RESCUED: How CIA, SEAL Team 6 saved stranded F-15 crew in Iran

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There is just so much to talk about.

So let's go right to our guest, Tom Carrico. He is a senior fellow with the International Security Program and the Director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. You can find him on Exit, Tom Carrico, which is K-A-R-A-K-O. Tom, thank you so much for taking the time to join us. Appreciate you being here.

Hey, good morning. Glad to be here.

So, there's not much to talk about at all because I know one of the things you talk about is preventing nuclear conflict and all that kind of thing.

So, you're the perfect person to talk to today.

So, obviously, we're going to talk about Iran for those of you who aren't quite sure why Tom's here. We're going to obviously talk about Iran.

So, correct me if I'm wrong, but the reason we went. Into Iran. The reason we are engaged right now in Iran, just to clear this up, is because they. Is it because they told Marco Rubio and Steve, actually, Steve Witkoff that they were weeks. From getting a nuclear weapon, and we couldn't stop them now.

Is that why we're there? Because I know a lot of people seem to be confused about that.

Well, I I think it's perhaps understandable that there is some confusion because there have been multiple explanations, a number of competing explanations. But the one to which I repair is the one that, frankly, Marco Rubio stated. He's kind of tried to clarify what are the war aims a couple of times. But whenever he had one of his meetings with a gang of eight on Capitol Hill, he walked out and said, Here, this is why we're doing what we're doing. that we saw in the 12-day war last summer the enormous amount of missile barrages and therefore the missile defense expenditures that we and the Israelis were using.

And he said, look, the Iranians are building many, many multiples of missiles each month relative to what we are building on the defense side, which means that we can't afford to keep doing that. We spent hundreds of interceptors last summer, and we've spent many hundreds this time around. It's concerning how many strike missiles we've also used in the prosecution of this. But essentially, it's, I think, first and foremost to stop the missile program. Yes, sinking the Navy.

Yes, stopping the missile program. And yes, impeding, continuing to impede the nuclear program. And then on top of all that, there is, of course, the admittedly competing objectives about changing the regime, which I think would be, frankly, necessary to ultimately ending the military problem, the weapons problem, is ultimately there needs to be somebody in charge who can say to the military, stop shooting, that sort of thing.

So I think in that standpoint, it does make sense to try to have a political change because otherwise they're just going to rebuild and we'll be back in the same situation a year later. Yeah, but the United States historically does not have a good record on regime change. We're just not really good at that.

So I like what we did in Venezuela. The woman who took over was operating under Bolsonaro, and in my humble opinion, she's the one who dimed him out. And so she is now running the country. Would we do the same thing, though, there? Do you say, like, because I don't know if you can trust any.

Of the IRGC because they're kind of to me like Democrats. They say, oh no, we're moderate. And if the Ayatollah was moderate too, we saw what happened there.

So how involved in that would we get? Yeah, well, I think what you've just described there with Venezuela is actually a good example of regime change that is not kind of confused about the objectives, which is to say Maduro is out, and we're going to give you a couple bumper lanes, a couple guidelines of what you're going to do and what you're not going to do. And if you don't like it, then you'll be out. And I think something like that, having a regime that would accept no nuclear program, that would accept no missile program, and that would, you know, ideally, in an ideal world, stop having all these proxies that have been harassing all of the states of the Gulf, of the region. You know, in the bigger picture here, not for the United States, but for Israel, and their war aims are slightly different.

But for Israel, all of this is footnotes to October 7. And so they've gone and they've cleaned up Hamas. They've decimated Hezbollah to some extent. And now they're going after, you know. Iran, which is the tip of the ultimate source of their problem, for instance.

It's going to be very interesting to see if Saudi Arabia and UAE get into this in the coming days. They all have an enormous incentive to fix this problem. They have been harassed and attacked for years and years by the Houthis, by all these proxies. And so this really is an historic opportunity. And so while it's not about necessarily asking for Jeffersonian democracy in Tehran, Some kind of a political, effecting some kind of a political change that stops these very particular problems, I think, would be a good outcome.

Now so okay, how much though is NATO affected by this? Because we've seen Spain say, sorry, See ya, we're out of here. You can't use our airports. We've seen France say we're not going to help you out. And Trump has made it quite clear that you know what?

We're done with you. You're not going to help us. The next time you guys have a problem, don't pick up the phone.

So, and I think he means it.

So, you know, the world has really counted on us to be their big brother and to beat up all the neighborhood bullies for them, but they don't return the favor. And this has been going on for a long time. They don't pay into NATO the way they're supposed to pay in. They have been riding us the whole time.

So, how much does this affect the stability of NATO?

Well, I Look, NATO is there, and I would say it's critical to remember that NATO is in America's interest, not merely as a service to the folks there. NATO members, of course, did come to our aid under Article 5 after 9-11, and many of them lost significant per capita deaths in Afghanistan, for instance. I would say on this particular conflict, I think that the the White House could have been a little um a little more uh communicative early on about what the objectives were and what we wanted from them. And so they were a little bit surprised early on. And so it's not look look, over the years, going back to the Iraq conflict in 2003, Turkey didn't give us access to their uh Airspace, for instance.

There's been many instances of this over the years. And as it always is, it's complicated and it's messy. Allied relationships are messy.

So you're never going to have perfect agreement among 28 nations. And that's, I think, kind of important to keep in stride on that issue. But in part, I think the United States needs to be a little clear about a little more clear about what it is that we would ask from them in terms of the ask at the moment seems to be help us keep the straits open or get the straits open. But it's a little bit of a complicated problem at the moment.

Well, Ari Fleischer put out yesterday on X, he said, when this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France, and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight, and love the U.S. France particularly deserves fault and blame from supporting China and Russia at the UN to deny Americans overflight rights.

They're doing what they've always done, showing weakness, like cutting deals with terrorists. And then he went on.

Okay.

So you've got not just Trump, you've got others out there saying, you know, something's got to change here. And let me ask you, do you agree that something has to change here?

Well, Ari Fleischer was in the first what was it, the the the second George W. administration. That was over twenty years ago and when that administration was talking about old Europe and New Europe.

So in that respect, that talking point is Has been around a while, and there's some truth to it, of course. I will say, however, that there is a lot of competing issues.

So for instance, in terms of New Europe, in terms of Eastern Europe, our Eastern European friends, who are we closest with, to take, for example, the Poles, Poland, they now kind of have their hands full with trying to deter Russia, with trying to help Ukraine, which is in their backyard. And we asked them to send some patriots to the Middle East recently, and they had to say no. For example, so there are multiple competing objectives here, and you begin to have to make some very difficult decisions when you're trying to fight a multi-front war between the several of us in terms of Poland helping Ukraine and us, what we're doing right now in the Middle East. But I will tell you, bigger picture, go back to the big picture here. What's most concerning to me is the massive expenditure of missile defenses and strike munitions in the Middle East, in the Iran conflict, that are being pulled out of the Pacific.

So the longer, bigger picture here is we may be winning militarily relative to Iran. The danger is that we're losing slowly by degrading our ability to deter China and our relative force posture in the Pacific.

So that's, I think, something really important to keep an eye on. Our overall inventories and what we have in the Pacific. The worst outcome here is we use up all our stuff against Iran, and it encourages China. To go on some kind of adventure in their backyard. China's been pretty quiet.

Are they just funding Iran's proxies? They have not really come out and full-throated defended Iran. They've been very quiet. What does that signal? Damn.

Well, the reports have been that both Russia and China in different ways are helping Iran, certainly with intel and targeting and this kind of thing. The Iranians have been able to, surprisingly enough, hit a number of really exquisite American systems, some radars, aircraft on the ground. It was a very expensive spy plane that they hit the E-3 the other day. And so they are. frankly, really enjoying this.

They don't have to say anything. They're. doing it with their actions via the Iranians. And so unfortunately, they are helping Iran degrade us in some significant ways. And as I'd like to say, there's a guy in Beijing whose job it is is to do nothing more than to have one of those hand clickers and click every time that we shoot off a tomahawk or a Jazzlam missile or a Patriot interceptor.

And we've been doing a lot of that.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

So it makes sense that they want to degrade us because they know that we don't have the capacity to build back enough. And doesn't or didn't China actually build some of our missiles and weapons? Or am I wrong on that? No, we're not.

Okay, it's just T-Move. Yeah, well, look, look, there are some gallium and other kinds of rare earths and that kind of thing that we unfortunately are a little bit too reliant upon China. We're looking for ways to circumvent that. But the weapon systems themselves are built in the United States. Of course, the Chinese help and the Russians help other bad guys in terms of what they're producing.

Right, right.

Okay.

All right. I also wanted to ask you about just some breaking news here: that according to reports, a ceasefire could happen today after talks between. J.D. Vance and Steve Witkoff and Iran's foreign minister all involved in these overnight talks and Pakistan as well. Have you heard anything about this?

Yes, I have seen that. And I think here as always, the devil's in the details. And I would just repair to the conflict last summer. I said at the time, Calling a ceasefire, putting a stop to it was a mistake because it would allow the Iranians time to rebuild and we would be back here a year later. I was right about the first part and wrong about the year later because it only took nine months.

So, my worry is that the terms of this ceasefire are critical back to the bumpers that we talked about earlier in terms of the terms of what they're allowed to do or not do. Simply a ceasefire that gives them time to rebuild and reconstitute, that could be really problematic because we've kind of expended, and the Israelis have expended an enormous amount of missile defense interceptors. And if we give them a year breathing room to go rebuild, we're going to be in a pickle come this time next year. 30 seconds. I just want to ask, because I know that you talk about nonproliferation, and are we destroying enough of the enriched uranium?

