June 23, 2025 • 39 mins
- US Airstrikes on Iran is weighing on many people back home in the Los Angeles area.
- Do you think this is a one and done situation... Iran knows better... or is this just the beginning?
- Operation Midnight Hammer.
- Do you think this is a one and done situation... Iran knows better... or is this just the beginning?
- Operation Midnight Hammer.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey good append they're my friends.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Chris Merrill I AM six forty on demand anytime and
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Crosier cro missed you, buddy. Nice to have you on
the program. It's funny. I start talking to Krozier and
he just leaves me. Thanks, buddy, appreciate you. Just left
your hanging like that.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, that was a little, uh, a little awkward, but
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
So we started bombing around. So what does that? What
does that mean to us? I don't have any idea, Honestly,
I don't think any of us do. What is the
what is the end of it? So, in fact, that's
our talk back today. If you're on the iHeartRadio app,
just click on that talkback button. And the question is
do you think this is a one and done situation
like Iran knows better?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Or is this just the beginning.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I made mention to Gary Hoffman who popped in for
a couple of hours to do a special and thank
you to Gary for that.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I love hearing Gary, and I know he.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Works too damn hard and he did an extra shift today,
so I appreciate him.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Doing that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
My concern, and this is what I was talking Gary about.
My concern is not necessarily immediate retaliation. I think Iran
is more concerned with Israel. Obviously they're not happy about
US being involved in things, but I think their focus
is still with Israel. Sure, they could potentially target US
servicemen and women abroad, perhaps in the Middle East, but
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ultimately I think that their focus remains Israel. But they
don't have a short attention span. They will play the
long game. And so my worry is not today, tomorrow,
this week, this month. Even My concern is what happens
down the road, what happens if they do end up
with nuclear capabilities.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
We've had the last.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
See Biden, Trump, Obama, and then before that, obviously George W.
Bush was concerned too with Iran's nuclear capabilities. Obama got
the nuclear treaty into effect. That was the thing that
John Carey was so proud of that they got the
nuclear deal done with Iran, and then Trump rolled it back.
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Now I don't know where you land politically.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
There was a deal in place, was I ran sticking
to the deal. That's what I don't know. You don't
know now you will say of course they were, or
of course they weren't, based on your own political preferences.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But the truth is, we don't know. We don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Trump rolled it back. He wanted to make sure that
they never got a nuclear weapon. He was afraid that
that Iran nuclear deal would allow them to enrich uranium
beyond capabilities. They do it in secret, and so on
and so forth. So he says, nope, you had no
deal at all. So he rolled back on that deal.
We know that they've been enriching since then. We think
that they've been enriching to try to get military grade uranium.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Is that a result of rolling back the deal? We
don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Again, I'm not even gonna speculate, because I just don't know,
and any speculation would come back.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
To I guess my own prejudices. But the truth is
we don't. We also don't know what the future is
gonna hold here.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I have this, I have this strong belief that the
United States does not drop these massive bunker buster bombs
on nuclear facilities in Iran without having another plan, without
having a step two. That's one of the things that
I've noticed from some of what we're witnessing in the
Middle East, especially when it comes to the the Iran
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supported groups Hamas, the Hutis, whomever it might be. They
don't seem to have a step two. So Hamas goes
through and they and they have this atrocious attack on
October seventh, and they and they they kill a thousand
people in Israel. They take all these hostages, and then
they go, yay, we did that, and now what, Oh,
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now we have to play defense. Now we have to
hide hostages and underground tunnels, and we have to run
them between hospitals and schools and hope that Israel doesn't bomb.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Right, they didn't have a step two.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I don't know how much Iran has a step two
beyond what we're seeing with their conflict with Israel. Israel
strikes the facilities, Iran strikes back. It just looks like
Iran is just throwing missiles without a whole lot of
strategy behind it. So I don't believe that the United
States military bombs and then goes, well, I guess we're
probably done. That'll be a Now we may sit back
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and wait and monitor situations and see if there's going
to be a retaliation, and then act accordingly, but I
got a feeling we've got a plan in place, which
is why I also think that Iran may have an
idea that retaliation is not a great plan right now.
We'll talk more about retaliation a little bit later on
of the show. So again on the talk back, do
you think this is a one and done situation like
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Iran knows better, or.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Is this just the beginning?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
As far as people in Southern California, there were reactions,
and I was interested to hear that some of the
reactions from Iranian people living here in southern California was
keep going, not just we're not disappointed, but we need
to do more.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And I thought, oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
In between bites of Bastani opinions about the escalating attacks
in Iram seem to roll off the tongue in Persian Square.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
What state did today is proll Iranian people, but against Ayatola,
which is great for us. You're very happy what happened today.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
All right, so support great.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
A number of people we spoke with are in favor
of the US bombing nuclear sites because they believe it
hurts the government there and not the people.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
I'm actually thankful about that. To President Trump. But at
the same time, the Iranian people inside of here, inside
I mean the States and outside, we were expecting a
regime change. We were expecting United States than Israel, help
us to get rid of the this you know, takestack
to regime ruth.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
See.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So the issue that they're having is not necessarily that
we bomb their home country because they're here and they're
not happy with that regime, and they don't like that regime.
That's why they're here in the first place. And so
they go, wait, you drop bombs, keep going, keep going,
find more, drop more bombs on more important people, change
the whole thing over. But if we did that, doesn't
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that put us in a very similar situation that we've
had in a number of other countries Iraq, Afghanistan, who
we've kind of been down this road right where we
take action and we go, oh, we're going to bring
about change, and then we do and it destabilizes and
then there's chaos afterward. So I think again, that's the
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scenario that President Trump.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Actually wants to avoid.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
That's kind of what he campaigned on this time around,
was he going to get us out of these endless wars.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And now we're getting involved here.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I don't think he wants to necessarily change that regime change,
because that puts US in another Middle East endless wars.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Bet for Hani Pout knows a little something about attempting
to overthrow the Iranian Islamic government.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
He tried it twenty six years ago.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Was a leader of the opposition groups inside Iran. I
manage and organize the people on the street, one hundred
thousand people on the street to try.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
To overthrow the regime.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
We didn't bomb the country, we didn't destroy the country.
We didn't invade another country. We didn't wide need international law.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He doesn't think the US needs to be involved in
a conflict between Iran and Israel, right, but.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
He does want that regime change.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
I don't know why the US should drag themselves in
the war between two other countries. That's what we do,
and I spent the taxpayers money other over there.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Oh, there's two question the need for US involvement at all,
even if Iran was close to nuclear capabilities.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
It's not just Baba just to go in and bomb
whatever country he wants to because they might have a weapon.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
But mostly they're worried about Yeah, listen, it's kind of
our whole history, I mean, the whole Iraq thing.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They might have weapons of mass destruction.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Now we're not even saying that we think they have
weapons of mass destruction. Now it's well, they might want
weapons of mass destruction.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
But mostly they're worried about family and friends there.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
For the past four days, there's no internet. I couldn't
even directly call my parents, couldn't do any tiktoks.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
While also keeping an eye closer to home in Los
Angeles and the largest Persian population in the US, my.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Main concern is my local community, Westwood. I love Westwood, LA.
I tried to make the LA and Westwood better place.
But at the same time, my heart is goes with
the people on the other side of the globe.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
We couldn't find anyone who was able to get in
touch with family after the US strikes, partially because of
the internet issues there and also because this attack happened
essentially in the middle of.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The night over there.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
They're hoping, if anything, to get in touch tomorrow morning
in Westwood. Tim Capudo, ABC seven Eye Witness News.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
All Right, so obviously some people here on the home
front that are concerned with their friends and family overseas.
But it sounds like largely the Iranian population here want
to want the whole regime changed there now, is that
Western influence probably probably, But the question is how much
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are we going to take on ourselves? So again, talkback.
