June 17, 2025 • 45 mins
Episode 190 covers a range of current events and societal topics. I discuss the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, including Israeli airstrikes and Iranian retaliation, as well as the U.S. involvement through defensive support and diplomatic efforts, noting instances of plausible deniability. The episode also touches on Russia's military redeployments following Ukrainian attacks, protests in Los Angeles stemming from ICE raids, and the political fallout for David Hogg within the Democratic Party. Additionally, the host reviews the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 and other handheld gaming consoles before concluding with a sports update and a historical overview of Father's Day.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Are you okay? Why wouldn't I be?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
This is the Soapbox Champion Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Hey yeah, idea is Hello everyone, Welcome to the Soapbox
Champion Podcast, Episode one ninety. This is Tuesday, June seventeenth,
twenty twenty five. I've got to name you, guys. I'm
not just a pretty face. My name is Craig Delaney.
A significant escalation of conflict between Israel and Iran, marked
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by Israeli air strikes and Iranian nuclear military targets, started
on June thirteenth, under something called the Operation Rising Lion.
I always have to have a cool name. This followed
months of planning with Israel aiming to disrupt Iran's nuclear
program and military capabilities. Iran retaliated with missile strikes on Israel,
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of course, targeting cities like Tel Aviv, killing at least
sixteen Israelis and wounding hundreds. And I said this on
social media almost immediately. If you see the footage of
all those missiles, all those explosions, and these are first
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world countries with first world arms, all that, and just
sixteen Israelis, I mean wars, not what it used to be.
Israel targeted Iran's nuclear facilities, you guys, including the NATANZ site,
and killed senior Iranian military f F such as GC commanders.
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The IDF claims to have destroyed a third of Iran's
missile launchers, which is significant. Iran, in retaliation, launched over
one hundred and fifty ballistic missiles at Israel and just
sixteen Israelis What is this? They claim civilian casualties, I
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don't know. Damaging infrastructure of course, including a residential block,
an entire block, but only sixteen people total, and an
oil refinery. Air raid sirens forced residents into shelters, and
Israeli airspace was closed, of course, stranding thousands of citizens abroad.
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The conflict has drawn international attension, with Moscow and Kara
and Beijing condemning Israel's actions, while the US has provided
defense support but urged de escalation. This is a funny situation.
You got Trump orportally vetoed an Israeli plan to assassinate
Iran supreme leader and pushed for a ceasefire. I don't
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know what kind of veto power he has with other countries.
It's just so weird. Concurrently, the Israeli Hamas conflict is intensified.
With military operations and goals of resuming in March after
a brief seasefire. Reports indicates several humanitarian crises, with thirty
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eight Palestinians killed near aid distribution sites and famine like
conditions due to Israel's blockade. Protests in Israel, including in Haifa,
have seen arrest over anti war sentiments. You guys, the
situation is in Israel is dynamic, ever changing. It's changed
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since I started speaking. I promise you with ongoing military
changes and diplomatic efforts to halt the violence. But none
of this will work everyone because absolutely no one can
be satisfied until the other doesn't exist. And I hate
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how involved the US is in all of this. I
hate it. It's nothing new, but I have a renewed
hatred for it. It's what I'm saying. President Trump was
in talks with Iran with when Israel struck. I thought
that was disrespectful unless it was a planned thing. Many
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people say it was planned. Some think the US was
part of the entire plan, as it was at the
end of the sixty days that Trump gave to Iran
to negotiate its nuclear plan. They say it was for energy,
but I think everyone knows it was for a nuclear
weapons program. Of course it was, Hey, why not everyone
around them has it that people tell them they can't
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have it, have it? So why can't they? You know,
I mean that's put it on a pot and boil
it down. You know, who are we? You know? Will
they use it? You know, for you know, whatever they want? Yeah?
So would we? So it Israel. It's a touchy thing
with me. I don't, I know, I know, I know everyone.
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Of course, we don't want Iran to have them. We
don't want Israel to have them. We shouldn't have them.
I also, thank god we do. It's just weird. The
negotiations were disrupted by the Israeli air strikes starting June thirteenth.
Trump had urged Israel to delay attacks to give diplomacy
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a chance, but the strikes preceded anyway. Very disrespectful, I've said,
leading Iran to cancel schedule six rounds of talks on
June fifteenth, And despite all that, Trump maintained that talks
were not dead, urging Iran to seize a second chance
for a deal to avoid further destruction. Then, of course,
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio immediately came out one of
the very first things I heard said that the US
was not directly involved in the strikes. Of course he
was basically lying. But we call it in this case
plausible deniability, and that's a concept where someone structures their
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actions or involvement in a situation to allow them to
credibly deny knowledge or responsibility if this situation becomes controversial
or problematic. It typically uses It is used in political
or military or covert context the shield individuals or entities
from accountability for actions that could be illegal, unethical, or
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politically damaging. Of course we knew about it in some way. Again,
that's plausible deniability, and a very classic and dead on
case of that was the Iran Contra affair in the
nineteen eighties, where US officials facilitated arms sales to Iran
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and funded nic Roquan. Conscious but structured operations still allow
senior leaders to deny direct knowledge. The term hinges on
the plausibility of the denial being believable to avoid legal
or public backlash. And in the case of last week's
Israeli strikes in Iran, it's hard to believe that the
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US wasn't somehow involved, As the US is actively helping
Israel with missile defense. The US sent a terminal high
altitude area defense or a FAD remember always a cute,
little shortened thing there, a FAD battery to Israel, along
with approximately one hundred troops boots on the ground, everyone
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to operate that thing to bolster Israel's air defenses against
Iranian ballistic missile attacks. This deployment was authorized by President
Joe biden See and announced by the Pentagon October, following
Iranian missile strikes in April and October twenty fourth October
seventh thing, with the system remaining active now, US military assets,
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including ground based air defense systems and naval destroyers in
the Eastern Mediterranean have been used to intercept Iranian missiles
targeting Israel as well. On June thirteenth, US officials confirmed
that American forces assisted in shooting down missiles during Iran's
retaliatory strikes, which followed Israel's air strikes on Iranian nuclear
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and military targets. The US is historically funded and help
developed Israel's multi layered missile defense systems, including the Iron Dome,
David Saling, and Arrow two and three. And I always
think if they're so bad ass. Wise are four different versions,
But since twenty eleven, the US has provided over three
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point four billion dollars for Iron Dome alone, and continues
to support missile defense through a thirty eight billion dollar
military aid package that you didn't know about spread out
through twenty eighteen through twenty twenty eight You did not
know about that. In June twenty twenty five, US air
defense systems, including those on naval ships like the USS
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Carl Vincent, were actively involved in defending Israel from Iranian
missile barrages. During the latest missile attacks, the US forces
helped intercept dozens of missiles, with reports indicating that American
air defense systems and naval assets were critical in supporting
Israel's efforts. The IDF noted that interception rates were similar
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to those prior Iranian attacks in twenty twenty four, with
US assistants helping to mitigate damage, though some missile struck
civilian areas, killing at least fourteen Israelis and were wounding hundreds.
This is crazy and something that's not getting hardly any
media attention, and you're going to hear it on the
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Soapbox Champion podcast today. Is the fact that Iranian state
media and the Ministry of Petroleum reported that an Israeli
strike on June fourteenth caused a fire at a fuel
tank near the Shai Array refinery south of Tehran. That's
one of Iran's largest, with a capacity of about two
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hundred and twenty five thousand barrels per day. While some
Iranian sources like the Student News Network denied direct damage
to the refinery itself, why wouldn't you believe a student
news network? Times like this claimed it was still operational,
others confirmed a fire at the nearby fuel tank caused
significant disruption. Emergency crews were deployed to contain the blaze,
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and residents reported seeing flames from miles away. Let's talk
about Irans oil and fuel over there, the Shaharan Fuel
and Gas Depot. On June fourteenth, Israel struck the Sharon
Fuel Depot northwest of Tehran, a major storage and distribution
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hub with capacity of nearly two hundred and sixty million
leaders leaders all of a sudden. Iran's Petroleum Ministry confirmed
the attack, noted that firefighters were struggling to control the
resulting fires, which caused significant disruption to Tehran's fuel supply network.
