff, and

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it’s got all kinds of antenna. Jackson’s got all kinds

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of toys, and you can even sink it to a

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bluetooth and control it from your phone. It’s just got

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way too many gizmos and gadgets, and they say it

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sounds pretty good. But anyways, there are some decent manufacturers

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out there. You have to watch. Some of the Chinese

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ones are at junk. Some of them are actually pretty good.

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But now is a good time to have a decent

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shortwave with good reception. But there’s more than that. Let’s

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talk about antennas. You hear me talk about radios all

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the time. You hear me talk about shortwave radios, ham radios,

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all this stuff. But I’m gonna throw this out there.

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This is the educational portion of the show. A radio

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is only as good as it’s antenna. Now, I’m assuming

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that most of you do not have any kind of

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HAMM radio license or any kind of you know, DMRs,

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lie GMRS license or anything like that, and that’s fine.

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Maybe we’ll talk about that again someday, and you need

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to think about it. But shortwave reception, short wave reception,

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get you a short wave radio. Make sure it’s got

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single sideband because if you hit the single sideband, then

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you can listen to ham radio operators talking and that

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can become important. But anyways, good shortwave reception depends a

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lot on a decent intenna. For the most part, you

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can make a pretty decent intenna out of a long

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piece of water and that old, abandoned roach clip that’s

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still hanging off your rear view mirror in your nineteen

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seventy six Camaro. All Right, A decent effective intenta wire

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link for general shortwave listening is typically a between about

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fifty and one hundred feet. Now, I’m going to update

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that and tell you it’s pretty much sixty two to

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one hundred feet is prime. Now for most a simple

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random wire antenna, well, again, sixty two to about one

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hundred feet is ideal for pulling in stations. Now, you

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can get away with thirty to forty feet. You can

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even get away with three extra feet clipped onto your antenna.

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But if you really, really really want to pull in

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some of the stations that are way overseas and stuff

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like that, you need an antenna that’s going to work well.

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Your optimal length is about one hundred feet, and that’s

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excellent for all around listening. Sixty five to seventy or

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i say sixty two to seventy is highly recommended, and

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it’s kind of a sweet spot that works well across

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many bands. Now, there are lengths you need to avoid,

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and I want I don’t expect you. There’s not going

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to be a test, but I’m just telling you. You

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can google this. You can figure it out. You just

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need to be aware of it. For instance, like two

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hundred and forty six feet or one hundred and twenty

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three feet are sixty five feet exactly or thirty three

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feet exactly. Those are lengths you should avoid because there

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are there are exact half wavelengths. You don’t want an

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exact half wavelength unless you’re listening to that exact half

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with that exact frequency. Now here’s the thing. The setup

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is key. I recommend a twenty or fourteen gage insulated

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stranded wire, run it as high and as far away

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from buildings as possible, and connect it to your radios

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in Tenaport. Before I knew what I was doing, I

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got lucky and I actually figured it out. It doesn’t

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have to be straight either. I find it kind of

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funny because I know what I did now. But when

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I was just looking at SDR, when I had an

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SDR radio setup in my studio here, I had a

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what they call a nine to one balloon out my

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door at my house with a little coax cable, and

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it ran out to the to this little wood wooden

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thing that I’ve got out there, and it was an

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L shape of about one hundred and twenty feet. It

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came up to the house and then back down out

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to the fence line, and I can pull in all

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kinds of stuff from that. I didn’t know it at

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the time, but I could have transmitted on that very easily.

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It’s just a random wire hundred and twenty foot antenna.

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I could have just hooked that up to a if

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I would have had my general license. I gotta kept

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it out there, but I changed things. It doesn’t have

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to be completely straight, and in fact, you can run along

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a fence, you can make an L shape out of it.

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You can throw one into it way up in a tree,

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bring it around, l it off of your house and

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into your house. But the best thing you can do

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is get it up as high as you can and

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get it away from buildings to keep it quieter, because

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your your house basically is just shooting out r F

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noise like you wouldn’t believe. Now, there are small space alternatives.

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If you can’t string a long wire. A twenty to

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twenty five foot wire is significantly better than the standard

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telescoping whip on a portable radio. But like I said,

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for best results, keep it away from the house, keep

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it away from power lines, and use good ground connections.

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Now there are other options too. They are what they

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call passive loop antennas, and I’ve got one of these upstairs.

