Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Talk about the US military and how it really does
Speaker 2: it stands this is this is not cheerleading on my part.
Speaker 2: I think any any military person in the world would
Speaker 2: say the same thing. The United States and its capabilities
Speaker 2: and its power and in its discipline right now certainly
Speaker 2: seems to be second to nine.
Speaker 1: It is, Joe, It's awesome.
Speaker 3: The power of the military, the power of the people
Speaker 3: in the military is incredible. We can do anything we're
Speaker 3: asked to do.
Speaker 1: The US military can do anything. I love how on
Speaker 1: MSNBC they have to qualify it, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be too much of a cheer leader here.
Speaker 1: Same show on Morning Joe Today, they had David Ignatius
Speaker 1: of the Washington Post and he had to qualify his statement.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be you know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to be giving Trump too much credit here. But the
Speaker 1: point of his article was this sent a message to
Speaker 1: China and Russia that is going to back them off.
Speaker 1: A fair amount of the United States sometimes does what
Speaker 1: it's threatening and can do it really, really well, So
Speaker 1: keep that in mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the whole narrative, well Trump always chickens out was
Speaker 4: wildly overrated, the whole taco thing, But the question of
Speaker 4: does he make blustery threats and doesn't really intend to
Speaker 4: live up to him, that question was out there. I'd
Speaker 4: say this changes the calculus significantly.
Speaker 1: Well, and stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is
Speaker 1: a different topic than tariffs too, just completely different worlds.
Speaker 1: A couple of things for you, Well, I do this first,
Speaker 1: or this first before I get to the let's hear
Speaker 1: from Mike Lions, and then we'll get to the breaking news.
Speaker 1: It's not so breaking that I feel like I need
Speaker 1: to get it on this second. We talked to Mike Lynes,
Speaker 1: one of our favorite military analysts, this morning. He had
Speaker 1: a couple of things to say. We thought we'd repeat.
Speaker 3: Classic Iranian playbook. They sow fear within our country, saying
Speaker 3: we're going to really sleeper cells. You know, they must
Speaker 3: watch the same movies that made here in Hollywood, because
Speaker 3: I just think that's completely overblown. They will likely try
Speaker 3: to maybe target some American forces that are in the area,
Speaker 3: that are close that are all that are all buttoned
Speaker 3: up right now? Every one of those missiles they try
Speaker 3: to fire at them has a return address, and I
Speaker 3: guarantee it as soon as one of them leave the
Speaker 3: tube on that side, there will be something in return
Speaker 3: going in the other direction. This president is not going
Speaker 3: to sit back and take and take it.
Speaker 1: So that's to the what could Iran do or will
Speaker 1: they do something back as a you know, a response.
Speaker 1: Fox News alert sources to Fox imminent threat of Iranians
Speaker 1: Iranian strike on US You I'm going to learn to
Speaker 1: install windows? How long would that take it this age?
Speaker 4: Hey, you got an apprentice for a few years, really
Speaker 4: get it down. But you don't need to be able
Speaker 4: to talk to do that, right, So maybe the good
Speaker 4: morning of your your clients and.
Speaker 1: Maybe that'd be a better job choice for you. Your coworkers.
Speaker 1: Sources to Fox imminent threat of Iranian strike on US
Speaker 1: base in Qatar. So they have some info on that.
Speaker 1: We'll see if that's true or not. I've been wondering
Speaker 1: what the Mullahs think they would get out of an
Speaker 1: attack and what's their endgame. Mike Lions spoke to that
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 3: There's no negotiation that's going to take place. They're not
Speaker 3: interested in talking, They're interested in just surviving and delaying.
Speaker 3: But they're in such a bad point strategically right now.
Speaker 3: I just I just think they're going to do it.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if they get on planes and left.
Speaker 3: I think that's gonna the only survival that the switzerlander
Speaker 3: gets some other place, and that's the only thing. Wow,
Speaker 3: sure they're survival at this point.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I want that.
Speaker 4: I thought it was notable that after the devastating American attacks,
Speaker 4: the Iyatola came out with a blistering statement against Israel,
Speaker 4: didn't even mention the Great Satan. Now was that a
Speaker 4: faint Does he or the Republican Guard actually intend Revolutionary
Speaker 4: Guard intend to go after the US directly? Boy, that
Speaker 4: seems like a suicide mission to both of us. But
Speaker 4: they might feel like they have to to have any legitimacy.
Speaker 1: Man, I hadn't heard anybody other than Mike Lyons bring
Speaker 1: up the idea of them. Maybe they jump on a
Speaker 1: plane and do the whole dictator living out the rest
Speaker 1: of their life somewhere else routine. But then there's nobody
Speaker 1: running Iran and it could fall into you know, full
Speaker 1: on Iraqi chaos.
