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0:02Guaranteed human. Home here from overseas in the Middle East.

0:07Down into Texas with our man, the czar of talk, Michael Berry.

0:13The czar of talk joins us now.

0:16Mr. Berry, fantastic to have you as always.

0:20First, actually, before we get into the primary.

0:24Can I just say that's a very aggressive opening.

0:27Oof, it's a very aggressive music you've chosen.

0:30Oh, the opening music. We like high energy.

0:35But it's very aggressive. Well, with the band here, I might see them tonight, actually.

0:41Interesting that you bring it up because I'm doing a big charity songwriting event tonight.

0:46Not me, but I'm going.

0:48And they typically come out and perform.

0:51And they are huge fans of Rush.

0:54And you probably are not going to be surprised, Michael.

0:56And they're fans of this show, too, because they have great taste in the radio.

1:00But a lot of musicians, when you ask to use their music, and then they

1:04find out what your politics are, they either try to refuse to allow you to

1:09use the music. Or, as we have seen happen, they start to extort you in

1:15how much you're going to have to pay in order to lose their music.

1:18So they're fine with the politics, but you're going to have to pay a lot

1:24more. And so we wanted to find a band and a song, My Own Worst

1:28Enemy, that was a little bit youthful in the 90s.

1:31That is a popular song now for a lot of kids coming up now.

1:33It's cycled back as well.

1:35But also from people that we knew would never say, hey, we're going to extort

1:41you because we hate your politics.

1:43We wanted guys that were behind us squarely.

1:45And the band lit is.

1:46So we're excited about that.

1:47I remember when you all started with them and you kind of explained the choice.

1:50I thought it was an inspired choice because it wasn't so obvious.

1:54And it's good pacing for the show.

1:57It's high energy. You guys are young and aggressive.

2:00It says everything you want to say.

2:02So anyway, sorry to interrupt you both.

2:03It's okay, Mr. Czar. No, I mean, do you want to also help us figure

2:06out how to solve Mideast peace and maybe get some good Republicans out of this

2:11primary in your state? I don't want to detract from our music discussion.

2:16Sorry, we're talking college football and music, things that you weren't.

2:19We could talk about the CIA if that will make you happy, but that's later

2:21this week. Well, that's pretty much what everyone's talking about right now, Michael.

2:25But let's take you into Texas and tell us about this primary, which is going

2:30to be unfortunately a little overshadowed by a lot of bombs dropping overseas.

2:34Okay. But big primary in Texas.

2:37What are the main races?

2:39What are you watching? What are you seeing so far?

2:41Well, interestingly, you know, what happened in Iran, is sucking up all the energy in

2:47the room, this show, Fox, and everywhere else, right?

2:50Because this is what people want to talk about.

2:52This is a big deal.

2:53But then we had kind of an aftermath shooting in Austin.

2:56My son's at UT, as you know.

2:58And so every parent of a UT kid and everybody that lives in the Austin

3:01area is concerned about this.

3:03And the guy's wearing a property of Allah sweatshirt.

3:05So we expect to see these terror cell killings and these sort of reaction killings.

3:10So those two things are going to affect a turnout that was expected to be

3:13about 40 percent of our total turnout.

3:15So we're watching that very closely because that could mean that the turnout is lower

3:20and the late impact is reduced.

3:22But the biggest race is the U .S.

3:24Senate race where four -term Senator John Cornyn, who Trump doesn't care for, did not

3:29endorse, called on Trump not to run.

3:33He's part of the kind of John Thune, Mitch McConnell, and really even Susan Collins

3:37and Lisa Murkowski cabal. And the Texas base has had enough of him.

3:41He has not one but two strong challengers, Wesley Hunt, a congressman, and Ken Paxton,

3:46who's leading the race, who's a Trump -beloved attorney general.

3:50So we're hoping to bounce John Cornyn and send the swamp a message.

3:54We've got another congressman, Dan Crenshaw, who I worked my tail off to get elected

3:59in 2018, and he's turned on everybody from Trump to his district.

4:03And we're hoping to bounce him as well.

4:05And it's the only Republican incumbent congressman that Trump didn't endorse in that race, too.

4:11So a couple of big themes going on there with the base saying, and much

4:15to my delight, that we've had it with the insiders who go to D .C.

4:20and promise one thing but vote the other way.

4:22Michael, a big discussion that we've been having on the program is last week we

4:27had a ton of people calling in saying that they were voting in the Democrat

4:31primary because they wanted Jasmine Crockett to be the nominee.

