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Iran Peace deal. For some

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without further ado, I welcome to this very podcast through the Miracle

Riverside, none other than Annie McGrath. Rich, how are you? Not too bad. You?

I guess I'm okay. I mean, we're going to talk about a, what I think is like a catastrophe for the

United States, but, you know, maybe too quick to use the word

catastrophe in the sense that it's not like we're sitting around here worried that the, you

know, the country's about to implode. So I guess, I don't. Listeners to this very podcast can't say they weren't forewarned that we were heading into a bad place.

That's that's something we.

I'll use the we legitimately.

Well, it is legitimate.

But, you know, I think it's legitimate because among the things that we've discussed the last few weeks is how fortunate we are to live in a time and place where, you know, we're very quick.

And this is presentism.

It's every generation's affected by it.

But we're always apt to leap for the most hyperbolic adjective when something happens to us.

But like this is a country that's actually been through catastrophes, like the Civil War and Pearl Harbor and 9-11.

What's happened with Iran, I think, has portends in the long term to be very

bad for the country in a number of ways, probably a number of ways that we haven't even

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