Speaker 4: Right right, that's possible. The interesting question is who's a
Speaker 4: greed head inside Iran and who's an actual religious fundamentalist
Speaker 4: nut job, Because if you're the part of the latter group,
Speaker 4: you're not going to take some sort of golden parachute
Speaker 4: to live the rest of your life out in Monaco
Speaker 4: or the UAE or whatever.
Speaker 1: No way, and we haven't mentioned this for a while,
Speaker 1: just in case you don't know. So everybody supporting the
Speaker 1: Trump administration went on all the talk shows yesterday and said,
Speaker 1: this is not a war with Iran, and we're not
Speaker 1: about regime change. We are not interested in regime change.
Speaker 1: Regime change. No, if you say regime change again, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna slap you because that's not our thing. And then Trump,
Speaker 1: like after all those people went on the shows, tweet
Speaker 1: it out it's not politically correct to use the term
Speaker 1: regime change. But if the current Iranian regime is unable
Speaker 1: to make Iran great again, why wouldn't there be a
Speaker 1: regime change Mega Miga make Iran great again.
Speaker 4: It's a great example of Trump not observing the rules
Speaker 4: of diplomacy and standard presidential statements, and.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think that's a mistake.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I think, who doesn't think everybody wants the iatola
Speaker 4: to go? Everybody wants him to go. He just set
Speaker 4: it out loud. It's not that crazy. Well, that empowers
Speaker 4: forces within Iran to claim that it's a US directed
Speaker 4: blah blah blah. I don't know how true all that's
Speaker 4: I'm not worried about that statement. Yeah, so speaking of
Speaker 4: the Revolutionary Guard, really interesting situation now. Israeli strikes have
Speaker 4: taken out many of their senior personnel.
Speaker 1: Yes, the latest MTG. I don't think you had this
Speaker 1: in what you were reading earlier from Marjorie Taylor Green.
Speaker 1: Only six months in and we're back into foreign wars.
Speaker 1: It feels like a complete bait and switch to please
Speaker 1: the neocons. Wow, from Marjorie Taylor Green and the Tucker crowd.
Speaker 1: Open warfare with Trump seems like a bad idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can get back to that, man, if you will think,
Speaker 1: if you won't, think you are maga and Trump is
Speaker 1: just along for the ride. Well, I guess we're about
Speaker 1: to find out. Yeah, we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so the Revolutionary Guard battered Supreme leader Iatola
Speaker 4: Kamaneeses role depends to a large extent of loyalty from
Speaker 4: the Guard. Quoting from the Journal, he has empowered the
Speaker 4: military force to the extent it's likely to outlive him.
Speaker 4: But if Kamanie were toppled or killed, the Revolutionary Guard
Speaker 4: most likely to step in and dictate a new ruler
Speaker 4: and run the show. I just think these organizations are really,
Speaker 4: really interesting and Americans can't relate to them at all.
Speaker 4: Since its formation during the Great Brave Revolution in nineteen
Speaker 4: seventy nine, the IRGC has been the most powerful branch
Speaker 4: of Iran's armed forces, and it's separate from and more
Speaker 4: powerful than the National Army. It has its own ground forces,
Speaker 4: its own navy, its own air force, its own intelligence
Speaker 4: and special forces, totaling around one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 4: thousand dollars. It is also deeply embedded in Iran's economic system,
Speaker 4: political affairs, and social fabric. It has an expansive economic empire.
Speaker 1: The Guard dominates all major.
Speaker 4: Infrastruate ructure sectors, including oil and gas, construction, and telecommunications.
Speaker 4: The Revolutionary Guard is there Exxon, it's their what's a
Speaker 4: giant construction company, and they're at and t it's also
Speaker 4: damn near their Amazon dot Com and their Walmart, and
Speaker 4: they're separate even nominate tourism, and they're separate from the army. Yes,
Speaker 4: But so my question would be, since Israel has killed
Speaker 4: the leaders of the army and the leaders of the
Speaker 4: Revolutionary Guard, do.
Speaker 1: We know how they would react the new leaders? No.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can make educated guesses, but they did.
Speaker 1: But they wouldn't have the cult of personality that you
Speaker 1: usually have as a military leader when you're gonna take
Speaker 1: over a country. No, that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 4: Although again, my point in describing this, and there's a
Speaker 4: little more to it, but is that this is a
Speaker 4: giant corporation. It is much more like than it is
Speaker 4: the United States Army because it has its hands in
Speaker 4: so many different industries and economic activities.
