Hour 1 - Operation Epic Fury
3/2/202637 mincomplete
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0:08It is a major news breaking Monday.
0:11We hope all of you had fantastic weekends as we predicted going into the weekend.
0:17Major news coming from Iran where early, early in the morning U .S.
0:24time on Saturday morning, we began to rain down a ton of missiles and an
0:32attack on Iran alongside of Israel, wiping out, according to President Trump, 49 top Iranian
0:41leaders, including Ayatollah Khomeini, who had been in charge for decades there.
0:48That attack happening in the daylight hours in Iran on Saturday, stunning much of the
0:56Iranian leadership. Maybe, Buck, they should have Zoomed.
1:01But instead, they all gathered directly together in the daylight hours, and now many of
1:08them are gone. President Trump is speaking as we are coming on with you live
1:14from the White House. And I think the primary question is, who will rule Iran?
1:21We will get into that quite a lot going forward.
1:24But let me go ahead and hit you with the absolute latest comments from President
1:30Trump just made in the last few moments in the White House.
1:35These are cuts. 31. Let's start with this.
1:39This is Cut 31, as Trump has just updated the absolute latest moments knowledge from
1:47Iran. Cut 31. Today, the United States military continues to carry out large -scale combat
1:54operations in Iran to eliminate the grave threats posed to America by this terrible terrorist
2:01regime. Following our obliteration of Iran's nuclear program in Operation Midnight Hammer a short while
2:09ago, we warned Iran not to make any attempt to rebuild at a different location
2:13because they were unable to use the ones that we so powerfully blew up.
2:19But they ignored those warnings and refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
2:24In addition, the regime's conventional ballistic missile program was growing rapidly and dramatically, and this
2:31posed a very clear, colossal threat to America and our forces stationed overseas.
2:36The regime already had missiles capable of hitting Europe and our bases both local and
2:42overseas and would soon have had missiles capable of reaching our beautiful America.
2:47The purpose of this fast -growing missile program was to shield their nuclear weapon development
2:53and make it extraordinarily difficult for anyone to stop them from making these highly forbidden
2:58by us nuclear weapons. Okay, let me hit a couple more, Buck, then I'll bring
3:05you in, get your immediate reaction.
3:07CIA was very involved, according to reports.
3:1032, Trump lays out the military objectives in Iran right now.
3:15Our objectives are clear. First, we're destroying Iran's missile capabilities, and you see that happening
3:22on an hourly basis, and their capacity to produce brand new ones, and pretty good
3:27ones they make. Second, we're annihilating their navy.
3:31We've knocked out already 10 ships there at the bottom of the sea.
3:35Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a
3:41nuclear weapon, never going to have a nuclear weapon.
3:43I said that from the beginning.
3:44They're never going to have a nuclear weapon.
3:47They were on the road to getting one legitimately through a deal that was signed
3:52foolishly by our country. And finally, we're ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to
4:00arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.
4:05And we thought we had a deal, but then they backed out, and they came
4:10back, and we thought we had a deal, and they backed out.
4:12But I said, you can't deal with these people.
4:14You've got to do it the right way.
4:16Okay, and then last, cut 33, four lost lives from U .S.
4:22service members. Trump says we grieve for them and gives you a projected timeline of
4:27how long this mission will take.
4:29Today, we grieve for the four heroic American service members who have been killed in
4:35action and send our love and support to their families.
4:39In their memory, we continue this mission with ferocious, unyielding resolve to crush the threat
4:45this terrorist regime poses to the American people, and a threat indeed it is.
4:51We have the strongest and most powerful by far military in the world, and we
4:57will easily prevail. We're already substantially ahead of our time projections, but whatever the time
5:06is, it's okay. Whatever it takes, we will always, and we have right from the
5:11beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer
5:17than that. We'll do it.
5:18Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, if the president wants to do it
5:23really quickly, after that, he'll get bullied.
5:24I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this.
5:27Do you agree with that, Pete?
5:28I don't think there's anything, Mr.
5:30General. There's nothing boring about it.
5:32Somebody actually said from the media, I think you'll get bored after about a week
5:36or two. No, we don't get bored.
5:38I never get bored. If I got bored, I wouldn't be standing here right now,
5:41I guarantee you that, to go through what I had to go through.
5:44Okay, Buck, big picture takeaways.
5:47Did anything surprise you? I think the biggest question is, who's going to end up
5:52ruling Iran, right? That's the trillion -dollar question at this point.
