The Strait Talk Strategy

Summary

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The Rob Carson Show

Episode: The Strait Talk Strategy
Date: August 5, 2026
Host: Mary Walterson (in for Rob Carson)
Key Guest: Brigadier General Blaine Holt (retired, USAF, Newsmax contributor)
Focus: Politics, Culture Wars in Sports, Iran Conflict, Election Integrity

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Episode Theme:

This episode weaves together recent controversies in women’s sports, cultural flashpoints involving gender inclusivity, and shifting international tensions with Iran—while maintaining the show’s signature mix of humor, political commentary, and audience calls. Substitute host Mary Walterson leads the conversation, tackling hot-button issues and exploring their cultural and political ramifications.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. WNBA, Gender Inclusivity, and Cultural Fights in Sports

(00:39-08:59)

• Controversy: Mary dives into the ongoing debate about trans athletes in women’s sports, highlighting the recent situation involving WNBA player Sophie Cunningham supporting female-only sports, leading to backlash at games.
• Clay Travis’s Proposal: Travis, the founder of Outkick, offered $10 million for a game between the WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boys’ high school varsity team:
  • Mary on the offer (03:50): “If the Aces beat my team, I will give them $10 million. Now, $10 million is a third of what they bring in all year...”
• Broader Satire and Commentary:
  • Travis jokingly proposes a fully trans-women team—the Nashville Balls—should be allowed in the WNBA, satirically challenging the league to fully embrace “inclusivity.”
  • Mary comments (07:19): “I would pay to watch a trans team in the WNBA. I would pay for that...their ratings will go through the roof.”
• Conversation on Double Standards:
  • Mary notes there are no trans-men playing in the NBA, questioning the consistency of inclusive arguments.
  • Memorable analogy: WNBA trans team as the “Harlem Globetrotters,” other teams as the “Washington Generals”—always losing for the spectacle.

Notable Quote:

“She's all about inclusivity. And so she's—she's all for trans women playing in the WNBA. Interesting how there aren’t any trans men playing in the NBA. Isn't that kind of weird?”
— Mary Walterson, (06:16)

2. Listener Engagement and Broader Culture

(10:18-14:14)

• Caller 'Buster' from Santa Cruz:
  • Shares his perspectives on immigration and its impact on local job markets and culture in places like California.
  • Claims pro-illegal immigration groups are influencing Trump’s image negatively.
• Mary’s Rebuttal:
  • Clarifies Trump’s support among moderates is the source of declining ratings, not hardline immigration stances.
  • Points out that factors like California’s gas prices are primarily about state taxes, not federal policy.

Notable Quote:

“A lot of what people are saying, they're upset about it through these calls, really has nothing to do with Trump. It has to do with the state or the city. So be careful of who you vote for.”
— Mary Walterson, (15:15)

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3. Media and Information Bubbles

(15:24-21:27)

• Mary critiques mainstream media’s lack of border crisis coverage and how news consumption shapes understanding.
• She details her daily routine of consuming broadly from left, right, and centrist news sources to avoid echo chambers.

Notable Listener Comment:

“Sports is about competition. It’s not about diversity. And they won’t respond to Clay Travis because they’re afraid they’d go down like the girls’ soccer team...”
— Listener “The Dreaded Soulman” (summary, 16:55)

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4. Combat Sports and Trans Participation

(16:55-21:27)

• Mary notes the start of combat sports leagues (boxing/Muay Thai) for trans athletes, where DNA/hormone testing determines eligibility.
• Highlights the tension between inclusivity and fairness, with a humorous aside about voter ID compared to competing as trans in sports.

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5. Deep Dive: Iran, Regional Strategy, and “Wash, Rinse, Repeat War”

With Brigadier Gen. Blaine Holt (22:17-37:20)

Current Situation & Strategy

• Conflict Dynamics:
  • Holt frames the US-Iran standoff as cyclical: deal struck, deal broken, US responds militarily, and repeat.
  • Gen. Holt (22:58): “Maybe someday a history book will call this the wash, rinse, repeat war...5% of what's out there in the ether to look at for information...is about 5% of the entirety of what's really going on below the hood.”
• US Objective:
  • The goal is not occupation but to weaken the regime's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), supporting a future Iranian uprising.
  • The US is “taking a scalpel” rather than a sledgehammer, working to position Iranian opposition forces to eventually seize power with minimized risk of bloodbath.