Everyone's talking about the enriched uranium. Apparently, we can't go in and get it, but can we bury it far enough underground with the bombing that? cannot be had by Iran. Hopefully, the challenge is being able to assess that and being able to do it long term. They can dig out long term, for instance.

One thing I'd love to see is terms of surrender that allow us to go in and get it and kind of take it apart from the inside out in the way we did with Syria's chemical weapons program some years ago. That would be a really good outcome, something that kind of just leaves it there for them to reconstitute. It's probably pretty degraded. We've hit a lot of this stuff. But the problem is that they They had hardened and deeply buried these things in the first instance to make it difficult, you know, hiding this stuff under mountains and such.

So it's going to be a challenge to assess, to be confident that we've actually destroyed it or buried it sufficiently.

Okay, that's a question so many people have brought, I've heard people talk about, and I wanted to get an answer before I let you go. Tom Carico, thank you so much for joining me again. You can follow him on exit, Tom Carrico, but it's K-A-R-A-K-O. Thank you so much, and have a great day. More coming up.

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This is the Brian Kill Me Show. I just spoke with President Trump for 15 minutes. He gave me some new details on the negotiations behind the scenes with the Iranians and what's going to happen if Iran does not make a good faith deal. The president tells me if they don't make a deal and fast, I'm considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil. The president went on to say you're going to see bridges and power plants dropping all over their country.

Now, I asked him about the possibility of an agreement with the Iranians. He says those who are negotiating on behalf of Iran have been granted amnesty at this time so they can continue the talks. And the president tells me he thinks he'll be able to get a deal by tomorrow. He says, I think there's a good chance tomorrow they're negotiating now. I love that.

I love that Trey Yingst with his helmet on and his vest on, holding his microphone, things are exploding in the background, and President Trump calls him. Just like that visual to me was so funny when I saw this. I was like, poor Trey Yangst. He's got all this going on, trying not to get killed. And President Trump calls him.

He calls a lot of people over the weekend. All right, so you heard there that he was talking about that, but if they don't make a deal and fast, I'm considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil. People have a problem with Trump's language. I don't have a problem with President Trump's language at all. I know some people do, but you know what?

He's not a politician. And because he's not a politician, we he's stopping every he's putting an end to the process that politicians got us to. Politicians got us here. And President Trump is saying I'm not. And he's just saying exactly what I'm going to do.

And he does what he says. If he says it, he means it. He's the dad who doesn't move the bar. Like he says, if this doesn't happen, then you know, if you don't do this, then X is going to happen. He's the dad who X happens.

No matter how much you test him, it happens. He's that guy. I don't think that's necessarily bad. I'm going to take your calls coming up: 866-408-7669. I'm Mary Walter in for Brian Kilmead on the Brian Kilmead show.

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Somebody slap me and wake me the f up because I'm ready to get on with it. If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say? Elon Musk and his hackers don't know. about what it means to run a housing program. I say f Trump!

To think that Elon Musk or Donald Trump give a sh ⁇ about our public schools. We don't swear in public very well, but we have to f ⁇ . Trump. Yeah.

Ah, flashbacks, oldies but goodies of Democrats who decided that now would be a really that now would be a good time to complain about Donald Trump's language, you know, because he put a tweet out On Truth Social.

So, is this not a tweet or is it the truth? It's the truth.

So, he put a truth out on Truth Social. On Sunday, and here's what he said: He said, Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. He posted that yesterday morning, Sunday morning. And then he said, Open the blanking straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.

Just watch, praise be to Allah.

Now People have a problem with it.

Now, I know people on the right, Trump supporters, who have a problem with his language. For me, Growing up in the People's Socialist Republic of New Jersey, so close to New York, It doesn't bother me. I it just doesn't bother me. It's fine. But you know what?

Again, Trump is not a politician. He's not a politician. And everybody says, oh my gosh, I want someone to tell me the truth. I just wish politicians would be honest and politicians would tell us the truth.

Okay, so President Trump is telling Iran the truth and he's telling you the truth. Was his language harsh? But this is a harsh situation. I'm not a fan of. swearing for show?

Again Growing up at the state I grew in, it's more of an art form here.

So, you have to be a little bit more judicious with it. You know, and it is part of everyday vernacular, which, right or wrong, it is what it is. But you can tell when someone is swearing for show, when you're swearing to make yourself look tough and look like a big man, a big alpha, doesn't work when it's coming from a beta. Trump's an alpha. It's coming from an alpha.

Do you know what I mean?

So I I don't know, people people are having a problem, as I said, with his his language. He then posted Tuesday, 8 p.m. Eastern Time. On Truth Social.

So it looks like Tuesday, 8 p.m. Eastern Time is the cutoff. He first demanded that the strait be reopened within 48 hours on March 21st. And he said, if not, he was going to destroy the country's power grid. That window was extended twice before it came back as april sixth as a firm date.

Now, it apparently, according to Axios, indirect diplomatic channels involving Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey failed to produce any kind of. Breakthrough.

Now We did see, and I'll get to your call, Steve. Hang on two seconds here, that U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, and Iran's foreign minister were involved in overnight ceasefire talks that would see a two-stage agreement announced as soon as today.

So they are considering an agreement to be that signed today that we begin an immediate ceasefire ahead of in-person talks for a later comprehensive agreement. That's according to Reuters. Reuters cited only a single unnamed source.

So Take all of that. With whatever you will. You read that, how you will read that. The problem with me. In my humble opinion, I am not a military expert, nor do I even pretend to be one.

But when you give Iran a ceasefire, they use it to move stuff, they use it to hide stuff, and they use it to just regroup so they can come back at you harder.

So, I don't know if that's something that President Trump would go for. I guess we will find out. 866-408-7669 is my number. If you'd like to join in here, get your thoughts, or you can go to X and tag me in a post there at Mary Walter Radio. No, S, Mary Walter Radio.

And I will try to multitask and take your calls, listen to you, and read the text at the same time. We'll see how that goes. Let's go to Ohio. Stephen, welcome. You are on the Brian Kilbreach show.

Hello, Stephen. Hello. How are you this morning? I'm doing just fine.

So what do you think about all this? Lot happens. Lot happens. My question is, China and Russia are said to be helping Iran with this, and even though while they are cooperating with each other, they don't necessarily trust each other.

So my question would be is are they helping Iran so that they could possibly bleed us a little bit?

so that they could possibly make a move in case, like you were saying, where they take the opportunity as far as Iran goes to hide things when they're given this opportunity. And if so, if they are trying to bleed us, are they And they do want to make a move, how long would it take to bleed America enough to give them confidence to make a strike. Yeah, I think that's a great point. Our guest, Tom Carico, had said that that's probably what China is doing. He said there's a guy in China who's every time we fire off a missile, his job is just to have a clicker and he just clicks the numbers because they know approximately how many we have and they know what our capacity is to make more.

and the speed at which we can do that.

So that it that very well may be what is happening here.

So it's a scary thought when you think about it because we our production facilities, Trump is trying to ramp up all of this stuff, but that takes time. And China and Russia both know that.

So that's a scary thought. And China also has a mass reproduction ability for warfare weapons. Whereas we have the tech and the the manpower. Um and and more advanced planes and stuff like that over them. But then again, you have Russia that are they don't really trust each other, but yet they can help each other.

And but but China can very well mass reproduce things faster than we can, so sometimes t Or advanced. Planes and whatnot doesn't always win a war when you have a capability like mass reproduction of your needs. Yeah, they could just retool all those Timu factories, and instead of tiny little things, you know, desks and chairs and things like that that they put on their page, and you get it, and it's really only like two inches by three inches, they can start making bombs, etc.

So, you're absolutely right in everything you said. Thank you so much, Stephen. I appreciate the conversation. I quickly want to go, and then, Fred, hang on, I will get to you in a hot second here. I want to go to Cut 10.

This is Congressman Rokana. He was on NBC, and he was talking about what we're talking about with President Trump threatening Iran and saying this is going to happen, that's going to happen. And his language is getting very, very harsh and very straight and to the point. Here is Rokana's response: Let me tell you what won't reopen the Strait of Formula's threatening war crimes of bombing indiscriminately power plants, cursing at Iran. What we need is statesmen.

Like President Obama had, what we need to do is to stop the bombing, have a ceasefire, and then to work with Oman, to work with China, to work with the Gulf allies and European allies to have a solution to allow Hormuz to be open. But it's not going to happen by massive escalation. Didn't Obama send them pallets of cash under the cover of darkness. And then tell us, well, it was their money. Then why did you send it under the cover of darkness and not tell anybody?

I'm curious, so why was it cash? That's what we need. We need more statesmanship like that. See, I'm a fan of statesmanship. I'm a big fan of talking it out.

I really, truly am. But sometimes you come up against someone and you can't have that conversation with them. We've all seen it. If you're on any social media, you've seen these confrontations like over a shopping cart that someone left in a parking space and it's you know Easter Sunday and the store's crazy and this this jerk parks the shopping cart in the middle of the space next to and and you know won't move it as you're trying to pull in it wants you to get out of the car and take the cart back to where it belongs and these things erupt because some people are sometimes people are just jerks They just are. And sometimes countries are that way.

