Iran Attacks Israel

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you know what else?

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Today?

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is World Vegetarian Day? Sure? Have you eaten your vegetables today? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Give them a day? Sure they get a day. Everyone
gets a day. Everyone gets one day. What's your day?
I don't know what would your day be? What highly
marginalized and made fun of group do you belong to?
I like the way you put that highly marginalized and
made fun of I'm not going to say the obvious.

(00:26):
We've already been down that road. Well, you wear glasses, No,
I wear georts. I have a pair of jorts.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
That's that big of a deal. World doorts Day? World
ge All the jorts are out and support. We have
our own little get together and we're all like leaning
against the sides of buildings with our cutoff T shirts
and our jorts.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, that's rough. That's a gross look.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
It's a tough look. It is. It's a tough look.
Maybe some people are wearing some crocs too, socks in
those crocs, lots of socks in those crocs.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Nasty.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, so I think, my, my, I don't know. I
have no widely oppressed viewpoints or belong to any subsequent
group thereof I hate vegetables today though, So I don't
think I've had a vegetable today. You're going to get
on that. It's also International Day of Older Persons. Yeah,

(01:26):
why not highly marginalized and generally made fun.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Of group, right? Sure? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:35):
I mean I do say this kind of in jest
because there are a lot of older people that are
sharp as attack and happen to be also running this country.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
So you know what defines an older person. I don't know,
older than you, I guess. Yeah, but I'm older than
you do.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I get to celebrate, I guess, as far as this
room is concerned, right, Congratulations older persons.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
It's also National Day of China.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
I don't know how many people in this country would
be celebrating that an Independence Day of Nigeria. Okay, there's
a couple of things for you. I say all this
to try to just give myself just a landing platform
to start this show between my morning show and the
show that I'm doing right now. Iran has officially launched
an attack what Israel is calling the largest ballistic missile
attack in history, one hundred and eighty one ballistic missiles

(02:20):
at the Jewish State. IDF says, guess, how many casualties?
Guess yeah, one hundred and eighty one ballistic missiles launched
at Israel. How many people do you think have been
reported as dead to this point? Ah, I know, tough, tough, Look,
trust me, there's a catch to why I'm asking you.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
I'm gonna say zero because that's my hopeful answer.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
It is zero. Okay, nicely done, well done. Zero.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
No casualties at this point, according to the IDEAF have
been reported. They were a little bit more ready for
this than they were that Humas attack a year ago.
It's almost a year ago, by the way, October seventh
will be one year since Hamas went into Israel.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
And all that.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Now, there was a shooting in a city near Tel
Aviv which left eight people dead to calling that a
terror attack inside of Israel.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Eight people dead there.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
What does this mean is going to be kind of
the theme for this as we came and gather more intelligence. Well,
this means that Israel says that they are going to
go back at him. Let's say you're Israel, Matt, Let's
talk him, Let's talk this out. And I'm Iran, not literally,
but let's just like pretend that we are. I'm mad
that you killed a guy in Tehran, like a high

(03:34):
ranking official. You killed him. They were in Tehran. You
came into my country. You killed this guy, and I
don't like it. We're funding this terror group. We don't
call him a terror group, but Hezbolah, and you have
literally wiped out every single one of their leaders over
the last couple of weeks, every single one of them.
You continuously are attacking these Arab countries around us that

(03:55):
we are kind of the big bad bully on the
block of and we say, you know what you're going
to pay for? This intelligence is telling you you better
be ready because I'm going to be sending one hundred
and eighty one ballistic missiles at you. And then I do,
and you knock them all down, You intercept them, minimal
damage as far as what we know now, no casualties reporting.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
What's the response, do you just.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
Take this and say you have to do better than that,
or are you gonna let me know that I can't
just do that to you without consequences.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, I'm going to exit this conversation in the real
world and enter it in sid Meyer's civilization.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Ooh, good game.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
And if I was playing that game, love that game dearly,
bring it back. I would focus on diplomacy. Well, how
do you do that? You just got I just sent
one hundred and eighty one ballistic missiles at you. Well,
it really all kind of all depends on what I got. Well,
you get what I want to get into. Well, you're