Notable Quote:

“We're not taking a sledgehammer to this thing. We're taking a scalpel. And they'll only be, you know, one chance to get this right, or you have a bloodbath, infinitum.”
— Gen. Blaine Holt, (25:33)

Risks and Geopolitics

• Neighboring Risks:
  • Regional allies worry a sudden power vacuum or revolution could lead to refugee flight (up to 10% of Iran’s population), straining neighbors.
  • Gen. Holt (33:07): “If you have 10% put themselves on refugee status...that’s going to create a big problem for Pakistan, Iraq, all the neighbors in the region. And they want to avoid that, but it may be unavoidable.”
• Financial and International Tangles:
  • City of London banking syndicates and Lloyd’s of London play roles in strait dynamics—Oman and Iran's temporary deal cannot supplant US naval power in the Strait of Hormuz.

Breaking News: Strait of Hormuz Deal

• Axios report: Oman and Iran negotiating a 60-day traffic control deal in the Hormuz strait.
  • Holt is dismissive: “There is zero chance that we’re not going to be in control of the straits. If they want to pat themselves on the back and say, hey, look at us, we are now in control...okay, fine, you and whose army?”
• US Leaks and Operational Security:
  • Confirmation of a recent leak scuttling a planned US operation in Iran. Holt: “That’s going to come with some pretty severe criminal charges...that is unconscionable.”

Memorable exchange:

Mary: “We just never seem to be able to find the leakers. It’s amazing how ineffective our government can be when they want to.”
Gen. Holt: “And Fort Fumble. They do have leakers there. Or, I’m sorry, the Pentagon.”
(37:00)

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6. Election Integrity: Why Every Vote Matters

(41:00–End)

• Stunning Stats:
  • Hundreds of US elections are decided by one vote or ties; many local races across multiple states involved a single-digit margin.
  • Mary’s advice: Focus on local/state elections for integrity, not just the big national contests.
• Noncitizen Voting:
  • Reports of 256,000+ noncitizens on voter rolls in four states; anecdotal evidence of close races possibly being decided by ineligible voters.
  • New Jersey cited as an example—state officials understate the risk.

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• On WNBA/Trans Athletes:
  • “My team will be 100% trans. The Travis owned Nashville Balls will be the most inclusive women's men's team in WNBA history. Stop discriminating against us.”
    — Quoting Clay Travis, (07:12)
• On Iran:
  • “We’re cleaning up the straits and we’re doing our grandchildren a great service.”
    — Gen. Holt, (22:58)
• Humorous Disclaimers:
  • “Tomorrow is like the day to me when it's all downhill from here. It's great after this.”
    — Mary, (22:30)
  • “Fort Fumble. They do have leakers there. Or, I'm sorry, the Pentagon.”
    — Gen. Holt (37:00), quipping about bureaucratic inefficiency

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• WNBA & Trans Debate: 00:39–08:59
• Caller Buster & Immigration/Culture: 10:18–14:14
• Media, News Bubbles: 15:24–16:55
• Combat Sports Trans Leagues: 16:55–21:27
• Iran/Strait of Hormuz Interview with Blaine Holt: 22:17–37:20
• Election Integrity Stats & Local Impact: 41:00–end

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Conclusion

This episode of The Rob Carson Show—helmed by Mary Walterson—embodies its tagline: humorous yet pointed examinations of America’s flashpoints. From gender debates in sports to the convoluted geopolitics of the Middle East, Mary maintains spirited, sometimes satirical commentary, while Gen. Holt brings a sobering, granular analysis of military realities. The episode ties together the cultural and political at home and abroad, reminding listeners that what happens in arenas, borders, or straits can be as consequential as what happens at the ballot box.

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Transcript

[Mary Walterson]

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[Caller/Buster]

Hold it. Now,

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

live from Newsmax Studios in Washington,

[Caller/Buster]

D.C. the most interesting, informative and funny show in America on air and on the World Wide Web. This is the Rob Carson Show.

[Mary Walterson]

