1 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. 3 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and Petty and he 4 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:24,760 Speaker 2: arms wrong. 5 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: To live What Why from Studio c Sea's in your 6 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: a dimly lit room deepen from the bowels of the 7 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getting communications compound fortified by titanium walls. 8 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 2: And today we are toiling under. 9 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: The title of the show the Straits of Horror Moves. Okay, 10 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: was answering your friend's question about these traits, The Strait 11 00:00:54,360 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: of Horror moves. Apple whose AI is an embarrassment wrote 12 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 1: it as the Straits of Horror Moves not bad today, 13 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: That's only one of the most discussed things in the 14 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: news today. And then it had the wrong form of 15 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: root when I said shipping route, but keep working on 16 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: a coopertino the other alternate title to win or not 17 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 1: to win? 18 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 2: That is the question. We were making that point yesterday 19 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 2: about AI. 20 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: And I don't know if this has anything to do 21 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: with anything, but I gotta believe if AI is going 22 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: to take all our jobs, you'd be able to make texting. 23 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: Figure out that if you're talking about shipping routes, you 24 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't use root. I mean, that's like something a second 25 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: grader could figure out. So why can't AI do that? 26 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: I really don't does it if everybody, like many of 27 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: our smart Silicon Valley listeners, know, if there's any relationship 28 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: between those things, Maybe there's not. Maybe they just don't 29 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: care about the fixing that while they're working on coding 30 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:56,919 Speaker 1: or something. 31 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 2: I don't know. 32 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so mystified and flabbergasted by the whole thing. 33 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: I can't even imagine anyway, but to the things you 34 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: were talking about there. So it was a heck of 35 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,839 Speaker 1: a thing middle of the day yesterday West Coast time, 36 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: because I followed the Open Source Intelligence thing on Twitter 37 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: on a fairly regular basis, and they had a bulletin 38 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: report Iran attempting to mine the Straits of Horror Moves 39 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: and that was a giant headline. I mean, holy crap, 40 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: you know, because we've been talking for days about keeping 41 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: that open, and then the French had announced that they 42 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: were willing to send some of their ships there to 43 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 1: escort oil tankers through there, and blah blah blah blah blah. 44 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: So that Iran's going to mine the thing. Then, like 45 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes later, the open source intelligence headline was, never mind, 46 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: the US military has bombed sixteen of those mining ships 47 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: and they're sunk. Allue them to the pleasant coastal town 48 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: of Smith. Areens that didn't last long, meaning things that 49 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: didn't last long. You follow the whole Secretary of Energy 50 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: tweet thing, the tweet that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. 51 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 2: No, I don't know this story. 52 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: Yeah, the second n who I think is doing a 53 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: terrific job, tweeted that the picture of a warship next 54 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: to a tanker, the US is escorting tankers through the 55 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: straits of hor moves, and oil markets plunged because the 56 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: futures market, it's really a cool thing in the free market. 57 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: To talk about it later. But anyway, so everybody thought, oh, 58 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: thank god, all right, the traits of horror moves are cool. 59 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: Now we're gonna be able to ship oil just fine, 60 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: all right, thank god for the US blah blah blah. 61 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 1: And then like a few minutes later, Katie, I know, 62 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: you know this story was five to ten minutes later. 63 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: It was probably five minutes. Yeah, it all of a sudden, 64 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: it was taken down, and the oil markets are like, uh, why. 65 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 2: Did you take that down? Really? 66 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: And the price is shot back up again, and companies 67 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: that had lost and bought a bunch of oil at 68 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: that price, and then that price and hundreds of millions 69 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: of dollars traded hands, and the Energy Department said, eh, 70 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: a staffer miscaptioned photograph. 71 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 2: But we've correct. Wow. So that sort of thing has 72 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 2: happened a number of times. 73 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: And I don't have the slightest reason to believe that 74 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: there's any malfeasance here other than maybe shouldn't have posted 75 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: a picture. But how easy would it be to make 76 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: millions of dollars by jerking around the stock market like 77 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: that on purpose? 78 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 2: If you knew you were going to do it? Yeah, 79 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 2: that's funny. 80 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: I hadn't even thought in terms of malfeasans, But my god, 81 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 1: that would be an easy way to make just so. 82 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 2: Easy gobs of money. 83 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, enough that you never have to worry about making 84 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: money ever again in your life. You could make in 85 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: like five and the money I'm looking for you can 86 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: make in like five minutes with that sort of a tweet. 87 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 2: The big score. 