1 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 2 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong and 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:24,319 Speaker 1: Jetty and he arms Draw. I want to get this 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: praise right. I'm taking this from the Iranian tweet. There 5 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: you go, trying to avoid falling into the abyss of 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: defeat and destruction. Armstrong and Geddy live from studio, See 7 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 1: your arm or a manhole? Trying to avoid falling into 8 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: a manhole the abyss a dimly lit room deep with 9 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: on the bowels of the Armstrong and Geddy Communications Compound. 10 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: And today we're toiling under the title of the show. 11 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: Alternate titles for the same story either Trump dumps disloyal 12 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: chumps or lick the boot or get the boot. That's 13 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: a that's a good thing on how you look at it, 14 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: like the boot, or get the boot, that's a good one, 15 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: you know how? On Mondays, I often say, another week 16 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: pregnant with possibilities. Who knows what's going to happen this week. 17 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: Maybe next week it'll be maybe you'll fall into a 18 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: manhole and boiled to death, Oh my god. Or maybe 19 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: you'll meet the love of your life. You never know. 20 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: What's going to happen on any given Boy, do I 21 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 1: get a choice? How about that story? We had it? 22 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: We had it right after it happened. I didn't realize 23 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: nobody realized exactly what happened to the poor woman who 24 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: stepped out of her car next to a manhole. So 25 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: apparently she got out of her car, stepped right into it, 26 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 1: went deep down into the steam bowels of the New 27 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: York City city streets. Yeah, they forced boiling steam through 28 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: those pipes, yuke, how's the in on that? 29 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 2: Yeah? 30 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: That's a rough one, just too grim. Did you happen 31 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: to read? And I don't know why anybody would? I 32 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: wish I hadn't. Oh, boy, did you happen to read 33 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: the description from an emergency room worker who had dealt 34 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: with the last person who fell into a manhole? No, 35 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: and was boiled like a lobster? No? Yeah, it's pretty 36 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: rough as you'd expect. Well, I started to read. I 37 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: think it was a coroner who wrote a book about it, 38 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 1: who dealt with all sorts of things. Now, you fool 39 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: about dealing with people who got killed by all sorts 40 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: of different means, including that. And I started to read 41 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: it and sound why am I reading this? Would you 42 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,679 Speaker 1: read that? I don't know why did you? I don't 43 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: know why I read one paragraph. It was one of 44 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: those things where if I'd have known what they were 45 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: gonna say, I would have gone back in time and 46 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: not read it. I didn't need that information. You start, 47 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: you got a lot of attention. It's just as one 48 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: of those kind of kind of like people who watch 49 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,239 Speaker 1: horror movies. I guess, working out your fears about something 50 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: that's very unlikely to happen to you, or something I 51 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: don't know what's going on there. Yeah, As human beings, 52 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: we have to process that sort of thing one way 53 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: or another. That's why people like we were laughing about it. 54 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: It's not fun. It's so horrifying. You just well, it's 55 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: yours a psychological defense mechanism. It's kind of a cavemanish death, 56 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 1: though they didn't have man holes like many like falling 57 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: into a volcano like that. Yeah, terrible, And he's literally 58 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: anything else this phrase because Iran threatened that if we 59 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: attacked him again, we will fall into the abyss of 60 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: defeat and destruction. But you don't want to do Oh no, 61 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,519 Speaker 1: oh no, I told you watch your step and there 62 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: you are down at the bottom of the what the 63 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: canyon of the old a A and d abyss of 64 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: the defeat and destruction. Yeah, I told you. I warrned you. Yep, 65 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: the A D and d abyss of the feet in destruction. 66 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: I was just watching Fox and Tray inks there on Fox. 67 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: His reporting is everything looks like we're going to attack again. 68 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: That's just what the mood is. Everybody's assuming that's going 69 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: to happen. So well, he is such a cut above 70 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: most reporters. Yeah. I mean, we've got him making a 71 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: comment about the Battle of Thermopolis later on the show. 72 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: I guarantee you. David Muir doesn't to make many mentions 73 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: of ancient battles nor civilizations, but he does wear tiny 74 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: T shirts to show off his big guns. It's a 75 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: good point, he see, I've got enormous guns. Uh huh. 76 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: And I'm not going to get bogged down on this 77 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: because we've been over the Iran war thing. We've said 78 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: everything eight million times, but everything is still there for 79 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: a gargantuan, verging on World War three type situation to 80 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: unleash at any moment that is not. I think it 81 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: kind of feels to it like a lot of people 82 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 1: like that's off the table. Now it's not. It's there's 83 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: still we attack. Iran's promising to attack every country around 84 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 1: them with everything they've got, which, according to the New 85 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: York Times last week, is a lot. And I mean 86 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: this could turn into quite the hoot and n anty 87 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: really fast, right while I believe this so called ceasefire 88 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: has gone on far too long and will ultimately be 89 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: just utterly without reason in the you know scope of 90 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: history as you look at major conflicts. This little pause, 91 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: I mean, in fact, that's then there was a brief 92 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: pause later blah blah blah. I mean it deserves half sentence. Yeah, 93 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:20,119 Speaker 1: So why was your what was your your title? There? 