Hey, welcome back to the Rob Carson Show. I'm Mary Walterson in for Rob. I'll be with you tomorrow and Friday as well. Wanted to invite you to hit me up on X at Mary Walter Radio. Tag me to post if you want to comment. If you can't, call into 800-922-6680. I always love to hear your calls and you can disagree with me, that's totally fine. But we just have to be respectful. All right? So that's the only thing we have to, we have to just speak nicely to each other. Okay. It's not like don't pretend you're on social media and you're big keyboard warrior throwing names around and everything. So you could do that as well. Coming up at the bottom of the hour here, Blaine Holt will be joining us. He is a retired brigadier general from the Air Force. And we'll talk to him about what's happening in Iran because as I said, I think that's a big thing that's holding President Trump's ratings down. I really do. I think that's of it. I know a lot of people said no, it's the economy, but I think this has a lot to do with it as well. Also, my podcast is on Tuesday evening, 7:15pm Eastern Time. It is live on YouTube, Getter and Rumble. Just look for Mary Walter Radio and the audio is available on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Spreaker. This last night's won't be up. Definitely won't get up today, but maybe tomorrow. I just have a lot of things on my plate. Speaking of which, later today, 5:15, I will be on Newsmax TV on B odd I'd Ike Wingate show. So I'll be going with Ike Wingate on N. I think he's on N2, N2, Newsmax 2. So if you're watching right now on YouTube, you just type in, you go to YouTube and you type in Newsmax 2 and it'll pop up and you just click live and you can join us there. So, okay, that's all done with. I love this story. I'm not a huge, I'm not a big professional sports fan at all, but I am enjoying what's happening with the WN yeah, I'm loving watching this because you are watching people absolutely try to kill an industry. They are doing their best. And I've worked in industries where I have watched management absolutely tried to just kill the model. And they're not doing it purposely, but they get a bunch of, you know, pencil pushers and they just, they number count their way into bankruptcy. So you know what's going on with all of the trans stuff and everything? Well, so they're getting asked about this because you got Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark. And Sophie has come out and said that I listen, I have no problem with trans people, but I stand up for girls in sports. Girls should have their sports. So the girl sports. So. And of course she's getting hammered for that. And some girls came to a game and they wore the XX XY shirts and they said thank you Sophie for standing up for girls in sports. And so there were people, grown adults who were yelling at these kids and screaming at them and calling them names and everything because they had a sign that they disagreed with. Oh my gosh, the horror. How dare you have opinions that differ from me. How dare you. So, so anyway, Clay Travis has gotten involved in this and now I'm starting to pay attention to what's happening in the WNBA because I absolutely love this and I want to know if you're down for this because I would be. So first, the first thing he did, he's the founder of Alkick. The first thing he did is he made an offer for the league's best team. Live up to what you believe in. So he said and he made the offer. But on Monday he said, I'm upping my offer. $10 million for a head to head basketball game between the defending WAB NBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boys high school title state title team of my choice. If the Aces beat my team, I will give them $10 million. Now $10 million is a third of what they bring in all, all year. In a year they bring it about $33 million. So it's, it's about, it's about a third. And remember the WNBA for this, this whole women's league is subsidized by the NBA because WNBA doesn't make enough money on their own. But you know who's bringing money in? Caitlin Clark and, and Sophie Cunningham. People are coming to see them and then they start screaming at their fans. The fans who pay money to come watch you play because they want blank. It doesn't make any sense at all. So of course no one has said anything and the WNBA has not responded at all. But we're going to go to cut four. Brian. There was a press conference yesterday and in the press conference, the head coach of the Golden State Valkyries, Natalie Nakazi, she was asked about, you know, do you believe in trans women being able to play in the wnba? Because this is the whole conversation around the wnba. This is just horrific messaging for them. So she was asked that question. I want you to listen to this interaction.

[Natalie Nakazi]

Her response, for me, sports is about belonging. It's about inclusivity. It's about allowing everyone to be their authentic self. You know, I'm big on that. Just because I have been criticized for my height, for my ethnicity, I've been in those you shouldn't belong here many times. And for me, I don't want that space, especially Golden State, to ever feel like that. So I'm all about women, little girls deserving to play, and that includes trans women. So I'm all about inclusivity.

[Mary Walterson]

She's all about inclusivity. And so she's. She's all for trans women playing in the wnba. Interesting how there aren't any trans men playing in the NBA. Isn't that kind of weird? And the other thing too is I'm all about inclusivity. What about, what about the woman who really, really wants to play in the WNBA but she's really not that good or she's short the wnba. You're chosen for those teams. She got her job because she was apparently qualified to be a coach, I would assume, unless she got it through dei and I don't think she wants to admit that. So they have standards and people get cut and not everyone is included. No matter how badly you want to be included. If you are not, if you are not good enough, you don't make it into the wnba. You don't make it into the NBA. So what are they talking about? What are they talking about? So Clay Travis upset. And I want to know from you, I am so down with this. I would pay to watch this. Not only would I pay to watch the game between the wnba, the the Aces, the championship team and high school boys varsity team of Clay Travis is choosing. Not only would I. Why pay to watch that? Because I absolutely would. Because I really honestly think the boys would win and I just think it would be a good game in general. It'd be fun to watch it. But notice they're too afraid. They will not respond. What are they afraid of? So Tray Travis posted on X that video that you just heard there you know, it's all about women, little girls deserving to play, and that includes trans women. So I'm all about inclusivity. So she's checking the boxes, the DEI boxes, right? So he responds to that video. He post the video yesterday and he said, WNBA coach says men should be able to play in the WNBA. Finally, where is my franchise? WNBA. My team will be 100% trans. The Travis owned Nashville Balls will be the most inclusive women's men's team in WNBA history. Stop discriminating against us. And then he posted a follow up post and said, all the Nashville Balls want is to belong. It's cruel and inhumane to not allow my trans team to compete. I have the cash. My team will sell out every game and we will never lose some games we may not even be scored against. Why do you hate trans people, wnba? So I love this and I have to tell you, if they, if they, which I don't think they'll cater him, they're just gonna ignore him and hope it goes away. I so want him to press on this because I would pay to watch a trans team in the wnba. I would pay for that.

