Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Back Armstrong, Joe, Kaddy Armstrong and.
Speaker 3: Jette and now He Armstrong and yet Oo live the
Speaker 3: drum studio scene.
Speaker 1: See he said, you are welcome to a brand new week,
Speaker 1: pregnant with possibilities.
Speaker 3: We're deep within the bowels.
Speaker 1: On the Armstrong and getting communications compound, and today we're toiling.
Speaker 1: Under the title of the show, Trump calls for strike
Speaker 1: on the Vatican.
Speaker 3: Is Trump be the Pope?
Speaker 1: Oh my? Or if you prefer blockade the blockaders, blockade
Speaker 1: the blockaders. Okay, Rands the blockaders.
Speaker 3: We're gonna blockade them exactly. The Pope should shut up,
Speaker 3: Shut up, Hope.
Speaker 1: I watched sixty minutes last night. I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear from you priests about international politics. I want to
Speaker 1: hear everything you have to say about personal salvation and
Speaker 1: Jesus No, that's sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: Very interested. I'd sit there and listen to you all
Speaker 3: day long.
Speaker 1: Don't give a freak what you have to say about
Speaker 1: international policy in politics and your moronic position on war. Sorry, Pope,
Speaker 1: that's a moronic position.
Speaker 3: It is the.
Speaker 1: Pacifist position that we're always talking about it. Lets the
Speaker 1: grownups in the room handle the hard, dirty work of
Speaker 1: keeping a nation or of people say oh.
Speaker 3: We are against we are for peace, always for peace.
Speaker 1: What if the other guy is trying to get a
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon to kill y'all. I am for peace. That
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. Be a grown up. I am
Speaker 1: for peace. Okay, put on your fancy shoes and go
Speaker 1: over there, talk about Jesus or something. Yeah, I appreciate
Speaker 1: you being fired up about it. I just I hear it.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, a child's point of view on
Speaker 1: what we she'd have for dinner. I mean, it's okay,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll think about that.
Speaker 3: And I'm pro pope, pro Catholic church.
Speaker 1: All.
Speaker 3: That's the stuff. I just don't I I they were.
Speaker 1: It was the feature story in sixty Minutes last night,
Speaker 1: and nor Donald actually asked these bishops, what do you
Speaker 1: say to people who don't want politics.
Speaker 3: In there and their and their sermon on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: And they had some gobbledygook about why it's important to
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, And I thought, God, dang it, if
Speaker 1: I'm going on a Sunday morning and I have to
Speaker 1: listen to you rail against Trump and his policies.
Speaker 3: No freaking away, I'm sitting there for that.
Speaker 1: No, oh my god, or ice, on and on about ice,
Speaker 1: the evils of ice. Shut up, Read me a passage
Speaker 1: from the Bible and explain to me what it means.
Speaker 1: That's your job. It's just that old you know, progressivism.
Speaker 1: Did you get to congratulate yourself for how enlightened you
Speaker 1: are and ignore the fact that your policies, if they
Speaker 1: were implemented, would be suicidal. But you do it smugly.
Speaker 1: And I don't think Trump needs to take shots on
Speaker 1: wine own the guy. But that's that's a problem we've
Speaker 1: been dealing with time, the old lack of a filter
Speaker 1: that's baked into the cake. But yes, exactly, he should
Speaker 1: ignore it. That'd be the smart thing to do, just
Speaker 1: because who cares what the pope says? But so blockade
Speaker 1: the blockaders? Where did the blockade? Already starters has start
Speaker 1: here in a couple hours, started less than an hour. Actually,
Speaker 1: fans of blockades, this is very exciting. We're counting down
Speaker 1: till the ten a m. Eastern time blockade of all
Speaker 1: the Iranian ports, which was a suggestion brought up last
Speaker 1: week I mentioned this think tank person that said, why
Speaker 1: aren't we making sure no Iranian ships can come in
Speaker 1: and out? They're making more money than they made before
Speaker 1: the war started. It seems like somebody heated that advice
Speaker 1: and thought, yeah, why are we letting their ships go
Speaker 1: in and out?
Speaker 3: How about yah ships go in and out.
Speaker 1: What they're doing is almost precisely what you described last
Speaker 1: week in the Wall Street Journal editorial board was talking
Speaker 1: about it as well, Yeah, all right, ain't nobody making
Speaker 1: any money?
Speaker 3: Now, what are you going to do? It's an escalation.
Speaker 1: Stick that in your turbine and smoke it. Call that
Speaker 1: blockade like that would? I thought that was good.
Speaker 3: That was a good one. That was great. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It didn't make any sense taking shots at all the religions.
Speaker 3: That's not good. What's the matter? I know what I control?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm into it.
Speaker 3: I'm into it. I like it.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting, uh information later on how many there
Speaker 1: are of whoever and whatever religion that I just dug
Speaker 1: up last night after I was listening to some of
Speaker 1: the stuff.
