Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and now he is Armstrong and Yetty. I just
Speaker 1: saw it right now and I couldn't believe it. It's
Speaker 1: not something I'm used to the I'm a tourist, but
Speaker 1: for me, that's too high, too expensive. There they we're
Speaker 1: about like six dollars max, which is something that you know,
Speaker 1: it hits everyone like crazy. But here's ten dollars.
Speaker 2: Never seen that probably.
Speaker 1: Could try to twenty dollars a gallon. And if you
Speaker 1: have to get gas, you have to get gas. Where's
Speaker 1: it ten dollars a gallon for gas? Big sir, California?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, and the other reportation on that remote coastal
Speaker 1: parts of California, it's hitting ten bucks a gallon. Oof. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that will surely be a drag on the economy. Jack
Speaker 1: reflected in the miserable job numbers. Job numbers, as we've
Speaker 1: already mentioned, came out and they were huge, defying expectations.
Speaker 1: The New York Times says US job growth blue past
Speaker 1: expectations last month, a resilient rebound that defied concerns about
Speaker 1: appending downturn. That's pretty positive language coming out of the
Speaker 1: New York Times. Who wants the economy to be bad,
Speaker 1: of course, so they can be mad at Trump. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll issue the usual annoying caveat that these numbers are
Speaker 1: going to get revised and sometimes substantially, so take it
Speaker 1: with a grain of salt. But I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: bad news.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: The job gains were driven by a big rebound for
Speaker 1: the healthcare and social assistance sector, the pillar that has
Speaker 1: held up the labor market for much of the past year.
Speaker 1: It added about ninety thousand jobs in March, a reversal
Speaker 1: from February, when a West Coast strike had sent usd
Speaker 1: the other direction. Anyway, I'm sorry, what would the what
Speaker 1: in social assistance sector? The healthcare and social assistance sectors?
Speaker 1: The healthcare sector that really drove these numbers total number
Speaker 1: one hundred and eight seventy eight thousand new jobs one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy eight thousand new jobs. I can't be
Speaker 1: the only one asking what does social assistance mean? I
Speaker 1: don't know, no idea, just the official and I never
Speaker 1: I never understand how did the healthcare add tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of jobs just all of a sudden last month. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. Well that was a good country. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: well we're aging too. Boy, that's the hell of a
Speaker 1: lot of in the last month. Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 1: I share your skepticism. Obviously, interestingly enough, and I've been
Speaker 1: teasing this a bit. Let's pay it off now. Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal identified a particular field as the quote surefire
Speaker 1: new path to American prosperity, plentiful jobs, potential six figure
Speaker 1: and comes draw young people as other industries fall. It's
Speaker 1: the modern middle class jobs engine, ladies and gentlemen. I
Speaker 1: give you dog walker, I'm kidding. Nursing, nursing, nursing, So
Speaker 1: that's the healthcare. Yeah yeah, And they first of all,
Speaker 1: you've got to start a story with a specific human
Speaker 1: being and tell their story for some reason these days.
Speaker 1: And it's a thirty three year old gal who became
Speaker 1: a licensed practical nurse after earning a community college diploma.
Speaker 1: Later she went back to school. Urse, you go with
Speaker 1: your ankles and they say you're fine walking off. That's
Speaker 1: a practical nurse, right right, It's not gonna kill you, Kelly.
Speaker 1: A little ice and you'll be fine later, She went
Speaker 1: back to school for bachelors and nursing and worked in
Speaker 1: an emergency room during the pandemic. Four years ago, she
Speaker 1: got her doctorate and became a nurse practitioner. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: an advanced thing. But these days she's working at a
Speaker 1: primary care clinic in Lincoln, Nebraska, earning about one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty k a year, which is really good money
Speaker 1: in Lincoln. Factory worker used to be Ka's or factory
Speaker 1: work used to be America's most reliable ticket to the
Speaker 1: middle class. But as automation globalized manufacturing now artificial intelligence
Speaker 1: threat in a lot of these past healthcare jobs and
Speaker 1: become the surest bet at the time of uncertainty in
Speaker 1: the labor market, Nursing offers not only stability, but for
Speaker 1: some a pathway to real prosperity. The median annual wage
Speaker 1: for registered nurses in the US is ninety three six
Speaker 1: compared with forty nine to five for all occupations according
Speaker 1: to the Labor Department. For nurse practitioners and others with
Speaker 1: advanced degrees, it's around one hundred and thirty two. OK.