[Caller/Buster]

I would.

[Mary Walterson]

Whatever cable channel I need to get, I will get. Or if I have to sign up for some package or Hulu or whatever, I'm getting it because I want to watch it. And their ratings will go through the roof, their revenue will go through the ceiling. And it's going to become like, in my humble, in my, my brain, it becomes like the old Harlem Globetrotters, right? When we were kids, my parents would take us to Madison Square Garden. We watched the Harlem Globetrotters play the Washington Wizards. And it was fun and everything. That's what it would be. The trans team would be the Harlem Globetrotters and all the women's team would be the Washington Wizards. Always getting dunked on and everything. I would pay to watch this. And I'm curious if you feel the same. 8009-2266-8080-0922-6685. Buster in Santa Cruz wants to go back to Trump's approval ratings. Washington Generals. Did I say, what did I say the Washington. What did I say the wrong thing? I said Washington Wizards. I'm sorry, the Washington Generals. My bad. The Washington Wizards is the women's, is the men's basketball team, right? I think so. They're as bad as the Washington Generals. Thank you, Brian. Okay, the Washington Generals. But you get my point. I would pay for this. Buster in Santa Cruz, welcome. You're on the Rob Carson Show.

[Caller/Buster]

Hi, Mary, how you doing? All right, nice to hear you.

[Mary Walterson]

Thank you. Thanks for calling. Before we get into Donald Trump, would you pay to watch a totally trans team made of trans women play the women's teams in the wnba?

[Caller/Buster]

No, not really. I won't get off on that.

[Mary Walterson]

Oh, man. I think. Okay, all right, fine. We have different ideas of entertainment. That's fine.

[Caller/Buster]

No, I mean, I got enough of it here in Santa Cruz and San Francisco.

[Mary Walterson]

That's true. That's a fair point.

[Caller/Buster]

Matter of fact, that kind of ties into what I want to talk about now. Somebody explained to me what's going on here. It was actually a guy that's running for controller here in California. And I was always wondering, what in the hell's wrong with Half Moon Bay? Because I kind of grew up there and worked and lived there, and I couldn't never quite figure it out. Then I come to Santa Cruz. I'm getting the same feeling now. According to this person, these pro illegal immigration and all their supporters have made an incredible impact. I'm way more than we think. And then I started thinking, you know, he's right, because, like, I remember, like in Half Moon Bay, without sounding racist, it seems like a certain group had all the jobs that didn't used to be like that when I was, you know, years ago. That's a whole new phenomena. And so what I'm saying this is, has a lot to do with why Trump is getting a bad rap. These people definitely have an agenda. They're very aggressive. They know what they're doing. They come in and take over a whole community, which I personally have seen and happen to this.

[Mary Walterson]

Let me ask you a question, though. Let me ask you a question. I get what you're saying. Let me ask you a question, though. How is that Trump's fault?

[Caller/Buster]

No, it's not. I never said.

[Mary Walterson]

Yeah, right.

[Caller/Buster]

Yeah. No, what it is, is you remember that those trains that had thousands of illegals coming over here and towards our border was a few years back.

[Mary Walterson]

Yeah.

[Caller/Buster]

Did they all make it into the country? We don't even know.

[Mary Walterson]

Right, right. But. But I understand. I just don't understand how that translates to Trump's fault. Like, how do people make that jump?

[Caller/Buster]

Oh, because he's closing a border. He does. Does it make sense he's going against what they want?

[Mary Walterson]

Right. But those people didn't vote for him and they never approved of Donald Trump. Those people didn't vote for Trump. The numbers where he has dropped are moderate Republicans. The number where he's lost support According to the audio that I played, he lost support among moderate Republicans, according to the polls. Okay. A lot. By like 59%. Those people are not moderate Republicans. They never were. And they never voted for Trump. So he never had their support. So they did not contribute to the loss of, of support for President Trump.

[Caller/Buster]

Oh, okay. I got. Okay, so, yeah, I got an answer for that.

[Mary Walterson]

Okay, quickly, Buster, quickly. It's only a three hour show.

[Caller/Buster]

Okay. It's economic. When we're paying.

[Mary Walterson]

Right.

[Caller/Buster]

Whatever for gasoline, you can't help. But some people hold that against Trump.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Right.

