Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and Petty and he
Speaker 2: arms wrong.
Speaker 1: To live What Why from Studio c Sea's in your
Speaker 1: a dimly lit room deepen from the bowels of the
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getting communications compound fortified by titanium walls.
Speaker 2: And today we are toiling under.
Speaker 1: The title of the show the Straits of Horror Moves. Okay,
Speaker 1: was answering your friend's question about these traits, The Strait
Speaker 1: of Horror moves. Apple whose AI is an embarrassment wrote
Speaker 1: it as the Straits of Horror Moves not bad today,
Speaker 1: That's only one of the most discussed things in the
Speaker 1: news today. And then it had the wrong form of
Speaker 1: root when I said shipping route, but keep working on
Speaker 1: a coopertino the other alternate title to win or not
Speaker 1: to win?
Speaker 2: That is the question. We were making that point yesterday
Speaker 2: about AI.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if this has anything to do
Speaker 1: with anything, but I gotta believe if AI is going
Speaker 1: to take all our jobs, you'd be able to make texting.
Speaker 1: Figure out that if you're talking about shipping routes, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't use root. I mean, that's like something a second
Speaker 1: grader could figure out. So why can't AI do that?
Speaker 1: I really don't does it if everybody, like many of
Speaker 1: our smart Silicon Valley listeners, know, if there's any relationship
Speaker 1: between those things, Maybe there's not. Maybe they just don't
Speaker 1: care about the fixing that while they're working on coding
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so mystified and flabbergasted by the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine anyway, but to the things you
Speaker 1: were talking about there. So it was a heck of
Speaker 1: a thing middle of the day yesterday West Coast time,
Speaker 1: because I followed the Open Source Intelligence thing on Twitter
Speaker 1: on a fairly regular basis, and they had a bulletin
Speaker 1: report Iran attempting to mine the Straits of Horror Moves
Speaker 1: and that was a giant headline. I mean, holy crap,
Speaker 1: you know, because we've been talking for days about keeping
Speaker 1: that open, and then the French had announced that they
Speaker 1: were willing to send some of their ships there to
Speaker 1: escort oil tankers through there, and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So that Iran's going to mine the thing. Then, like
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes later, the open source intelligence headline was, never mind,
Speaker 1: the US military has bombed sixteen of those mining ships
Speaker 1: and they're sunk. Allue them to the pleasant coastal town
Speaker 1: of Smith. Areens that didn't last long, meaning things that
Speaker 1: didn't last long. You follow the whole Secretary of Energy
Speaker 1: tweet thing, the tweet that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know this story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the second n who I think is doing a
Speaker 1: terrific job, tweeted that the picture of a warship next
Speaker 1: to a tanker, the US is escorting tankers through the
Speaker 1: straits of hor moves, and oil markets plunged because the
Speaker 1: futures market, it's really a cool thing in the free market.
Speaker 1: To talk about it later. But anyway, so everybody thought, oh,
Speaker 1: thank god, all right, the traits of horror moves are cool.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna be able to ship oil just fine,
Speaker 1: all right, thank god for the US blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And then like a few minutes later, Katie, I know,
Speaker 1: you know this story was five to ten minutes later.
Speaker 1: It was probably five minutes. Yeah, it all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it was taken down, and the oil markets are like, uh, why.
Speaker 2: Did you take that down? Really?
Speaker 1: And the price is shot back up again, and companies
Speaker 1: that had lost and bought a bunch of oil at
Speaker 1: that price, and then that price and hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of dollars traded hands, and the Energy Department said, eh,
Speaker 1: a staffer miscaptioned photograph.
Speaker 2: But we've correct. Wow. So that sort of thing has
Speaker 2: happened a number of times.
Speaker 1: And I don't have the slightest reason to believe that
Speaker 1: there's any malfeasance here other than maybe shouldn't have posted
Speaker 1: a picture. But how easy would it be to make
Speaker 1: millions of dollars by jerking around the stock market like
Speaker 1: that on purpose?
Speaker 2: If you knew you were going to do it? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's funny.
Speaker 1: I hadn't even thought in terms of malfeasans, But my god,
Speaker 1: that would be an easy way to make just so.
Speaker 2: Easy gobs of money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, enough that you never have to worry about making
Speaker 1: money ever again in your life. You could make in
Speaker 1: like five and the money I'm looking for you can
Speaker 1: make in like five minutes with that sort of a tweet.
Speaker 2: The big score.