If you're on the iHeartRadio app, you think this is
a one and done situation like Iran knows better, don't
screw with Uncle Sam?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Or is this just the beginning? Again?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
My fear is a year, two years, five, ten years
down the road. Rann doesn't forget. They just don't. And
also I don't know that they think, oh, this is
a bad idea to keep going after the United States.
The President said that would be a terrible mistake, But
(10:04):
I've seen a lot of terrible mistakes made by people
in the Middle East, like Hamas not a break move,
Hamas not working out well for you.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh, Krozer's back, Hey, Hey, now, hey, how about that guy?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's always nice to see Krozer. So I want your feedback.
I'm not you Krozer. If you're on the iHeart radio app,
do you think this is one undone situation like a
rand knows better?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Or is this just the beginning?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
We'll get your feedback and also talk about some other
things that are happening here, because let's not be distracted.
There's still an awful lot of crap going down in
southern California.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That is next.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Chris Merrill, I Am six forty were live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
There, Chris Merril, k if I AM six forty more
stimulating talk Calo.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
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not working? It's not opening the way I wanted to.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
I think it's maybe technology hates you, but here it is. Okay,
it's gonna work. Great, excellent, Okay, very good. Thank you
for fixing that. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Gotcha.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So the question is, if you're on the iHeartRadio app
just hit that talkback button. Do you think this is
a one and done situation this bombing in Iran? Is
in Iran knows better, They're not gonna they're not gonna retaliate,
or are you worried that this is just the beginning?
Speaker 11 (11:18):
Chris, I don't think this Iranian population in the United
States know what they're talking about. They should look at
what happened to Libya, Iraq, what happened to Afghanistan, all
that we did was to throw them in chaos. There
are no stability in these countries and people are starving
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by the day.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Is that what we want for Iran?
Speaker 11 (11:43):
Then let's go for Regima, but throw all right?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
There you go? Will there be more though?
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (11:50):
I think it's a one undone situation. I think our
biggest concern the United States was and then getting a
nuclear weapon because they could take out New York City
or Los Angeles or something to that effect. Yeah, now
that that capability is gone, I mean sad as it
might be to say, you know, maybe a few few
hundred here here and there, but they won't be able
to do the huge amount of damage they would and
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Iran's not gonna attack us because once again we can
pretty well do whatever we want there.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, I think that's that's probably the right calculus. That
Iran would not do such a thing because they know
that hell would rain down on them. But also Hamas
knew that hell was going to rain down on them,
and they still went out and did their attack on Israel.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Right, So this is where.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I mean, you're using logic which makes perfect sense to me,
But I don't know that the people.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
There are in that same mindset.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I think they almost look at look at it like
they have a responsibility to try to overthrow the West.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's I mean, that's.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Uh, that's where I am not convinced that things are
going to go super small smoothly, right because I'm just
I don't know what's going on in their minds.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Hi.
Speaker 13 (13:04):
This is David, Orange County. Hi, David, And my main
concern is I just hope our defense is as good
as our offense. Okay, And like I said, if you're
for it or against it, we just got to hope
we have a very good defense.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
All. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah, I appreciate that, David. I actually am pretty confident
in our defense. I'm pretty confident in our defense, and
I think we have a couple of things going for us.
First of all, Israel basically becomes.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
The front line for us. Right.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
So, as much as we did this because we don't
want Iran having a nuclear weapon, we want to support
Israel and trying to deter Iran from having a nuclear weapon,
and Israel sort of opened the door for us to
take action in Iran. Iran really has to get past Israel.
I mean physically, it has to get past Israel before
they can mess with us too much. And one of
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the things that has protected the United States, which is
why World War Two was such a surprise, was those oceans.
I mean, the coastlines are massive defensive obstacles for anyone
to get over if they want to do damage to us.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Now, I understand we live in a different world where if.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
You can sneak a suitcase bomb across the border, then
you then you're in business. And it's a little bit
different than obviously what it was in years past. But
I still think that for any sort of a large
scale attack, Iran would have a very difficult time.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Completing that task.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
That said, what if it's not a large scale attack,
What if it is someone who decides I'm going to
go raise havoc at the Olympics next year. Right, that's
my concern, and David, I'm with you. I hope our
defense is as good as our offense. I have seen
a number of stories here about potential sleepers that are
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in the United States, and then part of me is
intrigued by that.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Part of me goes, oh.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
My gosh, they're sleeper cells everywhere and they could do
horrible things to us, and all they have to do
is be activated, and and and and we've got to
We've got terrorists living amongst us, and we've got ideologus
who are willing to die for Iran living amongst us, and.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It freaks me out.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
But then I think, how much of this is cloak
and dagger stuff? How much of this is actually happening,
and how much of this is our imagination's running wild?
And I know, I know that there are experts that say, oh, yeah,
they're sleeper cells, and it might be, but how many
are there really and how easy is it to activate
a sleeper cell? And if there is a sleeper cell,
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what does that even mean? Does that mean that there
is that there's a bingo hall full of terrorists somewhere
who are stocking up right now, they're like, Wow, we
better check and load our weapons and get ready to go.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Who's got that suitcase bomb? Is that you got that?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Bad?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Great?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
See I don't I don't know what that looks like.
And so part of what I have to weigh here
as we consider the conversations about this, how much of
my naivitae plays into my fear?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Right? I think what you.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Said, David is spot on. I hope that our defense
is as good as our offense. And hope is the
only thing I have because I just don't know. I
have trust in the people that have been doing this
for their entire lives. I have trust that they are
thinking step two, step three, step four, that they are
four or five moves ahead, that they go this is
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our contingency. If we see this, This is the contingency
if we see that, this is what we do, if
we see this. I got to believe that there's a
massive playbook laying out there, and that our generals and
our admirals have that all laid out.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And I'm pretty confident in that.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
But what I'm not confident and is myself because I
just don't know, and I'm afraid that that fear leads
me to, you know, my naavite leads me to an
anxiety that may or may not be justified. Before we uh,
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before we screwed ahead on this, I wanted to bring
I wanted to bring up one other little oh Am,
I short on time. All right, I'll tell you I
got one other thing that I just wanted to point
out here, and h okay, we'll get it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
We'll get it. We'll do that in a minute here,
because this is if.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
There's one thing the United States is really good at,
it's this. I'll tell you what that is coming up
here in just a few moments. Chris Merril AM six
forty were live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and on
that app. Do you think there's a one and done
situation is in? Iran knows better? Or are you worried
that this is just the beginning.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk on
demand anytime the I Heart or radio app, where we're
asking if you hit that talk back button, do you
think this a one and done situation is in?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Iran knows better? When it comes to the bombing the United.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
States three nuclear sites using our bunker buster bombs, and
ran smartly was taking care of their you know, their
nuclear enrichment deep inside of a mountain, and the only
thing that could reach that, aside from a nuclear weapon
of our own, would be this massive bunker buster bomb.
And I guess we're the only ones that had these things.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And they're massive, they're.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Huge, thirty thousand pounds each and they are meant to
drill through two hundred feet of concrete, so they get
the job done. One of the things that the United
States is really good at, I mean militarily, we've been
very good at everything we set out to do. Militarily,
we have not been so good at after the war, right,
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Afghanistan kind of dragged out because we went in and
we go, cool, this is what we're doing, boom, and
then we go what's our exit strategy?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I don't know. So that's where certainly there is room
for improvement.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
As my elementary school teacher would say on my report card,
as far as the military operations.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I mean we're pretty good. We're pretty pretty damn good.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
So there is something else when it comes to these
military operations that I think the United States is better
than anybody, and that is naming them. Kayla, if I
told you the United States military is about to carry
out Operation Midnight Hammer, you got to be like, yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Yeah, I'd be terrified of that. That's that's a really
great name, an awesome name.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I think, so Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Ah, it's the emphasis on hammer. I think the way
you say it makes it cooler than the Yeah, yeah,
that's awesome sounds like yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I mean it's either a military operation or it's a
low budget porn but either way, Operations Midnight Hammer. I
love it so much, all right? From the talkbacks. If
you're on the iHeartRadio app to hit that talkback button.
