Ron and Allie talk about the Iran war, autism awareness month, and Master's Weekend. Allie also talks about her upcoming trip to share the arrows with her team in October, and why you should get your tickets!
00:05:31.880That Iran commits to never developing nuclear weapons.
00:05:36.060That Iran must also no longer enrich uranium within the country.
00:05:40.040They have to hand over its stockpile of already enriched uranium to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
00:05:47.260It's called the IAEA, which is kind of hard to say.
00:05:50.400and Tehran would also commit to allowing the IAEA to monitor all elements of the country's
00:05:56.760remaining nuclear infrastructure. That's important because in the past, they have not allowed
00:06:01.080inspectors to come in. And the only reason you wouldn't allow inspectors to come in is because
00:06:05.860you're trying to hide something. And we know now for sure that they've been hiding enriched uranium.
00:06:12.160The other thing, another thing is reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. And we'll talk about that
00:06:16.360a little bit later. That's very important also. Then we need to end Iran's support for regional
00:06:22.220proxies, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen and then Hamas that is in Gaza.0.71
00:06:28.760That is part of the deal. You know, people talk about Iran wasn't a threat to us. Well,0.72
00:06:34.060Iran, through these organizations, these terrorist organizations, they have killed Americans.0.88
00:06:41.180They have killed Americans. All of you that were born before 1983 should probably remember that they bombed the marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. And that was an organization that was supported. The money came from Iran.0.85
00:06:58.340And that's what went on in Gaza when Hamas attacked Israel, what goes on in the Houthis that attack people outside of Yemen and what have you.
00:07:08.340So it might as well be Iran themselves.0.64
00:07:11.820So to say Iran hasn't caused damage to America and our allies is just not a true story.0.92
00:07:19.520And how many of you can remember those hostages they took in the 70s?
00:07:23.160And they were there for, I forget the name, how long they were there, but they were there for like a year and just released when President Reagan became president.
00:07:35.020So for people to say that Iran's not a threat, I just don't understand that.
00:07:39.480When people have been claiming, at least the regime, maybe not the everyday Iranian person, but the regime has been claiming that they want death to America and death to Israel.0.99
00:07:49.400At some point in time, you have to believe them.0.97
00:07:52.700If someone in your city, if someone in your city, okay, said that they wanted to kill you and they were building a stockpile of arms that would allow them to do that, and you're just, are you just going to say, oh, it's okay, it's no big deal, that type of thing?
00:08:10.900No, you're going to do something about it as we should, and that's what we're doing today.
00:08:16.360Now, you can argue, and I get it, okay?
00:08:40.620Now, sometimes that does happen because evil people, like Iranians, will hide their evilness behind good people,1.00
00:08:49.220and that causes sometimes some casualties on that side as well.1.00
00:08:54.680However, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't still do the right thing.
00:08:58.660If you remember back, and we don't remember it,
00:09:01.320but if you've watched any television, you know what went on in World War II.
00:09:05.960At the end of World War II, we tried to get Japan to surrender.
00:09:10.780We did everything we could in negotiations, and they kept saying no, no, no.0.97
00:09:15.700And remember, Japan at that stage was a lot like Iran today.
00:09:20.440They had a leadership that basically thought they were infallible and they were godlike.
00:09:27.100In fact, they thought their emperor was a god.
00:09:29.980And so that small group of people didn't really care about their own people.
00:09:34.440They only cared about staying in power.
00:09:36.320And so the only way that we got them to surrender and save more American lives and more lives of other countries of which were our allies was we had to unfortunately drop an atomic bomb on a couple of their cities and it killed a bunch of innocent people.0.91
00:09:56.500And there's no way we're going to do that in Iran, but I promise you that if we did not take out their nuclear weapons and their capabilities, that at some point in time, Iran was going to use that as leverage against us or leverage against our allies and might even have used the bomb itself, maybe not against us, but maybe against one of our allies, even some of our NATO allies that don't seem to understand that they were at risk as well.0.88
00:10:24.460they're a whole lot physically closer to Iran than we are. So anyway, we just need to understand0.85
00:10:29.700that this war is something that nobody wants, but sometimes things are necessary.
00:10:37.000Let's go on now. Let's talk about what kind of how Iran exists. The oil industry is the most
00:10:44.160important industry in Iran. That's where they make their money. It has massive reserves,
00:10:49.240About 208 billion barrels of crude oil as of the end of 2024 is in reserve.
00:10:56.220So that is a huge, huge amount of oil.
00:10:59.740And their exports in 2026 alone, even though there's a lot of sanctions against them, were 4.27 billion, which means probably the sanctions weren't working very well, President Obama.