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I’ve got a really really old helicrafter S thirty eight

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C upstairs on my dresser. It’s just an old tube

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shortwave radio and I have what they call passive loop,

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and it’s just what it sounds like. It’s just a

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wire with a couple of little electronic gismos on it

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00:30:39,000 –> 00:30:44,640
that make it kind of play well with the radio.

455
00:30:45,039 –> 00:30:48,960
And it’s just this diamond shaped antenna that’s just hanging

456
00:30:49,000 –> 00:30:56,279
in my window. It works great. In fact, loop antennas

457
00:30:56,279 –> 00:30:58,960
are kind of neat because they cut down on noise.

458
00:30:59,519 –> 00:31:01,839
If you’re you really want to get yourself down a

459
00:31:01,920 –> 00:31:05,559
rabbit hole, there’s actually a loop on the ground antenna

460
00:31:06,039 –> 00:31:08,720
where you go out there and you mow the grass

461
00:31:08,759 –> 00:31:13,119
down for like a big circle. It’s a big circle too.

462
00:31:13,200 –> 00:31:15,519
You use quite a bit of wire on this and

463
00:31:15,559 –> 00:31:18,160
you actually put the wire just underneath the ground, You

464
00:31:18,240 –> 00:31:19,920
run it all through the ground, you bring it back

465
00:31:19,920 –> 00:31:23,720
to your house, and you’ve got a little electronic thing

466
00:31:23,799 –> 00:31:26,680
on there that you know before it runs into your house.

467
00:31:26,720 –> 00:31:28,960
It’s a little bay loom. It’s a little match, you know,

468
00:31:29,279 –> 00:31:34,640
a OLMS match. And the benefit from a loop on

469
00:31:34,680 –> 00:31:38,160
the ground antenna is they make the signals very very quiet.

470
00:31:38,200 –> 00:31:40,759
They cut down on all of the static and white noise.

471
00:31:42,319 –> 00:31:45,200
The problem with them is is if they happen to

472
00:31:45,240 –> 00:31:47,559
come up, somebody trips over them, the dog or the

473
00:31:47,559 –> 00:31:50,079
cat digs them up, you run your lawn mower over them,

474
00:31:51,039 –> 00:31:54,519
and then it’s screwed. But the payoff is it reduces

475
00:31:54,519 –> 00:31:58,000
static and reduces white noise. Now Here is another antenna.

476
00:31:58,119 –> 00:31:59,799
And I’m not going to stay too much longer on

477
00:31:59,839 –> 00:32:03,759
the I’m just gonna tell you one more here before

478
00:32:03,799 –> 00:32:07,319
I move on. The active loop antenna is also a

479
00:32:07,400 –> 00:32:10,279
great way to tune in stations with light reception if

480
00:32:10,279 –> 00:32:13,000
you live in an apartment or an ha where you

481
00:32:13,039 –> 00:32:15,759
can’t have an outdoor antenna, or if you’re just inside

482
00:32:15,799 –> 00:32:17,880
and you just don’t feel like having an outdoor antenna.

483
00:32:18,680 –> 00:32:24,200
The GA four fifty active loop antenna. It’s portable, it

484
00:32:24,240 –> 00:32:27,400
has a little amplifier on the base, and it grabs

485
00:32:27,440 –> 00:32:30,519
a lot of stations you’d otherwise miss. Yes, it’s a

486
00:32:30,519 –> 00:32:34,400
bit pricey. It comes in about ninety bucks. I use

487
00:32:34,519 –> 00:32:38,759
mine inside out on the front porch. Bot inside and

488
00:32:38,799 –> 00:32:41,480
you can aim it, and you can play around with

489
00:32:41,559 –> 00:32:45,440
the amplifier, and it picks up a ton of stations

490
00:32:45,960 –> 00:32:49,839
that the stock antenna misses even when it’s outside. I

491
00:32:49,880 –> 00:32:51,920
don’t even hear these stations when I’m sitting on on

492
00:32:51,960 –> 00:32:55,559
my patio with the stock antenna. I can’t wait till

493
00:32:55,640 –> 00:32:58,599
warm weather to take this loop antenna outside and see

494
00:32:58,640 –> 00:33:01,319
exactly what I can get. Get them on Amazon. It’s

495
00:33:01,359 –> 00:33:04,519
just called the GA four fifty loop antenna. That’s all

496
00:33:04,519 –> 00:33:09,039
it’s called. All right, it’s nine thirty three. Let’s take

497
00:33:09,079 –> 00:33:12,279
a little bit of a break. When we come back.

