Will (IQ Bar Sponsor) (5:33)

Okay. MAGA GOP on the U.S. military Action Iran. Look at this. Nearly 9 in 10, 89% approve of the U.S. military Action iran, that is the MAGA GOP base. Just 9% disapprove of it. This is tremendously popular among the Republican base. And of course, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State overseeing the effort. It seems to me that a lot of people are taking that into account, including President Donald Trump who has been smiling an awful lot at Marco Rubio lately.

Rob Carson (6:02)

Yeah, there you go. So, yeah, we're 100% behind this because we've always been patriots and we see what our military is doing. We see that they are in harm's way. We see that they are performing their, their actions flawlessly. We're seeing that they've basically ended Iran's ability to launch drones and missiles. The, the neighbors around Iran are saying that Iran needs to be driven into the. Into hell. Analysts analysis Gulf states press the US to neutralize Iran for good as Hormuz Hormuz crisis deepens Gulf Arab states did not ask the US to go to war with Iran, but many are now urging it to not to stop short by leaving the Islamic Republic still able to threaten the Gulf oil lifeline. Well there, Joe Kent, it looks like they're kind of a threat to a whole bunch of people here and the economies that depend on it. Three Gulf sources told Reuters. These sources and five Western and Arab diplomats said Washington was pressing Gulf states to join the U. S Israeli war. There is a wide feeling across the Gulf that Iran has crossed every line, every red line within every Gulf country. Chairman of the Saudi based Gulf Research center and familiar with government thinking said this. His name is Abdulaziz Sager. President Trump urges countries including China to assist in securing oil passage through the Straits of Corbin. See, this is what happens when weak willed people, you know, are in positions of authority. And Joe Kent, honestly, listen, he's been through a lot of stuff. He served the country honorably. But to throw the administration and our soldiers under the bus in the middle of a very, very well, a well performed military action is really kind of despicable to be quite honest. And I think it really exposes your true colors and Also, I want to mention again, if Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones are on your side, you're on the wrong side. Okay, so you're on the wrong side. Here's Mike Johnson being asked about. Joe Kent

Unknown Female Commentator (8:10)

resigned as the director of the Counterterroris Center. He wrote that he cannot be conscious to support the ongoing war in Iran. He writes, iran posed no imminent threat to our nature. It's clear that we started this war

Rob Carson (8:24)

due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

Unknown Female Commentator (8:27)

How do you respond to that and to those other Republicans who say that this war is actually putting foreign interests above domestic interests?

Mike Johnson (8:36)

Well, that. That proposition at the end is clearly wrong. I'm on the Gang of Eight. I got all the briefings. We all understood there was clearly an imminent threat, that Iran was very close to the enrichment of nuclear.

Rob Carson (8:50)

They said they had enough uranium for

Mike Johnson (8:53)

10 bombs ability, and they were building missiles at a pace, and they had

Rob Carson (8:57)

missiles could actually deliver to, not only here, but all over Europe and whatnot

Mike Johnson (9:01)

that no one in the region could keep up with. They were far outpacing our allies and friends and us in our defense capability because we had personnel, installations, members of the armed services and civilians in the region. Iran was building up ballistic missiles at such a rapid pace, and we knew that their plan was to fire them upon Americans. The Commander in chief and his administration had a very difficult decision to make. I don't know where Joe Kent is getting his information, but he wasn't in those briefings, clearly, because the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War and everyone, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Kane, they had exquisite intelligence. And we understood that this was a serious moment for us. Had the President waited, I am personally convinced that we would have mass casualties of Americans, service members and others, and our installations would have been dramatically damaged. And so we had to. The President felt that he had to strike first to prevent those mass casualties.