Speaker 1: So they didn't get to lay their minds across the
Speaker 1: strait of Horror Moves, which at its narrowest point is
Speaker 1: only twenty miles from Iran. But Iran did hit three
Speaker 1: ships this morning, Yeah, trying to sail through the straight
Speaker 1: to Horror Moves, and attacked Dubai International Airport, which we've
Speaker 1: all learned in the last couple of weeks is the
Speaker 1: busiest airport in the world.
Speaker 2: Did not know that, Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: So I happen to be reading about the Straits, the
Speaker 1: Strait of Horror Moves today, and indeed, as Jack indicated,
Speaker 1: it's just under twenty one miles wide at its narrowest point.
Speaker 1: But interestingly, because of the seafloor and shipping roots and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, you've got to pass within ten miles
Speaker 1: of Iran's coast as you squeeze by, So it is
Speaker 1: it's an easy shot.
Speaker 2: Well, and.
Speaker 1: So I don't know anything about this. Maybe we should
Speaker 1: have Mike Lines on about this or something like that.
Speaker 1: I would love to understand, first of all, like we've
Speaker 1: hit I hear different numbers now eight ten thousand targets
Speaker 1: between US and Israel.
Speaker 2: What are all those targets?
Speaker 1: I mean, how are there even ten thousand targets to hit.
Speaker 1: That's kind of surprising to me as a layman. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine there are ten thousand things to hit. I
Speaker 1: realized it's a big country, but ten thousand is all
Speaker 1: large number. And then with the fact that we've hit
Speaker 1: ten thousand targets, how are they not all the stuff
Speaker 1: that would fire rockets into the straight of horror moves?
Speaker 1: Haven't we How have we not obliterated every bit of
Speaker 1: that Since they have no air defenses, there must be
Speaker 1: as they got a missile launcher hidden under every camel.
Speaker 1: I've got to assume there must be a reason. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to claim any incombitants or anything, but
Speaker 1: it's just surprising to me if we've hit that many
Speaker 1: targets with that being such a high priority obviously for
Speaker 1: the President of the United States, so the entire world,
Speaker 1: the entire well, yeah, but the President the United States
Speaker 1: kind of calm the shots on this whole day. Uh,
Speaker 1: since that's such a high priority, I'm surprised we haven't
Speaker 1: just like obliterated everything They've got to try to shoot
Speaker 1: at the straight or her moves on the other side
Speaker 1: of the equation. The weird beards, they understand that those
Speaker 1: missile launchers are their leverage, and so they have worked
Speaker 1: very very hard to disperse them and hide them, et cetera.
Speaker 2: The weird beards.
Speaker 1: Yes, with all due respect, I wonder because that one
Speaker 1: of our alternate titles was to win or not to win?
Speaker 2: That is the question. And what would victory look like?
Speaker 2: What are the.
Speaker 1: Various levels of quote unquote victory that would be acceptable
Speaker 1: to the Orange one. And it's a really interesting question,
Speaker 1: which we'll be digging into in a little bit. But
Speaker 1: I find myself wondering whether since the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard,
Speaker 1: they appear to be really pulling the strings at this point,
Speaker 1: and they are pretty potent force still, you know, fewer
Speaker 1: and fewer large arms, but hundreds of thousands of guys.
Speaker 2: With small and medium arms.
Speaker 1: I wonder if we are pummeling their business interests to
Speaker 1: get them to come to the table in a serious way,
Speaker 1: because you remember, you must remember they're a they're an
Speaker 1: army and a syndicate and a corporation. As far as
Speaker 1: the coverage of this, I got a clipper going to play. Later,
Speaker 1: Mark Alprin was doing his newscast in the afternoon and
Speaker 1: talking about how for the media he is troubled that
Speaker 1: you've either got on Fox and Fox adjacent sort of
Speaker 1: media unquestioning support of this, Like there's no skepticism about
Speaker 1: you know, how's this going to end?
Speaker 2: Or what about this?
Speaker 1: None of that, Whereas he said, on all the other channels,
Speaker 1: they don't seem to be rooting for our side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's really troubled by one hand, no skepticism. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, they're not even rooting for our country.
Speaker 2: Wow. So that's not the best place to be in
Speaker 2: terms of media coverage. That's very troubling.
Speaker 1: If you would like something in the middle, well, A,
Speaker 1: you found it, and B perhaps you could recommend the
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty Show to your friends. They can grab
Speaker 1: it via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand anytime they want.
