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We don't know who gave us their demands in Iran. It's, it's, it's pretty amazing. I'll tell you exactly what's going on and what you should worry about, not worry about on this particular topic. There's so much to cover today. We'll get right to it. First, let me tell you about our, our sponsor this half hour, it's Patriot Mobile. You know, life is busy. Something like switching from one mobile phone company to another sounds like a hassle. And most of the time it really is. I mean, you know, that's mobile phone companies know when they have. Yet they have you. They have you for life. But I have to tell you, your, your cell phone bill, you look at it every month. You know what you're paying. Big companies, they donate to leftist causes and you're probably doing that with your money. And that's not what you want to do. Unfortunately, that's what a lot of the big mobile companies do. And they know that you're not going to change. Well, I urge you to change right now and go with a company that is the only Christian conservative company, mobile phone company that is out there, that actually takes their spare time and their profits and actually plows them back into the things that help our country. That's why Patriot Mobile is named Patriot Mobile. Patriotmobile.com Beck call 972 Patriot use the promo code Beck. Get a free month of service. Patriot mobile.com Beck 972 Patriot okay, so the price of oil has come way down. Can you cut the music? Thank you. The price of oil has come down. It was down almost, almost $10 a barrel there for a while. You know, it's bouncing around. But what this says is the markets believe that we might be towards the end of something. I don't know what to believe. Okay. I don't. I mean, usually the markets are not this optimistic, so who knows what's actually going on? But let me look at the deal at the table, on the table, and tell you what Donald Trump is proposing. The United States has put together a 15 point framework and if you strip it all down, basically, here's what it says. Dismantle your nuclear program entirely. Stop enriching uranium entirely. It's over. You're not going to have a ballistic missile development program. It's over. Cut off all of your proxy networks. No more Hezbollah, no more Hamas. Step back from the regional destabilization that you do and open the Strait of Hormuz to the entire world. That's what you have to do. In exchange, we'll stop bombing the snot out of you. We'll lift the sanctions. We'll, we'll give you some economic relief. Uh, we'll give you a path back into the global system and we'll even support a civilian nuclear energy program. We might even send in our experts to help you. That's the offer. Okay. No regime change, no occupation, just this. You don't get to threaten the world, but you do get to survive. Okay, sounds like a good deal. I mean, if I were on the receiving end of that Maybe at me. You know, the response just as clear. They're saying, nope, sorry, we get to keep our sovereignty, including our nuclear capability. You remove all of your military presence from everywhere in the region. You lift all sanctions, you pay for the damage that you've just done to our country, and you guarantee no future strikes ever. And then the other part that, you know, if you thought that was bad, listen to this. And also, we have complete control of the Strait of Hormuz, and we're going to. We're going to control it and we're going to tax people. We're going to decide who passes, who doesn't, and it's going to have a. We're going to have a poll to be a toll booth there. I mean, no. No. The rest of the region. No. Everybody in the world is saying no. So this isn't a disagreement over terms at this point. It's a fight over who controls the pressure valve of the global economy, and that is the Strait of Hormuz. This is where Trump is trying to walk a line that no one has pulled off in modern history. No one. Listen to what. How complex this is and how hard this is. He needs to apply enough pressure to force an actual deal, but not so much pressure that it ignites the entire region on fire. He needs to end the war quickly, but not so quickly that nothing actually changes. Oh, it's just that easy. Here's the thing. If you end this halfway, you don't get peace. All you get is a countdown clock to the next war. And that is why something exceptional and unbelievable is happening all across the Middle East. Countries that have hated each other for generations, they're suddenly finding themselves in alignment with the United States on this. Saudi Arabia, the uae, Bahrain, even elements inside of Egypt and Jordan. Now, they're not waving, you know, flags for war, but they are telling the United States, don't stop. Don't stop. You can't stop. You and Israel have to keep going. Okay? This is the same message that Israel is saying, because this isn't about the Jews or the Arabs. This isn't about Jews controlling Jews. My favorite argument was, see, the Jews are just trying to knock out all of their. All of their Arab neighbors. No, they're not. The. The Arab neighbors are saying the same thing the Jews are saying now. Why? Because this is about people who live in the neighborhood and they know how dangerous Iran is. The one thing that we don't get because we're protected by giant oceans. Okay? What they're saying behind closed doors is this you're dealing with Iran now. You have to finish the job. You have to deal