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Episode 2284 - The True Conservative - Trump Tuesday!

March 18, 2026·1 hr 16 min·6 clips

Breaking news: Israel has killed Iran's de facto leader Ali Larijani and Basij leader Golamreza Soleimani, decapitating the government.

March 17th gets labeled Trump Tuesday, but the tape takes its time getting there. It opens on storewide mattress savings, swerves into a joke about refrigerators getting smarter than dishwashers, and then the host steps in. He names the show, marks the day, and gives the whole thing the feel of a political sermon patched into whatever else is on the reel. The strongest stretch is military history. Operation E, Mokht, is described as a tight surprise attack on Egyptian air bases before enemy aircraft can get off the ground. The imbalance does the work. Egypt has nearly 500 combat aircraft in this telling, while Syria and Jordan add another 200 to the threat. Israel has about 200 planes. The passage lingers over French-built Mirage, Mystere, Super Mystere, Oregon, and Vautour models with real hardware patience. Then the arithmetic gets nasty. Hitting 18 Egyptian air bases at once while still protecting Israeli airspace is treated as impossible, so Weizmann accepts the ugly version of possible. Nearly the whole Israeli air force goes into the first strike. Only 12 aircraft stay back to defend the homeland. If it works, that is enough. If it fails, the backup plan barely matters. Then the target narrows. Planes on the ground are not enough if runways can be patched and replacement aircraft can arrive. Craters can be repaired. The win, as the excerpt tells it, comes from breaking the runways. The closing returns to persona: the host calls himself the only true conservative in the United States today, says listeners are not neutral, and repeats that the government has no rights. A Kia lease spot follows, leaving ads, comedy, military doctrine, and ideological farewell in one strange continuous stream.

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A talk-radio sermon with a serious war-history detour.

The hour opens with a dry appliance joke and a Tuesday greeting, then settles into the host's own certainty. That middle stretch carries the most weight.

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You want a Trump Tuesday monologue that swerves into a meticulous Operation Focus strike story.

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