5:56Well, the first thing is, he finally did it.
6:00Remember that scene in Jurassic Park where he sees the dinosaurs?
6:05Ian Malcolm, the character, who is played by Jeff Goldblum.
6:11And he goes, he did it.
6:12The crazy son of a gun did it.
6:16That's really the feeling that so many of us who have been watching this Iran
6:21situation for decades now felt like, and in the best possible way, enough is enough.
6:27Trump knows enough about the negotiations with anyone.
6:34He knows when he is being screwed around.
6:38And he knew, fundamentally, the Iranians, the Iranian regime, I should say, and it's very
6:43important to separate these things.
6:44America has no hostility toward the Iranian people, per se.
6:47In fact, we want much better lives and freedom for all of them.
6:51We despise the malacracy, which was essentially an Islamic faction that took over this country
7:00and ruined it for 50 -some -odd years, okay?
7:03So we've had enough of that.
7:05And Trump came in and said, all the deals, the fundamental reality that the Obama
7:11administration refused to see, refused to understand, which was, you can't make a deal with
7:17these people. Sure, you can negotiate with some terrorists.
7:21You can't negotiate with these terrorists.
7:23They were not going to abide by a deal.
7:27Because they knew, if they got full nuclear capability, then they're North Korea.
7:33Then they get to do whatever garbage they want and make the world the worst
7:38place in whatever ways they want for the foreseeable future, for generations to come, because
7:44no one is going to take the risk of a major strike on a country
7:48with crazies running it with nukes at their disposal.
7:52This was the realization that Trump had.
7:55And he tried, and he tried, and he negotiated, and he wanted to get a
7:59deal. And this is Mr.
8:01Dealmaker on the global stage saying, guys, you've got to convince me that you're serious
8:08about this one. And what he realized was there was no deal to be had.
8:13And, you know, Clay, how many years has it taken for everyone to go through
8:16this? Oh, we've got to figure out some...
8:17They don't want to make a deal.
8:20And now they can't. So that's a good thing.
8:23Now it's all over for them.
8:25Now they are with the 72 virgins, if that's a thing.
8:29And they're somewhere else. And we have the hope of a better and more prosperous
8:34future for the Iranian people.
8:37I mean, there were fireworks here in South Beach.
8:39And look, I get it.
8:40There's a large Jewish community where I live.
8:42I live in a mostly Jewish enclave of Miami Beach.
8:47And everybody around here was high -fiving and thinking it was, thinks it's fantastic.
8:51And there were fireworks going off, Clay, in celebration of this strike.
8:58And I have to say, so far, look at the people that are involved.
9:02Look at the people in charge.
9:03You've got Secretary of Warhead, Seth.
9:04You've got Trump. You've got Marco Rubio, a Secretary of State.
9:07We're not doing nation -building.
9:09This is just, we're going to pick apart the tyranny and encourage better things to
9:16happen on the ground there.
9:17And I think that if that is the mission and they are able to pull
9:21this off, Clay, you tweeted this, and I agree with you.
9:23Trump is the most consequential president, on track to be the most consequential president, certainly
9:29since, no, I said consequential, not best, FDR.
9:34And maybe going back even further, he may be the most consequential president since Lincoln.
9:38That's really what we're heading toward right now, my friends.
9:41That's the direction this is going if he pulls this all off.
9:44Look, I tweeted, and I really do think it's been under -discussed.
9:49I think the assassination attempts that Trump survived, I think they changed him in a
9:55profound way. And I don't know what his second term would look like if those
10:02assassination attempts hadn't occurred. And I think you also have to plug in the attempts
10:07to bankrupt him, the attempts to put him in prison for the rest of his
10:10life. I think Trump is operating in a fearless manner.
10:15And he is deciding to do things that aren't designed to be good for the
10:20next six months. They're designed to be good for the next 60 years.
10:24And, I mean, I think you can look across everything he's doing, whether it's the
10:29ballroom that he is building at the White House, whether it is the ceremonial arch
10:35that he is putting in at the White House, heck, the redone Kennedy Center that
10:39they are rehabbing right now.
10:41Those are physical manifestations in a small way of the larger global perspective that he's
10:49embarked upon. I mean, getting rid of Maduro, getting rid...
10:52of the Ayatollah, basically ending communism in Cuba in many ways, which is not being
10:59talked about very much yet, but that entire communist regime in Cuba, we are right
11:05now living through a modern Berlin Wall coming down moment.
11:10Now, here are the challenges.