Speaker 1: So is your belief that they're motivated by money as
Speaker 1: opposed to bringing back the thirteenth Madi or whatever of
Speaker 1: that all stuff is? Yeah, that's the super interesting part
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 4: It's difficult to say, I have a feeling you got
Speaker 4: guys who are ninety ten greed heads versus religious fanatics
Speaker 4: and guys who are ten ninety in the other direction.
Speaker 1: But if they're mostly just businessmen. They're like you know,
Speaker 1: Putin or the oligarchs in Russia. Then we might be
Speaker 1: okay with that, right, It'd be like lcc run in Egypt,
Speaker 1: right exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, That's one of the reasons I was kind of
Speaker 4: enthused about bringing this up is I think dealing with
Speaker 4: the greed heads would be a great option for the
Speaker 4: rest of the world because you can do business with them.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: Trump one of Trump's blind spots is I think this
Speaker 4: less now, I guess than I used to.
Speaker 1: But he always thinks.
Speaker 4: The offer to make a lot of money and bring
Speaker 4: prosperity to your people, whether it's Putin or the Ietola
Speaker 4: or whatever, he thinks that's irresistible because that's how he
Speaker 4: sees the world. And Putin's like, no, I'm going to
Speaker 4: restore the Great Russian Empire and I'm going to be
Speaker 4: Peter the Great, So thanks anyway. And the Mullas obviously
Speaker 4: are like, no, it's all about Allah and and I
Speaker 4: don't need money really. On the other hand, the Revolutionary
Speaker 4: Guard guys, a lot of the higher ups, they're great heads,
Speaker 4: they're mobsters, they're business people, and I think you probably
Speaker 4: could deal with them, maybe.
Speaker 1: Got a little tip for you, based on recent major
Speaker 1: news events about how you should take in news. If
Speaker 1: you're doing it the old way. If you hear something's
Speaker 1: happening and you flip on CNN, man, you are way
Speaker 1: behind and ain't the way to do it. Plus you
Speaker 1: got to look at wolf Blitzer. I want to suspend
Speaker 1: their Saturday evening looking at wolf Blitzer, not even missus Blitzer.
Speaker 1: Thats mean spirited. That and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 1: Stay here. So a couple of different things for you.
Speaker 1: Changing times. You gotta change your You gotta adjust your
Speaker 1: sales for the changing times. Man, have you ever seriously
Speaker 1: considered you're an iPhone guy? I'm an iPhone guy. Have
Speaker 1: you ever seriously considered abandoning the iPhone for one of
Speaker 1: the other smartphones? Not seriously. I looked into it once.
Speaker 1: I've never seriously done it, just because it seems like
Speaker 1: could be in a tremendous pain in the ass because
Speaker 1: I got everything tied into Apple. Although our friend Craig
Speaker 1: did it and he squears by it. He is he
Speaker 1: a Samsung guy. Yes, yeah, but he likes the phone
Speaker 1: better and says it wasn't that hard. And they've got
Speaker 1: to wait yes, Katie opinion on this. Oh, I'm the
Speaker 1: complete opposite. I switched for a year, and I'll that
Speaker 1: was a huge mistake. Oh really, would you switch to
Speaker 1: Samsung Note? Okay? And you didn't dig it and you
Speaker 1: went back. And I just came across this, And this
Speaker 1: is from a consultant person who doesn't seem to have
Speaker 1: a dog in this fight. But they said, Samsung just
Speaker 1: ended the iPhone era. The Galaxy S twenty five AI
Speaker 1: is five years ahead of where Apple is currently and
Speaker 1: they aren't gonna catch up in terms of their AI
Speaker 1: abilities anyway. I was looking at some of the examples
Speaker 1: of things you can do with pictures, video, and voice
Speaker 1: on the phone with their AI, and it looks pretty
Speaker 1: damned impressive. I'm not gonna switch. I just it just
Speaker 1: seems like a pain in the ass and I'm perfectly
Speaker 1: happy with what I got. But yeah, any examples that
Speaker 1: leap out, Well, you know that thing that you hate
Speaker 1: but I enjoy is the turning into everything into babies talking, Oh, well,
Speaker 1: you can do that on your phone easily. And it
Speaker 1: was just to demonstrate the being able to assign voices
Speaker 1: to videos or edit audio inside of videos that you
Speaker 1: take and then blah blah blah these different things that
Speaker 1: they said is super easy to do, you can't currently
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 4: I could see if you're part of the hardcore, especially
Speaker 4: young social media crowd, that'd be really attractive.