498
00:33:13,079 –> 00:33:17,000
I got some more stuff, including how Boy Something. My

499
00:33:17,119 –> 00:33:19,359
son Anthony, who’s been on the show several times and

500
00:33:19,480 –> 00:33:22,440
got to miss it beyond the show, sent me we’ll

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00:33:22,480 –> 00:33:24,039
be back in just a moment. Stay tuned.

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Speaker 1: And we’re back. It’s Alan Ray, It’s somebody night with

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Elan Ray. God, what a night got g in the house. Gee,

547
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good to see you, Bud. So I was coming home

548
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tonight and my oldest Anthony. You’ve heard him. He’s been

549
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on the show several times. I missed him being on

550
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the show. I really do. We always have a good

551
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time when he’s on. Here. Sent me a article he

552
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said for your reading pleasure, and it’s kind of unsettling. Okay,

553
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I have spoken a bit on In fact, I kind

554
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of addressed this whole situation that the left is going

555
00:36:45,440 –> 00:36:50,199
to have to reach a decision whether they want data

556
00:36:50,199 –> 00:36:54,360
centers or whether they really truly believe in green energy,

557
00:36:54,719 –> 00:37:00,880
because they can’t have both, right and now they want both.

558
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But as we pointed out my very first showback, it

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would take approximately seventy thousand acres of solar panels to

560
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power just the data centers that Grutch wants to put

561
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in Michigan. Seventy thousand acres. That’s not just the normal

562
00:37:22,320 –> 00:37:24,559
every day people going back and forth to work and

563
00:37:24,639 –> 00:37:29,000
businesses and all. That’s just the data centers. So Anthony

564
00:37:29,000 –> 00:37:33,920
sends me this article and it’s kind of unsettling. Now

565
00:37:34,239 –> 00:37:43,079
let’s tack a step back to begin years ago. How

566
00:37:43,119 –> 00:37:45,719
many of you remember the Midwest blackout of two thousand

567
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and three. I do. I remember very well the entire

568
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like New York, Jersey, some parts of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio,

569
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a big swath of the Upper Midwest had a blackout

570
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in two thousand and three. Now, I personally was fortunate.

571
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I mean, we’re working when this thing happened. All of

572
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a sudden, everything just went dead boom, dead drop, just

573
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like that. And we got sent home because we actually

574
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had a radio, and a couple of the stations actually

575
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went to battery back up and they said, hey, the

576
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whole Midwest is blacked out. So my boss came out said, guys,

577
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you might as well just go home, So we did. Now,

578
00:38:36,119 –> 00:38:38,960
we found out later that the causes were basically what

579
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happened was there was a power line that was sagging

580
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from vegetation and it basically snapped. Now, there was a

581
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lack of adequate monitoring about what was going on, and

582
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basically a relatively small issue cascaded into a blackout that

583
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left fifty million people without power. What if I told

584
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you that we may be heading for a lot more

585
00:39:03,159 –> 00:39:07,440
of those types of blackouts if we’re not careful now

586
00:39:07,639 –> 00:39:12,519
this comes from the Wall Street Journal, said early last year.

587
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I’m just going to read this flat out because it’s

588
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very interesting. Said early last year, a cluster of data

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centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening

590
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the stability of already vulnerable systems. The roughly forty data centers,

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which had been using enough electricity to supply more than

592
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one million homes, simultaneously switched to backup power sources in

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February of twenty twenty five when a high voltage power

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line malfunctioned. The sudden plunge in electrical demand forced the

595
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grid operator to take quick actions to avoid potentially serious damage.

596
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The incident, details of which haven’t been reported, was the

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such a problem in Virginia. Within the span of months.

598
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In July of twenty twenty four, about seventy data centers

599
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withdrew from the grid when another high voltage line failed,

600
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requiring a similar a similar scramble keep the power supplied

601
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demand in line now, just to back up a little bit.

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It’s a balancing act. The power grid is a balancing act.