Remember that significant disruption to Tehran's fuel supply network. Then
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you have the South Pars gas field and fajer Jan
Gas refinery. Also on June fourteenth, Israeli drones targeted the
South Pars gas field and one of the world's largest
natural gas fields in the nearby fajer Jahm Gas refinery,
with processes fuel from South Bars. Iran's Ministry of Petroleum
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confirmed fires at both sites, halting production of at least
twelve million cubic meters of gas. And you and I
Yankee cannot comprehend how much that is? Is that a truckload?
Is that? What is that in swimming pools? I don't know.
Twelve million cubic meters of gas? Gotta tagam in consideration.
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It's gas? Is that gaseous gas? Is that fuel? Gas?
It's complicated. Should use metric. These attacks disrupted Iran's domestic
electricity and fuel supplies, particularly the southern Central provinces. I'm
getting somewhere here, guys, Can you guess it before I
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get there. Iran's oil experts are primarily managed by National
Iranian Oil Company or in IOC. That's a state owned entity,
which is okay, that's red flag number one. State owned.
I think of China and stuff. You know how the
Internet is state run. You know, it's just weird. But
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that's a state own entity under the Minister of which
handles the exploration, production, sale, and export of Iran's crude
oil and petroleum products. That is a lot of oil,
you guys. But what's the missing piece here? What's piece
of information? Do we need to know? What? Think? Where
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does all that oil go? Who's not getting it? Guesses?
China is the largest importer of Iranian crude oil, accounting
for the vast majority of Iranians oil. Of Iran's oil
exports in twenty twenty three, Iran were exported in an
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average of one point four million barrels per day of
crude oil and condensate, with estimates rising to one point
five million per day in the first eight months of
twenty thousand twenty twenty four. Jesus struggling and only ninety
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of these exports, all that went to China. The US
has been attacking Russia by proxy under Ukraine for years now.
Right now, following Ukraine's Operation Spider Web, that large scale
drone attack on June first that targeted Russian air bases.
Russia has made some moves, you guys. Satellite imagery and
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reports confirmed that Russia redeployed its bombers to air bases
in Far East and other remote regions. Specifically, eleven Tu
two two M three's and all Tu nine to five
ms aircraft mirror near Mermantsk were redeployed, including a base
not recently used for strategic aviation. Then there's Annadeer Air
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Base located in Chikataka, Pennsylon Peninsula. This remote Cold War
era airfield now hosts to at least TU one sixties,
moved four thousand miles from Ukraine frontline, signaling Russian's attempt
to shield these assets from Ukrainian drones. Probably, but all
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t U one sixties previously previously stationed at Belaya Air
Base were moved. Some were relocated to a couple other bases,
also those TU one sixties. The Tu one sixty entered
service in nineteen eighty seven, the last strategic bomber designed
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for the Soviet air forces. It was built to serve
as both a conventional and nuclear bomber, and Russia has
placed them four hundred and ten miles from Alaska, and
the US just aided Israel and all but halting China's
oil imports from Iran. I still think we are in
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the middle of proxy World War III. We are, and
we have been for three plus years. It's just war
doesn't look like it used to everyone. That's all the
talk of drones. Remember the drones on the East Coast.
You know, this was before operations Spiderweb in Russia where
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he a drone only attack almost obliterated air forces in Russia. See,
it wasn't a ballistic missile strike, it wasn't a sabotage
of some you know, it was drones. Drones just almost
knocked out all of Russia's air forces. Uh, what's different that? Now?
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You can see why people were concerned about the drones
on the East Coast and why the government didn't make
a big deal about it in the media. But you know,
it was a big deal. Where those ours where there's
someone else's were they the front lines of something? I
guess we'll never know, But we are in the middle
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of a proxy World War III. Surprising how comfortable it is, right,
But it's getting more uncomfortable because of more unrest protests
in Los Angeles sparked by those ICE immigration raids, starting
on June sixth, have continued past a week now. While
many demonstrations have been peaceful, many have escalated into violent clashes,
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involving vandalism, looting, and confrontations with law enforcement, prompting a
curfee in downtown LA and the deployment of National Guard
troops and marines. Well, that doesn't sound mostly peaceful like
a Newsom would say. Or Mayor Bass, by the way,
good job Mayor Bass, Good job Governor Newsom. Both politicians
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are still pretending that these ICE raids are unconstitutional and wrong.
And what's also sick is some of these lesser known
politicians that want to be more known are using it
to their advantage by making asses of themselves and getting
arrested on purpose for attention. Like the one that you
don't go to say his name because no one knows
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him anyway, who approached the the the judge they they
said ran up on her. But it wasn't like that.
But uh, these senators they wear badges, okay, when they're
in when they're in rooms, when they're in court rooms,
when they're in certain buildings, so that everyone knows okay,
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they're allowed here, they're they're okay. He didn't wear his
badge when he walked in, and you know that was
you know, that was on purpose so that he would
get you know, quote unquote manheadled like that, like they
like to say, even though we see the whole thing
he was. He was escorted out, you know, against his will.
Now I wouldn't call that his will was to stay
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in there, approach the judge and intimidate her and make
an ass of himself. Against his will just means he
was escorted out, but he didn't want to go. It
doesn't mean that I beat him up and taste him
and it was all for show, and it's all bullshit.
And there's more than one now go Look, I'm not
gonna cover that. I don't care enough because it's not
important enough. Step maybe one and I haven't decided we're
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going to talk about that. And it evolves at Gavin
Newsom even though he wasn't the one, but it might
indicate a future move like in years from now. I
don't I'm stewing on it. I've already said too much.
Neither of them Bass or Newsom are talking about Larissa
Thompson right during all this, you know the bleeding hearts
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for all the illegals. Larissa Thompson was a forty year
old mother of two from Lancaster, South Carolina. She was
killed on May second. Larisia was fatally shot while driving
on Riverside Road in Lancaster County, South Carolina, and what
authorities described as a random attempted robbery. She left her
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home to visit friends when she was attacked. Her family
found her dead in her vehicle from a gunshot wound.
The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office arrested six individuals, three adults,
Assaul Amanadas Torres Charinos twenty one, Harvey Ardon Ramos Odari eighteen,
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Jason Sovieed Pinada Salgado seventeen, and three juveniles ages thirteen, fourteen,
and fifteen, all charged with murder, attempted armed robbery, second
degree burglary. These guys reportedly were undocumented immigrants from Honduras
and were also linked to another burglary two days earlier,
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with evidence tying the same nine millimeters pistol to both crimes.
All face potential deportation due to immigration detainees and detainers
placed by ICE have you heard Larissa Thompson's name before
this podcast? I hadn't. I had to hear it on
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some other podcasts recently. And then i'm because I heard
a podcast since everything listens to me. Then I heard
about her on TikTok shortly thereafter, not making a big
deal about that, huh. The undocumented immigration population is estimated
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at eleven million, or about three point two percent of
the US population, according to a Pew Research Center study
and poll in twenty twenty two. Based on Texas data
and national studies. Researchers estimate that undocumented immigrants are responsible
for at least three percent of total crime in the US.