You think it's a one and done situation and Iran
knows better than to retaliate, or perhaps just the beginning
your thoughts.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Okay, Chris, The reason Trump did this, okay, is because
his polling numbers are so low. He's desperate to do
something to increase them. He doesn't care about anybody except him,
so so this is a chance for him to increase
his polling numbers. That's all it's about, all right, all right.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I don't know if I agree that it's what it's
all about. But uh, wasn't that the whole plot of
Canadian Bacon? Did you ever see that that John Candy movie?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I can't say I have. Oh you've seen Sam, Yeah, didn't.
Wasn't Reap Perlman in that? I know?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Alan Alda played the president who was failing and they
decided that they needed to invade Canada to help his polling.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Reappelman came in.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I think she was an American cop from the town
that they were all at, and she was the most
like well armed, ballistic girl in the world.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It was great. It's a great movie. It's a lot
of fun.
Speaker 14 (20:59):
Yeah, hey, Chris, I don't think it's a one and done,
but I do think any of the follow up things
we do will be limited in scope. Okay, the bigger
issue in the coming years is China invading Taiwan, and
if anything, this strike shows China that were capable of
reaching out and touching you anytime, anywhere.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, okay, let me take a moment process that here.
Let me just think out loud.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I don't know if China cares.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
There's a big difference between Iran, who doesn't have nuclear
capabilities and has ninety two million people, which I learned
this week from Tucker Carlson. Ninety two million people in Iran,
pretty decent sized country, but China one and a half
billion people with nuclear capabilities and kind of their own
choke hold on the economy. And I understand that Iran
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has a bit of a choke hold on the oil production,
but certainly we can find that elsewhere. I don't know
how much this intimidates China, because I think China would
be willing to say that we will not take military action.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
To defend Taiwan. I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I don't think that the administration would want to take
military action to defend Taiwan.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Not this administration.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I think that this administration would go, oh, that's a
war that we don't need to be a part of.
And it's not like Taiwan is this long decade's old
ally as Israel is. And I don't know, I don't know.
I guess in the words of the president, we'll have
to wait and see. Right, all right, next, all right?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Question?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You think there's the one and done? Or does Iran
no better? Excuse me as in Irano is better? Or
is this just the beginning? Interesting take on the whole
China thing.
Speaker 15 (22:53):
Though, does some lunatics thinks they're going to get their
seventy two virgins when they bite the dust, so they
don't even care?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
All right? So does it round? Thank you, you're welcome,
Thank you very much.
Speaker 10 (23:08):
Appreciate that that one's looked at the cracks. But he
said thank you, and that was very nice.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That was great. I appreciate the platens.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Hey Chris Hey, operation Hammer, Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You know, nobody ever calls me for voiceover work. It's
the weirdest thing.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
You can't forget the midnight part. Maybe that's why operation
Hammer sounds crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Operation midnight Hammer.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
There you go, Tony in Orange County.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Hey, Tony, I'm not.
Speaker 15 (23:36):
For forever wars either, but one thing that comes to
mind is we've been attacked by Iran and there their
representatives or whatever you.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Call that, proxies. Yeah, over twenty.
Speaker 13 (23:48):
Times in the past, so goodness, I mean that may
be much, but at least fifteen times over.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
The past twenty years, and we've held back.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I hope this is a one and done.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I help so too, And there is I mean, I
get your point if they've attacked the military bases, if
they've done, and you're right, but there is a difference,
and we know this through the Cold War. There is
a difference between attacks by proxies on remote stations versus
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direct attacks on the homeland. And I know you're gonna say, well,
you're splitting hairs. Don't argue, you're just splitting You're not
wrong in everything that you said, but we do know again,
we saw this during the Cold War where it would
have been a different situation if in Korea, for instance,
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Russia had attacked US, or.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Vietnam had Russia attacked US.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Right, those are all proxy battles that went on, similar
to our support of Afghanistan and Iraq in the night
teen eighties.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
There's a proxy situation.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
And so when you're talking about proxies versus direct to
the country, I do think it's a it's.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
An escalation that is not not a straight comparison.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Is that.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Nobody said anything so far tonight that I think is
dead wrong? Right? I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I don't think anybody has said anything that I vehemently
disagree with. Have you heard anything that makes you go no,
it's dumb?
Speaker 10 (25:26):
Well, maybe the seventy two virgins thing, But other than that,
anything's possible today, which.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I don't know enough about the religion, and I don't
know enough about the whole seventy two virgins thing. I
know that's something that we've talked about for the last
thirty years. But at some point, I mean, do they
have to stay virgins?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
How does that work? I genuinely don't know. How does
that work.
Speaker 10 (25:54):
I I'll get on I'll get on bing and see
what I can try. Yeah, I'll let you know.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You get seventy two virgins and then.
Speaker 16 (26:02):
What Hi, Chris, Hey, I just wanted to tell you.
I think that you're being a little naive.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
The story of my life. Go ahead, curious how this
is going to play out? All right? Go ahead.
Speaker 16 (26:15):
Most of the really good people in the military and
the intelligence community I haven't gotten rid of because of
the paranoia of the people at the top in our government.
I think the worst is yet to come, and I
think that this will only give more power to our president.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Yeah, maybe I'm blind, Maybe I'm being naive. Maybe I'm
comfortable in my naivete.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Wow, that's deep. I'm gonna need a shrink to ward
me through that one. I'm not so sure.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I I don't know that we've gotten rid of everybody
that's worth a damn. And maybe I just don't think
we've gotten rid of everybody that's worth a damn.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Now, maybe some people.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Have been gotten rid of because of ideology, and some
are going to be loyal to this president, but I
think that they're still quite capable. Perhaps I'm completely off
base on them. I'm not quite so sure that it's
doom and gloom as far as that goes, all right,
is it a one and done situation, is in Iran
knows better or is this just the beginning. The President
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has said retaliation would not be a good plan at all.
In fact, here's what he had to say about.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
What we've seen today is this very coordinated response from
the White House and from several cabinet secretaries and from
the Vice President to deliver I think one really key
message to the Iranian regime. The phrase terrible mistake has
been used by all of these people. It's the message
to Iran not to retaliate, that the administration believes Iran
needs to take this one on the chin and then
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resume negotiations, or as you and the General were just discussing,
face more severe military consequences. We talked about this earlier
in the hour. The two somewhat contradictory promises that President
Trump has made both to and Iran's nuclear weapons program
and keep the US out of four Wars. For that,
he's going to need some degree of cooperation on Iran,
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some willingness to come back to the table, and the
administration seems to be very publicly making that case that's
the best outcome for the Iranians as well as for
the US.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
At this hour, we thank you for watching and remember
stay updated.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I appreciate that who's in charge of editing this audio,
Kaila to get rid of all that crap at the
end was terrible.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I like your attitude makes me sad.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
All right, you think it's a one of done situation
or is this just the beginning. I'll reiterate what I
said earlier. My take, My initial take is I'm not
so concerned with things right now. I think Iran is
sort of reeling and dealing with what's going on with Israel.
My concern is down the road. They do not have
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short memories and very long memories, and and I'm afraid, worried,
and again maybe naivete that that's something down the line,
perhaps World Cup, perhaps Olympics, perhaps just random day, maybe
a random Tuesday in September.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Is the last time we got attacked on home soil?
Speaker 14 (29:19):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
That's my concern, that's my bigger worry. And as one
gentleman put it earlier, hopefully our defense is as good
as our offense. And God, I sure hope you're right.