And so sometimes negotiation doesn't work. You can negotiate till the cows come home. In the meantime, your enemy is building an arsenal or nuclear weapons.

So then, okay, that sounds great, but sometimes you need to get tough and you need to speak a language that they understand. You need to speak in the way that they understand. And I think that's what President Trump does. I really do. Fred, hang on.

You're next. Debbie, hold on. I want to give you more time than what I currently have. I don't want to have to cut you off. You've been so patient, Fred.

So hold on. I will get to you next. Your call's coming up on the Brian Kilmead Show. Diving deep into today's top stories. It's Brian Kilmead.

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Thank you so much for holding on. Welcome. You're on the Brian Kilmead Show. Hello. Good morning.

I'll get right to the point. I understand that there is a deal in place where there's a fifteen days cessation of hostilities. And in exchange, the Iranians promise not to enrich their uranium to weapons grade and open up the space. and in exchange will open up the straits of Hermuz. Is that correct?

Well, they're working on it, apparently. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, Trump. Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran's foreign minister were involved in overnight ceasefire talks that would see a two-stage agreement announced.

So it would be immediate ceasefire ahead of in-person talks for a later compromise agreement. Shame. We are receiving absolutely nothing in return From them, they're automatically obliged to open up the straits because that's international law. They're obliged to follow international law. period.

Trump is being played again. Vance and the rest of them are being played again.

Well, they haven't agreed to that. By five o'clock today, I live on the western west coast, so it'll be five o'clock today would be the end be the cutoff. He should. Follow up. Start bombing, start really going after their infrastructure.

And oh, by the way, it is not a war crime to go after civilian targets. who are supporting the war effort. That includes their uh Their power plants.

So there isn't any downside for us to start hitting them hard and turning the lights off in Iran. That might give the people there. the 90% who are allegedly Against the uh Number less. a chance to go after them.

Well, clearly, you have a lot more military experience and military planning, strategic experience than I.

So I'm going to just say okay, and we'll see what happens. Trump's not known for his bad deals. I mean, every now and then, listen, nobody bats 100%.

So we'll see what happens. You know, we'll see what happens. Tuesday, 8 p.m. We'll see what happens, you know? But thank you, Fred.

Appreciate you joining me. Let's go to Oklahoma. Debbie, I want to get you in here. Debbie, welcome. Welcome.

Thank you. Go ahead, yeah, go ahead.

Well, I just want to know, um If we're trying to stop Iran from having nuclear weapons and uh What do they call that um Oh, I can't remember the word. But anyway, how come some other country like China or Russia can't build them for 'em and just let them have them?

Well, I think you have to have a way to deploy them. You know, you need to be able to shoot them.

So you need to have launchers. They have to be kept, and I would assume in a certain climate, etc., you can't just leave them lying around. I don't think I mean, I don't know, but I don't think but you have to have some way to shoot them off. Russia and China don't have that ability? Oh, Russia and China can shoot them off.

But I've got to say that.

Well, um, I think that they would prefer not to start a nuclear war because remember that stuff goes all the way around the planet, because they also know that we can shoot back, right?

So, if they shoot one at Israel, the rest of the Middle East, which has kind of been coalescing around Israel a tad, you know, that will wipe all of them out too. It's because of the fallout. The nuclear fallout, I would assume, is going to have profound effects in the surrounding countries.

So, China is one of that. It's just mutual destruction at that point. If they do that, if they shoot something at Israel, for instance, or even at the United States, what do you think happens then?

Well, no, I understand all that, but what I'm what I'm I guess I'm trying to say is. Um If Iran wants to wants to make a destructive bomb, you know, and shoot it at somebody. What is stopping the other c the other countries from trying to help them? And I know it's going to destroy the whole planet. Yeah.

But why did they d why did they even want to do it in the first place? Yeah, well, I again, I I I don't know, but I think what's holding them back is because they don't want to destroy the whole planet, they want to be in charge of the whole planet.

So they know they would die too.

So that's probably why they're not doing it. And I think that that's smart that they're not doing it. But as our guests said earlier this hour, that what they're doing, China may be just whittling us down and weakening us. Every plane we lose, every bomb we drop, every missile that we fire off, they know. And they're sitting there counting to see how much we have left.

Because they know that right now they're just making more. They're just making and making it and making and making. They are manufacturing all sorts of weapons and we're using all sorts of weapons. And Biden gave Ukraine so many of our weapons, he really put us at a deficit.

So we are at a shortage right now.

So we have a very strong military, but if we are weakening our reserves, that's a problem.

So, what a better way, wouldn't it be better for China and Russia to be able just to just weaken us to the point where we can't fight a war, a direct hit from one of them? We don't have the resources, we don't have the bombs, we don't have the missiles. It's brilliant when you think about it. They just sit back and do nothing and let Iran take all the hits. And, oh, well, if they have to sacrifice Iran, they don't care.

So, I think that that's part of it. I hope I answered your question, Deb. And I, again, thank you for joining me. I don't know. I have no idea why China is doing what they're doing or not doing what they're doing.

I have no idea.

So this is why we have these discussions, right?

So yeah, but a lot going on, and it's interesting. Just keep watching, just keep watching the news, especially to see if there is a that ceasefire. That could be today. We'll find out, and I'm sure as we get breaking news, I will bring it to you. Yes, I will bring you the breaking news.

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So, so. I want to talk a little bit, I want to about Affordability. The left is all about affordability. Affordability. Affordability.

So let's talk a little bit about affordability, shall we? Very good. Column came out about this, and it's interesting to show the dynamic between policies by politicians that we vote for and affordability in the end. How does that vote work out on our pocketbook down the road? Michael Goodwin, New York Post columnist, wrote a very good piece about this in the New York Post.

You can find him at m Goodwin underscore NY Post. Michael Goodwin, welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show. Such a pleasure to be able to speak with you again. Hi, good morning, Mary. Thank you.

So, you wrote an article. About Democrats planning to raid New Yorkers' pockets for what they're what you know, all that free stuff that Ma'am Donnie has promised everyone, right? I mean, oh, free, free bus rides and free childcare and all this free stuff, but somebody ultimately has to pay for it. Do you think taxpayers are ever, ever going to make that connection? Ever?

Well, look, I think that the people who pay for the free stuff for others have made the connection. They understand. Every time they see a government program that is wasteful or corrupt, I think it angers them such that, you know, that's my money that's being stolen. It was taken from me and somebody else got in the way of it even being used by people who need it. And so I think when government makes these promises, we're going to do X, Y, and Z to help the poor, help the homeless, or whatever, but people who actually pay that Money, they know, and I think they suspect, that a lot of it will be wasted and their hard-earned money will will be not going to any good end, but just in the pockets of somebody who's corrupt.

I think that's a very corrosive feeling that people have. And that's why people are leaving places like New York because they feel it's a giant ripoff. Right. But see, here's the thing, and we were just talking about this before we went on the air because all of us work or live and/or live in New Jersey or New York. People's Socialist Republic of New Jersey, as I like to call it, and of course, you know, full-on communist New York.

And we're saying the problem is they move out of New York. And we had dinner with friends of mine who do living in Brooklyn, Canarsey. And they said it was easier for them to drive to New Jersey than it is for them to get into Manhattan to meet us for dinner. And so they drove to New Jersey. They drove 45 minutes.

We drove 45 minutes. And they were looking at the bill and they were like, oh my gosh, the taxes here are so cheap. And the problem with that is, is New Jersey, I remember, I'm old enough to remember when New Jersey was red not that long ago. You know, Dinkins drove out the first wave. And then, of course, you have what's happening now.

And it's been happening more and more. And de Blasio drove a whole bunch of people out.

Now, ma'am. It's on steroids. They come to states that aren't as communistic and authoritarian as their state or their city, like New York is. And they come here and they're like, oh my gosh, it's so much more affordable. And then they vote Democrat.

I live in a town that was all red. And now I'm starting to see because they found us during COVID, because I live in a beach town. And they found us during COVID. And they said, oh my gosh, I want to live there. It's beautiful.

And then they move here and then they're like, oh, we got to change it. And they vote. Their Biden signs are on the lawn. I never saw a Democrat sign before, but they vote for the same stuff.

So. Why is there such a disconnect? Why can't they figure it out? Yes, it's interesting. There's an old line about Florida.

The further south you go, the more north you get. Because Miami was always kind of a liberal outpost. Ex-New Yorkers, ex-Northerners going all the way down, whereas more rural, more northern Florida areas tended to be more conservative. But you're right that when people leave, they tend to recreate many of them want to recreate the place they left without giving a second thought to well, why did we have to leave in the first place? Right.

And they just don't seem to make that connection. There's a synapse in their brains that don't connect. In your piece, you talk about, you give an example, and I think it's a great I just want to give people the numbers here because you really laid this out beautifully. You note that there's a pilot program that's going to take place in New York City under MAM Donnie that will give the children of city workers, 40 children of city workers, of course, government workers, because they don't get enough perks as it is. We have to give them more.

So the children of 40 city workers are going to be put in a pilot program for free. Child care from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. And it is the first first they have to renovate a 4,000 square foot site, and they're thinking it's going to cost $10 million.

Now, they're estimating $10 million, so you know it's going to be $20 million. And it's supposed to be open in the fall, which means it's not going to be open until 2028. And it will house children from six to three weeks. Six weeks old to three years old. They're saying it's going to cost about $2.3 million, which means it'll cost $5 million.