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If you have too little electricity in the grid all

604
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of a sudden, especially all of a sudden too little

605
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of electricity in the grid, you have to reduce the

606
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supply accordingly, or you have major surges, and you can

607
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have all kinds of problems if you have a sudden

608
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high demand in that grid, like one of those days

609
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where it’s one hundred and fifty degrees and everybody’s kicking

610
00:40:49,199 –> 00:40:51,880
on their AC and they come on the radio, go

611
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please please turn your airciness run, and everybody in the

612
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world’s going like, screw you. They have to find that

613
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extra electricity somewhere. Have to find that supply somewhere. But

614
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if you’re running along at a certain level and all

615
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of a sudden, a major percent of your electricity just

616
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drops off the map, all of a sudden, you have

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too much electricity in the system, and that can cause

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very very serious problems. That’s what happened here, says Balancing

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the two supply and demand is critical in maintaining the

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health of the grid. Both under supply and oversupply of

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electricity demand can cause power plants to fail, resulting in

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blackouts and repair challenges. The issue is especially pressing in Virginia.

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Now listen to this, where data centers are projected to

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use as much as fifty seven percent of the state’s

625
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electricity by twenty thirty. I did not read that wrong.

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They are projected to use as much as fifty seven

627
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percent of the state’s electricity by twenty thirty fifty. That’s

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more than half. In both instances. The loss in data

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center demand totaled less than two thousand megawatts, a substantial

630
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amount of part, but not enough to create the crisis

631
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that we’re talking about here. Now you take that and

632
00:42:20,039 –> 00:42:23,559
you look at the twenty thirty predictions fifty seven percent.

633
00:42:25,840 –> 00:42:29,199
Mike Bryson, who is the senior vice president for PGM

634
00:42:29,239 –> 00:42:32,679
of Operations, He says, I didn’t call it didn’t cause

635
00:42:32,679 –> 00:42:35,719
an emergency, but it would I say it would cause concern.

636
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What we’re worried about is what if that happens for

637
00:42:40,039 –> 00:42:43,719
a three thousand megawat or a five thousand megawatt reduction.

638
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That could be bad. Concerns about the rapid buildout of

639
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data centers often centered on the risk that adding too

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00:42:53,480 –> 00:42:57,559
many in a given region could strain electrical supplies. Electricity supplies,

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particularly on a hot or cold when demand is high.

642
00:43:01,880 –> 00:43:05,599
If demand threatens to exceed supply, grid operators can call

643
00:43:05,599 –> 00:43:08,239
on power plants to ramp up production in as a

644
00:43:08,320 –> 00:43:11,239
last resort, order utilities to cut power to customers to

645
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maintain balance. Got that here, that last part, you hear

646
00:43:15,360 –> 00:43:19,320
what they’re planning on doing. If this has a problem,

647
00:43:20,519 –> 00:43:24,440
they can order utilities to cut power to customers to

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00:43:24,599 –> 00:43:31,280
maintain balance. And now the opposite risk is emerging. Data

649
00:43:31,320 –> 00:43:35,840
centers are equipped with technologies that monitor for disturbances in

650
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the grid that could cause a power outage and affect operations.

651
00:43:39,800 –> 00:43:45,480
When disturbances occur, many data centers automatically shift to backup supplies,

652
00:43:46,000 –> 00:43:51,159
severing their grid connections until power quality stabilizes, which basically

653
00:43:51,960 –> 00:44:02,119
adds to the destabilization of the grid. Are you picking

654
00:44:02,159 –> 00:44:06,800
up when I’m laying down rolling blackouts or worse? Or

655
00:44:06,840 –> 00:44:12,840
worse if that surge happens. If you’ve got a state

656
00:44:13,320 –> 00:44:17,320
where fifty seven percent of your electricity is coming from

657
00:44:17,840 –> 00:44:20,599
data centers usage, I should say it’s coming from data centers,

658
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and all of a sudden, all of those data centers

659
00:44:24,679 –> 00:44:27,480
feel a disturbance in the force, they pick up on

660
00:44:27,519 –> 00:44:31,039
something going on in the electric grid. And like Jeff

661
00:44:31,159 –> 00:44:35,039
was talking just earlier and in the crease about backup

662
00:44:35,159 –> 00:44:39,320
systems and systems that predict things that are going on faults,

663
00:44:40,280 –> 00:44:42,920
readings on censors. All of a sudden, they all predict

664
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something that’s not really happening. They all shut off, and

665
00:44:46,320 –> 00:44:48,880
all of a sudden, you’ve got this massive power surge,

666
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and it starts blowing transformers. In the middle of winter

667
00:44:55,280 –> 00:44:57,840
with its ten below or the middle of summer where

668
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it’s ninety eight to one hundred and five degrees, you

669
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are going to have problems, major, major problems. I cannot

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express enough my desire for you to have not one,

671
00:45:19,079 –> 00:45:27,599
but possibly a couple of backups, first and foremost heat backups,

672
00:45:29,679 –> 00:45:32,880
because the winner we just had was pretty brutal. There

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00:45:32,880 –> 00:45:36,239
were several weeks in a row where we had under

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00:45:36,280 –> 00:45:39,599
freezing temperatures and a lot of times zero to negative temperatures.