There was protests scheduled downtown today. You'll notice, No, we
don't have any live streams of Flaming Waymos yet. Right,
(29:40):
So I think we're I mean, we seem to be
doing a little bit better. A guy that was there,
Michael Monks, joins us in just a few moments to
find out just how protesting the protest got. That's next,
Chris Merrill, I am six forty were live everywhere in
the iHeart Radio app. Forty more talk on demand anytime
in the iHeart Radio appre question you, if you're listening
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on the app, hit that talk back button. Do you
think this is a one and done situation with Iran?
Isn't they know better They're not going to retaliate? Or
are you concerned that this is just the beginning your thoughts?
Speaker 17 (30:13):
The guy who called in about Trump's polling numbers is
completely wrong. Oh okay, Trump's polling number is fifty four percent.
Unlike Newscombe, who is ruining our city, is that twenty
one percent? Democrats are finished, like you ran, We dropped
the bomb on you, and we are done here now.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Okay, all right, so okay, let's let's kind to keep
it on topic.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Okay, all right, sounds good. No, my team, no, my team. No,
let I do that.
Speaker 18 (30:50):
Chris, the person who just called talking about President Trump
doing this for his polling numbers. Hate to break it
to that guy, but President Trump won the election and
he is our president, and he is awesome.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Okay, all right, very good. Yeah, you know it is interesting.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
And this is one of the things I think about
with President Trump is that you've got you've got Tucker Carlson,
You've got uh, Steve Bannon, You've got.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Marjorie Taylor Green.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
These are these are the most maga magas of of
all and they're not happy that he got involved. They're isolationists.
One of the reasons they pushed him for president is
because of his isolationist policies. And then you've got more
traditional Republicans who are all excited about doing something with
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with Iran, like John McCain. I know he's dead, but
remember that was his whole thing, right, you know, each
boys song Bambarran. So now you've got Donald Trump, McCain,
(32:05):
that's that's a very peculiar bedfellow.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Now and Mitch McConnell's.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Like this is great, and and you've got Mike Pence
that are like this is this was the right move.
So your establishment Republicans are happy about this, You're you're
more traditional Magas are not. So I think it's interesting
to hear people calling up and saying, oh, he's a
great president, he's the best president ever, and this is,
this is and I go, but how do you feel
(32:30):
about the action? That's what I want to know. Are
you happy that he did this? Are you happy that
he followed the establishment Republican route or are you disappointed
that he went against Maga?
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Right?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I mean, if you're not.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
A Trump supporter, I get it you don't like new
sum and and and Trump can do no wrong. But
at some point are you agreeing with everything that he does,
even if everything he does is all the reasons that
you voted for him against a different Republican.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
In the first place. Right, there's my worry.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Michael Monks is our intrepid reporter who whenever there's somebody
with a pepper bowl gun, we send Michael Monks out.
And so we did that again today protest scheduled downtown. Michael,
good news you and I didn't have to do a
lot of coverage of Waymo's on fire.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Not today. It was pretty calm.
Speaker 19 (33:21):
I mean, there was certainly a protest downtown, maybe even
a couple, but no tear gas and mostly calm.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
So what was the difference then, Was it just quantity
of people?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Were they not worked up? Were they more organized? What's
the difference?
Speaker 19 (33:37):
Well, think about what the topic is at hand today.
It's the bombing of Iran, and there's a lot of
people who don't want to see US military action in Iran.
But it's a bit more complicated, perhaps than you know,
immigration enforcement, for example, which seems to enrage people in
a way that other topics haven't. Iran is just a
more complicated topic. You've got people on both parties who
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have long, long said Iran should not have nuclear capabilities,
and this was a bombing that was in response to
that sentiment. This group that protested in downtown Los Angeles
today are also folks who protested last week as part
of the No Kings protests across the country and the
big one right here in Los Angeles. They do not
(34:20):
want to see further escalation, They don't want to see
official war with Iran. There are about fifty people who
joined together outside Los Angeles City Hall. They had signs
to that effect, chance to that effect, a lot of
anti Trump sentiment in general, but mostly it was just
about peace, no war, and so it did not seem
to trigger the type of response that we've seen to
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the immigration enforcement here locally.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Are you starting to see sort of a conflation of
all the protesters? In other words, do we have sort
of a protest du jure? And everyone goes, what are
we protesting today? No kings, Oh it's bombing around, Oh
it's immigration. In other words, is it just the same
group that just wants to protest this administration?
Speaker 19 (35:01):
I thought there was an interesting scene unfolding as this
protest was starting to wind down and people were starting
to pack up to leave. A I don't know, an
entrepreneurial or opportunist street vendor showed up selling flags, and
I thought, I wonder which flag is the big seller today,
because you see different flags of these protests. A lot
(35:22):
of American flags at today's protests, showing their version of patriotism,
that piece is patriotic. That sort of messaging was definitely
going on today. But we've seen people over the past
year waving Palestinian flags, now a lot of Mexican flags
and other Latin American flags, and now Iranian flags, and
I thought, huh, it's an interesting time to be in
(35:42):
the street vending flag business because it does seem to
change a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah. Boy, we missed the boat on that one. We
should have been we should have been investing in that. Yeah.
Speaker 19 (35:53):
But to answer your question further, there there were some
mixed messages or maybe not mixed in in terms of
communication efficacy, but there was a mixture of messages today. Obviously,
the main theme was we don't want war with Iran
among this group that showed up in downtown LA But
(36:13):
there were some speakers who talked about Gaza, there were
some speakers who talked about healthcare, and there were people
who talked about other Trump policies. But again, for the
most part, it was war with Iran, we don't want that,
and it just did not seem to inflame the passions
that immigration or even Palestine.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Dous with all of the Michael Monks, as our reporter
who who's been covering the protests because we could afford
his bus fair to get there.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Michael, with all of the different things.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
That people are protesting, is that having sort of a delusion,
diluting it's a word effect on some of the protests.
In other words, when it was an immigration protest, everyone
was there about immigration. There were some people waving Palestinian flags.
I remember when I were talking about that, but for
the most part it was people who were whether it
was waving the Mexican flag or that split Mexican slash
(37:04):
US flag that we discussed a couple of weekends ago.
It seemed that it was like, this is all about, Uh,
we don't like the immigration policies, we don't like having
ice showing up at the home.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Depot parking lots. That sort of thing seemed different.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
But now you're talking healthcare, obviously, immigration, Palestine, Iran, all
these different thing they all at some point, is there fatigue?
Do you feel like that maybe starts to set in?
Speaker 19 (37:30):
I asked one of the organizers that is, how do
you stay on message? How do you keep your folks
energized when there has been so much that has irritated
you enough to come out in numbers to protest. And
as far as this anti war sentiment goes, he says,
that's in the early stages. That's a growing part of
the movement, that's certainly part of it, but just from
(37:53):
a media consumption standpoint.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
You know, if you want.
Speaker 19 (37:56):
Folks to get on your side, your message really has
to be clear. And there are just so many issues
right now. It can all be lumped towards Trump certainly,
as it always is against whoever is in the White House.
So there's that unifying theme that these are folks who
are against President Trump. But even today with this anti
war messaging, I heard from at least one speaker who
(38:18):
spoke against the Democratic Party and their role in all
of this. So it was a very confusing message. So
as long as there is any movement, whether it's against
the immigration enforcement or in favor of Palestinians or against
war with Iran, but you see this diversity of messages
and physical campaign items like flags, it can be a
(38:41):
bit confusing for the average guy.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Yeah, I think you make some great points. I think
the Democrats are confused too. I'll talk a little bit
more about their messaging here in a minute. Michael Monks,
thank you so much, my friend. Thank you for working
the overtime too.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
We appreciate that. Always a pleasure, Chris, Thanks all right, buddy,
All right.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Michael Monk's incredible CAFI reporter was downtown covering the test today. Unfortunately,
no way moos were hurt in today's protest. As I mentioned,
there is mixed messaging coming from the Democrats right now.