4:35It seems to me likely, you tell me if I'm wrong, that the Republican nominee

4:41is not going to be selected in the Senate because I think it requires over

4:4550%. And as you just said, there are three candidates that are running, so there

4:49probably is going to be a runoff in late May.

4:51Let me know if I get any of this wrong.

4:53Whereas it's likely that the Democrats are going to be picking their Senate nominee tomorrow.

5:00So would you advise or tell people not to do it, that they should vote

5:06in the Senate on the Democrat side?

5:09I know there's a lot of other races, but what have you been telling your

5:12audience? How would you analyze that?

5:15You know, look, from when Rush did Operation Chaos in 2008, especially in Pennsylvania, it

5:19was a blast because we were saying to support Hillary over Barack, which was kind

5:24of ironic. And again, it was a lot of fun, but we already had our

5:27Republican nominee. In this case, we don't, and we have a chance to bounce a

5:31swamp creature who's a really bad guy.

5:34So I tell people, vote in our primary.

5:37We're not seeing that number.

5:39Republican primary voting is up 25 percent this time.

5:42It's up 250 percent or a time and a half over what it was, the

5:48Democrats, from 2022. So Democrats are very energized, which is quite odd here.

5:53I would like to see Jasmine Crockett win because I think she's a terrible general

5:57election candidate. But we have this whole theme, Clay, going on.

6:01They call it black girl magic where you've got these black women who are kind

6:06of this type of character who are now running with a huge base of support.

6:12But the question is, can they win a general election race?

6:15No, they're going to scare the hell out of Texans who are going to say,

6:18oh, my goodness, we cannot have Jasmine Crockett as the Senate candidate.

6:21But I think Tallarico is beatable as well.

6:24I want people to vote to beat Cornyn.

6:26That's my hope. And there are a lot of other races that are really important.

6:29We've got some bellwether cases of the base, the Tea Party, the MAGA, the America

6:34First versus swamp candidates in the State House, Senate, and U .S.

6:39Congress. What did Cornyn do?

6:41We're talking to Michael Barry, czar of talk.

6:43You all know him from, well, all of his fantastic hours on radio.

6:49What did Cornyn do? Or just give us some sense.

6:51You're talking about the swamp creatures, right, Cornyn?

6:54And do you also put Dan Crenshaw on there?

6:56Because I've got to say, I don't know Dan Crenshaw.

6:58I've never met him. I don't even think I've ever interviewed him.

7:01Maybe once. But I don't remember ever interviewing him.

7:03No personal beef with him at all.

7:05For a wounded Navy SEAL vet to be a Republican member of Congress from Texas

7:11and have so many people in the base so really angry at him, there's got

7:18to be something going on.

7:19And I can't speak to what it is.

7:20I really don't know. All I know is that whenever I see Crenshaw's name pop

7:24up among people who are all in on MAGA, I hear a lot of criticism,

7:30a lot of we can't trust him.

7:31What happened there? Tell me about Crenshaw and Cornyn, because you're saying it's important to

7:35get better candidates. I busted my butt to get Dan Crenshaw elected, and I regretted

7:40it from three months after that fact.

7:43He's turned every Navy SEAL that's public out there, from Sean Ryan to David Goggins

7:48to Eddie Gallagher, he's turned on them.

7:50He's arrogant. His stock trading history is highly questionable.

7:54When you bring it up, he threatens to sue you.

7:57You get a cease and desist.

7:59I've gotten them as well.

8:00He was for red flag laws, which shocked people.

8:03He's had these moments. He screamed at a little girl at a town hall meeting,

8:0810 years old, in his district when she asked him about a quote he gave

8:11about Jesus Christ being an archetype like Superman.

8:15And just time after time, I think he's got anger management issues.

8:18I think he's got some personal demons, to be honest.

8:21And I think he got there, and he bought the hype after the SNL moment

8:25with Pete Davidson when it went to his head.

8:27And he's just – the base doesn't like him.

8:30As regards Cornyn, he's been there for 24 years.

8:34He's been in public life for 41 years.

8:35He's out of touch terribly.

8:37In 2024, great example, he called on Trump to drop out of the race and

8:41not run, and he said it was time for America to move past Donald Trump.

8:45His moment had passed. He's got a real high rating for voting with the Democrats,

8:50and for Texas Republicans, that's not a good thing.