Rob Carson (10:01)

Yeah. And it's about damn time. And I support this president 1000% going after Iran. I was alive when the Ayatollah took over. I have been alive since then, obviously. And I have seen massive casualties, massive amounts of. Of attacks on the. On the world with regard to terrorism. And of course, Iranian proxies in our country right now performing acts of terrorism as the Democrat Party defunds the dhs. So honestly, as far as Joe Kent is concerned, Joe Kent can, you know, can kiss my butt. Honestly, just utterly, utterly ridiculous. And, and. And this. I gotta tell you, I've never seen anything like this in my life. That we would have so many people, because Donald Trump is the president, be willing to so many, so many people who are working so hard, you know, the fact that there is celebrations around the world for the fall of the Ayatollah, we should be, everyone should be dancing in the streets knowing that SOB is dead and his son is on life support and gay, by the way. We'll get to that in a few minutes. But I have never seen this sort of abandonment in my life. And as far as anyone, 90% of us MAGA people are supporting this action because we know it's the right thing. We love our country. We know that to survive another 250 years, we need to take down the forces of evil that have been trying to take down us. And honestly, on days like this, when people like Joe Kent and Candace Owens and Alex Jones abandon the movement, it only strengthens our resolve because we've been through so much in the last 10 years. And I got to tell you, you have no countenance whatsoever. You have no balls. If you are just willing to less than two and a half weeks into an incredibly successful and beautiful military operation that taking evil people out of power, that you would just abandon it and say that it wasn't necessary really shows you and puts a spotlight on your character. That's it. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show.

Brooke Goldstein (12:06)

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Will (IQ Bar Sponsor) (12:15)

Begin tonight with the gay of Hormuz and the straight son. I mean the straight of Hormuz and the gay son of the former Ayatollah who's now in charge.

Rob Carson (12:22)

Honest mistake.

Will (IQ Bar Sponsor) (12:22)

Seriously. President Trump, though, was briefed that Iran's new leader Khamenei is probably gay, which

Rob Carson (12:28)

is why his dirt nap father feared his suitability. His dirt nap father. According to sources, the President couldn't help but laugh at the analysis.

Will (IQ Bar Sponsor) (12:35)

And the administration officials find the news hilarious, as do I.

Rob Carson (12:39)

It's not analysis, it's analysis. Queers for Palestine might be a thing. Who knows? That is Carl Higbee talking about the new revelations. That may be the reason why the the former Ayatollah who's now powder didn't want his son to be the new Ayatollah is because apparently it looks like he could be gay. That's not a big thing. That's not a good thing in the Iran where they throw people from tall buildings for being gay. Fortunately, all of the tall buildings no longer exist in Iran because we bombed the snot out of them. So there you go. But that is one of the rumors that's going around is that the Ayatollah, the son of the Ayatollah, is actually gay. And apparently he's not in a bunker, he's in the closet. It's, it's. Yeah. Donald Trump burst out laughing when he was briefed that Iran's incoming Supreme Leader Khomeini may be gay. Sources told the New York Post. Intelligence suggesting Mochaba is a homosexual raised doubts in his father, the late Ali Khamenei's mind about his suitability to succeed him. Others in the room found it hilarious and senior intelligence officials have not stopped laughing about it for days. The lurid claim was corroborated by two intelligence community officials and a third person to the White House. America's spy agencies view the information as credible intelligence. This is real here. Rather than gossip designed to undermine the 56 year old ruler. Bojava had a long term sexual relationship with his childhood tutor. Yeah, he's teaching the subject of schoolboy fantasy. Third source said. Intel indicated the affair was in with the person who used to work for the Khomeini family, Mojave whatever his name is. He is understood to have been gravely wounded in the strikes that kissed his killed his father on February 28. Apparently he made aggressive sexual passes at men caring for him, potentially due to the effects of sedation. Okay, sure, I know how many times I've waken up from a trip to the dentist and I just, I want some, some hot man action. Sure, whatever. The US has no photographic evidence, but sources insist the incel is bonafide with one saying it was derived from the most protected source from the government. Another source said the intelligence would not have been presented to President Trump if there wasn't some confidence in this. So nobody's saying, well, yeah, you're gay. It wasn't like that. It was like, no, dude, really? Seriously, apparently he's super gay. Ali Khamenei was aware that his son had issues in his personal life. He was also wary of Mojava taking power because he believed he was unintelligent. But I might add, very well dressed when you think about it, honestly. Long flowing robes, no pants, headgear, you know. Sure, sure. Rumors about his sexual orientation have circulated in Iran since at least May 24 when a helicopter crash killed President Ebraham Raisi, who had been the favorite to succeed the Supreme Leader. His fathers and others expected he was gay and that was something that people were spreading to try to stop his ascension. There you go, so there you go. Looks like the, the, the Supreme Leader is not in the bunker, he's in the closet. He is in, apparently a coma and he is super gay. So there you go. Thought you should know. You know, Rob Schmidt and the Newsmax crew been a stellar job of what's going on in Iran. And you talk about Donald Trump and he's always been kind of this person. A lot of people think he's some sort of a compulsive individual, but actually somebody who is more deliberate than I think we've in a very long time. Rob Schmidt last night did a great report on Donald Trump and how he has been saying and talking about the same thing with regard to the country of Iran and its danger to the free world since 1988. So I'm thinking it's maybe not, you know, because Israel is forcing his hand.