(04:53):
kind of already in some stuff. Yeah, I've been denounced
many times.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
You've spent a better part of a year in some stuff.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's a whole lot of frownie faces next to the
nations that I'm when I'm clicking on the I'm playing
the game right now.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a whole lot of frownie
face they're not happy with yet.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, I know. No trade deals are
being made right now because they won't trade with me. Now,
now you're in trouble, but you have some support from
the Western world. It's just not next to you on
the map.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
You have plenty of supplies you want to you want
to let people know that you can't be messed with
on the block. You have that option and and some
large other places around the world ready to back you up.
Do you dare go into that hornousness knowing that Iran
has said, you come back at us, We're going to crush.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
You now again.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
I'm playing the game Civilization as we speak, and I'm
thinking about what that map would look like. Yeah, it's
and I'm thinking about the different ways you can win
the game. I'm thinking the strategic end for this would
be focus on diplomacy and then pour my efforts into
science and other ways to win the game other than
total domination, because I don't think that's gonna.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Happen, right well, I mean, there's gonna You're gonna lose
those resources in the midst of trying to get total domination,
right I mean, I don't know if there's gonna be
a lot of winners at the end of the day.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Because because you're you're struggling to make trades right now. No,
no one's gonna win when this thing escalates. But I
guess the question begs, how do you achieve diplomacy in
this scenario if you're Israel. I guess we're gonna find
out if you got thoughts on this. We'll talk more
debate because the vice presidential debates coming up tonight.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
But you gotta talk about this.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
You gotta call us four oh two five five eight
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Speaker 1 (06:40):
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Speaker 4 (06:45):
We kind of we kind of saw this coming overnight
our time, you know, there was intelligence that was leaking
out that there was an imminent threat that Iran was
going to send an attack with of ballistic missiles toward Israel.
That indeed did happen. One hundred and eighty one of
them is the count that they have no injuries. It

(07:06):
sounds like according to the IDF does say there will
be serious consequences. We've been talking about this during the break.
This shouldn't be controversial and there shouldn't be a whole
lot of opinions to have about this, Right, is it
weird for us to have political opinions on this because
it feels like our government, at least the two political parties,
seem to be pretty in line with each other. Right,

(07:26):
it's kind of more like the New Age twenty twenty
four version of the hippie movement that seems to be
kind of against Israel, and maybe the way that it's
being talked about by the two political parties. But what's
controversial about this. Ran is the bad guy to us,
Israel's the good guy to us. From a governmental standpoint,
I guess do tactics matter?

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Probably.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
This has been a whole lot of tactical things to
be that are just like whoa, yeah, And Israel has
been very kind of thrown caution to the wind on
a lot of that and saying, look, we know where
these guys are, we're going after we don't even care.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Like the pager thing. To me, that's terrifying.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yeah, but this is the life that that's what's going
on over there, my man. Now again, all of this
now goes to what's the response, because we know Israel
wants to respond. Jordan, all these other countries that are
nearby are kind of activating their militaries just to be
on high alert in case something does like go completely
sideways here. But this is an escalation, there's no doubt

(08:28):
about it, right, Like Ken Israel is this, We're going
to listen to the United States or anyone else basically
saying Okay, that's that no retaliation and that it ends here.
The zero point zero zero zero one percent chance that happens, right, yeah,
Because that's just like You're too deep into this at
this point, and if you do nothing, guess what's gonna happen.
Aaron's gonna do it again. But if you go back

(08:49):
at them, aren't they going to just attack you? They're
telling you right now, you retaliate, We're coming after you.
We're gonna crush you. And then that's war. That's a
regional war at that point. That's not Israel battling terrorists
organizations around them. This is regional Middle East at war.
And how involved does the United States get in with
something like that? We are talking about an ally, We
cannot forget that. I guess my bigger question is, Matt,

(09:12):
is there in a different opinion than the one we're
having right now? Like intelligently, it feels like our support
should be like swinging right behind whatever Israel thinks is
the best thing to do at this point and just
being there for whatever they need. What I would hate
to do, though, is get drug into this on a
very direct situation, you know what I'm saying, Because how
much does this have to do with us?

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (09:32):
There are ally, but it's not our people fighting this
war right now. And I would hate to encourage any
activity that could drag us into it on a direct
basis for US and our other allies in Europe. And
I also asked you this kind of kloy and not
super serious, but which political party benefits from this happening
on the afternoon our time of the last debate ahead

(09:56):
of this year's election? Is there a political party that
stands to gain more by the world being distracted? And
it's the vice presidential debate, so there's no way it's
going to be as highly watched or as highly scrutinized.
I don't think as the presidential debate a few weeks ago.
That's not I don't even think that's debatable either. Part
of the pott like when can I ask you a
personal question? Okay, when was the last time you watched

(10:17):
a debate that was the vice president's? If you ever
sat down and watched the debate between two vice presidents?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
No, I don't think I have either.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
Like I've gone on social media and kind of combed
through some stuff, but I've never been interested enough about
it because these are like what is the vice president
going to do? Do you remember the vice president? Outside
of like, okay, can somebody tell me what Mike Pence did?
Before the end of the Trump administration, when, of course
a lot of stuff went wacky with him and his

(10:48):
relationship with Trump.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Do we have a list of things that Mike Pence did.
I had no idea. What did Joe Biden do for
eight years?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Right?