with it all the way. And Trump is actually holding some of them back because they're now starting to talk about maybe the possibility of them joining. Saudi Arabia is actually saying, we might join. That would have been unheard of two years ago, six months ago. They're now saying we might get involved. And Trump is like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We've already got Israel involved and I'm trying to control them. Please, let's not make this harder than it is because he's got to hold this whole thing together. For 40 years, this, these countries have lived with a reality. Most Americans have. Have still today. Not grass. How dangerous Iran really is. The entire Middle east hates Iran because it funds militias across borders, it funds, you know, proxy armies, it threatens oil infrastructure all the time. Remember, they're in line with the Houthis. What are the Houthis always doing? Who are the damn Houthis? Why can we not take care of the Houthis? I just don't understand it. It's a stupid name. Sounds like it's a stupid name. Stupid people. Don't know why. I mean, it's the Houthis. We can't get that one done, can we? Can we maybe send, say, to Saudi Arabia, you guys do the Houthis. Anyway. Now, Iran has been sitting on the edge of nuclear capability, and anybody who says that wasn't happening, including me, I said I wasn't going to believe it until I saw the proof. Well, I didn't see the proof yet of the enriched uranium, although I do believe that I was questioning the missiles. Well, they just fired one 4,000 kilometers. That's way beyond anything that anybody said they had, and they just did it. And the Middle east has seen this movie before, and they know how it ends if it's left unfinished. So, you know, for anybody who's been saying Israel's controlling everything, ask yourself, why are the Arab states, who have every reason to oppose Israel, quietly aligned with the same exact outcome and quietly saying, we might go in ourselves? Because this isn't about Israel. This is about Iran becoming the dominant power in the Middle east and controlling terror, and also the most important energy choke point on earth. The demands of Iran are insane. But they do want control. Why? Because they want a global caliphate, a Shia caliphate, and by the way, all of the Sunni Arab countries, they don't want that because in the end, they want a Sunni caliphate. So that's what we're proposing. I can't I have no idea how do you make that deal happen? And that is what they are proposing. And somehow or another, the markets, the stock exchange, the oil markets, they are all alike. Know what I think? We're going. I think it's getting better. I don't know how people are thinking that, because I don't even know who we're negotiating with. Do you? Who are we actually negotiating with first? Who's even in charge? Okay, on paper, the way Iran works is really, really clear. You have the Supreme Leader. He is the final authority on everything because it's a theocracy. Military, nuclear, foreign policy. What they vote for, what the people vote for, who the people vote for. All of it goes through him. Then under him, you have the Supreme National Security Council. They set all of the strategy and stuff, okay? Then you have the president and Foreign Ministry, and they execute well, the people and diplomacy, okay? But none of that happens unless the Supreme Leader approves it. Well, right now, nobody knows how they're operating, okay? Day one, we killed the previous Supreme Leader, okay? And they rushed to replace him with his apparently gay son, who nobody's seen since he was struck. I mean. I mean, maybe he's in hiding. They say he may not even be fully in charge. We don't know. Reports on his health vary between he's got a boo boo and a band aid on his knee to he lost his legs and he might be in a coma. So I don't know. He may be in hiding to protect himself from bombs, and so he doesn't want to give out any information. Or he might be hiding in the same well as the 12th. The mob, if you know what I mean. The other guy in charge is a hardliner. And the speaker, okay, hardline security chief, also just replaced at the irgc. Any of these guys might be in charge on paper, but not actually in charge. So the most likely answer of who are we dealing with, really should be, I don't know. Could be. Could be Mohammed Galba Gallaba. Is that how you say that? Jason Gallobath, the parliament speaker, IRGC commander. Perfect pronunciation, that guy. Yeah. Reportedly, he's the main channel to the US that we're talking to right now. Don't. We don't know if that's true. He has influence, he has military ties, but he's not the supreme leader. The other guy is the foreign minister. He's a traditional diplomat previously involved in the nuclear talks, possibly signaling openness behind the scenes, but we don't know. The diplomats, the politicians, the irgc, again, they don't control the final decisions. Okay, it's got to be irgc, Supreme National Security Council, and then the Supreme Leader. And he might be soaking his sore knee in the water from the well. Publicly, publicly, Iran is saying there are no negotiations. The US Is negotiating against itself. And at the same time, messages are being passed back and forth. Intermediaries are involved. Back channel contact appears to be real. So there might be talks happening, but again, Iran's own system is denying it, and then they're sending out these crazy things on what they want. So who