Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Caddy Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And jaccating and he arms, Oh my godness is good.
Speaker 2: Have you ever had this? They take up. There's a
Speaker 2: bean grown lots of places in the world. It's really
Speaker 2: good in South America. But they dig this bean and
Speaker 2: they pour hot water over it, and then the juice
Speaker 2: that comes out of it, it's so glitter a bean.
Speaker 2: You pour the hot water threat and it's so delicious.
Speaker 2: Huh And it's almost addictive. It's so good. Anyway, I
Speaker 2: just had a big sip of.
Speaker 1: It and it was so onspiring. Jack Armstream loves coffee.
Speaker 1: I do. I really do love coffee. I think it
Speaker 1: might be bean junkie.
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's because I'm as an alcoholic who
Speaker 2: hasn't had a drink in like almost twenty years. This
Speaker 2: is my thing now, coffee is my thing. Could be
Speaker 2: you gotta have a thing, and it's less dangerous thing obviously. Anyway,
Speaker 2: Live from studio. C sayes a dimly lit room deeput
Speaker 2: them the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communication Compound,
Speaker 2: and today we are toiling under the title of the
Speaker 2: show on a Friday.
Speaker 3: I just bet fifty k that I'd say rut of bega,
Speaker 3: rut to bega. Oh my god, your prediction markets are
Speaker 3: out of control.
Speaker 2: You made eighty thousand dollars on that. Yes, alternate title.
Speaker 3: Blockades are boring tv uh as America can't pay attention
Speaker 3: even to a war.
Speaker 2: No kidding that that's a little disturbing. Actually, let's beyond
Speaker 2: a little disturbing.
Speaker 3: And to the extent that they are paying attention, they're
Speaker 3: going about it exactly wrong. The AGI it's all about
Speaker 3: the tangerine tornado and not the incredible stakes. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: Secretary of War, Pete Hegsath just did a little press conference.
Speaker 2: I'm sure we have clips of it, but he said
Speaker 2: the blockade has gone global. That gets into the whole
Speaker 2: stopping ships different places around the world in the ocean
Speaker 2: that came out of Iran. And the war does not end,
Speaker 2: he said until Iran has given up their nuclear weapons program.
Speaker 2: That is the the thing.
Speaker 3: Well, that's about time we had a little damn strike
Speaker 3: communication about the purpose, the strategy, the end, the goals whatever,
Speaker 3: even if they're not one hundred percent sure. Peggy Noonan
Speaker 3: just blasted the White House in her eloquent way, as
Speaker 3: she always does, for lack of clarity in bringing the
Speaker 3: American people along.
Speaker 1: It's a legit criticism.
Speaker 2: I think it always was the reason there, But I
Speaker 2: don't know why they didn't just state it more clearly
Speaker 2: from the very beginning. They can't have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2: That's why we're doing this, the end. Any other questions,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, blah blah blah. They can't have a
Speaker 2: nuclear weapon. That's why we're doing it. Anybody else. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: they've killed more Americans than any other country on Earth,
Speaker 2: and they continue to spread death and hatred throughout the world.
Speaker 2: So that's why, including to their own people. But that's
Speaker 2: not why we launched a war. It's because we can't
Speaker 2: let them have nuclear weapons. The end. So we got
Speaker 2: more on that coming up a little bit later. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk to Mike Lions, friend of the Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Getty Show, who we have on all the time,
Speaker 2: and he has a great piece in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: Did they good for him?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I was reading the editorials in the Journal and saw
Speaker 2: Mike Lions and I said, Mike Clions, And sure enough,
Speaker 2: it's a.
Speaker 1: Great piece about the war.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really interesting about the real stakes and the likely
Speaker 3: legacy of.
Speaker 1: It from a military perspective.
Speaker 2: So much better than the Jackassary you get from the
Speaker 2: mainstream media. Everywhere you lost Jack Cassary, everywhere you look,
Speaker 2: Jack Asser.
Speaker 1: How are you doing, Katie?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm just fine. How long do we have before
Speaker 2: you go on maternity leave of a week? That's what
Speaker 2: I was thinking. We don't have many more days left
Speaker 2: with you? And then you disappear and I vanish, Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: for long enough. I assume you'll text us now and
Speaker 2: then say, hey, got a baby. By the way, how's
Speaker 2: things going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys are.