Speaker 1: I don't have the time, but right, yeah, but that'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if Samsung is way ahead in
Speaker 1: the whole AI in the phone thing, as I've become
Speaker 1: such a chat GPT guy as opposed to Google. Now
Speaker 1: again to the changing times, we got a new robotaxi
Speaker 1: ladies and germs. Tesla announced over the weekend. Robotaxis are here,
Speaker 1: the Tesla robo taxi. They're launched them in Austin, where
Speaker 1: Elon lives. This would be to compete with Waimo, completely
Speaker 1: autonomous out there driving around on their own Tesla's and
Speaker 1: their stock is up ten percent on that news today,
Speaker 1: So we'll see how good they are or not. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 4: So rioters can surround Tesla's and set them on fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know how often that's going to happen,
Speaker 1: if that's a big deal or not. I don't have
Speaker 1: any idea. And then I came across this. I was
Speaker 1: going to mention today about how if you're not going
Speaker 1: to Twitter, or maybe you have a different social media
Speaker 1: thing you go to Instagram or something. I don't know,
Speaker 1: for when news breaks, you're just you so far behind.
Speaker 1: I was kind of monitoring cable news while I was
Speaker 1: doing Twitter as news came out that we had bombed
Speaker 1: around and cable news was so far behind. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean just like sixty seconds or five minutes. It's
Speaker 1: like you took like an hour later before they would
Speaker 1: bring you the news. You were reading on Twitter from
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of different sources. And if you care
Speaker 1: about breaking news and big stories, that's the way to go.
Speaker 1: And then I saw this from Barry Weiss, who we
Speaker 1: really like, who's over at the Free Press, because somebody
Speaker 1: had tweeted out with all the resources CBS, NBC, ABC,
Speaker 1: CNN have to report in quote breaking news, I turned
Speaker 1: to the FP live stream, the Free Press live stream
Speaker 1: Saturday to night to get in depth analysis immediately, way
Speaker 1: ahead of all those channels. Barry White said, thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of the FP team. So I hadn't
Speaker 1: even looked into that, But there are much better sources
Speaker 1: for breaking news out there than the old cable news
Speaker 1: if I was the old cable news, I don't know
Speaker 1: why you don't just like, have somebody read from Twitter
Speaker 1: on there better off if you had Anderson Cooper flipping
Speaker 1: through Twitter and reading tweets, then whatever CNN reporting they.
Speaker 4: Have, Yeah, that would that would kind of put a
Speaker 4: fine point on it, though, I think that would illustrate.
Speaker 4: You know, why would I have Anderson Cooper read it
Speaker 4: to me?
Speaker 1: I can read, so you learned when I was a
Speaker 1: little kid. So you think MSNBC and CNN they're just
Speaker 1: holding on to the fact that their old viewers haven't
Speaker 1: caught on to the fact that they can get all
Speaker 1: this an hour earlier and from better sources somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Ding for what.
Speaker 4: It's worth, the I heard that Free Press live stream
Speaker 4: later and it was it was unbelievably good.
Speaker 1: Really, I've got a JAP on that Next Time Experts
Speaker 1: on Tehran and Italy, Italy.
Speaker 4: Israel and warfare and stuff up at three o'clock in
Speaker 4: the morning where they were talking about it in depth.
Speaker 1: It was really really good.
Speaker 4: I mean, you gotta be really into it to enjoy
Speaker 4: it because it was in depth, but it was very,
Speaker 4: very impressive.
Speaker 1: There is a YouTube channel our boss turned us on
Speaker 1: to where a guy basically does sit there and scroll
Speaker 1: through Twitter and just give you all the latest stuff.
Speaker 1: And he's pretty good at which Twitter sites to go to.
Speaker 1: But that's where news breaks. If there's a shooting or
Speaker 1: anything happens, a protests in La you go on Twitter,
Speaker 1: you will get more news. You'll get videos that they
Speaker 1: won't have till the next day on your cable news channels.
Speaker 4: Yeah, la boo boos are everything that's wrong with America.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure we'll have time to get to that today.
Speaker 4: By tomorrow, la boo boos. So it's creepy looking freaky dolls.
Speaker 4: The deep are all hot to trot for that made
Speaker 4: the dumb cup looks smart.
Speaker 1: Somehow I missed the labooboo trend. Okay, you'll have to
Speaker 1: bring me up speed on that.
Speaker 4: But Jack, you were hot to trot to discuss the uh.
Speaker 1: Friends have morality?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Can you have morality without faith? Discussion Strong and.
Speaker 5: Getty, what was the celebration like when you guys got
Speaker 5: to the locker room, Because we when we got there,
Speaker 5: there wasn't threwn't.
Speaker 1: Bottles being put up like you normally see.
Speaker 4: Do we miss that?
