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Wounded by Iran, Then Left on Their Own | Mike Drop Newsroom
MIKE DROP NEWSROOM | 06 OCTOBER 2026
The biggest story today wasn't on either front page. Mike pulls in an AP report: soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strikes say the military's medical system failed them. One soldier had a damaged artery that put him at risk of a stroke. He was sent to barracks and told to schedule outpatient appointments. Another waited more than four months for MRI results after having shrapnel removed from his head.
Also in today's papers: Saudi and Yemeni forces are pushing back against the Houthis around the Red Sea port of Mokha. Germany and France are pushing the EU to get tough on Chinese trade. The FBI arrested a California woman accused of acting as an unregistered agent of China. Russia is investigating a death at a Siberian infectious disease lab. Brazil's right wing had a surprise surge. Superpowers are racing to put nuclear reactors on the moon. High interest rates haven't slowed the AI boom. And the DOJ is tightening visa screening for birth tourism.
Mike's take: if you send troops to fight, you'd better be ready to take care of them when they're wounded, no matter which administration you are. He knows what waiting looks like. After a collarbone and bicep injury, the VA took so long to get him an MRI that surgery was no longer an option. On the Houthis, he says decades of U.S. involvement haven't worked, and he wonders whether pulling out completely would force Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the rest of the region to step up. On AI's energy demand, he makes the case for small regional nuclear reactors. On birthright citizenship, he doesn't think children of people here illegally or on temporary visas should become citizens automatically, and he invites anyone who disagrees to change his mind.
Your turn. If you've been wounded or injured in service, how was your care? Would pulling out of the Middle East make the region step up, or would it be a disaster? Tell us in the comments. Mike reads them.
Timestamps
0:00 Happy Tuesday
0:25 Germany and France push the EU to get tough on China
1:05 Saudi forces push back the Houthis
2:55 Why Iran is still flexing
3:45 Would pulling out force the region to step up?
6:30 FBI arrests an alleged Chinese agent
6:55 A death at a Siberian infectious disease lab
7:30 Should these labs exist?
8:20 Brazil's right-wing wave
9:35 Nuclear reactors on the moon
12:30 The AI boom and high interest rates
12:55 Data centers and energy demand
15:00 The case for small regional nuclear reactors
16:40 The price of convenience
17:50 Wounded soldiers say military care failed them
19:00 Mike's own VA story
19:55 "Take care of the troops"
20:45 DOJ targets birth tourism
21:15 Birthright citizenship
23:15 Coming up: DEA agent Steve Murphy
Former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland reads the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times so you don't have to. No cable news spin, no recycled talking points, just the actual front pages and a straight take on what they mean for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, good morning and happy Tuesday, this October 6th, 2026, we're going to jump right into it Wall Street Journal, kind of fun blend again today, their main story with the picture, show it to you there real quick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Housing is the key issue as Spain sets elections.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why is that front page news in the United States on the Wall Street Journal?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to talk about it, I just wanted to make a note of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Underneath that, Germany and France, push EU to get tough on Chinese trade.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's actually pretty encouraging, you know, to see the EU and other countries taking a bit of a stand in terms of trade, deficit, negotiations, etc.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do like to see that, and I think it's encouraging that, you know, again, that they're doing that, how tough of a stance they get remains to be seen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... but you know what we'll pay attention and keep track of that here's uh... uh... one here's a one here's a story rather that it has been brewing and and kind of taking place for years but this headline in particular i want to address Saudi and Yemeni forces pressed a counter offensive against houthi fighters seeking to house the rebels from the city of maca mocha uh... strategic port on the red sea
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, why is that important to us or why should we even talk about it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know, the hoothies have been a brewing, I guess proxy, you know, type of terrorist group in Yemen that has been building over years and becoming more and more emboldened and frankly more capable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they've been the thorn in the side, you know, historically the kind of state-sponsored terrorist groups
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[SPEAKER_00]: generally associated with Iran or Hezbollah and Hamas, which are, you know, up right by Israel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you know, why the Houthis are playing such a strategic and important role for them, especially right now in the Middle East is, you know, they're right there on the banks of the
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[SPEAKER_00]: tankers and just, you know, making a mess there, essentially, but, you know, Saudi has been engaged in combating and fighting them four years, but they've stepped it up recently, which is a good to see, but B is causing further problems.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Part of the report talks about a hundred fighter jets that were, you know, flying sorties and striking targets against the Houthi rebels.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It kind of comes to the broader point of Iran's ability to continue to flex its muscles and not be negatively impacted enough by what we've done over the last year for it to stop or stifle them in a way that's meaningful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've put a ton of time and effort.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've lost troops.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've lost aircraft.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've spent billions, if not hundreds of billions at this point if you