Will (IQ Bar Sponsor) (16:40)

Trump wants to remove the most radicalizing government in the world. And our allies, of course, would prefer it if we could just handle this on our own. Trump says it'll be a bad future for NATO if they don't help get this strait open along his side. And resurfacing over the weekend, evidence that Trump's position on Iran has been steady for decades, going all the way back to 1988, nearly 40 years ago. Trump saying, I'd be harsh on Iran. They've been beating us psychologically, making us look like a bunch of fools. One bullet shot at one of our men or ships, and I do a number on Kharg I Island, I'd go in and take it. Iran can't even beat Iraq yet. They push the United States around. It'd be good for the world to take them on.

Rob Carson (17:25)

Wow. He's been saying that since 1988. So so much for the. The Israel forcing his hand on this. And again, it's been working. Absolutely beautiful. Greg Kelly last night, he is a Gulf War veteran, Afghanistan War veteran, I believe is what he is. And he said last night, and listen, trust Greg Kelly more than anybody. That two and a half weeks in when people are jumping ship, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, among others, Greg Kelly says it's real close to being over.

Will (IQ Bar Sponsor) (17:58)

You know, I think we kind of just won the war as a real possibility of. Did you see it? They gave us pretty much everything we want. The Straits of Hormuz, if you listen to these Iranian guys, they said what we wanted to hear and if they actually live up to it. And that's a big if, right? Because you can't trust these people. Could all blow up all over again. Couple of things.

Rob Carson (18:24)

I think it's a damn shame that we have people two and a half weeks in that are so weak willed that they would abandon this president who has been through so much to, to be the, the leader of this country, who has exposed so much fraud, who has exposed so much malfe, who has had every branch of this federal government against him, trying to put him in jail, take his fortune, get him off the ballot, raid Mar A Lago, two impeachments, and then tried to kill him twice. And I gotta tell you, Margaret Thatcher used to say, he said this to Ronald Reagan. She said, don't get wobbly. And people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, they're all posers. And I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that they haven't lived the life you and I have. I was talking to someone yesterday about Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson, the reason why he's off the, off the reservation on everything is because he's a spoiled, entitled, blue blood, private school boy from the east coast and he's never lived the life that you and I do. He doesn't. He's not grounded in common sense. He's not grounded in hard work. And consequently, when the going gets tough, abandoned their principles fairly quickly. You and I are not that way. Because every single day we fight for the scraps that we get and we do everything I can, we can to make a living in this country. We've never had everything handed to us on a silver platter like Tucker Carlson. And consequently we're a bit more resolved when the going gets tough. Right? Right. Yeah, I think we are absolutely, 100%. So there you go. On the way, Donald Trump the other day said, you know, he's ready to, to take Cuba. And then all of a sudden, Cuba's power grid just completely collapsed. How did that happen? Maybe it's by design. We've got details on that coming up. This is the Rob Carson Show. Hey guys, it's Carson for Shopify. You know, for years I have had a swag line of T shirts with catchy phrases and whatnot, and it's just been lying there. Well, I've decided to go with Shopify and actually make money with my own business. Shopify gives you everything you need to sell online and in person. Millions of entrepreneurs have already made this leap from household names to first time business owners just getting started. Choose from hundreds of beautiful templates you can customize to match your brand. Instead of just having a lousy website that nobody notices like I have been doing for years. Set up fast with Shopify's built in AI tools that write product descriptions and headlines. Create email and social campaigns that reach customers wherever they scroll. In 2026, stop waiting and start selling with Shopify. Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com Newsmax go to shopify.com Newsmax make building a successful business your 2026 New Year's resolution.