94 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: Either Trump dumps disloyal chumps or lick the boot or 95 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: get the boot. Uh. The number of primaries around the 96 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 1: country were decided in favor of a Trump endorsed candidate 97 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 1: over somebody who had vexed him or or been insufficiently 98 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: uh you know, bootlicky. In my opinion, Thomas Massey got 99 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: the boot, which is fine because he's a crank. He's 100 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: a freaking nut. Oh yeah he is, yeah, yeah. He 101 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: said more on that later. Flaming anti Semite, among other things. 102 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 1: But there are more decided pretending to be that is 103 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: a good idea, which is a certain crowd at least 104 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 1: pretending to be an anti Semite is less dangerous than 105 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: the people that actually but there's a certain crowd out 106 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: there that just thinks that's that's where the energy is. 107 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: Oh so on that topic, I might as well bring 108 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: this up now. So this Thomas Massey guy in Kentucky 109 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 1: who started out as a like a libertarian saying all 110 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: kinds of things that like libertarians loved way back in 111 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: the day, and then he's got all kinds of different 112 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: directions on vax or no vax or this or that, 113 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: but he landed on I'm gonna be another anti Israel guy. 114 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: I think that's where the momentum is to stay in office. 115 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: And that's not why Trump ran against him. Trump Trump 116 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: went against him because Massey went full on Epstein. Like 117 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: full on Epstein is the most important thing out there. 118 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 1: We've got to get the files. There's a cover up 119 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: going on, tied it in with the Jews and all 120 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. And that's why Trump wanted him out, 121 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: was the whole Epstein thing. But so Massy last night 122 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: loses and says I was gonna call my opponent to 123 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: do a consolation thing, but he's in Tel Aviv, so 124 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: he's hard to reach. F you, dude. I tweeted that out. 125 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: I was angry about that. I said, glad you lost. 126 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: Good riddance. Trump got this one right, even if it 127 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: was for different reasons. FU on that whole thing. But 128 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: handful of comments in our Twitter and I see them 129 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: on the text line every day. The people were losing 130 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: audience members. We are losing that have been longtime fans 131 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: because we are too friendly to Israel purely on that issue. Well, 132 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: good luck. That is an interesting one. Would I wouldn't 133 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: have predicted. I wouldn't have predicted a year ago, let 134 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: alone ten years ago, that someday we'd be losing listeners 135 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: because we're on the side of defending Israel, on the 136 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: side of one of our most loyal allies through the years, 137 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: who both parties endorsed thoroughly and considered a close and 138 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: critical friend in the region. Yes. Well, and the other 139 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: side of the story, to my mind, is mostly full 140 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: of crap that's not true, right, So wild exaggerations and 141 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: nutty conspiracy theories that are as old as God Judaism itself, 142 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: and I just I have no patience for it. So 143 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: if you can't take it, you know, that's a shame. 144 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: But I'm not going to alter what I believe in, 145 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: what I think, and what I say for people who 146 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: are so misguided by this bizarre modern disease. Was it. 147 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: Did Israel go hard in Gaza? Oh? Yeah, yeah they did, 148 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: and so would we. So would you if you're threatened 149 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: from all sides and raped and tortured and killed in 150 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: the road, we do have gone crazy. So for the 151 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: lefties who are a hardcore anti Israel, that's an issue. 152 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: I don't think the Republican Party crowd that are anti 153 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: Israel now are upset about Israel being too hard on 154 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 1: the Palestinians. I don't think that probably. No, No, they're 155 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: the secret string pullers, Yeah, the hooked noses behind the scenes. Yeah, 156 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: it's the they run our country, Epstein, etc. I know 157 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: several people like that. Yep, I think you're wrong. If 158 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: you'd like to make a reasoned explanation as to why 159 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: we're wrong, you know, other than f you guys, which 160 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: is some of the responses we get. It's a good 161 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: expression of your sentiments, but not really an argument. I 162 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: can engage with you can text or email or whatever 163 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: you'd like to do. That's interesting though, I'd say it 164 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: was probably a fifth of the responses were few guys 165 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: over supporting Israel on that particular topic, me saying good 166 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: riddance to Massy and his whole couldn't find my opponent. 