One thing they don't seem to be saying is bombing
Iran was a bad idea. In fact, they're really trying
(39:17):
to They're really trying to get all nuanced in how
they're disagreeing with the president.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
This time around.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
More on that and your thoughts. You think this is
a one and done situation in Iran? Is in they
know better? Or are you afraid this might be just
the beginning of a prolonged conflict that's next. Chris merrill
I Am six forty were live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Crosier cro missed you, buddy. Nice to have you on
the program. It's funny. I start talking to Krozier and
he just leaves me. Thanks, buddy, appreciate you. Just left
your hanging like that.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, that was a little, uh, a little awkward, but
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
So we started bombing around. So what does that? What
does that mean to us? I don't have any idea, Honestly,
I don't think any of us do. What is the
what is the end of it? So, in fact, that's
our talk back today. If you're on the iHeartRadio app,
just click on that talkback button. And the question is
do you think this is a one and done situation
like Iran knows better?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Or is this just the beginning.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I made mention to Gary Hoffman who popped in for
a couple of hours to do a special and thank
you to Gary for that.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I love hearing Gary, and I know he.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Works too damn hard and he did an extra shift today,
so I appreciate him.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Doing that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
My concern, and this is what I was talking Gary about.
My concern is not necessarily immediate retaliation. I think Iran
is more concerned with Israel. Obviously they're not happy about
US being involved in things, but I think their focus
is still with Israel. Sure, they could potentially target US
servicemen and women abroad, perhaps in the Middle East, but
(01:32):
ultimately I think that their focus remains Israel. But they
don't have a short attention span. They will play the
long game. And so my worry is not today, tomorrow,
this week, this month. Even My concern is what happens
down the road, what happens if they do end up
with nuclear capabilities.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
We've had the last.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
See Biden, Trump, Obama, and then before that, obviously George W.
Bush was concerned too with Iran's nuclear capabilities. Obama got
the nuclear treaty into effect. That was the thing that
John Carey was so proud of that they got the
nuclear deal done with Iran, and then Trump rolled it back.
(02:18):
Now I don't know where you land politically.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
There was a deal in place, was I ran sticking
to the deal. That's what I don't know. You don't
know now you will say of course they were, or
of course they weren't, based on your own political preferences.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But the truth is, we don't know. We don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Trump rolled it back. He wanted to make sure that
they never got a nuclear weapon. He was afraid that
that Iran nuclear deal would allow them to enrich uranium
beyond capabilities. They do it in secret, and so on
and so forth. So he says, nope, you had no
deal at all. So he rolled back on that deal.
We know that they've been enriching since then. We think
that they've been enriching to try to get military grade uranium.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Is that a result of rolling back the deal? We
don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Again, I'm not even gonna speculate, because I just don't know,
and any speculation would come back.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
To I guess my own prejudices. But the truth is
we don't. We also don't know what the future is
gonna hold here.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I have this, I have this strong belief that the
United States does not drop these massive bunker buster bombs
on nuclear facilities in Iran without having another plan, without
having a step two. That's one of the things that
I've noticed from some of what we're witnessing in the
Middle East, especially when it comes to the the Iran
(03:40):
supported groups Hamas, the Hutis, whomever it might be. They
don't seem to have a step two. So Hamas goes
through and they and they have this atrocious attack on
October seventh, and they and they they kill a thousand
people in Israel. They take all these hostages, and then
they go, yay, we did that, and now what, Oh,
(04:04):
now we have to play defense. Now we have to
hide hostages and underground tunnels, and we have to run
them between hospitals and schools and hope that Israel doesn't bomb.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Right, they didn't have a step two.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I don't know how much Iran has a step two
beyond what we're seeing with their conflict with Israel. Israel
strikes the facilities, Iran strikes back. It just looks like
Iran is just throwing missiles without a whole lot of
strategy behind it. So I don't believe that the United
States military bombs and then goes, well, I guess we're
probably done. That'll be a Now we may sit back
(04:37):
and wait and monitor situations and see if there's going
to be a retaliation, and then act accordingly, but I
got a feeling we've got a plan in place, which
is why I also think that Iran may have an
idea that retaliation is not a great plan right now.
We'll talk more about retaliation a little bit later on
of the show. So again on the talk back, do
you think this is a one and done situation like
(04:59):
Iran knows better, or.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Is this just the beginning?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
As far as people in Southern California, there were reactions,
and I was interested to hear that some of the
reactions from Iranian people living here in southern California was
keep going, not just we're not disappointed, but we need
to do more.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And I thought, oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
In between bites of Bastani opinions about the escalating attacks
in Iram seem to roll off the tongue in Persian Square.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
What state did today is proll Iranian people, but against Ayatola,
which is great for us. You're very happy what happened today.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
All right, so support great.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
A number of people we spoke with are in favor
of the US bombing nuclear sites because they believe it
hurts the government there and not the people.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
I'm actually thankful about that. To President Trump. But at
the same time, the Iranian people inside of here, inside
I mean the States and outside, we were expecting a
regime change. We were expecting United States than Israel, help
us to get rid of the this you know, takestack
to regime ruth.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
See.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So the issue that they're having is not necessarily that
we bomb their home country because they're here and they're
not happy with that regime, and they don't like that regime.
That's why they're here in the first place. And so
they go, wait, you drop bombs, keep going, keep going,
find more, drop more bombs on more important people, change
the whole thing over. But if we did that, doesn't
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that put us in a very similar situation that we've
had in a number of other countries Iraq, Afghanistan, who
we've kind of been down this road right where we
take action and we go, oh, we're going to bring
about change, and then we do and it destabilizes and
then there's chaos afterward. So I think again, that's the
(06:52):
scenario that President Trump.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Actually wants to avoid.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
That's kind of what he campaigned on this time around,
was he going to get us out of these endless wars.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And now we're getting involved here.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I don't think he wants to necessarily change that regime change,
because that puts US in another Middle East endless wars.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Bet for Hani Pout knows a little something about attempting
to overthrow the Iranian Islamic government.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
He tried it twenty six years ago.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Was a leader of the opposition groups inside Iran. I
manage and organize the people on the street, one hundred
thousand people on the street to try.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
To overthrow the regime.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
We didn't bomb the country, we didn't destroy the country.
We didn't invade another country. We didn't wide need international law.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He doesn't think the US needs to be involved in
a conflict between Iran and Israel, right, but.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
He does want that regime change.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
I don't know why the US should drag themselves in
the war between two other countries. That's what we do,
and I spent the taxpayers money other over there.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Oh, there's two question the need for US involvement at all,
even if Iran was close to nuclear capabilities.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
It's not just Baba just to go in and bomb
whatever country he wants to because they might have a weapon.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
But mostly they're worried about Yeah, listen, it's kind of
our whole history, I mean, the whole Iraq thing.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They might have weapons of mass destruction.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Now we're not even saying that we think they have
weapons of mass destruction. Now it's well, they might want
weapons of mass destruction.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
But mostly they're worried about family and friends there.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
For the past four days, there's no internet. I couldn't
even directly call my parents, couldn't do any tiktoks.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
While also keeping an eye closer to home in Los
Angeles and the largest Persian population in the US, my.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Main concern is my local community, Westwood. I love Westwood, LA.
I tried to make the LA and Westwood better place.
But at the same time, my heart is goes with
the people on the other side of the globe.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
We couldn't find anyone who was able to get in
touch with family after the US strikes, partially because of
the internet issues there and also because this attack happened
essentially in the middle of.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The night over there.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
They're hoping, if anything, to get in touch tomorrow morning
in Westwood. Tim Capudo, ABC seven Eye Witness News.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
All Right, so obviously some people here on the home
front that are concerned with their friends and family overseas.
But it sounds like largely the Iranian population here want
to want the whole regime changed there now, is that
Western influence probably probably, But the question is how much
(09:29):
are we going to take on ourselves? So again, talkback.
If you're on the iHeartRadio app, you think this is
a one and done situation like Iran knows better, don't
screw with Uncle Sam?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Or is this just the beginning? Again?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
My fear is a year, two years, five, ten years
down the road. Rann doesn't forget. They just don't. And
also I don't know that they think, oh, this is
a bad idea to keep going after the United States.
The President said that would be a terrible mistake, But
(10:04):
I've seen a lot of terrible mistakes made by people
in the Middle East, like Hamas not a break move,
Hamas not working out well for you.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh, Krozer's back, Hey, Hey, now, hey, how about that guy?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's always nice to see Krozer. So I want your feedback.
I'm not you Krozer. If you're on the iHeart radio app,
do you think this is one undone situation like a
rand knows better?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Or is this just the beginning?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
We'll get your feedback and also talk about some other
things that are happening here, because let's not be distracted.
There's still an awful lot of crap going down in
southern California.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That is next.
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Speaker 10 (10:54):
I think it's maybe technology hates you, but here it is. Okay,
it's gonna work. Great, excellent, Okay, very good. Thank you
for fixing that. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Gotcha.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So the question is, if you're on the iHeartRadio app
just hit that talkback button. Do you think this is
a one and done situation this bombing in Iran? Is
in Iran knows better, They're not gonna they're not gonna retaliate,
or are you worried that this is just the beginning?
Speaker 11 (11:18):
Chris, I don't think this Iranian population in the United
States know what they're talking about. They should look at
what happened to Libya, Iraq, what happened to Afghanistan, all
that we did was to throw them in chaos. There
are no stability in these countries and people are starving
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by the day.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Is that what we want for Iran?
Speaker 11 (11:43):
Then let's go for Regima, but throw all right?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
There you go? Will there be more though?
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (11:50):
I think it's a one undone situation. I think our
biggest concern the United States was and then getting a
nuclear weapon because they could take out New York City
or Los Angeles or something to that effect. Yeah, now
that that capability is gone, I mean sad as it
might be to say, you know, maybe a few few
hundred here here and there, but they won't be able
to do the huge amount of damage they would and
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Iran's not gonna attack us because once again we can
pretty well do whatever we want there.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, I think that's that's probably the right calculus. That
Iran would not do such a thing because they know
that hell would rain down on them. But also Hamas
knew that hell was going to rain down on them,
and they still went out and did their attack on Israel.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Right, So this is where.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I mean, you're using logic which makes perfect sense to me,
But I don't know that the people.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
There are in that same mindset.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I think they almost look at look at it like
they have a responsibility to try to overthrow the West.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's I mean, that's.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Uh, that's where I am not convinced that things are
going to go super small smoothly, right because I'm just
I don't know what's going on in their minds.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Hi.
Speaker 13 (13:04):
This is David, Orange County. Hi, David, And my main
concern is I just hope our defense is as good
as our offense. Okay, And like I said, if you're
for it or against it, we just got to hope
we have a very good defense.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
All. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah, I appreciate that, David. I actually am pretty confident
in our defense. I'm pretty confident in our defense, and
I think we have a couple of things going for us.
First of all, Israel basically becomes.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
The front line for us. Right.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
So, as much as we did this because we don't
want Iran having a nuclear weapon, we want to support
Israel and trying to deter Iran from having a nuclear weapon,
and Israel sort of opened the door for us to
take action in Iran. Iran really has to get past Israel.
I mean physically, it has to get past Israel before
they can mess with us too much. And one of
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the things that has protected the United States, which is
why World War Two was such a surprise, was those oceans.
I mean, the coastlines are massive defensive obstacles for anyone
to get over if they want to do damage to us.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Now, I understand we live in a different world where if.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
You can sneak a suitcase bomb across the border, then
you then you're in business. And it's a little bit
different than obviously what it was in years past. But
I still think that for any sort of a large
scale attack, Iran would have a very difficult time.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Completing that task.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
That said, what if it's not a large scale attack,
What if it is someone who decides I'm going to
go raise havoc at the Olympics next year. Right, that's
my concern, and David, I'm with you. I hope our
defense is as good as our offense. I have seen
a number of stories here about potential sleepers that are
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in the United States, and then part of me is
intrigued by that.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Part of me goes, oh.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
My gosh, they're sleeper cells everywhere and they could do
horrible things to us, and all they have to do
is be activated, and and and and we've got to
We've got terrorists living amongst us, and we've got ideologus
who are willing to die for Iran living amongst us, and.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
It freaks me out.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
But then I think, how much of this is cloak
and dagger stuff? How much of this is actually happening,
and how much of this is our imagination's running wild?
And I know, I know that there are experts that say, oh, yeah,
they're sleeper cells, and it might be, but how many
are there really and how easy is it to activate
a sleeper cell? And if there is a sleeper cell,
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what does that even mean? Does that mean that there
is that there's a bingo hall full of terrorists somewhere
who are stocking up right now, they're like, Wow, we
better check and load our weapons and get ready to go.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Who's got that suitcase bomb? Is that you got that?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Bad?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Great?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
See I don't I don't know what that looks like.
And so part of what I have to weigh here
as we consider the conversations about this, how much of
my naivitae plays into my fear?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Right? I think what you.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Said, David is spot on. I hope that our defense
is as good as our offense. And hope is the
only thing I have because I just don't know. I
have trust in the people that have been doing this
for their entire lives. I have trust that they are
thinking step two, step three, step four, that they are
four or five moves ahead, that they go this is
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our contingency. If we see this, This is the contingency
if we see that, this is what we do, if
we see this. I got to believe that there's a
massive playbook laying out there, and that our generals and
our admirals have that all laid out.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And I'm pretty confident in that.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
But what I'm not confident and is myself because I
just don't know, and I'm afraid that that fear leads
me to, you know, my naavite leads me to an
anxiety that may or may not be justified. Before we uh,
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before we screwed ahead on this, I wanted to bring
I wanted to bring up one other little oh Am,
I short on time. All right, I'll tell you I
got one other thing that I just wanted to point
out here, and h okay, we'll get it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
We'll get it. We'll do that in a minute here,
because this is if.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
There's one thing the United States is really good at,
it's this. I'll tell you what that is coming up
here in just a few moments. Chris Merril AM six
forty were live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and on
that app. Do you think there's a one and done
situation is in? Iran knows better? Or are you worried
that this is just the beginning.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk on
demand anytime the I Heart or radio app, where we're
asking if you hit that talk back button, do you
think this a one and done situation is in?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Iran knows better? When it comes to the bombing the United.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
States three nuclear sites using our bunker buster bombs, and
ran smartly was taking care of their you know, their
nuclear enrichment deep inside of a mountain, and the only
thing that could reach that, aside from a nuclear weapon
of our own, would be this massive bunker buster bomb.
And I guess we're the only ones that had these things.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And they're massive, they're.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Huge, thirty thousand pounds each and they are meant to
drill through two hundred feet of concrete, so they get
the job done. One of the things that the United
States is really good at, I mean militarily, we've been
very good at everything we set out to do. Militarily,
we have not been so good at after the war, right,
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Afghanistan kind of dragged out because we went in and
we go, cool, this is what we're doing, boom, and
then we go what's our exit strategy?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I don't know. So that's where certainly there is room
for improvement.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
As my elementary school teacher would say on my report card,
as far as the military operations.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I mean we're pretty good. We're pretty pretty damn good.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
So there is something else when it comes to these
military operations that I think the United States is better
than anybody, and that is naming them. Kayla, if I
told you the United States military is about to carry
out Operation Midnight Hammer, you got to be like, yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Yeah, I'd be terrified of that. That's that's a really
great name, an awesome name.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I think, so Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Ah, it's the emphasis on hammer. I think the way
you say it makes it cooler than the Yeah, yeah,
that's awesome sounds like yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I mean it's either a military operation or it's a
low budget porn but either way, Operations Midnight Hammer. I
love it so much, all right? From the talkbacks. If
you're on the iHeartRadio app to hit that talkback button.
You think it's a one and done situation and Iran
knows better than to retaliate, or perhaps just the beginning
your thoughts.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Okay, Chris, The reason Trump did this, okay, is because
his polling numbers are so low. He's desperate to do
something to increase them. He doesn't care about anybody except him,
so so this is a chance for him to increase
his polling numbers. That's all it's about, all right, all right.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I don't know if I agree that it's what it's
all about. But uh, wasn't that the whole plot of
Canadian Bacon? Did you ever see that that John Candy movie?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I can't say I have. Oh you've seen Sam, Yeah, didn't.
Wasn't Reap Perlman in that? I know?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Alan Alda played the president who was failing and they
decided that they needed to invade Canada to help his polling.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Reappelman came in.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I think she was an American cop from the town
that they were all at, and she was the most
like well armed, ballistic girl in the world.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It was great. It's a great movie. It's a lot
of fun.
Speaker 14 (20:59):
Yeah, hey, Chris, I don't think it's a one and done,
but I do think any of the follow up things
we do will be limited in scope. Okay, the bigger
issue in the coming years is China invading Taiwan, and
if anything, this strike shows China that were capable of
reaching out and touching you anytime, anywhere.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, okay, let me take a moment process that here.
Let me just think out loud.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I don't know if China cares.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
There's a big difference between Iran, who doesn't have nuclear
capabilities and has ninety two million people, which I learned
this week from Tucker Carlson. Ninety two million people in Iran,
pretty decent sized country, but China one and a half
billion people with nuclear capabilities and kind of their own
choke hold on the economy. And I understand that Iran
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has a bit of a choke hold on the oil production,
but certainly we can find that elsewhere. I don't know
how much this intimidates China, because I think China would
be willing to say that we will not take military action.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
To defend Taiwan. I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I don't think that the administration would want to take
military action to defend Taiwan.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Not this administration.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I think that this administration would go, oh, that's a
war that we don't need to be a part of.
And it's not like Taiwan is this long decade's old
ally as Israel is. And I don't know, I don't know.
I guess in the words of the president, we'll have
to wait and see. Right, all right, next, all right?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Question?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You think there's the one and done? Or does Iran
no better? Excuse me as in Irano is better? Or
is this just the beginning? Interesting take on the whole
China thing.
Speaker 15 (22:53):
Though, does some lunatics thinks they're going to get their
seventy two virgins when they bite the dust, so they
don't even care?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
All right? So does it round? Thank you, you're welcome,
Thank you very much.
Speaker 10 (23:08):
Appreciate that that one's looked at the cracks. But he
said thank you, and that was very nice.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That was great. I appreciate the platens.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Hey Chris Hey, operation Hammer, Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You know, nobody ever calls me for voiceover work. It's
the weirdest thing.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
You can't forget the midnight part. Maybe that's why operation
Hammer sounds crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Operation midnight Hammer.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
There you go, Tony in Orange County.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Hey, Tony, I'm not.
Speaker 15 (23:36):
For forever wars either, but one thing that comes to
mind is we've been attacked by Iran and there their
representatives or whatever you.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Call that, proxies. Yeah, over twenty.
Speaker 13 (23:48):
Times in the past, so goodness, I mean that may
be much, but at least fifteen times over.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
The past twenty years, and we've held back.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I hope this is a one and done.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I help so too, And there is I mean, I
get your point if they've attacked the military bases, if
they've done, and you're right, but there is a difference,
and we know this through the Cold War. There is
a difference between attacks by proxies on remote stations versus
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direct attacks on the homeland. And I know you're gonna say, well,
you're splitting hairs. Don't argue, you're just splitting You're not
wrong in everything that you said, but we do know again,
we saw this during the Cold War where it would
have been a different situation if in Korea, for instance,
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Russia had attacked US, or.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Vietnam had Russia attacked US.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Right, those are all proxy battles that went on, similar
to our support of Afghanistan and Iraq in the night
teen eighties.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
There's a proxy situation.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
And so when you're talking about proxies versus direct to
the country, I do think it's a it's.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
An escalation that is not not a straight comparison.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Is that.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Nobody said anything so far tonight that I think is
dead wrong? Right? I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I don't think anybody has said anything that I vehemently
disagree with. Have you heard anything that makes you go no,
it's dumb?
Speaker 10 (25:26):
Well, maybe the seventy two virgins thing, But other than that,
anything's possible today, which.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I don't know enough about the religion, and I don't
know enough about the whole seventy two virgins thing. I
know that's something that we've talked about for the last
thirty years. But at some point, I mean, do they
have to stay virgins?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
How does that work? I genuinely don't know. How does
that work.
Speaker 10 (25:54):
I I'll get on I'll get on bing and see
what I can try. Yeah, I'll let you know.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You get seventy two virgins and then.
Speaker 16 (26:02):
What Hi, Chris, Hey, I just wanted to tell you.
I think that you're being a little naive.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
The story of my life. Go ahead, curious how this
is going to play out? All right? Go ahead.
Speaker 16 (26:15):
Most of the really good people in the military and
the intelligence community I haven't gotten rid of because of
the paranoia of the people at the top in our government.
I think the worst is yet to come, and I
think that this will only give more power to our president.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Yeah, maybe I'm blind, Maybe I'm being naive. Maybe I'm
comfortable in my naivete.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Wow, that's deep. I'm gonna need a shrink to ward
me through that one. I'm not so sure.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I I don't know that we've gotten rid of everybody
that's worth a damn. And maybe I just don't think
we've gotten rid of everybody that's worth a damn.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Now, maybe some people.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Have been gotten rid of because of ideology, and some
are going to be loyal to this president, but I
think that they're still quite capable. Perhaps I'm completely off
base on them. I'm not quite so sure that it's
doom and gloom as far as that goes, all right,
is it a one and done situation, is in Iran
knows better or is this just the beginning. The President
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has said retaliation would not be a good plan at all.
In fact, here's what he had to say about.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
What we've seen today is this very coordinated response from
the White House and from several cabinet secretaries and from
the Vice President to deliver I think one really key
message to the Iranian regime. The phrase terrible mistake has
been used by all of these people. It's the message
to Iran not to retaliate, that the administration believes Iran
needs to take this one on the chin and then
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resume negotiations, or as you and the General were just discussing,
face more severe military consequences. We talked about this earlier
in the hour. The two somewhat contradictory promises that President
Trump has made both to and Iran's nuclear weapons program
and keep the US out of four Wars. For that,
he's going to need some degree of cooperation on Iran,
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some willingness to come back to the table, and the
administration seems to be very publicly making that case that's
the best outcome for the Iranians as well as for
the US.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
At this hour, we thank you for watching and remember
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Speaker 2 (28:27):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I appreciate that who's in charge of editing this audio,
Kaila to get rid of all that crap at the
end was terrible.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I like your attitude makes me sad.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
All right, you think it's a one of done situation
or is this just the beginning. I'll reiterate what I
said earlier. My take, My initial take is I'm not
so concerned with things right now. I think Iran is
sort of reeling and dealing with what's going on with Israel.
My concern is down the road. They do not have
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short memories and very long memories, and and I'm afraid, worried,
and again maybe naivete that that's something down the line,
perhaps World Cup, perhaps Olympics, perhaps just random day, maybe
a random Tuesday in September.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Is the last time we got attacked on home soil?
Speaker 14 (29:19):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
That's my concern, that's my bigger worry. And as one
gentleman put it earlier, hopefully our defense is as good
as our offense. And God, I sure hope you're right.
There was protests scheduled downtown today. You'll notice, No, we
don't have any live streams of Flaming Waymos yet. Right,
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So I think we're I mean, we seem to be
doing a little bit better. A guy that was there,
Michael Monks, joins us in just a few moments to
find out just how protesting the protest got. That's next,
Chris Merrill, I am six forty were live everywhere in
the iHeart Radio app. Forty more talk on demand anytime
in the iHeart Radio appre question you, if you're listening
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on the app, hit that talk back button. Do you
think this is a one and done situation with Iran?