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When you lose your heat, when you lose your electricity,

676
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when you lose your ability to heat a house in

677
00:45:47,519 –> 00:45:58,000
those kind of temperatures, you can die. You need at

678
00:45:58,119 –> 00:46:04,800
least a gas general, a decent gas generator, one that

679
00:46:04,840 –> 00:46:08,760
could technically power your whole house if needed. I personally

680
00:46:08,840 –> 00:46:11,880
have sixty five hundred watt gas generator. It’ll do everything

681
00:46:11,880 –> 00:46:17,159
I need to do. On top of that, I have

682
00:46:17,199 –> 00:46:20,880
an eighty five hundred wat hour electric battery bank. Now

683
00:46:22,880 –> 00:46:24,840
it will pretty much run this house for about two

684
00:46:24,840 –> 00:46:28,639
to three days if we’re careful. The cool thing about

685
00:46:28,639 –> 00:46:32,039
it is I also have eight hundred watts of portable

686
00:46:32,079 –> 00:46:36,079
solar panels that I can throw throw out on my patio,

687
00:46:36,400 –> 00:46:42,800
hook up to this thing and charge it. And I

688
00:46:42,840 –> 00:46:46,079
could actually during the day run the solar right through

689
00:46:46,119 –> 00:46:49,199
it into the house and charge the whole house. You know,

690
00:46:49,280 –> 00:46:52,360
run the whole house. Basically, have a solar eight hundred

691
00:46:52,360 –> 00:46:56,519
watts will pretty much keep your refrigerator, freezer, and furnace going,

692
00:46:58,079 –> 00:47:01,800
not much else, but they’ll keep things going. You can

693
00:47:01,880 –> 00:47:04,199
kick on your water pump, get your water, stuff like that,

694
00:47:06,239 –> 00:47:12,079
but you can survive. And that’s what’s important. Now. I

695
00:47:12,119 –> 00:47:15,239
have found out that if I want to charge this

696
00:47:15,559 –> 00:47:19,000
battery backup with a generator, it’s got to be what

697
00:47:19,039 –> 00:47:22,840
they call an inverter generator, which produces clean electricity. It’s

698
00:47:22,840 –> 00:47:25,800
got an inverter on it and that keeps the electricity clean.

699
00:47:27,800 –> 00:47:29,960
Might have to buy one because you could run one

700
00:47:30,000 –> 00:47:32,039
for a couple hours, recharge the thing back up in

701
00:47:32,039 –> 00:47:34,400
your back up and going again. The cool thing about

702
00:47:34,440 –> 00:47:37,159
the battery backup is it’s very very quiet. You don’t

703
00:47:37,199 –> 00:47:39,639
hear it. It sits out there and just does its thing.

704
00:47:39,679 –> 00:47:41,800
You can monitor it with a phone. It’s got a

705
00:47:41,840 –> 00:47:46,920
bluetooth and the thing’s massive. It weighs like one hundred pounds.

706
00:47:47,480 –> 00:47:52,480
It’s just all battery and it’s eighty five hundred watt hours.

707
00:47:53,480 –> 00:47:57,559
It will run normal house for about two days maybe

708
00:47:57,559 –> 00:48:04,760
more without charging. But that’s not the story here. The

709
00:48:04,800 –> 00:48:10,079
story here is these data centers that they’re wanting to build.

710
00:48:11,800 –> 00:48:15,800
If we continue to go down the path that the

711
00:48:15,880 –> 00:48:20,360
climate cult demands we go down, we can’t have the

712
00:48:20,440 –> 00:48:27,039
data centers. That’s something that doesn’t happen. I’m sorry. You

713
00:48:27,079 –> 00:48:31,239
cannot have it both ways. And we’re already seeing certain

714
00:48:31,840 –> 00:48:37,039
ex climate cultists break with the rest of them, like

715
00:48:37,079 –> 00:48:39,719
I told you a couple of weeks ago, and they’re

716
00:48:39,719 –> 00:48:41,599
all of a sudden kind of kicking the whole green

717
00:48:41,679 –> 00:48:43,639
energy thing to the curve because they see the writing