00:11:13.020all the stuff that you told us you were going to do to keep them from enriching uranium and all
00:11:16.920that, all that did to them was actually make them more lethal. And it's very, very disappointing.
00:11:24.000A lot of people think or think that, well, we can't really do anything to their oil industry
00:11:29.980because China gets so much of the oil that China uses from Iran. Now, make sure you don't mess
00:11:38.940these statistics up. 80 percent of Iran's oil does go to China. However, that only represents
00:11:46.940about 13 percent of what China imports for oil. So they import a lot more from Saudi Arabia and
00:11:53.740other countries. So if Iran did not have any oil capabilities or they were greatly reduced,
00:12:01.260that's not going to put China in a tailspin. There are other resources for that. And again,
00:12:07.100And we're not trying to stoke China's ire as a result of this.
00:12:12.660But it's not quite as big of a concern as some people want to make it out to be.
00:12:17.240The U.S. doesn't partner with Iran on any oil anymore, not since 1973 when they nationalized all the oil companies over there.
00:12:26.300We used to have a lot of oil companies over there.
00:12:28.640In fact, we were the ones that basically discovered U.S. and British and French companies were the ones that discovered the oil in the Persian Gulf, but we don't have nothing to do with them anymore.
00:12:41.980A think tank called the Center for Strategic and International Studies has written that hitting export infrastructure could cripple Iran's revenue, which we think is important.
00:12:52.820Now, that will cause a spike short term in oil and gas prices, and I'm going to talk a little bit more about that in a minute.
00:12:59.700But we have to be able – the way you cut off a regime is we cut off the head already, right?
00:13:05.940But now we have to cut off their power supply, and their power supply is tied to money.
00:13:12.700And the way – we have to be able to cut off their money.
00:13:15.460What they're doing right now in the Strait of Hormuz, where they are trying to charge a toll for ships going through that strait, and they want it in Bitcoin.
00:13:25.140Now, why do you think they want it in Bitcoin?
00:13:30.880And so I read this morning that there are 3,200 ships that are sitting ready to go through the Strait of Hormuz, but they haven't gone through because either they're not willing to pay.
00:13:43.500And therefore, if they're not willing to pay the toll, which I hope they never would, their insurance companies, unless they know there's going to be safe passage, aren't going to insure the cargo.
00:13:53.820And that that can be a problem. That can be a problem.
00:13:58.120So President Trump said today they'd better open up the Strait of Hormuz and not try to basically blackmail countries and companies to send them money.
00:14:11.040But 3,200 ships, I can't imagine what that looks like.
00:14:13.540I need to look at a satellite photo of that.
00:14:17.100Okay, let's talk about enriched uranium and what 60% enriched uranium means.
00:14:22.580On March 15th of 2026, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragichi faced the nation prior to the strikes that Iran had offered to dilute the uranium as a concession to show they didn't have plans for a nuclear weapon.
00:14:40.360Listen, though, real closely to what he said.
00:14:43.380I said, I offered, actually, that we are ready to dilute those enriched material or downblend them, as they say, into lower percentages.0.74
00:14:54.700So that was a, you know, a big offer, a big concession in order to prove that Iran has never wanted nuclear weapons and would never want them.
00:15:13.520Now, you've got to unpack that a little bit.
00:15:16.040First of all, for the last, I don't know, maybe 20 years, certainly since Obama did the deal that gave them all their money and kind of, you know, untied the sanctions we had on them, they have said they're not enriching uranium.
00:15:33.940But in this alone, the gentleman said that we're willing to reduce the enrichment, to dial it back.
00:15:42.960Now, if they haven't been enriching it, then why do they need to dial it back?
00:15:48.800That's a, you know, so it tells me that, in fact, they have been enriching uranium and at the 60 percent level.
00:15:56.740Now, let's take a look at what actually 60 percent means.
00:16:00.300According to the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, which is another kind of think tank, the International Atomic Energy Agency calculated in its September 25 report, so less than a year ago, verification and monitoring report that on the eve of June 25 attacks into Israel and the United States,
00:16:20.460What we did to remember when we went in to Iran and bombed their nuclear facilities that Iran had in its possession, had in its possession, 440 kilograms of uranium enriched up to 60 percent of the explosive uranium isotope U-235.
00:16:40.620And basically what enriched uranium does, it allows there to be an atomic reaction that causes the lethalness of a nuclear bomb, okay, that caused a molecular reaction.
00:16:55.340When you get it to 90%, it's ready to be put into a warhead, and when it impacts, it causes that reaction.
00:17:04.620The IAEA notes that 60% enrichment accomplishes most of the work.