Speaker 5: On the first of the list to see Jack, Joe, Mike, Michael.
Speaker 2: No, right, that's a big deal. That's a big deal.
Speaker 2: I can remember who was on my list. I hadn't
Speaker 2: made a list, like on purpose or anything like that.
Speaker 2: I didn't actually literally make a list. But there's you know,
Speaker 2: there's people in your mind, and then that that first group.
Speaker 1: Of people you let know what happened.
Speaker 5: You know, It's interesting the amount of people that would
Speaker 5: like to be there as I'm bringing him into the world,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it gets to be a little bit like inviting
Speaker 2: pop your wedding. Who who's Who's in? Who's out?
Speaker 1: Boy?
Speaker 2: I remember when Judy and I were both birthing, we
Speaker 2: became she was birthing.
Speaker 1: I was assisting, but not in not much.
Speaker 2: But we became aware that in some families, yeah, mom
Speaker 2: comes along and various other loved ones for the happy occasion.
Speaker 2: And you know, I don't hate it. You know, I
Speaker 2: get it, but don't want it. Some people do that,
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, they have a you got you know, mom,
Speaker 2: mom and dad of the the person actually having the
Speaker 2: baby come out of them there or whoever.
Speaker 3: Giving birth is the way we generally refer to that
Speaker 3: jack but having the baby come out of them.
Speaker 1: Good lord.
Speaker 2: And and then some people it was just it was
Speaker 2: just me and her. There was nobody else there in
Speaker 2: the medical professionals.
Speaker 5: I believe the very mature way that I said it
Speaker 5: is that I don't want anyone there as I am,
Speaker 5: oh no, shooting him out of the couiter.
Speaker 2: Oh good lord, I said, oh wow, she's very pregnant.
Speaker 2: Her both doesn't know when he's working, right. Could somebody
Speaker 2: put that to music? It is lyrically.
Speaker 1: It was like poetry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to apologize for the poor I'm not lady.
Speaker 1: On Fridays. I listen to music when I drive to work.
Speaker 2: For some reason, I think, you know what, I'm not
Speaker 2: doing news today, I'm doing music. I do that on
Speaker 2: Friday mornings.
Speaker 1: So uh uh.
Speaker 2: Coming into the parking lot today, I'm listening to Sarah
Speaker 2: Vaughan sing Poka Dots and moonbeams. Wow, there's something jarring
Speaker 2: in my brain about going from Sara Von's Polka dots
Speaker 2: and moon beams to Katie saying show don't get out
Speaker 2: of my couter.
Speaker 1: Oh, and you repeated that.
Speaker 2: I mean, Michael, do you want to start a show together,
Speaker 2: a show that has stand It's just such a jarring
Speaker 2: transition of my brain. Of of lyrics, lyrics, You.
Speaker 5: Guys are you should be used to me by now.
Speaker 1: It's been years.
Speaker 2: You know, I've never thought about it as much from
Speaker 2: that standpoint.
Speaker 1: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: If I was in that position physically, i'd want to
Speaker 2: very I wouldn't want a very wide net of people watch.
Speaker 5: And then you get and then you get put in
Speaker 5: this situation of like, for some reason, feeling like you
Speaker 5: have to gently handle it.
Speaker 1: Like no no, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't want to handle family dynamics exactly. And you know,
Speaker 3: somebody says something, you got to respond and then they
Speaker 3: go no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're screaming.
Speaker 2: You're just about to the final push and somebody wants
Speaker 2: you to figure out how to LA eight their parking
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 5: True story when when my mom was having me my
Speaker 5: my dad, a friend of my dad's showed up at
Speaker 5: the hospital to have my dad marry him to his lady,
Speaker 5: and my dad apparently went downstairs and signed.
Speaker 1: The married said you're exactly you're married. Leave having a baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, wow, good time. Let's move along. Let's start
Speaker 2: the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on
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Speaker 1: Let's begin officially now. According to FCC rules and rags,
Speaker 1: the show starts at mark on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: A Second Chance for One Lobster, a rare split colored
Speaker 4: lobster saved. The well Fleet Shellfish Company says it caught
Speaker 4: this half and half colored lobster off Cape Cod. They
Speaker 4: call it a once and fifty million catch. The lobster
Speaker 4: will soon be headed to an aquarium in Massachusetts for
Speaker 4: the public to now check out. Wow, same from the
Speaker 4: lobster roll.