Speaker 5: And how much. I mean, first of all, none of
Speaker 5: us knew how to do it, so so it was
Speaker 5: more like, you know, like it was like YouTube tutorials
Speaker 5: and so we were just asking Ac how to do it,
Speaker 5: and so it was it was a kind of not
Speaker 5: really instanc because no one know.
Speaker 1: How to do it.
Speaker 5: But yeah, shout out to AC for kind of teaching
Speaker 5: us how to woo champagne. I guess.
Speaker 1: So that's one of the young players of the Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City Thunder, very young team and uh, the younger generation
Speaker 1: that doesn't drink much or doesn't drink that they had
Speaker 1: all the champagne bottles in there for the big pop
Speaker 1: in the court spray and celebration. None of the young
Speaker 1: players knew how to open a bottle of champaigne.
Speaker 4: So well, let's best they held off till somebody who
Speaker 4: knew what they were doing was on hand. You can
Speaker 4: lose an eye that way, Jack, Yeah, they're the youngest
Speaker 4: team in.
Speaker 1: The NBA, the champions. Maybe they needed a bunch of
Speaker 1: eight pens or something. Yeah, no, kidding, marijuanas to smoke.
Speaker 1: I think the kids do.
Speaker 4: Brought this up briefly at the beginning of the show,
Speaker 4: and Jack expressed interest in following up on it. Frequent
Speaker 4: correspondent Pawlow talking about the question.
Speaker 1: Of morality without faith.
Speaker 4: That sort of thing I believe I quoted Tokeville maybe
Speaker 4: was the freedom ofving quote of the day. In fact,
Speaker 4: they probably should have dug it up that you can't
Speaker 4: have liberty without morality and you can't have morality without faith.
Speaker 1: The first one is true, the second one is an
Speaker 1: open question. Yeah, and Poolo said, I think you absolutely can.
Speaker 4: Morality is a set of beliefs about how we behave
Speaker 4: that lead to the best possible outcome for humanity. Can
Speaker 4: be a constitutional framework governing human behavior. For instance, faith
Speaker 4: is a mode of belief that makes the belief immutable.
Speaker 4: Faith can support morality, promote adherence to it. It can
Speaker 4: also promote the dogma of Iranian theocrats, can mean the faithful.
Speaker 4: It can make the faithful immune to logic and reason,
Speaker 4: and that's scary.
Speaker 1: Well, I've never particularly liked the argument against religion that
Speaker 1: because sometimes it's used poorly, then it's all bad. I've
Speaker 1: never bought that argument, and sometimes it is used very poorly.
Speaker 1: As we all know, lots of quotes from the Founding
Speaker 1: fathers about how this whole thing doesn't work unless we're
Speaker 1: a moral people. Practically everybody was religious back in the day.
Speaker 1: The question of do you need to be religious to
Speaker 1: be moral, while it seems like it should be, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't need to be ever been done before. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's kind of kind of a new concept, fairly new,
Speaker 1: like you know, last half century or something. Europe's trying it, but.
Speaker 4: Right, well, and layer that experiment on top of the
Speaker 4: layer of the experiment of multiculturalism and not like multi
Speaker 4: ethnicity or multi you know, huge skins, just literally completely
Speaker 4: different worldviews, cultural views. Trying to establish a secular morality
Speaker 4: in that situation is really really hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah what what well we won't find out for decades,
Speaker 1: maybe a century or more. To find out is if
Speaker 1: you have to have the underpinning of a culture that
Speaker 1: had religion through and through forever, Yes, and then we've
Speaker 1: got this morality hangover even as belief in God maybe
Speaker 1: disappears or church going disappears. The cultural norm of you know,
Speaker 1: not lying that stealing now whatever has hung around, will
Speaker 1: that continue to hang around without the underpinning of religion.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows that to claim you know that, I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're basing that on.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's an interesting point, kind of a cultural half
Speaker 4: life of Christian values. Yeah, well, and it is. And
Speaker 4: I use the term Christian informedly or intentionally. You there
Speaker 4: are very very, very different moral precepts to each of
Speaker 4: the world's major religions, although Jadaism and Christianity are very
Speaker 4: very close in a lot of ways. And I would
Speaker 4: argue that, you know, his citing the molahs in Ran
Speaker 4: for instances, that's almost a different topic because the concept
Speaker 4: of what is morality in Islam is very very different
Speaker 4: than Christianity, practically unrecognizable in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 4: I don't know where we go from here, honestly, because
Speaker 4: it is like the question of organizing society. Without what
Speaker 4: you were describing, Jack, a general agreement on moral principles.