Will (IQ Bar Sponsor) (21:45)

Okay MAGA GOP on the US military action Iran look at this. Nearly nine in ten, 89% approve of the US military action Iran. That is the MAGA GOP base. Just 9% disapprove of it. This is tremendously popular among the Republican base and of course Marco Rubio, Secretary of State overseeing the effort. It seems to me that a lot of people are taking that into account account including President Donald Trump who has been smiling an awful lot at Marco Rubio late.

Rob Carson (22:14)

You know there's a lot of people who are and have been shouting us down for about a decade now calling us MAGA fascist enemies of democracy and all of this. And and, and I got to tell you the the level of vitriol we've received our military since we began this campaign to take down The Ayatollah after 47 years of war against us in the Western it is remarkable. And you know when I was out this weekend I noticed these immediately on day one of the of the Epic Fury Chris Murphy said it was a disaster. They had these hands off Iran protests which are the same people who did no Kings which are the same people who did Elon Musk is a Nazi which are the same people who've done every other damn leftist protest supported by Neville Singham and George Soros Astroturf nonsense. I confronted some this weekend. It's not popular movement has never been a popular movement. If if it were a popular movement where's no Kings. No Kings had one weekend shot their wad and it's over. No Kings is no longer so it is it doesn't make any difference at all. And and you and I are resolved and you as I are not going to let them take away from our belief in the country is founded and our military as they do an amazing job because there's a real good chance that you know someone who is in the military who is in action or maybe has a kid who's in action right now and doing a really really really really good job. This is Representative Gabe Evans talking to John Solomon about how it's going in Operation Epic Fury.

Gabe Evans (23:58)

Yeah, well, you know my backstory. I spent 12 years in the US army and the Colorado Army National Guard deployed to the Middle East. Actually, like, this was a big part of the mission set that we had when we were over there in 2012 and 13 was countering Iranian aggression in the region. So both as a Black Hawk helicopter pilot and also as the intelligence office battalion, I'm pretty familiar with what's going on right now. And honestly, I'm actually impressed and surprised with how easily we've been able to degrade and destroy Iran's air defenses.

Rob Carson (24:30)

Why did Joe Kent then say that he could no longer in good conscience be a part of this administration working with Tulsi Gabbard and then be able

Gabe Evans (24:39)

to move on to other targets, Their launchers, their manufacturing capability for drones and for ballistic missiles. Missiles being able to identify and target their small boat fleet, their waterborne IED capability through the, the Persian Gulf or the, when we were deployed, we, yeah, we're kicking butt at the, the Arabian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz. And so honestly, I think that the, the military is, as the president said it is ahead of schedule. The operation is going, what, at least equal to or better than the plans. And unfortunately, you just have very loud voices in the United States that can never be proud to be American. They root for America. We've seen it before, literally rallying in the streets, talking about freeing Palestine when Hamas was committing terrorist attacks. Well, Hamas has been on the State Department's terror watch list really since that watch list was conceived. So you have a loud, far left socialist group of folks that typically align with the Democrats.