Speaker 1: I take in a lot of all kinds of different
Speaker 1: kinds of media, and there is a big thread smell
Speaker 1: of not rooting for success on our side, because you
Speaker 1: know that would hand Donald Trump will win. I guess,
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, it's Trump arrangement syndrome. But you've also
Speaker 1: got to remind yourself that we've got a handful of
Speaker 1: generations of Americans who've been taught to despise their country,
Speaker 1: that the US has been a force for evil in
Speaker 1: the world, that uniquely on Earth we had slaves for
Speaker 1: a while, a little while historically speaking, and that we're
Speaker 1: an oppressor, a colonial oppressor, and so when they see
Speaker 1: US lobbing bombs, of course they think it's evil. It's
Speaker 1: the greatest failing of the Boomers and Gen X to
Speaker 1: let the Marxists take over schools. I firmly believe that, oh,
Speaker 1: in spending the country into oblivion, those two things. Other
Speaker 1: than that, we've done great though. So I'm reading this
Speaker 1: tweet from Brit Hume and then we'll start the show officially.
Speaker 1: Brit Hume senior analyst for Fox News and a very
Speaker 1: very straight shooter. So it seems that not only is
Speaker 1: the strait of horror moves not closed, it is actually
Speaker 1: accommodating more Iranian oil exports than before the war. If
Speaker 1: you're not sure what to believe, you're not alone to
Speaker 1: read into that story.
Speaker 2: More.
Speaker 1: I'm making marine face exports of oil than before the war.
Speaker 1: How are they pulling that off?
Speaker 2: What the hell? I I don't have to look into that.
Speaker 1: You can blow the beard off a mulla, but we can't.
Speaker 1: You know, take out an Iranian oil tanker. What the
Speaker 1: hell are very Beard focused today?
Speaker 2: And the shorthand I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, March eleventh.
Speaker 1: Or twenty twenty six, where I'm strung and getting we
Speaker 1: approved of this program on the old Patriot missile shave.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go officially according to FCC rules
Speaker 1: and regulations at mark.
Speaker 3: Yesterday on the call with the President, the Russians said
Speaker 3: that they have not been sharing.
Speaker 2: That's that's what they.
Speaker 3: Said, so, you know, we can take them at their word.
Speaker 3: But they did say that. And yesterday morning and yesterday morning, independently,
Speaker 3: Jared and I had a call with Ushakov who reiterated
Speaker 3: the same So I I, you know, that's a better
Speaker 3: question for the intel people. But let's hope that they're
Speaker 3: not sharing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hope that that's mister Wikoff, the lead negotiator
Speaker 1: on everything and the Trump administration, on the story that
Speaker 1: Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran to give them targets
Speaker 1: to try to hit our troops, which obviously would be really,
Speaker 1: really bad, and Witkoff says, well, I hope they're not.
Speaker 1: They say they're not I'm going to take them at
Speaker 1: their word that they're not you're taking Vladimir Putin at
Speaker 1: his word. Well that's cute. Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think you'd like to have that answer back. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're probably right. I yeah, don't like that story. Any who,
Speaker 1: Spicy Times got a guy that scored what, eighty three
Speaker 1: points in the NBA last night. Break down some of
Speaker 1: the stats that are amazing in that second most in
Speaker 1: NBA history, Not what was the number of Michael not
Speaker 1: anybody you've ever heard of?
Speaker 2: Eighty three three.
Speaker 1: That's amazing, not anybody you've ever heard of, which is
Speaker 1: interesting because the top two record holders were Wilt Chamberlain
Speaker 1: and Kobe Bryant household names. And then this guy comes
Speaker 1: along and scores eighty three points in a game. But
Speaker 1: some of the stats behind it are amazing if you're
Speaker 1: a sports fan at all.
Speaker 2: And we'll get to that. We got Katie's were green. Hmm,
Speaker 2: I went.
Speaker 1: Poorly speaking of wanting a second chance, Let's lay down,
Speaker 1: lay down, some orange cones, some.
Speaker 2: Road flares and everything. Try to reconstruct this sentence. We've
Speaker 2: got yes, Katie, No, I'm just you can do it.
Speaker 1: Jack, I believe in it, dentures and whatnot. I should
Speaker 1: have gotten the ones that, so I bought them off
Speaker 1: the shelf, just like the small medium large instead of
Speaker 1: get old and fitted. I told you large, either go
Speaker 1: big or small. But if it goes, if I go
Speaker 1: to the small ones, I can't eat corn on the cob.
