Dave Smith
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Obviously, it's still a very, very risky situation.
But I will say, I will end this on the note that I started it on, which is that, thank God, Donald Trump was just completely bluffing.
It was, whew, that was quite a thing for a president to threaten.
And I try to imagine, you know, I...
I don't know why I think about this.
I talked about this a bunch during the 12 day war and Donald Trump had not made threats like this, but had made some pretty, you know, intense threats.
Or at one point I think he, he told people to evacuate Tehran or something like that.
Can't remember exactly, but I remember thinking just that, like, cause you know, I'm a dad and I bet a lot of dads can relate to this.
They find like, I got little kids and a wife and I live with them in a house.
You find as a husband and a father, like about 90% of your job is just calming everyone down.
Like just trying to make everyone not worry.
You know, there's a lot of like, no, sweetheart, there's no monsters in the closet.
You know, there's just a lot of that.
There's nothing to be scared of.
Come on, come over here in the deep end of the pool.
You know, you're always kind of like, no, there's nothing to be scared of.