167 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: He was in Tel Aviv. He's the one mass He's 168 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: the one. Finally remembered the clip that was so crazy 169 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: from a couple of weeks ago where he went on 170 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: he was on Tucker's show and talking about how the 171 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Securities IP addresses in Tel Aviv? What's 172 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: that all about? Which is just completely made up? Store right? Wow, wild, 173 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: Time to be alive, man. I have to talk more 174 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: about that later. This is this is really interesting stuff. 175 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: Let's start the show Officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe 176 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: Getty on this It is Wednesday, May twentieth, the year 177 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Where I'm strong at getting we approve 178 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: of this program. Yeah, I'm gonna throw in one more 179 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: common that's whether you're a communist or an anarchist, or 180 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: a flat earth or bigfoot believer. Or whatever. Take heart, 181 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: because there's no philosophy, there's no idea so ridiculous and 182 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: stupid that it won't make a comeback eventually. They all do. 183 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 1: It seems like, all right, let's speak in the show 184 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: officially now according to FCC rules regulations, here we go 185 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: at mark. There's what's happening. 186 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 3: We're using a new AI system as our reader. 187 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, so that is that is a lesson learned for us. 188 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 3: It didn't feel sincere, and it kind of felt like 189 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 3: they didn't care. I would have liked a little bit 190 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 3: more thought to go into it, rather than push something 191 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 3: as simple as reading some names off to an AI device. 192 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 1: I think that's the issue. It has happened now four 193 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: times at least that I've seen any mention of AI 194 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: in a college commencement speech is roundly booed. And Ian 195 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 1: Bremmer had a good post about that the other day 196 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: with kind of a montage of them saying, policymakers need 197 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: to watch this. The young people out there, just the 198 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:36,119 Speaker 1: mention of AI roundly booing. They're not excited, they're terrified. 199 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: They're terrified and angry about the whole AI thing. And hey, 200 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: policy makers, you better have your eye on this, which 201 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: I think is absolutely absolutely true. Yeah, yeah, true, And 202 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:48,079 Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk about that. There are a 203 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: number of aspects to the story that are They're super interesting. 204 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: That was a college that used AI to read the 205 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: names of graduation. I guess what terribly slaughtered a bunch 206 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: of names. But all you got to do is mention 207 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: AI and people go boo. If you mentioned AI for America, 208 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: I think mostly it'd be booze, wouldn't I mean, if 209 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: you could just stand over the whole country for three 210 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,559 Speaker 1: hundred and forty million people, what do you think of AI? Boo? 211 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,439 Speaker 1: I think would be mostly. Or what sound do people 212 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: make when they're making there and wait a minute face, 213 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: whatever sound that is. I think that would be wait 214 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: a minute. I don't know. I might, oh I do, 215 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: even though I use it every day. All right, I 216 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: got to soften my comments of a second ago I 217 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 1: called I was walking back his comments. I'm breaking my 218 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: silence that I said these philosophies were stupid. I believe 219 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 1: them to be. But the charitable side of me has 220 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: to point out that the most skilled and persuasive con 221 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 1: men and women of our time have turned their attention 222 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: to you know, horn swoggling people, fooling them, duping them, 223 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: twisting facts, being very selective with their facts, et cetera, 224 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: to lead them down a certain road. And if a 225 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: truly skill grifter fools you for a while, that does 226 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 1: not make you stupid, That just just makes you. You know, 227 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: you're a mislad. You put it all together with big 228 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: foot and flat earthers and one another one chemtrail people, 229 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: something like that that I should have. I think of 230 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 1: that one. We've got. We've got a bunch more headlines 231 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: to get to. Got a hilarious comment on a segment 232 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,839 Speaker 1: from yesterday's show, a critique of ours, a critique of 233 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: Joe and I that is perfectly appropriated, and I won't 234 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: bring it to you that I saw actually on one 235 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: of the Facebook pages. It's pretty funny. Among other things. 236 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: On the way stay here, let me mention two kind 237 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: of subheadlines before we get to actual headlines, because neither 238 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 1: one of these probably should well, this one should be 239 00:13:51,679 --> 00:14:00,559 Speaker 1: a headline. One headline is the most angry violent person 240 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: I've run into mad because I'd drive a Tesla cyber 241 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 1: truck yesterday in which I'm going to now carry a 242 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 1: weapon with me because it's just so prevalent, which is 243 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: a crazy time to live in. That Later, and then 244 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: this headline that is something I want to talk about, 245 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: I'll get into the graph. New study shows the youngest 246 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: poorest generation that usually goes together, youngest and poorest gen 247 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: Z spends the most money on restaurants and door dash 248 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: for eating compared to the other generations. Yeah, don't be 249 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: complaining to me about your rents too high, even though 250 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: it is if you're eating out all the time, in 251 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: door dashing all your food all right. Wow, Wow, I'm 252 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: blown away by the modern role. I read something during 253 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:57,359 Speaker 1: the break that disturbed me deeply, and I woke up disturbed. 