Speaker 1: I got a friend who mentioned their daughter's interested in
Speaker 1: going into nursing. For quite a few years now, you
Speaker 1: go in to nursing, you could get a job anywhere
Speaker 1: in the country, which would be one of the really
Speaker 1: cool things. You could work anywhere. It is one of
Speaker 1: those traveling fill in nurse jobs. It's obviously got its
Speaker 1: own challenges and stresses, but man, you can make really
Speaker 1: good money for a while if you're footloose. I went
Speaker 1: to an impractical nurse at Exemund. She said, sleep hanging
Speaker 1: from your feet, and I thought, oh no, no, this
Speaker 1: is not for me. Not practical. Healthcare in general has
Speaker 1: generated some of the most consistent job growth of any
Speaker 1: US proficient since the profession, since the eighties. Yet I
Speaker 1: gotta say, I mean, you know, this is all interesting,
Speaker 1: but I like how monthly they you write about these
Speaker 1: big changes that are happening. Changes don't happen monthly, but
Speaker 1: every month we act like a new giants, you know,
Speaker 1: seismic shift has occurred of some sort. I guess you
Speaker 1: have to write that. You're an economics reporter. That's your job.
Speaker 1: Everything is what folks fill in the blank test. Everything
Speaker 1: is click bait. That's right. This is not though, so
Speaker 1: healthcare uh oh, soaring healthcare spending, aging population plus the
Speaker 1: billions and billions of dollars of fraud of all of
Speaker 1: the government healthcare problems. There's a hell of a lot
Speaker 1: of profit and fraud. If you missed yesterday's discussion of
Speaker 1: the soon to be breasthtaking fraud that comes clear in California,
Speaker 1: Holy crap, there's a lot of money in it. But
Speaker 1: just a couple more figures then we can either analyze
Speaker 1: or move on. Total jobs in the industry overtook those
Speaker 1: in manufacturing and retail in their early two thousands. The
Speaker 1: gap has widened since then. According to University of Chicago,
Speaker 1: healthcare was the largest source of job creation in the
Speaker 1: US last year, as many other industries cooled or contracted.
Speaker 1: That trend continued in January through employment in the sector.
Speaker 1: Oh though it dropped somewhat in February, partly because nursing
Speaker 1: strikes in New York City and elsewhere. But anyway, as
Speaker 1: we age and more and more money spent on healthcare,
Speaker 1: it's a good gig. You got to be of a
Speaker 1: certain level of intelligence ambition. You have to like to
Speaker 1: work hard and deal with human beings. But it's good field.
Speaker 1: I think the deal with human beings is the hardest part.
Speaker 1: Like the person I had the other day when my
Speaker 1: son went to get is a physical. She was so fantastic.
Speaker 1: I thought, you have got the gift for this kind
Speaker 1: of job, just personality wise. I couldn't do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all day long, every day being nice to people. But
Speaker 1: New York Times writing about unemployment rate and that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff brought up and this is kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: This actually is a change from fairly recently. The unemployment
Speaker 1: rate is where it is in part because the Trump
Speaker 1: Administration's immigration crackdown that has curtailed the supply of workers.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's absolutely happened. People are not going back
Speaker 1: and forth across the border like nobody is. We went
Speaker 1: from millions of people to nobody like overnight. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that means that employers don't need to create as many
Speaker 1: jobs as they used to in order to keep the
Speaker 1: unemployment rates steady. There ain't a whole bunch of people
Speaker 1: in the country looking for jobs. There you go times
Speaker 1: few that's noticed. There's a lot of volatility these days.
Speaker 1: It seems like everything's changing all the time. You think, yeah,
Speaker 1: has had lunchon with a client yesterday, who you're going
Speaker 1: to hear more about on the air. In and coming
Speaker 1: weeks and months. But he has kids similar age as mine,
Speaker 1: are like, what are you supposed to be hoping your
Speaker 1: kid does? Both? Discussing how most of the stuff people
Speaker 1: been sending their kids to college for over the last
Speaker 1: couple of decades are almost completely useless because of AI.
Speaker 1: You know, that's even without the uselessness of college, because
Speaker 1: they've destroyed their you know, their own thing by not
Speaker 1: teaching anything and blah blah blah. But with AI coming,
Speaker 1: what do you even hope for your kid? Nobody knows?
Speaker 1: Two choices? Number one nursing. Number two defrauding the government.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about, you know, making a good
Speaker 1: living in it not being terribly difficult, judging by all
Speaker 1: the stories coming out and everything I read about it.
Speaker 1: Defrauding the government is not difficult. You gotta be willing
Speaker 1: to run a you know, at least a slight risk
Speaker 1: of doing time or getting fined, but very slight. A
Speaker 1: Swiss bank. Do they still have those? Let's call it
Speaker 1: working the system as opposed to defrauding the government. And
Speaker 1: where where is that most prevalent? Always your socialist countries?