00:17:10.620For 90 percent weapons grade uranium, most of the separative work effort measured in SWU, which is called separative work unit, occurs in the very early stages.
00:17:21.900So the early stages of enrichment are kind of what gets everything ready from natural uranium to 20 percent or so.
00:17:29.960So that's where most of it gets started.
00:17:31.680Once at higher levels like 60, the remaining work to reach 90% is minimal, often described as only about 1% of the total effort for the stockpile.
00:17:43.000So if it only takes another 1% effort to get from 60 to 90, you can imagine that it doesn't take very long to get there.
00:17:51.220As a matter of fact, as you will see in this next video, that the enrichment that they had up to 60 was enough to create several nuclear bombs.
00:18:04.740I think it's important that this material is checked, that we can see it soon, so that we can confirm that there hasn't been any diversion, deviation of part of this material. It's a lot. So even if you move part of it, you could still have amounts that would be enough to manufacture a few warheads.
00:18:31.360All right. So the IAEA is affiliated with the United Nations. And you know from the conversations we've had or Ali's had or other things you've watched that United Nations is not necessarily always friendly to the United States.
00:18:47.540And so the IAEA is not an organization that we control.0.95
00:18:52.700And for them to say they had 60 percent and that for them to say that's enough for several nuclear bombs, I am really confused at why people want to continue to deny that Iran was or was and is a threat because they are.
00:19:07.260Now, we think that we we most of that uranium was probably in the facility that we bombed in June.0.73
00:19:14.740However, it's still there. And so we need to be able to go in and get that out.
00:19:21.600And that's going to be important to be able to do that.
00:19:28.780That's who that was that you just saw on that video or just heard speaking.
00:19:32.240Now, there were some questions that you all had.
00:19:34.620I wanted to answer some questions on the Iran war that specifically you had to have to put my glasses on because I can't read the small print on these.
00:19:41.740So Scott, excuse me for that. First question was, and this has come from one of Ali's listeners.
00:19:46.780Do you believe Iran is truly going to cooperate? I feel like that'll never happen.
00:19:51.600Well, I understand why you feel like that. But I do think here's what I do think that they'll cooperate at least temporarily.
00:19:58.980And what I mean by that, the people that believe that Americans and Israelis should die are probably going to continue to believe that.0.65
00:20:08.700However, because we've crippled their capabilities so much, and if we're able to get the uranium out of the country that they've enriched and able to monitor the fact that they won't enrich it in the future, then their capabilities to cause harm to us and others are going to be severely reduced for decades.0.94
00:20:31.780I think we'll force them to cooperate in some way.
00:20:35.560The next question, one, is Allie going to condemn the genocide that Trump proposed in his Truth Social on Easter?
00:20:42.120Well, Allie talked about this in an episode that she had earlier this week.
00:20:47.580You know, it's interesting to me is that some people want to believe, they pick and choose what they want to believe when Trump says something.
00:20:56.140When he says something that they, you know, want to say, oh, that doesn't mean anything or I don't agree with that.
00:21:17.240And, you know, we don't agree with everything.
00:21:19.020As Ali told you earlier this week, we don't agree with everything that he does.
00:21:23.580We don't agree with his stance on, you know, abortion pills.
00:21:26.380We don't agree with his stance on IVF.
00:21:28.320But there are some things we do agree with, and we do agree with his policy.0.78
00:21:31.440I agree with his policy that we're taking now in Iran.
00:21:35.040And it doesn't mean that you have to agree with everything that somebody does.
00:21:38.900But I don't think he was saying that we're going to kill a bunch of Iranian citizens and wipe out their society.
00:21:47.840What I believe he meant by that is that we are going to, if we have to, that we would attack their infrastructure.
00:21:55.920And yes, that would have negative consequences on some of the civilizations, some of the citizens of Iran, but attacking their power grid, attacking some of their other infrastructure that would essentially make that whole society take a large step backwards, which nobody wants to have happen.
00:22:14.600But it wasn't about putting a nuclear bomb into Iran and killing tens of thousands of citizens or anything like that.
00:22:20.880I mean, in fact, the people, the only people that are doing that are the Iranian regime themselves who killed more than 30,000 of their own citizens back in January, if you remember.
00:22:31.760The next question is, when will the war be over?
00:22:55.900And we have to remove their enriched uranium and keep them from being able to do that in the future.
00:23:01.300Those are non-negotiables on our part, my opinion.
00:23:04.420Obviously, President Trump hasn't asked my opinion, but that's what I think that most of us, if we've gone this far, let's go ahead and finish the job.