Speaker 1: Wow. I made the news. I'm David Muir with news
Speaker 1: for stupid people.
Speaker 2: So we will play some of the highlights of a
Speaker 2: couple of different press briefings that went on earlier today
Speaker 2: about the war and all that. But Joe says, a
Speaker 2: lot of people aren't paying that much attention. I gotta
Speaker 2: admit I have a little bit of difficulty judging how
Speaker 2: much you are radio audience, podcast audience want to hear
Speaker 2: about this. Most of my favorite podcasts that I listen
Speaker 2: to are going big on it, if not exclusively, certainly
Speaker 2: leading with it every day, and I'm certainly interested in it.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I wish I were wise and eloquent enough to pen
Speaker 2: the editorial about what this whole lack of ping attention
Speaker 2: and comprehending and partisan bickering and focusing on the silly stuff,
Speaker 2: what it says about our country at this point.
Speaker 1: It's not good.
Speaker 2: It's it's that we're a split colored lobsternation.
Speaker 1: Really well, I think a lot of it.
Speaker 2: Do you do have the Trump polar thing that you
Speaker 2: mentioned already, But I do think a lot of it
Speaker 2: is we just we have been so incredibly successful for
Speaker 2: so long, as we point out all the time. The
Speaker 2: study came out recently, the reason the middle class is disappearing,
Speaker 2: so many the middle classes moved into the upper class.
Speaker 2: That's why. And you just have so many people that
Speaker 2: feel like my life is even if they're even if
Speaker 2: people are bitching about how they need to have more
Speaker 2: and they're being screwed.
Speaker 1: By someone and they should have more.
Speaker 2: I've got a I got a Jesus size house, I
Speaker 2: got cars, I go on vacations. I feel very comfortable.
Speaker 2: My nation is on under threat. I don't need to
Speaker 2: pay attention to anything really, any anywhere, anytime other than
Speaker 2: my own standard of living because I don't know why momentum,
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, yeah, that's that's that's the broad outlines
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely yeah. I don't think we can shake people out
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 3: I think we've lost any sense of necessity as a country.
Speaker 3: Nothing seems necessary.
Speaker 2: Everything is optional. Why the thing is to amuse us?
Speaker 2: Another word I would like to throw in, is we've
Speaker 2: lost the concept of the fragility.
Speaker 1: Of what we have built.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, one hundred could fall apart so quickly and
Speaker 2: not come back for like five hundred years. Anywhere I
Speaker 2: have specifically on that topic a feature at having to
Speaker 2: do with theft, how tolerant we've become a theft from
Speaker 2: a little different angle, and how popular it is to
Speaker 2: advocate that it's just fine. And once we lose that,
Speaker 2: you think you're a CVS. With the plastic locking gates
Speaker 2: hiding all the merchandise.
Speaker 1: Is the end of it? Oh no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's just the beginning.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I want to hear that the ceasefire is
Speaker 2: extended for quite a while by Trump yesterday he was
Speaker 2: asked about using nukes in this war.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of news to get to.
Speaker 2: Got Katie's headlines on the way clips of the week
Speaker 2: because it's Friday, all coming up stay here. For instance,
Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth just said the blockade is a gift to
Speaker 2: the world from the United States, which it actually may be,
Speaker 2: but I'm feel like the rest of the world is
Speaker 2: appreciating it in any way. No, no, when the road
Speaker 2: head is far from clear in a weird thirty thousand
Speaker 2: foot above way. I'm really really interested in watching this unfold.
Speaker 2: Just just a student of warfare and international relations and
Speaker 2: the rest of it. I just have no idea where
Speaker 2: it ends. It may never end. It may be the
Speaker 2: problem you can't solve, you just manage, and we just
Speaker 2: keep knocking them back the IRGC every time they get nasty.
Speaker 2: I don't know more on that to come. With Mike
Speaker 2: Lyons among others.
Speaker 3: Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story
Speaker 3: with Katie Green Katie starting with the Alphabet Networks ABC.
Speaker 5: Hag Seth also says, quote blockade is growing and going global. Yeah, NBC,
Speaker 5: Israel and Lebanon extend ceasefire amid horror moves, uncertainty and
Speaker 5: CNN analysis. The longer the strait of horror moves remains closed,
Speaker 5: the harder it will become for the United States to
Speaker 5: avoid the problems piling up elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I heard a good report. Yes, you never know what's
Speaker 2: accurate and what's not. But these think tankers talking about
Speaker 2: how close to collapse IRAN has to be just based
Speaker 2: on what we know about how much money they needed
Speaker 2: before to run their government something like, I forget the percentage.