[Mary Walterson]

When the majority, especially in California, the majority of the price of gas and. Thank you so much, Buster. We gotta run. We're past the break. Thank you. The majority of the cost of gas in California is state tax. Taxes. Majority of it is state taxes. So when California is paying $5 or something for a gallon of gas and other parts of the country are paying three something for a gallon of gas, that's because California has two extra dollars in taxes on the price of gas. So you can't blame that on Trump. A lot of what people are saying, they're upset about it through these calls really has nothing to do with Trump. It has to do with the state or the city. So be careful of who you vote for. And if you don't vote, like the people of Manhattan who did not get out and vote in the mayoral election was, it was a minority that voted. Well, blame yourself because you can get your butt out and vote now. You got to move. So maybe voting was, would have been a time Saver. All right, 800-922-6680. We have Blaine Holt joining us here at about 15 minutes. We'll get an update from him on any progress, if any, in Iran. That's coming up on the Rob Carson Show. The media and our friends in the

[Caller/Buster]

Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

There you go.

[Mary Walterson]

Absolutely true. But you know what? We've all forgotten about the border. No one's saying anything about the border. Why? Because the mainstream media is not highlighting the border because there's no crisis. And they barely highlighted it when we had people like this, the scenes from Spain, from Pseudo, when they were just walking across. We had the same thing at our border and they did not carry it. The mainstream media ignored it. So if you find yourself uninformed but don't know about certain things, it's kind of your fault. But it's also the Main it's the media's fault. It's hard to keep abreast of everything that's out there because it's my job. And I tell people all the time, I get up in the morning and I turn everything on in the order that it appears on my provider. So first I hit News Nation and then I hit Fox, and then I hit cnn and then I hit News now and then I hit Newsmax, because that's the order in which they're on my television. So as I just go boom, boom, boom. And it takes me about an hour in the morning and I just sit there and I sit and I watch all of them just to get an idea of what's happening in the world because I know that I'm not gonna get everything. So I try to try to be well rounded. I don't want to live in an echo chamber at all. The dreaded Soulman hit me up on Exit Mary Walter radio and says, every trusted town crier news dealer in America should have told, should have told us that mask mandating governors were calling in their day, date and time, certain official mandate start time. So he's saying, he said, he's talking about like this goes back to look what happened with the mask mandates. He goes on to talk about pronouns and things like that. And he said sports is about competition. It's not about diversity. And they won't respond to Clay Travis because they're afraid that they would go down like the girls soccer team in their scrimmage with, with boys, you can't have it. It's men and women are just built differently. How about a girl swim race with all trans girl race swimmers? Yeah, why not? Listen, they're starting a league of competitive fighting, so boxing, Muay Thai, etc. And it's all trans. But the funny thing is, is that competent as to compete in it, you have to provide DNA. You have to have your blood tested to see what the DNA is in your body to see how much testosterone you have in order to compete in the trans men or the trans woman. They have the two. The two. Which. This is the way to handle this. I'm fine with a third category, but I just love that you have to prove your hormones in order to compete in one or the other, which I think is hilarious. It's like ma' am Donnie wanting ID to vote in his government, his city run grocery stores to make sure that people don't take advantage, right? Because shockingly, just saying no, really. I'm from New York City and I'm poor and I need food. That, that's not good enough. Which I find hilarious. But not, but that's also, you know, but it is good enough. It's not good enough for that, but it is good enough for voting. So the hypocrisy is just insane. So coming up, we're going to talk about Iran. Now. There's reports, you know, what Iran is doing is Trump will say or someone will come out and say, and sometimes it's leaked out. Who's the leaker? You want to talk about people doing their jobs. This is why Trump can't get stuff done. There's no leaks under Democrat presidents, only under Republicans. What does that tell you? And we never find the leaker. Never know who it is. Never know who the leaker is. What? There was actually a, an operation that was planned in Iran and the details were leaked out beforehand and they had to scrap it. The military had to scrap it because somebody leaked it out and they're looking for the leaker and I hope they find the leaker. But these are the types of things that we can't keep having because people are going to die with these leaks anyway. We'll find, we'll talk about more this about more about this with Blaine Holtz coming up on the Rob Carson show. Don't go anywhere.

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[Mary Walterson]

Welcome back. Welcome back to the Rob Carson show. Mary Walter with you in for Rob. I'll be with you tomorrow and Friday as well. In one hour, we'll be joined by Jimmy Keating. He's a Republican strategist and the owner of JLK Strategies. And we'll talk about the primary results with him. Not any really big news out of it. The biggest news, I think, was that there's there was no big socialist wave on the Democrat side. And I think they're probably sighing relief on that. But let's talk about Iran, shall we? General Bradier, General Blaine Holt joining us. He's with was with the U.S. u.S. Air Force, U.S. deputy Military Rep to NATO, and he's also a Newsmax contributor. You can find him on X at the irascible with an underscore between duh and irascible. And you're gonna have to look up and figure out how to spell irascible. Sir, thank you for joining me. Appreciate it.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Mary, it's good to be with you. I hope your week is off to a great start.

