Trump, Iran & America’s Future
In this explosive discussion, Gene Valentino joins Ted and the crew to break down the biggest issues facing America today — from rising tensions with Iran and the global impact of war, to gas prices, the economy, tariffs, artificial intelligence, and the future of American leadership.
🇺🇸 Topics Covered:
✔️ Trump’s strategy on Iran and national defense
✔️ Gas prices and the U.S. economy
✔️ The debate over tariffs and inflation
✔️ Congress vs. Trump’s agenda
✔️ Artificial Intelligence and government transparency
✔️ Patriotism, freedom, and the American dream
✔️ Why leadership matters in critical moments
Gene Valentino shares bold opinions on America’s future, economic freedom, military strength, and the importance of defending democracy and opportunity for future generations.
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Full Episode Transcript
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Give him a call today. You’ll be glad you did when you do. Jean and I have kind of a kinship of of sorts right
here. I’m a little older, but our daddies both were in broadcasting for years. And so he can relate back to some
of the days of some of the powerful people in radio and now it’s down to Ted and Zach and Charles and the Velvet Hammer.
It’s a pretty sorry bunch. It is a pretty sorry bunch, but we’re all up and and we’re functioning. It is Friday morning. Good
morning, Jean. How are you? I’m broadcasting live from the Discount House of Worship, the home of the
Wayward this Friday morning. Couldn’t be in a better place. Actually glad I’m with you in the Pine Belt.
I like your description. Sometimes people ask me, it says, “What do you do besides radio?” And I said, “I’m a part-time Seventh Day horizontalist
missionary. It’s a branch of the Church of the Tangerine, and if a part of your body don’t work, let me touch and it’ll heal it.” Are you gonna put that on a business
card? I’d like to see the size of the business card that says that.
Well, I’d like to see the size of whatever people ask me to touch, too, doesn’t it?
Jean, it’s kind of serious out there. I I noticed gas. I We were looking at gas coming in early this morning and in
Hattisburg, it’s anywhere from 385 or so up to about 395, 397. And I don’t know
what it is down in Pensacola, but I have a feeling just under normal circumstances with a Memorial Day approaching, we’d be going higher. Is it
is it going to peak at any one time or what’s happening?
Yeah, I think there’s going to be fluctuations in pricing uh between now and the settlement of this war. To me, it’s so insignificant.
Uh for some, it’s serious, so I respect that. But um you know, we had higher gas prices just a few years ago under the
Biden administration when he was injecting the economy with um trying to
stabilize gas prices with the misuse of the o oil reserves, our strategic oil
supply, which is supposed to be a backs stop for the use during war by our for our military. Instead, he’s using uh
Biden was using it to um throttle the economy. Trump is filling the reserve
supply while uh his uh fuel carriers are over in the Persian Gulf loading up
uh loading up our aircraft to the brim with fuel for any counterattack that
could be pending any minute. Uh it shows you that um there’s a whole different
approach in leadership and if we don’t talk about it, it may go unnoticed and let’s see what the history books report
a decade uh a decade from now, never mind a generation from now.
I I think we agree with you totally on that. And you know, every week has been critical since this started, but it’s been even longer than that. This week
has been big and the next week or so looks even bigger maybe. Kind of going back on the five days that we’re
finishing up today and review all that’s happened. What was the biggest things that have happened and where is it leading us?
Well Ted, it it the week is ending where it began. We’ve got three destroyers in the Persian Gulf that took out these
light watercraft. Um Trump is still saying they better sign the ceasefire
fast or else uh there’ll be some sort of glow on the horizon coming out of Iran.
Um at this point I believe Trump uh I’m not going to second guess what he’s up to, but the man is a master at um
strategy uh with a solid team around him. uh a defense secretary that’s totally accountable to the president not
disappearing for 10 days in a medical facility no one can find. The fact of the matter is um um there is a plan in
place to take out Iran. I agree with General Jack Keane and uh and and Keith
General Kellogg. There is we should not have taken a pause. We should have
finished the job. We took a pause because of humanitarian reasons. We took a pause because the Iranians who don’t
care about the Iranian leaders who don’t care about their citizens uh mask power plants with women and
children uh preventing us from leveling the place. Well, you know, between Israel and the United States, I submit
we’re going to see a few surprises. Uh I said to Michael Poll when he was was
with us um that um the biggest element is the element of surprise that comes out of the Trump administration.
And and the more difficult enemy uh isn’t um actions within the military or
even our enemies abroad. It’s the damn um Congress of the United States that’s
whacking Donald Trump in the knees while he is trying to save this nation and
save them from the threat of a future hostile takeover of the United States of America. So specifically to your
question, you know, Iran released uh three drones and two ballistic missiles
and the United States um according to Trump provided an immediate response. uh
he did it was sort of a issue as has been reported that the uh Iranians have
a have a decentralization of authority that was set up but not well organized.
So the 30 some odd decentralized districts of Iran each with their military cabal uh are um not not in
concert not working in a coordinated way with each other. And that’s what I think this event shows uh that was quickly
quashed by American forces. You know, one of President Trump’s problems, I think he’s trying to fight the war and win the war for us and then fight the opposition back here in this country.
You know, this there’s some people that I don’t know how people don’t understand. Nobody likes war. You shouldn’t like war, but you’ve got to
understand who your enemies are and and what the capabilities, excuse me. But nobody wants or should want Iran to have nuclear weapons
because I promise you that could be world chaos.