Rob Carson (25:37)

I told you all the last couple of years, if you've been listening to the show and many of you are new, by the way, no stream today, by the way. We got some issues with the stream like Joe Biden does at 2 in the morning. It's kind of weird that way. So no stream today. We are on all of our analog stations, all of our great radio stations around the country. But I told you that we were in the throes of good versus evil. I said that for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction in that evil had run roughshod over the world and over our country, by the way. And we were the reaction to that. We are the. But do you think that evil is going to just go down, you know, without a fight? Do you believe that? I mean, look at what's going on right now. We're going to get to this as the show progresses, look at the fraud that is happening in our country. Look at the fraud that has been uncovered. You know the reason why the left had these massive protests against Elon Musk. Elon Musk was never a Nazi. Elon Musk was not a Nazi. Before he took over Doge, it became a talking point created by the left to cover up what the Democrat Party and a good deal of Republicans have made our country into. And that is a giant, giant piggy bank for themselves and their acolytes and their donors to the tune of trillions and trillions of dollars. And you'll notice that the reaction to Elon Musk last year at CPAC when he brought out the chainsaw and said he was going to go after government waste, and all of a sudden, the left was mobilized against him for going against government waste. Like, when has that ever been a bad thing? When has it ever been bad for you to go after waste, malfeasance and corruption? Corruption. But, like, what's going on right now, all of a sudden, taking down the Ayatollah is bad. All of a sudden bombing drug boats, bringing poison into our country to kill our people is a bad thing. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, even though Joe Biden upped the bounty from 5 to 15 million dollars on Maduro in Venezuela, all of a sudden, it's a bad thing that we got rid of Maduro. There are some people now who, after 67 years of, of starvation, of abuse, of arrest, of imprisonment in Cuba, there are some saying that it's a damn shame that Cuba, the Communist Cuba, is going away. They are on the wrong side of history. They are the evil. And I'm glad that all of this has been exposed. All of this fraud has been exposed. And I told you that the Democrat Party and the left were doing a death spiral into hell. They die like movie vampires, dragging, kicking and screaming, trying to drag us into hell with them. And we're not going to go with them. They are on the wrong side of history, and we are on the right side of history. And as we expose all of this fraud, all of this corruption of the deep state, what we're doing is we're clearing a path for another 250 years for our country to survive. And nobody said it was going to be easy, right? It's been really hard. The last 10 years have been really, really hard. Really hard, hard. And, you know, when Donald Trump won again, after all that he put us, or they put us through and all the things that he went through, we knew they were going to keep scratching and clawing and biting and doing whatever they could to fight him, no matter how good what he is doing is for us. Closing the southern border. Completely closed our southern border. Our southern border had been open, wide open. And a Trojan horse of our country's enemies had been allowed to come in wholesale without screening, without. And we screamed to high heaven about it for four years. And they acted like it wasn't happening. And Donald Trump stopped it. And there's no doubt that was good. It saved our country. But the people who had other plans for our country, the people who wanted to destroy our country, they were very disappointed in it because their plan suddenly stopped. And now that Donald Trump is in office, they are still doing everything they can to just be counter what this administration is doing, no matter how good it is, including liberating the people of Iran after 47 years of tyranny and the people of Cuba after 67 years of tyranny. Tyranny. We are not going to give up. We are going to over overwhelm them with joy and patriotism. I'm gonna handle the mockery, ridicule and satire and Donald Trump will handle the butt kicking. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Hey guys, it's Carson. I just got a ghost bed. Yeah, no, no, pay attention here because I've been sleeping on a foam mattress since I moved to the Washington D. Which is like sleeping on the sponge in your sink. Ghost bed doesn't build mattresses like furniture. 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Will (IQ Bar Sponsor) (31:44)

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Rob Carson (31:46)

got to get me there. Having St. Patrick's Day. Did you wear green? Welcome to the show. Joe Kent. Has decided to resign from a position as director of National Counterterrorism center, effective immediately. Two weeks into our military campaign against Iran, which is wildly successful, here's the President talking about this.