[Mary Walterson]

Ah, thank you. Well, I'm halfway through it and I've survived so far. So let's see where we go from here.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

It's the third Monday of the week.

[Mary Walterson]

That's right. Tomorrow is like the day to me when it all's like, ah, it's all downhill from here. It's great after this. Okay, so let's talk about Iran. We haven't really heard a lot about it. It just seems to be a cycle of we've got a deal, they broke the deal, we bombed them, we got a deal, they break the deal, we bomb them. It just seems like we're in this cycle. Is Iran trying to keep this going to hurt Trump in the midterms?

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Oh, I really think it's the other way around. And maybe someday a history book will call this the wash, rinse, repeat war. But what we have to analyze is that, or at least take note of, is that, you know, 5% of what's out there in the ether to look at for information, the president's social media posts, the very misleading and duplicitous posts from the Iranians. It's about 5% of the entirety of what's really going on below the hood. And there are so many psyops and information warfare things going on because this is a very different type of war in the respect that we're not putting 130,000 US forces on the ground. We're not going to occupy and own this country for 20 years to no good place. We're eventually going to be handing, I believe my opinion, the baton off to the Iranian people to eventually finish this regime off. The regime would like to keep kicking the can down the road because they're all at each other's throats. President Trump's happy to let them do that because every day makes a revolutionary organization get stronger, more organized and ready to go. And they're just waiting for President Trump to give them the green light to go take their country back. I'd say it's going very well. And a lot of folks might get nervous with some of the headlines we're seeing, but honestly, we're cleaning up the straits and we're doing our grandchildren a great service.

[Mary Walterson]

So you talk about handing it back to the people and letting the people take this over. And I guess, didn't we try that? Didn't we give the Kurds a whole bunch of armaments, a whole bunch of weapons for them to distribute to the people so that they could rise up against the mullahs? And the Kurds kept so they've been trying to rise up, but they just keep killing them. And we see it all that we keep seeing reports. There's a report that they've executed at least 56 people since March, people who have risen up against the regime. And then there's at least 100 others at risk of being put together to put to death on similar charges. So they're just killing. They're just killing the people like they have zero respect for life. They have zero value for life. So they really don't have anything to lose here because they're also fulfilling religious zealotry that they have that they believe that if they can defeat the Great Satan, they bring about the third Imam or whatever it is, and, you know, they're all going to heaven.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Yeah. The Ahmadi, the 12th of month. No, your points are excellent. You're exactly right. But, but this is exactly why it's we're not going to launch a revolution or tell the Iranians it's yours, go get it. Without degrading the power of the IRGC to a level of vulnerability where it is time. The Kurds actually are being very helpful. And there are supplies getting through. I have that from sources. But the Kurds have actually entered in from the northern part of the country. And they provide two things. They're going to be helping with this revolution, but they're also going to be a blocking force to keep fleeing IRGC members from trying to evade into Iraq. Iraq is doing a great job because they're Rolling up money laundering networks and Iranian spies. But you don't want to see a revolution get out there and get slaughtered. You want these folks to come at it from a position of superiority and to be blanketed and jacketed by American air power. And so I get it. We're not taking a sledgehammer to this thing. We're taking a scalpel. And they'll only be, you know, one chance to get this right, or you have a bloodbath, infinitum. And, And. And then look at the other side of this. We have to see this through. Now, do we really want to leave these Armageddon psychopaths to respond themselves for some day with. With eternal vengeance on their minds?

[Caller/Buster]

Right.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

There's only. There's only one path out.

[Mary Walterson]

Yeah. And I think there's a lot of people in this country who don't see what happens if we just leave the status quo and we just keep going the way we're. The way we're going. I. I believe you and I spoke about. Okay, so, you know, what is the alternative here? Trump should have. Was Trump taken by surprise at the fact that they're willing to die and not make a deal? I think they were caught off guard by this, and I think you and I spoke about this in the past, but were they caught off guard by the fact that they will just. They're crazy people.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Yeah, I don't think so. Because. Because, you know, I grew up with the folks who are in command right now, and Admiral Cooper has a very clear vision and is not, you know, in any way uneducated about what he's dealing with. But there are differences in how you approach this thing. When you've got to bring along your Arab allies and partners, you've got to get aligned with Israel, because there's a bigger strategic prize out here. It's called the Abraham Accord. President Trump's not going to vaporize Iran. He's just not. And so with those as the parameters and understanding that these guys are headed towards martyrdom, how you handle it will either deny you the Abraham Accords or foster getting to that place, which is what, strategically, we're really seeking. And then there's the adversary that we don't talk about ever. And they've been an impediment the entire time.