And they say it in a city budget, as big as New York's, doesn't sound like a lot of money, but you calculated that the operating cost alone means taxpayers will be paying about $57,500 a year for each child in the daycare center.

Now, if you go privately, it's about $25,000.

So they're paying more than twice as much, and that doesn't factor in the cost of renovating the building. And they justify it. Tell everybody how they justify it. They're like, yes, it's going to cost twice as much. But what's the upside?

Why are we doing this? How do they justify it?

Well, because the workers, you know, we don't want to lose them to the private sector. We want to reward their loyalty and keep them so that they'll grow in their jobs and be better. I mean, it's horse hawking, right? I mean, none of that makes any sense, but it is all about freebies. In this case, there will be union members who will be benefiting from this freebie.

And of course, the taxpayers, oh, it's a small one. We'll see. But this is what government does. Government effectively doubles the price of a product compared to the private sector. This is why the government is the best that does the least.

It has certain functions only government can do. But it gets into trouble when it tries to do the things it shouldn't do, it doesn't know how to do. It should be left to the private sector. This is a shining example of that. No, absolutely.

And you also talk about Kathy Hochl, who was running for reelection as well against the Republican, who's Bruce Blakeman.

Now, the gap between the two of them is narrowing, and he is now more popular with independents than she. But she is doing what Democrats do, and she's playing the moderate. No, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to put pressure on the state legislature to raise taxes to feed all of these programs in New York. But the city budget is a deficit of $5.4 billion.

So, if Ma'am Donnie wants to give all this quote-unquote free stuff away, they have to raise taxes on a state level to funnel that money into the five boroughs in order to pay for all of the communist stuff that Ma'am Donnie is bringing into the city.

So, do you think New Yorkers buy her? I'm a moderate, I'm going to fight this act, and then be surprised when she turns around and then just rubber stamps everything. Look, I think um Hoko has put herself In a very precarious position. She's kind of wrapped her. Campaign around Mamdani in several ways, while at the same time rejecting the heart of his program, which is higher taxes on just about everybody.

And so she can't have it both ways. And so I think when she finally makes her choice, I'm going to raise the taxes, she will keep the Mamdani supporters and probably get reelected. But if she doesn't raise the taxes, I think she could she could also win, but she could also be defeated because the Mamdani voters will not come out for her. And she needs a big turnout of Democrats in New York City.

So she's put herself in a situation that could backfire no matter what she does. That's a good point. I didn't think about that. Yeah, that's an excellent point. She needs them.

And if she campaigns as a moderate and goes against Mem Donnie with raising taxes to get the rest of the state that they because who don't want to be paying for all of this stuff in the five boroughs, which it's a huge part of the state Population-wise, but it's such a small part of the state acreage-wise. You know, there's all of upstate, once you get north of Westchester, it's a totally different state. But you see this in so many states where these huge cities just dominate the politics of the entire state, and the rest of the state is forced to go along with the way that the states go. And we're seeing that played out all across the country with blue states who are charging extra taxes. You know, the state of New Jersey, if you sell your house in the state of New Jersey and it sells for over a million dollars, doesn't matter which paid for it, you could pay $999,000, but you sell it for over a million dollars.

There is now a sliding scale of progressive taxes to the percentage that you now have to pay to the state for the privilege of having made a good investment. And it's people are. I have friends who are real estate agents. People are like, people are paying $100,000 extra now to the state. Out of the money that they make selling their house.

It's insane. The mansion jacks in New York has the same thing. But you know, one of the points here, Mary, I think for listeners to appreciate is that in New York City, A Republican needs to get upwards of, say, let's say 35% of the vote. If a Republican running statewide can get 35% of the New York City turnout, he or she will almost certainly win the state.

So the Democrats, they look to get a huge turnout in New York City, and all they have to do is keep the Republican under 30%, and then they will win.

So the battle for New York City will probably determine the outcome of the statewide election. Yeah.

Well, as New York City goes, so does the state. And what do they say? What is the old saying? As California goes, so does the country. Thank goodness that is no longer true.

Michael Goodwin, thank you so much for joining me. It was a pleasure getting to speak with you again. Have a great day. Thank you, Mary. You too.

Thank you. All right, we're going to talk more about this coming up because I do have some more on what some states are planning when it comes to raising your taxes, especially if you would like to leave. They're not going to put up walls because they don't like walls. They're just going to use taxes to try to keep you in that state.

So we're going to talk about that and talk about affordability. 866-466. 408-7669 is my number.

So that's coming up on the Brian Kilmead show. Keeping you informed, engaged, and always a step ahead. It's the Brian Kill Meat Show. If you're interested in it, Brian's talking about it. You're with Brian Kilmead.

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So, I want to talk about what we were just talking about with Michael Goodwin, and that is states that are in debt. Because of their spending policies and because of things like fraud. I'm looking at you, Minnesota, and California, pretty much every state. Who are we kidding? Just fraud, because it was a bottomless pit of people's money.

It was other people's money. And like Margaret Thatcher once said, socialism is great until you run out of other people's money. And then all of a sudden, it's not so great anymore.

So, listen to what some of these blue states are doing. And I was speaking with him about New Jersey, which has a tax. If your home, you sell it for more than a million dollars, I think it's a million from 1 million to 2 million. It's like 1%. And I think it goes up to as high as 3% of the total sales before you pay your agent, before you pay the other tax, before you pay all that other stuff, goes to the state.

Of course, the state is always paid first. They skim right off the top. Right. And then you have to pay because the tax on income and all that other stuff.

So they hit you a lot.

So you think, wow, I sold my house for a million dollars and you walk away with a hundred thousand. You're like, How did that happen? You're like, well, Taxes. Government Somebody needs free health care. That's what happened.

So, listen to this. There is a There's a couple of states that are almost working in concert with each other. It's California, New York, Washington State, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Connecticut. And expect more to join the ranks. I would not be surprised.

And I'm finding it. Just absolutely flabbergasting. Is that a word? Flabbergasting? I'm flabric acid.

I don't know. Is that a now? I mean, for flabbergasting. Anyway, that this is legal. They want to charge an exit tax.

Yeah.

They want to charge an exit tax. California's Billionaire Tax Act would impose a one-time 5% tax on the total net worth of anyone worth more than a billion dollars who live in the state.

So, not their income, but if their total worth is more than a billion dollars, then they would get dinged with this 5% tax.

So, there's a couple problems with this. First of all, most people are like, well, I'm not worth a billion dollars. I don't care. I got mine. But I got news for you.

When those people leave and they can't do that anymore, they just keep moving down. It's like income tax was only for the wealthy. And within a generation, we were all wealthy. All right. We're all paying it, right?

So you could have, let's say, 2 million in liquid assets. But you have a company that on paper is worth $100 billion. But California would bill you on that one hundred billion. And your tax bill would be $5 billion.

So you would have to sell part of your company every year. Until it's worth Less than a billion dollars. Do you see how insane that is? How is that even legal? How is that not seizure, like unlawful seizure?

Washington state, which has never had an income tax in history, here we go, they just passed an almost 10% tax on incomes over a million dollars. This is your income. That cleared the state legislature. And as soon as that happened, you probably heard about this. Starbucks founder, Howard Schultz, announced he was moving to Florida.

He's like, I'm out. And the headquarters announced they're moving to Tennessee. See ya. Bye. Michigan wants to amend its state constitution to impose a 9.25 percent top rate on incomes over 500,000.

So uh and and on and on and on. Let's quickly go to Tony and Clifton. I have about a minute here, Tony. I want to get you in. Welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show.

Mary, thank you.

So Mary, very important. Scorecards for midterms. Voters don't make that connection. We are not guarding our gates. The Democrats are giving away everything.

And when voters go to vote, They need to coordinate them. I leave messages with the White House. You could call them the number and give them their messages. The President needs to connect with the local Republican committees that do nothing, the local branches. They're all useless.

Yes. You know what, though? I will say, Tony, Scott Pressler said, Scott Pressler is a driving force, and I think he's going to change a lot these midterms. Hopefully, you're absolutely right. Coordination is the key.

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Now, and feel free to join me right now: 866-40-87669. Blue states are changing the tax rules on the wealthy, it's going to cost everybody. Washington State, California. Michigan, I mean California's is the worst. Michigan wants to amend their state constitution to impose a nine and a quarter top rate on incomes over $500,000.

Now, the problem is, now across the border in Ohio, the flat income rate is two and three-quarters. In Indiana, it's 2.95, so basically 3%.

So, what would you do if you live in Michigan? Of course, you're going to try to move across the border, right? But that's what's happening everywhere. And people from California are moving across borders to like Montana and to Idaho because those are much less expensive states and they think that they're going to homestead.

Okay.

And so they move there, but then they vote for the same policies. You saw it happen. I live in New Jersey. You saw it happen with New York. New Jersey used to be a red state, and New Yorkers vomited into New Jersey to escape their taxes.

And they voted for the same thing and raised the taxes here in New Jersey.

Now, they're still cheaper than New York, so they're still going to continue to do it until you can no longer the Carolinas, etc.

So that's part of the problem. This is how we all wind up paying. the top one percent of California taxpayers currently supply nearly half of all income tax collections in the state. That's not a sustainable model when you have one percent paying fifty percent of the taxes. It collapses.

Six of California's billionaires left. They have 214. If anybody's single and you're a billionaire, I'm more than happy to divorce my husband for you.