Well, the sanitization of the American people in this last generation or so is
evidence that they have not been aware of or experienced some of the harsh elements uh that their grandparents or
great-grandparents did in World War II, Vietnam, uh you know, the Korean War. Uh, our
grandparents and great-grandparents put their lives on the line to give us freedom, and I’ll be damned if I’m
turning my back on it, and I’m going to spend the rest of my life talking up what they did to save America. And as uh
uh Ronald Reagan once said, we’re only one click one click away from losing our democracy. We must stand up for it and
defend it. and um we just need to get on board and finish the job over in Iran
and not drag it out. Uh Iran has to understand that um this concept of
religious autocracy that they’re creating and religious-based government doesn’t work. Socialism doesn’t work.
Communism doesn’t work. There are the have and the have not. And here is AOC
Okaziocortez this morning on the news saying how America is um it’s unfair that the
billionaires are are out there because they never worked hard to get that money. Well, let me tell you, there’s billionaires over in the far east and uh
from Asia Minor back east to the um the far east of China and um there’s the
billionaires that are over there do not share with the masses of people here.
Our system allows the average Jane or Joe to make a buck, earn a buck, and be
successful. And uh I’m sorry you’re not taking my money so that you can sit on a couch and uh do nothing. I worked hard
for my money and uh if you choose to slouch and goof off um then the outcome
you have in your life uh is on you. U but I choose to keep working hard until
I die. And that’s what’s beautiful about America. You choose which path you want.
Well, it’s amazing that people thought uh I was talking earlier with Charles and Zach over the period of time. I got a beautiful middle daughter who is her
master’s degree in accounting. Her husband’s a CPA. She always loved to work with figures. But when she was two or three years old, she had a little
bank in a cigar box. And then she’d ask for some money or something. The kids would say, “U, daddy, uh, we need to go
buy something.” And I’d say, “I haven’t got any And they said, “Oh, you still got plenty of money cuz you got checks in your checkbook.”
And you know, that’s what the I don’t know if they think this government just has a big cave somewhere stored with trillions of dollars of gold.
We got something better. We got a printing press. That’s correct, Judge.
That’s just, you know, they they just um there’s got to be value going forward. We we spend
we don’t spend money we don’t have. if I don’t have it in the checkbook, it doesn’t get spent. The Democrats are
great at printing money and going deeper in debt. And I think America is waking up to that. And oh, by the way, about
the economy, uh, more important than those gas prices fluctuating short term, uh, is, um, the
tariffs that go unspoken. The tariffs were supposed to disrupt our economy when Trump imposed them on third n third
world nations for their lack of cooperation with us. I don’t seen a huge disruption in the economy. In fact, the
stock market’s gone through the roof uh with some success stories during the Iranian war uh tells me that it’s not a disruption at all.
There’s always a bull market somewhere.
I mean there all in anything there’s always a absolutely with it just people it’s it’s how you want to look at some it’s perspective
well you know I think the biggest thing we’ve got going for us now is that if Trump gets to get rid of
these bad actors around him in Congress that are whacking him in the knees while he’s trying to sprint on other issues
domestically and abroad if we can just let Trump do his thing uh I don’t care if you like the guy or not. I’m I’m not voting for people that cozy up to me.
I’m looking for people to get the job done. If Trump is given the chance to get the job done in the next where are
we two and a half years, um this man, it’ll be a historic, it’ll be
unprecedented. He he needs he needs his own Mount Rushmore. He needs his own uh
body edifice on the granite wall of a canyon somewhere in the Midwest to um
honor him uh long after he’s gone. Uh he has transformed and created stimulants
in our economy to get things off the ground. Right now we’re looking at the impacts of something less obvious but
significant and that’s artificial intelligence AI. What is the impact of
AI on our economy? What is the impact on uh AI on these UAPs, unidentified flying
objects? uh his willingness to expose uh even this morning uh uh internal reports
that were held confidential about unidentified objects that the the defense department’s been holding in secret for
decades. We need a um open for a guy who’s got a chip alleged bully and chip
on his shoulder. He sure has been rather transparent with the citizens of the United States allowing all this to be released.
Yeah, he’s not a No, I was just going to say we’re about out of time, but we’re fortunate to have him at this time in the life of our country. We would be in trouble. And one
thing about the Democrats, whatever they talk about, they have zero people out there that can even come close. They’re totally out of Yeah, there’s no there’s no bench, Ted.
You’re right. Oh, this is a good song to take us out of the break here. Charles, Zack, Jean Valentino, little Tennessee whiskey will help.
Buddy, we’ll see you again next week. Thank you. Take care. Thank you guys. Glad to be with you.
Relationships matter because people buy people and that’s why I buy Eddie Xarin
Insurance of the Xarin Insurance Agency in Pensacola, Florida. a family-owned business with over 50 years in the
business. And they treat people the right way. From homeowners insurance to contractor’s insurance, condo insurance, commercial insurance, all the different
coverages that are out there, and of course, auto insurance. They’ve got you covered. They worry about you first.
You’re more than a policy number. You’re a person who they’re watching out for, not when the sun is shining, but after
the hurricane has left. If you want real service with real savings, contact Eddie
Zuran at the Eddie Xarin Insurance Agency. www.zarin insurance.com.
Give them a call today. You’ll be glad you did when you do.