[Caller/Buster]

That.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

That's the City of London, Lloyd's of London, their monopoly in the straits, the insurance mafia. And then aided and abetted by the European partners, who to this day are being an impediment to what we're trying

[Mary Walterson]

to do very quickly before I run out of time here, because they're up against the clock. Axios is reporting, and it just came across my newsfeed that Axios is reporting that there's going to be an announcement of a deal today. And according to two regional sources, the deal under discussion sets up a 60 day temporary arrangement between Oman and Iran in the Hormuz Strait. Could be extended. All inbound traffic of ships go in one way, outbound go the other. And there is all in coordination through Omani waters or through Iranian waters one way and one way the other. No tolls or fees charged. During the 60 day period. The parties would work on clearing naval mines from the median lane of the strait within 30 days after the median lane is cleared, it would be used for inbound and outbound traffic under the terms of a permanent arrangement to be negotiated between Oman and Iran. Why is Oman negotiating a deal with Iran for the two of them to split ownership of the strait.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Oh my gosh, what a perfect segue. Okay, so let's get back to the City of London thing. Lloyd's of London is they're finished off by President Trump and Scott Bessant. They're not going to have a monopoly. So then you've got this pinch point on both sides of the straits. One is Oman, one is the Iranians. Oh, what do they have in common? Oh, yeah, the City of London Banking consortium. So they're just trying to respond themselves into this deal. And okay, 60 days. Let's make Marion pop the champagne corks. It won't last at all. And there's no way that Oman or Iran are going to control a dagum thing. They're not going to control a hot dog stand. But what's great is that first off, they're not going to honor the deal. The Iranians won't. They'll be back at throwing a missile at somebody because they don't even have any control over their colonels. So, so we'll be back at it very soon. But let's say, just hypothetically, this 60

[Caller/Buster]

day deal gets to where it needs.

[Mary Walterson]

Sir, Sir, I'll tell you what. Before you go into, just, before you go into that, let's, let's hold that over for. And that'll be like our cliffhanger. All right, and on the other side of this, we'll find out what if this 60 day deal. Dun, dun, dun. We'll do that with Brigadier General Blaine Holt coming up on the Rob Carson Show. And welcome back to the Rob Carson Show. We're Here with Brigadier General Blaine Holt. Find him on exit the Irascible. And we're talking about a deal that's supposedly going to be announced today between another deal with Iran and discussing whether this is a win for the US because this seems to be negotiate being negotiated between Oman and Iran. And if it's not reached soon, Trump can greenlight major strikes on Iran. But it leaves the US out of control of the straight. And you were just about to tell us how this is a win for the United States, sir. So go.

[Caller/Buster]

Yep.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

There is zero chance that we're not going to be in control of the straits. If, if they want to pat themselves on the back and say, hey, look at us, we are now in control. Okay, fine, you and whose army? Because you don't have one, either of you. So that's one problem. If we are going to have something that's durable and lasts for 60 days, well, right. But then what happens in that case is the shockback for the revolution. We know what that is. And then the Iranian people who want their freedom have to then go, oh, we've got 60 days and the US could be out of here. So we're going to take back our country because this is our only chance. We're never going to let the mullah stay in charge. And they're organizing in three separate regions of Iran right now. They're getting organized according to equipped, supported, trained. And that's what we've used as our time since the MOU got signed. This, this strategy that the mullahs like, it's gonna backfire on them.

[Mary Walterson]

Listen from your mouth to God's ear. I honestly really hope that that's what happened. I also hope that we have three separate. They're, they're organizing in three separate groups. I just hope that the country just doesn't descend into chaos and then you wind up with another strong armed leader who can control the three different factions and they control it with power and authoritarianism. And when they're right, started from.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

So you're getting to a really good point because this is a risk and a downside. And it's why the Arab countries have a lot of trepidation about President Trump stepping back on the gas. It has to do with any size of refugee crisis that might come out of Iran as a result of a revolution. So 90 million people, let's just say you have 10%, put themselves on refugee status. That's going to create a big problem for Pakistan, Iraq, all the neighbors in the region. And they want to avoid that. But but it may be unavoidable. But that is when I look at the risks of all of this, that is a huge risk. It's right up there with the carousels in this country that we have to keep an eye on.

[Mary Walterson]

Yeah, it's, it's, that's the, that's the one thing I fear is that we make a worse problem than we already have. And that is the one thing that I really think is going to be a negative for President Trump if that happens. And listen, the media is never going to give him a win on this. But I just want to go back quickly to what we started this out with. Where I said, are the mullahs stretching this out to the midterms to try to hurt Trump? And you said, no, I think it's the opposite. Why wouldn't President Trump want this over with?