are we talking to? Are they in charge? The answer to that one is probably not fully. At best, they represent a faction of power. Which leads us to the question of who's issuing the counterpoints, because the counterpoints are nuts. Who's doing that? Someone in Iran is saying, no peace unless we control everything. And we have toll booths in the water and everything else. These are likely coming from hardline factions and military voices. And then also somebody's like, I read the art of the deal. Let's be really, really tough at first and then walk it back. So you might have one group talking quietly and another group making these crazy, you know, demands, and then a third group, third group deciding, do either of those matter? This has happened before, unfortunately. In 1979. In 1979, the United States got into peace talks, if you will. We were trying to get our, our hostages back from Iran, and we had. There were multiple factions. There were the Marxist and then the revolutionaries, and then the, the Islamist. And nobody had clear negotiating authority. But we misread who actually had power and the whole thing fell apart. Okay, but again, remember, even if we reach a deal with a top Iranian figure, that's no guarantee because he might crawl out of the well, you know what I mean? The Supreme Leader by like, my boo boo's better. Boy, that's holy water down in that well. And you should have heard. I just had a chat with a Mahadi. He's a great guy. What a cut up. Been there since 1200, but we had a lot of laughs. So that's. That's what's actually happening in Iran. So today the stock market's not panicking, oil markets aren't panicking. You shouldn't panic. You know, stop borrowing trouble. Stop borrowing trouble. Stop worrying about tomorrow. Let's just focus on what we can deal with today and right now. Who knows? Who knows? Gonna be interesting to see how this all works out. All right, let me take 10 seconds. Or, sorry, let me take a minute here and Tell you about our sponsor. It's Rough Greens. How often do you find yourself just going through the motions when it comes to feeding your dog? Bowl is empty. Grab the old bag of kibble and just fill her up. Then you walk away. But what if you could be giving your dog a much better, happier and healthier life just by adding one scoop of something on top of whatever it is you feed him or her? Because when it comes to rough Greens, a little bit goes a long, long way of doing just that, making them happier and healthier, more active. It's not a dog food. 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Claim your free Jumpstart trial bag@rough greens.com. i don't know why these people are still with me on Ruff Greens.com. rough Greens.com promo code back 10 seconds, stationary. So, you know, while I'm here, because I just said, you know, don't worry about it. There's so much to worry about. And I've been making notes on things because I'm. I'm just. There's. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I, you know, turn 62 and all of a sudden I'm like, gee, I might be running out of time, you know, even if I leave live to be 85, time is flying by so fast that I'm going to be 85 before I even know it. And so I've been, you know, just kind of. I've been writing stuff down for my kids and things that I've learned for myself even. And now that I get older, man, I see so many things clearly that people told me But I never listened to when I was young. I have spent a lifetime worrying about crap. Just worry, worry, worry. Worry about the future, worried about what people are thinking. Worry about how are things going to work out. Oh, my gosh. And at the time, it really felt like I was being responsible. You know, if I. Like, this is. You know, this is. You know, this is what serious people is what serious people do when they want to handle life. But when you look back, it's really obvious. Most of the stuff I worried about never actually happened. Never happened. And then all the things that did happen were rarely the things I spent my time worrying about. Life has a strange sense of humor that way. I've noticed storms you prepare for never seem to arrive. And then you're hit from the side and you're like, what the hell? Why wasn't I thinking that? Directions you never imagined things come up, which means, why worry? You're wasting. You're wasting. It's kind of like, I say this to anybody who thinks they're going to be a future alcoholic. I don't recommend it. It'll destroy your life. But if you are somebody who's an aspiring alcoholic, don't waste your blackouts without kids. Really, you're going to need them. I. I used all my blackouts up before I even had children. And I thought, you know, as you're raising teenagers, you're like, boy, I could use a blackout right now. I'm just saying, don't waste all your worry. Don't. You know, older people used to say, don't worry so much? You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you're old. You only have one thing to worry about. Am I ready? But now I get it. Yesterday's gone. Nothing I can do about it. Today's here. Why am I going to steal time from today worrying about something that may never happen? Worry just steals today without protecting tomorrow, and it convinces you that you're preparing for life when really, honestly, you're just missing it. So I'll try to do my best to tell you what you should worry about, at least in the news today. Nothing you can do about it. So don't worry about Iran, Ricky.