So just, you know, give me a call. They left before they had a and they did a residency cutoff. Like you had to be out by January 1st, 2026, because if you were still there, they were taking it. They were taking that money. Six people left, and they alone took $27 billion in potential tax revenue with them.

Now they have the money to be able to do that. The rest of us are like, oh, I need a job if I'm going to just be fee.

So, and when they leave, who do you think picks up the tab for all the expenses? Because they're not cutting anything in the budgets, they're only expanding them. You don't think Governor Newsom is going to cut a darn thing in that budget, do you? No, he needs to give away stuff so they can make sure that another Democrat gets re-elected. gets elected.

So we all wind up paying.

Okay.

And I don't know how we stop it. And how is this legal to charge, to keep people in a state unless they pay you to leave? I'm not quite sure how that happens. 86640-87669. I guess because you have communists who are in your state legislature, they vote for it as well.

And so, if they vote for it, oh well, you're stuck.

So, that's why you need to plan ahead. You have to have a plan at least a year out, like ready to go.

So that you can beat feet and escape. I mean, it's like you got to get across the wall before they finish building it. 866-408766. My roadie in Indiana. Welcome.

You're on the Brian Kilmead Show. Hello. Thank you, I'm enjoying your show thoroughly. Thank you. Yes, I was I mean, I heard you talking about that tax.

I lived in Illinois my whole life until five until like almost six years ago. And when I sold my little Cape Cod on a forty foot lot My taxes then were over $5,000. And then that included the driveway.

So it wasn't even the size of the house included in that size. But when I moved, because I was trying to get out of Illinois for a long time. they charged you a kiss off tax in that suburb that was just attached to Chicago proper. And it was like, really? On my two hundred sixty seven thousand dollar sale, I had a three thousand dollar kiss off tax that you have to pay before they let you close.

It's insane, right? A lot of the Southwest suburbs do that. I don't know about the other counties, but in Cook County and Southwest suburbs, that's kind of the routine there. And the realtors call it the kiss off tax because they they work that into your numbers. That's a s the Well, in New Jersey we call it something else.

Not to kiss off tax. There would be other words. But we have we have something very similar here, where again, it's if you sell your home for more than a million dollars. And I think there's another tax in New Jersey, but people are getting around it. By I forget which tax it is, but you sell your home, you have to if you sell for more than a million dollars, you have to pay that.

But then if you move somewhere else in New Jersey, you escape another tax. And I think it is like the move out of state tax, and you rent a place in New Jersey for like six months and then you leave, and they don't know that you left the state because you're only renting.

So the things that you have to do to keep your money is crazy and should be illegal. Rhodi, thank you so much for joining me. I appreciate it. Let's go to Pennsylvania. George, you're on the Brian Kilmead show.

Oh, Pennsylvania is getting a lot of people from New York. Hello, George. Hello. Well, it isn't just New York. We're getting them also from New Jersey.

Hey, we do not speak that way. Those are New Yorkers who have moved to New Jersey. They come across, they go from Brooklyn to Monmouth County, New Jersey, or they go from New York to northern New Jersey, and then they move to Pennsylvania. We do not speak that way.

Okay, I must apologize. I'm just stereotyping New Jersey. I understand what you mean. But at any rate, I'm in basically a, what is it, historic. county, a relatively agricultural county.

In Pennsylvania, more in tw somewhat without giving the id exact identity. That's fine.

Somewhat toward the eastern Pennsylvania. Bucks County. Go ahead. Pennsylvania. Bucks County.

Well, well, we're a little bit away from there. At any rate, what we're finding is that we're getting the people from New Jersey and New York. They um sell their two-bedroom bungalow up there. They come out here. They buy uh one acre lot, maybe a two acre lot adjacent to a family farm that's been in the family for a couple generations.

And then they uh a little two-bedroom bungalow that they sold. They built a mc mansion here. They build a box too. And do they build the millennial boxes, the millennial box? And it's white with black windows.

And it's floor-to-ceiling windows, so you can watch them walk up and down the stairs. And it's a box, and it has devoid of any character whatsoever.

Well, some of them have a little bit of character, but at any rate, but the thing that is the most irritating for us who I I'm not a native, I've only been here about forty five or fifty years. And I've been all over the country at vari for employment issues. And I only came here for five years, but then again, I ended up staying. But long story short, after they sell their two bedroom bungalow, that with all the money they build this fantastic huge Right. And then when the farm goes about its normal activities, They do nothing but complain.

They don't want the s the smell of spreading manure. They they don't they object to the fact that, oh, my goodness, he's spraying uh his crops which he has done for years. And then another thing that we have is we get the retirement communities. One of which wish wants to in a historic downtown area. Build a twenty-bit story.

All glass, you know, non, it's completely out of context, skyscraper. That with a half a million dollar entry fee for an apartment. Right in the middle of the historic district. I mean, it's obscene. You know, people of New York, New Jersey, take my appeal.

Stay in New Jersey or New York. Or vote these clowns out. Yeah, no, I listen, I feel your pain. We go through it all the time here. As I said, my town has been overrun, and all the people it's sad because we're all planning to move out, and you know, we're gonna have to make new friends, which is hard at a certain age, but this is what we're gonna have to do.

And such is life. It is what it is. George, I'm not moving to Pennsylvania, so you're gonna be okay. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much.

Well, I don't know. People with common sense are welcome. But uh the stereoty stereotypical uh New York, New Jersey I Stay there or go to California. You know, if you're moving west, go all the way. No Democrats.

I got you. Thank you so much, George. Have a great day. All right. I want to talk about Iran, shall we?

And I want to talk about just a couple of things. I want to get to the rescue of the airmen, the WSO. My husband's like, you have to use the right letters, W-S-O. I'm like, okay, weapons specialist officer, or something along those lines. I said, all right, I will make sure that I do that.

But I just want to let you know there will be a. Today at 1 o'clock, there is a press conference with the President.

So that will be happening today at 1 o'clock. There will be a press conference with the President, and we're still waiting for more details. on a story that Vice President Vance. Steve Witkoff and Iran's foreign minister had over a nice ceasefire talks with this two-stage agreement being discussed.

So that could be announced as early as today.

So we will find out, of course, that you'll be updated. If you stick with Fox News Radio, as soon as it happens, you will know it.

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Now, the president also provided new details on what happened earlier this year as the Iranian regime took to the streets and slaughtered what the president tells me is 45,000 civilians in their own country. After that took place, President Trump told me the United States sent guns to the Iranian protesters. He tells me we sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds, and the president says he thinks the Kurds kept them. He went on to say we sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them.

Wow. Wow. That's interesting. 866-40-87669. Just very quickly on the affordability topic.

Thank you so much to Joe Katz from 995WRNN in Myrtle Beach listening and also on the morning show there, weighing in and saying nothing speaks to your topic than my family all vacationing this weekend for Easter in Myrtle Beach, all originally from New Jersey, now living in Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina. Never in a million years would you have convinced my family 25 years ago that we'd all be living in the South. Yeah.

And thanks. Thanks very much for carrying the show, and thank you for joining me here, Joe. Appreciate it. All right, so we're talking about Iran, and I want to talk a little bit. About, and this plays Brian, who's been on hold here.

He's been waiting here. This kind of goes into what Brian's going to talk about. And so, Brian, I'm going to take your call first, and I'm going to go into something that has happened in this country that maybe some people don't even know about. Brian in Newtown, North Dakota. Welcome to the Brian Kilmead Show.

Thanks for hanging on.

Well, thank you.

Well, I served in the Navy during the Indian Ocean crisis and prior to while the Shaw was there, and we used to train Iranians. I literally sat right next to them. Really cool people. They're like everybody else. They wanted to just drink beer and chase women.

And so, anyway, what they would tell us is that their culture is based on losing face and a matter of maintaining face. We trained them early on. If they failed, we sent them back. They were literally beheaded even under the Shaw regime because they caused their upper officers to lose face.

So we just passed them and sent them home. Everybody graduated. Everybody was fine.

So what we're dealing with right now with this regime is the same thing. They lose face. They will die. They will die one way or the other. They will sacrifice everybody and everything in this country, their country, in order to maintain control.

control because the moment they lose control They lose faith, and that's the end to them, one way or the other. It's do or die for them. And you see that with the reports that they've got kids as young as like 11 years old that are serving now. And Hitler did the same thing, right? They wound up that you run out of adult men to kill, so let's bring in the kids.

And that's what they do. But these children have been indoctrinated from birth. Around this culture. And so their parents, I don't know whether they're taking these kids by force or the parents are saying, Here, have my son, because they believe it as well. And it's, you're right, it's a cultural issue, which is why I hope, and I'm pretty sure, that, Brian, that Donald Trump will not go for regime change.

We have to let them choose the system under which they want to live, right? Because we're terrible. We assume everyone wants to live in a democracy like we do with freedoms. And a lot of people aren't used to that and don't know how to do it. And so it fails spectacularly.

So they have to, the people have to choose, which is why when President Trump told Trey Yingst that we gave them guns, we gave the protesters guns, but he thinks the Kurds took them.

Well, now they got a problem, right?

So there's a lot of tribalism, obviously, in that country. And they're the only ones who can figure that out, not us. That's not our battle to fight. Just as long as I don't have nuclear weapons, I don't care who's in charge as long as they figure it out. Absolutely.

The people will have to take over the regime because if they don't, nothing will ever change. You'll just have the other group come in and they'll continue the same thing. The people have to remove the regime themselves. Yeah, absolutely. Brian, thank you so much for your comments.