Speaker 1: And why is it more prevalent here? Because we become
Speaker 1: more and more socialists. The more giant programs you have
Speaker 1: with money sloshing around, the more people who figure out
Speaker 1: how to work the system. And a lot of the
Speaker 1: people advocating for the growth of those systems intend fully
Speaker 1: to what did you say, exploit the system. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: their intent when they promote it. Engage in a positive
Speaker 1: way the system as it is. I did not get
Speaker 1: to hammer this as much as I wanted to, but
Speaker 1: there was a big story, I think it was in
Speaker 1: the journal a while ago, about the insurance companies how
Speaker 1: they they go to like all of their clients, and
Speaker 1: they like send nurses to their homes and say, hey,
Speaker 1: look this person over and come up with a list
Speaker 1: of diseases that they may or may not have, and
Speaker 1: then they charge the government for the treatment of those diseases.
Speaker 1: There's never any treatment, there's never any definitive diagnosis. It's
Speaker 1: a giant with that scal that would be so easy.
Speaker 1: I mean, just look at we've all done this. You Google.
Speaker 1: I have a headache and I've been really tired lately.
Speaker 1: Anything I might have an at a list a thousand
Speaker 1: diseases you have. Oh, he's clearly got blarney syndrome. Right, government,
Speaker 1: you know it's ten thousand dollars for us to treat
Speaker 1: blarney syndrome. Then nobody ever checks whether any treatment happened.
Speaker 1: And in many, many, many cases, and with hippa, you
Speaker 1: can't well right, And in many cases the person who
Speaker 1: allegedly has the syndrome has no idea any of this
Speaker 1: has happened. Sure, sure blank, unbelievable. He voting for bigger government. Thom, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's fine, it'll work out great. We got to get
Speaker 1: into Tiger Woods. I don't mind kicking him. There was
Speaker 1: a piece in the Hey got a California post yesterday.
Speaker 1: Tiger has been a fraud from the beginning, and people
Speaker 1: are just catching on you. You were early on the
Speaker 1: Tiger's a jerk. I've been an anti tigerist since like
Speaker 1: the second year. Hear is on the PGA because of
Speaker 1: his personality. He's utterly ingracious. Yeah yeah, well wait till
Speaker 1: you hear how he acted when he got talked to
Speaker 1: by the cops having flipped his car again. And another
Speaker 1: thing to look forward to. More tape of Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: seeming like a drug addict is coming out, and also
Speaker 1: of his Marxist wife shooting off her mouth. Oh my lord,
Speaker 1: the gift that just keeps giving. The first partner, soon
Speaker 1: to be if Gavey gets his wish, the first lady. Hmmm,
Speaker 1: we got to get to that this hour, her talking
Speaker 1: about the way she raises their kids. Oof. See if
Speaker 1: you agree, All right, stay here. I think it's become
Speaker 1: very clear over the years that Tiger Woods is not
Speaker 1: a good person, right, He is a highly flawed individual. Yes,
Speaker 1: so I guess that makes it easier for me to
Speaker 1: do this. I was complaining a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: with the Justin Timberlake stuff. You commit a misdemeanor, but
Speaker 1: because it's on video and it's entertaining for all of us,
Speaker 1: you get to be embarrassed in front of the world
Speaker 1: for a misdemeanor. I mean, Tiger Woods is being charged
Speaker 1: with two misdemeanors. I just looked it up, and there's
Speaker 1: a decent chance because he did not submit to a
Speaker 1: year analysis and all they've got to go on is
Speaker 1: refusing to, you know, take the test or whatever, which
Speaker 1: is its own crime. Second degree misdemeanor is what he
Speaker 1: might be looking at in Florida. Does that mean we
Speaker 1: all get to watch the video and then mock him. Well,
Speaker 1: a number one, he still has to wait for the
Speaker 1: blood test to come back, doesn't he or has that
Speaker 1: been assessed? I don't know that, but uh no, I
Speaker 1: get you your greater point, though I'm somewhat surprised having
Speaker 1: since he does this every other year, it's still a misdemeanor.
Speaker 1: I know. It's horror that you can exhibit this level
Speaker 1: of recklessness of driving and uh and continue to drive
Speaker 1: and not even really pay much of a penalty. The
Speaker 1: penalties are the cost. That's what keeps people, most people
Speaker 1: in line, the insurance costs and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: Obviously that doesn't apply to a Tiger Woods. But here's
Speaker 1: the first part of the tape that came out yesterday,
Speaker 1: and well, if you can't understand what it is, we'll
Speaker 1: explain it. The ending of this is rich. This is
Speaker 1: Tiger talking to the cops after he flipped his vehicle again.