Speaker 4: The only thing you can go to, as Paolo pointed out,
Speaker 4: was like a constitutional framework governing human behavior. Well, I
Speaker 4: would suggest Polo that it would have to be much
Speaker 4: much more widespread and specific than that. It would have
Speaker 4: to be something approaching totalitarianism, because there would be no
Speaker 4: common moral precepts that would make laws X, Y, and
Speaker 4: Z completely unnecessary anyway, or at least not necessary very often,
Speaker 4: because nobody would do that except if they've lost their mind.
Speaker 1: Where do most people's moral compasses come from the Bible?
Speaker 1: Maybe I went to Sunday School and church as a kid,
Speaker 1: so maybe it's that. I think it's probably more more
Speaker 1: that my parents just told me repeatedly as a kid
Speaker 1: that stealing is wrong, So you know you do, and
Speaker 1: you just get that into your head and he's like,
Speaker 1: what I do not not steal? How many negatives is that?
Speaker 1: Where did I end up with tracking with you? Because
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to be punished by God. It
Speaker 1: doesn't even cross my mind a punishment from God. I
Speaker 1: just to me, it's just simple that society would break
Speaker 1: down if we all just stole. So I don't you
Speaker 1: shouldn't it. I don't want my kids do. It'd just
Speaker 1: be the end of society if we did.
Speaker 4: Well, it's somebody else's work from them, right, You've denied
Speaker 4: them the fruits of their labor, which is disgusting.
Speaker 1: Have you ever known anybody that didn't have that moral compass.
Speaker 1: I've known several and it's always just so mind boggling
Speaker 1: to me. I had a boss one time, gladys if
Speaker 1: you could tell me I had this boss. He actually
Speaker 1: was the owner of this night club that I worked at,
Speaker 1: and I remember the topic came up. Somebody left assigned
Speaker 1: government refund check. I don't know exactly what it was,
Speaker 1: but it was in a situation where like, if you
Speaker 1: had it, you could have taken the bank and cashed it.
Speaker 1: Somebody left it behind, and then somebody returned it to
Speaker 1: the original person because their name was on the check.
Speaker 1: And he couldn't understand why anybody would do that. It
Speaker 1: just didn't make any sense to him whatsoever. Well, he
Speaker 1: left it behind, that's you know, finders, keepers, losers, weepers.
Speaker 1: That's his problem, not mine. It just didn't make any
Speaker 1: sense to him whatsoever that you wouldn't take it because
Speaker 1: you could, which blew my mind.
Speaker 4: But I mean, sociopathya think are just kind of from
Speaker 4: a tougher life.
Speaker 1: And he wasn't. Forget to get your He wasn't from
Speaker 1: a tough life at all. They were hardcore businessmen, all
Speaker 1: of them wealthy. His family was wealthy, and he and
Speaker 1: his brothers were wealthy. They were all wealthy. But it
Speaker 1: was a very I'm going to get killed for this,
Speaker 1: I think Trumpian way of looking at the world of
Speaker 1: just No, it's just a it's a constant battle over,
Speaker 1: you know, I got over. You should have hung on
Speaker 1: to your stuff, yeah, Or you should have made a
Speaker 1: better business deal, or you should have thought of that
Speaker 1: before I did this. I win, you lose. That's the
Speaker 1: way life is, you know.
Speaker 4: I'm always going on about how a lot of politicians
Speaker 4: and a lot of people ignore the fact that post
Speaker 4: World War Two America was a thing that will never
Speaker 4: exist again. It was a situation that will never exist again,
Speaker 4: or at least not very close. Europe decimated, a lot
Speaker 4: of Asia still living in huts, except for Japan, which
Speaker 4: was decimated and under our thumb, and we had a
Speaker 4: virtual monopoly on advanced manufacturing and global trade, shipping in
Speaker 4: the restaurant, and that standard of living in that lifestyle
Speaker 4: became the norm, even though the situation that gave birth
Speaker 4: to it was completely not the norm and never would
Speaker 4: be again. Well, I think we have a similar thing
Speaker 4: going on culturally that nobody wants to talk about, and
Speaker 4: I will talk about it right now. We are coming
Speaker 4: out of a period of cultural homogenitity.
Speaker 1: We are homogeneous as a culture.
Speaker 4: Judeo Christian principles European principles and particularly dominated by the
Speaker 4: principles of the United Kingdom, were such a thick vein
Speaker 4: of what we were as a people that everybody just
Speaker 4: assumed that was so. And there's certainly spice around the
Speaker 4: edges of different cultures and people and perspectives, but we
Speaker 4: had such a thick vein of Judeo Christian Magna Carta,
Speaker 4: English common law declaration of independent principles. It made everything way,
Speaker 4: way easier. Not that it was easy. I mean, there's
Speaker 4: plenty of terrible things that went on, but that is gone.
