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[01:02]
, 2 secondsGive them a call today. You’ll be glad you did when you do.

[01:13]
, 13 secondsAnd I feel like I’m a lucky man. It’s a Friday morning and it’s a good-looking day. We do have some rain forecasted this weekend, but we’ve had nothing but

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, 21 secondssunshine in the studio this morning because we have the Velvet Hammer with us. Gene Valentino. Good morning, Gene.

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, 29 secondsGood morning, Ted. How are you?

[01:31]
, 31 secondsI’m doing rather well. I’m a big Friday kind of person and don’t have anything particular this weekend. Still debating on what costume I need to wear

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, 39 secondson Halloween Day. You know, push the kids out the door, the adults on this holiday now.

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, 45 secondsYeah, I turn the lights off and eat all my Hershey bars. I don’t think that’s a good idea.

[01:51]
, 51 secondsYou know what? All my life and I don’t normally see this candy on the shelf anywhere, but I love Milk Duds. I had to go to the theater to get milk

[01:59]
, 59 secondsduds. Years ago, and I don’t go to movies anymore. So, little kids, if you want to come by my house and reverse trick or treat, bring me some Milk Duds.

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, 7 secondsYou’re my friend forever. You’ll make some friends. Yeah, you’ll make some friends, Gene.

[02:12]
, 12 secondsyou know, when we talk again, unless we just have a friendly conversation after today, the election will be past us and

[02:20]
, 20 secondswe’ve got to look at what is going to take place this Tuesday and there’s so many surrounding bars to this up in Alaska and other things going on and

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, 28 secondsthen of course an election that already has taken place in Israel. Just kind of give us a general view where we are on

[02:35]
, 35 secondsthis Friday before Halloween and what Tuesday’s going to bring us. Boy, that’s water out of a fire hose.

[02:43]
, 43 secondsTed, we have a situation where overseas the Israeli election between

[02:50]
, 50 secondsNetanyahu and well, it’s actually the party approach over there. they

[02:58]
, 58 secondsyou know, when they elect there’s there’s 120 seats in the Knesset and

[03:05]
, 5 secondswhen you’re voting the voters choose a political party. They don’t choose a person. Israel’s 120-member parliament

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, 15 secondsis called the Knesset and the voters choose a party and list and list a

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, 22 secondsparty list and then from that list they then get down to directly for the prime minister or selecting an

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, 30 secondsindividual constituency representative. The that’s the issue.

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, 36 secondsthey choose a party. Whereas here in the United States, a constitutional republic, we vote the person inside the

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, 44 secondsparty. So, and Great Britain’s the same way. You’re voting over there.

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, 49 secondsThey’re voting in their parliament first, and then it’s the parliament that sometimes establishes

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, 56 secondsthe elected party official or different people within the party taking elected positions.

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, 3 secondsuh the parties then in Israel received the seats proportionately

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, 12 secondsuh based on how the people were voting and then the governing coalition must be assembled and again that government

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, 20 secondsneeds a support of at least 61 seats out of the 120-seat Knesset to

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, 28 secondscommand the party. no party has won an outright majority by itself and the government depend on agreements among

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, 37 secondsthese parties that they have very different priorities. So what you may end up with is if BB Netanyahu stays

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, 46 secondsin he’s in order for him to stay in he’s got to get the support of some parties

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, 53 secondsthat he may not agree with or that do not agree with him. So Netanyahu has 53

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, 1 secondseats right now in the Knesset. He needs 61 to win. and the main opposition block is led by this [opposition leader’s name unclear].

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, 13 secondsNow he has 48 seats. Okay, so Netanyahu is ahead in terms of seats. but

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, 20 secondshere’s what’s striking which I found very interesting. The Arab-led parties

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, 28 secondshold 19 seats right now. Arabs in the Israeli government and they ironically

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, 36 secondscould determine who governs and where those 19 seats fall. Do they fall towards Netanyahu or they fall towards this [opposition leader’s name unclear]?