8:53He seems to support Ukraine more than he does Texas.

8:58He was against the border wall and openly against the border wall, much like John

9:03McCain. Think of John McCain amongst the base, and you've got that.

9:07He's incredibly out of touch with the base on a number of issues.

9:10The anti -Trump stuff was bad.

9:12He's a red flag guy.

9:13He's very, very soft on amnesty, and he was against the border wall.

9:19I think those things are sort of typical of a guy that's been up there

9:23a long time and forgot where he came from.

9:25We have – we should mention – Let me give you one other example.

9:28He came out and said that he was worried that if he didn't win, it

9:34was because too many radicals voted in the Republican primary.

9:37If you are Tea Party, if you are MAGA, if you are American first, he

9:40considers you a radical. That tells you he's a swamp creature.

9:43Sorry. We're talking to Michael Berry right now.

9:46We should mention we have Ken Paxton at 2 .30 Eastern.

9:49That is next hour today.

9:51We have John Cornyn. We've also reached out to Wesley Hunt.

9:55Have not heard back from him.

9:56Those are the three primary Republican challengers.

10:00We also, Michael Berry, have reached out to Jasmine Crockett and to James Tallarico to

10:05invite all five Senate candidates on because we are fair and balanced.

10:11Unlike many late -night television show hosts.

10:14So, just FYI, we have invited everyone on to make their case.

10:18So, what do you expect?

10:20Is my analysis of this likely to be – let me tell you what I

10:24think the data is lining up to show.

10:27You tell me if I'm wrong.

10:30Unless Jasmine Crockett gets a huge turnout tomorrow, I think James Tallarico is going to

10:35be the Democrat nominee. It appears to me that we are going to have a

10:40runoff, most likely, between Ken Paxton and John Cornyn, which will take place in May.

10:47Would you sign on to both of those things as the most likely outcome?

10:51And, again, we encourage – Thank you.

10:52all of you that have not voted in texas to get out and vote tomorrow

10:57i think i think paxton leads going into a runoff which is 10 weeks away

11:03hard to believe with cornyn i think that's the most likely thing to happen um

11:07cornyn and the dc swamp did a number on wesley hunt and it's been hard

11:11for him to keep up so i think you've got paxton leading cornyn going into

11:14a runoff i don't know that the talarico win is as certain as the talarico

11:19people tell you it is every poll consistently had her winning by had her leading

11:24by five to twelve percentage points those numbers are coming out of talarico's community and

11:30that came after stephen colbert jumped in to kind of rescue him and that whole

11:34little hoax that they put together there i think it's still very possible that that

11:39jasmine crockett wins in fact i predict she wins because the turnout level amongst the

11:43base especially amongst the black base it's going to be heavier than expected and i

11:48predict she wins well if the czar sayeth it's such the czar make it room

11:54for white liberals in the democrat party in texas any longer and jasmine crockett is

12:00it fair to say i said if she's the nominee that there is a zero

12:04percent chance she could win in texas would you go you know the state of

12:07texas well is zero percent the right number if jasmine crockett is the nominee texas

12:13is the prize for democrats and beto o 'rourke was the best candidate they had

12:17kind of a gavin newsom kind of guy that you know can get the young

12:21vote and he's cool and he's hip and hopefully you can mobilize blacks blacks don't

12:26vote for a guy like that and there aren't enough white liberals and and moderates

12:30left so talarico is still from that mold he can quote the bible as to

12:34why abortion is good and that thrills them but i don't think you win come

12:38november and and i think that it's still kind of a very polarized and and

12:42there is just no room left for a white liberal in the democrat party those

12:46folks have had to gravitate white labor white farmers they've all moved over uh to

12:51the republican party they've had to the party changed too much well i'm happy to

12:55hear that fortress texas is holding strong for freedom in america although sounds like you're

13:01not going to be moving to florida anytime soon czar that's that's the only doubt

13:05i'm glad to come visit you on your birthday there we go my friend thank

13:08you great to see you and thanks for being here with us michael bear everybody

13:11go check him out go listen to the michael berry show and make sure you

13:16get out there and vote texans we got a lot of texans listening no doubt

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15:05sexton show we are breaking down everything having to do with iran and also we

15:10thought that the uh primary which is taking place in texas also north carolina and

15:16i believe arkansas this is the first actual voting taking place for the 2026 midterm

15:23cycle that is going on tomorrow uh and so we uh want to make sure

15:28that we are updating you on that and texas of those states is going to

15:32be the first significant opportunity for people to weigh in but obviously we are covering