88 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: So they didn't get to lay their minds across the 89 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: strait of Horror Moves, which at its narrowest point is 90 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: only twenty miles from Iran. But Iran did hit three 91 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: ships this morning, Yeah, trying to sail through the straight 92 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: to Horror Moves, and attacked Dubai International Airport, which we've 93 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: all learned in the last couple of weeks is the 94 00:04:58,160 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: busiest airport in the world. 95 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 2: Did not know that, Yeah, unbelievable. 96 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 1: So I happen to be reading about the Straits, the 97 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: Strait of Horror Moves today, and indeed, as Jack indicated, 98 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: it's just under twenty one miles wide at its narrowest point. 99 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 1: But interestingly, because of the seafloor and shipping roots and 100 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,359 Speaker 1: blah blah blah, you've got to pass within ten miles 101 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: of Iran's coast as you squeeze by, So it is 102 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: it's an easy shot. 103 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 2: Well, and. 104 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: So I don't know anything about this. Maybe we should 105 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 1: have Mike Lines on about this or something like that. 106 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: I would love to understand, first of all, like we've 107 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: hit I hear different numbers now eight ten thousand targets 108 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: between US and Israel. 109 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 2: What are all those targets? 110 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: I mean, how are there even ten thousand targets to hit. 111 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: That's kind of surprising to me as a layman. I 112 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: can't imagine there are ten thousand things to hit. I 113 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: realized it's a big country, but ten thousand is all 114 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: large number. And then with the fact that we've hit 115 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: ten thousand targets, how are they not all the stuff 116 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: that would fire rockets into the straight of horror moves? 117 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: Haven't we How have we not obliterated every bit of 118 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 1: that Since they have no air defenses, there must be 119 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: as they got a missile launcher hidden under every camel. 120 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,239 Speaker 1: I've got to assume there must be a reason. Obviously, 121 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to claim any incombitants or anything, but 122 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: it's just surprising to me if we've hit that many 123 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: targets with that being such a high priority obviously for 124 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: the President of the United States, so the entire world, 125 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: the entire well, yeah, but the President the United States 126 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: kind of calm the shots on this whole day. Uh, 127 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: since that's such a high priority, I'm surprised we haven't 128 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: just like obliterated everything They've got to try to shoot 129 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: at the straight or her moves on the other side 130 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: of the equation. The weird beards, they understand that those 131 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: missile launchers are their leverage, and so they have worked 132 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: very very hard to disperse them and hide them, et cetera. 133 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 2: The weird beards. 134 00:06:53,080 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: Yes, with all due respect, I wonder because that one 135 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: of our alternate titles was to win or not to win? 136 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 2: That is the question. And what would victory look like? 137 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 2: What are the. 138 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: Various levels of quote unquote victory that would be acceptable 139 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: to the Orange one. And it's a really interesting question, 140 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: which we'll be digging into in a little bit. But 141 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: I find myself wondering whether since the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard, 142 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: they appear to be really pulling the strings at this point, 143 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: and they are pretty potent force still, you know, fewer 144 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: and fewer large arms, but hundreds of thousands of guys. 145 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 2: With small and medium arms. 146 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: I wonder if we are pummeling their business interests to 147 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: get them to come to the table in a serious way, 148 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: because you remember, you must remember they're a they're an 149 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: army and a syndicate and a corporation. As far as 150 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: the coverage of this, I got a clipper going to play. Later, 151 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: Mark Alprin was doing his newscast in the afternoon and 152 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: talking about how for the media he is troubled that 153 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: you've either got on Fox and Fox adjacent sort of 154 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: media unquestioning support of this, Like there's no skepticism about 155 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: you know, how's this going to end? 156 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 2: Or what about this? 157 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: None of that, Whereas he said, on all the other channels, 158 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: they don't seem to be rooting for our side. Yeah, 159 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: and he's really troubled by one hand, no skepticism. On 160 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: the other hand, they're not even rooting for our country. 161 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 2: Wow. So that's not the best place to be in 162 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 2: terms of media coverage. That's very troubling. 