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, 48 secondsSo, it’s really quite interesting how this is coming together.

[05:54]
, 54 secondsthe president of Israel Isaac Herzog then consults with the political

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, 1 secondparties and designates the lawmaker he believes has the best chance of forming a government and that person then steps

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, 9 secondsup to become prime minister which is what Netanyahu has been u

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, 19 secondsso anyway that’s why Netanyahu can finish his first term. Even if they

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, 26 secondsdon’t get someone that they actually want, Netanyahu can stay in there, not with a majority, but with a plurality a and still run Israel’s government.

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, 39 secondsSo, it’s likely Netanyahu can hang in for it, but it’s a messier form of government unlike the United States.

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, 47 secondsI bring it up just as a point of comparison to what we’re used to here.

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, 55 secondsIt’s kind of interesting too when you look at [opposition leader’s name unclear], he could, you know, I don’t know how to determine that Netanyahu is nowhere near liberal, but

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, 3 seconds[opposition leader’s name unclear] might be a little more pro-conservative, pro-military even than Netanyahu.

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, 11 secondsWell, they both have the same philosophy, strong alliance with the United States. They both believe in

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, 20 secondsprotecting Israel. Absolutely. They’re very strong warriors and so they both

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, 27 secondswill defend Israel’s homeland and security. [opposition leader’s name unclear] could be a good alternative if Netanyahu fails to win.

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, 37 secondsNow I the real issue to me is Donald Trump needs a friend and so does

[07:44]
, 44 secondsuh Netanyahu. I think the two of them became sort of buddies during the last decade and it would be it would be a

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, 53 secondsshame to see that relationship disappear because of a newly elected in this

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case a political party that chose [opposition leader’s name unclear]. Look, I don’t have anything bad to say about the guy. He’s a strong

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, 8 secondspatriot for Israel’s position, but I do think, you know, why reinvent the wheel when it’s already in place, at

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, 17 secondsleast during these tenuous times? And, you know, that’s a pivot for Donald Trump. He’s got he’s drinking water out

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, 24 secondsof a fire hose, too, with his unprecedented whirlwind 30-day blitz

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, 32 secondsin communities around the nation to promote Republican elected Republican candidates in the election forthcoming.

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, 42 secondsAnd you know, the big thing in all of that is politically, I think a lot of people have made up their mind, but it’s a matter of getting them out and getting

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, 50 secondsto vote. That’s the case in Mississippi right now. I’m telling you, millions of dollars have been spent in our

[08:58]
, 58 secondsSenate race up here between the Democrat Colom who carries a rap sheet of everything that most people don’t like

[09:06]
, 6 secondsagainst Cindy Hyde-Smith who was endorsed by the president done a pretty good job. But I mean, some people have poured so much money in this. Our 6:00

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, 14 secondsnews at night is not news, it’s political ads between the two of them. I mean, one right after the other. So, I guess the Democrats and are smelling a

[09:23]
, 23 secondslittle possibility of blood. It I couldn’t fathom a Republican not winning in Mississippi, but the Democrats go

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, 30 secondsinto an election here, a statewide election with about 40% of the vote, no matter who’s running.

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, 37 secondsSo, it’s critical to get the Republicans get the vote out.

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, 41 secondsWell, you can talk about the merits of the economic issues, oil prices, what’s been happening for farm relief,

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, 50 secondsuh the cost of living and the electricity issue and AI and data centers and 20 other topics. We can talk

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about all those things, but the real issue is now in the days prior to the election is the disruption that’s been

[10:08]
, 8 secondssurfaced that shows the bad behavior of the Democrats and the way they behave to

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, 16 secondstry to win an election. Look what happened to the real Dan Sullivan in Alaska. Senator Dan Sullivan, the

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, 25 secondsRepublican incumbent who has a Democrat machine out of Washington, D.C. working

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, 32 secondsagainst him that finds another Dan Sullivan to get on the ballot. What an obscene