718
00:48:43,679 –> 00:48:46,519
on the wall. Green energy is not going to handle

719
00:48:46,519 –> 00:48:48,599
what they want to do, so you’re going to see

720
00:48:48,639 –> 00:48:52,679
it go away. It’s either that or the left is

721
00:48:52,679 –> 00:48:55,800
going to have a massive infighting because half of them

722
00:48:55,800 –> 00:48:58,079
want the data centers and the other half want us

723
00:48:58,119 –> 00:49:06,119
to live eating grubs, living in shipping containers, and not

724
00:49:06,239 –> 00:49:12,880
having electricity most of the time. Now, I will I

725
00:49:12,920 –> 00:49:17,239
will tell you this. I bet you this. The people

726
00:49:17,280 –> 00:49:22,239
who run these data centers, of people who want these

727
00:49:22,320 –> 00:49:31,960
data centers, they will take precedence over you and I.

728
00:49:32,039 –> 00:49:36,920
Surfs peans are easily little lives mean nothing to them, because,

729
00:49:37,000 –> 00:49:41,920
let’s face it, they will eventually reach the point where

730
00:49:41,960 –> 00:49:44,119
the government controls the data centers. That’s just the way

731
00:49:44,119 –> 00:49:50,719
it’s going to go. You’re already seeing this, the silent

732
00:49:50,840 –> 00:49:55,880
war beginning to happen. It happened with the recent attacks

733
00:49:55,880 –> 00:50:01,119
on taking out the Venezuelan dictator, taking out Iran. They

734
00:50:01,159 –> 00:50:04,280
were using AI to predict some of this stuff, to

735
00:50:04,360 –> 00:50:06,000
model some of this stuff, to figure out some of

736
00:50:06,000 –> 00:50:09,079
this stuff, and the people who supply the government with

737
00:50:09,119 –> 00:50:14,280
the AI resources did not like it. There’s already a

738
00:50:14,320 –> 00:50:17,519
struggle going on, and you know, the government’s got the

739
00:50:17,559 –> 00:50:22,360
time and the money. They’ll eventually win. How long will

740
00:50:22,400 –> 00:50:24,880
it be before you and I get a completely different

741
00:50:25,000 –> 00:50:28,920
version of artificial intelligence than the government. Ours may be

742
00:50:29,039 –> 00:50:33,320
sketchy and not all that great. Theirs may be really,

743
00:50:33,320 –> 00:50:41,639
really good. Probably already happening, probably have been happening. If

744
00:50:41,679 –> 00:50:47,960
I know governments in general, including ours, they probably have

745
00:50:48,039 –> 00:50:49,719
a version of AI, and I have a version of

746
00:50:49,719 –> 00:50:53,760
AI videos that you simply cannot tell the difference between

747
00:50:53,800 –> 00:51:01,840
them and reality. Joe Biden, sorry that I cough. How

748
00:51:01,840 –> 00:51:06,639
do you get a president for four straight years completely

749
00:51:06,760 –> 00:51:10,239
brain dead, choose on his wife’s fingers, and then all

750
00:51:10,280 –> 00:51:12,760
of a sudden one day comes before the American people,

751
00:51:12,800 –> 00:51:18,320
supposedly and gives a raucous speech one hundred percent fine,

752
00:51:18,519 –> 00:51:22,880
and everybody goes, what remember that whole speech where he’s

753
00:51:22,880 –> 00:51:25,519
shaking his fists and everything behind him is red and black,

754
00:51:25,559 –> 00:51:28,280
and he looks like a Nazi dictator and he’s up there.

755
00:51:28,800 –> 00:51:35,519
Conservatives are the problem. Go back and watch that again.

756
00:51:36,400 –> 00:51:42,199
I’m not gonna say it is. Jeff senecal old man rant,

757
00:51:42,440 –> 00:51:47,360
you bet your butt it is, buddy, just saying you’re

758
00:51:47,679 –> 00:51:52,760
gonna see a split, another split in left wing ideology

759
00:51:53,679 –> 00:51:55,280
because you’re not gonna be able to have the data

760
00:51:55,320 –> 00:51:59,079
centers and green energy running them. It’s not gonna happen

761
00:52:01,039 –> 00:52:06,480
one or the other less some autistic sob figures out

762
00:52:06,480 –> 00:52:10,400
a way to bring cold fusion or something like that

763
00:52:10,480 –> 00:52:15,760
into it. We’ll see what happens wrapping it up. As

764
00:52:15,760 –> 00:52:19,760
you know, I’m sixty years old now. I joke a

765
00:52:19,800 –> 00:52:23,960
lot about the clutch between my mouth and my brain slipping.