163 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: If you would like something in the middle, well, A, 164 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 1: you found it, and B perhaps you could recommend the 165 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty Show to your friends. They can grab 166 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: it via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand anytime they want. 167 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: I take in a lot of all kinds of different 168 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 1: kinds of media, and there is a big thread smell 169 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: of not rooting for success on our side, because you 170 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: know that would hand Donald Trump will win. I guess, 171 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, it's Trump arrangement syndrome. But you've also 172 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: got to remind yourself that we've got a handful of 173 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: generations of Americans who've been taught to despise their country, 174 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: that the US has been a force for evil in 175 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: the world, that uniquely on Earth we had slaves for 176 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: a while, a little while historically speaking, and that we're 177 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: an oppressor, a colonial oppressor, and so when they see 178 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 1: US lobbing bombs, of course they think it's evil. It's 179 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,599 Speaker 1: the greatest failing of the Boomers and Gen X to 180 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: let the Marxists take over schools. I firmly believe that, oh, 181 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: in spending the country into oblivion, those two things. Other 182 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: than that, we've done great though. So I'm reading this 183 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 1: tweet from Brit Hume and then we'll start the show officially. 184 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 1: Brit Hume senior analyst for Fox News and a very 185 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: very straight shooter. So it seems that not only is 186 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: the strait of horror moves not closed, it is actually 187 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: accommodating more Iranian oil exports than before the war. If 188 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: you're not sure what to believe, you're not alone to 189 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: read into that story. 190 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 2: More. 191 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: I'm making marine face exports of oil than before the war. 192 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 1: How are they pulling that off? 193 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:12,959 Speaker 2: What the hell? I I don't have to look into that. 194 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: You can blow the beard off a mulla, but we can't. 195 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: You know, take out an Iranian oil tanker. What the 196 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: hell are very Beard focused today? 197 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 2: And the shorthand I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. 198 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, March eleventh. 199 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: Or twenty twenty six, where I'm strung and getting we 200 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: approved of this program on the old Patriot missile shave. 201 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 1: All right, here we go officially according to FCC rules 202 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: and regulations at mark. 203 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 3: Yesterday on the call with the President, the Russians said 204 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 3: that they have not been sharing. 205 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 2: That's that's what they. 206 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 3: Said, so, you know, we can take them at their word. 207 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 3: But they did say that. And yesterday morning and yesterday morning, independently, 208 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 3: Jared and I had a call with Ushakov who reiterated 209 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 3: the same So I I, you know, that's a better 210 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 3: question for the intel people. But let's hope that they're 211 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 3: not sharing. 212 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hope that that's mister Wikoff, the lead negotiator 213 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: on everything and the Trump administration, on the story that 214 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 1: Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran to give them targets 215 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: to try to hit our troops, which obviously would be really, 216 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: really bad, and Witkoff says, well, I hope they're not. 217 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: They say they're not I'm going to take them at 218 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,839 Speaker 1: their word that they're not you're taking Vladimir Putin at 219 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: his word. Well that's cute. Yeah, I don't know. I 220 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: think you'd like to have that answer back. But yeah, yeah, 221 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: you're probably right. I yeah, don't like that story. Any who, 222 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 1: Spicy Times got a guy that scored what, eighty three 223 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: points in the NBA last night. Break down some of 224 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: the stats that are amazing in that second most in 225 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: NBA history, Not what was the number of Michael not 226 00:11:57,760 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: anybody you've ever heard of? 227 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 2: Eighty three three. 228 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,959 Speaker 1: That's amazing, not anybody you've ever heard of, which is 229 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: interesting because the top two record holders were Wilt Chamberlain 230 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: and Kobe Bryant household names. And then this guy comes 231 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: along and scores eighty three points in a game. But 232 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: some of the stats behind it are amazing if you're 233 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: a sports fan at all. 234 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 2: And we'll get to that. We got Katie's were green. Hmm, 235 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 2: I went. 236 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: Poorly speaking of wanting a second chance, Let's lay down, 237 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:25,439 Speaker 1: lay down, some orange cones, some. 238 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 2: Road flares and everything. Try to reconstruct this sentence. We've 239 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 2: got yes, Katie, No, I'm just you can do it. 240 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 1: Jack, I believe in it, dentures and whatnot. I should 241 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 1: have gotten the ones that, so I bought them off 242 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,079 Speaker 1: the shelf, just like the small medium large instead of 243 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 1: get old and fitted. I told you large, either go 244 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: big or small. But if it goes, if I go 245 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 1: to the small ones, I can't eat corn on the cob. 246 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: If I go with the big ones, I can't eat. 247 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 1: I can't talk. So it's problem anyway. We've got Katie 248 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: Green's headlines coming up next. Oh yeah, another sports story. 249 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: I don't know if Katie had this headline, but the 250 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: United States lost to freaking Italy in the World Baseball 251 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,719 Speaker 1: Classic and we might be out of the tournament. We 252 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: might be out of the tournament. Everybody who's looking for 253 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: to US play in Japan for the title and and 254 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: the and the manager of the team, I forget what 255 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: his name was, it already anounce yesday. Well, we're basically 256 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: into the final round already. And then they went down 257 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: eight nothing to Italy and lost. The sports gods heard 258 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: them say that. Yeah, you know, I didn't even dial 259 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 1: up the game last night because I thought I'm not 260 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: going to watch the US play Italy. Now they might 261 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: be out if Mexico doesn't win. Mexico has to win 262 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: over somebody today by four runs or more, which is 263 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: a lot in baseball, to pull the United States into 264 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: the tournament. 