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, 41 secondsuh vile stunt that these Democrats I don’t hear Republicans pulling these

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, 48 secondsstunts. All I hear is Democrats pulling these stunts. And so I’ve never been anxious to blame one party and always

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, 56 secondsbelieved in the people and you vote for a person based on their individual merits. I walk away wanting to continue

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, 4 secondsto believe that. But boy, you’ve got an orchestration of political fraud and political wrongdoing that recently put

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, 14 secondsin Minnesota a fraudster away. found guilty by the judge going away for 30

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, 21 secondsyears to serve prison time for the fraud he committed in Michigan in

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, 28 secondsMinnesota. It’s absolutely embarrassing that we have so much

[11:36]
, 36 secondswrongdoing emanating out of blue states, blue regions and with

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, 44 secondsthe liberal left. My it leads one to believe that the only thing left to do is stay red, stay Republican, give

[11:54]
, 54 secondsDonald Trump what he needs these last two years of his four second four-year term to accomplish things overnight. We

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, 3 secondstalked in the last episode last Friday, watch out, don’t blink. Donald Trump has 14 different balls running in the

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, 12 secondsair at the same time. Now, one of them is Iran. I submit that be we got an election on Wednesday as you said, but

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, 20 secondsuh you got an election on Wednesday and in the same sentence we have a war that people are anxious to see finished up

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, 29 secondsone way, shape or form in Iran. And I think it needs to be finished up. investors on Wall Street need clarity of

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, 38 secondsthought and a clear direction with where Ukraine is going and

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, 45 secondswhere I Iran is going. We’ve got the Islamic regime, those no good I can’t

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, 53 secondsfinish the sentence in on public radio, but these no- good people who

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, 1 secondare are using innocent human lives to hide behind They don’t care for their

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, 10 secondspeople. They care about protecting their regime. And in Iran, these folks need to

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, 17 secondsbe eviscerated and done away with completely so the remaining 90 million people in Iran can truly set up their

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, 26 secondsown government and govern and hopefully come to realize that America

[13:32]
, 32 secondsis not a bad country after all. the same holds true in same holds true

[13:39]
, 39 secondswith the whole Iraq, excuse me, the whole the whole is Israel

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, 45 secondssituation. The we’ve got to we’ve got to help Israel find its way through

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, 53 secondsthe perils of what’s been going on with hostile neighbors around it. I think the Abraham Accords with Jared

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, 1 secondKushner are the solution. And now we have Saudis that are willing to sign those

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, 7 secondsAbraham Accords that were not willing to do so four or five years ago. Let’s see what happens now.

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, 15 secondsYeah, it’s very close. And we’re about running out of time right here, but you know in Israel and this has been as long as I’ve been around and following the

[14:23]
, 23 secondsnews and what knowledge I have or insiders, forget England, France, Germany, Japan, our number one ally in the world is

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, 31 secondsIsrael. So, we don’t need to step on our brother down there because they’ve been the one that stuck by us. Well, yeah,

[14:38]
, 38 secondsyou know, Velvet Hammer, my good friend Gene Valentino, hope we’re talking next Friday about how the world hasn’t tilted too much because this is very critical.

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, 48 secondsAnd in about 30 seconds, give a final thought of everybody get out and vote.

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, 53 secondsWell, next Friday, we could be talking about a whole new regime in Iran. We could be talking about our position

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, 2 secondsin the Strait of Hormuz, Kharg Island. We could be talking about energy prices coming down because of the free flow of

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, 11 secondsbarrels of crude oil now. And there’s going to be a major discussion about refining oil again, which we gave up on

[15:18]
, 18 secondsthe last few decades, pushing it off to foreign nations, which caused our inflationary problems by the Democrats

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, 26 secondsin the first place. Well, we’ll take and let Smokey get us out of here. A little cruising as we leave. Hey, have a great Halloween and I look forward to our victory party next Friday.

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, 36 secondsSee you next Friday, my dear friend.

[15:38]
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