15:39the situation in iran aggressively a couple of things buck that i do think are

15:43significant um oil prices a lot of oil and gas concerns about obviously middle eastern

15:50uncertainty so far the oil prices have not moved a ton they're up about five

15:57percent uh that is relatively uh benign in terms of its overall impact and so

16:05uh we hope that that will stay the case but i do think that's significant

16:09because a lot of people are going to say okay what is that going to

16:11do to the price that i'm paying for oil and gas now remember in the

16:16summer oil and gas prices tend to go up they tend to you you down

16:20around uh the the end of the year just fyi the driving season when everybody

16:25gets on the road usually may june july those prices go up a bit um

16:31just keep that in mind but prices are not adjusting substantially right now also as

16:37i am speaking to all of you stock market basically unmoved so uh the despite

16:45the fact that we have begun a war with uh with iran uh there is

16:50virtually no movement in the equity marketplace at all uh s &p 500 uh up

16:57literally let me look at this because it's so tiny one point uh the dow

17:02basically unmoved uh as well nasdaq uh up actually so again there is no major

17:10economic swing that has occurred as a result of this i think it's significant to

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17:20what is the democrat argument because if you unpack it a little bit it seems

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18:57when is the last time you saw people in israel and iran dancing on the

19:01streets and excitement and when is the last time you've ever heard of a country

19:05coming out and dancing because they're excited that foreign powers are attacking them it's a

19:14great day for for iranians everywhere it's great day for freedom and it's a very

19:19emotional night i love you trump i love you trump he did totally and we

19:25now have to free iran for years they told us that it is impossible that

19:31you need to do reform we say no this is not a reform movement this

19:37is not a movement this is not a protest islamic republic listen very carefully your

19:43dictator is dead this is a revolution so there you had a collection of voices

19:50iranian americans speaking to cnn uh some iranians outside their uh the iranian embassy in

19:59london and there was a lot of jubilation as i said here in miami beach

20:04there were fireworks there were people high -fiving and smiling and uh you had a

20:09combination of people who are iranian uh you know iranian uh by ethnicity and by

20:16nationality but who live in the west now very happy about this a lot of

20:21uh jewish americans a lot of americans with deep ties to israel very happy about

20:26this and just some americans who think that uh iran getting hit this way after

20:32all this time makes a whole lot of sense and is a smart thing for

20:35us i understand there's a lot of debate about this still and i understand that

20:38there it is absolutely one of these moments where people of the best faith not

20:44just people in good faith but people of the best faith will look at this

20:47and say i have concerns where is that where is this going and how is

20:51this going to continue on completely valid and we don't really know yet i will

20:56also point out clay on the one hand there's all the jubilation and all this

20:59there are still the echoes of painful lessons learned from the region in fact in

21:05this case a neighboring country many people forget afghanistan is right next door to iran

21:11uh this was from cnn clay taliban authorities in afghanistan have issued a decree that

21:17makes sodomy punishable by death and lets men beat their wives so long as they

21:22don't break bones that is the government in charge of afghanistan after we were there

21:29for 20 years and tried to rebuild that country and that's not changing anytime soon

21:33that is the government for the foreseeable clay i i that's the that's millions of

21:38no nation building wasn't very well spent i think it's fair to say yeah but

21:42but the no nation building people you got a point where we you know that

21:47is the the the the the the the the the the the the the the

21:47the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the

21:47the the the the the the the the the the You have a lot of

21:48allies on the right in the we can do some stuff without doing all this

21:54stuff. And we don't want to try to do all this stuff because we've seen,

21:58right, the lesson I think has been learned or should have been learned.

22:01I think Trump certainly has learned that lesson as well.

22:04I think also Iran is not like Afghanistan or Iraq necessarily in that the Persian

22:13element of its culture in history is more prevalent often than the Arab element of

22:21its history. And this is a comparatively very well educated Middle Eastern society.

22:29And the reason I bring it up is if you look historically at the Persian

22:34people, they have been committed to education on a level that is pretty extraordinary.

22:42And so it's the dissent.

22:45I mean, did you see some of these videos?

22:47I shared one of them of what Iran was like in the 1970s before the

22:52revolution, the Islamic revolution took over.

22:54I mean, it was a very westernized country in that women walked around in skirts

23:00and high heels. They they lived a very westernized existence.