265 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 2: Otherwise he's in Mexico. That's what I say. 266 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: That's lord, I guess the national humiliation and in wartime. 267 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 2: Michael, Yeah, we didn't have an expresso machine in there. Yeah, 268 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 2: that's right. 269 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: They had an express machine in the dugout. Maybe that 270 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: works delicious. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's 271 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: the lead story with Katie Green Katie Well, of course 272 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 1: at the top of the headlines. 273 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 4: As I ran NBC, inflation was steady in February before 274 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 4: I ran, drove up gas prices. ABC, I ran launches 275 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 4: quote most strikes yet, ships hit by unknown projectiles in 276 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 4: straight of horror moves and CNN fake explosions, fake missiles, 277 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 4: fake troops. AI videos and images of Iran war spread 278 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 4: widely on social media. 279 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 2: Wow, that's an interesting angle. I'll bet that's true. 280 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: I've probably watched videos that were AI and I didn't 281 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: know it was some sort of exciting headlinest I got 282 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: got what by one the other day? 283 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 2: Interesting. 284 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, the more we've seemed to have forgotten about the 285 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 4: New York Times. Ukraine reaches a milestone finally making China 286 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:52,239 Speaker 4: free drones. 287 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: What is that kind of free drones? No Chinese parts, 288 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: no parts of products? Yeah, okay, all right, good good, 289 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: let's buy some Fox News. 290 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 4: DHS shutdown forces airports to tell travelers to arrive four 291 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 4: hours early amid massive delay. 292 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: What, yeah, I'm driving or walking or riding my bike, 293 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: riding a horse. 294 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 2: Like anything but a plane. 295 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: Obviously, the flight has got to be of a certain 296 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: length before it makes any sense to not drive versus 297 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: getting there four hours early, unpresumably four hours early on 298 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: the way back. 299 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 2: Right ay. 300 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 4: Investigators are finally looking into Jeffrey Epstein's new Mexico ranch 301 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 4: and searching for dead foreign girls. 302 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: Nice, oh boy, it's beautiful ranch. Nice piece of real estate. 303 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 2: Market batch. 304 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 4: YouTube is now the world's largest media company, and it's 305 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 4: only getting bigger. 306 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 2: What did we have stat the other day? Something a billion? 307 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 1: Two billion videos get up a little did per day 308 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,479 Speaker 1: or something in some crazy number. 309 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 2: Studdy fines. 310 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 4: Scientists gave raccoons a puzzle box. They continued to solve 311 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 4: it after the food. 312 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 2: Was gone, just because they enjoyed it. Yeah, well, they 313 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 2: enjoy a puzzle. Raccoon's fascinating beast. 314 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 4: Finally, the Babylon Bee Iran Morn's United states that it 315 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 4: has a huge stockpile of supreme leaders. 316 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: You better, you better? Where is he hiding? Where is 317 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: that guy hiding? How much is he enjoying life right now? 318 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: Does he feel like he's the supreme Leader and supremely 319 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: in charge of anything? Well, he can't even pick up 320 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: a cell phone there Allegedly it should be keeping them 321 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: away from laptops or anything connected to the internet. Well, 322 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: he can't really communicate. He like writing notes in passing 323 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: them around. He's got to be a little twitchy. Hey, 324 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: Supreme leader, startledly it should be hiding in a brothel 325 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: or a house, considering his house. Yeah, yeah, he's been 326 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: wounded in the legs too, apparently recently, the initial strike. 327 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: Oh really, okay, I'd never heard of that. I wish 328 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: I must speedy death. Yeah, recovery, no kidding. Yeah, so 329 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 1: we've got more news on the way. 330 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 2: I hope you can stay here, arm strong and getty. 331 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 5: The way that a man viewsed vegetarianism veganism tofu reflects 332 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,679 Speaker 5: how they view women. I think that if you can't 333 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 5: reduce your meat intake. You are selfish. What do you 334 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 5: mean you can't just have a veggie burger once in 335 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 5: a while the world is dying rainforcet is being chopped 336 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:47,880 Speaker 5: down to make warehouses to kill animals in I had 337 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 5: a bacon sandwich this morning, but I still feel so guilty. 338 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 5: Meat isn't that good for you? The idea of that 339 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 5: really reminds me of toxic masculinity. 340 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: Okay, eating meat is toxic masculinity, according to that person. 341 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 1: Immediately we started playing it, I regretted it. I thought, 342 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 1: why do we or anybody else do this? I guess 343 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 1: you take some obscure TikToker with a hot take platform. 