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[SPEAKER_00]: kind of factor in the troop movements and put in carrier groups there, et cetera.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yet we still sit here seeing them continue to cause problems, but what I'm encouraged by is Saudis stepping up now, they kind of have to because they're, you know, right across the straight from them, but I've talked about this on the show and in previous headline reports is that, you know, I think there's an element of,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, or a hypothetical scenario that exists where less involvement from us kind of forces countries like Saudi, Syria, Jordan, you know, other countries that have a vested interest in stability in the region, they've always been able to depend and rely on us for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is a significant part of my attitude and opinion towards it and this is shared by a lot of veterans that I talk to of pulling back and with drawing to a degree with which it forces those countries to do something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's one thing, a lot of us have learned and even my guest yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that I had on the show, a former seal talking about training with some of the northern Kurdish troops up in Iraq, fighting ISIS, is that if you start to fight for them, they will absolutely sit back and let you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now it's not to say that they have no will to fight, of course, there's been countless
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[SPEAKER_00]: in surgeon like regimes and groups in the region, but there's a feeling that I think a lot of us have, and this is from and forged from experience where if you jump in and try to help them out, they're happy to let you die for their country instead of them, and so
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like we're at a point where we've tried a lot of these things and we've had involvement in that region for so long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's try something different and see if we can bolster through kind of, I would say, an inherent means or a default mechanism that makes them do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to know what you guys think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think that if we pulled completely out, took all of our troops out, closed the bases,
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[SPEAKER_00]: just completely evacuated the region that those countries would by default step up and Roger up to fight Iran and not let that region be as unstable as it's been for decades.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a dicey move for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying it's guaranteed to work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a foreign policy expert but I do want to know what you guys think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think it would be catastrophic?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think it's worth trying?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I don't know what the right answer is, but I do know what we've been doing for a very long time has not worked very well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So what's your guys' opinion?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The FBI arrested a California resident on charges of acting as an unregistered agent of China accusing her of spying on a son of Taiwan's president.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not really news, we know that unregistered agents in
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[SPEAKER_00]: of China have been here doing, you know, spy-like activities for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's good to see the FBI arrested him, or be curious to see what actually happens with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Russian authorities are investigating that death of a woman who worked at a Siberian institute for infectious disease and have her placed and have placed her contacts under medical observation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is this Wuhan 2.0?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You would think that as a species, we've learned our lesson with labs like that and infectious disease labs and but it doesn't seem like we have and this reminds me of like 28 days all over again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's a one-off and it was something totally different but if it made a headline here and it's causing them to take the measures that they are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Curse to see what pans out on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna kick another question to you guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think viral institutes and these Wuhan-like infectious disease labs experimenting with things is a good idea?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not naive to the fact that there is a component of combating diseases and figuring out how to fight certain infections and diseases.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, using those things and developing actual hybrid or mutant diseases that, you know, have the potential to wipe out the entire species, it's obviously a pretty slippery slope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You guys see a benefit in that, not sure that I do, or at least taking it that far.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the New York Times, they're a day behind the Wall Street Journal, I guess, and that they're top story with the picture.
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[SPEAKER_00]: check that out is a Brazil Brazil's election now I suppose it's worth covering and that it says an unexpected wave for Brazil's right wing what's interesting about the picture is there it looks as though there's you know the vibrant youth and
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[SPEAKER_00]: the older generation acts maybe even boomer people dancing and celebrating in the streets because a right wing in a historically far-left administration that's been running that country for a number of years one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me that is an encouraging sign.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I tend to lean towards the right as that's probably not a huge surprise, but I'm
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm certainly not on the team of they can do no wrong and, you know, read at all costs, like I for sure don't feel that way, but it is nice to see the citizens of Brazil doing their thing and getting rid of an administration that it seems like maybe hasn't done the best for their country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the stories that the other top story or top headline in the time today is superpowers racing to put nuclear reactors on the moon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: experts warn of radio active risks from a rocket misshap or lunar meltdown, yeah that could get pretty spicy pretty quick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do think from a theoretical standpoint, you know, putting nuclear actors on the moon in terms of the space race generally or broadly speaking where
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[SPEAKER_00]: From everything that I've read, it seems as though the goal is to kind of turn the moon into a interstellar gas station, so to speak, for trips to Mars or anywhere else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: From that aspect, I think it makes sense, I saw another couple of reports talking about technology that the plan is to send it to the moon and colonize it autonomously, or through automated robot,
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[SPEAKER_00]: technology to basically build an entire small colony and base before we send any humans there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, essentially, once the human show up, everything's kind of built.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there's for sure the concern of radioactive risk from the rocket miss-hap or a lunar meltdown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, what does that look like?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What does a nuclear meltdown look like in space where
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[SPEAKER_00]: Gravity's totally different, you know, there's for sure some serious implications and that depending on how big of a reactor and the potential kind of worst case scenario.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, now you're talking about potentially screwing up the tides.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that could could honestly wipe out earth if it got bad enough or if there was a big enough meltdown to cause something like that, I think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: maybe Neil DeGrasse Tyson can jump in here or any other, you know, expert in the region, which, you know, to me that is a terrifying prospect and something that, you know, may outweigh the reward risk wise.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, that's dicey, anybody in here watching or listening have any input that
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would say is credible, you know, we all have opinions, but I'm curious for anybody that has an actual level of expertise in that field to chime in on whether or not putting a nuclear reactor on the moon if it went to a worst case scenario could completely disrupt lunar patterns which, you know, you're talking about the tide and all kinds of weather patterns that could be drastically changed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it makes me think of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything else on the, on the New York Times is kind of not worth talking about from my perspective.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The, the two things that I will bring up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The first one is in the art section.
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[SPEAKER_00]: LL Cool J finds his way home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know he was missing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's news to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the business feds puzzle, high rates don't slow down the AI boom, as borrowing costs hit families and businesses, attack frenzy feeds inflation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why is that important?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're talking about, well, for my perspective, you know, the AI race that kind of every modern country has taken part in in the last few years has put an energy demand on its society to an unprecedented level, you know, the
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[SPEAKER_00]: data center argument here in the United States has been a pretty hot topic here lately.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and that's really the just of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've talked about this with a few different experts on the show and and I've thought about it at length and you know to me with nuclear technology being what it is now versus say back in the Chernobyl days of of meltdowns being as catastrophic not that they're not catastrophic but catastrophic to that degree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think is largely mitigated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think you can say it's 100% mitigated ever, or it would be a mistake too, but it's largely mitigated by comparison to the 1970s, 80s, et cetera.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, when I look at the demand between AI's or data centers rather, and I know that a lot of people are strongly against them, and I am,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if they're done wrong, where they're drawing power from local grids and using water at levels that affect, you know, nearby residents, utility bills, I think there has to be a, you know, some sort of policy put in place where it's not only self-sustained both, you know, whether they're drilling a well,
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[SPEAKER_00]: and pulling the water on their own and not tapping into city water nearby, and power grid wise, whether it's generator systems, solar wind, the combination of all three, or a nuclear actor, which we'll get into here in a second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It has to be a standalone thing that Adam minimum does not draw from anywhere in that region or locality, but ideally also can add to the local grid systems and utility systems water
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, to me, that's still a bit of a band aid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that with what the draw on those resources are, can be completely wiped out by a self-sustained start-up to support that system.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so something I again, I've talked about with a number of guests is that small, regional nuclear reactors that just basically cover the regions where they're needed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously here in Texas, you know, being bigger than most European countries, there would need to be, you know, a number of them here in Texas, but, you know, each state basically has a Department of Energy component to it that, you know, implements nuclear actors that are small self-sustained, compartmentalized, so that if there is a problem, it's, you know, easier to shut down and the technology that they have to mitigate that is put in place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, that's really the only viable option I see for our species in the long run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, fossil fuels are what they are, you know, they're not unlimited, there's going to come a point sooner than later where they run out, you know, solar wind, you know, generator, obviously a generator, you know, runs off of fossil fuels, so that's, you know, kind of, you know, a hamster wheel, so to speak, energy-use-wise, so
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[SPEAKER_00]: unless some other crazy technology comes about very soon that, you know, can somehow fit in between all of those things and solve the problem.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, new, new, small regional nuclear actors are, are really the way forward.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying it's without risk.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, a lot of people here, peer that opinion and immediately think Chernobyl is going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's, of course, a risk, but I would ask you guys what are your solutions
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[SPEAKER_00]: The data center thing I know it's polarizing but the one thing that I think it's important to realize is that so many of the things that we rely on and have become accustomed to Amazon, being able to order pretty much anything, whether it's groceries, restaurant, food, fast food, any product from any store you can think of and have it set on your front door a day or two later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: the amount of infrastructure and power and computing capacity that it takes to live the way that we live nowadays requires that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no way around that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, to me, it's either takes several steps back, convenience, wise, and change our standard of living and go back to how it was 20 or 30 years ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: or understand that some sort of measures need to be put in place for the long run to be able to fuel our society the way that it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of that simple.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to get your guys as a opinion on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all we got on the New York Times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I did pull in a couple of other articles from some different new sources today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, they don't hard print and deliver to the door.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to read them off of a screen here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But
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[SPEAKER_00]: This one in particular really resonated with me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike, tell AP, the military's medical system failed them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Soldiers criticism comes against the backdrop of years of disinvestment and drawdowns in the Middle East by multiple administrations and political leaders who sought to end U.S. involvement in the region.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This two vets in particular damage left vertebral artery,
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[SPEAKER_00]: was not considered by the army to be serious enough to be admitted to landstool regional medical center in Germany.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead he was sent to a nearby army barracks and had and was told to schedule outpatient appointments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He says I was just kind of on my own, or at least it felt that way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This particular gentleman was not a nice lady case, and other soldier had shrapnel removed from his head.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and waited over four months to receive his MRI results.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I've experienced plenty of this with the VA, not that it's acceptable, but I understand it more on the VA side.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I'm furious about it, and I waited months to even get an MRI taken.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When I broke my collarbone and tore my left bicep tendon and an accident,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, considered non-life threatening had to make an outpatient appointment at the nearest small little local shop took almost a month to get in there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once I did, um, you know, they said, yep, you're messed up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Got to send you to the main VA Center in Dallas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But took another two and a half months, by the time I got in there to even get an MRI, it was too late, everything had healed enough to where it didn't make sense to do surgery and now there's a ton of scar tissue and lack of mobility, and that's on the VA side, which we've known that for years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is active duty, guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the Middle East, being injured by Iranian strikes,
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's how they're treated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you know, this is for every administration, your respective of side is that if you are going to send our young men and women to fight for your cause and policy and agenda administratively, you damn well better put the pieces in place to take care of those troops when they get injured.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, that is flat out unacceptable, you know, either bolster, everything over there to the degree with which it needs to be before you do what you're going to do or what you want to do, or don't do it until those things are put in place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like that's not, I don't know how that's even debatable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how that's even possible in happening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It makes my blood boil that things like that are taking place in an active combat zone right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Last story I've got is DOJ working with agencies to tighten visa screening for birth tourism.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is something that I'm curious to get your guys to take.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll give you my opinion here in a second after I read a little bit more of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Despite Supreme Court setback DOJ is working with federal immigration agencies to combat birth tourism.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The just of it is that on June 30th, the Supreme Court struck down Trump's broad birthright citizenship order issued, which essentially excludes children of illegal immigrants and legal temporary visitors from automatic U.S. citizenship if born in this country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, my opinion is that I agree with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that you should become, or that, you know, someone born here of non-US citizens
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[SPEAKER_00]: put in place pathway to citizenship that's been approved and authorized by the U.S. government and immigration services, anybody that's outside of that that has a child born here in the United States, I don't think they should get U.S. citizenship, no different than, if anyone is born in any other country, I don't know of many or any other countries that have as
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[SPEAKER_00]: incentivization for anyone who's pregnant from another country to come here and birth their child here if that child's going to get U.S. citizenship automatically just by being born.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's pretty obvious.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's my opinion on it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But again, I'm open-minded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to hear any anyone who has a counter argument
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to hear your take on on why that's a good thing or why that should be allowed because I can't think of of a good reason why that's the case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not saying, again, blanket statement, I want to reiterate that if if somebody is immigrating here legally and that pathway, you're somewhere in that process that you're in the pipeline to eventually get U.S. citizenship because you're bringing something to our country,
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... warrants us as a nation saying yes we want you to come be a u.s. citizen that for sure outside of that i don't i don't see a the benefit or uh... you know how that's uh... something that should be allowed so if you guys have account argument that i'd love to hear about it and and if it makes sense i'm happy to change my mind but i don't i don't see it so
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are headlines for today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you guys have a beautiful Tuesday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got a good show coming out later this afternoon with Steve Murphy, who's the guy, one of the two DE agents that helped take down Pablo Escobar, the show Narcos season one and two focus on him and the other DE agents.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So really, really fascinating interview.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We get into the kind of ins and outs
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[SPEAKER_00]: what was accurate during the Netflix series versus what was, you know, total Hollywood.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So check that out later this afternoon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hope you guys have a blessed day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: God bless you, love everyone, and we'll see you guys tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, good morning and happy Tuesday, this October 6th, 2026, we're going to jump right into it Wall Street Journal, kind of fun blend again today, their main story with the picture, show it to you there real quick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Housing is the key issue as Spain sets elections.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why is that front page news in the United States on the Wall Street Journal?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to talk about it, I just wanted to make a note of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Underneath that, Germany and France, push EU to get tough on Chinese trade.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's actually pretty encouraging, you know, to see the EU and other countries taking a bit of a stand in terms of trade, deficit, negotiations, etc.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do like to see that, and I think it's encouraging that, you know, again, that they're doing that, how tough of a stance they get remains to be seen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... but you know what we'll pay attention and keep track of that here's uh... uh... one here's a one here's a story rather that it has been brewing and and kind of taking place for years but this headline in particular i want to address Saudi and Yemeni forces pressed a counter offensive against houthi fighters seeking to house the rebels from the city of maca mocha uh... strategic port on the red sea
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, why is that important to us or why should we even talk about it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know, the hoothies have been a brewing, I guess proxy, you know, type of terrorist group in Yemen that has been building over years and becoming more and more emboldened and frankly more capable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they've been the thorn in the side, you know, historically the kind of state-sponsored terrorist groups
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[SPEAKER_00]: generally associated with Iran or Hezbollah and Hamas, which are, you know, up right by Israel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you know, why the Houthis are playing such a strategic and important role for them, especially right now in the Middle East is, you know, they're right there on the banks of the
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[SPEAKER_00]: tankers and just, you know, making a mess there, essentially, but, you know, Saudi has been engaged in combating and fighting them four years, but they've stepped it up recently, which is a good to see, but B is causing further problems.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Part of the report talks about a hundred fighter jets that were, you know, flying sorties and striking targets against the Houthi rebels.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It kind of comes to the broader point of Iran's ability to continue to flex its muscles and not be negatively impacted enough by what we've done over the last year for it to stop or stifle them in a way that's meaningful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've put a ton of time and effort.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've lost troops.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've lost aircraft.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've spent billions, if not hundreds of billions at this point if you
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[SPEAKER_00]: kind of factor in the troop movements and put in carrier groups there, et cetera.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yet we still sit here seeing them continue to cause problems, but what I'm encouraged by is Saudis stepping up now, they kind of have to because they're, you know, right across the straight from them, but I've talked about this on the show and in previous headline reports is that, you know, I think there's an element of,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, or a hypothetical scenario that exists where less involvement from us kind of forces countries like Saudi, Syria, Jordan, you know, other countries that have a vested interest in stability in the region, they've always been able to depend and rely on us for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is a significant part of my attitude and opinion towards it and this is shared by a lot of veterans that I talk to of pulling back and with drawing to a degree with which it forces those countries to do something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's one thing, a lot of us have learned and even my guest yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that I had on the show, a former seal talking about training with some of the northern Kurdish troops up in Iraq, fighting ISIS, is that if you start to fight for them, they will absolutely sit back and let you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now it's not to say that they have no will to fight, of course, there's been countless
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[SPEAKER_00]: in surgeon like regimes and groups in the region, but there's a feeling that I think a lot of us have, and this is from and forged from experience where if you jump in and try to help them out, they're happy to let you die for their country instead of them, and so
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like we're at a point where we've tried a lot of these things and we've had involvement in that region for so long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's try something different and see if we can bolster through kind of, I would say, an inherent means or a default mechanism that makes them do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to know what you guys think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think that if we pulled completely out, took all of our troops out, closed the bases,
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[SPEAKER_00]: just completely evacuated the region that those countries would by default step up and Roger up to fight Iran and not let that region be as unstable as it's been for decades.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a dicey move for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying it's guaranteed to work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a foreign policy expert but I do want to know what you guys think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think it would be catastrophic?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think it's worth trying?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I don't know what the right answer is, but I do know what we've been doing for a very long time has not worked very well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So what's your guys' opinion?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The FBI arrested a California resident on charges of acting as an unregistered agent of China accusing her of spying on a son of Taiwan's president.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not really news, we know that unregistered agents in
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[SPEAKER_00]: of China have been here doing, you know, spy-like activities for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's good to see the FBI arrested him, or be curious to see what actually happens with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Russian authorities are investigating that death of a woman who worked at a Siberian institute for infectious disease and have her placed and have placed her contacts under medical observation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is this Wuhan 2.0?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You would think that as a species, we've learned our lesson with labs like that and infectious disease labs and but it doesn't seem like we have and this reminds me of like 28 days all over again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's a one-off and it was something totally different but if it made a headline here and it's causing them to take the measures that they are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Curse to see what pans out on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna kick another question to you guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think viral institutes and these Wuhan-like infectious disease labs experimenting with things is a good idea?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not naive to the fact that there is a component of combating diseases and figuring out how to fight certain infections and diseases.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, using those things and developing actual hybrid or mutant diseases that, you know, have the potential to wipe out the entire species, it's obviously a pretty slippery slope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You guys see a benefit in that, not sure that I do, or at least taking it that far.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the New York Times, they're a day behind the Wall Street Journal, I guess, and that they're top story with the picture.
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[SPEAKER_00]: check that out is a Brazil Brazil's election now I suppose it's worth covering and that it says an unexpected wave for Brazil's right wing what's interesting about the picture is there it looks as though there's you know the vibrant youth and
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[SPEAKER_00]: the older generation acts maybe even boomer people dancing and celebrating in the streets because a right wing in a historically far-left administration that's been running that country for a number of years one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me that is an encouraging sign.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I tend to lean towards the right as that's probably not a huge surprise, but I'm
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm certainly not on the team of they can do no wrong and, you know, read at all costs, like I for sure don't feel that way, but it is nice to see the citizens of Brazil doing their thing and getting rid of an administration that it seems like maybe hasn't done the best for their country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the stories that the other top story or top headline in the time today is superpowers racing to put nuclear reactors on the moon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: experts warn of radio active risks from a rocket misshap or lunar meltdown, yeah that could get pretty spicy pretty quick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do think from a theoretical standpoint, you know, putting nuclear actors on the moon in terms of the space race generally or broadly speaking where
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[SPEAKER_00]: From everything that I've read, it seems as though the goal is to kind of turn the moon into a interstellar gas station, so to speak, for trips to Mars or anywhere else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: From that aspect, I think it makes sense, I saw another couple of reports talking about technology that the plan is to send it to the moon and colonize it autonomously, or through automated robot,
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[SPEAKER_00]: technology to basically build an entire small colony and base before we send any humans there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, essentially, once the human show up, everything's kind of built.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there's for sure the concern of radioactive risk from the rocket miss-hap or a lunar meltdown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, what does that look like?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What does a nuclear meltdown look like in space where
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[SPEAKER_00]: Gravity's totally different, you know, there's for sure some serious implications and that depending on how big of a reactor and the potential kind of worst case scenario.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, now you're talking about potentially screwing up the tides.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that could could honestly wipe out earth if it got bad enough or if there was a big enough meltdown to cause something like that, I think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: maybe Neil DeGrasse Tyson can jump in here or any other, you know, expert in the region, which, you know, to me that is a terrifying prospect and something that, you know, may outweigh the reward risk wise.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, that's dicey, anybody in here watching or listening have any input that
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would say is credible, you know, we all have opinions, but I'm curious for anybody that has an actual level of expertise in that field to chime in on whether or not putting a nuclear reactor on the moon if it went to a worst case scenario could completely disrupt lunar patterns which, you know, you're talking about the tide and all kinds of weather patterns that could be drastically changed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it makes me think of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything else on the, on the New York Times is kind of not worth talking about from my perspective.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The, the two things that I will bring up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The first one is in the art section.
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[SPEAKER_00]: LL Cool J finds his way home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know he was missing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's news to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the business feds puzzle, high rates don't slow down the AI boom, as borrowing costs hit families and businesses, attack frenzy feeds inflation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why is that important?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're talking about, well, for my perspective, you know, the AI race that kind of every modern country has taken part in in the last few years has put an energy demand on its society to an unprecedented level, you know, the
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[SPEAKER_00]: data center argument here in the United States has been a pretty hot topic here lately.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and that's really the just of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've talked about this with a few different experts on the show and and I've thought about it at length and you know to me with nuclear technology being what it is now versus say back in the Chernobyl days of of meltdowns being as catastrophic not that they're not catastrophic but catastrophic to that degree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think is largely mitigated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think you can say it's 100% mitigated ever, or it would be a mistake too, but it's largely mitigated by comparison to the 1970s, 80s, et cetera.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, when I look at the demand between AI's or data centers rather, and I know that a lot of people are strongly against them, and I am,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if they're done wrong, where they're drawing power from local grids and using water at levels that affect, you know, nearby residents, utility bills, I think there has to be a, you know, some sort of policy put in place where it's not only self-sustained both, you know, whether they're drilling a well,
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[SPEAKER_00]: and pulling the water on their own and not tapping into city water nearby, and power grid wise, whether it's generator systems, solar wind, the combination of all three, or a nuclear actor, which we'll get into here in a second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It has to be a standalone thing that Adam minimum does not draw from anywhere in that region or locality, but ideally also can add to the local grid systems and utility systems water
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, to me, that's still a bit of a band aid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that with what the draw on those resources are, can be completely wiped out by a self-sustained start-up to support that system.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so something I again, I've talked about with a number of guests is that small, regional nuclear reactors that just basically cover the regions where they're needed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously here in Texas, you know, being bigger than most European countries, there would need to be, you know, a number of them here in Texas, but, you know, each state basically has a Department of Energy component to it that, you know, implements nuclear actors that are small self-sustained, compartmentalized, so that if there is a problem, it's, you know, easier to shut down and the technology that they have to mitigate that is put in place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, that's really the only viable option I see for our species in the long run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, fossil fuels are what they are, you know, they're not unlimited, there's going to come a point sooner than later where they run out, you know, solar wind, you know, generator, obviously a generator, you know, runs off of fossil fuels, so that's, you know, kind of, you know, a hamster wheel, so to speak, energy-use-wise, so
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[SPEAKER_00]: unless some other crazy technology comes about very soon that, you know, can somehow fit in between all of those things and solve the problem.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, new, new, small regional nuclear actors are, are really the way forward.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying it's without risk.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, a lot of people here, peer that opinion and immediately think Chernobyl is going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's, of course, a risk, but I would ask you guys what are your solutions
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[SPEAKER_00]: The data center thing I know it's polarizing but the one thing that I think it's important to realize is that so many of the things that we rely on and have become accustomed to Amazon, being able to order pretty much anything, whether it's groceries, restaurant, food, fast food, any product from any store you can think of and have it set on your front door a day or two later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: the amount of infrastructure and power and computing capacity that it takes to live the way that we live nowadays requires that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no way around that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, to me, it's either takes several steps back, convenience, wise, and change our standard of living and go back to how it was 20 or 30 years ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: or understand that some sort of measures need to be put in place for the long run to be able to fuel our society the way that it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of that simple.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to get your guys as a opinion on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all we got on the New York Times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I did pull in a couple of other articles from some different new sources today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, they don't hard print and deliver to the door.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to read them off of a screen here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But
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[SPEAKER_00]: This one in particular really resonated with me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike, tell AP, the military's medical system failed them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Soldiers criticism comes against the backdrop of years of disinvestment and drawdowns in the Middle East by multiple administrations and political leaders who sought to end U.S. involvement in the region.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This two vets in particular damage left vertebral artery,
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[SPEAKER_00]: was not considered by the army to be serious enough to be admitted to landstool regional medical center in Germany.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead he was sent to a nearby army barracks and had and was told to schedule outpatient appointments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He says I was just kind of on my own, or at least it felt that way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This particular gentleman was not a nice lady case, and other soldier had shrapnel removed from his head.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and waited over four months to receive his MRI results.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I've experienced plenty of this with the VA, not that it's acceptable, but I understand it more on the VA side.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I'm furious about it, and I waited months to even get an MRI taken.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When I broke my collarbone and tore my left bicep tendon and an accident,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, considered non-life threatening had to make an outpatient appointment at the nearest small little local shop took almost a month to get in there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once I did, um, you know, they said, yep, you're messed up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Got to send you to the main VA Center in Dallas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But took another two and a half months, by the time I got in there to even get an MRI, it was too late, everything had healed enough to where it didn't make sense to do surgery and now there's a ton of scar tissue and lack of mobility, and that's on the VA side, which we've known that for years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is active duty, guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the Middle East, being injured by Iranian strikes,
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's how they're treated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you know, this is for every administration, your respective of side is that if you are going to send our young men and women to fight for your cause and policy and agenda administratively, you damn well better put the pieces in place to take care of those troops when they get injured.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, that is flat out unacceptable, you know, either bolster, everything over there to the degree with which it needs to be before you do what you're going to do or what you want to do, or don't do it until those things are put in place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like that's not, I don't know how that's even debatable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how that's even possible in happening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It makes my blood boil that things like that are taking place in an active combat zone right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Last story I've got is DOJ working with agencies to tighten visa screening for birth tourism.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is something that I'm curious to get your guys to take.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll give you my opinion here in a second after I read a little bit more of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Despite Supreme Court setback DOJ is working with federal immigration agencies to combat birth tourism.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The just of it is that on June 30th, the Supreme Court struck down Trump's broad birthright citizenship order issued, which essentially excludes children of illegal immigrants and legal temporary visitors from automatic U.S. citizenship if born in this country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, my opinion is that I agree with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that you should become, or that, you know, someone born here of non-US citizens
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[SPEAKER_00]: put in place pathway to citizenship that's been approved and authorized by the U.S. government and immigration services, anybody that's outside of that that has a child born here in the United States, I don't think they should get U.S. citizenship, no different than, if anyone is born in any other country, I don't know of many or any other countries that have as
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[SPEAKER_00]: incentivization for anyone who's pregnant from another country to come here and birth their child here if that child's going to get U.S. citizenship automatically just by being born.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's pretty obvious.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's my opinion on it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But again, I'm open-minded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to hear any anyone who has a counter argument
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to hear your take on on why that's a good thing or why that should be allowed because I can't think of of a good reason why that's the case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not saying, again, blanket statement, I want to reiterate that if if somebody is immigrating here legally and that pathway, you're somewhere in that process that you're in the pipeline to eventually get U.S. citizenship because you're bringing something to our country,
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... warrants us as a nation saying yes we want you to come be a u.s. citizen that for sure outside of that i don't i don't see a the benefit or uh... you know how that's uh... something that should be allowed so if you guys have account argument that i'd love to hear about it and and if it makes sense i'm happy to change my mind but i don't i don't see it so
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are headlines for today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you guys have a beautiful Tuesday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got a good show coming out later this afternoon with Steve Murphy, who's the guy, one of the two DE agents that helped take down Pablo Escobar, the show Narcos season one and two focus on him and the other DE agents.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So really, really fascinating interview.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We get into the kind of ins and outs
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[SPEAKER_00]: what was accurate during the Netflix series versus what was, you know, total Hollywood.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So check that out later this afternoon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hope you guys have a blessed day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: God bless you, love everyone, and we'll see you guys tomorrow.