Speaker 1: If I go with the big ones, I can't eat.
Speaker 1: I can't talk. So it's problem anyway. We've got Katie
Speaker 1: Green's headlines coming up next. Oh yeah, another sports story.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Katie had this headline, but the
Speaker 1: United States lost to freaking Italy in the World Baseball
Speaker 1: Classic and we might be out of the tournament. We
Speaker 1: might be out of the tournament. Everybody who's looking for
Speaker 1: to US play in Japan for the title and and
Speaker 1: the and the manager of the team, I forget what
Speaker 1: his name was, it already anounce yesday. Well, we're basically
Speaker 1: into the final round already. And then they went down
Speaker 1: eight nothing to Italy and lost. The sports gods heard
Speaker 1: them say that. Yeah, you know, I didn't even dial
Speaker 1: up the game last night because I thought I'm not
Speaker 1: going to watch the US play Italy. Now they might
Speaker 1: be out if Mexico doesn't win. Mexico has to win
Speaker 1: over somebody today by four runs or more, which is
Speaker 1: a lot in baseball, to pull the United States into
Speaker 1: the tournament.
Speaker 2: Otherwise he's in Mexico. That's what I say.
Speaker 1: That's lord, I guess the national humiliation and in wartime.
Speaker 2: Michael, Yeah, we didn't have an expresso machine in there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right.
Speaker 1: They had an express machine in the dugout. Maybe that
Speaker 1: works delicious. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
Speaker 1: the lead story with Katie Green Katie Well, of course
Speaker 1: at the top of the headlines.
Speaker 4: As I ran NBC, inflation was steady in February before
Speaker 4: I ran, drove up gas prices. ABC, I ran launches
Speaker 4: quote most strikes yet, ships hit by unknown projectiles in
Speaker 4: straight of horror moves and CNN fake explosions, fake missiles,
Speaker 4: fake troops. AI videos and images of Iran war spread
Speaker 4: widely on social media.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's an interesting angle. I'll bet that's true.
Speaker 1: I've probably watched videos that were AI and I didn't
Speaker 1: know it was some sort of exciting headlinest I got
Speaker 1: got what by one the other day?
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the more we've seemed to have forgotten about the
Speaker 4: New York Times. Ukraine reaches a milestone finally making China
Speaker 4: free drones.
Speaker 1: What is that kind of free drones? No Chinese parts,
Speaker 1: no parts of products? Yeah, okay, all right, good good,
Speaker 1: let's buy some Fox News.
Speaker 4: DHS shutdown forces airports to tell travelers to arrive four
Speaker 4: hours early amid massive delay.
Speaker 1: What, yeah, I'm driving or walking or riding my bike,
Speaker 1: riding a horse.
Speaker 2: Like anything but a plane.
Speaker 1: Obviously, the flight has got to be of a certain
Speaker 1: length before it makes any sense to not drive versus
Speaker 1: getting there four hours early, unpresumably four hours early on
Speaker 1: the way back.
Speaker 2: Right ay.
Speaker 4: Investigators are finally looking into Jeffrey Epstein's new Mexico ranch
Speaker 4: and searching for dead foreign girls.
Speaker 1: Nice, oh boy, it's beautiful ranch. Nice piece of real estate.
Speaker 2: Market batch.
Speaker 4: YouTube is now the world's largest media company, and it's
Speaker 4: only getting bigger.
Speaker 2: What did we have stat the other day? Something a billion?
Speaker 1: Two billion videos get up a little did per day
Speaker 1: or something in some crazy number.
Speaker 2: Studdy fines.
Speaker 4: Scientists gave raccoons a puzzle box. They continued to solve
Speaker 4: it after the food.
Speaker 2: Was gone, just because they enjoyed it. Yeah, well, they
Speaker 2: enjoy a puzzle. Raccoon's fascinating beast.
Speaker 4: Finally, the Babylon Bee Iran Morn's United states that it
Speaker 4: has a huge stockpile of supreme leaders.
Speaker 1: You better, you better? Where is he hiding? Where is
Speaker 1: that guy hiding? How much is he enjoying life right now?