00:23:13.540Where in the scripture does God condone war?
00:23:16.360Well, it's all throughout the New Testament, whether it's about Gideon or Joshua, David, even in the New Testament, in Revelations, Jesus, as you remember, returns as a warrior and he's leading the heavenly armies to defeat the beast and the false prophet.
00:23:33.620Now, I certainly don't equate Donald Trump to Jesus, okay?
00:23:37.160But the question was, where does the Bible talk about war, God condoning war?
00:23:42.220And it's all throughout the Bible.0.80
00:23:44.340And again, you know, it has to be a just war.0.67
00:23:47.900There's actually something called the just war theory.
00:23:50.680And the just war theory has six elements.
00:28:16.160How do I feel about the mandatory draft and war Trump started?
00:28:21.020I think, you know, it's easy for me to say this because I didn't have to do it.
00:28:24.700But I think military service is a part of a requirement or some type of public service after someone reaches a certain age, whether it's out of high school or out of college, whatever.
00:28:37.000We don't have that here, but I'm not sure that's not a good thing.
00:28:41.280And it doesn't always have to be military.
00:28:42.860Remember, there's other types of public service that people could get into and actually allow them to mature a little bit more before they head out into the world.
00:29:40.640But the way oil prices are determined, it is a worldwide market.
00:29:46.360And so the price of, for example, West Texas crude oil, which is considered one of the premier oils that are out there, is determined by supply and demand all over the world.
00:29:59.900Not even that they're necessarily buying our oil, but also sets the price of oil that's refined and produced in other parts of the world as well.
00:30:09.940And so, unfortunately, that's the way it works now.
00:30:13.240do I think oil and gas companies take advantage of that? Do they have to charge that price? No.
00:30:19.200To the U.S. consumer and to the U.S. refiners? No, they don't have to. Now, remember, we do
00:30:25.320have to export some of our oil. All right. And again, you can blame our far left liberals on
00:30:32.820this. We have to export some of our oil to get refined and then bring back in as gasoline because
00:30:38.860we don't have enough refinery capacity because of the environmental regulations that make
00:30:47.000it so hard to build new refineries here in the United States.
00:30:50.280Hopefully, some of that's being taken care of, but that's one of the reasons.
00:30:54.280So we have to send it out in the world market and then buy it back, which is not fun.
00:31:01.080But anyway, it's a world market, and that's where the world prices get set.0.83
00:31:05.080All right, so that's enough about the Iran War.
00:31:07.040Let's spend the last minutes that we have on talking about some other things.
00:31:11.960I'm going to answer some more listener questions, which I so much appreciate you sending those.
00:31:17.000But I'm also going to talk about autism because this is April is Autism Awareness Month.
00:31:22.220And I just want to kind of give you a few facts.
00:31:24.180In 2000, autism diagnosis was 1 in 150 children.
00:31:31.260One in 150 children born were eventually given an autism diagnosis.
00:32:01.820Lisa knew she was at least it was a well, first of all, she has a very good sense, as most mothers do, of their children.
00:32:08.380Right. And she was also a teacher.0.98
00:32:10.540So she knew development pretty well as to how kids should develop.
00:32:14.900We'd already had one child. So we'd watch Justin develop.
00:32:17.480And so we could tell the differences that were in Daniel.
00:32:20.860And we, you know, went from doctor to doctor to therapist to diagnostic test and things like that.
00:32:29.900And finally, and one of the worst things is not getting a diagnosis because you want to say, okay, well, let's find out what it is and then we can deal with it.
00:32:37.640Now, luckily for us, Lisa, even though we didn't have a diagnosis early on, from about the age of three or four on, she began working and doing the extra stuff that needed to be and looking for teachers that could specifically or schools that could specifically, you know, educate Daniel and what have you.
00:32:58.280But it's just gotten more and more prevalent and really don't know why.
00:33:03.280It's also more prevalent in boys than girls.
00:33:06.820About 1 in 20 boys are identified with autism compared to 1 in 70 girls, making it roughly three times more common in boys.
00:33:16.700And again, we don't know 100% if it's genetic, if there's some environmental causes, or if it lays inside of a lot of people and then there's something in the environment that triggers it.
00:33:27.780because a lot of people will say, you know, my child was developing perfectly normal until
00:33:32.660just pick an age, say age four. And all of a sudden things change. Either they even went
00:33:37.500nonverbal, they started having huge behavioral issues and what have you. So we don't know. We
00:33:44.640just don't know the answer to that. But there is a lot of research going on. There's a lot more
00:33:48.380awareness of it today than there was when I was in the legislature. One of the things that we do
00:33:53.360know is that if you can get a diagnosis early and begin treating it through different types
00:33:58.700of therapy like ABA, which is applied behavioral therapy, if you can get to treating it early
00:34:07.040on, that their success in being able to accomplish more and more in their life is much, much
00:34:16.460So we passed a bill when I was in the legislature that would make sure that insurance companies pay, include, as covered, ABA therapy, which is generally the best therapy to start with if your person's on the spectrum.