766
00:52:24,000 –> 00:52:27,760
These days, I just sort of blurt out how I feel,

767
00:52:28,039 –> 00:52:29,840
and I really don’t care if an idiot or too

768
00:52:29,880 –> 00:52:34,639
gets offended. I don’t well. It turns out that that

769
00:52:34,800 –> 00:52:45,719
clutch slipping may have some validity to it. According to

770
00:52:45,760 –> 00:52:50,800
an article by Silicone Canals, your brain goes through a

771
00:52:50,880 –> 00:52:56,679
change around the age of sixty. The article says, everyone

772
00:52:56,800 –> 00:52:59,519
knows someone over sixty who says exactly what they think,

773
00:52:59,599 –> 00:53:03,039
doesn’t soften it, and seems completely unbothered by how it lands.

774
00:53:03,320 –> 00:53:06,119
The usual explanation is that they’ve earned the right, or

775
00:53:06,159 –> 00:53:09,480
they’ve stopped caring. The more dismissive version is that they’re

776
00:53:09,480 –> 00:53:13,079
becoming difficult, rude blunts set in their ways, or you

777
00:53:13,119 –> 00:53:18,960
can embrace the power band. But neuroscientists tell a very

778
00:53:18,960 –> 00:53:22,280
different story. The reason older adults care less about social

779
00:53:22,320 –> 00:53:26,800
disapproval isn’t personality decline or loss of social grace. It’s

780
00:53:26,840 –> 00:53:31,960
a measurable shift in how their brain processes threat, specifically

781
00:53:32,400 –> 00:53:34,960
the kind of threat that comes from other people’s and

782
00:53:35,039 –> 00:53:40,039
negative reactions. And understanding. This shift doesn’t reframe the behavior,

783
00:53:40,400 –> 00:53:44,000
it reframes everything we think about how aging and emotional

784
00:53:44,039 –> 00:53:48,280
wellbeing happens. Now, we all know the amignalos, the brain’s

785
00:53:48,280 –> 00:53:50,480
alarm system. It’s it’s deep in the temporal lobe, and

786
00:53:50,519 –> 00:53:56,880
its primary function is detecting threats, including critically and social threats.

787
00:53:58,360 –> 00:54:00,360
When someone gives you a look of disapproval, well when

788
00:54:00,360 –> 00:54:02,480
you sense a group turning against you, when you feel

789
00:54:02,679 –> 00:54:05,840
judged for saying the wrong thing. It’s the amygdala that

790
00:54:05,960 –> 00:54:09,880
fires up. In younger adults. This system is robust and reactive.

791
00:54:10,400 –> 00:54:14,880
Negative social signals triggered strongular responses, which generates the cascade

792
00:54:14,920 –> 00:54:18,719
of anxiety, self consciousness, and a social vigilance that most

793
00:54:18,719 –> 00:54:24,599
people experiences as caring what others think. Something changes with age.

794
00:54:25,159 –> 00:54:29,800
A landmark fMRI study published in Psychological Science by Mara

795
00:54:29,960 –> 00:54:34,239
Mather and Laura Carstensen and colleagues at Stanford and UC

796
00:54:34,440 –> 00:54:39,960
Santa Cruz found that older adults amygdala’s responded very differently

797
00:54:40,000 –> 00:54:44,440
to emotional stimuli than younger adults. Both groups showed a

798
00:54:44,519 –> 00:54:49,239
migdaloria activity for emotional content compared to neutral content, but

799
00:54:49,320 –> 00:54:53,440
in older adults positive images produced greater amgdala activation than

800
00:54:53,519 –> 00:54:56,519
negative images, while in younger adults there was no such

801
00:54:56,559 –> 00:54:59,840
a symmetry. The amygdala and younger adults responded with roughly

802
00:55:00,039 –> 00:55:03,639
equal intensity to both positive and negative emotional content. In

803
00:55:03,760 –> 00:55:09,239
older adults, the response to negative stimuli was selectively dampened.

804
00:55:10,679 –> 00:55:14,320
This wasn’t a finding about general cognitive decline. Don’t get

805
00:55:14,320 –> 00:55:18,760
me wrong. The amygdala wasn’t broken. It was responding differently,

806
00:55:19,440 –> 00:55:23,880
less reactive to negativity while remaining responsive to positive experience.