254 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: So I would like to crawl upward into the abyss 255 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: of defeat and destruction while you're below it. Oh yeah, 256 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: I'm sub abyss definitely. Yeah. Yeah, in a word, abysmal. 257 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So a handful of headlines. Thirty year treasury 258 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: yields have hit their highest level in nineteen years since 259 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: the Big Crash. What does that mean? That means that 260 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: government borrowing is getting more and more expensive, and so 261 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: is you're borrowing on fears of inflation and gas prices 262 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: and rising rates, and that sort of thing. We got 263 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: to come up with some stuff that is not going 264 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 1: to make people want to stay in bed. Oh right, right, 265 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: the sun is shining and it's warm on your skin. 266 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: How about that, go outside and greet it. Let's see 267 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: there you get your primaries. Google is changing its search 268 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: box for the first time in thirty years. Jack in 269 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: place of the skinny rectangle will be a larger box 270 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: to encourage longer questions. For Gemini Google's AI oh for Gemini. Okay. 271 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: Google has listened to a podcas Yes yesterday talking about 272 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: how Google thank god chatbots came along because Google become 273 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: useless and it really was sucky compared to what it 274 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: used to be. Your first eight things were sponsored, and 275 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: then the next eight things were all politically driven, and 276 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 1: it was very hard to find the answer you wanted. Indeed, 277 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: users will see more AI answers and their results in 278 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: fewer links to sites. Oh you know those thousands and 279 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: thousands of layoffs that Meta threatened like five weeks ago, 280 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: I think it was today, They are happening today around 281 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: the world. At least eight thousand workers laid off, which 282 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: is ten percent of the workforce. I think, oh wow, 283 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: seven thousand people being retasked to work on AI functions. 284 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: So the giant shake up there. Maybe we can weigh 285 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: in on a meaningless controversy because something that's not really 286 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: important is, you know, is how can you get depressed? 287 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter fun. The new Odyssey movie coming out 288 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: is I hate it. I'm against it got quite the 289 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: controversy because they cast a black actresses Helen of Troy, 290 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 1: and some people are outraged. Troy, Michigan. Uh, Troy, the 291 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: ancient City. Oh oh, I get it. I'm a forest staunchly. 292 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 1: I think it's the best thing ever. We can get 293 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,919 Speaker 1: into a couple of different big topics, that big slush 294 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: fun thing for Trump, that whole thing that. 295 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 4: Here's somebody who has left late night once or twice before. 296 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 2: Yes, sometimes on my own volition, sometimes not. 297 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: Yes. 298 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 2: Yes, you've been fired, you've been I've been fired, But 299 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 2: talk to me. 300 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: I haven't been fired yet. Tell me how in your life. 301 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 4: No, I've been fired, but I've never lost a late 302 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 4: night show before. It's the best, really, how the Parent 303 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 4: You were. 304 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:46,360 Speaker 1: At the Paramount show? 305 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 2: I was at the Parent I was there for one 306 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 2: of the last shows actually, but we we got the 307 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 2: turn back then was canned. 308 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: I don't know what they're call it now. 309 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 2: And they put security guards at the exits were we 310 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 2: had two more weeks to go, and they put security 311 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 2: guards at all the exits, like like I was run 312 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 2: at a fax machine. There was we didn't have anything 313 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 2: of value. 314 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: John Stewart is known for stripping buildings for copper to 315 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: buy meth. Unbelievable. Everybody's that experience that who works for 316 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: corporation if they need to let you go, been a 317 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: perfectly fine employee, everybody likes you, and then they treat 318 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: you immediately like a criminal. I think that's everything you 319 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 1: need to know about bureaucracies and how the government does 320 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: what it does, and all kinds of horrible things that 321 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: just the moment you have some sort of I don't know, 322 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: power to treat somebody like I hate this term usually like, 323 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 1: but the other people jump on it and really like, 324 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 1: go way too far right, here's a question for you. 325 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:54,880 Speaker 1: I agree. I think it's it's shocking that individual managers 326 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: couldn't make the call that no, this is a good 327 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,959 Speaker 1: and decent person, always has been. It's unfortunate we're parting way, 328 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: but we've talked about it. Blah blah blah. What percentage 329 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 1: of people actually are the sort of people who, upon 330 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: hearing that they would no longer be associated with the company, 331 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: decide I'm gonna show them. I'm gonna steal stuff and 332 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna break stuff. And I is that ten percent 333 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: of the population or sixty percent? I don't know. It's 334 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: nowhere close to sixty. I wouldn't even think it's close 335 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: to ten. Actually, I don't know. So have you've been 336 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: on the internet lately? So it's your crowd, So you 337 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: have to treat everybody like their criminal. You've worked with 338 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: these people for years now all of a sudden, I'm 339 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 1: not leaping to the conclusions. I'm looking at evidence. Look 340 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: at the internet. How many people? Well, that's the Internet. 