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You know, on top of the crime of remaining in
the US illegally, they also commit crime. See it's they're criminals,
that's why. But not a problem though three percent total crime.
Come on two weeks ago, on episode we talked about
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David Hogg. Remember I don't have any apologies. I don't
have any clips today. I just don't. It just wasn't
on purpose. So every once in a while, I'm gonna
pause and take a sip of coffee because I usually
do that when I play clips. So I don't know
if you know this, but you know, for three or
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four minutes there I was fiending for a sip of
coffee and trying to find a spot to pause. There
is none, So I'm just gonna make one right now, Okay, cheers.
David Hogg is no longer Vice chair of the Democratic
National Committee. On June eleven, he announced that he would
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step down from his role and not run in the
new vice chair elections ordered by the DNC following a
procedural challenge that voided his February twenty twenty five election.
The decision came amid controversy over his plans to fund
primary challenges against incumbent Democrats through his organization, Leaders we Deserve.
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That organization aimed to spend twenty million dollars to support
younger candidates and safe blue districts. Hogg stated that he
withdrew to allow the party to focus on broader priorities
while continuing his work with Leaders We Deserve to reform
the Democratic Party. Leaders We raised eleven point nine million
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dollars in the twenty twenty three to twenty four election cycle,
according to Open Secrets, with significant spending on media thirty
two percent aka propaganda contribution or at twenty seven point
zero eight you know, contribute to what I don't know,
and campaign expenses were just eleven point four to one.
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But see how easy the Democrats turn on their own.
All you have to do is mention wanting to improve
Democrat leadership or ask for any amount of accountability, and
they'll turn on you. I'll find a way and they'll
get rid of you. That's just one of the reasons
that the current Democratic Party is absolutely disgusting right now.
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They are making fools of themselves right now, quite literally
all over the place. It's bad. It's a bad time
for the United States. It's a bad time for politics.
It's a bad time to be paying attention you guys
like I do, like you should. It's not good. It's
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not really good. The Republicans right now, right now, are
the better choice. But I'm watching that change right now,
and we'll see. We'll see in another year, year and
a half, I think things are going to be a
lot different across the board. I know it's a long
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time to say, we'll see, but I expect big changes
from the Republicans in the year, maybe a year and
a half, and we'll just see it's just a weird time,
and they make things weirder. Then Nintendo switched to launched
on June fifth, significantly exceeding expectations somehow, with over three
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point five million units sold worldwide in its first four days.
That made its Nintendo's fastest selling console ever. That thing
is five hundred and fifty bucks you guys, for a
Nintendo console, and it's the last GM hardware. I don't
get it. I kind of get it. Also I don't.
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I'm not crapping on Nintendo, but also I'm getting ready
to crap on Nintendo. Don't mean to you, it's just
how it's going to sound. There are so many, I
think better options for handhelds right now with a big
asterisk and like a caveat of course, with Nintendo having
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you know, the Mario franchise come on. But as of
June seventeenth, there are several handheld gaming consoles available across
every prep gaming preference and budget. The Steam Deck probably
a leader leading handheld gaming. It's a PC, guys, It
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is a PC in your hand, seven point four inch
HDR O lead display you guys, come on, seven to
twenty p resolution, ninety hertz refresh rate. Ah, it just
you could play PC games on the go, you know,
in your hand. It's priced similarly to the Nintendo switch
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to at five for a five and twelve gigabyte model.
Come on Steam, deck O lead the asis Rog ally
x rog Republic of Gamers is what that stands from.
It's it's a Windows base handheld with seven inch ten
eighty P display with one hundred and twenty hertz and
AMD risin Z one extreme chip, twenty four gigs RAM,
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terrorbyte storage, eighty one hour battery, top tier game performance.
It can play cloud games from Steam, Xbox Game Pass,
Epic Game Store. It's insane. It's insanity. Uh, but you're
gonna pay for all that insanity. It's about eight hundred
bucks seven nine. Uh. Also, it prioritizes performance over portability,
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you know. Then there's Lenovo Legion Go, another Windows unheld
eight point eight inch qHD plus display, sixteen gigs RAM
up to a terrabied storage, detachable controllers like switch. It
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runs Windows operating system and from what I hear, it's
clunky on the Legion Go. But you can get that
thing for around six ninety nine, and occasionally it'll go
to five ninety nine on Amazon, and I don't know
how that works. Just sometimes things are like that, and
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don't forget. Then Nintendo Switch, oh Lead is still here,
fairly new hybrid console, seven inch OLED just three forty nine.
It runs all the Nintendo titles, Legend of Zelda, Super
Mario Brothers, Wonder, you know, vibrant the screen, and the
whole Nintendo Switch library, hundreds of games, hundreds available now
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you don't have to wait on them. And the Nintendo
Switch Light, which I think has slept on big time.
I have one and I love it. It's just a
handheld only version of the Switch. You can get one
for one hundred and ninety nine dollars in ninety nine
cents right now five point five iNHL CD screen. It's durable.
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You can't connect TV apps to it, which is a
con that everybody brings up. But when I'm having a
handheld gaming device in my hand, the last thing I'm
thinking about is TV crap. But that's probably my age,
you know, I don't know. It's not a thing, and
it is strictly handheld, no detachable controllers, but it's fine,
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and it has access to the same Nintendo Switch game library.
And then there's an ms I Claw eight Uh. It's
the nearer Windows Windows handheld eight inch display. Uh. It's
got Intel's lunar late Core Ultra seven Series two CPU. Uh.
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You pay trip you can played Triple A titles on
that no problem. Uh. Uh improved design and performance from
the original Claw, but priced it around seven ninety nine.
Then there's the newly announced A Wrong Xbox ally Uh.
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It's a collaboration between Microsoft and a Sus. Uh. Should
be out at the end of this year. Runs Windows
supports game Pass feature seven inch to an ADP screen. Uh.
Not available yet, pricingly not available, but interested. I think
people are always interested when Xbox is attached to it,
even if it's just my name, because most of these
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things can play cloud game like game Pass one that
everybody sleeps on, and I've wanted one since it came out,
but I can't justify it. I have a switch. I
don't need this thing. Also, you can play cloud games
and Xbox game passes on your phone, but I'm still
interested in this thing. It's the Logitech G Cloud handheld
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a strictly cloud gaming. There's no cartridges, there's no games.
It's fine cloud gaming, remote play seven inch full HD
touch screen, a twelve plus hour battery life, optimized for
cloud gaming. I don't know. I think I think people
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sleep on this thing. You can hook it up to
a TV play it like that. Runs Android eleven, which
is a plus because you can run emulators on there.
You know, if you could, you can do that. It's
not something that's in the the instructions. When you open
the box, you can. But you can play game Pass
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games in Vidio g Force now all those titles available,
Xbox Remote Play, Steamlink, Moonlight. It runs Android games and
emulators from they're on the legit ones on Google play Store.
Sixty four gig storage that's expandable via micro OSDE snap
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Dragon seven to twenty g processor optimized for low latency
and eight hundred plus megabits over high speed Wi Fi
and five gig connection. Does require Wi Fi for cloud gaming.
But here's the thing. Originally launched in twenty twenty two,
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came out at three nine, but they can be had
for one and ninety five if you catch them on
sale on Amazon and best Buy. Uh. I think normally
they sit at three hundred, but they go on sale
on Xbox and best Buy all the time. You just
gotta look. Get it for one hundred ninety five. Look
at that thing. I even think I did like a
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when it was announced. I did like an announcement review
in twenty two when Logitech announced this thing. I was
excited back then. I still haven't pulled the trigger. The
Logitech G Cloud's ideal for gamers interested and invested in cloud.