344 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 2: Them and then complain about it. What's the point of that? 345 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 2: Because people enjoy it? 346 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: They do they I want these people to shut up 347 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 1: and go away. I don't want them to be like, 348 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: get more juice. I don't need more juice. 349 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:23,639 Speaker 2: You're no fun. 350 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: So good for you with your hot take that eating 351 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: meat is toxic masculinity. See that was twenty seconds, but 352 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: don't always seemed like a year. 353 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 2: Because she was so odd. 354 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, imagine having to have dinner with her. So if 355 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: twenty seconds seemed like five minutes to me. Then having 356 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: dinner with her would seem like six years of your life. Oh, 357 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: I would grab my phone say, oh my god, it's 358 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: my mom. She's been sick. I'll be right back, and 359 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: you don't care. I'll probably grab my fork and stab 360 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: her in the neck. So you're better than ever seene 361 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 1: again anything escape. 362 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 2: We got some. 363 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: News of the day, like we've already made and we'll 364 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 1: get into some of that a little bit later on 365 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: a variety of fronts. But the Forbes Billionaire List came 366 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: out and it's actually pretty interesting in a number of ways, 367 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,120 Speaker 1: the big picture being that the list features a record 368 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: three four and twenty eight billionaires, a thirteen percent increase 369 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: in one year because of the stock market going up 370 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: so much, the combined networth of all your richest people. 371 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not working Bernie's side of the street here. 372 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:27,680 Speaker 1: I don't think this is a horror or I don't 373 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: think their money took any from me. So, but it's 374 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: something a combined networth that jumped by four trillion in 375 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: one year to twenty trillion dollars. It was a good 376 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: year for people who were rich and in the stock 377 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: market definitely. That's astonishing. It is it really is thirteen 378 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: percent increase in billionaires. Part of it is inflation. Is 379 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 1: a billion isn't the same today as it was in 380 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I remember I mentioned yesterday that one hundred 381 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: dollars barrel oil was seventy nine dollars in twenty twenty. 382 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 1: That's only five years and a couple of months ago. 383 00:19:58,119 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. 384 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: Shock, So a billion is you know, not close to 385 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 1: the same as it was just five years ago. 386 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 2: Forbes called it. 387 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 1: Keeping in mind, just to bring this home, because this 388 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: is one of my top five jehads. When the government overspends, 389 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: it causes inflation, and that steals your money. 390 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 2: It steals your savings. Yeah. 391 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,239 Speaker 1: This is not to depress you as the world's most 392 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,399 Speaker 1: depressing radio show. This is just like a wake up 393 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: call to me or you or anybody else. We all 394 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: need to remember this. You know, you look at your 395 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: four to one k or your savings one hundred thousand 396 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: or five hundred thousand or a million or whatever you 397 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: got in there ain't the same as it was when 398 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: you looked at it in twenty twenty. The actual buying 399 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: power is a lot less. According to your figures. That 400 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: million dollars is seven hundred and ninety thousand. Really, yeah, 401 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:51,360 Speaker 1: just a big deal. Eof all right, I'm not sure 402 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 1: I can go on. 403 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 2: Okay, back to this. 404 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: This is why you dredge up ob notxious vegetarian kick 405 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: it chicks and yell at him for fun. Forbes not 406 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: what is the Year of the Billionaire, noting that the 407 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: planet added more than one billionaire per day over the 408 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 1: past twelve months, driven by AI powered stock market boom. 409 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 1: So everybody got involved in a look at all the 410 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,719 Speaker 1: tech people in the top six on the list. At 411 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: number one, Elon Musk now at eight hundred and thirty 412 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 1: nine billion, he is going to become the world Oh 413 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,479 Speaker 1: my god, he will be the world's first trillionaire. And 414 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,160 Speaker 1: boy will the Berniees and aocs go crazy when he's 415 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 1: got a trillion dollars About how somehow he took that 416 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,199 Speaker 1: money for you from you. If he didn't have it, 417 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: you'd have it. I don't understand how you make that 418 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,880 Speaker 1: wall share the share the wealth? Yeah, so fair share. 419 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 1: We all know who Elon is. Larry Page number two 420 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: at Google, Sergey Brinn of Google number three, So Google's 421 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,680 Speaker 1: two and three way back at two hundred and fifty 422 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 1: seven billion, Jeff Bezos of Amazon to twenty four, Mark 423 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: Zuckerberg to twenty two, Larry Ellison of Oracle one ninety 424 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 1: to your top six are all tech AI related. 425 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 2: Companies that made a lot of money. 426 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: One interesting note ranks at number six forty five on 427 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,919 Speaker 1: the list are our current president, worth six point five 428 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: billion dollars according to Forbes, up twenty seven percent, largely 429 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: from crypto dealings and his New York civil fraud penalty 430 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: being thrown out. 431 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 2: He got a lot of his money back. Interesting. 