Speaker 4: Now it is gone. We are truly becoming multi cultural
Speaker 4: in a way that will be extremely difficult to manage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was just thinking of people I've known
Speaker 1: that don't have that moral compass, at least that kind
Speaker 1: of moral compass. Like the examples I'm thinking of, they
Speaker 1: weren't gonna they weren't gonna rape or kill or anything
Speaker 1: like that that certainly financially they were willing. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just if I can, I should, and you should too.
Speaker 1: And it's whoever wins wins. I've known several successful business
Speaker 1: people like that.
Speaker 4: Well, and there are several very very important countries where
Speaker 4: that is the cultural norm to cheat somebody successfully is
Speaker 4: not looked upon as being despicable. It's looked upon as
Speaker 4: the same as winning a tennis match.
Speaker 1: Yeah you were better. Yeah. Yeah. The people I've known
Speaker 1: that were like, I was better than you, and you
Speaker 1: should be better next time, which is interesting. Most vast
Speaker 1: majority of business people have known have not been that way,
Speaker 1: but I have known several, and then I've also known
Speaker 1: just like losers who can't get anywhere of life, who
Speaker 1: believe that because they're just yeah, amoral.
Speaker 4: I don't want to get angry letters and have to
Speaker 4: get dragged into a meeting. Lord knows at this point,
Speaker 4: but yeah, a fellow who is an immigrant to the
Speaker 4: United States from a particular land which may or may
Speaker 4: not be in the news pretty frequently, was it in
Speaker 4: that whole country? No, well, it kind of is now,
Speaker 4: but it shouldn't be anyway. He was explaining to me
Speaker 4: the cultural norms of getting over on somebody in business,
Speaker 4: and how the deception was not looked upon his fraud.
Speaker 1: It's looked upon his cleverness.
Speaker 4: It's one of the tools you exercise in a way
Speaker 4: that is would be extremely unfamiliar to most Americans. In fact, hell,
Speaker 4: we've got that, you know, thousands of pages of legal
Speaker 4: codes saying you'll go to jail if you do that.
Speaker 4: Not there, it's normal. I heard another giant economy being
Speaker 4: described by somebody who had lived and worked all over
Speaker 4: the world, had quite an auspicious career. He described that
Speaker 4: large economy is a nation of thieves.
Speaker 1: Huh. So, getting back to the original question, do you
Speaker 1: need to have the faith to get the morality which
Speaker 1: is required for us to succeed? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: nobody's run this experiment as far as I know.
Speaker 4: All Right, captain metaphor, this is my final thought. Here's
Speaker 4: your metaphor. The answer is faith to morality to order
Speaker 4: is a lot like water to the soil that you're
Speaker 4: growing your lawn in. For instance, when you cut off
Speaker 4: the water of coherent religious belief, like the Judeo Christian principles,
Speaker 4: you cut that water off, the lawn will live for
Speaker 4: a certain amount of time, but then it'll die.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well it's a two step process. We're going to
Speaker 1: find out what a powerful metaphor.
Speaker 4: Iran breaking news, breaking news, Iran has attacked the US
Speaker 4: basin cutter.
Speaker 1: Oh really, let's come back with details on that. Holy cow,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Twitter not to see an end
Speaker 1: to find out what's going on. Stay tuned. So what
Speaker 1: was it? A couple of hours ago, Fox was reporting
Speaker 1: that an attack on our military base in Qatar was imminent.
Speaker 1: And then it turns out as this happened, makes you wonder,
Speaker 1: does it not? What do you wonder? Well? For instance,
Speaker 1: Axios reported Israel had detected UH missile launchers being moved
Speaker 1: in Iran positioned it look like to attack our military base.
Speaker 1: Is it possible? I think likely? Actually that Iran was, Hey,
Speaker 1: moving our missile launchers just out in the open here
Speaker 1: so everybody can see it, moving them here, pointing them
Speaker 1: toward the Qatar, toward your empty military base. Here we go.
Speaker 1: You're ready, just want to make sure you see this
Speaker 1: coming so you can shoot them down. Here we go.
Speaker 1: We watched our righteous vengeance. Here we go, striking a blow.
Speaker 1: Now we're launching our missiles and you shut them down. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll be darned anyway. We retaliated. We save face. See,
Speaker 1: we aren't just gonna take it lying down. Everything good?
Speaker 1: Here are we done? Now? Boy? You may not be right,
Speaker 1: but I think you are does have that feel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now you remember, now we got everybody out of our
Speaker 1: Katari military base, a bunch of our military bases. Last week.