11:13As there are great attempts at excellence, the reach can sometimes be unreachable.
11:21And that is the danger, I think, that is incumbent right now, is he's trying
11:27to do great things. And for anyone who tries to do great things, sometimes when
11:32you stretch for greatness, there are flaws that emerge in that process.
11:36And so I think it's fair to say it's too early.
11:41But Buck, if you look at the June attack in Iran, the takeout of Maduro
11:46in Venezuela, and the early first couple of days opening moves that have gone on
11:53in Iran, they have been basically flawlessly executed.
11:57Four lost lives. I wish there were none.
12:00But if you had told people that all those things were going to be happening
12:03and the cost to American life would be for service members, I think everyone would
12:08have said that's impossible. Now, I think, unfortunately, the toll is going to grow.
12:13I think for everybody out there, you need to be watching around you.
12:18We just saw the shooting that happened in Austin, Texas.
12:21Innocent people lost their lives.
12:23Crazy people are emboldened by the actions your president has taken.
12:28It appears it was quite clearly a terror attack.
12:30I don't think they've officially said it, but the guy had...
12:32I'm saying it. I know more about this than the Austin cops looking at it.
12:36It's a terrorist attack. It feels like very clearly a terrorist attack to me.
12:40And so again, we'll open up phone lines.
12:42We'll react to you guys.
12:44By the way, it's also the eve of the primary in Texas, in addition to
12:48that attack that took place in Austin.
12:50So there are lots of news stories out there.
12:52But Iran is by far the biggest story.
12:56I was gleeful, I'm not going to lie, that we took this step because we've
13:02seen so many half steps.
13:04We saw Obama give the Iranians billions of dollars.
13:06To your point, Buck, we knew they weren't actually going to be honest brokers.
13:12And so you're just kicking the can down the road if you continue to allow
13:16this group to be in charge.
13:18All that you had to know about this is the people in charge thought all
13:25we have to do is get to the point of double crossing whoever makes a
13:28deal with us, double crossing the international community, get the full nuclear package going that
13:35we that we want. And then what are they going to do about it?
13:39That's the you know, they only had to screw us over once.
13:42And then we have to deal with this for forever, basically wait for some internal
13:46collapse of a regime that now has nukes.
13:48Look at how that's going to North Korea.
13:50You see a lot of North Korean opposition these days.
13:53Yeah, it was Trump has has likely saved us from decades more of if you're
14:01saying these are really bad people.
14:04These are really bad people in Iran that he killed that I know that sounds
14:09very simplistic to people think they know a lot about geopolitics.
14:12I can speak the geopolitics think tank language and lingo with the best of them.
14:17Fundamentally, these are evildoers who had nothing but bad intentions toward their own people or
14:25the rest of the world.
14:26And they've been doing it.
14:27We let them get away with nonsense for decades.
14:29They have the blood of Americans on their hands in a whole bunch of different
14:32ways. And it's a tin pot crappy country right now.
14:36I mean, the regime is it's actually a beautiful country.
14:39And, you know, Iran in 20 years could be amazing the same way that Cuba
14:43in like five years if they got rid of the people in charge could be
14:46amazing. We don't have to live this way.
14:49It's a little bit like the crime thing, Clay.
14:52The big revelation is it actually doesn't have to be like this.
14:55And the big revelation from Trump is you can just do stuff.
14:59You don't have to let the bad guys just keep getting away with it.
15:03You can actually do stuff when you're America.
15:05So we'll see. Is there a risk?
15:07Yeah, of course there's risk.
15:08Look, Israel, U .S. aligned in the execution of Operation Epic Fury to assure a
15:15lasting peace in the Middle East.
15:17And right now you're watching it.
15:18You probably saw Trey Yankst over the weekend on Fox News.
15:21The missiles are raining down on Israel.
15:24And every time there is that missile alert, Israelis have to run to bomb shelters
15:30all over their country. And the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is on the
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15:40That's what they do. They focus on the most the sick, the elderly kids, families
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16:34you get your podcasts welcome back into clay and buck war with iran it is
16:40a reality right now we have an aerial war against the iranian regime underway a
16:45long time in coming uh but here it is and secretary of war hegseth has
16:52not been holding back at all he is addressing everybody on this this is cut
16:56one he's saying look we didn't even really start this we could argue that but
17:00we didn't start this but president trump's going to finish it play one we didn't
17:04start this war but under president trump we are finishing it their war on americans
17:10has become our retribution against their ayatollah and his death cult it took the 47th
17:18president a fighter who always puts america first to finally draw the line after 47
17:23years of iranian belligerence he reminded the world as he has time and time again
17:29being an american means something unbreakable if you kill americans if you threaten americans anywhere
17:35on earth we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation and we will
17:42kill you i think that's a good rule i think that the american government should
17:49take the opinion that if you kill americans if you pray on our people we're
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18:59all of you hanging out with us some of you maybe many of you will
19:02remember president trump spent a long time with rush limbaugh right before the election was
19:10this in 2020 yes october 9th 2020 president trump said uh be careful we had
19:17to bleep out a curse word here but he said if you f around with
19:22us we'll do things to you that have never been done before he spent two
19:26hours that day with rush back in october of 2020 uh here is what that
19:33sounded like for those of you who uh have forgotten or maybe had not heard
19:38before october 9th 2020 on the same network never had it like we have it
19:43now right and iran knows that and they've been put on notice if you around
19:47with us if you do something bad to us we are going to do things
19:51to you that have never been done before buck i mean the interesting thing here
19:58is many of us have grown so used to politicians saying i'm going to do
20:03x or y and then they get into office and they never do x or
20:07y i think if the the 2024 presidential campaign in particular trump has done almost
20:14everything exactly as he said he would do it now some people don't agree with
20:18it but i'm not sure we have ever seen more of a here is what
20:22i will do and a transactional presidency than this one you worked in the cia
20:28for uh for for many years there are reports that the cia was aware of
20:33where the ayatollah was and helped to get uh israel that information which i'm sure
20:39they had good info to to allow them to effectively decapitate this government trump has
20:45said 49 top iranian leaders have been taken out already were you as staggered as
20:50i was that with all of this firepower in close proximity to iran that iran
20:56was doing public messages meetings like this in any way i mean it seems that
21:01they just truly believed that trump and israel did not have the wherewithal or willingness
21:08to actually take out the ayatollah nothing else makes sense here i think this is
21:13a call their bluff situation i think they believed that we wouldn't take the risk
21:20yeah and go for a decapitation operation of their government which is exactly what trump
21:25just pulled off here and i put this out on x clay and i just
21:29want to go through this really quickly for everybody let's think about this for a
21:33moment trump takes out qasem soleimani the head of the uh of the irgc quids
21:40force i remember being in iraq and i remember there were conversations going on then
21:45at the highest level we're talking 2006 thousands thousands It's 2007.
21:49Hey, we got to do something about this guy.
21:51He's killing Americans. Qasem Soleimani is setting up ambushes to have Americans killed.
21:59He's ordering them to use these EFPs, these explosively formed penetrators.
22:02Oh, we can't do that.
22:04We can't do that. Trump takes him out.
22:06What happens? Very little. Then we hear about how, you know, after October 7th, what's
22:13Israel going to do? Israel pulls off the pager operation, one of the most incredible
22:17intelligence -slash -sabotage, direct -action, covert -action operations in history, an incredible operation the Israelis
22:29pulled off. Then we have the strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities, including the U
22:35.S., bringing in the ultimate bunker buster to finish it off after the Israelis just
22:39smoke all the Iranian surface -to -air missiles in defense, get through all that stuff,
22:45everything they could have bought from Russia, from China, did nada, nothing.
22:49And then Trump shows up on the most heavily guarded military base in Venezuela, sends
22:55in Delta Force, and Delta Force, without losing a single man, captures Maduro, the dictator
23:01of Venezuela, and brings him to a U .S.
23:03prison. And now this? I mean, this is a string of military operations, U .S.,
23:12U .S.-Israeli, Israeli, the likes of which we've never seen before.
23:18And what you're seeing is incredible precision, incredible success, while it also stays fully within
23:29Trump's philosophy of if you do not come around, if you do not negotiate, if
23:35you do not change your behavior, America's not just going to suffer in silence anymore.
23:40Clay, it's... Pulling off any one of these things would be big.
23:45This is a president who is saying the enemy can no longer rely on our
23:51fear or apathy to keep them in power and to keep them alive.
23:56Think of the message this sends.
23:58You want to talk China, Taiwan?
23:59You want to talk Russia?
24:00You want to talk any of these guys?
24:02They're looking at this going, maybe our surface -to -air missile systems and radars aren't
24:06as good as we thought they were.
24:07It's pretty extraordinary across the board.
24:11And for it to have been executed so flawlessly so far is pretty amazing.
