s no telling. We'll definitely be involved but to what scale? Hopefully not super invested in Iran. It's just too much of a risk I think.

So if we don't get invested what's that going to look like? Well that shouldn't be as much of our concern as they're making it out to be. Honestly we shouldn't be involved in Iran to the extent of interceding. If there's protesters being hit as Trump mentioned recently we should help the protesters if they're shot at or killed. That happens a lot more often than not but it seems like a pretext to be able to say oh we're jumping in to help to show face for the international community. But that's more of a pretext because we've been wanting to bomb Iran according to what they've been indicating, posturing.

Yeah it looks like there's a lot of posturing.

Yeah but it seems inevitable.

There's a gentleman in the top right who has his microphone off. He looks like he's just dying to say something.

Well hello Scott. This is Eddie.

Hey Eddie.

Been a long time fan and thanks. Love you man.

Now the new rules are you don't have to be prepared and you don't have to say anything in particular. So if you just got logged in. So do you have any thoughts on Iran or Venezuela?

I think with Iran I'm not sure what we as the US can possibly do to do anything overtly. There's probably plenty going on behind the scenes that we can never understand. I think you might recall a week or two ago we saw something about Israel claiming they had a presence there.

Yeah.

So I'm wondering what really is going on with that. So yeah it did make me wonder why Trump would admit that we're there and Mossad is there and we're ready to go. Seemed like too much. But so far and I guess Elon Musk has sort of secretly provided some Starlinks so they can't turn off the internet entirely. Seems dangerous though. Is there no way the regime can find out where the Starlinks are and then go kill the citizens?

It's probably hard to trace. You know if you have a base station and it's pointing straight up at the satellites I'm not sure what mechanism they'd use to search it. Some sort of radio signal device maybe but they would have to know what they're looking for. My dad's got one down in the hills in West Virginia and it works great. And I could see it being pretty stealthy.

I could imagine it also being discoverable by Chinese technology.

Yeah. But maybe not everywhere in every way.

You might have to pick it up and move.

All right. How's this working for all of you? I know you didn't expect this.

Love it.

It's great.

I got a nice dog. Show us your dog right here. Yeah. Oh let... Come on Lyra. Yeah let me move there. Let me see if I can get her in there. She I just adopted her from... Let's see if I can get the camera. Yeah she just came from the shelter a month ago. I'd lost my dog the day before Mother's Day and it took me seven months of really grieving and deciding what to do. But she is just a wonderful dog. She's four years old and she has just made my life complete again. So I'm very happy and she's real happy here and I tell her every day she will never be abandoned again.

Well if you're teaching her English that's going to work out really well.

That's right. That's right. I've been doing more looking at just by the news by Robert Garcia because he's from my city of Long Beach and most corrupt I'm sure stealing every bit of money in this city. It's terribly blue liberal. They actually promote on their website and Facebook page how we're going to fight ICE and we got to protect all the illegals and I call him the upcoming designated liar. If you watch him he is going to become that's what he's really training for there. There's nothing good about what's going on here. And I see it just expanding. They want to do that redistricting. They want to take over the Huntington Beach and the other Orange County cities. They want to put Garcia in there overseeing them because they're very red and very Republican and you see them trying to squelch everything. So I've been kind of watching more I mean I love getting all the international news but just seeing what's happening in my area. And so that's a lot of what I do. I just want to thank you. My boyfriend turned me on to you in 2019 when we started dating and you got me through the pandemic. You have expanded my knowledge and you've actually helped me really turn away and just eliminate toxic people in my life and I want to thank you for that.

Thanks for telling me. I always enjoy hearing that but gentleman in the blue t-shirt in the bottom left.

Hi Scott, I'm Paul.

Hey Paul, it's my second time on your show. First time in person. First time was just in name only. My last name is Skidmore. And you I sent you an article about a truck that had crashed with a bunch of marinara sauce all over the road. And you thought that was funny coming from a guy named Skidmore. And so that you opened your show with that one morning that my dad and I got a big jolt out of that. We listened to all the Periscopes and everything all through especially the early days of the pandemic and it was really helpful.

I got one news thing and one helpful thing since you asked for that. The news thing that I saw that I thought was interesting is that UAE announced that it's going to cut funding for citizens who want to study in the UK out of fear of Emirati students being radicalized by Muslim Brotherhood Islamists on British campuses.

Oh wow.

So you have an Arab nation that's saying don't go to the UK. You'll be radicalized. And I've only been to the UK one time. It was to Scotland but we saw there all these gorgeous beautiful churches that had been there for centuries and they're all like bars and nightclubs and stuff now. And I just you know it's kind of nature abhors a vacuum. And if you get rid of one ideology if you get rid of one thing some other aggressive ideology is going to come in and fill that space. And I think that we are seeing that happen in Europe. And I think a lot of times the US is just a little bit behind what's going on in Europe politically and culturally sometimes. So I think we need to just look at that and think about that. But I think that it points to things that you've taught us in terms of persuasion and that if you persuade people against something then they'll just focus on that negative thing or other negative things will come in. But if you persuade somebody towards something then there's some new positive thing that fills that space and you sort of don't go back from there. And so anyway that's why I feel like your stuff has been important for us because it gives us more often than not gives us something to look forward to and to fill all of our fear, our anxiety. It gives us some sort of positive thing or some action to take which I've really been appreciative of.

Yeah. You know I've been making a big deal about the fact that the world never stays the same. And if you're not moving and everything does you're either getting bigger or you're getting smaller. And once you realize that that's like almost an unbreakable rule then you can sort of see the future. So to the extent that Islam is growing in Europe once it reaches a kind of a maybe a 10% threshold you can't stop it. So the only thing that would stop it is something that reversed it because stopping isn't an option. So it looks to me like Europe or most of it is going to become Islamic and there's no doubt about it. It's an intentional part of at least a section of the ideology. I've seen it here in my hometown here in the south in the US where a little tiny Baptist church has a giant mosque built behind it. It's built specifically as close to the property line as they can get it higher than the church so that you see the mosque over the church as you're driving towards it. You know it's really intentional and I don't know a whole lot about it. I'm trying to learn a little bit about it but I just think it's something that we should take note of especially when other Arab nations are like hey don't go over there. My useful thing which is probably just a rehash of things that you've shared with us before but I'm an extremely introverted person and when called upon I can talk about things that I'm passionate about without an issue. I don't have any problems with public speaking. I do