Speaker 3: If I think you'll find fascinating. We'll get to that later.
Speaker 1: I'm dressed whoever whatever, that's a little vague, like pool
Speaker 1: queues and motor cars or what.
Speaker 3: Can you religion?
Speaker 1: On the topic of religions, Oh like how many people
Speaker 1: are in Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I see. I am
Speaker 1: dressed for the Springsteen concert. I dressed the way he's
Speaker 1: been dressing in the concerts. Black dress, shirt, black jeans,
Speaker 1: red uh, Doc Martin's that's why he's been dressing. So
Speaker 1: I'm dressed like Bruce Springsteen to go to the concert tonight.
Speaker 1: Why have you decided to do that. I'm old, but
Speaker 1: not near as old as him.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just I've always done that.
Speaker 1: I'd dressed like David Lee Roth if I'm going Van
Speaker 1: Haleen just whatever, seriously, No, I just I saw him.
Speaker 1: I saw a video of him at in La, and
Speaker 1: I thought, I have that same outfit.
Speaker 3: I'll just wear the same thing. Wow.
Speaker 1: Private meeting Katie seems a little fan boyish to me,
Speaker 1: little little weird, a little.
Speaker 3: Bit, man.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, I've been watching some of the
Speaker 1: When he about a third of the way through the concert,
Speaker 1: he comes out and he sits down on the end
Speaker 1: of the stage and he says, we're living through some
Speaker 1: hard times, and then he starts in on what's wrong
Speaker 1: with Trump and everything? And I think, oh, that's my
Speaker 1: bathroom break. That's when I go get in line to
Speaker 1: get a slice.
Speaker 3: Of pizza and use the restroom. I am not going
Speaker 3: to sit through that.
Speaker 1: Played fireside chat, fireside chat on politics with Bruce.
Speaker 3: Oh lord, I.
Speaker 1: Don't want him or the rock stars and popes just
Speaker 1: shut up about the politics.
Speaker 4: Do you think he'll do that before the lead end
Speaker 4: of his Minneapolis song.
Speaker 1: I think that's where he puts it. Yeah, okay, Oh
Speaker 1: that's a rough ten minute period there. The other three
Speaker 1: hours and I'll be I'll be okay.
Speaker 3: With the music.
Speaker 1: That part will be a little rough. My kids are
Speaker 1: going to be scrolling their phones. Everybody's going to be
Speaker 1: the other. The part will be bars. Everybody around me
Speaker 1: in San Francisco will be cheering like crazy, Yeah Trump,
Speaker 1: I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Just also tiring. It is.
Speaker 1: It is whether you're watching a baseball game or going
Speaker 1: to church or a rock concert, you have to hear
Speaker 1: about politics.
Speaker 3: That's just the world we live in. We're scrolling through
Speaker 3: really anything. I'd like to ask Bruce what.
Speaker 1: Do he thinks he's accomplishing because I have a feeling.
Speaker 1: I've heard the answer many times from like your Hollywood stars,
Speaker 1: and they say something to the effect of, well.
Speaker 3: I have this platform and I just feel like I
Speaker 3: have to use it.
Speaker 1: And I'd say, well, okay, that's your end of it.
Speaker 1: Do you think anybody's mind is changed? That's your screed.
Speaker 1: That's a good way to put it that. Do you
Speaker 1: think anybody learns anything?
Speaker 3: I understand your end of it.
Speaker 1: Is it just an opportunity for you to connect with
Speaker 1: people who agree with you, essentially, and you just don't
Speaker 1: give a flying whatever about the many millions of people
Speaker 1: that don't agree with you. You just figure you don't need
Speaker 1: cut their customers, or I would guess that most people
Speaker 1: like him. They just can't even imagine there's more than
Speaker 1: like three people in any arena that wouldn't agree with
Speaker 1: what he's thinking. And they're angry, stupid bigots. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I bet you're right. No communicating with them. They're the trolls,
Speaker 1: hardly anybody and they're bad people anyway, So right right,
Speaker 1: the go awesome, that's fantastic. Well, can we start to
Speaker 1: show officially we should probably do that man, there's lots
Speaker 1: of news of the day, and who knows how this
Speaker 1: blockade's going to go. England's against it, China's against it,
Speaker 1: lots of people are against our blockade that we're starting today.
Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: April thirteenth, the year twenty twenty six, where Armstrong and
Speaker 1: getting we approve of this year program. Let's leap in
Speaker 1: action then officially, according to SEC rules regulations, here we
Speaker 1: go at mark.
Speaker 2: You want to see a stock market go down, let
Speaker 2: a couple of nuclear bombs be dropped on us or frankly,
Speaker 2: any place out and you'll then you'll see a stock
Speaker 2: market that goes down. So the stock market has not
Speaker 2: gone down very much at all, got down a little
Speaker 2: bit much less than I thought. And the frankly, the
Speaker 2: gas hasn't gone up as much as I thought.