Brooke Goldstein (32:09)

Well, I read his statement. I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security. Very weak on security. Security. I didn't know him well, but I thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy. But when I read a statement, I realized that it's a good thing that he's out because he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat. Every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question is whether or not they wanted to do something about it. And many people, many of the greatest military scholars, scholars are saying for years that president should have taken out Iran because they wanted a nuclear weapon. They were. If we didn't do the attack, or if I'll go a step further, if I didn't terminate the Iran nuclear deal given to us one of the worst deals ever made by Barack Hussein and Obama. Remember when they sent Boeing 757s over there loaded with cash, hundreds of millions of dollars? He would have been very happy. This was a wonderful. They said hundreds of millions.

Rob Carson (33:11)

People forget that.

Brooke Goldstein (33:12)

Does anybody remember right? I remember hundreds of millions of dollars in a Boeing 757. I think they had two of them loaded. They took the seats out and they put cash. And it was so much that there wasn't a bank in Virginia, Maryland or D.C. that had any money left. They stripped them of all their money, put it into the place, sent it.

Rob Carson (33:34)

What did it get us? Absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. By the way, this is Brooke Goldstein talking about, you know, the, the obvious good that the United States is doing with regard to Iran, which with regard to Cuba, with regard to Venezuela, all of these things. And, and the people who are casting

Unknown Female Commentator (33:58)

stones at it, freeing the Iranian people from this Islamist regime that has held them since the 1970s and killed their children is a human rights obligation. While Iranians are celebrating on the streets of Tehran, they're celebrating in New York.

Rob Carson (34:17)

Yeah, but they're not celebrating on American college campuses.

Unknown Female Commentator (34:19)

Are they celebrating in Washington, D.C. the prospect of their own.

Rob Carson (34:24)

Where are the. The women's rights groups who are out protesting the Iran Iranian women's soccer team who did not sing their national anthem. And the Iranian regime said, when they said they were going to defect, we're going to murder your families until you come back. So these brave women who not only stood up against this despotic regime by not singing their national Anthem now they are sacrificing their own lives to save their faith families. This is the kind of stuff that mafia do. This is the kind of stuff that they do. You come back here so we can kill you or we're going to kill your family. And what's going to happen is they're going to go back to Iran and they're going to get killed and they're going to kill their family anyway. Where are the women's white rights groups? Where are the women? The Democrat women are so concerned about women, so afraid that women aren't going to be able to vote because you're asking for an id, not saying anything

Unknown Female Commentator (35:27)

about this Freedom Democrats, we have human rights pundits, we have left wing media have the arrogance to call the attack against Iran a human rights violation. And those same people who are criticizing

Rob Carson (35:43)

President Trump, Iran killed 35,000 of its own people. Unarmed slaughter for protesting against the regime in the last month.

Unknown Female Commentator (35:54)

Trump, right now, like you said, we're silent. When over 30,000 Iranian civilians were slaughtered, when women were were subjected to mass.

Rob Carson (36:04)

This Democrat Party and the left would have demanded the Berlin Wall be put back up again. I'm not, I'm not exaggerating. They would have, they would have said that China's reaction to the protests at Tiananmen Square was just. That's how much things have changed.

Unknown Female Commentator (36:24)

Rape and their bodies were mutilated. When children are murdered and their dying bodies left to freeze in Moorish. These people were absolutely silent. How arrogant of them. And I have yet to hear a coherent argument from the left as to why taking down the Iranian regime is wrong. Other than I hate Trump and I hate Israel.