Speaker 1: We talked about that. But remember remember when Iran did
Speaker 1: their face saving retaliation after Sulimani was killed and they
Speaker 1: scrambled the brains of some of our soldiers. And Trump
Speaker 1: downplayed it too. He did try to keep the peace
Speaker 1: so that we wouldn't have to respond. But I didn't
Speaker 1: think that was cool at all. No, no, indeed.
Speaker 4: But it's a different time, different situation. But and I
Speaker 4: remember their face saving attack against Israel turned out to
Speaker 4: be hundreds and hundreds of weapons and may well have
Speaker 4: been partly face saving, but partly also just trying to
Speaker 4: exhaust their defensive weaponry, their number of shells.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll see. Qatar is temporarily suspended air traffic
Speaker 1: in its airspace to ensure the safety of citizens, residents
Speaker 1: and visitors. I was going to vacation. We're on vacation
Speaker 1: next week and we are going, me and the kids,
Speaker 1: We're going to Quitar. But I guess we aren't now.
Speaker 1: I guess we'll have to make it to h Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1: What are your other fun countries? To go to. I
Speaker 1: was actually reading about it. What's the one of your Dubai.
Speaker 4: One of those gleaming, super modern mega cities, just astonishing
Speaker 4: architecture and attractions and recreation and the rest of it.
Speaker 4: It's a hell of a long trip, but it'd be
Speaker 4: a wild experience. I know a lot of you listening
Speaker 4: have probably gone to your Dubais and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, someday. My brother has been to all those places
Speaker 1: and they are quite spectacular. I'm actually going to Florida
Speaker 1: in June. It is going to be very very hot
Speaker 1: and very very humid, but not very crowded because nobody
Speaker 1: wants to be there, So that's the trade off you make.
Speaker 4: You gott to warn the boys they got cocker roaches there.
Speaker 4: You could saddle up and ride to town.
Speaker 1: I'm more worried about mosquitoes. Gonna have a lot because
Speaker 1: we're going to go to the Everglades all the middle
Speaker 1: of summer. It's going to be very hot, very mosquitoed.
Speaker 1: What do you canter bait?
Speaker 4: M Strong?
Speaker 1: Tom Strong? You ready with Katie.
Speaker 4: Green and.
Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4: How about a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 4: to wrap up the show.
Speaker 1: There is pressing the buttons. Michaelangelo lead us off, Michael, do.
Speaker 2: You think that if the Iranian people rise up and
Speaker 2: throughout their leaders, that the Y M c A Dance
Speaker 2: will come to Iran?
Speaker 1: That's a very good question. It is a beautiful dream, Michael.
Speaker 1: Katie Green or a Steam newswoman has a final thought.
Speaker 2: I have several words that make my skin crawl, and
Speaker 2: you guys added one this morning when Jack said festering.
Speaker 1: You don't like the word faster. I don't that word?
Speaker 1: Not a good word? Uncle Fester from the Adams family. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know fest Range Jack. Final thoughts for us
Speaker 1: shall we went on vacation one time when nine to
Speaker 1: eleven happened, and when you came back to work, I
Speaker 1: was in England. Is there anything that could happen that
Speaker 1: would bring us back from a vacation At this point,
Speaker 1: I feel like we've had so many crazy things happen.
Speaker 4: Then I don't want to say no, because that feels
Speaker 4: like tempting fate.
Speaker 1: Not that I'm superstitious, but I hope not. Man, I
Speaker 1: just go with that.
Speaker 4: My final thought is I played the best golf I've
Speaker 4: played in a decade.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, two rounds, both very very good.
Speaker 4: But I am old and wise now, and I am
Speaker 4: fully cognizant of the fact that I will suck again
Speaker 4: and soon such as the nature of the game.
Speaker 1: So you didn't think, Hey, I've finally figured this out.
Speaker 1: Hell No, Armstrong and Getty wrapping up and other they're grueling,
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Speaker 1: Sure we'll have a lot of details on the response tomorrow.
Speaker 1: See that. God bless America. I'm Strong and Getty. That's
Speaker 1: made in heavenly. We're all better off. We're all better off.
Speaker 1: We're all better off, and we're working together. What the
Speaker 1: hell was that? That was quite entertaining for No.
Speaker 5: Joe, So let's go with the bine.
Speaker 1: Honey or oh my god, I'm sorry, I'm sorry that.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say to that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I've just been totally thrown Yeah, I can imagine I'm
Speaker 1: a little thrown by that. Also, if I'm being honest with.
Speaker 4: That, I know.
Speaker 1: Bye bye. Ar'm strong and Getty