Like game Pass, everyone's switching to cloud gaming, you know,
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all the big players, you know, especially with this last
gen Xbox, they offered a cloud only well not necessarily
cloud only, but discless. You know, that was supposed to
be the move to all cloud based gaming. What happened
to that? They were pushing so hard. It seems like
they're still pushing, but not as hard. Well, the g Cloud,
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the Logitech g Cloud would be perfect for that, so
I don't I don't know. It's still sitting there one
hundred and ninety five. You can find it. I'd rather
have that than the switch to. I don't know, I
don't know, I don't know whatever. I really think that
thing would have blew up like switch but it didn't.
And it's strange, but you know what the switch to
did do for me? It reminded me that I have
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a switch and a switch light, and then I need
to charge my switch light, and I ordered a new
game for it. So thanks Nintendo to me. Five hundred
bucks is a little much for a Nintendo console, especially
considered other options that we went over. And it's last
gen hardware, and it's last gen hardware today, and it'll
be last gen hardware for years going forward. It just
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gets older. You know, they don't come out with a
new one, a new console every year. Nintendo doesn't, that's
for sure. So do you want to pay five hundred
bucks for last gen? Now that's going to be you know,
five years older, six years, ten years older. Who knows?
It's a little much, I think. I guess. I've heard
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that the switch tooth capability is comparable to the PS four.
You know, hey, nothing to sneeze at, of course, but
very last gen. But if you're Nintendo, when you have
a Mario franchise and millions of whiny kids begging for
a new thing, I guess Nintendo does alright. Now it's
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time for sports this month. Lot's going on this month,
sixteen year old Quincy william Or Wilson became the youngest
American male track athlete to qualify for the Olympics. At
the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, he ran the
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four hundred meters in a stunning forty four point five
nine seconds, breaking his own under eighteen world record and
earning him a spot in the US four by four
hundred relay team for the Paris Games. A high school
junior from Virginia, Wilson's meteoric rise inspired fans, with social
media buzzing about his fearless performance against season pros. His
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story showcases were all talent and the power of youth
in sports. And that's going to do it for this
week in sports. All right, thanks, now back to you,
Craig in this week's quote of the Week is a
weird one, and I actually wrote this down months and
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months ago just to say it, but I didn't want
to make it quote of the week and I'm tired
of looking at it on a sticky note. So it's
this week's quote of the week, and it's going to
be by anonymous because I don't know who originated it.
But the quote is quote, remember brushing your teeth is
the only time you clean your skeleton. In quote by
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anonymous and I like that quote. It's creepy, it's weird,
but I like it. And all of a sudden, it's
time for sugar, so much sugar. Hey, this week's sugar
is sort of about me, guys, heck may sort of
be about you. Maybe it's definitely about your dad, because
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this week's sugar. This is the history of Father's Day.
Father's Day in the United States has a rich history
that began in the early twentieth century, inspired by the
desire to honor fathers and their contributions to family and society,
much like Mother's Day that already existed. The idea for
Father's Day is often credited to Sonora Smart Dodd, a
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woman from Spokane, Washington. In nineteen oh nine. Dodd was
inspired to create a day for fathers after hearing a
Mother's Day sermon at her church raised by her widowed father,
William Jackson. Smart, a Civil War veteran who single handedly
cared for her and her five siblings, wanted to recognize
the sacrifices and love of fathers. Dodd proposed a Father's
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Day celebration to Spokane Ministerial Alliance and the YMCA. The
first Father's Day was observed locally in Spokane on June nineteenth,
nineteen ten, chosen to coincide with her father's birthday. The
event featured church sermons, and attendees wore roses red for
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living fathers in white for deceased ones. The concept of
Father's Day gained tractions slowly as it faced skepticism and resistance.
For some reason, some viewed it as a commercial gimmick,
and others felt fathers didn't need a special day and
others can go well, I'm not gonna say what they
can do. Despite this, grassroots efforts by individuals, churches, and
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civic groups helped spread the celebration in other cities in
the nineteen tens and the nineteen twenties. While Dodd is
most recognized founder, others proposed similar ideas independently. For example,
in nineteen oh eight, of West Virginia church held a
memorial service for three hundred and sixty two men killed
in a mining disaster, which some consider an early Father's
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Day precursor. Additionally, Grace Golden Clayton is credited with suggesting
a day to honor fathers in Fairmont, was Virginia around
the same time. Father's Day gained momentum through political endorsements.
In nineteen sixteen, President Woodrow Wilson spoke at a Father's
Day event in Spokane, leading credibility to the holiday. In
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nineteen twenty four, President Calvin Coolidge urged states to observe
Father's Day, calling for recognition of father's roles and strengthening
family bonds, though he stopped short of making it a
national holiday. By the nineteen thirties, retailers and manufacturers, particularly
those selling men's goods like ties, hats, and tobacco. You know,
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the good stuff, embraced Father's Day, boosting its popularity by
also reinforcing criticisms of commercialization. The National Father's Day Committee,
formed in New York in nineteen thirty six, promoted the
holiday and countered these critiques by emphasizing its emotional significance.
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Despite decades of celebration, Father's Day wasn't officially recognized until
nineteen seventy two, when President Richard Nixon signed a proclamation
making it a permanent national holiday observed on the third
Sunday in June. This followed years of advocacy, including congressional
resolutions and efforts by figures like Dodd, who lived to
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see the holiday's national status before her death in nineteen
seventy eight. Father's Day traditions in the US including giving
gifts like tools, electronics, and ties, hosting family gatherings, and
expressing gratitude through cards and activities like barbecues or outings.
The holiday has also evolved honour not just biological fathers,
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but also stepfather's, grandfathers, and other father figures, as it
should in my opinion. Father's Day inspired similar celebrations worldwide,
though dates and traditions vary. For example, Australia New Zealand
celebrated on the first Sunday in September, while Russia observes
Defender of the Fatherland Day OKAY on February twenty third,
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which partly serves as a Father's Day. Like Mother's Day,
Father's Day has faced ongoing criticism for becoming overly commercialized.
It absolutely has, with pressure to buy gifts overshadowing its
original intent. However, many still focus on personal gestures to
honor fathers. In twenty twenty five, Father's Day was celebrated
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on June fifteenth, the third Sunday of the month, continuing
its tradition of recognizing paternal contribution. The holiday remains a
blend of heartfelt appreciation commercial activity, with families across the
US marking the occasion through gifts, quality time, and tributes
to father's roles in their lives. Happy belated Father's Day everyone.
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It's a special day. And that's why Father's Day is
this week's sugar And there went episode one ninety. Yeah
they could be. Hey, I heard a news story. Can't
remember what state. My sister actually send it to me
because I have a story. It's almost similar to this. Uh,
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there was a vehicle that rolled over in a crash
because there was a cicada inside. They freaked out and
crashed the car. Anyway, Uh, thanks for listening and watching,
you guys, if you even watch, I gotta tell that
cicada story one of these days. I have story for everything.
That's a good one. I will tell it. Remind me.
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Never attribute to malice. We can do contributed to inconfidence.
It's far more likely that they're all in their own worlds,
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world around them. And we all do it every day,
whether you're driving, walking down the street. All of our
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This is the Soapbox Champion Podcast.
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Hey yeah, idea is Hello everyone, Welcome to the Soapbox
Champion Podcast, Episode one ninety. This is Tuesday, June seventeenth,
twenty twenty five. I've got to name you, guys. I'm
not just a pretty face. My name is Craig Delaney.
A significant escalation of conflict between Israel and Iran, marked
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by Israeli air strikes and Iranian nuclear military targets, started
on June thirteenth, under something called the Operation Rising Lion.