341 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: It's a lot of people taking people. Are a few 342 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: people making a lot of noise. I just tell, what 343 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: do you think you've worked with that you need to 344 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 1: have somebody stand looking over them and march them to 345 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 1: their lock them out of the building immediately. Now, certainly, 346 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: Michael and Hanson. Oh, do you want me to just 347 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: give a number or name that name, names especially of people, 348 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: names that people would recognize. Yes, yes, Now I'm just 349 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 1: I'm asking the question what folks mail bag at Armstrong 350 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:12,399 Speaker 1: and getty dot com, how many? Like many people? You know? 351 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: What drives it? Over the top liability concerns from lawyers, 352 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: That's what drives it. They don't want anybody to be 353 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:24,120 Speaker 1: able to claim this or that. If you can blame 354 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: it on attorneys, you're probably right to blame it on attorneys. Yes, 355 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 1: so this story is only interesting if you remember who 356 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: Mahmoud Ahmadinashad was. He was the president of Iran, which 357 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: is a kind of a weird position they have in 358 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: Iran because the Supreme Leader is the religious leader and 359 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: the whole country and revolution was founded around the and 360 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: then they replaced him with another guy who we obliterated 361 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: a couple of months ago. But then they also have 362 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: a president that they vote for, pretend to vote for, 363 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: but is the handpicked person of the Supreme Leader, and 364 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: then anybody who tries to run against them, that's like 365 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 1: a moderate, is beaten and imprisoned, so it's not really 366 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: a fair election. But then they called people the president 367 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 1: and this guy, Makmud Ahmadinijad was the president back when 368 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: Bush was our president and became a thing because we're 369 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 1: at war with Iraq, and Iran was involved in uh 370 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: in killing so many of our soldiers and blah blah blah. 371 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: Uh Makmoud Ahmadinajad turns out, this is in the New 372 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: York Times today and it's such an interesting story. He 373 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: was the plan when we decapitated the leadership back in February. 374 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: He was the guy who was supposed to take over 375 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: and run the country and uh and make things easy 376 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: for everyone. On the first day, this is New York 377 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: Times coverage today. On the first day of the Iran War, 378 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 1: the Israeli Air Force carried out a strike on the 379 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: Tehran home of Makmoud Ahmadinijad, former president of Iran note 380 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 1: for his hardline anti Israel, anti American view us, which 381 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: was designed to free him from house arrest. He had 382 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: been under arrest by the Republican National Guard for years, 383 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 1: because that's what you do in countries like that, when 384 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,880 Speaker 1: you go onto a new president, you arrest the old 385 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 1: one because it's you know, and keep him under house 386 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: arrest so he can't cause any problems. So Israel Baums's house, 387 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 1: which is supposed to somehow free him from captivity. Man Medina, 388 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: John I'm thinking, hey, is there a different plan? I mean, 389 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 1: what room are you going to hit specifically and place 390 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 1: him in a position to take over the country following 391 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: the elimination of the Supreme Leader Kamani, who we killed 392 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 1: along with a whole bunch of other people. Plans to 393 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: place Akmadenajhad in power after week after the weakening of 394 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: the current Iranian regime had been developed by the Israelis 395 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 1: with the knowledge of the United States and had been 396 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: briefed to Akmadenashad himself. He knew about this, though quickly 397 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: went awry after the strike on his home. According to 398 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: US officials who were on the matter and spoke to 399 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: The New York Times, Akmadenijad was accidentally injured in the 400 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: Israeli strike kind of getting to your point, is there 401 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: how they're planned and bombing my house to free me 402 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: and like hoping the guards are killed and I'm not 403 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: like it's some sort of Batman scheme or something like that. Anyway, 404 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 1: he was injured in the strike, which destroyed destroyed a 405 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: security outpost at the entrance to his street, killed several 406 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: members of the IRGC that were holding him hostage, and 407 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: though he survived after the near miss, he became disillusioned 408 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: with the regime change plan and halted further communication with Israel. 