Speaker 1: Does he feel like he's the supreme Leader and supremely
Speaker 1: in charge of anything? Well, he can't even pick up
Speaker 1: a cell phone there Allegedly it should be keeping them
Speaker 1: away from laptops or anything connected to the internet. Well,
Speaker 1: he can't really communicate. He like writing notes in passing
Speaker 1: them around. He's got to be a little twitchy. Hey,
Speaker 1: Supreme leader, startledly it should be hiding in a brothel
Speaker 1: or a house, considering his house. Yeah, yeah, he's been
Speaker 1: wounded in the legs too, apparently recently, the initial strike.
Speaker 1: Oh really, okay, I'd never heard of that. I wish
Speaker 1: I must speedy death. Yeah, recovery, no kidding. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we've got more news on the way.
Speaker 2: I hope you can stay here, arm strong and getty.
Speaker 5: The way that a man viewsed vegetarianism veganism tofu reflects
Speaker 5: how they view women. I think that if you can't
Speaker 5: reduce your meat intake. You are selfish. What do you
Speaker 5: mean you can't just have a veggie burger once in
Speaker 5: a while the world is dying rainforcet is being chopped
Speaker 5: down to make warehouses to kill animals in I had
Speaker 5: a bacon sandwich this morning, but I still feel so guilty.
Speaker 5: Meat isn't that good for you? The idea of that
Speaker 5: really reminds me of toxic masculinity.
Speaker 1: Okay, eating meat is toxic masculinity, according to that person.
Speaker 1: Immediately we started playing it, I regretted it. I thought,
Speaker 1: why do we or anybody else do this? I guess
Speaker 1: you take some obscure TikToker with a hot take platform.
Speaker 2: Them and then complain about it. What's the point of that?
Speaker 2: Because people enjoy it?
Speaker 1: They do they I want these people to shut up
Speaker 1: and go away. I don't want them to be like,
Speaker 1: get more juice. I don't need more juice.
Speaker 2: You're no fun.
Speaker 1: So good for you with your hot take that eating
Speaker 1: meat is toxic masculinity. See that was twenty seconds, but
Speaker 1: don't always seemed like a year.
Speaker 2: Because she was so odd.
Speaker 1: Yeah, imagine having to have dinner with her. So if
Speaker 1: twenty seconds seemed like five minutes to me. Then having
Speaker 1: dinner with her would seem like six years of your life. Oh,
Speaker 1: I would grab my phone say, oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: my mom. She's been sick. I'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: you don't care. I'll probably grab my fork and stab
Speaker 1: her in the neck. So you're better than ever seene
Speaker 1: again anything escape.
Speaker 2: We got some.
Speaker 1: News of the day, like we've already made and we'll
Speaker 1: get into some of that a little bit later on
Speaker 1: a variety of fronts. But the Forbes Billionaire List came
Speaker 1: out and it's actually pretty interesting in a number of ways,
Speaker 1: the big picture being that the list features a record
Speaker 1: three four and twenty eight billionaires, a thirteen percent increase
Speaker 1: in one year because of the stock market going up
Speaker 1: so much, the combined networth of all your richest people.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not working Bernie's side of the street here.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a horror or I don't
Speaker 1: think their money took any from me. So, but it's
Speaker 1: something a combined networth that jumped by four trillion in
Speaker 1: one year to twenty trillion dollars. It was a good
Speaker 1: year for people who were rich and in the stock
Speaker 1: market definitely. That's astonishing. It is it really is thirteen
Speaker 1: percent increase in billionaires. Part of it is inflation. Is
Speaker 1: a billion isn't the same today as it was in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I remember I mentioned yesterday that one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars barrel oil was seventy nine dollars in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: That's only five years and a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Shock, So a billion is you know, not close to
Speaker 1: the same as it was just five years ago.
Speaker 2: Forbes called it.
Speaker 1: Keeping in mind, just to bring this home, because this
Speaker 1: is one of my top five jehads. When the government overspends,
Speaker 1: it causes inflation, and that steals your money.
Speaker 2: It steals your savings. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is not to depress you as the world's most
Speaker 1: depressing radio show. This is just like a wake up
Speaker 1: call to me or you or anybody else. We all
Speaker 1: need to remember this. You know, you look at your
Speaker 1: four to one k or your savings one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: or five hundred thousand or a million or whatever you
Speaker 1: got in there ain't the same as it was when
Speaker 1: you looked at it in twenty twenty. The actual buying
Speaker 1: power is a lot less. According to your figures. That
Speaker 1: million dollars is seven hundred and ninety thousand. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: just a big deal. Eof all right, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I can go on.
Speaker 2: Okay, back to this.