00:34:33.240And a lot of insurance companies were denying that therapy.
00:34:36.560But at least in Texas, if you live in Texas, your insurance company should be covering that therapy.
00:34:43.180And I would encourage you to make sure don't a lot of people take it as shame, too, in that in that, oh, you know, I don't want to admit it.
00:34:51.120Well, that's the worst thing you can do.
00:34:52.840OK, there's no I mean, you don't control whether your child has autism or whether your child has this or that, just like we don't control if our child ends up being a, you know, a great athlete.
00:35:02.060Those things just it just happens to some some people, good, bad, whatever.
00:35:06.320So don't I would just encourage you not to avoid it.
00:35:10.160Right. Or not to say, well, there's just a little something here.
00:35:12.580And maybe it is just a little something and he's neurotypical or she's neurotypical.
00:35:19.640But if you wait until they're in the fourth, fifth, sixth grade, now that's better than nothing.
00:35:26.500But if you wait and you deny it until then and then you finally admit that there's something going on as you diagnose,
00:35:33.500it's much, much harder for them to reach their maximum capacity.
00:35:37.160And so I just encourage you to, if you see something, again, if you see something, say something.
00:35:42.020If you see something, then get involved with experts that know what to look for.
00:35:50.180They can basically do some testing that will give you an idea whether or not they are on the spectrum and what types of therapy they might need.
00:36:01.880You might remember in 2025, the FDA discussed a medication that would be a possible treatment for people with autism.
00:36:10.400But what they have since found out, and they just put this out this past month, is that leucovorin was approved only for rare genetic orders that affects how folate is transported to the brain, but not for the more general treatment of autism.
00:36:28.420Some people, autism is affected by how this folate is transmitted in the brain, and that
00:36:35.740medicine might work for them, but it's not a general, everybody with autism should take
00:43:26.460We're going to speed through some of these questions.
00:43:29.500So anyway, autism, let me finish up on autism real quick.
00:43:32.440Autism Awareness Month is a month that, you know, we hope more people are thinking about.
00:43:37.940You'll see a lot of stories come out on that.
00:43:39.480There's a great video that Allie reposted on X the other day that was where this, one of the ESPN announcers, I think it was ESPN, their child, they brought their child with autism on the set.
00:43:52.100And he's a big Philadelphia Eagles fan.
00:43:54.380So just Google Autism Philadelphia Eagles and you'll see this video.
00:44:01.780it's incredible. And the dad, who's one of the commentators for ESPN, just, I mean,
00:44:07.420he can't keep it together, which I couldn't hardly keep it together watching it. So I
00:44:11.100understand how that is. All right. Here's some questions. Rebuttal for Democrats. How has Trump
00:44:17.960made our lives better? Immigration. Okay. We've got millions of people that were here illegally
00:44:24.180that are not here anymore. And he's continuing to try to clean that up. That in itself is as0.99
00:44:29.720big a win. If that would have been all he had done, that would have been a, that is a huge win
00:44:34.740for America. All right. The DEI rollback, all this mess about diversity, equity, and inclusion
00:44:41.240rather than equality, rolling back all those programs within the federal government. Remember
00:44:46.440shutting down the USAID program that was funding all of these liberal causes around the world
00:44:52.800that were going against traditional values in America.1.00
00:44:59.120I believe that making us safer, this Iran thing,1.00
00:45:03.600I think we're a safer country today than we were.1.00
00:45:05.920We've got good relationships in the Middle East now that we didn't have
00:45:09.000with places like Behran and UAE and Saudi Arabia.
00:45:12.940I think that the real wages for people have grown.
00:45:17.360In other words, the average wage in America has grown faster than inflation has.
00:45:22.800Now, there's probably a little bit of a diversion in that now while the oil prices are higher.
00:45:27.400But in 2025, the average wage was up about 4% and inflation was up about 2.6 or 7%.
00:45:35.140So you had a real growth in your spend and how much you could afford by a full 1%.
00:45:41.280And that hadn't happened in the last four years.
00:45:49.360Just you can go with Fidelity or Schwab or any of those and just set up an account.
00:45:55.160And I would recommend that you put it in an S&P 500, which is diversified stock portfolio of the largest 500 companies in the United States.