807
00:55:24,559 –> 00:55:28,239
The researchers suggested that this pattern reflects not deterioration, but

808
00:55:28,320 –> 00:55:32,280
a shift in how the brain processes emotional information as

809
00:55:32,360 –> 00:55:42,840
people age. That explains a lot about how I feel.

810
00:55:43,880 –> 00:55:46,400
Not even kidding. It goes on to say that the

811
00:55:46,440 –> 00:55:49,719
pictures that emerge from the multiple neuroimaging studies is more

812
00:55:49,800 –> 00:55:54,480
nuanced than simple amygdala decline. When older adults encounter negative

813
00:55:54,480 –> 00:56:00,280
emotional information, angry faces, disturbing images, social conflict, their brains

814
00:56:00,400 –> 00:56:05,599
showed a distinctive pattern decreased amygdalo reactivity coupled with increased

815
00:56:05,599 –> 00:56:13,039
activation in prefrontal cortical regions, particularly the anterior assignulate artics

816
00:56:13,159 –> 00:56:16,639
and medial prefrontal cortex. These are the brain regions responsible

817
00:56:16,679 –> 00:56:21,400
for emotional regulations, cognitive control, and the deliberate reappraisal of experience.

818
00:56:23,679 –> 00:56:25,440
In short, Oh, you want me to rap, I will

819
00:56:25,599 –> 00:56:30,199
definitely raptor. You got it, buddy? Can I do that?

820
00:56:31,239 –> 00:56:36,880
Or I’m on two different computers, Raptor, I gotta figure

821
00:56:36,880 –> 00:56:39,480
out a way to do this. I will. I will

822
00:56:39,519 –> 00:56:44,000
definitely post this article when I get off of this show.

823
00:56:44,199 –> 00:56:47,480
I definitely will. But I will tell you what. This

824
00:56:47,679 –> 00:56:53,519
explains a lot. It explains and I feel this, not

825
00:56:53,599 –> 00:56:55,760
even kidding. I’ve been feeling this last couple of years.

826
00:56:56,239 –> 00:56:58,159
People get mad at me, and I just look at

827
00:56:58,199 –> 00:57:02,599
them and I don’t care. I say something that hits

828
00:57:02,639 –> 00:57:06,000
people wrong. I tell a truth that people don’t like

829
00:57:06,800 –> 00:57:09,239
and they you can see them cringe or get upset,

830
00:57:09,320 –> 00:57:16,079
and I don’t care. Turns out it’s perfectly natural. It’s

831
00:57:16,119 –> 00:57:19,039
the right of us old people to not care. If

832
00:57:19,079 –> 00:57:26,119
you are mad. You’re a man in a dress, not

833
00:57:26,199 –> 00:57:32,239
a woman. Sorry, deal with it. Politicians are liars. I

834
00:57:32,280 –> 00:57:34,280
will stand there and tell you that to your face.

835
00:57:35,119 –> 00:57:39,480
I don’t care if you don’t like me for it.

836
00:57:39,480 –> 00:57:44,039
It explains a whole lot. See you’ve gone through this

837
00:57:44,159 –> 00:57:46,960
last hour and you’ve learned a few things. Sunday Night

838
00:57:47,079 –> 00:57:52,119
is for learning. The Vincent Charles Project, by the way,

839
00:57:52,199 –> 00:57:55,079
was absolutely outstanding. To tonight that we’ve got a good

840
00:57:55,119 –> 00:57:57,480
Sunday Night lineup. Looking for Rick to come back. I

841
00:57:57,519 –> 00:58:00,000
know he’s been a busy, busy guy looking for him

842
00:58:00,039 –> 00:58:05,719
to come back, but Sunday Nights on KLRON Radio are epic.

843
00:58:06,559 –> 00:58:09,880
Of course, keep it locked all week because all week’s epic. Really,

844
00:58:09,920 –> 00:58:14,360
we have got a good lineup going, real lineup. I’m

845
00:58:14,400 –> 00:58:17,519
Allan Ray. This is Sunday Night with Alan Ray, Lord willing.

846
00:58:18,039 –> 00:58:20,519
I will be back next week, same back time, same

847
00:58:20,599 –> 00:58:24,400
back place. In the meantime, pray for wisdom and discernment.

848
00:58:25,119 –> 00:58:26,400
God bless peace,