23:06And again, the reason why I've opened up phone lines and we got some callers

23:09here I want to hear from is it seems like the general expat community of

23:15Iranians in the United States is very much in favor of some form or fashion.

23:21Of the royal family being used as a bridge towards a new leadership.

23:26In other words, if you gave them a magic wand and they could go back

23:30in time, it would, I think, be royal family driven.

23:34And and in some way, a nostalgic, you know, bringing back of the 1970s era

23:42before, frankly, what, 50 years, basically, of awfulness descended on the country.

23:48But let's hear from some of these some of these callers here.

23:52Nami in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

23:55What is your friend and family discussion like?

23:58What is the reaction to Trump's actions and what do you think should happen going

24:02forward? Clay Buck, thank you so much for having me.

24:08I am so grateful. I want to say that I was basically in cry all

24:13Saturday, just being so grateful to Trump and so grateful to our country here.

24:20I've been here for 40 years now.

24:23I came after the revolution in 1984 and I saw all the destruction that happened

24:31in Iran and my heart.

24:34And I became a believer in Jesus Christ.

24:36And I've been back now about seven, eight times.

24:40But last time I was in Iran, it was back in 2014.

24:46They actually held me there.

24:48They wanted to know what I'm doing there.

24:50And they wanted to root all the Christians going there.

24:53But that country has exploded in faith.

24:58And so many of Iranian people are accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

25:04I am so grateful because I'm looking.

25:07I want to go back, tell the people of Iran how much they are loved

25:12and how much the United States has cherished.

25:15And just the fact that we are, we have gone in and wanting to elevate

25:22this country and get this cancer out of that country.

25:26And I can tell you all the leaderships in Iran, they are evil.

25:32They are, and they are going to, they're going to give everything they have to

25:37come against, against the world.

25:39And because they have been botched with this lie that if they create chaos in

25:47the world, they will, they will usher the bringing of their imam, which is imam

25:54Mehdi, which is all, it's all lies that have been, that have been told.

25:59Sorry to cut you off, but in general, do you think their support for the

26:03reinstallation of the royal family when you talk to your friends and family?

26:09Yes, yes, we are all for it.

26:12I think Reza al -Pahlevi, the son of the previous Shah, I think he is

26:17the most qualified to come in and actually resurrect Iran.

26:21Thank you for the call.

26:23Ali in Sacramento says he's been here since 1997, but still has a lot of

26:28family in Iran. What is the reaction from your friends and family?

26:33Have you been able to get in touch with your friends and family back in

26:37Iran? Since the attack started.

26:39Thanks for having me. Yeah, I talked to my mom about two days ago before

26:44the Internet of phones get shut off.

26:46And they were, they were actually excited, to be honest, which is kind of weird

26:50with any war. But I told them, don't go out, you know, just stay safe,

26:56you know, have some food, whatever, you know, stored in at home.

27:01And, yeah, I mean, everybody's happy, man.

27:03I mean, 90 % of my family lives there.

27:05And I lived there until I was 18.

27:07And I've been through this since we were a kid.

27:10They were brainwashing kids. Oh, say death to Israel.

27:12Israel's our enemy. And you grow up with that mentality.

27:15And you grow up with that mentality.

27:15And then when you come here with the thanks to internet, you know, generation and

27:20everybody's waking up and they understand there was all bunch of like, you know, nonsense

27:25they feed us, you know, since we're a kid.

27:27And now people are changing.

27:29I never seen Iranian community so united and all for one goal, just to free

27:33Iran. They can go back and people are sad right now in Iran are the

27:39ones that connected to the government and they're getting free oil money, basically.

27:42And that's what it is.

27:44And I hope people understand this is a this is a war against a terrorist

27:49regime that's supporting terror. Everybody knows that.

27:52But some people still don't understand why this attack happened.

27:56So when we get rid of this Islamic regime, the world's going to be better

28:00placed 100 percent because taxpayers are going to save a lot of money.

28:04So there's not many wars going to happen after this.

28:06Hamas be gone. You know, Hezbollah is going to be gone.

28:09All those, you know, people that are wishing death for other countries, they're all going

28:13to be eliminated. Nobody's going to support them anymore.

28:15So they're all going to be slowly going to go away.

28:18So, yeah, we're celebrating yesterday on the street in Roseville and everybody's excited, man.

28:24I know we lost a lot of young kids.

28:2650 ,000 people more has been killed by this regime.

28:30And we're still sad about that.