409 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 1: He has not been seen publicly since then, and his 410 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: current whereabouts in condition are unknown. Whoops, that was the plan. 411 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: I mean for anybody who was wondering what was supposed 412 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: to happen after we killed the top guy and everybody 413 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: underneath him. Well, were he just hoping chaos reigned and 414 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 1: someone No, we had been talking to the former president 415 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,199 Speaker 1: and he was supposed to take over, but he blew 416 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: up his house and he thought this seems wacky and 417 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: has disappeared. I'll be damned. So I don't know what 418 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: plan will plan. I suppose immediately they were into Plan 419 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 1: BC and D since Plan A fell apart, which happens 420 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: in war certainly, Yeah, maybe Achmadina John was getting spammed 421 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:22,640 Speaker 1: too much and he used incognituh to disappear a word 422 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 1: from our friends at incognate. You are both using it 423 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: incognitate to get our names an info away from the 424 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: data brokers who have all that information on you and 425 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:31,959 Speaker 1: sell it all the time. That's why you're getting scammed 426 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:35,400 Speaker 1: and spammed. So just to hide it, knock get out 427 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: of there. Yeah, and you're gonna notice a drop right 428 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,439 Speaker 1: away in your suspicious phone calls, text emails and all 429 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. And they go to the data 430 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 1: brokers with the law on their side and say, hey, 431 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 1: you got to get that information on there, and they 432 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 1: keep doing it over and over and over again. This 433 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: is something that everybody needs. You need, I need, we 434 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: all need. They can't spam you if they can't find you. 435 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: And this is very affordable too, especially now you can 436 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: get sixty percent off with an exclusive deal at in 437 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: cogniti dot com slash armstrong. Go to i ncog ni 438 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 1: dot com slash armstrong to take back your privacy. Can 439 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: get that sixty percent off. That's in Cogniti dot com 440 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 1: slash armstrong. Back to that big New York Times exclusive. Briefly, 441 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 1: this is what I've been talking about since the war started, 442 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: just because I'm really really into reading recent Ish history. 443 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: When books finally come out about things that happened, and 444 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 1: you know, the early two thousands or the nineties or whatever. 445 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: There's so many things we don't know about this Iran 446 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 1: war like that one. There was a plan for leadership 447 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: and it went horribly wrong, very very quickly. Who knows 448 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: what other things we're gonna all learn in the coming days, weeks, months, 449 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:46,120 Speaker 1: here is maybe some of them twenty five years from now. Well, 450 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 1: the decision making process, which is I mean, that's fundamental 451 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 1: to deciding. Was that a good decision that just didn't 452 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: work out? Or was it hasty? Was it impulsive? Was 453 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: it you know, pushed by ego, or was it you know, 454 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,360 Speaker 1: goodmon sentence them thinking about the American people. Blah blah blah. 455 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: That's so hard to know in the moment. I mean, 456 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: you have to wait till like multiple books come out 457 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: because you never know how accurate to something is. But yeah, 458 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: you're right, You're right, there's so much we don't know. 459 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: That seems like a crazy plan to me. Anyway. He 460 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: was he was an enemy of the United States back 461 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: when he was president of Iran. Why are you going 462 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: to put him in charge? You know, I'm casting my 463 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 1: memory back to those days. And yeah, he was a 464 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: hard ass, but he was He was also a bit 465 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: of a bridge builder. He came and gave lectures at 466 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: universities and stuff like that. He wasn't like wild eyed 467 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: anti American. But yeah, I don't remember him as being 468 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,159 Speaker 1: a force for good at all. Well, well right, and 469 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: I certainly don't think he was the sort of person 470 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,239 Speaker 1: that the average Iranian, the sort of people that were 471 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: in the streets during the big protests before they got 472 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: machine gun right, would be thinking, Oh cool, lock Ma, Dinna, 473 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 1: shods in charge, this is a new day. Was he 474 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: a bit of a reformer? I can't remember. It doesn't matter. 475 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: Now he's got his legs blowed off or something. He's 476 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 1: in hiding or he's you know, the IRGC got wind 477 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: of this and thought, no, you ain't and he's with 478 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: all on now. I would like more details on the 479 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: whole We're gonna bomb this house and the guy we 480 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: want is gonna get out, and the guys we don't 481 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: want are gonna dieh sure how that works? Again, sounds 482 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,199 Speaker 1: like a Batman, And I'm not talking about modern Batman, 483 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 1: so I'm talking about like the the goofy Batman from 484 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 1: the sixties TV show bat It sounds like Ward et cetera. 485 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:38,360 Speaker 1: Yet al Burgess Meredith, Right, Yeah, I'm just blown away 486 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 1: by this story, and and you know, bringing it up 487 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 1: to the current status of things. Are we a goun 488 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: hour a day a week away from the big whacken. 489 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker 1: Is it ever gonna happen? What's going on? I think 490 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: Trump said yesterday, well, we'll get the details coming up. 491 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 1: I think pretty sure he said yesterday that he's going 492 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,400 Speaker 1: to give him a couple of days, but a couple 493 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: more days times. Yeah, that I don't know that that 494 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: means anything to anybody at this point. There have been 495 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: I mean, on some of the really big attacks that 496 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: we've had, and we've had several really big attacks since 497 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: Trump has been off in office, including this, the taken 498 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 1: out the head of the Revolutionary Guard back in his 499 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: first term, where it looked like he was, you know, 500 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: no where. He looked like he was backing away right 501 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: before the attack. It was a trying to trick people, 502 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 1: So who knows, who knows? But again Tree Yankst of 503 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: Fox was reporting as if on the ground there it 504 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: looks like things are happening. There was some open source 505 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: intelligence last night on their Twitter feed about Israeli Air 506 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: Force looked like they're gearing up and everything like that 507 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: for bombing runs and stuff. So yeah, it's amazing that 508 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: we can know that sort of thing these days. I mean, 509 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 1: not only do the intelligence services know it by careful 510 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 1: use of Human Intelligence and SPICE satellites in the resum No. 511 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 1: I went on the internet and they told me, yeah, 512 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, we're we're uh, you know whatever, polishing 513 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 1: up our refueling planes like they do before emission. So yeah, 514 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: it's on. They add the turtle wax out, so yeah, yep, 515 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: it's funny. Crazy. What did we learn, Well, was a 516 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: week or so ago we learned that to fool the 517 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: Iranians the Israeli Air Force. Remember, they went home from 518 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 1: work and then took cabs and ubers back to the base, 519 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: so the parking lots would be empty, So the parking 520 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: lots would be empty, and the Iranians wud think, well, 521 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: I guess it's not going to happen today or this 522 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: weekend or whatever. Sand down everybody, right, Yeah, that's pretty clever, 523 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 1: But that's what you have to do in the modern world. Okay, 524 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: we'll get to a mailbag coming up. Stay here. Former 525 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: speaker Nuke Gingrich out with a piece today on how 526 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: Iran's using this time to rebuild their anti aircraft stuff 527 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: and Russia's sending them more equipment, et cetera. Why are 528 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 1: we waiting? This isn't making things better? There's your freedom 529 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: loving quote of the day from the great Winston Churchill 530 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 1: continuing are badly needed series on the optimism. A pessimist 531 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 1: sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the 532 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: opportunity and every difficulty. See Churchill, who suffered greatly from 533 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: depression right right, knocked it back with a little champagne breakfast. 534 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 1: I think he often had to convince himself of anything optimistic. 535 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, indeed, mail bag, don't be all that's 536 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: the point. Trump is an old mail bag at armstrong 537 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: e Geddy dot com. Uh, Paolo. On the topic of Israel, 538 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 1: given the attitudes, how they've oh, I'm sorry, Given how 539 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: attitudes toward Israel have changed since October seventh, I think 540 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 1: Hamas believes there was a great idea and are planning 541 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: the next horrific thing, even as I type, how couldn't they? Yeah, Dave. 542 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 1: On a similar topic, there's so many people who are 543 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: being brainwashed against Israel. It's frightening. The ability of the 544 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: media and their acolytes to brainwash democrats scares the Bejesus 545 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: out of me. I would point out horseshoes at the 546 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: time right wingers play in the same old time worn 547 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: song of anti Semitism or swaying people too. The anti 548 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,239 Speaker 1: Christian anti Jew forces in the world are escalating. Hm. 549 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: Dare I say anti christ Yeah? The left has got 550 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: the whole oppressor, oppressed thing that Israel fits so well into. 551 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: And then on the right it seems to be settled 552 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 1: our colonial, flat out anti semitism. Yeah, they're the evil 553 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: string pullers behind the scenes. Yeah, it's ancient, ancient stuff. 554 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: Let's see Skipper from Port Angelers, Washington again. That name 555 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: is Port Angelis or do you pronounce it? Would I 556 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: do it all over again? Yesterday Jack mused about whether 557 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: he could do it all over again, going from the 558 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: young person through school and college into the world as 559 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: Jack sit in the restaurant as the oldest person in there. Yeah, 560 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: I would say, of course you could think about it. 561 00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: We live in a world that caters to the age group. 