432 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, the crypto dealings are utterly unholy, I mean, just despicable. 433 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 2: Frankly is Don Junior on the list? Eric, I don't know, 434 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:28,479 Speaker 2: least somewhere on there maybe. 435 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 1: Notable newcomers to the billionaire list include Beyonce is now 436 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: a billionaire. 437 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 2: She and her husband's been for a while. They're a 438 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 2: wealthy family. I'll bet little Blue Ivy has some nice toys. 439 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 2: Who's her man again? 440 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 1: Blue Ivy might be seventeen years old by now, Jay 441 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,159 Speaker 1: Z mister Z beyonce Z. 442 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 2: That's her last name. 443 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: Beyonce's not on the list. Doctor Dre is on the list. 444 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 1: Roger Federer the tennis players on the list. Among the 445 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety first timers. Doctor Dre declared himself 446 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,959 Speaker 1: hip hop first billionaire back in two fourteen. He's now 447 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,480 Speaker 1: officially one of only six music artists on the list. 448 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: Here are your music artists, Beyonce, jay Z husband and wife. 449 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:09,400 Speaker 2: Wow. 450 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: How did they pull that off? They must be really 451 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: good business people. Rihanna, who we got to talk about 452 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: that situation. She nearly got killed the other day. She 453 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 1: was home the original reports where she was not home. 454 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 1: They were home and in the trailer that this nut 455 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: job was shooting at. 456 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, in a trailer. What's she doing in a trailer? 457 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: They had an airstream trailer out front, and they must 458 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: camp or something. I'm assuming or maybe they're, like you, 459 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 1: having their kitchen remodeled, so they bought a fancy trailer. 460 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: I don't know why anyway, Rihanna, Taylor Swift and who 461 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: else is on the list? 462 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen. Wow. 463 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,199 Speaker 1: Eight of the top ten fortunes in the world are 464 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,439 Speaker 1: now driven by technology, with Nvidia's The Guy with the 465 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,360 Speaker 1: Cool Leather Jacket joining the elite ranks as AI infrastructure 466 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 1: becomes the world primary engine for new wealth is anything AI, 467 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: or certainly was over the last couple of years, just 468 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: reading in the journal about this company founded by an 469 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 1: nineteen year old, eighteen year old and seventeen year old 470 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: something like that. They're a couple of years older now, 471 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: but just a couple of years older, and they're AI 472 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 1: company that does like polling and predictions and stuff like 473 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: that is now valued at a billion dollars. 474 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 2: If and they can't even rent a car. 475 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: If all of us could go back like three years 476 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: and readjust our investments and retirement heavily into AI, it 477 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 1: would be a big difference. I didn't rich rich except 478 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: for what was stolen pin inflation. It was a fat 479 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: I thought. The whole AI think thought that was a fat. 480 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 1: So I was just looking at that article that you 481 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: sent us, Katie about the AI images of bombings and 482 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 1: pictures from the war that are flying around, and it 483 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,439 Speaker 1: made me think, what's the point of even reading the news, 484 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: which might be where a lot of people end up 485 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: in the near future. If there's a decent chance that 486 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: what I'm looking at is not real pretty soon, it 487 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: takes all the fun out of it, clearly, And we've 488 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: just begun the era of I wonder. 489 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 2: If this is real? 490 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: Right, So I assume that there will be news organizations 491 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: emerge that we trust that their motto is, look, we 492 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 1: got a panel of twelve experts that do everything we 493 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: can to make sure everything on here is real, and 494 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 1: that we gravitate towards them. I assume that's the only 495 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: thing that possibly could happen, or. 496 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 2: We all es to. 497 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: But it won't be a panel of experts. It'll be 498 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 1: in an algorithm that'll detect AI. Okay, bring I think, 499 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: but the same effect. Yeah, yeah, but that's almost got 500 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: to happen. 501 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 2: Right. 502 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 1: If there is a desire for people to seek out 503 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 1: the truth, I'm not sure there is. 504 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 2: I don't know. 505 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 1: I only know my own anecdotal life, But I know 506 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:58,399 Speaker 1: plenty of people who enjoy seeking out so much stuff 507 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,400 Speaker 1: that just verifies. 508 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 2: Your worldview already, don't really care if it's real or not. 509 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that fringe of the population, whether it's 510 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: two percent or twenty percent, is going to be unreachable soon. 511 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: I mean, you can't reason with them, because they'll be 512 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: able to construct their own universe. 