Speaker 1: Comes down on my phone and all of a sudden boom,
Speaker 1: can't tell me what happened? Real quick? Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: looking down at my phone. You to look at changing stations,
Speaker 1: and next general boom, are you okay? Ye? Are you
Speaker 1: all right? Are you in any pain? No back pain,
Speaker 1: no neck pain, no me, nope. Unfortunately for the accident,
Speaker 1: you are at faulty and subsequently you are usually a
Speaker 1: citation for Kelly is driving resulting in a crash. Okay,
Speaker 1: behind you that.
Speaker 3: So at this time I do believe your normal faculties.
Speaker 1: Are impaired, okay, and you're under the unknown substance. O
Speaker 1: do yes, sir? Anarko ye? Okay? Okay? Which clip was that? Michael?
Speaker 1: Somehow we got confused on this, Okay, I wanted twenty five,
Speaker 1: but maybe I mis represented. Okay, that was so that
Speaker 1: was him interacting with the cops and everything like that.
Speaker 1: This is this is the rich one. Go with us,
Speaker 1: mister Woods. Mister Woods, did you hang out down here
Speaker 1: with us? Please? Thank you so much? All right, got
Speaker 1: it all right? Thank you? So yeah, I just keep
Speaker 1: you down here with us, please.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just talking to the president. I was talking
Speaker 1: to the president. So he's over by the bushes. You've
Speaker 1: probably seen the pictures and everything like that, and mister Woods,
Speaker 1: can you come over we need talk? Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I was just talking with the president. I'll come over
Speaker 1: and talk with you now. Now that's a that's the
Speaker 1: all time. Do you know who I am? I mean,
Speaker 1: that makes do you know who I am? The same
Speaker 1: way seem like nothing. But you wouldn't think Tiger Woods
Speaker 1: would have a higher gear of do you know who
Speaker 1: you're messing with? Right? Wow? No kidding, but you know
Speaker 1: I'm talking to the Maybe if you can literally flex,
Speaker 1: I was just on the phone with the President. You
Speaker 1: do it, yes, Katie. I want to hear Trump's reaction
Speaker 1: to him dropping that has anybody nailed down if he
Speaker 1: actually was on the phone with the president, because he's
Speaker 1: got he was Trump Trump said, yeah, that I talked
Speaker 1: to Tiger. He's doing fine. He's a a tough time.
Speaker 1: He has a lot of pain. I talked about this
Speaker 1: the other day. He has a lot of pain. It's
Speaker 1: not good what he did, right, But I did know
Speaker 1: that that happened at the scene. Okay, so oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't know that either, But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I assumed he talked to him later because because tis
Speaker 1: dating Trump's daughter x and daughter in law ex daughter
Speaker 1: in law she was she was married to Eric or
Speaker 1: Trump Junior, whichever, but so now she's with Tiger Woods.
Speaker 1: So did so Tiger has the President's number, his phone,
Speaker 1: flips his car, and his thinking is I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: the president. I wonder what he asked him to do.
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's pilled up, so maybe his thinking
Speaker 1: was a little glory. That's a that's a great question.
Speaker 1: What was he hoping for? A pardon? Hey, it's the president.
Speaker 1: Could you get on the phone with these cops and
Speaker 1: tell them to leave me alone? Can I push you
Speaker 1: on with the cops so they do? Could? They'll think
Speaker 1: you're an imitator? So you got to like prove your view. What. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was talking to the president. I was talking to
Speaker 1: the president. That's the all time flex. Man. Wow, good
Speaker 1: on the cops for not You can't in the modern
Speaker 1: era of body cams and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: I suppose, but man, oh man, ohmen, it'd be pretty
Speaker 1: easy to say, he's on the phone with the President,
Speaker 1: let's just let him go. Let's just drive him home,
Speaker 1: put his car back on the wheels, call it good.
Speaker 1: I have more questions about the nature of the charges
Speaker 1: than all were out of time, but more on that
Speaker 1: to come stop stop trying to kill people.
Speaker 3: Tuggert, Armstrong and Getty Exclusive CNN reporting about the extent
Speaker 3: of damage to Iran's military capability. Roughly half of Iran's
Speaker 3: missile launchers are still intact despite the daily attacks by
Speaker 3: the US and Israeli military. Thousands of one way attack
Speaker 3: drones also remain in Iran's arsenal. One source says Iran
Speaker 3: is quote still very much poised to reach absolute havoc
Speaker 3: throughout the entire region. A Pentagon spokesperson calls CNN's reporting
Speaker 3: quote completely wrong.
Speaker 1: Right, So this is really interesting, and I don't know
Speaker 1: what to think. So you've got the mainstream media who's
Speaker 1: taking is negative a view on the war as they
Speaker 1: possibly can, in some cases practically actively rooting for our defeat.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, the history of all administrations in
Speaker 1: my lifetime, going back to you know, Johnson and Obama
Speaker 1: about Afghanistan, administrations lie always and sometimes are lied to themselves,
Speaker 1: and then they lie to the public not knowing it,
Speaker 1: about the success of their military operations. It's just a thing.
Speaker 1: So and I fit that in with I was watching
Speaker 1: a news Nation report today where they had somebody on
Speaker 1: the ground in Israel where they got hit with lots
Speaker 1: and lots of rockets overnight by Iran. Again and this
Speaker 1: reporter is saying a lot of people here on the
Speaker 1: ground are really confused and surprised by Iran's continued ability
Speaker 1: to project power and shoot rockets at him. So, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us are like, how is
Speaker 1: this still possible that every day you can blow up
Speaker 1: a tanker or hit this base or that base, or
Speaker 1: keep firing it. I don't know what the right answer is.
Speaker 1: So CNN's reporting that like half the rocket launchers are
Speaker 1: still working, the Pentagon says that's completely not true. Right, boy, Well,
Speaker 1: there are a number of topics you brought up there,
Speaker 1: one being the necessary right to deceive in warfare, because
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to do that as a government. It's
Speaker 1: the perfect example of a power, granted that is always abused.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get the reasons you do that, and
Speaker 1: they're absolutely valid, but as you point out, every administration
Speaker 1: abuses it and goes way beyond any justifiable keeping the
Speaker 1: home front together or not demoralizing the troops or fooling
Speaker 1: the enemy or whatever. They all like. The second thing
Speaker 1: about the missile capability, I think, why do you think
Speaker 1: that happens? Why did why did the Defense secretary and
Speaker 1: everybody beneath him mislead Johnson in Vietnam? Why did everybody
Speaker 1: lie to a bomb? And he thought the war was
Speaker 1: going great in Afghanistan? And then the Washington Post blew
Speaker 1: that open with now it's going horrible, and everybody write
Speaker 1: up the chain. Everybody lied. Yeah, yeah, I think because
Speaker 1: it's life and death, and people think since the stakes
Speaker 1: are so high, their justification is strong to And they
Speaker 1: wouldn't say mislead the president. They'd say stay optimistic, or
Speaker 1: not be overly negative or what have you. It's a
Speaker 1: great question. I'm sure there are books written about it.
Speaker 1: I suppose to a certain extent, it might be as
Speaker 1: simple as how often do you want to tell your
Speaker 1: boss you're not doing a good job or haven't been
Speaker 1: successful at the big project he gave you. That's part
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, you're tasked to accomplish something, and you
Speaker 1: don't want to be the one to say is can't
Speaker 1: be accomplished, right, because that sounds like I can't accomplish
Speaker 1: it anyway. There are a bunch of headlines to hit
Speaker 1: today live updates. US fighter jet reportedly shot down over Iran.
Speaker 1: A least one American pilot was reportedly ejected from their
Speaker 1: aircraft today when it was shot down over southwestern Iran.
Speaker 1: According to multiple outlets, let's see a television channel in
Speaker 1: this province instructed Iranians who find down US pilots to
Speaker 1: leave them alive and take them to security agents agencies
Speaker 1: for a precious prize rather than kill them as they
Speaker 1: had previously advised on the air well. That's very civilized
Speaker 1: of you, Thank you, aroon. Another headline, Iran beefs up
Speaker 1: defenses and recruits children as it prepares for a ground war.
Speaker 1: Whoa yeah, They've stepped up defenses of their biggest oil port,
Speaker 1: whilst threatening to attack a wider array of targets around
Speaker 1: the Gulf and launching a mass recruitment drive reminiscent of
Speaker 1: its nineteen eighties war with Iraq. The Tehran is mobilizing
Speaker 1: its population ways that seek to harness the spirit of
Speaker 1: the eighties war with Iraq. That includes drives to recruit
Speaker 1: millions of Iranians, including children, fixture of the tribute to
Speaker 1: martyrs via street signs and posters that are still part
Speaker 1: of the Iran's daily life. Iran is also hardening defenses
Speaker 1: on karg Island, among the other strategic islands. Steps include boosting,
Speaker 1: guided missile systems, laying mines along the coastline, and booby
Speaker 1: trapping facilities. According to an Iranian official, I feel like
Speaker 1: the trying to get the uranium ount project has got
Speaker 1: historic disaster written all over it. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're still considering that or not. Trying to secure a
Speaker 1: giant area and the number of people and the amount
Speaker 1: of equipment we'd have to have in place, I mean,
Speaker 1: if RANN has got any ability to fire rockets or
Speaker 1: launch attacks or anything when that's going on, they will, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they would go nuts trying to achieve that psychological and
Speaker 1: you know, frankly real victory. Speaking of which, another headline,
Speaker 1: A great article written by the musically named Yaroslav Trauma Trofimov.
Speaker 1: We forgot to do our great tease. Let me do
Speaker 1: our great teas. Oh okay, sorry, we interrupt this story
Speaker 1: to bring you this. Gavin Newsom's wife is going to
Speaker 1: be the gift that keeps on giving. Oh yeah, as
Speaker 1: they dig up old interviews and probably once he was
Speaker 1: running current interviews, well yeah, because he's gonna try like
Speaker 1: crazy to muzzle her and she ain't gonna have that.
Speaker 1: She ain't muzzible muzzle uble right, I don't think, but
Speaker 1: her talking about how they raise their kids that I
Speaker 1: think you'll find pretty rich. So stay tuned for that
Speaker 1: and you might take his wonderful parenting advice. So stay
Speaker 1: with us. Anyway, back to Yaroslav Trofumov, control over Straight
Speaker 1: of Hormuz will determine who wins the war. Iran is
Speaker 1: seeking permanent leverage over the Middle East with new rules
Speaker 1: rules for the strategic Waterway. You gotta give him points
Speaker 1: for having Kahona. So they're getting hell battered out of
Speaker 1: them and trying to hold onto the regime. And they say,
Speaker 1: you know what, not only are we going to fire
Speaker 1: on the streets of horror moves to bring this to
Speaker 1: an end, but we now own it and we're going
Speaker 1: to charge enormous tolls to anybody who goes through it
Speaker 1: from now to the end of history. So holy cow,
Speaker 1: we either have to batter them to the point that
Speaker 1: they can't do that, which it seems increasingly might not
Speaker 1: be achievable, or make them not want to do it anymore. Well,
Speaker 1: yesterday we blew up their brand new giant bridge that
Speaker 1: they've got between Terran and somewhere else that they apparently
Speaker 1: want to get in cars, but we blew up that bridge,
Speaker 1: and Trump tweeted our truthed out our military, the greatest
Speaker 1: and most powerful by far anywhere in the world, hasn't
Speaker 1: even started destroying what's left in our and bridges next
Speaker 1: then electric power plants. New regime leadership knows what has
Speaker 1: to be done and has to be done fast. It's
Speaker 1: very possible that the big overarching headline that will written
Speaker 1: about this war someday is that uh Trump was wrong
Speaker 1: about the Iranian regime's willingness to die fighting, or just
Speaker 1: their resilience in general. He thought, and maybe reasonably so,
Speaker 1: that they were like regular people. You realize you're losing,
Speaker 1: you make some sort of deal to make your life better.
Speaker 1: You don't just go. You don't just let everything around
Speaker 1: you get destroyed and you die. Who would do that?
Speaker 1: And these and this might be the crowd that does that.
Speaker 1: They let everything get destroyed and they die, and they
Speaker 1: don't care because they're going to meet the virgins in heaven,
Speaker 1: and or those who aren't religious cultists dead enders are saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I get twenty five percent of the rebuilding cost, so
Speaker 1: you know the hell, it's just the scam will change
Speaker 1: shape a little bit, but the scam will continue. Uh So,
Speaker 1: one final thought on the Strait of Hormuz Valley, NASA
Speaker 1: professor at Johns Hopkins University, former State Department official blah
Speaker 1: blah blah involved in informal discussions. Quote now the only
Speaker 1: reason why oh, to the Iranians, the Strait of Hormuz
Speaker 1: now matters more than the nuclear program. The nuclear program
Speaker 1: was symbolic, but didn't provide them with any deterrence, not yet.
Speaker 1: Now the only reason why they're surviving the store war
Speaker 1: is because of the Strait. The Uranian thinking is that
Speaker 1: at the end, the Strait must remain under their control
Speaker 1: because it is their only deterrence and only source of revenue.
Speaker 1: So why did Marco Rubia the other day say he
Speaker 1: made the goal taking out their ability to fire off
Speaker 1: rockets They learned from North Korea? And I heard a
Speaker 1: smart person explain this, Why does North Korea have a bomb?
Speaker 1: They have a bomb because all the rockets they had
Speaker 1: and their ability to hit soul. Back in nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton was in the standoff that ended up leading
Speaker 1: to North Korea getting a nuclear weapon, with plans on
Speaker 1: the table to attack North Korea and take out their
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon making capability. But they're so worried about North
Speaker 1: Korea attacking Soul, where we had thirty some thousand troops
Speaker 1: in it's a big city and lots of people dying,
Speaker 1: that we couldn't and Iran learned that lesson and knew it.
Speaker 1: So as long as they got enough rockets to attack
Speaker 1: Israel or their neighbors or whoever their belief was, the
Speaker 1: world can't come take out our nuclear site. So now
Speaker 1: we believe that the way to stop them from getting
Speaker 1: nukes is they don't have the rocket capability. M Yeah, interesting,
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, I've been working on this. Should have paid
Speaker 1: less attention to thong and more attention to jong ill. Wow,
Speaker 1: And because it rhymes, it's more powerful. I don't. Oh,
Speaker 1: clearly everybody knows that. A couple more quick notes to
Speaker 1: shoehorn into this segment. The fabulous Victor Davis Hansen writing
Speaker 1: for The Free Press, the War and the War on
Speaker 1: the war. It's actually reminiscent of something we've been talking about.
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal editorialists to phrase that is defeatists
Speaker 1: on the left, Pollyanna is on the right. But VDH
Speaker 1: says militarily, the war is going as well as could
Speaker 1: be envisioned, Yet Democrats seek to turn it into another
Speaker 1: Vietnam or Afghanistan, hoping to win control of Congress at
Speaker 1: the expense of national security. And VDH is nothing if
Speaker 1: not a realist. He's pointing out that it's gone absolutely
Speaker 1: fabulously well thus far. But that doesn't mean the uncertainties
Speaker 1: have gone or the difficulties of war are no longer real.
Speaker 1: But all you can hope is that a war is
Speaker 1: going fabulously well. There is an unspoken or spoken comment
Speaker 1: or question in the media that well, you say it's
Speaker 1: going well, but there's still a great deal of uncertainty.
Speaker 1: Add so it's not going well. But that's just a
Speaker 1: misunderstand war. That exactly. That's worth pointing out. And that's
Speaker 1: why Trump the other night in his speech laid out
Speaker 1: how long Iraq took, Afghanistan took, World War I, World
Speaker 1: War two it took. Because if we end up coming
Speaker 1: completely taking out their rockets, getting back to that topic,
Speaker 1: if we end up completely taking out their launchers on
Speaker 1: day ninety, which would be three times as long as
Speaker 1: we've been at it so far, roughly, I ll you'll
Speaker 1: look back on and think, wow, they took the United
Speaker 1: States took out a top twenty world military in less
Speaker 1: than ninety days would seem shockingly effective. But right now,
Speaker 1: at the thirty day mark, people are acting like it's
Speaker 1: a disaster right right, and throw in with admittedly tragic
Speaker 1: yet very very small scale losses of human life. Final note.
Speaker 1: Through VDH, the left seeks to create abject chaos that
Speaker 1: it can only be eliviinated alleviated by the political destruction
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. So the anti war hysteria follows the
Speaker 1: pattern of the left's embrace of tesla vandalism, violent demonstrations
Speaker 1: against Ice, the incoherent no Kings protests, and three government shutdowns.
Speaker 1: Such nihilism shares a common trait of offering no positive
Speaker 1: counter agenda. Yeah, I would tend to agree with VDH.
Speaker 1: And finally, Neil Ferguson, we don't really have time for this,
Speaker 1: but love and f how great powers lose wars they're winning.
Speaker 1: Nearly seventy years after the Suez Crisis, the US may
Speaker 1: have marched into a strikingly similar trap in the strait
Speaker 1: of horror moves his main point, maybe we spend a
Speaker 1: little more time on this later is stopping before the
Speaker 1: job is done, because that last x percent is the
Speaker 1: toughest part of the battle. Well on that to come.
Speaker 1: Eisenhower dealing with Suez didn't have to deal with a
Speaker 1: TikTok world where we expect everything to happen at thirty
Speaker 1: seconds at the time. That's another pressure that's just completely modern,
Speaker 1: the timetable. Yeah, and then Neil also asks there's now
Speaker 1: a rising probability that Trump's wore backfires on him as
Speaker 1: much as Eden's did. That was the British guy back
Speaker 1: in the day in the Suez Canal economically, politically and geopolitically,
Speaker 1: which raises the question, is this the American sue az
Speaker 1: It could be. It could be. So we got to
Speaker 1: leave time to get to Gavin Newsom's wife and child
Speaker 1: rearing and see if you agree with it or not
Speaker 1: as a lifestyle. It's next, by the way, history buffs.
Speaker 1: If you're into the Suez Canal standoff or you've never
Speaker 1: gotten into it. The book Ike's Bluff by Evan Thomas
Speaker 1: is a page turner, fantastic book about that and really
Speaker 1: gets into that's the moment where Great Britain's military dominance
Speaker 1: of the world really came to an end and we
Speaker 1: took over. Was right then. So Gavin Newsom's running for
Speaker 1: president almost certainly, and his wife is going to end
Speaker 1: up being a we think a series live. She's got
Speaker 1: all kinds of woke craziness, she has said over the years,
Speaker 1: and nobody is paying attention. She's a wife of a governor,
Speaker 1: and whatever she goes in California's first Partner, Sir, she
Speaker 1: goes around to various things and talks. Here she is
Speaker 1: in front of a group of people sitting in big
Speaker 1: comfy chairs having a conversation about raising kids. Here's what
Speaker 1: she's sounded like.
Speaker 2: I've given our boys dolls. Even if they tear the
Speaker 2: heat off, I've given them dolls to learn that care
Speaker 2: and caregiving is not just an activity that's reserved for women,
Speaker 2: but that it's also an activity that is a responsibility
Speaker 2: of men. What I've done with both my daughters and
Speaker 2: my sons is if I'm reading a book and the
Speaker 2: protagonist is a male, I just change the heat to
Speaker 2: as she and it just normalizes for my sons. In particularly,
Speaker 2: it's not even I don't even just do it for
Speaker 2: my girls.
Speaker 1: I do it for my sons.
Speaker 2: Because I want them to see that women can be
Speaker 2: the center of a story, that women matter, that women
Speaker 2: are interesting.
Speaker 1: And she is saying this in the year fifteen eighty apparently,
Speaker 1: where women get no respect and aren't seen as like
Speaker 1: the main character in any story or whatever. What the
Speaker 1: hell are you talking about. I've never understood why the
Speaker 1: left can't understand when they've won. You won that argument,
Speaker 1: all right. There are more chicks in college and law school,
Speaker 1: medical school and everything else you can think of than
Speaker 1: there are boys. We've got a boy crisis. You don't
Speaker 1: need to when you read a book, change the protagonist
Speaker 1: if it's a boy to a girl to make sure
Speaker 1: girls think they can go out in the world and
Speaker 1: be something. What are you talking about? Two points? Number one,
Speaker 1: it's the it's the advocacy, that's the point. It's not
Speaker 1: the goal. It's just look at me. I'm a fighter
Speaker 1: for justice, even if the goal doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: And yeah, your point is an excellent one, and let's
Speaker 1: let her finish and then we'll I'll continue to rent
Speaker 1: and rape.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day.
Speaker 2: We're all kind of like in this place in history
Speaker 2: maybe where we're recognizing what it is to ultimately deconstruct
Speaker 2: all these gender roles and ultimately be human. And that's
Speaker 2: exciting to me. So you know, I'll just continue to
Speaker 2: kind of do my work and try and deconstruct all
Speaker 2: of these like limiting narratives about ultimately what it means
Speaker 2: to be human.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you know the code words, she's a postmodernist
Speaker 1: neo Marxist. You're deconstructing everything and whatever the party tells
Speaker 1: you to do. That's the new reality. Since you're about
Speaker 1: to be a mom and a woman, Katie will let
Speaker 1: you weigh in. I was just thinking about, no wonder
Speaker 1: he's doing drugs. Yeah, that's stuff about I give my
Speaker 1: boys dolls so they can understand that men too have energy.
Speaker 1: Oh thanks for insulting the entire male population. Then we
Speaker 1: don't just automatically understand the need to be nurturing for
Speaker 1: our children or whatever. Blah blah blah unless you tell
Speaker 1: us she is so beyond out of touch. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: she is like one hundred already proof distillation of being
Speaker 1: desperate to find a problem and pretending you've found it
Speaker 1: and be the leader of fixing it. Yeah, right, exactly
Speaker 1: what you are talking about. You change the male protagonist
Speaker 1: in a book to a girl, so that your boys
Speaker 1: can understand your girls can understand it. Sometimes the girls
Speaker 1: can be the center of a story. What girls can
Speaker 1: even be a doctor or a lawyer. I need to
Speaker 1: teach my boys that what the hell Armstrong and Getty