24:19Now, there's a joke going around in Israel that the only leadership left in Iran
24:25at this point is three different Mossad agents, all of whom don't know about the
24:31other Mossad agents. In other words, clearly we, through Israel and also through the United
24:37States, have incredible intelligence on the ground giving us information about what is going, taking
24:45place there. I circle back around to the big picture question, which is this, who
24:50will rule? And I ask that because I think it is by far the most
24:56significant question. It seems clear that we knew, maybe because we'd already been talking with
25:02her, maybe because she was involved in part of the taking out of Maduro, that
25:07Delce Rodriguez was someone that the Trump administration felt like they could work with in
25:13Venezuela. And we now have a partner in some sense that is executing according to
25:19U .S. wishes in Venezuela.
25:22Is there that person in Iran or, and this is where I want to open
25:27up phone lines. They're X'd out right now.
25:29I'm going to open up and I'm going to ask, let's only hear from Iranian
25:33expats, people in the United States.
25:36Remember, we did this once before.
25:37We asked you guys what you thought should happen.
25:40What are conversations from Americans in Iranians who has a couple hundred thousand, I think,
25:49Iranians in West L .A.
25:51It's like everywhere you go around UCLA's campus, it feels like everybody is Iranian.
25:55And they had incredible pro -Trump marches in L .A., in D .C., in New
26:03York City that I saw, Miami also.
26:06Jewish and Iranian people coming together and celebrating the fact that the Ayatollah was gone.
26:17I would like to hear, as we open up phone lines, only from Iranian people
26:21right now. What are your conversations like?
26:24What kind of access do you have to people back in Iran?
26:27What is the right decision?
26:30Because here's what's going to happen, Buck.
26:32If this is executed well and we end up with new leadership in Iran that
26:38has made the Middle East way safer, this is going to be an absolute home
26:42run for President Trump. If it drags on and it turns into a mess, then
26:48it's going to be a huge disaster, right?
26:51This is the reality. And lots of people are going to withhold judgment until they
26:57see how it plays out, and then they're going to jump on the bandwagon.
27:01Every Democrat lined up and said this was an awful decision, with the exception of
27:07John Fetterman, who said, hey, this is a really good decision.
27:10This is risky for Democrats, too, because it's a little bit like being opposed to
27:15the Berlin. wall coming down uh and if it turns out well then they're gonna
27:19have to scramble and act like they were in favor of this all along so
27:24what is the reaction going to be uh i think will be a function of
27:29when we end up with some recognition of who might be in charge does that
27:35make sense to you what do you think they're doing at the cia right now
27:38uh for example in the wake of this well the huge thing is who who
27:43is who is mobilizing to fill the security and power vacuum which is obviously very
27:51large right now because they took out a whole bunch they've got dozens of top
27:55leaders in iran um who who is going to fill that vacuum uh and i
28:02don't know i mean this is something that obviously i don't know but uh i
28:08think that if there's some plan in place that would be great news but this
28:14is often the hard part is figuring out that that moment of transition or those
28:20moments of transition because and i understand this people are saying i don't want u
28:25.s boots on the ground i don't want america to do a regime change work
28:28trump won't do it but understand that that means we may pull the pull out
28:33uh all the stops here and knock out the leadership and everything else and things
28:36could get really ugly inside iran and a lot of us are going to say
28:40iranians got to figure this out sorry that's where this is not not sending your
28:46son or your daughter trump's not going to i truly believe he will not send
28:50your son your daughter over there to fix it for them we are giving them
28:55the reopening it is up to the iranian people to take it and run with
28:58it will they i don't know i hope i i think something you said is
29:05important here too um the strategic arrogance and miscalculation from the ayatollah and top iranian
29:14leadership to just think we can have basically public meetings in some way uh with
29:21all of these assets mobilized in the iranian area and to think hey they're not
29:27going to attack on shabbat they're not going to do this on a saturday in
29:31the middle of the afternoon think about the degree of uh technological superiority you have
29:38to have to be able to fly all of these jets in during daylight hours
29:44from uh israel this was an israeli initial decapitating a strike and to have no
29:51casualties at all and iran to have no ability to defend itself and i think
29:56one question we have to think about the boots on the ground angle is an
30:00interesting one buck has the technology of drones and missiles and everything else moved to
30:07the point where we can keep decapitating the leaders of iran's government without needing to
30:14have tons of people on the ground remember when we went and got saddam back
30:18in the day what a huge search it was to try to track him down
30:22and figure out where he was and drag him out of that little hole in
30:25the ground where he was hiding for those of you who remember that what if
30:29now we have the technology such that the idea of mobilizing hundreds of thousands of
30:36troops on the ground is not necessary and if due to basically there being no
30:42uh aerial opposition now we can unhindered and unencumbered continue to move throughout uh the
30:51entirety of iran i do think you have to start to ask yourself the question
30:55are boots on the ground far less significant than they ever have been before and
31:01can we get a result that we want without needing to commit tons of american
31:07troops on the ground anyway just something to think about uh as we uh continue
31:11to go forward maybe some of you it's monday maybe you're feeling a little bit
31:15tired maybe you don't have the vim vigor vitality that you used to maybe you
31:20woke up and you thought oh my goodness i've got an entire week of work
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32:32clay travis and buck sexton telling it like it is find them on the free
32:39iheart radio app or wherever you get your podcast well Welcome back in here to
32:44Clay and Talk, and we're going to take a lot of your calls.
32:47We want to hear from all of you, so line them up on those lines,
32:50800 -282 -2882. Also, your talkbacks are a great way to bring your voice into
32:57the conversation. I want to tell you, we've also got some guests lined up today.
33:00The czar of talk, Mr.
33:02Michael Berry. He will be with us in a little bit, friend of ours, and
33:06a man who knows Texas politics backwards and forwards, forwards and backwards, all of the
33:12above. And, you know, he's going to tell us what's going on in Texas.
33:16Texas, no offense to Texas, a little overshadowed by the war in Iran right now
33:22that some people are saying is World War III, but your primary is still important,
33:26still important to us, and we are going to talk to you about that.
33:30We've got some podcast listeners here and others who want to weigh in with talkbacks.
33:36Let's do Jack in Tennessee wants to bring some insight here.
33:40What's up, Jack? Just in response to something you said, I think it will take
33:47boots on the ground, not necessarily boots in overt uniform, but I think to close
33:56this deal, you're going to need Americans on the ground, and I suspect that we've
34:04already got them there, but that's just based on them.
34:07All right. Can I ask you that?
34:08When you say boots on the ground, do you mean some, you know, a little
34:14bit of like a squadron or two of super secret squirrel delta here or there
34:18doing some things that we don't ever hear about?
34:20Or do you mean 82nd Airborne?
34:23You know, do you mean like...
34:25I would say the snake eaters or the secret squirrel guys that you're talking about,
34:31I think those are the guys that are already there, and I think there's going
34:36to be some overt people once the dust settles that are there, that are working
34:43kind of behind the scenes to stand up with government, because I think if we
34:46don't, it's going to be a power vacuum just like throughout all history.
34:50So what you're bringing up here, sir, is this is the multi -trillion dollar question
34:55right now. Thank you for calling in.
34:58Clay, are we going to have super secret squirrel guys doing what they do over
35:02there? For sure. Of course.
35:04That's what they live for.
35:05That's what they do. So boots on the ground, I think people, when they're worried
35:10about boots on the ground, because there's stuff happening in countries all over the world
35:14that tier one guys, still team six, delta, we don't hear about it, right?
35:19I mean, there's stuff going on.
35:20They mean big mill boots on the ground.
35:23That's the concern. They mean setting up a Ford operating base that has a McDonald's
35:30on it and a Starbucks and a, you know, thousands of person troop presence and
35:38do it. You know, that's where I think people are very different.
35:41That's where people are concerned.
35:43I don't think Trump will do that.
35:45Callers, again, I appreciate that call, but I want Iranian connected callers here.
35:50800 -282 -2882. That's what producer Greg is going to be focused on.
35:56Cindy in Arizona is one of our listeners.
35:58They are stuck right now.
36:00Now, K -F -Y -I, I think there's a bunch of people out there, but
36:04keep these people in your mind, your thoughts, your prayers.
36:06A and B, play it back to back.
36:08Hey, Clay and Buck. Tracy and Cindy here.
36:11We are sitting in a town about 20 miles north of Tel Aviv after our
36:21flight Saturday morning was canceled due to an alert.
36:29We had to get off the plane, and then all flights were canceled.
36:36We are still here in this little town north of Tel Aviv getting the alerts
36:43on our phones and the little city's air raid sirens going off, and we just
36:50want to come home. Help.
36:53We need to get help to a lot of people who are stuck over there.
36:56We'll talk about it next.
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