I always have to have a cool name. This followed
months of planning with Israel aiming to disrupt Iran's nuclear
program and military capabilities. Iran retaliated with missile strikes on Israel,
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of course, targeting cities like Tel Aviv, killing at least
sixteen Israelis and wounding hundreds. And I said this on
social media almost immediately. If you see the footage of
all those missiles, all those explosions, and these are first
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world countries with first world arms, all that, and just
sixteen Israelis, I mean wars, not what it used to be.
Israel targeted Iran's nuclear facilities, you guys, including the NATANZ site,
and killed senior Iranian military f F such as GC commanders.
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The IDF claims to have destroyed a third of Iran's
missile launchers, which is significant. Iran, in retaliation, launched over
one hundred and fifty ballistic missiles at Israel and just
sixteen Israelis What is this? They claim civilian casualties, I
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don't know. Damaging infrastructure of course, including a residential block,
an entire block, but only sixteen people total, and an
oil refinery. Air raid sirens forced residents into shelters, and
Israeli airspace was closed, of course, stranding thousands of citizens abroad.
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The conflict has drawn international attension, with Moscow and Kara
and Beijing condemning Israel's actions, while the US has provided
defense support but urged de escalation. This is a funny situation.
You got Trump orportally vetoed an Israeli plan to assassinate
Iran supreme leader and pushed for a ceasefire. I don't
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know what kind of veto power he has with other countries.
It's just so weird. Concurrently, the Israeli Hamas conflict is intensified.
With military operations and goals of resuming in March after
a brief seasefire. Reports indicates several humanitarian crises, with thirty
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eight Palestinians killed near aid distribution sites and famine like
conditions due to Israel's blockade. Protests in Israel, including in Haifa,
have seen arrest over anti war sentiments. You guys, the
situation is in Israel is dynamic, ever changing. It's changed
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since I started speaking. I promise you with ongoing military
changes and diplomatic efforts to halt the violence. But none
of this will work everyone because absolutely no one can
be satisfied until the other doesn't exist. And I hate
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how involved the US is in all of this. I
hate it. It's nothing new, but I have a renewed
hatred for it. It's what I'm saying. President Trump was
in talks with Iran with when Israel struck. I thought
that was disrespectful unless it was a planned thing. Many
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people say it was planned. Some think the US was
part of the entire plan, as it was at the
end of the sixty days that Trump gave to Iran
to negotiate its nuclear plan. They say it was for energy,
but I think everyone knows it was for a nuclear
weapons program. Of course it was, Hey, why not everyone
around them has it that people tell them they can't
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have it, have it? So why can't they? You know,
I mean that's put it on a pot and boil
it down. You know, who are we? You know? Will
they use it? You know, for you know, whatever they want? Yeah?
So would we? So it Israel. It's a touchy thing
with me. I don't, I know, I know, I know everyone.
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Of course, we don't want Iran to have them. We
don't want Israel to have them. We shouldn't have them.
I also, thank god we do. It's just weird. The
negotiations were disrupted by the Israeli air strikes starting June thirteenth.
Trump had urged Israel to delay attacks to give diplomacy
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a chance, but the strikes preceded anyway. Very disrespectful, I've said,
leading Iran to cancel schedule six rounds of talks on
June fifteenth, And despite all that, Trump maintained that talks
were not dead, urging Iran to seize a second chance
for a deal to avoid further destruction. Then, of course,
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio immediately came out one of
the very first things I heard said that the US
was not directly involved in the strikes. Of course he
was basically lying. But we call it in this case
plausible deniability, and that's a concept where someone structures their
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actions or involvement in a situation to allow them to
credibly deny knowledge or responsibility if this situation becomes controversial
or problematic. It typically uses It is used in political
or military or covert context the shield individuals or entities
from accountability for actions that could be illegal, unethical, or
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politically damaging. Of course we knew about it in some way. Again,
that's plausible deniability, and a very classic and dead on
case of that was the Iran Contra affair in the
nineteen eighties, where US officials facilitated arms sales to Iran
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and funded nic Roquan. Conscious but structured operations still allow
senior leaders to deny direct knowledge. The term hinges on
the plausibility of the denial being believable to avoid legal
or public backlash. And in the case of last week's
Israeli strikes in Iran, it's hard to believe that the
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US wasn't somehow involved, As the US is actively helping
Israel with missile defense. The US sent a terminal high
altitude area defense or a FAD remember always a cute,
little shortened thing there, a FAD battery to Israel, along
with approximately one hundred troops boots on the ground, everyone
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to operate that thing to bolster Israel's air defenses against
Iranian ballistic missile attacks. This deployment was authorized by President
Joe biden See and announced by the Pentagon October, following
Iranian missile strikes in April and October twenty fourth October
seventh thing, with the system remaining active now, US military assets,
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including ground based air defense systems and naval destroyers in
the Eastern Mediterranean have been used to intercept Iranian missiles
targeting Israel as well. On June thirteenth, US officials confirmed
that American forces assisted in shooting down missiles during Iran's
retaliatory strikes, which followed Israel's air strikes on Iranian nuclear
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and military targets. The US is historically funded and help
developed Israel's multi layered missile defense systems, including the Iron Dome,
David Saling, and Arrow two and three. And I always
think if they're so bad ass. Wise are four different versions,
But since twenty eleven, the US has provided over three
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point four billion dollars for Iron Dome alone, and continues
to support missile defense through a thirty eight billion dollar
military aid package that you didn't know about spread out
through twenty eighteen through twenty twenty eight You did not
know about that. In June twenty twenty five, US air
defense systems, including those on naval ships like the USS
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Carl Vincent, were actively involved in defending Israel from Iranian
missile barrages. During the latest missile attacks, the US forces
helped intercept dozens of missiles, with reports indicating that American
air defense systems and naval assets were critical in supporting
Israel's efforts. The IDF noted that interception rates were similar
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to those prior Iranian attacks in twenty twenty four, with
US assistants helping to mitigate damage, though some missile struck
civilian areas, killing at least fourteen Israelis and were wounding hundreds.
This is crazy and something that's not getting hardly any
media attention, and you're going to hear it on the
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Soapbox Champion podcast today. Is the fact that Iranian state
media and the Ministry of Petroleum reported that an Israeli
strike on June fourteenth caused a fire at a fuel
tank near the Shai Array refinery south of Tehran. That's
one of Iran's largest, with a capacity of about two
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hundred and twenty five thousand barrels per day. While some
Iranian sources like the Student News Network denied direct damage
to the refinery itself, why wouldn't you believe a student
news network? Times like this claimed it was still operational,
others confirmed a fire at the nearby fuel tank caused
significant disruption. Emergency crews were deployed to contain the blaze,
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and residents reported seeing flames from miles away. Let's talk
about Irans oil and fuel over there, the Shaharan Fuel
and Gas Depot. On June fourteenth, Israel struck the Sharon
Fuel Depot northwest of Tehran, a major storage and distribution
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hub with capacity of nearly two hundred and sixty million
leaders leaders all of a sudden. Iran's Petroleum Ministry confirmed
the attack, noted that firefighters were struggling to control the
resulting fires, which caused significant disruption to Tehran's fuel supply network.
Remember that significant disruption to Tehran's fuel supply network. Then
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you have the South Pars gas field and fajer Jan
Gas refinery. Also on June fourteenth, Israeli drones targeted the
South Pars gas field and one of the world's largest
natural gas fields in the nearby fajer Jahm Gas refinery,
with processes fuel from South Bars. Iran's Ministry of Petroleum
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confirmed fires at both sites, halting production of at least
twelve million cubic meters of gas. And you and I
Yankee cannot comprehend how much that is? Is that a truckload?
Is that? What is that in swimming pools? I don't know.
Twelve million cubic meters of gas? Gotta tagam in consideration.
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It's gas? Is that gaseous gas? Is that fuel? Gas?
It's complicated. Should use metric. These attacks disrupted Iran's domestic
electricity and fuel supplies, particularly the southern Central provinces. I'm
getting somewhere here, guys, Can you guess it before I
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get there. Iran's oil experts are primarily managed by National
Iranian Oil Company or in IOC. That's a state owned entity,
which is okay, that's red flag number one. State owned.
I think of China and stuff. You know how the
Internet is state run. You know, it's just weird. But
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that's a state own entity under the Minister of which
handles the exploration, production, sale, and export of Iran's crude
oil and petroleum products. That is a lot of oil,
you guys. But what's the missing piece here? What's piece
of information? Do we need to know? What? Think? Where
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does all that oil go? Who's not getting it? Guesses?
China is the largest importer of Iranian crude oil, accounting
for the vast majority of Iranians oil. Of Iran's oil
exports in twenty twenty three, Iran were exported in an
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average of one point four million barrels per day of
crude oil and condensate, with estimates rising to one point
five million per day in the first eight months of
twenty thousand twenty twenty four. Jesus struggling and only ninety
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of these exports, all that went to China. The US
has been attacking Russia by proxy under Ukraine for years now.
Right now, following Ukraine's Operation Spider Web, that large scale
drone attack on June first that targeted Russian air bases.
Russia has made some moves, you guys. Satellite imagery and
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reports confirmed that Russia redeployed its bombers to air bases
in Far East and other remote regions. Specifically, eleven Tu
two two M three's and all Tu nine to five
ms aircraft mirror near Mermantsk were redeployed, including a base
not recently used for strategic aviation. Then there's Annadeer Air
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Base located in Chikataka, Pennsylon Peninsula. This remote Cold War
era airfield now hosts to at least TU one sixties,
moved four thousand miles from Ukraine frontline, signaling Russian's attempt
to shield these assets from Ukrainian drones. Probably, but all
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t U one sixties previously previously stationed at Belaya Air
Base were moved. Some were relocated to a couple other bases,
also those TU one sixties. The Tu one sixty entered
service in nineteen eighty seven, the last strategic bomber designed
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for the Soviet air forces. It was built to serve
as both a conventional and nuclear bomber, and Russia has
placed them four hundred and ten miles from Alaska, and
the US just aided Israel and all but halting China's
oil imports from Iran. I still think we are in
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the middle of proxy World War III. We are, and
we have been for three plus years. It's just war
doesn't look like it used to everyone. That's all the
talk of drones. Remember the drones on the East Coast.
You know, this was before operations Spiderweb in Russia where
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he a drone only attack almost obliterated air forces in Russia. See,
it wasn't a ballistic missile strike, it wasn't a sabotage
of some you know, it was drones. Drones just almost
knocked out all of Russia's air forces. Uh, what's different that? Now?
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You can see why people were concerned about the drones
on the East Coast and why the government didn't make
a big deal about it in the media. But you know,
it was a big deal. Where those ours where there's
someone else's were they the front lines of something? I
guess we'll never know, But we are in the middle
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of a proxy World War III. Surprising how comfortable it is, right,
But it's getting more uncomfortable because of more unrest protests
in Los Angeles sparked by those ICE immigration raids, starting
on June sixth, have continued past a week now. While
many demonstrations have been peaceful, many have escalated into violent clashes,
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involving vandalism, looting, and confrontations with law enforcement, prompting a
curfee in downtown LA and the deployment of National Guard
troops and marines. Well, that doesn't sound mostly peaceful like
a Newsom would say. Or Mayor Bass, by the way,
good job Mayor Bass, Good job Governor Newsom. Both politicians
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are still pretending that these ICE raids are unconstitutional and wrong.
And what's also sick is some of these lesser known
politicians that want to be more known are using it
to their advantage by making asses of themselves and getting
arrested on purpose for attention. Like the one that you
don't go to say his name because no one knows
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him anyway, who approached the the the judge they they
said ran up on her. But it wasn't like that.
But uh, these senators they wear badges, okay, when they're
in when they're in rooms, when they're in court rooms,
when they're in certain buildings, so that everyone knows okay,
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they're allowed here, they're they're okay. He didn't wear his
badge when he walked in, and you know that was
you know, that was on purpose so that he would
get you know, quote unquote manheadled like that, like they
like to say, even though we see the whole thing
he was. He was escorted out, you know, against his will.
Now I wouldn't call that his will was to stay
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in there, approach the judge and intimidate her and make
an ass of himself. Against his will just means he
was escorted out, but he didn't want to go. It
doesn't mean that I beat him up and taste him
and it was all for show, and it's all bullshit.
And there's more than one now go Look, I'm not
gonna cover that. I don't care enough because it's not
important enough. Step maybe one and I haven't decided we're
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going to talk about that. And it evolves at Gavin
Newsom even though he wasn't the one, but it might
indicate a future move like in years from now. I
don't I'm stewing on it. I've already said too much.
Neither of them Bass or Newsom are talking about Larissa
Thompson right during all this, you know the bleeding hearts
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for all the illegals. Larissa Thompson was a forty year
old mother of two from Lancaster, South Carolina. She was
killed on May second. Larisia was fatally shot while driving
on Riverside Road in Lancaster County, South Carolina, and what
authorities described as a random attempted robbery. She left her
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home to visit friends when she was attacked. Her family
found her dead in her vehicle from a gunshot wound.
The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office arrested six individuals, three adults,
Assaul Amanadas Torres Charinos twenty one, Harvey Ardon Ramos Odari eighteen,
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Jason Sovieed Pinada Salgado seventeen, and three juveniles ages thirteen, fourteen,
and fifteen, all charged with murder, attempted armed robbery, second
degree burglary. These guys reportedly were undocumented immigrants from Honduras
and were also linked to another burglary two days earlier,
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with evidence tying the same nine millimeters pistol to both crimes.
All face potential deportation due to immigration detainees and detainers
placed by ICE have you heard Larissa Thompson's name before
this podcast? I hadn't. I had to hear it on
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some other podcasts recently. And then i'm because I heard
a podcast since everything listens to me. Then I heard
about her on TikTok shortly thereafter, not making a big
deal about that, huh. The undocumented immigration population is estimated
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at eleven million, or about three point two percent of
the US population, according to a Pew Research Center study
and poll in twenty twenty two. Based on Texas data
and national studies. Researchers estimate that undocumented immigrants are responsible
for at least three percent of total crime in the US.
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You know, on top of the crime of remaining in
the US illegally, they also commit crime. See it's they're criminals,
that's why. But not a problem though three percent total crime.
Come on two weeks ago, on episode we talked about
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David Hogg. Remember I don't have any apologies. I don't
have any clips today. I just don't. It just wasn't
on purpose. So every once in a while, I'm gonna
pause and take a sip of coffee because I usually
do that when I play clips. So I don't know
if you know this, but you know, for three or
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four minutes there I was fiending for a sip of
coffee and trying to find a spot to pause. There
is none, So I'm just gonna make one right now, Okay, cheers.
David Hogg is no longer Vice chair of the Democratic
National Committee. On June eleven, he announced that he would
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step down from his role and not run in the
new vice chair elections ordered by the DNC following a
procedural challenge that voided his February twenty twenty five election.
The decision came amid controversy over his plans to fund
primary challenges against incumbent Democrats through his organization, Leaders we Deserve.
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That organization aimed to spend twenty million dollars to support
younger candidates and safe blue districts. Hogg stated that he
withdrew to allow the party to focus on broader priorities
while continuing his work with Leaders We Deserve to reform
the Democratic Party. Leaders We raised eleven point nine million
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dollars in the twenty twenty three to twenty four election cycle,
according to Open Secrets, with significant spending on media thirty
two percent aka propaganda contribution or at twenty seven point
zero eight you know, contribute to what I don't know,
and campaign expenses were just eleven point four to one.
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But see how easy the Democrats turn on their own.
All you have to do is mention wanting to improve
Democrat leadership or ask for any amount of accountability, and
they'll turn on you. I'll find a way and they'll
get rid of you. That's just one of the reasons
that the current Democratic Party is absolutely disgusting right now.
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They are making fools of themselves right now, quite literally
all over the place. It's bad. It's a bad time
for the United States. It's a bad time for politics.
It's a bad time to be paying attention you guys
like I do, like you should. It's not good. It's
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not really good. The Republicans right now, right now, are
the better choice. But I'm watching that change right now,
and we'll see. We'll see in another year, year and
a half, I think things are going to be a
lot different across the board. I know it's a long
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time to say, we'll see, but I expect big changes
from the Republicans in the year, maybe a year and
a half, and we'll just see it's just a weird time,
and they make things weirder. Then Nintendo switched to launched
on June fifth, significantly exceeding expectations somehow, with over three
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point five million units sold worldwide in its first four days.
That made its Nintendo's fastest selling console ever. That thing
is five hundred and fifty bucks you guys, for a
Nintendo console, and it's the last GM hardware. I don't
get it. I kind of get it. Also I don't.
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I'm not crapping on Nintendo, but also I'm getting ready
to crap on Nintendo. Don't mean to you, it's just
how it's going to sound. There are so many, I
think better options for handhelds right now with a big
asterisk and like a caveat of course, with Nintendo having
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you know, the Mario franchise come on. But as of
June seventeenth, there are several handheld gaming consoles available across
every prep gaming preference and budget. The Steam Deck probably
a leader leading handheld gaming. It's a PC, guys, It
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is a PC in your hand, seven point four inch
HDR O lead display you guys, come on, seven to
twenty p resolution, ninety hertz refresh rate. Ah, it just
you could play PC games on the go, you know,
in your hand. It's priced similarly to the Nintendo switch
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to at five for a five and twelve gigabyte model.
Come on Steam, deck O lead the asis Rog ally
x rog Republic of Gamers is what that stands from.
It's it's a Windows base handheld with seven inch ten
eighty P display with one hundred and twenty hertz and
AMD risin Z one extreme chip, twenty four gigs RAM,
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terrorbyte storage, eighty one hour battery, top tier game performance.
It can play cloud games from Steam, Xbox Game Pass,
Epic Game Store. It's insane. It's insanity. Uh, but you're
gonna pay for all that insanity. It's about eight hundred
bucks seven nine. Uh. Also, it prioritizes performance over portability,
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you know. Then there's Lenovo Legion Go, another Windows unheld
eight point eight inch qHD plus display, sixteen gigs RAM
up to a terrabied storage, detachable controllers like switch. It
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runs Windows operating system and from what I hear, it's
clunky on the Legion Go. But you can get that
thing for around six ninety nine, and occasionally it'll go
to five ninety nine on Amazon, and I don't know
how that works. Just sometimes things are like that, and
(28:41):
don't forget. Then Nintendo Switch, oh Lead is still here,
fairly new hybrid console, seven inch OLED just three forty nine.
It runs all the Nintendo titles, Legend of Zelda, Super
Mario Brothers, Wonder, you know, vibrant the screen, and the
whole Nintendo Switch library, hundreds of games, hundreds available now
(29:07):
you don't have to wait on them. And the Nintendo
Switch Light, which I think has slept on big time.
I have one and I love it. It's just a
handheld only version of the Switch. You can get one
for one hundred and ninety nine dollars in ninety nine
cents right now five point five iNHL CD screen. It's durable.
(29:30):
You can't connect TV apps to it, which is a
con that everybody brings up. But when I'm having a
handheld gaming device in my hand, the last thing I'm
thinking about is TV crap. But that's probably my age,
you know, I don't know. It's not a thing, and
it is strictly handheld, no detachable controllers, but it's fine,
(29:52):
and it has access to the same Nintendo Switch game library.
And then there's an ms I Claw eight Uh. It's
the nearer Windows Windows handheld eight inch display. Uh. It's
got Intel's lunar late Core Ultra seven Series two CPU. Uh.
(30:15):
You pay trip you can played Triple A titles on
that no problem. Uh. Uh improved design and performance from
the original Claw, but priced it around seven ninety nine.
Then there's the newly announced A Wrong Xbox ally Uh.
(30:36):
It's a collaboration between Microsoft and a Sus. Uh. Should
be out at the end of this year. Runs Windows
supports game Pass feature seven inch to an ADP screen. Uh.
Not available yet, pricingly not available, but interested. I think
people are always interested when Xbox is attached to it,
even if it's just my name, because most of these
(30:57):
things can play cloud game like game Pass one that
everybody sleeps on, and I've wanted one since it came out,
but I can't justify it. I have a switch. I
don't need this thing. Also, you can play cloud games
and Xbox game passes on your phone, but I'm still
interested in this thing. It's the Logitech G Cloud handheld
(31:20):
a strictly cloud gaming. There's no cartridges, there's no games.
It's fine cloud gaming, remote play seven inch full HD
touch screen, a twelve plus hour battery life, optimized for
cloud gaming. I don't know. I think I think people
(31:42):
sleep on this thing. You can hook it up to
a TV play it like that. Runs Android eleven, which
is a plus because you can run emulators on there.
You know, if you could, you can do that. It's
not something that's in the the instructions. When you open
the box, you can. But you can play game Pass
(32:07):
games in Vidio g Force now all those titles available,
Xbox Remote Play, Steamlink, Moonlight. It runs Android games and
emulators from they're on the legit ones on Google play Store.
Sixty four gig storage that's expandable via micro OSDE snap
(32:28):
Dragon seven to twenty g processor optimized for low latency
and eight hundred plus megabits over high speed Wi Fi
and five gig connection. Does require Wi Fi for cloud gaming.
But here's the thing. Originally launched in twenty twenty two,
(32:51):
came out at three nine, but they can be had
for one and ninety five if you catch them on
sale on Amazon and best Buy. Uh. I think normally
they sit at three hundred, but they go on sale
on Xbox and best Buy all the time. You just
gotta look. Get it for one hundred ninety five. Look
at that thing. I even think I did like a
(33:14):
when it was announced. I did like an announcement review
in twenty two when Logitech announced this thing. I was
excited back then. I still haven't pulled the trigger. The
Logitech G Cloud's ideal for gamers interested and invested in cloud.
Like game Pass, everyone's switching to cloud gaming, you know,
(33:37):
all the big players, you know, especially with this last
gen Xbox, they offered a cloud only well not necessarily
cloud only, but discless. You know, that was supposed to
be the move to all cloud based gaming. What happened
to that? They were pushing so hard. It seems like
they're still pushing, but not as hard. Well, the g Cloud,
(34:00):
the Logitech g Cloud would be perfect for that, so
I don't I don't know. It's still sitting there one
hundred and ninety five. You can find it. I'd rather
have that than the switch to. I don't know, I
don't know, I don't know whatever. I really think that
thing would have blew up like switch but it didn't.
And it's strange, but you know what the switch to
did do for me? It reminded me that I have
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a switch and a switch light, and then I need
to charge my switch light, and I ordered a new
game for it. So thanks Nintendo to me. Five hundred
bucks is a little much for a Nintendo console, especially
considered other options that we went over. And it's last
gen hardware, and it's last gen hardware today, and it'll
be last gen hardware for years going forward. It just
(34:47):
gets older. You know, they don't come out with a
new one, a new console every year. Nintendo doesn't, that's
for sure. So do you want to pay five hundred
bucks for last gen? Now that's going to be you know,
five years older, six years, ten years older. Who knows?
It's a little much, I think. I guess. I've heard
(35:10):
that the switch tooth capability is comparable to the PS four.
You know, hey, nothing to sneeze at, of course, but
very last gen. But if you're Nintendo, when you have
a Mario franchise and millions of whiny kids begging for
a new thing, I guess Nintendo does alright. Now it's
(35:32):
time for sports this month. Lot's going on this month,
sixteen year old Quincy william Or Wilson became the youngest
American male track athlete to qualify for the Olympics. At
the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, he ran the
(35:52):
four hundred meters in a stunning forty four point five
nine seconds, breaking his own under eighteen world record and
earning him a spot in the US four by four
hundred relay team for the Paris Games. A high school
junior from Virginia, Wilson's meteoric rise inspired fans, with social
media buzzing about his fearless performance against season pros. His
(36:16):
story showcases were all talent and the power of youth
in sports. And that's going to do it for this
week in sports. All right, thanks, now back to you,
Craig in this week's quote of the Week is a
weird one, and I actually wrote this down months and
(36:37):
months ago just to say it, but I didn't want
to make it quote of the week and I'm tired
of looking at it on a sticky note. So it's
this week's quote of the week, and it's going to
be by anonymous because I don't know who originated it.
But the quote is quote, remember brushing your teeth is
the only time you clean your skeleton. In quote by
(36:58):
anonymous and I like that quote. It's creepy, it's weird,
but I like it. And all of a sudden, it's
time for sugar, so much sugar. Hey, this week's sugar
is sort of about me, guys, heck may sort of
be about you. Maybe it's definitely about your dad, because
(37:20):
this week's sugar. This is the history of Father's Day.
Father's Day in the United States has a rich history
that began in the early twentieth century, inspired by the
desire to honor fathers and their contributions to family and society,
much like Mother's Day that already existed. The idea for
Father's Day is often credited to Sonora Smart Dodd, a
(37:42):
woman from Spokane, Washington. In nineteen oh nine. Dodd was
inspired to create a day for fathers after hearing a
Mother's Day sermon at her church raised by her widowed father,
William Jackson. Smart, a Civil War veteran who single handedly
cared for her and her five siblings, wanted to recognize
the sacrifices and love of fathers. Dodd proposed a Father's
(38:06):
Day celebration to Spokane Ministerial Alliance and the YMCA. The
first Father's Day was observed locally in Spokane on June nineteenth,
nineteen ten, chosen to coincide with her father's birthday. The
event featured church sermons, and attendees wore roses red for
(38:27):
living fathers in white for deceased ones. The concept of
Father's Day gained tractions slowly as it faced skepticism and resistance.
For some reason, some viewed it as a commercial gimmick,
and others felt fathers didn't need a special day and
others can go well, I'm not gonna say what they
can do. Despite this, grassroots efforts by individuals, churches, and
(38:51):
civic groups helped spread the celebration in other cities in
the nineteen tens and the nineteen twenties. While Dodd is
most recognized founder, others proposed similar ideas independently. For example,
in nineteen oh eight, of West Virginia church held a
memorial service for three hundred and sixty two men killed
in a mining disaster, which some consider an early Father's
(39:14):
Day precursor. Additionally, Grace Golden Clayton is credited with suggesting
a day to honor fathers in Fairmont, was Virginia around
the same time. Father's Day gained momentum through political endorsements.
In nineteen sixteen, President Woodrow Wilson spoke at a Father's
Day event in Spokane, leading credibility to the holiday. In
(39:36):
nineteen twenty four, President Calvin Coolidge urged states to observe
Father's Day, calling for recognition of father's roles and strengthening
family bonds, though he stopped short of making it a
national holiday. By the nineteen thirties, retailers and manufacturers, particularly
those selling men's goods like ties, hats, and tobacco. You know,
(39:57):
the good stuff, embraced Father's Day, boosting its popularity by
also reinforcing criticisms of commercialization. The National Father's Day Committee,
formed in New York in nineteen thirty six, promoted the
holiday and countered these critiques by emphasizing its emotional significance.
(40:18):
Despite decades of celebration, Father's Day wasn't officially recognized until
nineteen seventy two, when President Richard Nixon signed a proclamation
making it a permanent national holiday observed on the third
Sunday in June. This followed years of advocacy, including congressional
resolutions and efforts by figures like Dodd, who lived to
(40:41):
see the holiday's national status before her death in nineteen
seventy eight. Father's Day traditions in the US including giving
gifts like tools, electronics, and ties, hosting family gatherings, and
expressing gratitude through cards and activities like barbecues or outings.
The holiday has also evolved honour not just biological fathers,
(41:05):
but also stepfather's, grandfathers, and other father figures, as it
should in my opinion. Father's Day inspired similar celebrations worldwide,
though dates and traditions vary. For example, Australia New Zealand
celebrated on the first Sunday in September, while Russia observes
Defender of the Fatherland Day OKAY on February twenty third,
(41:28):
which partly serves as a Father's Day. Like Mother's Day,
Father's Day has faced ongoing criticism for becoming overly commercialized.
It absolutely has, with pressure to buy gifts overshadowing its
original intent. However, many still focus on personal gestures to
honor fathers. In twenty twenty five, Father's Day was celebrated
(41:51):
on June fifteenth, the third Sunday of the month, continuing
its tradition of recognizing paternal contribution. The holiday remains a
blend of heartfelt appreciation commercial activity, with families across the
US marking the occasion through gifts, quality time, and tributes
to father's roles in their lives. Happy belated Father's Day everyone.
(42:17):
It's a special day. And that's why Father's Day is
this week's sugar And there went episode one ninety. Yeah
they could be. Hey, I heard a news story. Can't
remember what state. My sister actually send it to me
because I have a story. It's almost similar to this. Uh,
(42:39):
there was a vehicle that rolled over in a crash
because there was a cicada inside. They freaked out and
crashed the car. Anyway, Uh, thanks for listening and watching,
you guys, if you even watch, I gotta tell that
cicada story one of these days. I have story for everything.
That's a good one. I will tell it. Remind me.
(43:01):
Thanks for listening, Thanks for watching. You can watch on
my Rumbo channel. You can watch me record this thing
do it all and it's weird, so awkward. Also, back
those up on Odyssey if you want to check out
Odyssey dot com, check out that channel. The same thing,
it's just a different spot. It's like a backup of
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(43:21):
it every Tuesday around six thirty pm Central Standard time
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Suicide and Crisis Lifeline that's toll free and available twenty
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You can even text it if you want. You know,
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not for you, for someone else. Have a great week. Everyone,
take care of yourself in one another as always. I'll
talk to you Tuesday. See people just walking in front
of it like we're not recording.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Hey, it happens to be where people. None of it's intentional.
Never attribute to malice. We can do contributed to inconfidence.
It's far more likely that they're all in their own worlds,
doing their own thing. They're not paying attention to the
world around them. And we all do it every day,
whether you're driving, walking down the street. All of our
lives are just as complex as everybody else's. Everything you
have going on, they have going on. Nobody knows what
(45:04):
everybody else is going through. We also need to be
a little more self aware and aware of the world
around us.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
That was deep.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
You gotta look deep to find the deep things. If
all you ever do in your life is stay at
the surface, you'll never find anything worth exploring.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Are you real? I try to be. Are you a AI? No,
not at all.
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