Speaker 2: I think it was fifty percent of the paying everybody.
Speaker 2: Their salaries in that country came from the daily oil revenue,
Speaker 2: for instance, and now that's been shut off completely, so
Speaker 2: they're not paying all these different people. And how long,
Speaker 2: you know, till the whole thing falls apart? Right, It's
Speaker 2: a super interesting question. There have got to be at
Speaker 2: least four or five different scenarios. You could point that
Speaker 2: our quote unquote collapse. What does that look like?
Speaker 3: And if the IRGC has plenty of resources to feed,
Speaker 3: arm and pay all of their people, does that greater
Speaker 3: collapse even matter from our point of view?
Speaker 1: And what does it lead to? Super interesting stuff? Washington?
Speaker 1: Does any of it? I'm sorry?
Speaker 3: And obviously the kind of lurking question is does any
Speaker 3: of that quote unquote collapse lead to a popular uprising
Speaker 3: that could be successful?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Maybe we will talk about this more later, but it
Speaker 2: could It could look like godsit where Homas always had
Speaker 2: plenty of money in food, it's just through the average
Speaker 2: person had no money or food.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's what Iran looks like.
Speaker 2: Is a total exactly Washington Post.
Speaker 5: The US soldier accused of pocketing four hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 5: through bets on Maduro's capture.
Speaker 1: Heck of an interesting story.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, just one of several examples of that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. These but these prediction markets are out of
Speaker 3: control completely.
Speaker 2: You'd hope a special forces do isn't going to do
Speaker 2: that sort of thing from the Daily Mail.
Speaker 1: There's any law against it, though, is there? Actually, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that more later.
Speaker 5: Meta acts is eight thousand jobs as Zuckerberg doubles down
Speaker 5: on AI.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 2: And again, and where's that universal basic income for those
Speaker 2: people they just lost their jobs because of AI.
Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting it, but.
Speaker 3: Right Fox, there's super pressure within Meta two that everybody
Speaker 3: has to be using AI and demonstrate how they're using
Speaker 3: it every single day.
Speaker 5: Fox News study shows salmon exposed to cocaine swim longer distances, No.
Speaker 3: Kidding, Babylon incessantly about nonsense to the other salmon.
Speaker 5: New York Post, Oh boy, tourists trapped in waste deep
Speaker 5: sewage for hours after toilet collapses during family stop.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. We'll bring you that story later.
Speaker 1: Wow Wow, Wow. Waste deep is bad, but it's.
Speaker 2: A hell of a lot better than like chest deep.
Speaker 1: You're really looking for some silver line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, My glass is half full of sewage guy.
Speaker 5: Okay, study fines. Emojis aren't just decoration. The brain treats
Speaker 5: them as actual human faces. What apparently when we see them,
Speaker 5: we actually picture the person sending them making the expression.
Speaker 2: Okay, I can see that neurologically speaking.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 5: And finally, Babylon Bee Gavin Newsom admits he doesn't really
Speaker 5: want to be president.
Speaker 1: He just wants to leave California.
Speaker 2: Ah, I call you haul, Gabby. Well you can.
Speaker 1: It's tough tough to book a truck.
Speaker 2: We will go through some of the news of the
Speaker 2: last twenty four hours here very shortly. We have clips
Speaker 2: of the week coming up. Our friend friend of the show,
Speaker 2: Mike Lions with a Wall Street Journal piece. It's getting
Speaker 2: a fair amount of attention. We'll have him on later
Speaker 2: in the program. So lots of good stuff and the
Speaker 2: whole theft prop in America. It's a bigger deal than
Speaker 2: it seems, and it seems like a pretty big deal. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'd say cool, look forward to it. It's got that
Speaker 2: special Friday feel. Later in the show we'll crank up
Speaker 2: the Dakri machine and things will really get loose. Huh.
Speaker 2: How about that? So another extension of the ceasefire is
Speaker 2: that what happened? We'll check in on all these things.