Speaker 4 (10:55):
The vice president is literally the right hand man or
woman of the president, but is necessarily traditionally responsible for
any one thing except overseeing the Senate technically and maybe
breaking some ties in the votes. You know who's held
to a higher standard of performance people in the cabinet.
We've been spending a lot more time talking about the
failures of Alejandro Myorcis than we did Kamala Harris until

(11:19):
Kamala got the nomination.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Remember that they impeached that guy. Yeah, the House.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
Representatives impeached Alejandro Myorcis. We didn't talk about the failures
of Kamala Harris until she became the nominee. You know why,
because we don't hold the vice president any sort of standard. So,
while tonight is going to be entertaining, if you're interested
in politics and you've been following kind of the plot
lines of this election season, should we really care that

(11:45):
much about what these vice presidential candidates say, they're basically
just trying to be as closely aligned with their presidential
candidate as they possibly can be, right, and it's a
matter of trying not to make a colossal mistake.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Well, Trump being an older candidate, Biden now out of
the way, out of the way has exited. Does that
make you think more about Jade Vance? Because, I mean
in the next four years, so.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
It was like maybe an audition for him on a
scale of like he's kind of an apprentice again part
of the pun on NBC with Donald Trump to kind
of learn and get propped up over the next four
years they win, so then he can take the reins
and be the guy for the next eight years. Yeah,
because I think that's a completely reasonable way to talk
about that, and maybe tonight is a way that he

(12:29):
can kind of introduce himself legitimately to a national audience.
But this, of course is now going to steal a
lot of those headlines, this Iran attack on Israel. Israel
not reporting any injuries or casualties, but say they will
have a response. The United States also is saying this
is an escalation for sure of what's happening in the
Middle East, and we'll be keeping close up tabs on

(12:51):
what the next steps are one way or the other.
We'll talk more about this debate, get your thoughts on it.
If you have any thoughts, call us four two five
five eight eleven ten four h two five five eleven ten,
News Radio eleven ten kfab. This is certainly going to
be a headline that's going to steal some of that attention,
especially on an international level. But what kind of that
vice presidential debate even could end up meaning? And we'll

(13:14):
take your thoughts on that. I'll tell you a little
bit about the watch party that we got going on
tonight as well, coming up here in a bit. But
first let's go to Jeff on the phone line at
four O two five to five, eight to eleven ten. Jeff,
what do you think about this?

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well? First things first, I don't can't remember when I
listened to a vice presidential debate. It's been many, many years.
But on this case tonight, you've got a guy who's
seventy nine years old running for president, and I think
it would really be interesting to see what he is
vice presidential candidate thinking about doing and just listening to him.

(13:49):
He's got some interesting thoughts that would be my listen tonight.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, and you're right, because we really don't as much
as we try to educate ourselves about JD.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Van, we don't really know him yet.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
You know, like as a as a country, he's an author,
he's only been in the Senate for less than two
years at this point. It's an interesting conversation piece to
have a forty year old guy like this with so
little political experience, having this kind of platform. So I
do think, Jeff, there is a great chance that America

(14:22):
is going to learn a lot more about JD. Vance
tonight before the election than they have to this point
since he's been the vice presidential pick. I appreciate the
call today, Jeff, thanks for listening. Yeah, I guess is
there And we had another call off the air, and
I kind of got to think about this too. Trump
Trump's age does that really make a big difference here
in the assassination attempts? You know, there's been a couple

(14:45):
of different isolated incidents that there are people that are
trying to take him out, which is crazy to think
in this day and age that's something that's still happening.
But what do you think, Matt is is this it
really important for America to get to know JD. Vans
simply because of the age of the I mean, he's

(15:05):
almost half of the age of Donald Trump and kind
of the future of this political movement.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
It's interesting. I feel like there's a couple of factors here.
It feels more important that specifically because of what just
happened with Joe Biden, and so that's top of our mind,
thinking about his age and thinking about Trump's age.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
And Kamala Harris for anything that she did or didn't do,
or was or wasn't supposed to do while she was
the vice president, the most important thing that happened of
her being vice president was the fact that she got
the handoff right.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
So, and the call that we took off air was
concerning there's already been two attempts who used to say
if he wins, Donald Trump isn't going to continue to
be a target for Yeah, there's no doubt. There's no
doubt for sure. So it does for that, but also
in the fact that both are feels like relatively more
unknown quantities than maybe previous vps. I don't know that