513 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 2: I mean even more than they do right now. 514 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 1: Will that crowd vote or is that crowd so cynical 515 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: That they will not vote depends what stripe of them 516 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: you're talking about. But interesting question. If they don't vote, 517 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 1: then I'm not sure how much it matters. Go ahead 518 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 1: and chatter amongst yourselves on Twitter and whatever other social 519 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,439 Speaker 1: media form you got about your weird conspiracies or views 520 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 1: and don't vote, and the rest of us will run 521 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 1: the world. I think they probably will vote, but for 522 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: bizarre and difficult to explain reasons. And you will have 523 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:48,199 Speaker 1: a just for instance, a JD. Vance who understands as 524 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: consultants will tell them, listen, this is a pretty significant 525 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: block of people in the fourth District of Illinois or whatever. 526 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 2: All you have to do use the word rude to. 527 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: Bega in one of your speeches, okay, because in their 528 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,919 Speaker 1: forum that's code for unearthing the anti Jewish or the 529 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: Jewish cabal that runs the Builderberg group that is in 530 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 1: touch with the space aliens. 531 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 2: So just say rude vega and they'll be like, all right, Wow. 532 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 2: Breaking moving news. 533 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: Starbucks founder Howard Schultz is moving out of Seattle and 534 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 1: going to Florida. It's amazing how many super blue like 535 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: Hollywood stars or business leaders are. But when the rubber 536 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: meets the road of taxes, they leave wherever they're from 537 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,879 Speaker 1: and go to Texas or Florida or Tennessee or any 538 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: of those places. 539 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:40,919 Speaker 2: Maybe we can dig. 540 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 1: Into this a little bit later, but I was just 541 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: reading about how Europe's far left is having a moment. 542 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 1: They're real lefty political parties are surging, and what they 543 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: advocate is so pardon me, things stupid, unworkable and indicted 544 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: and convicted by history over and over again. It's taking 545 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: that anybody could advocate for it, but it's catching on, 546 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: especially among somebody, anybody, the young, young voters. One thing, 547 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: just since you mentioned it, so I saw a headline. 548 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: I didn't look into the story that around the White House, 549 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: Trump is starting to say. 550 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 2: Maybe Rubio's the next guy. 551 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: Not JDS, that's the word, but based on a couple 552 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: of speeches and some you know, just hanging out with Rubio, 553 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: maybe he's just super impressed with him. It is both 554 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: amusing and troubling how much the White House can resemble 555 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 1: the Apprentice Show, as he really likes to see people 556 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: grapple with each other a little bit. 557 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 2: See it comes out on top. Oh that's interesting, he thinks, Boy. 558 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: If they Rubio says he won't run if JD Vance runs. 559 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 1: JD Vance is gonna run. But that would be one 560 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: of your all time epic battle Zoe, be like Hillary 561 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: and Brock going at it, where Hillary is the presumed 562 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: Hill and Brocks and no, no, I think this is 563 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: my time, old lady. We'll have to see where events 564 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 1: leave them in the great foot race for power. Because 565 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: right now, if the election were held today, Rubio would 566 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: be the guy. I don't quite understand why Rubio has 567 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 1: said out loud he won't run if JD's runs. At 568 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: the time, he said that jd was extremely popular and 569 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: he's the sitting veep. It's tough to beat that, especially 570 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 1: if he gets the nod from Trump and they're friends allegedly, 571 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: although as the old saying goes, if you want a 572 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: friend in Washington, get a dog. 573 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, no kidding. 574 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: Okay, So we got mailbag on the way and then 575 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: we'll get into some more news of the day. 576 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 2: Stay here, I missed the connection. 577 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: So the reporting is the CEO of Starbucks is leaving 578 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: his hometown of Seattle because the legislature intle in Washington today. 579 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: The legislature in Washington today passed a ten percent tax 580 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: on anything over a million dollars that you make. 581 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 2: Nine said, that's so. There you go. 582 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, you think people rich people aren't gonna leave your 583 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: city or state when you raise your taxes. Billionaire tax 584 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: billionaire texts you're nuts. Yeah, they'll think, gosh, that's too bad. 585 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: I like this house and and I'll miss my friends, 586 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: but I'll fly back and see him goodbye. Here's your 587 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 1: freedom loving quote of the day, continuing our series on war. 588 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: This one from Euripides ancient wisdom, and it rhymes ten 589 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 1: soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. 590 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 2: There you go. Think about it. Huh, mail bag without 591 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 2: a leader not missing their heads? No, literally headless. It's 592 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 2: a metaphor, you see. 593 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 1: You could go with This is the classic Sun Sou quote. 594 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy 595 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: without fighting. 596 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 2: That's worth remembered. 597 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, here's your mail bag us no mail bag 598 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 1: at armstrong e getty dot com. 599 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 2: Don wants to know. 600 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 1: Hey, the new Kamane weird Bear Junior has no interest 601 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: in becoming a martyr. 