Speaker 1: This ongoing conversation about whether or not they were trying
Speaker 1: to get a nuke or how close they were to
Speaker 1: a nuke is driving me nuts. And I got into
Speaker 1: an argument with chat GPT yesterday afternoon over the JCPOA
Speaker 1: that was the agreement the Obama administration put in place
Speaker 1: with the Iranians. I got into an argument with chat
Speaker 1: GPT because I thought it was wrong, and so I
Speaker 1: actually went to Claude and Jim and I for more
Speaker 1: information and kept coming back at chat GPT until it
Speaker 1: basically agreed that I was right and it was wrong.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it came out with the political position about
Speaker 1: how the Obama agreement was perfect. It would have been
Speaker 1: just fine if we'd left it in place. Only Trump
Speaker 1: completely wrong. They were gonna talk about this later because
Speaker 1: everybody should remember they were cheating on this agreement. They
Speaker 1: were working to get in a clear weapon. They were
Speaker 1: never gonna stop until.
Speaker 3: They got one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The AI systems large language model learning model thingies garbage in,
Speaker 1: garbage out. It's a perfect example of it. They mind
Speaker 1: the mainstream media, so they get mainstream opinions which are inaccurate.
Speaker 3: In this case.
Speaker 1: You know what you gotta do. You got to like
Speaker 1: gossip about chat GPT with Claude. That's a good Gemini,
Speaker 1: that's a good idea. And I tell you who's not smart,
Speaker 1: no intelligence, artificial or otherwise, that idiot Chat GPT. Huh, Hey,
Speaker 1: could you give me this information about how they were
Speaker 1: trying to get around the inspections because or at chat
Speaker 1: GPT you won't believe this is actually telling me. And
Speaker 1: then get him into a battle, yes, like like Trump
Speaker 1: and the Pope. Just get them harp, you know, sniping
Speaker 1: at each other.
Speaker 3: Be fantastic.
Speaker 1: We got some interesting stuff actually, AI wise about how
Speaker 1: Joe brought this up some last week. There's more over
Speaker 1: the weekend about how some of these ais are going
Speaker 1: to go out into all our computers to harness our
Speaker 1: prosperous processing power and memory storage because they don't have enough,
Speaker 1: secretly without us knowing it, so they can build their
Speaker 1: I don't know, their another world, right yeah, yeah, exploit
Speaker 1: us while we sleep bastards, or turn us into zombies,
Speaker 1: or I don't know what they're gonna do with I
Speaker 1: had an email address, an email account hacked over the weekend,
Speaker 1: my own stupidity. I should tell that story. I thought
Speaker 1: I was immune to falling for anything like that. What'd
Speaker 1: you fall for? Oh it was Ni and Prince. I
Speaker 1: figured you were above that. Well, no, lottery. I won
Speaker 1: the lottery, as it turns out, I just had to
Speaker 1: pay the taxes and events. No, it was a phishing scam,
Speaker 1: a party invitation from a guy who I'm going to
Speaker 1: be very near. When I visited an old place I
Speaker 1: used to live, and I thought, oh, yeah, okay, he
Speaker 1: knows I'm going to be in town because a lot
Speaker 1: of people do, and wanted to invite me to a party,
Speaker 1: and so I had to sign invia. You could sign
Speaker 1: in VIA and it was like a two step authentication thing, which.
Speaker 3: In retrospect, I was half asleep when I did this.
Speaker 3: It was first thing in the morning.
Speaker 1: In retrospect, no, you never, you don't need to actually
Speaker 1: sign into your account to like register through an account,
Speaker 1: but I did, and I used my password and then
Speaker 1: it did the thing. And so the interesting part of
Speaker 1: this is and I got it all fixed, and then
Speaker 1: when you came home from the story, you couldn't get
Speaker 1: in your house, and your car's gone and your wife's with.
Speaker 3: A different guy. No.
Speaker 1: No, That's why I don't believe in smart anything. Place dumb.
Speaker 1: I want a dumb thermostat, a dumb doorbell whatever. Anyway,
Speaker 1: but the most interesting part of it was that when
Speaker 1: they hack your account, they automatically, you know, they have
Speaker 1: software that does this, put filters on your account so
Speaker 1: that all of your incoming email goes to trash or
Speaker 1: spam so that you won't see any of your friends asking, hey, Joe,
Speaker 1: is this legit? Because it harnessed my email address to
Speaker 1: send out a bunch more spam, and so it all
Speaker 1: went straight to trash. The filters were any email that
Speaker 1: contained the letter A or any email that contained the
Speaker 1: letter C. But thanks to an AI system able to
Speaker 1: figure out what to do and how to do it
Speaker 1: and got my address back and got rid of all
Speaker 1: those filters.
Speaker 3: And stuff that sucks.
Speaker 1: It was a stressful, wasteful hour and a quarter hour
Speaker 1: and a half fixing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you spend an hour and a half on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I had like good assistance, unreasonably competent technically,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was actually as I was stressed and
Speaker 1: pissed off and pissed off at myself. I was picture
Speaker 1: of some poor eighty year old who's not particularly computer
Speaker 1: sending me.
Speaker 3: Didn't notice it happened. You just have to close the account,
Speaker 3: I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Get your organ's harvested is probably what would happen. So
Speaker 1: we've got Katie's headlines on the way. We've got more
Speaker 1: news of the day while we're on the air. Today
Speaker 1: the American israel Is isreal helping us on this blockade
Speaker 1: of the straight of hormones will begin.
Speaker 3: I'll see how the world reacts to that. Lots of stuff.
Speaker 3: Stay here now, I'm paying attention.
Speaker 1: I was making coffee in the currig machine and there's
Speaker 1: somebody slipped flavored coffee in there, and I made some
Speaker 1: sort of all flavored coffee.
Speaker 3: Is disgusting. What is wrong with you people?
Speaker 1: Hazel not strawberry vanilla Coffee's the greatest flavor ever coffee.
Speaker 1: Flavored coffee. To pour it out next break and get
Speaker 1: real coffee.
Speaker 4: I had a guest this weekend stay at my house,
Speaker 4: and they were asking, do you have any any creamers?
Speaker 3: By chance? I do put cream in my coffee.
Speaker 4: Well, I had like regular half and half, but that
Speaker 4: was from baking something.
Speaker 3: I was like, that's it.
Speaker 4: She's like, oh, I really like French vanilla.
Speaker 3: Sorry, bring it with you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's figure out who's reporting what it's the
Speaker 1: lead story with Katie Green and Katie all Right, starting.
Speaker 4: With the Alphabet Networks ABC US blockade If I Ran
Speaker 4: Straight of hor Mooz ports to begin today. NBC oil
Speaker 4: prices serge after Trump says the United States will blockade
Speaker 4: the straight of hor Mooz and CNN. Trump says, I ran,
Speaker 4: We'll give us quote everything.
Speaker 1: So the Iranians are vowing all kinds of retaliation as
Speaker 1: soon as the blockade begins today, no port in the
Speaker 1: region will be safe, according to a statement from the
Speaker 1: Revolutionary Guards.
Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: They have shown a willingness to escalate at every single
Speaker 1: step of this and absolutely true willingness and ability.
Speaker 3: Oh true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, asymmetrical warfare. It's interesting to watch how it ends.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: This one from Katie Grimes at the cal Globe. Representative
Speaker 4: Swallwell suspends campaign for California governor following sexual assault allegations.
Speaker 1: I like the New York Posts headlines swalls Well, that
Speaker 1: ends well.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that means anything, but oh, that's
Speaker 3: trying hard.
Speaker 1: What he's gonna step down just because an entire cheerleading
Speaker 1: team of women came forward and said they raped them.
Speaker 1: What's clear is that Democrats all over California and Washington
Speaker 1: d C.
Speaker 3: Knew he was this kind of guy forever. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: From the New York Times. After criticizing the pope, Trump
Speaker 4: posts an image of himself as a Jesus like figure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, friend just sent that to me. It's a bit much.
Speaker 1: This one from the New York Post as that's a
Speaker 1: heck of a move.
Speaker 3: It really was.
Speaker 4: From the New York Post, Mom, Donnie's first city owned
Speaker 4: grocery store that costs taxpayers thirty million dollars is set
Speaker 4: to open.
Speaker 1: My god, I'm glad they're doing the experiment, I guess again,
Speaker 1: but again.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a miserable failure like it always is.
Speaker 4: Again, this one made me smile. From the Washington Post
Speaker 4: BB the parrot goes on underwater adventure in his custom
Speaker 4: built submarine.
Speaker 3: Again, it's a lot there.
Speaker 4: They shoved a parrot basically into a plastic tube and
Speaker 4: had him go on a submarine and then said that
Speaker 4: he liked it.
Speaker 3: Most part. Wow.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Study fines a male birth control pill that works quote
Speaker 4: and wears off moves closer to reality.
Speaker 3: Huh, Well that needs something.
Speaker 4: And finally from the Babylon b Kamala Harris quote, thinking
Speaker 4: about losing again in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Eight, So she says she's considering running for president, seriously
Speaker 1: considering it. Yeah, she's trying to get more people to
Speaker 1: show up to her book signings or she's serious. It
Speaker 1: would be so wonderful, so incredibly wonderful. What a blessing
Speaker 1: that would be. We need to check in on some
Speaker 1: of the news of the day, some of the threats
Speaker 1: coming out of her rand and they might mean it,
Speaker 1: So stick around, arm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 3: The bad news is that we have not reached the agreement.
Speaker 5: Talks between the US and Iran collapse after twenty one
Speaker 5: hours of high stakes negotiations.
Speaker 1: Where does the conflict.
Speaker 3: Go from here?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's start and why so many violins? Let's start there,
Speaker 1: which is news that is now several days old, and
Speaker 1: then we'll get to news that is like as current
Speaker 1: as current can be as we record this. So they
Speaker 1: sent jd Vance to Islamabad, Pakistan, along with Jared and
Speaker 1: Woodkoff to meet with some Iranian leaders. First face to
Speaker 1: face meetings between the US and Iran since the Hole
Speaker 1: taking our hostages thing back in seventy nine.
Speaker 3: Pretty big deal. And they met.
Speaker 1: For whatever you heard there twenty four hours. Jd Vance
Speaker 1: walks up and says they didn't agree to anything, not
Speaker 1: a thing, didn't budget a bit. So we're going on
Speaker 1: and they actually all got on the plane and left,
Speaker 1: while while the negotiators are the mediators there in Pakistan
Speaker 1: were claiming for a while that they're ongoing and there'll
Speaker 1: be another round of talks on Sunday and blah blah.
Speaker 3: No, everybody got on the plane.
Speaker 1: And left immediately, sending the signal that Okay, you're not
Speaker 1: even serious about this.
Speaker 3: We're going home.
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe that was Trump taking the last ditch,
Speaker 1: maybe so he'd feel good about himself effort to negotiate
Speaker 1: before he unleashes the holy hell that he has promised.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But then you move toward today, and you've got the
Speaker 1: blockade of the strait that the United States is going
Speaker 1: to attempt to pull off so that Iran can't let
Speaker 1: some ships go through that some ships have been paying
Speaker 1: the tolls. Plus you got the stuff that benefits Iran
Speaker 1: going through that they've been letting in and out.
Speaker 3: Of course, which seems ridiculous, they've.
Speaker 1: Been making They Iran has made more money since the
Speaker 1: war started off the straight of horror moves than they
Speaker 1: did prior to the war starting, which is a stunning
Speaker 1: stat So, getting back to the negotiation just briefly, it
Speaker 1: strikes me that sending Jared and Witkoff and jd all
Speaker 1: of whom are pretty smart guys and pretty good negotiators.
Speaker 1: I'll bet they came away with the sense that the
Speaker 1: nuclear program around nuclear program, which it quote unquote refuses
Speaker 1: to give up, is that something it actually just won't
Speaker 1: give up under any circumstances, in which case we're through here.
Speaker 1: Or is it they won't give it up without getting
Speaker 1: a hell of a lot in return, which means maybe
Speaker 1: we can talk And I think it was the former
Speaker 1: they decided, no, they're gonna They're gonna work toward a bomb,
Speaker 1: come hell or high water. Well, I don't want to
Speaker 1: get sidetracked by this conversation because we got the current
Speaker 1: stuff to get to.
Speaker 3: That's pretty pretty big. Oh my.
Speaker 1: But nobody quite understands why Iran doesn't just do what
Speaker 1: they've always done, pretend to give up their nuclear program
Speaker 1: and delay and continue working on it best you can
Speaker 1: behind the scenes until Trump's out of office. Why wonder
Speaker 1: whoever in charge and still has their head and limbs
Speaker 1: is just saying Trump's not gonna fall for this one.
Speaker 1: They're studying him. They have an idea of he's no Obama.
Speaker 1: I it was desperate to be the great diplomat and
Speaker 1: announce a deal, no matter. Tellingly, I think it was
Speaker 1: the journal. Somebody pointed out this morning that when the
Speaker 1: JCPOA was falling apart and the Iranian negotiator got up
Speaker 1: and left the room, John Terry ran after him. How
Speaker 1: do you like that for symbolism? Physically ran after Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: chased after him.
Speaker 3: Wait. Wait, that's a good feeling when the car the
Speaker 3: car guy is chasing you.
Speaker 1: No, there's more, yeah, exactly, And Trump is not going
Speaker 1: to pull a John Kerry.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: So then we decide we're gonna do a blockade of
Speaker 1: the straight and nobody's exactly sure how that will work.
Speaker 1: For instance, the President chain claims it's a coalition, although
Speaker 1: there's no indication that there's anybody in this coalition but
Speaker 1: US and President Kers Starmer or Prime Minister Kars Starmer
Speaker 1: of Britain said specifically they will not be part of
Speaker 1: US blockade of Iranian ports, the same as come out
Speaker 1: of France. So I don't know who this coalition is
Speaker 1: that the President claims. I think he's just saying that.
Speaker 3: So there's enmark. Maybe now we pissed them off, there's.
Speaker 1: No coalition of any point, and the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: asks one of the most important questions about this, it
Speaker 1: remains unclear what would happen to the ships that the
Speaker 1: US military intercepts. So if a ship does come through
Speaker 1: the strait and we got all our battleships there and
Speaker 1: whatever you have in a blockade.
Speaker 3: We what.
Speaker 1: Shoot at it, board it, and then take it, confiscate it.
Speaker 3: What is happening there?
Speaker 1: Well, somebody thinks will board it because I was reading
Speaker 1: about who and how and you know what's going to
Speaker 1: happen with that and how dangerous it might be. But
Speaker 1: maybe they were just guessing. I bet that was your
Speaker 1: typical cable news sort of hypothetical what would happen if
Speaker 1: Then they explained for fifteen minutes, because according to all
Speaker 1: the officials, there's been no well there's been no announcement
Speaker 1: yet of what they're going to do if a ship
Speaker 1: actually comes through. Yeah, nobody knows how is going to
Speaker 1: react to this. They have kept their mouth closed, and
Speaker 1: there's been some serious back and forth between Trump and
Speaker 1: China over the weekend, US accusing China of helping out
Speaker 1: the Iranians and China saying they're willing to continue helping
Speaker 1: the Uranians. And they also get eighty percent of their
Speaker 1: energy from abroad, and a lot of it comes through
Speaker 1: that straight So they've got a pretty good reason for
Speaker 1: the to want the street to be open.
Speaker 3: Yeah, indeed, indeed.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it's just as usual with this, just so
Speaker 1: many question marks. Here's another question mark for you. What
Speaker 1: in the world would make the Wall Street Journal online
Speaker 1: think I want ads for clothes for sexy young women
Speaker 1: and bras.
Speaker 3: It's like all I'm seeing right now, it's distracting. We
Speaker 3: all have our crosses to bear well, though.
Speaker 1: Seriously, with computer science the way it is these days,
Speaker 1: why are they hitting me up for like golf clubs
Speaker 1: and cars? And you know, I don't know booze anyway, Katie.
Speaker 4: No, you just had to have said something or clicked
Speaker 4: on something.
Speaker 3: Joe got a bit of a Christy Nomes husband thing
Speaker 3: going the bimboism out you fold me out, You get
Speaker 3: a little bimboism happening, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, just on the weekends. It's my business.
Speaker 1: More on that to come as well. But back to
Speaker 1: the Persian Gulf. Yeah, so the Iranian parliament speaker, he
Speaker 1: was one of the main negotiators there who went to
Speaker 1: Islamabad to not budget on anything. Uh left the talks
Speaker 1: and said, if you fight, we will fight. And then
Speaker 1: Iran's Revolutionary Guard said the Straight remained under Iran's full
Speaker 1: control and was open. Military vessels will get a forceful response,
Speaker 1: said the Revolutionary Guard, and they are going to fire
Speaker 1: on all ports in the area if we attempt to
Speaker 1: do this, starting in like an hour.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: So the cause as much pain to as many as
Speaker 1: you can. Strategy continues from the IRGC. I'm I'm well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the best strategy. If I'm Ran,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think maybe just weight, because that's
Speaker 1: gonna put a lot of pressure on China and Europe
Speaker 1: if there are no boats of all going through. I
Speaker 1: think that. I think he got some leverage there, but
Speaker 1: you just have to wait it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And in what direction does China throw its weight.
Speaker 3: It could well be to tell their.
Speaker 1: Loyal get pesky and more trouble than their worth, ally
Speaker 1: Iran to cut it out. You know, they'll pressure the US,
Speaker 1: obviously publicly, but they might tell the IRGC, look now
Speaker 1: now you're causing us pain. That's not the way this
Speaker 1: relationship works. Don't be surprised if you see a headline
Speaker 1: today or in the near future where Trump has slapped
Speaker 1: a fifty percent tariff on everything coming on in China,
Speaker 1: because he threatened that over the weekend if China helps
Speaker 1: iran in any way. Maria Bartiromo, interviewing the President over
Speaker 1: the weekend, said I've heard reports claiming that China was
Speaker 1: giving shoulder fire to anti aircraft missiles to the Iranians.
Speaker 1: Trump said, I doubt they would do that. Maybe they
Speaker 1: did that a little bit at the beginning. But if
Speaker 1: we catch any country, including China, providing military equipment to
Speaker 1: Ran at this point, they.
Speaker 3: Will face a fifty percent tariff.
Speaker 4: Hmm.
Speaker 3: Maybe they did that a little bit at the beginning.
Speaker 1: China was giving the Iranians shoulder fire to anti aircraft
Speaker 1: missiles to shoot down our planes.
Speaker 3: Holy crap. Yeah, wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 1: And what does he actually know? Maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: at the be Can you ask somebody soe A know.
Speaker 1: I know what I was thinking of this morning is
Speaker 1: just how because I am really into reading a lot
Speaker 1: of history of a lot of different kinds of things, a.
Speaker 3: Lot of the big events in world history. There's a.
Speaker 1: Prelimb to that event that gets lost to history days, weeks, months,
Speaker 1: sometimes years of things that happened before the big event happened.
Speaker 1: And we might be in that situation now where this
Speaker 1: past month we've been getting, you know, at a lot
Speaker 1: of chatters around everything, around this and that and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, and the big event is to come, like
Speaker 1: the big event starts tomorrow or something right, and all
Speaker 1: that pre stuff from the past month will be forgotten
Speaker 1: by history when the real essence of the fan China
Speaker 1: deciding to send a ship to force the straight over.
Speaker 1: Who knows what's going to happen, but there is a
Speaker 1: there are a lot of possibilities of things that could
Speaker 1: happen this week. It's a great point history, or at
Speaker 1: least the way we take it in tends to YadA
Speaker 1: YadA YadA, all the circumstances that led up.
Speaker 3: To the big event. I mean, like the Pearl Harbor was.
Speaker 1: The result of many, many, many months arising tensions between
Speaker 1: the Western world in Japan, and I won't go into it,
Speaker 1: but yeah, absolutely true. That's I wish you hadn't said that,
Speaker 1: though I was in a pretty good mood. Now I'm
Speaker 1: worried something that's truly history changing is about to occur.
Speaker 1: I was just in the Midwest where they're unhappy with
Speaker 1: their gas prices, but they're like three p fifty a
Speaker 1: gallon where I was in Kansas, you know, and if
Speaker 1: you're used to before the war started, they were getting
Speaker 1: My dad said the gas was one ninety eight.
Speaker 3: Oh that Californians. They're paying one ninety eight for gas. Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow Wow.
Speaker 1: I had another point about the cataclysmic event thing, but
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Speaker 1: out of my head is flitted back in. And that
Speaker 1: is the one thing, And feel free to disagree with this,
Speaker 1: but the one thing we must always remember is that
Speaker 1: the status quo prior to the current conflict was absolutely
Speaker 1: not going to last. Iran was going to get a
Speaker 1: nuke and be a terrible, terrible threat.
Speaker 3: So couldn't we have just kept going like we were doing.
Speaker 3: Really wasn't a choice, And that's what I think. So
Speaker 3: the hole it is a war of choice.
Speaker 1: You're really getting into slicing it thin semantics game.
Speaker 3: To me, if you need to make a good strong
Speaker 3: case for why you say that, why it's.
Speaker 1: Right Because technically, if my neighbor isn't attacking me. I
Speaker 1: get to it's a choice when I attack him. But
Speaker 1: he's been vowing to kill me and my family, and
Speaker 1: he keeps getting more and more guns, and I see
Speaker 1: him getting prepared to do it, putting out his tactical gear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to hear. This is from Martha Raddits on
Speaker 1: ABC This Week.
Speaker 5: President Trump announcing that the US will now blockade any
Speaker 5: and all ships crossing the Strait of hor moves and
Speaker 5: posting a warning to Iran Any Iranian who fires at
Speaker 5: US or at peaceful vessels will be blown to.
Speaker 1: How so, it seems, according to Trump that the whole
Speaker 1: uh just hit him like we've hardly ever hit any
Speaker 1: country in our nation's history.
Speaker 3: Is still on the table. M hm oh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They're weighing a limited set of strikes in addition to
Speaker 1: the blockade right now, just to amp up the pressure.
Speaker 3: A little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, so it's know, if for some reason your feeling
Speaker 1: was as well, it's been going on for a month.
Speaker 1: They had some talks. Blah blah blah, it's settled down.
Speaker 1: See's fire blah. This could be a hot, hot week,
Speaker 1: like a really big deal.
Speaker 3: I'd be surprised if it wasn't. Yeah, me too. We
Speaker 3: got more on that later. We've got mail bag next.
Speaker 3: Stay here.
Speaker 1: Excellent point on the text line about a missing piece
Speaker 1: of the Trump versus the Pope battle.
Speaker 3: We'll get into that an hour two. Excellent. Right now,
Speaker 3: it's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 1: This one from Teddy Roosevelt is send along by honorary
Speaker 1: producer Jeff the Heck. We could spend all of our
Speaker 1: time on this if we wanted. Here's the quote from Teddy.
Speaker 1: But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men,
Speaker 1: in the end became unable to fight materialism, luxury, safety,
Speaker 1: even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality weakened the fiber of
Speaker 1: each civilized race, and turn each became in the end a.
Speaker 3: Nation of pacifists.
Speaker 1: And then each was trodden under foot by some ruder
Speaker 1: people that had kept that viril fighting power, the lack
Speaker 1: of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.
Speaker 1: Talking about how you just get like we're always talking
Speaker 1: about softer and more self indulgence, less fighting spirits, and
Speaker 1: then somebody who's tough and mean comes along and just
Speaker 1: bulldoze as you fantastic who said that Teddy Roosevelt are.
Speaker 1: It comes from his essay The Dawn in Sunrise of History.
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Speaker 1: along by alert listener Mike, comparing the Artemis two mission
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Speaker 1: pullet train one hundred and twenty six billion. Artemis planning
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Speaker 1: ninety six. Passengers carried Artemis two four pullet trained zero miles,
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Speaker 3: Well done, that's pretty good, he laughed. I laughed, nice.
Speaker 3: Don't hear from Randy. I don't listen to the news,
Speaker 3: but I spent.
Speaker 1: The day off yesterday going from one news source to
Speaker 1: another and realized YouTube to deserve a metal. I did
Speaker 1: it for one day and got hives the flu probably
Speaker 1: an STD, lost my hair in two teeth.
Speaker 3: And YouTube do it every day, bringing us selflessly.
Speaker 1: All the headlines with your special flare so we don't
Speaker 1: have to suffer through torture and the media is truly heroic,
Speaker 1: and I for one am unendingly grateful.
Speaker 3: That's a bit much. Put your welcome. It's getting harder
Speaker 3: to do. It's a lot harder than it used to
Speaker 3: be to do.
Speaker 1: To follow the news, you have to put a lot
Speaker 1: of effort into trying to weed through tons of crap,
Speaker 1: and dare I use the word misinformation to try to
Speaker 1: figure out what the hell's going on?
Speaker 3: Agreed? Then he comes to his main point.
Speaker 1: My description of the whole around thing is being a
Speaker 1: hall of mirrors shrouded in fog, he says.
Speaker 3: But as you say, no one knows what's going on.
Speaker 3: There are many who do.
Speaker 1: Teams of CIA, spooks, intelligence officers, political operatives, defense personnel
Speaker 1: from the US talking with Israel, Saudi, cutter brain, and
Speaker 1: the other world powers have a say in diplomacy. If
Speaker 1: you don't think China and Russia haven't chimed in with
Speaker 1: what they'd like to see, you're not paying attention. This
Speaker 1: is not one person making a deal with another. This
Speaker 1: is an incredibly complex deal making between many participants. You
Speaker 1: can't see it and we'll never hear about it, but
Speaker 1: it's happening. Yeah, that's the whole point. Right, there's fears of.
Speaker 3: Influence thing that might be going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And it's also the super heavyweights trying to
Speaker 1: reach a deal and saying too like Iran, We'll get
Speaker 1: back to you, all right, You're not entirely making this decision.
Speaker 1: The twist being Iran is a religious, fanatical, dead end cult, and.
Speaker 3: Nobody's quite sure how to deal with that.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the war, Kevin says, want to point out
Speaker 1: that this brief conflict, whatever the actual end may be,
Speaker 1: is likely highly beneficial to our military got in real
Speaker 1: world modern experience and the type of drone warfare that
Speaker 1: will shape future conflicts. We've identified logistical shortcomings and have
Speaker 1: gotten invaluable experience on ballistic missile defense in theater. Whatever
Speaker 1: else anyone can say about the word never hurts to
Speaker 1: clean out the cobwebs. Another excellent point, how much time
Speaker 1: do you have, Michael? You know that's true, That's very true.
Speaker 1: I mean there is the it's still rather not have
Speaker 1: to ever actually fight. I mean, my fighting skills would
Speaker 1: get better if I got in a fight today, but
Speaker 1: still much rather not. Ah right, No, I'm not calling
Speaker 1: for attacking Denmark or anything. Kevin's just pointing out that
Speaker 1: there are advantages to, you know, getting in the ring
Speaker 1: and actually going a few rounds. Alvin is talking about
Speaker 1: mnemonic devices. He is making fun of the insane Canadian
Speaker 1: mb lgbt q I a q q R thing we
Speaker 1: were talking about, and he said it reminds him of
Speaker 1: mnemonic devices like, for instance, I learned the guitarist rings
Speaker 1: every or eating apples.
Speaker 3: Daily gives big ears.
Speaker 1: Okay, the number of the names of the strings, well,
Speaker 1: he says, the mnemonic that electrical engineers use for the
Speaker 1: power of ten on resistors. Those are for the colored
Speaker 1: markers on resistors. What color, what order they're in? It's
Speaker 1: b B R O Y g W v g W.
Speaker 1: This is a little rough. Bad boys rape our young girls.
Speaker 1: While Violet gives willingly, he says there are other nicer versions.
Speaker 3: What that's not a good knewmonic. There's got I'm sure
Speaker 3: the better one.
Speaker 1: What Eric Swalwell used to work in electricity. It's terrible,
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