28:32But I said, again, it's a necessary evil, in my opinion.

28:36Thank you for the call very much.

28:38Buck, it's worth mentioning. You studied this a lot, that Iran is basically the money

28:42behind and funding almost all terror attacks in the Middle East when you really dive

28:48into it. Yes. Iran was even willing to work with Sunni Muslim terrorist groups and

28:55give support to groups like Hamas, for example.

28:58Iran was the single greatest state sponsor of terror in the world.

29:02There was no question about that.

29:04Iran was harboring members of al -Qaeda for a long time.

29:07Iran was doing everything that it could to make the world a more dangerous and

29:15unstable and honestly just frightening place for everybody who, in every country, that wants to

29:22live in freedom and doesn't want the nonsense of the Islamic Revolution shoved down their

29:27throats all the time. So, and they obviously worked very closely with Russia and with

29:32China and North Korea. By the way, a lot of the Iranian oil was being

29:36sold to China. Guess what?

29:39Things are changing now. It would actually be quite helpful, I think, to remove some

29:47of China. There's a lot of geostrategic implications of this stuff, but to remove the

29:52heavily subsidized oil from the market that China can get access to.

29:58China's been buying Russian oil, been buying Iranian oil, and at a cut rate price.

30:04So that's, I think, also a win in this whole process.

30:07Yes, and I think that there's the possibility here of a transformational moment for certainly

30:16the country of Iran, and the ramifications for the whole region would be amazing.

30:20I mean, the ramifications for Lebanon, the ramifications for Syria, the ramifications for Yemen.

30:27I mean, you go down this list, Iran's tentacles have stretched into all these places,

30:31and all they do is just bring radicalism, death, and despair everywhere.

30:35Of course, against Israel, constantly, oh, we have to kill everybody in Israel, kick them

30:39into the sea, the whole, you know.

30:42This can stop. I'm not saying it will.

30:44I'm not saying it's going to work out great.

30:45I don't pretend to be able to tell the future.

30:48But I do know that Trump is on a win streak right now.

30:52I mean, Trump is at a point, Clay, where he's just going on first down

30:56for 40 yards into double coverage because he's hit it the last five times.

31:01He just can't be stopped right now.

31:03It's incredible to watch. Let's be honest, who else would do something like this?

31:06Who else has been willing to do a third of what Trump has done on

31:10the world stage in one year?

31:13All of that is true.

31:15I also think maybe we'll talk about this a little bit at the top of

31:17the third hour. The Democrat response has been nonsensical.

31:20But remember, all of this is a direct result of October 7th, 2023.

31:25And I think what you are seeing is the expectation of what that attack would

31:32do and the reality of what it's done is it's pretty seismic.

31:37And I think, again, it is one of the greatest strategic miscalculations that we have

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33:59up to a mic anything goes clay travis and buck sexton find them on the

34:07free iheart radio app or wherever you get your podcast welcome back in clay travis

34:13buck sexton show we appreciate all of you hanging out with us we're going to

34:17get to a couple more of your calls we'll dive into some of the big

34:20discussions surrounding iran let me hit you with a small one buck uh there is

34:25talk right now that iran which qualified for the world cup may not be uh

34:31able to compete in the united states over what's going on again this is a

34:37small thing but i think it would be very smart of president trump and his

34:41team remember president trump's been very involved with the world cup which is gonna be

34:45taking place in the united states i think it'll be super smart of his team

34:48to say we want iran to compete the people of iran are not our uh

34:54adversaries soccer is hugely important in that country the team making it as you know

35:00making the world cup is a huge deal for these countries it's also a little

35:04bit funny i don't even talked about this on the program do you know seattle

35:08is having a gay rights soccer match have you heard about this this is 100

35:13true they are having a pro gay rights world cup soccer match that they have

35:18scheduled do you know who is playing in the pro gay rights soccer game in

35:24seattle egypt and iran you want to talk about one of the funniest possible draws

35:32that the left wingers in seattle could have ever gotten for their super gay soccer

35:37game they got egypt and iran to play in the gay rights uh world cup

35:44game i want this match to happen just because i think it will be one

35:49of the funniest uh of all consequences but in all seriousness i think it would

35:54be smart of president trump to say hey we want iran to play uh our

35:58our feud is not with the iranian people this this team qualified uh and uh

36:03i think it would be a smart move we'll take some of your calls we

36:06got several iranians who want to weigh in on what they are hearing we appreciate

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