It was a good conversation. Thank you for joining me here on the Brian Kilmead Show.

So I don't know if you heard. But now, I've got a couple of these, but the daughter, a physician who is the daughter of a man named Ali Larajani, that's her father. Her name is Dr. Fatima Ardashir Larajani, and she was on the medical faculty at Georgia's Emory University. And people found out, and they found out who her father was.

He served as a secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council before he was killed in a U.S. airstrike.

Well, she was just removed from her post as an assistant professor at Emory following a public backlash that triggered that happened, the backlash happened of her being employed there because of the brutal killing of all the protesters, just slaughtered like something like 40,000 protesters.

So people started protesting the university. Her father was considered a close confidant of the former supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Now the federal the federal government revoked her and her husband's legal status earlier this month as part of a broad crackdown on foreign nationals with ties to Iranian leaders. Why were they here anyway? Why? And and the then the IRGC.

That's a terrorist organization. Mm-hmm.

So there was a petition that was signed. There were demonstrations outside, as I said. And so then you had Congressman Earl Buddy Carter out of Georgia, who wrote to Emery and the Georgia Medical Board demanding that she be fired and stripped of her medical license.

So her She reportedly got a green status, legal card, she got legal status with a green card. In 2021, And her husband also has legal status, but not anymore, because they have been kicked out and sent back. Because, as you just heard, they have a philosophy that doesn't work with ours. More coming up. From the Fox News Radio Studios in Midtown Manhattan, it's the fastest-growing radio talk show.

Brian Kilmead. Hey, I'm Mary Walter. Welcome to the Brian Kill Me Show. How are you? I'm doing alright, you know.

Had coffee, so I can't complain. Mm. It's weird how, and it's not the caffeine for me. I don't know, it's just the ritual, I think, of having that cup of coffee just to start my day. And I did that, and Yeah.

It makes everything right when I don't have that for whatever, you know, because I have to fast or for whatever reason, I can't have it. It just kind of throws off my whole day. We are such creatures of habit, at least I am.

So let's talk a little bit about Iran, shall we?

So I love this. This should have happened a long time ago, and this makes me so happy. And I love when people from the left will post this on social media. By the way, Mary Walter Radio, no S. Find me on X.

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So. I love when people on the liberals will post about, is this what you voted for? And they post something that they think is horrifically egregious. Like, it's terrible. It's literally the end of democracy.

And is this what you voted for? And all the responses are like, yes, this is exactly what I've voted for. Thank you for asking. And they don't get the response they expect.

Now, maybe over on Blue Sky, which I would have to assume that that is a scientists a thousand years from now are going to dig up the old posts on Blue Sky and study it because it's going to be just a deep dive into mental illness. I'm kidding you not. Like, that's what it's going to be. I used to like, I kind of get uncomfortable when people would say that the left has like a mental illness, but. I do think some of them do.

It's like a woke mind virus. But anyway, so when they posted about this, I was like, well, yes, yes, thank you. I did vote for this.

So Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is amazing, the man does everything, I'm telling you, Vance Rubio ticket, that's what it's going to be. And then you got you get Vance for if we could get him for eight years, which would be amazing, that would be great. But Congressional Republicans don't do anything, so don't count on it. And then have Marco Rubio Poor Golden But Okay. You know.

Ask for it all. Yeah, you a you ask for for a foot and you take Three inches at least is better than you have before.

So, anyway, he announced that two relatives of the late Qassam Soleimani, notice it's always the late, had their green card revoked and they are now in custody, ICE custody, because they're getting deported. Bye-bye. Go back home. Should have been done. How these people are still in our country is insane to me.

Well, you know, they're good citizens, but they're nice people. Yes, they hate us. They hate us. One of them is even posting things like Death to America, but we should definitely leave them here. The IRGC, of which are Father, Was a part of, these are two relatives, one's a cousin, a niece, and her daughter.

He was a crucial figure in providing IED components that were used against our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now, he was killed off in 2020, so they've been here for a while. The State Department said that his niece. And her daughter have been living a lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles. Last night, the niece and grandniece of deceased Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Qasem Soleimani was arrested by federal agents following Secretary of State Marco Rubio's termination of their lawful residence status, according to a statement that was released. Hamida Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in custody of ICE.

As identified by both press reporting and her own social media commentary, Soleimani Afshar is an outspoken supporter. of the terrorist regime in Iran. Excuse me. Yeah.

The statement went on to say, while living in the United States, she promoted Iranian regime propaganda, celebrated attacks against American soldiers and military facilities in the Middle East. She praised the new Iranian supreme leader, denounced America as the great Satan, and voiced her support for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is a designated terror organization. Why was she here? Why are Democrats so okay with this? Why is it that?

And let's face it. Oh, excuse me, I'm getting all worked up. Why? And I know that governments can't do everything. The government's so big in the country, so massive.

It's hard to get everybody. But when they're posting about this stuff on social media, it can't be that hard to just run an algorithm. Excuse me, and find these comments and find out who they are. How hard is this? There are kids who would be happy as clams to have you pay for them.

to sit and just Troll social media looking for these things, and if they are in the country on a green card, bye-bye, sweetheart. Move over.

Somebody else, we can put somebody more deserving in the seat. And Marco Rubio in a post on X said the Trump administration will now not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals to support anti-American terrorist regimes. Yay!

Now, they were living a life of luxury.

So the. Aunt, I think no, the aunt was living in an additional dwelling unit, an A D U or an auxiliary dwelling unit, wherever you live, whatever it's called it's called an A D U in the back of this house in L A.

Now, the aunt the niece, excuse me, was forty-seven, her daughter's twenty-five.

Now, a piano instructor named Halasius Bradford. Is that not the perfect name for a piano instructor? It sounds like something out of like the 70s movies with like Willy Wonka or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, those old Disney movies where they had like correct gas pots. Halesius Bradford's piano instructor, and he gets caught up in this story because he rents a single-story property that's owned by the aunt. And the ant lives in this one A story little additional dwelling unit in the backyard.

Weird, right? They were taken into custody in what he called dramatic scenes about five o'clock. He said ICE had been active in the streets leading up to the arrest. He's driving back to the property during the raid, and he finds the street blocked off by ICE. He said it was the craziest thing.

So they find out.

So now the California Post goes to the home. On Saturday, and they revealed that Afshar, she was living in this small unit, as I said, behind the house. It's a two-bedroom, two-bath home.

Now, he never met them. This house was listed, and he signed everything remotely with the daughter, not her mom, the aunt. All right. Well, excuse me, the niece. Keep calling her the niece.

The niece of the IRGC guy who has since been. sent to his heavenly reward.

Now, inside this little box that she lived in, a selfie ring, a full-form mannequin to hang all of her designer outfits. She drove a black Tesla, and in the black Tesla, when they got to the house to look at it after they took them away, was a Mistior bag, some Herme cushions, a Sephora makeup bag, and another gray leather handbag in the front passenger footwell. She some items in the car bore Arabic writings. There were a few parking tickets scattered inside. And it's the first time that he ever met her in person.

Both women were at the property because the city of Los Angeles was inspecting that little unit that she lives in. And that's why they were both there when Ice arrived.

So they probably figured they I would assume they worked that out or knew.

Now the daughter's boyfriend was also there. and they were driving outside when Ice intercepted them. And The piano teacher. What's his name? I love his name.

Halasius. Said that the niece, the mom of the daughter there, was crazy and acting strangely. The mother seems kind of nuts. She said she had been having chemo for cancer. And but so they got all this money, all of this money.

So, you know, this is money that's being funneled out of Iran for them to sit here and scream death to America and. None of them dress modestly at all. Like the daughter is dressing. There's pictures of her all over wearing black corsets with these little short pink mini skirs. And They show them outside helicopters with designer accessories, the little mandatory little dog that you carry.

So, this is where the money's coming out of Iran. This is where it's going. This is where it's going. So, good. I'm glad we got rid of them.

Glad we got rid of them. Coming up, let's talk about the rescue of the F-15 crew member. We'll talk about that because we've got some information on that. We're going to try to jam it all in here. I swear, there's so much happening every single day.

Try to jam it all in here. I'm Mary Walter. You're listening to the Brian Kilmead Show.

Okay.

Big guests, bold opinions, better information. This is the Brian Kilmead Show. The fastest three hours in radio. You're with Brian Kilmead. In an extraordinary turn of events, the United States has rescued the second crew member who was in the U.S.

F-15 fighter jet shot down over Iran Friday. President Trump texting me directly this morning, the rescue was an Easter miracle. The enemy was large and violent. The rescuers were brilliant, strong, decisive, and as cool as anyone can be. The Iranians thought they had him, but it wasn't even close.

And remember, we got two, but couldn't talk about the first in that it would have highlighted that there was a second. Such a rescue has never happened before in so violent an enemy territory. It is usually not done because it is considered not doable. Such a great military, like no other. That was Christian Walker reading texts from President Trump.

Regarding the rescue of that second crew member from the F-15 that was shot down over Iran.

So I thought it was a great way for her. I think she started her show at that, and I think it was really appropriate, which is why we wanted to bring it to you here.

Now, They did say talk a little bit about that rescue. Thank goodness. Listen, I don't think we should know everything. I really don't. Like, stop telling us stuff.

Don't tell us stuff. Like, I don't think they should have told us about the E perb that's in their suits that automatically activates if they eject. I don't think they should have told us about that. Because nobody would have been looking for it. If they capture someone or they find a uniform or something, they would not be looking for it.

I don't think they should tell us anything. Don't give away your secrets. Keep it. But that's just me.

So they initially, according to President Trump, he feared a message from a stranded crew member of the Strike Eagle shot down by Ariane could have been a trap set by Iranian forces. He was speaking to Axios about an hour after confirming the rescue, and he talked to something like forty outlets. After the rescue. This is crazy. And he said that there are thousands of these savages hunting him down.

Even the population was looking for him. They offered people a bonus if they captured him. The weapon system officer hid in a mountain crevice, adding that the military had been beeping tracking information about his location. After a radio message, officials suspected he might be in Iranian captivity. They believed Iran could be sending false signals to lure the U.S.

forces into a trap. He said the officer gave a short, unusual message over his radio after ejecting from the aircraft, and he said that the message was, power be to God. But a U.S. defense official said it was the exact phrase was, God is good. And Trump said they were first thought that would be something that a Muslim would say.

And but his friends, people who knew him, said no, that's him. That's exactly something that he would say.

So they were afraid that initially It was um It was a trap.

Now, this guy, Air Force Colonel, that's all we know. He climbed a 7,000-foot ridge. He was seriously wounded. We know that. We know that he was flown to Kuwait for treatment, not even Launch Duel, Germany.

They took him to Kuwait for treatment.

So he's probably seriously wounded. He still climbed a 7,000-foot ridge and hid in a crevice to evade capture for 36 hours. Ow worse.

So he was a day and a half. in the mountain range. That's more than 1.3 miles that he climbed to avoid detection. He only had a handgun with him. With the help from the CIA, military officials were able to track his equipment to his exact location and confirm his status.

Along with helping track the officer, the CIA pulled off a diversion tactic.

Now, why are you telling us this? Why? That saw that the US planted fake intel that the soldier had already been rescued and was being driven out of Iran.

Now, I believe it because I'm seeing all these posts all over X, and I'm like, what the heck is happening here? All over social media that, oh, they got him, they got him, they got him. And then I'm like, no, they didn't get him. That's not real. I'm like, no, they didn't get him.

So I didn't know what to believe. I had no idea what to believe. And that was the point, I guess. And they said, when it was time, a massive broad daylight operation was launched involving dozens of aircraft and MQ-9 Reaper drones that provided a protective perimeter. And any hostile force that got within two miles of his position, they blew him up.

The video is insane to see. Insane. It. This operation involved 100 special ops forces led by SEAL Team Six. Delta Force commandos and Army Rangers were on standby, which Army Rangers, aren't they the mountain guys?

That's what my husband said. He goes, Why wasn't they Army Rangers? They're the mountain guys. Anyway. And at the end, there, they had two.

They got into Iran. They. They managed to establish an outpost, a command center in country, and Build a runway. In country, but I'm it's insane what they can do. We have the best military.

But unfortunately, two aircraft that were stationed in this, just south of the city of Isfahan by this runway became stuck in the sand.

So the US had to blow them up so that they couldn't get any of the equipment, unlike Joe Biden. We blew him up. We didn't leave it for them. And they sent three more aircraft to pick up the stranded forces. And, like I said, he was flown to Kuwait as a rescue plan.

Crazy, crazy, crazy. Very quickly, Luke in Illinois. I've got two minutes for you here at most.

So go. Welcome to the show. Go. Luke. Here we go.

All right. Luke's not there. All right. Well, that was the quickest phone call. There you go.

Now he's there. Luke, you got like a minute and a half now. Go. All right. I think with Trump making moves on the Panama Canal, making deals with Venezuela, I think the best option that we have is to destroy all the oil over there in Saudi Arabia and get all the people that owe that we owe our debt to And make a deal with them and reduce our debt by selling them our oil.

Now, you mean Iran, the oil in Iran?

Well, I mean. Not Saudi. We can't grab Saudis.

Son is boy, we can't do that. Yeah, they're saying they're gonna burn it all anyway.

So I mean it might be the game plan to just let it all go up.

Well, I don't think Saudi is going to burn all their oil. I think that the Saudis working with us right now, and so is UAE. And so, so I don't think that they're going to burn all their own oil. But I think Trump's plan is to take the oil. We got to run, Luke.

Thank you so much.

I do appreciate you joining me. I just want to give you a taste of what we're going to be talking about coming up. And I want to talk about the influence of young social media influencers who are highlighting going back to religion, primarily Catholicism. These kids are catching fire and they're everywhere. And I follow several of them online because I'm so fascinated by this movement by these young Gen Z influencers, again, particularly the Catholic ones, because those are the ones that I've seen.

I don't know. I'm sure there are some for other religions as well, but it's really being shown across the country with surface. Uh, Population in the Catholic Church. And I have a little story that goes along with that that I'll share with you coming up. With Catholics coming back to the church or Converting.

And we want to talk about why you think that is. Why do you think it is that young hip. Gen Zers Are making church cool. There's a church in New York, St. Joe's, down in Greenwich Village, and they actually get together beforehand to come together.

And then they all walk over to St. Joe's, and there's hundreds of them. Why? Why do you think that's happening? 866-408-7669.

Your call's coming up next on the Brian Kilmee Show. The talk show that's getting you talking. You're with Brian Kilmead. Do you feel like there's a lot more young people who feel like you right now? I feel like there's a lot of young people that are lost, confused, and just broken.

Once you fill that void with the Holy Spirit, you'll experience real peace, and I'm a testimony of that. They've looked to other things. And nothing's really Fulfilled them. Nothing's really satisfied them. And they're longing for more, they're longing for the truth.

A lot of times we think of revival as in these big events and these catalytic events, but I think just the hunger and the curiosity that people are looking for. Hopefully, we'll provide a place that's hopeful for them. Church is not just a building you go to, but a family you belong to. It's just kind of been a voice in the back of my head telling me that I need to turn to God. I've been half in, half out with my faith, and I decided that tonight was the night.

I just felt the movement of the Holy Spirit.

So there you go. All of those young people in Pittsburgh, in Houston, Long Island, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh again, talking about why they've decided to go back to church or to go to church for the first time. And with a lot of them, actually taking the step to convert to Catholicism, which I think some people view as like, oh, very strict and an extreme form of Christianity. And other people say, well, it is the original church, so it's really not extreme. Wherever, whatever you prefer.

Whichever you prefer, whatever you do, that's fine. I just love people going back to faith. Going back to because I think having God in your life, having a higher power over you, helps with the sense of morals, helps guide your life. And I think it fulfills you in ways that you're not going to get by ordering a bunch of stuff off the internet. You're not going to get, you know, people.

That's why I think these young people seek affirmation on social media, which is why they're always posting like these lavish lifestyles. And, you know, that's why now, like, their bachelorette parties and bachelor parties. We have a bunch of weddings coming up. And one of them, the bachelorette party, was in Paris. We went to Paris for the weekend.

I'm like, what? I had a brunch. That was my bachelorette party. What are you talking about? Because everything has to be Instagram-worthy in their lives, because that's where they get their validation.

This is just my own theory.

So, if you have a theory, 866-408-7669.

Now, I want to talk a little bit about. What you may have seen on social media, and it plays into what one of the young men said there. He said, Church is not just a building you go to, but a family you belong to. And I think these young kids, you know, they had COVID right in their lives, they don't. They've lived their lives on their phones.

I have been in a group of 16-year-old girls on the beach, which don't ever do that. It's awful for your self-esteem. And they're all sitting there and they're beach chairs and everything, and they're all on their phones. And I said to my sister-in-law, one of the mothers of one of the girls, I'm like, Do they talk to each other? She goes, Oh, they're talking right now.

That's how they do it. On their phones, they chat with each other. It's like, are you kidding me? That's what they do.

So I think they're craving some kind of human connection because they don't go to bars, they don't go out, they don't go to malls as a group anymore. They don't do those things that we did all the time to get out of the house because we didn't have the option of sitting there and doing nothing except looking at a screen and feeling a connection with the rest of the world.

So in New York, I mentioned it earlier, is a church called St. Joseph's. It's in Greenwich Village. And there is this guy. Who went around ranking Catholic churches, Anthony Gross?

I follow him too. And he's 22 years old. And he just started ranking Catholic churches, which ones are best for young people. And so this church has become super popular. And he has a friend, Kate DuPetro, who, by the way, is Dana Prino's assistant.

And they had this idea to take it even further. And so they've started this meetup before Mass with an hour for fasting before you take the Eucharist for a slice of pizza. At just a casual hangout community event, the first one they had, 100 young people showed up. They're searching for something, and this is filling that void. And I don't think it's a bad thing, filling the void.

As long as they're genuine in what they're feeling.

So you've got Andrew Gross and Kate DiPetro who have figured it out. And I think that this is a good thing. I'm glad to see it.

Now, it's not just them, and I'll get to your calls in a hot second here. Hang on. Don't go anywhere. 866-408-7669. But I want to go to Cut 20.

It's not just young people. This is Jenny McCarthy, who is married to Donnie Wahlberg. Mark Wahlberg's brother, and we know that Mark Wahlberg is very religious. You see him all the time hawking the halo app. And he is very open about how he prays every morning for an hour.

He goes, shuts himself away and prays every morning. Very Catholic. And here she is discussing how she and Donnie have built religion into their lives. We're followers of Christ. That's a follower of Christ.

So, call it what you want. Yeah, so we've leaned even more. um into our faith. in the last you know couple years of just Always, of course, like I said. Been, you know, devout, but this, we've like, I would say, surrendered.

We really have. Um Given our life. You know, to the Lord and just following that path and trusting the path. honoring what we're here to do through him. Beautiful.

I think that's lovely. They were both raised Catholic, but they don't go to Catholic Mass. They're not part of the Catholic community anymore. But Who cares? It's a beautiful thing that they're doing.

And one last one. My Aunt's husband, my aunt passed away last year, and he's probably 81, maybe late 70s, early 80s. He was born Catholic, was baptized, but he never, you know, stuck with the church. And my aunt didn't either. They got married at the UN, very hippie, you know, they were hippies.

And then my aunt, you know, the light light bulb went off in her head. She became very Catholic. She became like she was Catholic on steroids. And he would go to mass with her. He would do all this stuff, but he never became Catholic.

We always say to him, you know, when are you coming back to the church? You know, when are you just going to pull the trigger and just become Catholic? And my aunt always used to say, when I die, he's going to do it. And sure enough, she passed away. And on Easter weekend, He received the sacrament of confirmation, and now he is, so now he is full-blown Catholic.

And it's funny because he knows more than the rest of us do a lot of times because he's like a reformed smoker. You know how it is.

So it's not just all the young people, there's older people as well who are making this journey back to faith. Faith. 866-408-7669. So I want to get your thoughts on this. Viviana, listening on WABC in Brooklyn.

Hello, Viviana. Welcome to the show. Thank you for taking my call. Of course. This has been a desire of our heart.

We've been praying for revival all over the nation. And I think one of the big sparks Is what Charlie Kirk had been to many of these Jen Zers. He was an influencer that said, you need to have a relationship with God to find your purpose. They said, he said, find a person you can commit to, get married and have children. He was going counterculture.

And then the young people that you interviewed, they had said, you know, I find my life empty. And the fact is, as a chaplain, I see this happening all the time. When people feel like they're isolated, they come into a community of faith, they make a commitment for Christ. To become saved again, born again, and they start to live out the life that God intended for them. There's an actual passage, Jeremiah 29:11, and it says, I have plans for you, plans for good and not destruction, and expected end.

If you seek me, you will find me. And he has done that for so many people that have been broken and that have been hurt and that are looking for something more. And if it is a good church, and I'm glad you mentioned that, it has to be a church that really centers on the Bible, the truth of the Bible. And if you have that and fellowship, which is another good form of getting to know one another, then that will bring that community that they're looking for as well. Absolutely.

Well said, Viviana. Thank you so much for joining me. Me. Yes, absolutely. And that's why Kate Petro and Andrew Gross, what they are doing and what they've discovered is having these get-togethers with these other young people and then all walking over to St.

Joseph's, these young people who are either converting or have come back to the Catholic Church. And again, I'm sure it's not all Catholic. It's just that those are the that's where the influencers who are really, really gaining a lot of traction on social media are. That's where they are. They're either converting.

There's tons of conversion stories you see all over, and a lot of people going back to it. That's just the religion right now. That's just the branch that has the influencers right now. And I think part of it is they want the tradition. Viviana kind of touched on that.

They want tradition. We blew out tradition. They grew up in a society where everything was a go, there were no norms. Uh and now they want They want those traditions. And I think she made a good point with Charlie Kirk as well.

More of your calls coming up, Rob, Walter, Steve.

So don't go anywhere. You're listening to the Brian Kill Me Show. It's Brian Kilmade. Uh He's so busy, he'll make your head spin. It's Brian Kilmead.

Mary Walter in for Brian.

So we're talking about these influencers, these young kids making a comeback, coming back to religion. And the biggest ones, the biggest influencers online are Catholic influences. I'm sure it's happening with other religions as well. But there's a problem. You got all these people coming back to the church.

And it's not just the kids, but coming back to the church. And churches are still closing because there aren't enough priests. And it's going to take a while for any of these kids to decide, hey, I want to go into the priesthood before those priests get through the system and get into a church. And it has to translate into dollars too, because it costs a lot to educate the priests and healthcare and money and all that stuff to support them.

So that is part of the problem. It's a bit of an oxymoron.

So many people going back to churches and then. There aren't enough priests. All right, your calls. 866-408-7669. Trying to figure out why do you think this is happening, Robin, Texas?

Welcome. You're on the Brian Kilmeat Show. Hey, thanks for letting me call in and chat. I was also going to give a shout out to my Orthodox family. Because Fox News seems to report on Catholicism pretty much nonstop.

And that's wonderful. Catholics are the original church. As are Eastern Orthodox. And the Orthodox Church is experiencing a massive boom in attendance. And it's It's pretty much all young families, young singles and young families with kids.

The church that I attend in Louisiana is.

So crowded that we can barely fit everyone in, and we're having to build a new church. And it's wonderful. These old Protestant churches are dying a slow bet while Orthodoxy is booming in this country. It's all glory to God for this. A hundred percent.

And I b and I think that One, you know, the Orthodox Church is, I think, even more traditional. Then the Catholics. You know, very, it's very much more of the tradition. I just think there are more Roman Catholics in this country, so there are more opportunities for young people to join a Roman Catholic church just because there are just more of them. Right.

We have people driving from an hour to two hours away every Sunday because there's not an Orthodox church near where they live. Right. So. Yeah, it's wonderful to see these traditional believing churches that are the original churches. It's ancient.

Nothing in Orthodoxy has changed since the time of Christ. Yeah.

And we pride ourselves on that. And I know pride is a sin, but it's something really beautiful that connected me as well. And I'm not one of the young ones. I'm sixty two. I'm one of the young boomers.

Right. Oh, so it's like my uncle, you know, who decided now's the time.

So whatever moves you, I think it's important. Thank you so much, Rob. I appreciate you sharing that. And yeah, I was we just had dinner. With three women from Ukraine who are Russian Orthodox.

And we were talking about some of their traditions for Easter, etc. And it was super interesting. And we're on the same Place. It's just that the traditions are different between Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox. Let's head to Walter, also listening on WABC and Yonkers.

Walter, welcome. Hi. Hi, Mary. Uh, back around nineteen eighty, I was the young guy traveling an hour to get to a traditional Latin Mass uh on Long Island. And nowadays, I'm within walking distance of a Latin Mass in my own neighborhood.

And and uh these days the the The parish is populated largely with the young families, teens and twenties. And the older ones, the boomers my age, go to more to the to the new English mass that came in in 1965.

So there is an age divide, and I suspect it's largely countercultural. Exactly. It's their way of rebel. You knew the pendulum was going to swing back, right? It can only go so far to Crazy Town on either side before it eventually writes itself.

And what's the greatest way to rebel against your parents? Become conservative, right? That's what that is. If you want to rebel against your crazy hippie parents, become conservative.

Well, then again, I suppose I've always been that kind of countercultural. When everybody else my age was burning their draft cards, I went to Vietnam. There you go.

Well, bless you for your service. And I'm so glad that you were brave and you took the right path.

So, thank you for that, Walter. Thank you so much for joining me. Have a great day. So. So, yeah, that you you have you have all of this happening.

Do you think it lasts? I know we don't have a lot of time left, but do you think it lasts? Do you think that they stick with it? I don't know. I hope so.

I hope so. You hear them talking about traditional values, about wanting to get married again. Yay!

I think that's fantastic. I wonder if all of this sticks, but unfortunately, then the next generation will swing against them. But I'll be dead by then, so I'm okay. I just want to save this generation. I need to save Gen Z.

Steve in Chesapeake, Virginia. Welcome. I got about a minute and a half, Steve. Go ahead. Good morning, Mary.

I'll be quick. I was born in the sixties and I uh raised Catholic, but I went into the uh Marine Corps at an early age And every when I was in the Marine Corps, it was non-denominational, and I found myself Raising to that level as opposed to being very scripted Catholic when I grew up.

So, my whole time in a service until I retired, and you're in a foxhole, it's non-denominational. There's no, you know, but there was a central theme, and everybody dug the whole concept about Jesus Christ, and that's where I kind of felt felt myself. But when I retired, I went kind of in a retired about 20 years ago. I went into a pretty dark spot because I kind of lost that camaraderie that being with other people, where there was a common belief everybody had, but it was very non-denominational. Yes, you had a.

You know, your chaplains and stuff.

So when I got out, I went into a dark spot, but I pulled myself out about 10 years ago and I just started having a better relationship with Jesus Christ. And I really started searching for the non-denominational, but I found I hear all these people talking about these places you go to worship. I kind of have my own place. I could worship in my own yard, in my house, and I'm just glad. But you're saying about these young people, I really think they made religion cool.

Yeah, no, Steve. In the 60s, it wasn't cool. Yeah, no, you're right. First of all, thank you so much for your service. You're doing something I could never do.

Thank you. We're running out of time here. We got to go. And so that's an example. It doesn't have to be in a church.

Just coming back to some kind of faith that grounds you, I think, is so, so important. I really do. Very quickly, we talked about JD Vance and Vice President Vance and Steve Wickoff speaking through Pakistan with Iranian officials hoping for a ceasefire. Iran has rejected a temporary ceasefire. They gave a 10-point response to the U.S.

proposal.

So. Yeah, we'll see what happens. I don't think it's a smart move on their part, and they're trying to push President Trump. But he's not President Biden, so it's going to be very interesting to see what happens. I'm Mary Walter.

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