Rob Carson (36:48)

Ding, ding, ding. There you go. There you go. And the Democrat Party has gone way anti Semitic. I had a. I'll have to dig for this. But I saw that the Israel only, I guess, enjoys 12% Democrat support. And if I'm not mistaken, in history, when people lean into socialism, they become real anti Semitic. There was a guy, what the hell is his name? He had a funny little mustache. He was a little short guy. And then he became the Chancellor of Germany. He took over Germany as a socialist. He had a party, it was called the German Socialist Workers Party is what it was. And then they just came all sorts of anti social media. Isn't that kind of weird? Because we've also got a guy in New York City who calls himself a democrat socialist and he's also an Islamist and he has been long on the side of radical Islam and has said basically you should Globalize the uniform. Do you kind of recognize a pattern here? Do you kind of recognize a pattern, Democrat? This is a path that you're traveling that has been down before. And I hope you don't wake up. No, you will wake up on the wrong side of history on this one because it has been done before. We're going to head it off this time in the past. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson show. This is Rob Carson show. We are doing broadcast radio. The stream is down today. We had some technical issues. Part of that could have been the weather we had last night. It was a little nasty on the east coast and we had some high winds and some. Some pretty serious rain and all of that. I don't know why, but the schools got called out yesterday. I mean, my God, can you kids not go to school when it's a little bit of rain, A little bit of rain? You know, they have these little. Little tornadoes out here. They're F1s. I'm from Iowa. We go out and dance around in those. They're like little dust devils. You know, we don't get too worried unless they. They become EF3s or EF5s. But anyway, the schools were canceled for salmon. And it looks like we might be having some technical difficulties as far as the street is concerned. We hope to get that going again. Hope to get it going again. Gold just 60 cents away from $5,000 an ounce. If you would have said this nearly two years ago, nobody would have believed you because gold was 2500, $2600. Now it's just sigh of $5000. So a lot of global uncertainty out there. But one thing is certain. Gold is valuable. Gold is valuable. And gold prices have been. Gold is still set to gain 20% above current prices in 2026, according to UBS. Gold has always had value. And you can look at crypto and you can look at all these other things, but maybe it's time for you to consider gold as part of your awesome portfolio. You know that I deal with Birch gold. It's a wonderful organization. Trustworthy. They have my money, by the way. And you can learn more about gold just by texting my name, right? Rob to 989898. Rob to 989898 for birch gold. And they'll just give you information, no obligation whatsoever. But I would consider doing it while it's below 5000 bucks because who knows what's going to happen. Hugh Hewitt was on. I think it was on Fox last night talking about this Carg Island. We decided to go after Carg Island. Now, Donald Trump's being very strategic about this. He's leaving the oil infrastructure for the people of Iran, Iran to use after the despotic Iranian regime is removed, by the way, which could happen very soon. They are teetering on absolute defeat. Here is Hugh Hewitt with his thoughts on Carg Island.

Hugh Hewitt (40:35)

Carg island, nothing is easy. But our military is extraordinary. You've been covering it for 25 years. What they have done in the last 16 days to shock and awe all of our adversaries around the world. I can't overstate how much safer the world world is today than it was 16 days.

Rob Carson (40:52)

And it took like 12 days for some people to bail on support of our military in their finest hour.

Hugh Hewitt (41:01)

And I think what President Trump has done, he's been very tough, very ruthless about this, and I want him to continue to be. That will be the most.

Rob Carson (41:08)

Did you ever notice there was not this kind of caterwauling even a decade into Afghanistan, which was a quagmire, significant

Hugh Hewitt (41:16)

decision of his presidency? It will make the world much safer. It has weakened the alliance of tyrants with Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. And the end game is, as Dasha said, unknown. But we are in a much, much better place. As Secretary of State Rice, former Secretary Rice, said on a Hoover Institution podcast, we have been at war with these people for 47 years. President Trump pulled the trigger on a can that had been kicked down the road, to mix my metaphors, for a very long time. I'm glad he did.

Rob Carson (41:45)

Yeah, me too. And again, where was this kind of caterwauling? Where were all of these people 10, 12, 15 years into Afghanistan? They weren't there. You know why? Because Donald Trump is the president right now and they don't want him to win while he's in charge. Second break and come back, hour number two of the Rob Carson shows right ahead. Don't go anywhere.