Speaker 2: If you missed the segmenting the podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 1: Demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: I just saw they're talking about inviting Putin to the
Speaker 2: g twenty summit at the Durraw Golf Club, Trump's Golf
Speaker 2: Club in Florida. What Putin in the United States?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: Trump's lust for being seen as the great deal maker
Speaker 2: sometimes leads him straight to delusion. That can't be my opinion.
Speaker 2: Could he set foot on American soil?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I have diplomatic you know, protection and immunity, of course,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's a horrible idea.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Wow, these are odd times, all right, so much to
Speaker 3: talk about. I can't wait. But let's let's first take
Speaker 3: a fond look back at the week that was. It's
Speaker 3: cow Clips of the Week.
Speaker 2: Week.
Speaker 6: Julia Way turn Down, Meet a say Ping Pong playing
Speaker 6: robotic arm self trained using AI to be a twenty
Speaker 6: first century Marty Supreme.
Speaker 4: Lightning The humanoid robot finished the thirteen mile course in
Speaker 4: just fifty minutes and twenty six seconds.
Speaker 1: Past three performed in a Russian circus.
Speaker 6: Recently, the ring itself came down and one of the
Speaker 6: tigers jumped right out into the crowd.
Speaker 4: There are new questions tonight and few answers into eleven
Speaker 4: missing or dead scientists vanished or killed over the past
Speaker 4: three years. The Trump administration is in advanced discussions with
Speaker 4: Spirit Airlines over a bailout.
Speaker 7: Remember, without the Southern Poverty Law Center, racism might disappear forever,
Speaker 7: and that would be bad for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Speaker 3: If you're picky about water, you are an effeminate, limp wristed,
Speaker 3: panty wearing, frillly little man, really no offense.
Speaker 2: What grade does he get on homelessness?
Speaker 1: On effort?
Speaker 4: I would give him an A and a notoriously tough grader,
Speaker 4: but I would probably give him a bee on homelessness.
Speaker 5: Well, by the way, I'd love to be in your class, Katie.
Speaker 2: If you get a beef, well gavin you some still
Speaker 2: on homelesses? My goodness, you.
Speaker 5: Won't give us a grade?
Speaker 1: No, I haven't. I haven't followed it closely enough to
Speaker 1: give him a grade.
Speaker 7: Oh what I Sentcom announced that US forces seized an
Speaker 7: Iranian flagged cargo ship.
Speaker 2: Vay, your engineer, We're prepared to subject you to disabling fire.
Speaker 6: The announcement of that ceasefire extension did not bring down
Speaker 6: the tension here in the Region book, a member of
Speaker 6: Iran's parliament taunting an eye for an eye, a tanker
Speaker 6: for a tanker.
Speaker 1: I don't want to.
Speaker 4: Rush myself, you know, because every story I said.
Speaker 2: Oh, Trump is under time pressure, I'm no.
Speaker 1: No, you know who's under time pressure. They are.
Speaker 2: It's clips of the week. That billionaire running for governor
Speaker 2: in California in a debate, saying I can't give Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom a grade. I haven't been paying that close attention
Speaker 2: might be the worst debate answer I've ever heard. It was.
Speaker 2: It was actually in an interview, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was very sad.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is horrible, Tom Stires, illusional crank. You can't
Speaker 2: say that. Yeah, I know, so I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't really I live in Nevada. I was just ridiculous,
Speaker 2: And I have been following it that closely. Got a
Speaker 2: great email as part of mailpag having to do with
Speaker 2: Gavin's A to B level efforts on bums and junkies.
Speaker 1: So for whatever reason, I had.
Speaker 2: Moved off the idea that they're going to have the
Speaker 2: second phase of Operation Epic Fury, like the kinetic part,
Speaker 2: not the economic part, anytime soon. But I was just
Speaker 2: reading this piece from Crisis Watch. All the stuff, the
Speaker 2: extra stuff that we've moved into the Middle East near Iran,
Speaker 2: all these different planes and ships in that aircraft carrier,
Speaker 2: is now there another aircraft carrier. And as Mark Halprin
Speaker 2: writes in his newsletter today, unless Trump believes the Iranians
Speaker 2: are about to cave in under economic pressure, military action
Speaker 2: seems inevitable. Trump never moves military assets in place without
Speaker 2: using them. So far he's got to go for broke
Speaker 2: against Iran and his political standing for the midterms. I
Speaker 2: don't know why people bring the midterms up all the time.
Speaker 2: I think that's a Washington d C.
Speaker 1: Story. I really don't think that plays up.
Speaker 2: The Republic's gonna lose no matter what, whether the war
Speaker 2: ended today or in six months, they're going to lose.
Speaker 2: The House quod acting like that's the determining factor. I
Speaker 2: just I don't get that. But you're right, the quote
Speaker 2: unquote midterms could be the current American champion for over
Speaker 2: you know, being over mentioned in every damn news story
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: But see, that's the whole.
Speaker 3: Thing in Washington, d C. And the more cynical you
Speaker 3: are about this, the better. Who's in control of the
Speaker 3: treasury of handing out your tax dollars?
Speaker 1: That's all anybody cares about.
Speaker 2: That's it. And so for them, the midterms are enormously
Speaker 2: important because then we can give money to our cronies.
Speaker 2: And it's intrusion and every damn story. What you know, folks,
Speaker 2: in your real life? Seriously, because a lot of states
Speaker 2: are having primaries like now ish, how often does it
Speaker 2: come up in your real life?
Speaker 3: The fire between Jones and Schmedkevich? Absolutely never? And who
Speaker 3: do you like for assistant comptroller in Delaware or wherever
Speaker 3: you live?
Speaker 1: Never? Or even what do you think? The midterm is?
Speaker 3: Just most of us we get our sample ballot, or
Speaker 3: we go on the party website or whatever a couple
Speaker 3: of days before we go vote. If we're conscientious voters,
Speaker 3: we do about half an hour worth of looking around. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I like Jones, I like his platform, you vote for Jones.
Speaker 2: Anyway, back to the more military stuff, we're moving into
Speaker 2: the arena there. Most of these fighters and drones are
Speaker 2: tasked with providing close support to US Navy and Marine
Speaker 2: forces involved in potential ground operations, including any effort to
Speaker 2: seize control of Iranian held islands. So all that is
Speaker 2: obviously still very on the table, like marines taking an island.
Speaker 2: And then which interview was at all? It was on
Speaker 2: sixty minutes last Sunday night when they did that interesting
Speaker 2: piece about grabbing the highly enriched uranium, which has to happen.
Speaker 2: That's not like it's an option to do that one
Speaker 2: way or another. That has to be secured AnyWho, that
Speaker 2: would be quite the operation land in all kinds of people,
Speaker 2: securing a giant area, bringing in bulldozers, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: And then the correspondent said, and could there be any
Speaker 2: soldiers killed in an operation like this? If we're even
Speaker 2: going to ask a question like that, we are not
Speaker 2: prepared for what we're about to do as a country
Speaker 2: or a soft society. Could somebody be killed in a
Speaker 2: giant ground operation in a war you're asking that question?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: Silly, Well, you know it is silly, but it's a
Speaker 2: measure of where we are as a country are incredible
Speaker 2: success and wealth and comfort, which is, you know, you
Speaker 2: do everything you can to get here.
Speaker 1: But good times make for soft people.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know how the country's going
Speaker 2: to react. We end up with a ship sunk and
Speaker 2: hundreds dead, which would be in the overall scheme of
Speaker 2: a giant war, not a lot. I'm not being dismissive
Speaker 2: of the individual deaths. It's just that's what happens. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I look back to some of the conflicts you've had,
Speaker 2: some of the righteous ones that virtually nobody disagrees with
Speaker 2: unless you're Tucker Carlson and you've lost your effing mind
Speaker 2: about World War two and thinking of but anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and there were enormous setbacks, huge losses. We're on the
Speaker 2: back foot, the Nazis were winning, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: It just happens. It's the ebb and flow.
Speaker 2: And it used to be like every society on Earth
Speaker 2: understood that and accepted that.
Speaker 3: But we're a unique experiment. And what happens if people
Speaker 3: dot dot are this wealthy and comfortable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to get into some of the global
Speaker 2: economic predictions. They are just talking about us being protected
Speaker 2: and comfortable, and everything's way too expensive. I've been complaining
Speaker 2: about that since COVID started, and so has everybody else.
Speaker 2: Every single time you get gas, or go to the
Speaker 2: grocery store or go out to eat, you're slapped in
Speaker 2: the face with what happened to me just yesterday?
Speaker 1: What? How could that?
Speaker 2: We went to Panda Express.
Speaker 1: This is what it cost.
Speaker 3: What where's a white table claus and a waiter in
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Speaker 1: Right for that price?
Speaker 2: But what it's doing to the global economy, It isn't
Speaker 2: bothering us near as much as it is the rest
Speaker 2: of the world, and it could reach a tipping point
Speaker 2: very very soon.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk more about that later.
Speaker 2: I suppose we got our friend Mike Lyones and his
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Speaker 1: Is he's gonna go play for the Raiders?
Speaker 2: Enjoy? I hope I'm wrong. I hope he can turn
Speaker 2: the Raiders around, and but he's up against it. Poor guy,
Speaker 2: plucky kid?
Speaker 1: Any who?
Speaker 2: Uh mailbag on the way next. I feel like I've
Speaker 2: seen more teachers mugshots who had sex with their students'
Speaker 2: picks in the last week than I've seen in the
Speaker 2: last ten years combined. Is there a flurry of that
Speaker 2: right now or are they just getting more attention?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I know what you mean, though I've seen the same.
Speaker 2: I just saw another one. I've seen like five this week.
Speaker 2: All that and out teachers relatively attractive, blonde usually decided
Speaker 2: for some reason, I have sex with a fourteen to
Speaker 2: seventeen year old, which is weird anyway, Always the same,
Speaker 2: It's always the same. It's a woman on the cusp
Speaker 2: of losing her sexual power and beauty wanting to feel
Speaker 2: that that power and charge again.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, sad.
Speaker 2: The space race is completely different than what we thought
Speaker 2: it was going to be. I was just reading a
Speaker 2: piece by Elon Musk. We'll have to get to that
Speaker 2: a little bit later. Really, okay, here's your freedom loving
Speaker 2: quote of the day. The Lovely Anna and Senny Lemesa
Speaker 2: sent along a series of quotes from Aristotle, a couple
Speaker 2: of them in particular, I.
Speaker 1: Love We'll just do both of them.
Speaker 3: The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the
Speaker 3: living from the dead.
Speaker 1: And this is this is so true.
Speaker 2: Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. Ooh,
Speaker 2: so when you're older, you're not quick to deceive because
Speaker 2: you're hopeless, Well, have a lot less hope, and you're
Speaker 2: just you're not quick to hope. You think, Yeah, there
Speaker 2: are flaws in that. We need to keep working on
Speaker 2: it as opposed to a kittle tay is that.
Speaker 1: To solve everything?
Speaker 2: Socialism will solve everything. Good, Oh, you're a fool, a
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Speaker 3: Jerry from Quincy Wright, good morning. We must save Spirit Airlines.
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Speaker 3: topic of fecal matter in the streets and other things
Speaker 3: nice out from neck here.
Speaker 1: I was listening to the podcast segment.
Speaker 3: About the homeless people pardon the expression, crapping over Jennifer
Speaker 3: Newsom's shoulder and a press opportunity a press conference. My
Speaker 3: fiance call just as she got out of work at
Speaker 3: the State Treasure's office right next to the Capitol building
Speaker 3: in kel Unicornia, and told me she stepped over a large.
Speaker 1: Pile of human feces in the middle.
Speaker 2: Of the sidewalk, a matter I feel like I need
Speaker 2: to hear about that. Then she continued on stating, quote,
Speaker 2: I've noticed a lot more crap on the sidewalks recently.
Speaker 1: Wonder if they have E COLI.
Speaker 3: I was quick to reminder that gav Newsom got an
Speaker 3: A or B in dealing with homeless people, according to
Speaker 3: his fellow Democrats, So how could the crap on the
Speaker 3: sidewalk and be.
Speaker 2: Increasing because of housing costs. What do you not understand
Speaker 2: about inequality? Then, he points out, because it's possible to
Speaker 2: lose this sort of perspective living in the Golden State,
Speaker 2: the correct amount of crap on the sidewalk should.
Speaker 1: Be zero, Yes, zero.
Speaker 2: I thought that same thing when you say said there
Speaker 2: was an increase, There shouldn't be an increase. There shouldn't
Speaker 2: be any The standard should be none. Well, that's what
Speaker 2: it is almost everywhere in the country.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then a weird encounter he and his fiancee, who
Speaker 2: are looking forward very much to having children, started to
Speaker 2: mention they had a baby horse to an acquaintance and
Speaker 2: she gasped and then breathed a sigh of relief, said,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I thought you were going to say
Speaker 2: you're having a baby.
Speaker 1: Good it's a horse.
Speaker 3: And then he said, yeah, we can't wait to have kids.
Speaker 3: Conversation got very weird and awkward. And this is a
Speaker 3: thirty plus year old woman who is married. Very strange
Speaker 3: attitudes these days, Nick points out, I would agree, very odd.
Speaker 3: Let's see. On a similar topic to the first part,
Speaker 3: Rust from Portland says Portlandia is crumbling. I thought i'd
Speaker 3: give you a Portland Update. The current mayor, Keith Wilson,
Speaker 3: promised end homelessness during his first year in office. That's
Speaker 3: what he campaigned on. Well, as you can imagine, didn't
Speaker 3: work out so well. That was fifteen months ago, after
Speaker 3: allocating many millions of dollars to the so called homeless crisis.
Speaker 1: It's now even worse. Who saw that coming.
Speaker 3: Today the local news is they're closing down some of
Speaker 3: the homeless shelters due to budget concerns. So, in an
Speaker 3: effort to curb said budget problems, it's been proposed to
Speaker 3: cut twenty more million dollars from the Portland Police Bureau.
Speaker 3: More money for the homeless industrial complex, less money for
Speaker 3: law enforcement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great idea. Holy hell.
Speaker 3: Then he says, I still see the derelict, darvs in tents,
Speaker 3: and people openly again pooping on the streets on a
Speaker 3: daily basis.
Speaker 2: We have to keep saying that.
Speaker 3: Junkies shooting up, we wake up and smell lee bad policy,
Speaker 3: good bad policy. People shooting up on freeway on ramps
Speaker 3: holding signs you can't even read because it's from nine
Speaker 3: junkies ago. At least the recycling. Oh my god, junkie's
Speaker 3: wandering in and out of traffic. Meanwhile, down where I live,
Speaker 3: which is just outside of Portland, there are zero street junkies.
Speaker 3: You know why because the cops enforce the law. You
Speaker 3: can't camp here, period. It works, it's easy enforce the law. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's interesting.
Speaker 2: There is one left turn that I make probably once
Speaker 2: a week, not far from the radio station, where there's
Speaker 2: always somebody with a sign and a sad look on
Speaker 2: their face and we're waiting in line.
Speaker 1: In the cars.
Speaker 2: It's one of those stoplights that take you sit there
Speaker 2: for a long time, and I'd say half the people
Speaker 2: give the drug addict money. Half the people in the
Speaker 2: car line hold the helmet because you have a soft head,
Speaker 2: hold money out the well. The reason I bring that
Speaker 2: up is as long as you got that many people
Speaker 2: willing to hand money up the window, I think it's
Speaker 2: going to be hard to convince people that, look, it's
Speaker 2: a drug addict problem, it's not a housing problem. We're
Speaker 2: spending billions of dollars. If they want food, there's plenty
Speaker 2: of it. There's all kinds of places in the town's
Speaker 2: around here where you can go and get food. They
Speaker 2: want to buy more booze or drugs with that money,
Speaker 2: you're handing them out the window.
Speaker 1: Do you realize that? But anyway, the.
Speaker 2: Fact that people are willing to give them that money
Speaker 2: means the message hasn't gotten out right.
Speaker 3: I retweeted a comment to a bigger tweet, but I
Speaker 3: loved it. It was about the bumps and junkies problem.
Speaker 3: When you lump together the poor, the addicted, and the
Speaker 3: mentally ill, you fail all three.
Speaker 1: And that's what.
Speaker 3: We've been advocating at the Armstrong and Getty Show for
Speaker 3: a very long time. You quit calling it the homeless problem.
Speaker 3: It's really three distinct problems.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I've mentioned this friend I had who she would
Speaker 2: give money to the homeless, and she would tell me,
Speaker 2: I know, I know they're going to go buy booze
Speaker 2: with it. You're not telling me something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: They're miserable, their life sucks.
Speaker 2: I just made them happier, which you know, I guess
Speaker 2: on some sort of micro level I can get, but
Speaker 2: on the macro level it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: At least it's conscious it's wrong, but at least it's
Speaker 3: not pig ignorance.
Speaker 2: It's a different sort of ignorance. Well, we're out of time.
Speaker 2: I really like this one.
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