Isn't they know better They're not going to retaliate? Or
are you concerned that this is just the beginning your thoughts?
Speaker 17 (30:13):
The guy who called in about Trump's polling numbers is
completely wrong. Oh okay, Trump's polling number is fifty four percent.
Unlike Newscombe, who is ruining our city, is that twenty
one percent? Democrats are finished, like you ran, We dropped
the bomb on you, and we are done here now.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Okay, all right, so okay, let's let's kind to keep
it on topic.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Okay, all right, sounds good. No, my team, no, my team. No,
let I do that.
Speaker 18 (30:50):
Chris, the person who just called talking about President Trump
doing this for his polling numbers. Hate to break it
to that guy, but President Trump won the election and
he is our president, and he is awesome.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Okay, all right, very good. Yeah, you know it is interesting.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
And this is one of the things I think about
with President Trump is that you've got you've got Tucker Carlson,
You've got uh, Steve Bannon, You've got.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Marjorie Taylor Green.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
These are these are the most maga magas of of
all and they're not happy that he got involved. They're isolationists.
One of the reasons they pushed him for president is
because of his isolationist policies. And then you've got more
traditional Republicans who are all excited about doing something with
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with Iran, like John McCain. I know he's dead, but
remember that was his whole thing, right, you know, each
boys song Bambarran. So now you've got Donald Trump, McCain,
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that's that's a very peculiar bedfellow.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Now and Mitch McConnell's.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Like this is great, and and you've got Mike Pence
that are like this is this was the right move.
So your establishment Republicans are happy about this, You're you're
more traditional Magas are not. So I think it's interesting
to hear people calling up and saying, oh, he's a
great president, he's the best president ever, and this is,
this is and I go, but how do you feel
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about the action? That's what I want to know. Are
you happy that he did this? Are you happy that
he followed the establishment Republican route or are you disappointed
that he went against Maga?
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Right?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I mean, if you're not.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
A Trump supporter, I get it you don't like new
sum and and and Trump can do no wrong. But
at some point are you agreeing with everything that he does,
even if everything he does is all the reasons that
you voted for him against a different Republican.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
In the first place. Right, there's my worry.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Michael Monks is our intrepid reporter who whenever there's somebody
with a pepper bowl gun, we send Michael Monks out.
And so we did that again today protest scheduled downtown. Michael,
good news you and I didn't have to do a
lot of coverage of Waymo's on fire.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Not today. It was pretty calm.
Speaker 19 (33:21):
I mean, there was certainly a protest downtown, maybe even
a couple, but no tear gas and mostly calm.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
So what was the difference then, Was it just quantity
of people?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Were they not worked up? Were they more organized? What's
the difference?
Speaker 19 (33:37):
Well, think about what the topic is at hand today.
It's the bombing of Iran, and there's a lot of
people who don't want to see US military action in Iran.
But it's a bit more complicated, perhaps than you know,
immigration enforcement, for example, which seems to enrage people in
a way that other topics haven't. Iran is just a
more complicated topic. You've got people on both parties who
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have long, long said Iran should not have nuclear capabilities,
and this was a bombing that was in response to
that sentiment. This group that protested in downtown Los Angeles
today are also folks who protested last week as part
of the No Kings protests across the country and the
big one right here in Los Angeles. They do not
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want to see further escalation, They don't want to see
official war with Iran. There are about fifty people who
joined together outside Los Angeles City Hall. They had signs
to that effect, chance to that effect, a lot of
anti Trump sentiment in general, but mostly it was just
about peace, no war, and so it did not seem
to trigger the type of response that we've seen to
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the immigration enforcement here locally.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Are you starting to see sort of a conflation of
all the protesters? In other words, do we have sort
of a protest du jure? And everyone goes, what are
we protesting today? No kings, Oh it's bombing around, Oh
it's immigration. In other words, is it just the same
group that just wants to protest this administration?
Speaker 19 (35:01):
I thought there was an interesting scene unfolding as this
protest was starting to wind down and people were starting
to pack up to leave. A I don't know, an
entrepreneurial or opportunist street vendor showed up selling flags, and
I thought, I wonder which flag is the big seller today,
because you see different flags of these protests. A lot
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of American flags at today's protests, showing their version of patriotism,
that piece is patriotic. That sort of messaging was definitely
going on today. But we've seen people over the past
year waving Palestinian flags, now a lot of Mexican flags
and other Latin American flags, and now Iranian flags, and
I thought, huh, it's an interesting time to be in
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the street vending flag business because it does seem to
change a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah. Boy, we missed the boat on that one. We
should have been we should have been investing in that. Yeah.
Speaker 19 (35:53):
But to answer your question further, there there were some
mixed messages or maybe not mixed in in terms of
communication efficacy, but there was a mixture of messages today. Obviously,
the main theme was we don't want war with Iran
among this group that showed up in downtown LA But
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there were some speakers who talked about Gaza, there were
some speakers who talked about healthcare, and there were people
who talked about other Trump policies. But again, for the
most part, it was war with Iran, we don't want that,
and it just did not seem to inflame the passions
that immigration or even Palestine.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Dous with all of the Michael Monks, as our reporter
who who's been covering the protests because we could afford
his bus fair to get there.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Michael, with all of the different things.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
That people are protesting, is that having sort of a delusion,
diluting it's a word effect on some of the protests.
In other words, when it was an immigration protest, everyone
was there about immigration. There were some people waving Palestinian flags.
I remember when I were talking about that, but for
the most part it was people who were whether it
was waving the Mexican flag or that split Mexican slash
(37:04):
US flag that we discussed a couple of weekends ago.
It seemed that it was like, this is all about, Uh,
we don't like the immigration policies, we don't like having
ice showing up at the home.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Depot parking lots. That sort of thing seemed different.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
But now you're talking healthcare, obviously, immigration, Palestine, Iran, all
these different thing they all at some point, is there fatigue?
Do you feel like that maybe starts to set in?
Speaker 19 (37:30):
I asked one of the organizers that is, how do
you stay on message? How do you keep your folks
energized when there has been so much that has irritated
you enough to come out in numbers to protest. And
as far as this anti war sentiment goes, he says,
that's in the early stages. That's a growing part of
the movement, that's certainly part of it, but just from
(37:53):
a media consumption standpoint.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
You know, if you want.
Speaker 19 (37:56):
Folks to get on your side, your message really has
to be clear. And there are just so many issues
right now. It can all be lumped towards Trump certainly,
as it always is against whoever is in the White House.
So there's that unifying theme that these are folks who
are against President Trump. But even today with this anti
war messaging, I heard from at least one speaker who
(38:18):
spoke against the Democratic Party and their role in all
of this. So it was a very confusing message. So
as long as there is any movement, whether it's against
the immigration enforcement or in favor of Palestinians or against
war with Iran, but you see this diversity of messages
and physical campaign items like flags, it can be a
(38:41):
bit confusing for the average guy.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Yeah, I think you make some great points. I think
the Democrats are confused too. I'll talk a little bit
more about their messaging here in a minute. Michael Monks,
thank you so much, my friend. Thank you for working
the overtime too.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
We appreciate that. Always a pleasure, Chris, Thanks all right, buddy,
All right.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Michael Monk's incredible CAFI reporter was downtown covering the test today. Unfortunately,
no way moos were hurt in today's protest. As I mentioned,
there is mixed messaging coming from the Democrats right now.
One thing they don't seem to be saying is bombing
Iran was a bad idea. In fact, they're really trying
(39:17):
to They're really trying to get all nuanced in how
they're disagreeing with the president.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
This time around.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
More on that and your thoughts. You think this is
a one and done situation in Iran? Is in they
know better? Or are you afraid this might be just
the beginning of a prolonged conflict that's next. Chris merrill
I Am six forty were live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
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