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Well, he probably does want it over with. And the shot clock for the midterms is the midterms. You're right and correct in the mullahs or the Iranian leadership, assuming that they can get to the midterms and they're home free. But what I think President Trump has in mind is that this gets to some sort of wrap up point, probably just a couple of weeks before the midterms, leaving, you know, taking a victory lap and leaving no time for any type of opposition to try to wage some sort of information campaign. Oh, look, the Middle east is in a complete mess. But it is, this is, you know, this is, in the politics of this, this is the highest stakes game possible because we also have a looming financial crisis. If you look at the, what's going on in Japan and liquidity and banks and then President Trump is, he's running the clock right down to the number. My concern is, is when we see stories and they're really quite disingenuous stories that, oh, American logistics are on its butt. We don't have the munitions we need. You're giving me the enemy encouragement where they shouldn't be encouraged at all. We're going to have to see this through. Otherwise we're doing our grandchildren a great disservice, 100%.

[Mary Walterson]

So last question before I go into the, before, you know, they start yelling at me talk about the shot clock and I feel like I have it on me right now. Wasn't there just a leak about, about a operation that was supposed to be taken in Iran and the whole thing got leaked and they had a, they had to scuttle it. Now they are, they're on the hunt for the leaker is, is that true?

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

My understanding is that that is accurate. And if that's the case, that, that, that's going to come with some pretty severe criminal charges. I can't tell you in my world from uniformed service how high a crime that is. It's way, way up there. That is unconscionable. And then as a logistician, I ran logistics for the European theater where Israel was in my portfolio. You don't give out numbers of anything in logistics. That's top secret information that also should come with criminal consequences, in my opinion. Opinion.

[Mary Walterson]

No, I, I, I absolutely agree with you. I just hope that they find them. They never seem to be able to find the leakers, you know, that we don't, we still don't know who leaked out the Dobbs decision. It's a mystery. We, we just never seem to be able to find the leakers. It's, it's amazing how ineffective our government can be when they want to. So that's, that's what, that's what I fear.

[Caller/Buster]

Yeah.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

And Fort Fumble. They do have leakers there. Or, I'm sorry, the Pentagon.

[Mary Walterson]

That's really funny. I'm, I'm stealing that. I will give you credit. Brigadier General Blaine Holt, thank you for joining me. It's always a pleasure. I love talking with you and I'm so glad that you were on today with me. It was a great opportunity for me.

[Caller/Buster]

Thank you.

[Mary Walterson]

Have a great rest of your week.

[Caller/Buster]

Pleasure, Mary.

[Brigadier General Blaine Holt]

Thank you.

[Mary Walterson]

All right, we've got a little bit more coming up. Quick break and then we are back with more here on the Rob Carson Show. All right, coming up on the Rob Carson show, we're going to be joined by Jim Keaty. He's a Republican strategist. We're going to talk about the primary results. So I wanted to bring this to you in the time that I have left here, which is not a lot, so I'll try to make it quick. From 2018 to 2025, 660 elections were decided by less than 10 votes. Of those, 94 elections were decided by just one vote. This is according to Ballotpedia, almost a third of those one vote elections were state legislative races. Since 1992, there have been 1,371 elections ending in a tie, while another 530 were decided by a single vote, according to a database from the Public Interest Legal foundation, which is an election integrity group. Anyone concerned about election insecurity shouldn't dwell on the 2020 election or things that can't be changed. But Focus on the next state house elections according to the research director for the Public Interest Legal Foundation. So in other words, look closer to home. Don't look at these big national elections, look at the closer elections. Look on the lower levels, look on the state levels, look on the county levels. That's where you should be looking. As recently as March of this year, a candidate for a house in Arkansas, a House seat in Arkansas, won a primary election by a single vote. Now remember, in the People's Socialist Republic of New Jersey they admit to 660 noncitizens registered to vote and as many as 400 voted. I guarantee you as a resident of the People's Socialist Republic of New Jersey, those numbers are far higher. Far, far, far, far, far higher. That's a big lie. That was only 6,600. There's no way they're copping to the real number. Adding happening last month the Department of Homeland Security released estimates that four states, California, New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania had over 256,000 non citizens vote on their voter rolls. And separately 25 states that, that did cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security in maintaining their voter rolls identified at least 28,000 non citizen registered to vote so far. So you know, in New Jersey, our helicopter pilot, Governor Whirly Bird, she, she said that well, you know, there would, didn't affect any races, the outcome of any races. How do you know? I'm sure there were local races that, that were very close, that maybe 10, 20 votes, they very easily could have been swayed one way or another by illegals, people who shouldn't be voting, voting in that state's elections. This is a big deal and don't let the Democrats downplay it because they don't want you to know. They really, they just don't want you to know. All right, coming up, we've got a lot more to talk about. There's just so much here I don't know where to start. We'll figure it out by the top of the hour and I welcome your calls on the Rob Carson Show.