602 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 2: What would he do with seventeen virgins? Right? Because he's impotent? 603 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 2: I get it up. Is there a virgin shortage? I 604 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 2: thought it was seventy two virgins. 605 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: I like the meme where seventy two virgins are all 606 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: male video gamers. Anyway, moving along, not that there's anything 607 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: wrong with video. 608 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,360 Speaker 2: Does inflation play a role in this? That's right? 609 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: Adjusted for inflation, that is thirty five virgins. I guess 610 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: that would be backward Moving along, Zach who is a 611 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 1: man of the military right. I've been looking in on 612 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: Twitter since the wars started. I see extremist left and 613 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: right claiming we're fighting for Israel, saying they don't want 614 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 1: to send American sons and daughters to die for Israel, 615 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 1: et cetera. I must have missed the die for Israel 616 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 1: clause in my enlistment contract with the army. 617 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 2: Oh well. 618 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: Biggest things social media and this conflict have shown me 619 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 1: is one there are way more anti Semites than I 620 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 1: realized existed. And two, there's a massive disconnect between civilians 621 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: and the military and veteran community. I know a lot 622 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: of vet's loving this. GWT what does that stand for? 623 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 2: GWT? 624 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: That is your girl, I don't know, I'll look it up. 625 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 1: I know a lot of g WT vets living this 626 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: and I have young guys in my unit itching for 627 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: a Middle East deployment right now. Not young, but so 628 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: am I What a weird time we live in anyway, 629 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: cheers boys, mind you Zach, my brother's that way, respect 630 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 1: my lad. Global war on terrorism? Ah oh I see 631 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 1: I see yeah, Okay. Thanks for the note, Zach, and 632 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: thanks for everything you do. Let's see Jack and Joe, 633 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: writes Anita, gaining steam as a frequent correspondent Progressives in 634 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: the press and the Christian and the Christians who never 635 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 1: darkened the door of a church may not care much 636 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: for religious world views, but the Iranian theocracy is premised 637 00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: on bringing about the return of the Mahdi, that is, 638 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 1: their particular brand of Shia Islam. 639 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 2: This correct. To do so, they must destroy Israel. The 640 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 2: whole of the regime has existed to do just that. 641 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 1: And the deceased Dietola decided to pursue nuclear weapons because, 642 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 1: in his words, Israel is a quote one bomb country. 643 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: It's amazing how many of us refuse to believe people 644 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 1: when they say what they are, Just like the thing 645 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 1: of Hey, it turns out Stalin and Lenin actually believed it. 646 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 1: They were actual communists, and it turns out the Mullahs 647 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 1: and Iran they actually believe this. They believe they're going 648 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: to bring back everything good for the world. That's why 649 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 1: they're so into this. American progressives and oddly Donald Trump, 650 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 1: I don't think get religious fanaticism. 651 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 2: Moving along, great note from Jim. 652 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 1: Jack's comments about adjusting oil prices for inflation are spot on. 653 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 1: Even one hundred dollars a barrel, we aren't anywhere near 654 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 1: the historic peaks. 655 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 2: Ee this graph. 656 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: I've attached love the show, have been navid listener for 657 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: about two years now. My only regret is not listening earlier. 658 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: Oh Chippi, come on, you're two kinds. But my problem 659 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 1: with that is I'm an idiot. Why did it take 660 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:09,080 Speaker 1: me to point that out. Why hasn't some news organization said, 661 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,319 Speaker 1: by the way, one hundred dollars barrel oil is not 662 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: the magic number it used to be. Blah blah blah 663 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: blah blah. It's a measure of how horrifyingly terrible our 664 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:24,840 Speaker 1: media are. I mean, really terrible. But Jim, helpfully sending 665 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:28,880 Speaker 1: along the chart, he indicated its inflation adjusted monthly prices 666 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 1: from crude oil nineteen forty six through the present. In 667 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: June twenty twenty five dollars, and by that measure, the 668 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,600 Speaker 1: highest ever prices adjusted for inflation were in June of 669 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,240 Speaker 1: twenty oh eight. Oddly enough, at all eighty six dollars 670 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,839 Speaker 1: a barre wow during the Great Financial Collapse. That's more 671 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 1: significantly higher than December of nineteen seventy nine or the 672 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:56,520 Speaker 1: arab oil embargo of the early seventies. And I don't 673 00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 1: particularly right around the average price really, I don't particularly 674 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,439 Speaker 1: remember that being the big topic in two thousand and eight. 675 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: I guess because housing prices and everything else right, right, 676 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 1: it's skyrocketed up and then fell very quickly too. It 677 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 1: looks by like it in six months on this chart, 678 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't recall it specifically. Much more to come. 679 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 1: Hope you can hang around. That's pretty interesting. Yeah, we 680 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 1: have a lot of interesting stuff hopefully on the way. 681 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 1: If you miss a segment or an hour, or get 682 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand 683 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:28,360 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty