What's the Long Game Behind this Saudi Arabia Deal?

What's the Long Game Behind this Saudi Arabia Deal?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:53):
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bike lock lights for my bike, bike shorts that have
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(01:13):
not used to that. Seat. I will say this, It'll
get used to. It'll adjust, you know, you just have
to work it in. But nothing pain is just weakness
leaving the body? Am I rider? Am I right? Am
I rider? Am I right? Yeah? You know? Why not?

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Maybe there's less bike seat talk next time? Yeah, okay,
so there's that.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
You see my shirt that I'm wearing today.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
It says, oh, sure, hope after racing Thoroughbred's Heart. Is
that a nonprofit that supports horses as they retire and
go on to exciting lives going out to casinos at
ten in the morning and whatever retired horses do. Watching
Wheel of Fortune? Yeah, well with Ryan Seabiscuit as the host.

(01:57):
See what I did there?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, is a heart shirt? And yes,
it is a nonprofit based in Central Iowa that retired
race sources that come off of Prairie Meadows Racetrack then
go into an adoption agency essentially and find homes to
where they can, you know, do trail riding or just
be companions, or they can do like show jumping or
anything like that. A lot of those retired thoroughbreds still

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have a lot to give athletically also, just not speed necessarily.
But that's not what I was looking at. The thing here, Oh,
the sticker right above the logo of the shirt. It
says I voted today. That's what I wanted you to see.
And I saw that too, but I wanted to focus
on the shirt first. All right, well find hope after
racing thoroughbreds on all your social media. Thank you for

(02:42):
the shout out. And also, I voted today. You know
what I voted for.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
You voted for change.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
No, I voted for mayor. I voted for city council.
And then there actually is a you voted for hope.
There's another there's another thing in here. And Dave sent
me this email before I even went to the poll
and said, hey, there was a special issue on the ballot.
You want to know what the special issue was, just
in case people haven't voted and you're wondering, what's this

(03:10):
thing that you didn't talk about. For the City of Omaha.
There's a charter amendment. It should be on all of
your ballots out there, right. You're going to have the
mayor's race, your specific city council race depending on where
you vote, and then there's going to be a special
issues ticket, which is City of Omaha Charter Amendment. I'm
going to read it to you. Tell me if you
don't follow. Shall Section two point zero six of the

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Home Rule Charter of the City of Omaha be amended
to provide that City Council vacancies shall be filled with
those vacancies occurring in the first two years of a
term being filled through an election, and vacancies in the
last two years of a term being filled by a
majority vote of the remaining City Council members within thirty
days of the vacancy, all as provided in the notice

(03:53):
of election. Yes or no? I like the use of shall.
It feels more formal. Do you know what that you're
picking up what i' putting down there? Though it's a
four year term, if it's in the first two years
of the term that somebody I don't know, gets arrested
and is forcibly removed from the city council, or is
forced to resign, or god forbid, passes away, or has
to retire or resign for some reason. If they have

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two or more years left in that term, we do
a special election. If it's less than two years, then
the city council members who are left will vote on
who will be joining them for the remainder of that term.
That's essentially what that is. Within thirty days makes sense.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, it seems like an issue that you'd need to resolve.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
But instead of like doing a special election for somebody
to come in and then like the next year just
have to do another election, they're saying, if it's in
the last two years, city council could just kind of
like appoint somebody. That's how I read this majority vote
of the Raning City Council members within thirty days of
a vacancy. All is provided in the notice of election
there you go. So anyway, that's the one additional thing

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that we did not speak about that you may find
on your ballot price. You also, if you're in District
five and District six, you will notice that you have
only one person running for city council. Those are not
contested races, So I guess i'd be interested in how

(05:15):
many ballots are going to be done. There are people
still going to be motivated to go out and just
fill out this city of amendment charter amendment, City Omaha
Charter Amendment, and then they are I'd like to see that.
What did you say? What was the number you said
that you expect for the turnout?

Speaker 3 (05:28):
I think that I said twenty eight, yeah, And I said,
what thirty point five ish sounds about right? I went
a little high. And one guy yesterday email and said
he expected twenty three less than the primary. Do you
think that many people who voted McDonald and Jasmine Harris
are sitting this thing out? Like I feel like I
feel like that. I don't know how many honest questions? Okay,

(05:51):
how many of the people who voted last time legitimately
don't realize that there's another vote coming? Would that be
a silly thing to.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Listen to get seven round of this seventy five plus
thousand people that voted, Yeah, how many voted thinking that
was the full election?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Think that was it?

Speaker 1 (06:06):
I mean, I guess it can't be absolute zero but ten,
just ten. I mean, anybody who voted has to be
at least aware enough that this was a primary, right, right,
I'm not crazy for saying that, right, Right, So I
don't know, I'm maybe I'm thinking too highly of the
people that are listening to our radio show today. No,

(06:28):
I'm not. They're great people, they're smart people. Now, the
people who aren't listening to our radio show, I'm not
so sure.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Not all a lot you can do for those people.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, I don't know exactly how to help those guys.
So maybe they thought that was the end. But how
could you escape the advertising? Like, wouldn't it be a
little weird that you're still seeing the advertising and people
are saying vote on May thirteenth?

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:49):
So ten, okay?

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Ten people?

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Ten people who voted who are either under a rock,
moved away, or keeled over in the last six weeks.
That No, I don't know, right, is that insensitive to say?
I mean, I don't if we have less than seventy
five thousand people voting this thing, what are we doing?
Why I have elections anymore at all? Let's just let's

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just vote, Like, have God tell somebody that they're the
king now of amaha and be done with it.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
See, we used to try that, but then when you
got a bad king, things would go pretty poorly.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, but I mean, like you have what do you
what do you what are you hoping?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Like?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
What do you like? What do you do about it?
A revolution?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
That's what people would do usually.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, good luck with that. Just get quashed.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Well sometimes, but sometimes it worked out. Might even say
that's how this country got found.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Oh is that right? I've heard? Yeah, I watched a
play last week that also kind of talked about that
a little.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Bit, right, And I still can't believe that Alexander Hamilton
died in a duel with.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
The sitting vice president of the United States.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
If that's not a sort of like man, times were
different back then.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Reminder, Yeah, I mean, well his political career was toast
at that point. I mean, he was done. He was
in his late forties. Probably we were never able to
like nail down what year exactly he was born. But
it's one of a couple of options.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
We don't even know when he was born.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
It's one of a couple of options born writing things
down back then, well, anybody born in the Caribbean, he
was born in the Caribbean Alexander Hamilton. So people are
just like, oh, is he from New York. No, he's
from the West Indies. He was born in What we
know now is Saint Kitts and Nevis. Have you heard
of that? So yeah, we don't have a lot of
information about that is super reliable, right. What we know

(08:36):
is that he was born on January eleventh, either seventeen
fifty five or seventeen fifty seven, so one of those two.
And when he died from his duel with Aaron Burr,
he was either forty seven or forty nine, so he
had time left. But his political career was toast. I mean,
he made enough mistakes and got slandered by his rivals

(08:57):
Thomas Jefferson and all the Democratic Republicans of the time,
which by the way, a real political party of the era.
And I get mad at me for putting those two
things together. But the Democratic Republicans hated this guy and
they did everything they could just to make sure he
would never be president. And that is talked about in
the play, which is pretty interesting. But really brilliant guy,

(09:17):
really smart guy, maybe a little bit too ambitious for
his own good in a lot of ways. And to
a point where he and Aaron Burr feeling like neither
of them had really anything to lose. Because Aaron Burr's
political career was about to get zapped away as well,
he was about to be replaced as vice president regardless
of how things went. They made a rule essentially that
the president got to choose who his vice president was

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his running mate. It wasn't the guy who finished second
in the in the presidential race, because that's how it was.
And when Aaron Burr got second to Thomas Jefferson in
the election of eighteen hundred, yeah, eighteen eighteen hundred, Yeah,
is something in there eighteen o one, eighteen oh two. Nah,
it's in there somewhere. I can't remember. That's I hate

(10:00):
when I forget stuff like this, But anyway, I'm going
to look it up. No, it's fine. Aaron Burr essentially
the second place he got to be the vice president,
and him and Jefferson clashed like you would imagine rivals
would clash, and then bing bang boom, they came up
with the rule and said, this makes no sense. Let
the guy who wins presidency like have a running mate
that he wants to work with. So Aaron Burr was

(10:21):
going to be out anyway, regardless of who won the
election night in eighteen oh four, so.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
He didn't need to go around shooting people about it.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah. Well, I mean, if you knew the history of
Hamilton and Burr, it went back a few decades honestly,
like back when they were in their twenty like early twenties. So,
I mean, this was a rivalry that was permeating for
a while, and they were both basically done as legitimate
national politicians as far as any like, their influence was
about to be toasted anyway, Hamilton's already was essentially and

(10:50):
Burr's was about to be. And yeah, they just decided
we're going to do this, and Hamilton lost. He's so
he's a loser. To twenty, Donald Trump was hanging out
in the Middle East in Riot, Saudi Arabia, and that's
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(11:12):
fan and your listeners, like I didn't call, I didn't
listen to this shell for basketball, I want you guys
talking about politics. Yeah, well, sorry for two minutes, we're
talking about basketball.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
What the one with peach baskets?

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Oh, come on, they're not that old.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Hey, you said it, not me.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Come on, come on now said these people are excellent
basketball connoisseurs.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
That's absolutely true.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
The people that are the age of my parents grew
up on the likes of Jerry West and Pistol Pete
Maravich and Julius Irving.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Lawrence bird of among many. Okay, nobody's ever called him
that the hick from French Lick. They've called him that.
I don't like that nickname. It makes me uncomfortable. It
seems like he liked it. Why is the NBA corrupt?
Tell the people last night were great shenanigans.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Last night.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
If you ever even had an inklining that the NBA
was stacking any kind of deck in their favor, last
night was a you gotta be kidding me. There's way
too much smoke to not be fire. The idea that
the Dallas Mavericks.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
You called it yesterday, you said, Dallas is a no go,
there's no way do not get give them. It doesn't
make sense. And I said, oh, come on, it'd be
nice for their fans. And then I got it at
one point eight percent chance? One chance? Can they get
Cooper Flag? You can't tell me the NBA didn't tell
them to trade Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers
to fix the ratings problem. Because the NBA is infatuated

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with the Los Angeles Lakers and they need a star
on the Lakers all the time. The NBA thinks that
things are bad if the Lakers are irrelevant, and so
they trade Doncic to the Lakers. In return, they get
Anthony Davis, who was still an All NBA player. They
get a young player named Max Christie, They get a
first round draft pick in a couple of years for
the for the Lakers. Who knows how good that'll be.

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And then the NBA is like, wink wink, we'll give
you the number one pick in the draft.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, with one point eight percent odds that happens. And
there's history here. You want to go back to the
frozen envelope of Patrick Ewing, my favorite player, right, the
Nicks trying to be honest. The first lottery was to
make sure that Nick's got youwing. And how about the
Cleveland Cavaliers getting one overall? Now, of course they tanked
for that pick, but still they got it. They got
Lebron James. How many times have we seen the odds

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not go in the favor of the team that is
the worst or just the sexiest team ends up winning
the lottery? Uh, and it helps out We go backwards
when Anthony Davis was drafted. He was drafted by the
New Orleans Pelicans, who were the Hornets at the time. Yeah,
and that was right after they traded Chris Paul to
LA to the Clippers. So Chris Paul goes to the Clippers.

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New Orleans is rewarded the first pick, get him to
a major market, and then, Hey, don't worry, we'll take
care of you.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Twenty nineteen, Anthony Davis requests the trade. He wants to
go to the Lakers. The Pelicans make that happen. They
get Zion Williamson number one overall pick, trade him to
a major market. Hey don't worry, we'll take care of you.
Cleveland loses Lebron James in free agency. He goes to
Miami and creates the super team. NBA hype is at
an all time fever. Pitch that Cleveland Cavaliers just so

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happened to get the number one pick the next year
didn't work out so well for him. Come on, it
was Kyrie Irving. He ended up helping them most.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Never mind, you know what I was thinking of? Who
is the Anthony Bennett? Yeah, now that one didn't work out.
I forgot that was Kyrie.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah. Two years later they got the number one pick
again and got Anthony Bennett. And then the next year
got the number one pick again and took Andrew Wiggins,
which they used to trade to get Kevin Love, who
completed the team that allowed Lebron James to win a
championship in Cleveland. It's Rick. The whole thing's Rick, Derek Rose.
He goes to Chicago. He's a Chicago kid. You want
to look back at Victor Woman and Yama. San Antonio
has been irrelevant for a long time. That's a good

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basketball market. They go ahead and just complete their rebuild
by giving san Antonio wom min Yama, give me a break.
Cooper Fly should have gone to Charlotte, Washington Sacramento, a
team with a small market that could absolutely have needed him.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
And guess what, nah Dallas Audit, NBA, get somebody in there.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Rob sand over there in Iowa, he's a state auditor.
Why don't you figure that stuff out? Can we get
some legislators to get on this. I mean, this is
corruption at its finest. Why does anyone care?

Speaker 3 (15:14):
The thing is is people who don't care about this
stuff just at least understand that this is decades old stuff.
People have been accusing the lottery in the NBA with
funny business for decades, and Hewing goes back to what
was it eighty five? Yeah, we're talking forty years of
corruption potentially add in other stuff. I listened to a

(15:35):
really compelling podcast many years ago that you can find
on iHeartRadio about the ref I'm blanking on his name
him doneghe Donaghie, Yeah, and all the corruption around that,
and how that was just the tip of the spear.
There's a lot of evidence to suggest they needed a
fall guy, and so they threw it.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
All on him and there was a lake.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Sure the Lakers win games, Make sure the Lakers. Whatever
the sexiest matchup is, the NBA wants it, and they'll
make it happen, unless, of course, or the NBA playoffs
in twenty twenty five, all of a sudden, maybe the
sexiest matchups aren't actually going to end up happening thanks
to Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves, Jalen Brunson and the Knicks,
Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers. But we'll get to that

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in another time. It's two thirty when we come back.
Donald Trump a six hundred bye billion dollar deal with
Saudi Arabia. What does it mean? We will chat about
an next on News Radio eleven to ten kfab and
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up for Charles Schwabfield and our friends over at Mecca. Yes,
making sure that we have all the good stuff going down.
And uh yeah, guess what that means. They got two
two tickets to set the tickets to give away. That's
a pair of tickets. I'll give one away a little
bit later this hour, and another one a little bit

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later on, and I got a pair for every day
of the week, as long as you know, we remind
each other that we have to do this.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
And that's that seemingly is the hard part.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Why is it hard?

Speaker 1 (17:03):
But it is? We give so many things away? How
are we literally always dealing with that. I don't know,
it's always happening to us. But alas, this is the
life that we live, all right, Saudi Arabia. Could you
find it on a map? Oh?

Speaker 3 (17:17):
If it was a blank map and I had, you
know what, I think that I if you gave me
three guesses, I bet I would get it.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
It's pretty obvious.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Because I think it's kind of sizable.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
It's sizable, but it's also the biggest country on like
a little like kind of peninsula looking thing map of
the Middle East. I'm just gonna just gonna look, so
I'm not giving bad information. So yeah, I'll show this
to you. This is this is a simplified map of

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the Middle East, but it's the big guy right there. Yeah,
so so.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, I would.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
I would get there because I know that shape that
that is the shape of Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
It doesn't border Iran. The Persian Gulf is in between
the two of them, but uh yeah, got the Persian
Golf on one side, the Red Sea on the other side.
Iraq is to the north, Israel is like right next
to it, you know, It's it's right in the middle
of all the stuff that's going down right, and then
the Huthies that the United States have been you know,
battling with there in Yemen, which is to the south

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of Saudi Arabia kind of in the like between the
Red Sea in the Gulf of Aden. But yeah, there
there you go. What do they say, sports cleansing? Is
that what they've been saying, sports cleansing, Sports cleans they've
been doing sports cleansing.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Oh, like with the the golf thing, they were living golf,
live golf.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
They've dumped a ton of money into their soccer league
and attracted some major, major, high level names in talent
into their league, namely Christiano Ronaldo, who they were trying
to get Messy to go there too, but he didn't
even went to Major League Soccer in the US instead.
But Ronaldo couple of years have been playing in Saudi

(19:01):
Arabia and as a superstar there. Right. But they're paying
like hundreds of millions of dollars to all these guys,
hundreds of millions of dollars guaranteed money to live golf. Guys.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
That's a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
And the PGA is like, hey, you go to live golf,
you you can't play with us anymore. And guys took
the money. Wouldn't you have taken the money? They took
the money and they ran. They offered it was reported
that they were offered tiger Woods something like eight hundred
million dollars and he said no.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Wouldn't it be nice to be in a position where
you could say no to eight hundred million dollars? Also,
could you imagine Tiger Woods going to arrival of the PGA.
Phil Mickelson was the first big name to do it.
But that's just one example. I mean Saudi Arabia, the
Saudi Cup with horse racing, they have the biggest richest
race every year in the world. Like, it's richer than

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the Kentucky Derby, It's richer than the Breeders' Cup. The
Reader's Cup is still what many people consider to be
like the championship of all the different distances and on
dirt and on grass and age wise and all that stuff, right,
But the Saudi Cup, which takes place in March, and
it's all older horses that are generally taking part in
this four year olds are older, and it's like twenty

(20:12):
million dollars to the winter, Like it's a ridiculous amount
of money that goes. I mean, if you have a
really nice horse, you're taking them into Saudi Arabia and
you are running that race for a chance to down
money WWE. The WWE is doing a Royal Rumble event
at in Saudi Arabia. They've done multiple Crown Jewel events
in Saudi Arabia. So you could say, in theory, Saudi

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Arabia has been trying to win over America Corporation American
people by saying, look, we aren't bad guys here. Even
though you could talk about blood money, you can talk
about how things, you know, lined up in the Gulf War,
and in nine to eleven, a lot of people draw
direct lines to Saudi Arabia with a lot of that stuff.
But things seem to have cooled down on that. And

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there was another big side of that today as our
President Donald Trump signed a deal which was called a
Strategic Economic Partnership. This is with the Crown Prince of
Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Ben Salmon. They were going around in
a golf cart together. There's a state dinner that was
happening in the last hour or two and they're paling around.

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I mean, there's a lot of respect being shown by
both sides to each other in this The partnership is
deals on energy, in defense, in mining, in space, spaceed agreements.
They're going, we're working with the Saudi's in all that
money for space. It amounts to up to six hundred
billion dollars. Trump says this could help create two million

(21:42):
jobs in the United States with all of the additions
of infrastructure and investments. So, I mean, you want to
talk about making some real dance in what people are
looking at and believing in stuff. My, oh my. If
you're a Democrat and you're watching this, I mean, I
don't know how. I don't know how you're not saying like, Okay,
what is this guy doing? How is he doing this right?

(22:05):
Because Biden couldn't even get meetings with these people that
were productive. And maybe if he tried, maybe fellow Democrats
would say he's a bad man for doing it. I
don't know, but it just seems like didn't I say
this yesterday and didn't I say it last week? If
you can get anybody, whether it's a friend or a foe,
somebody who's an enemy, or somebody who you used to
have a great relationship with, if you can sit down

(22:25):
and iron out your difference is face to face, shake
hands with each other in the eye. At the end
of the conversation, your relationship is better for it. You're
better for it. They're better for it. Your relationship is
better for it. There's nothing negative that comes out of that. Absolutely.
Donald Trump has been finding ways to chat with all
of these people and make these types of agreements. UK

(22:46):
last week, United Kingdom with that trade deal, China over
the weekend putting a pause on their tariffs to try
to iron out a deal Saudi Arabia right now six
hundred billion dollars in a deal that could help create
up to two million in the United States jobs. How
can you possibly with any under any circumstances think, oh, yeah,

(23:07):
this is bad for the United States. I don't know.
I'm sure they'll they'll find a way. So we'll have
to see exactly all of the ins and the outs
and all of the ink when it drives on what
that actually all means and how it's going to take effect.
But I think it's good and it's good. And also
what was mentioned was the cooperation agreement between Saudi Arabia

(23:29):
and the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Asian Arts as
well as an agreement established with the Smithsonian Institute National
Zoo and Conservation Biology. And I've been to that zoo
and it's a really good one, So shout out that
this is just going to make that zoo even more
important and help conservation and help people learn about what
the world around us. I am one hundred percent down.

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That's great stuff. If you got thoughts, call it's four
h two five five eight eleven ten news Radio eleven
ten KFAB and there. It's the largest defense sales agreement
in history, nearly one hundred and forty two billion dollars,
providing Saudi Arabia with state of the art war fighting
equipment and services from over a dozen US defense firms.
So apparently that sale will be done by the end

(24:14):
of this calendar year. They'll have air force advancement and
space capabilities, air and missile defense, maritime and coastal security,
border security, landforces, monetization, information and community communication system upgrades. Matt,
you feel a little weird about this giving the Saudi
is all the technology that we have over here or
is this just like, Hey, we're just trying to be friends.

(24:36):
We're trying to be friendly we think that they have
good intentions in mind, and this is us really making
them more of an ally than they ever have before,
and by proxy, they could probably do a lot more
of the policing of the region instead of offs having
to come over there and through all of it.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
The Middle East seems like a place where you want
to make some friends, big friends, because there are country
she's in the Middle East that.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Really don't like us very much.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Name one. You got Iran. Boom, that's the big one
right now. Saudi Arabia, with the United States in pocket,
could really stand up to them in the region, right
They're big enough. Who has more people?

Speaker 2 (25:15):
You think?

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Probably Iran. I mean, Saudi Arabia is a nicer place
these days. But I don't know. Have you seen pictures
of Ryod lately? Oh, my goodness, there's no I don't
know if there's a more modern city in the entire
world than Riyad. Look at some pictures, dude, They are
living in the future there.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
It seems like at least which country is larger, Iran
or Saudi Arabia. The answer to that question is Saudi
Arabia by land area. That is Saudi Arabia covers roughly
eight hundred and thirty thousand square miles. Iran is about
six hundred and thirty six thousand, seventy two square miles,

(25:55):
So it's not that awful as more people. Okay, in
terms of population, the answer is by far, by far,
Saudi Iran. Iran has ninety two million people in a
smaller amount of space, ninety two million. Saudi Arabia thirty
six million. It's only thirty six million people in Saudi Arabia.

(26:16):
There's only thirty six million people in Saudi Arabia. Now.
The United Arab Immirates is there. That's another technically country there,
and they have done a lot of business with a
lot of people around the world. You have Katar, which
we have talked about at length because they have been
operating as one of the real mediators of the Israel

(26:37):
Hamas thing, and they were really helpful along with Egypt
in negotiating the release of Eden Alexander, who's the last
living American hostage that HAMASA had had in their custody.
But I mean, I don't know, dude, I think and

(26:59):
Arnie said this, it sounds like we want to set
the Saudi's up to handle Iran. Donald Trump mentioned in
his words that he spoke, I mean, there's a lot
to kind of sift through today, but he mentioned Iran
kind of has their own like they have everything at
their fingertips. If they want to come to the United
States and be friends and make a deal, it's right
there for them. They just have to agree to the

(27:20):
terms on the table. And if that happens, dude, if
Iran is like, okay, we'll play ball. USA. Are we close?
Is this as close as we've actually been the world
peace in a while. We have some wars we have
to clean up, but I don't know. Man like Iran
and Saudi Arabia being in cahoots with the USA, and
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