(15:59):
maybe re since he bias, but I think it's true
though right at the same time. You remember John McCain's
selection for his vice president. Oh right, now, that was
a left field and what happened to her? Sarah Palin,
of course, is who we're referring to. She was the
governor of Alaska. I think her daughter was on a
reality TV show, if I remember right. I don't know
what happened to her specifically.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
I was after that, Okay, pretty sure that was after that.
I don't know. Man, pretty interesting.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
If there was ever a if there was ever a
vice presidential debate to matter, you'd think this would be
the one. And it's been traditional. It's been stuff that's happened,
but it's been very lightly watched, very lightly. I don't
think many Americans would have said, point blank, this is
a very exciting thing to watch. But again, I think

(16:52):
we're going to get into more of a policy versus
personality thing, because I'm not so sure that Tim Wallas
is going to be there trying to talk about policy
that much. He's going to know that he's got a
stronger personality than JD.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Vance.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
He's got a personality that could make him more attractive
to the independent voter, if there is such a thing.
At this stage of the game and try to kind
of lean on his personality, his reactions, kind of how
Kamala did in the Trump debate, and just let JD.
Vans kind of punch himself out, if you will. The
more he says, maybe that he can catch him saying

(17:24):
stuff that goes viral for all the wrong reasons. Donald
Trump worked in the last of It. Alex is on
our phone line, Alex, welcome to the show. What do
you think about this?

Speaker 5 (17:33):
Well, two things, as far as Vance is concerned, his
inexperience in the Senate is the same as Obamas, you know,
so they can't use that against him. They can't use
his age. He is extremely intelligent. My family is from
West Virginia, so I can understand how he grew up
in Ohio and everything. So I don't see that as
a disadvantage. I think he is going to be much
brighter and much more intelligent than Walsh, and hopefully he

(17:56):
just stays on point with policy issues. Does anything personal
As far as Israel's response, I mean, if you guys
been on Twitter, which is your ex and watch the
Hamas grand kindergarten graduations and things they teach these children
from the very beginning of their lives to hate Jews
and Christians, especially Jews, and you cannot unless you defeat

(18:19):
them like we did not see Germany and eradicate that
thought process from them, you'll never be able to end it.
So to me, if you know you're hypothetically, if you're
Israel and you want to win the war with Iran,
then you wait till their parliament meets again and you
take out their entire parliament because the people of Iran
don't like their government. They don't like it, but they're strapped. Well.

(18:43):
Being a Christian knowing viruable prophecy, I'm afraid guys, this
thing's going to spread. And that's just all there is
to it. But on a purely military thought process, if
I want to win, I take out their leadership in
one fell swoop.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah, I mean, and that would certainly generate a response
of a different type. But certainly I think something that
probably at some point is going to happen one way
or the other, you'd think, and I agree, Alex. I
think the they work past the point of ending this peacefully.
I think this this thing today was kind of that
next step of like, okay, it's just going to keep escalating.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Until it's a legitimate, at least regional war.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
I'm not going to as far to say as it's
going to be a full on, full scale World War three.
But there's no going back to wall. There's there's there's
no going back on this now. I think Israel's too
far in and I think you're going to have to
start thinking about ways to take out leadership on either
side here for sure.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
According I mean, I don't know if you follow this
with According to bombs and Isaiah, Israel will take out
Damascus eventually as well. But I mean they're gonna the Saudis,
the Egyptians, the Jordanians, the the A. They don't want
the Iranians in power. They don't want them in power.
So if we if Israel takes out, you know, the

(20:01):
Iranian parliament and form self swoop, they don't have any leaders,
and then they'll have the Iranian Republican Guard takeover and
then those set to get them. But I mean, you know,
these people are sworn to kill every two on the planet. Yeah,
this is not something they can just take out. Piece.
They're going to have to fight to win.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
Yeah, it's interesting stuff, Alex. I'm glad that he called in,
thanks for listening to us today for the record, and
I just want to throw this out there. He mentioned
that Barack Obama had the same amount of experience before
he became President of the United States the jad Evans
I just wanted to I'm not the fact check because
it's it's a good point. Obama was young. Obama also
didn't have a ton of US Senate experience, but it

(20:44):
was more than JD.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Evans.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Now what advance has on Obama's. He did serve in
the military four years in the military. He was a
corporal in the second Marine Aircraft Wing in the Marine Corps.
So there's that. He did not serve in local government
before he was elected in assumed office at the beginning
of twenty twenty three, so he has less than two
years in the actual US Senate and no legitimate I mean,

(21:09):
he's got a law degree, so I mean, he's certainly
intelligent enough, but he does not have a local government
experience to that level. Barack Obama had served in the
Illinois Senate for four years before he was elected, and
served almost eight full years in the Illinois Senate before
taking that step to Washington, DC, so he had he

(21:33):
didn't do military service, but he did have quite a bit,
in fact, over a decade's worth of actual legitimate government
experience before he was elected president. Just wanted to clarify
that nobody's going to say we are not fair here
on this show.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
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