562 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: You would be among how many young college age kids 563 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,959 Speaker 1: could afford to even be in restaurants like the one 564 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 1: you were eating in. In your day, we lived on 565 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 1: PB and J and rode our bikes everywhere because we 566 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: were broke. Today you'd have the means to come to 567 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: class every day with your Starbucks and your latest iPhone 568 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 1: and MacBook. You get to complain about how hard it 569 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: is you have ai to write your papers. You get 570 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 1: to take classes that we never even heard of, like 571 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 1: racial equity and human improvement. You can vent on your 572 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: favorite social media platform, or go to one of the 573 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 1: many safe spaces in your chosen school. Heck, you can 574 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: even get credit for participating in a protest of your choosing. Yes, Jack, 575 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: I think you do have the energy to do it 576 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: all over again, just not the way things were in 577 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 1: your day. I clearly need to take Human improvement. Yes, yeah, 578 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: it'd be good. Yeah, and three hundred level classes. Yes, 579 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: that's an excellent point. Paul writes. I'm not sure what 580 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 1: Trump's Taiwan thinking is, but I think the minimal goal 581 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 1: of American foreign policies should be to stall any Chinese 582 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: takeover attempts until at least the the US at least 583 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 1: until the US has reconstituted its leading edge chip fabrication capabilities. 584 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: The most optimistic date I've seen for the US being 585 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 1: able to produce his own chips is twenty thirty five. 586 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: China might be willing to wait until then, or to 587 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 1: otherwise take Taiwan away that doesn't interrupt US access to 588 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 1: the critical flow of computer chips if the US promises 589 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: not to interfere too much with the takeover. Wow, that's 590 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: the next level thinking, speaking of three hundred level courses. 591 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: Maybe that's what Trump is saying. Look, as long as 592 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 1: we get our chips, well we'll be cool. But who knows. 593 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,520 Speaker 1: He's only in office a few more years. You know. 594 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 1: We had Mike Lines on Thursday when you were gone, 595 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 1: and I said, if China moves on Taiwan, would we 596 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: hit the mainline of China, And he said, you'd have to. 597 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: I mean, you absolutely would have to. I mean that's 598 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: like step one, and so then they would hit the 599 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 1: mainland of the United States. Holy crap. I mean you 600 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 1: talk about getting to the we're now into a new era. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 601 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 1: you could talk about that all day unless you believe 602 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: that China, hell bent on having Taiwan, can be stopped 603 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,320 Speaker 1: by a measures of the US is actually willing to 604 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 1: employ a negotiated solution is best for all, less loss 605 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:16,759 Speaker 1: of life, less destruction of infrastructure, less chaos. Yeah, I mean, 606 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 1: historically speaking, it would not be an outlier or weird 607 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,120 Speaker 1: that China says, no, We're giant and big and strong. 608 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: We want that. Nobody's willing to do what it would 609 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,400 Speaker 1: take to stop us. We're taking it. It's the opposite 610 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: of an outlier. It's the most likely thing to happen, 611 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,959 Speaker 1: by far, Oh, by far. Yeah, agreed, Let's see. Let's 612 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,840 Speaker 1: go with this one here. Kirsten not Kristen in Camino, 613 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 1: California rights the name Kirsten can be pronounced Kirsten or Kirsten. 614 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 1: I'm fine with you there, though I prefer Kirsten as 615 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,839 Speaker 1: my parents intended. She's responding to Jack's long stated theory 616 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 1: that if your name is Kristen, Kirsten, or Kirsten, right, 617 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 1: we get to tell you any of the three. Yeah, 618 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,320 Speaker 1: but don't lump into your aunt Kristen. It is a 619 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: different name, she writes, See the R before the eye. 620 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,680 Speaker 1: Bet you'd never have trouble pronouncing it, like Kristin Stewart. 621 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 1: Kristin is often a misspelling that I've dealt with for 622 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,040 Speaker 1: sixty three years. To be called Kristen is to be 623 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,359 Speaker 1: called the wrong name, not just a mispronunciation. By the way, 624 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 1: I know you don't care. I'm fine with that. Just 625 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:17,840 Speaker 1: had to say my piece is a fellow linguist and 626 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,280 Speaker 1: lover of words. That's a sixty three year old Kirsten. 627 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,479 Speaker 1: I didn't know that was around that long. Uh yeah, 628 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:28,279 Speaker 1: oh yeah in the era Germanic Northern European thought that 629 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 1: was more of a recent invention. No, no, no, no, no, 630 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:32,400 Speaker 1: not in that part of the world. I just know 631 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,440 Speaker 1: because I studied German as a kid. But and she 632 00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,800 Speaker 1: signs off and points out, do you remember production director 633 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,440 Speaker 1: Mark in San Francisco, who was such a delightful guy 634 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:47,400 Speaker 1: to work with, Mark van Ge I'll leave out his name, tall, balding, 635 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,319 Speaker 1: great guy. She's his sister in law. Ohka, and he's 636 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,640 Speaker 1: doing great in retirement. She says. Best wish is Mark? 637 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: Good for what a fabulous guy, lovely guy, one of 638 00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,719 Speaker 1: the six we've run into in the radio industry. Yep, 639 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:08,600 Speaker 1: total kidding, kind of Oh boy. Yeah, I could squeeze 640 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,279 Speaker 1: something in and babble as fast as I can. But 641 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,400 Speaker 1: who wants to hear that? More mail bag coming up? Oh, 642 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 1: overwhelming pile of emails saying dudes, I support Israel, always 643 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,359 Speaker 1: have and uh, the anti Semitism is freaking me out. 644 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 1: To a lot of folks saying that interesting Yeah, we 645 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: get a lot on the way. If you miss a segment, 646 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,040 Speaker 1: get the podcast. Armstrong and Geddy on demand is where 647 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,840 Speaker 1: you find that stay tuned Armstrong and Getty