Speaker 1: This is why you dredge up ob notxious vegetarian kick
Speaker 1: it chicks and yell at him for fun. Forbes not
Speaker 1: what is the Year of the Billionaire, noting that the
Speaker 1: planet added more than one billionaire per day over the
Speaker 1: past twelve months, driven by AI powered stock market boom.
Speaker 1: So everybody got involved in a look at all the
Speaker 1: tech people in the top six on the list. At
Speaker 1: number one, Elon Musk now at eight hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: nine billion, he is going to become the world Oh
Speaker 1: my god, he will be the world's first trillionaire. And
Speaker 1: boy will the Berniees and aocs go crazy when he's
Speaker 1: got a trillion dollars About how somehow he took that
Speaker 1: money for you from you. If he didn't have it,
Speaker 1: you'd have it. I don't understand how you make that
Speaker 1: wall share the share the wealth? Yeah, so fair share.
Speaker 1: We all know who Elon is. Larry Page number two
Speaker 1: at Google, Sergey Brinn of Google number three, So Google's
Speaker 1: two and three way back at two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: seven billion, Jeff Bezos of Amazon to twenty four, Mark
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg to twenty two, Larry Ellison of Oracle one ninety
Speaker 1: to your top six are all tech AI related.
Speaker 2: Companies that made a lot of money.
Speaker 1: One interesting note ranks at number six forty five on
Speaker 1: the list are our current president, worth six point five
Speaker 1: billion dollars according to Forbes, up twenty seven percent, largely
Speaker 1: from crypto dealings and his New York civil fraud penalty
Speaker 1: being thrown out.
Speaker 2: He got a lot of his money back. Interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the crypto dealings are utterly unholy, I mean, just despicable.
Speaker 2: Frankly is Don Junior on the list? Eric, I don't know,
Speaker 2: least somewhere on there maybe.
Speaker 1: Notable newcomers to the billionaire list include Beyonce is now
Speaker 1: a billionaire.
Speaker 2: She and her husband's been for a while. They're a
Speaker 2: wealthy family. I'll bet little Blue Ivy has some nice toys.
Speaker 2: Who's her man again?
Speaker 1: Blue Ivy might be seventeen years old by now, Jay
Speaker 1: Z mister Z beyonce Z.
Speaker 2: That's her last name.
Speaker 1: Beyonce's not on the list. Doctor Dre is on the list.
Speaker 1: Roger Federer the tennis players on the list. Among the
Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety first timers. Doctor Dre declared himself
Speaker 1: hip hop first billionaire back in two fourteen. He's now
Speaker 1: officially one of only six music artists on the list.
Speaker 1: Here are your music artists, Beyonce, jay Z husband and wife.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: How did they pull that off? They must be really
Speaker 1: good business people. Rihanna, who we got to talk about
Speaker 1: that situation. She nearly got killed the other day. She
Speaker 1: was home the original reports where she was not home.
Speaker 1: They were home and in the trailer that this nut
Speaker 1: job was shooting at.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, in a trailer. What's she doing in a trailer?
Speaker 1: They had an airstream trailer out front, and they must
Speaker 1: camp or something. I'm assuming or maybe they're, like you,
Speaker 1: having their kitchen remodeled, so they bought a fancy trailer.
Speaker 1: I don't know why anyway, Rihanna, Taylor Swift and who
Speaker 1: else is on the list?
Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen. Wow.
Speaker 1: Eight of the top ten fortunes in the world are
Speaker 1: now driven by technology, with Nvidia's The Guy with the
Speaker 1: Cool Leather Jacket joining the elite ranks as AI infrastructure
Speaker 1: becomes the world primary engine for new wealth is anything AI,
Speaker 1: or certainly was over the last couple of years, just
Speaker 1: reading in the journal about this company founded by an
Speaker 1: nineteen year old, eighteen year old and seventeen year old
Speaker 1: something like that. They're a couple of years older now,
Speaker 1: but just a couple of years older, and they're AI
Speaker 1: company that does like polling and predictions and stuff like
Speaker 1: that is now valued at a billion dollars.
Speaker 2: If and they can't even rent a car.
Speaker 1: If all of us could go back like three years
Speaker 1: and readjust our investments and retirement heavily into AI, it
Speaker 1: would be a big difference. I didn't rich rich except
Speaker 1: for what was stolen pin inflation. It was a fat
Speaker 1: I thought. The whole AI think thought that was a fat.
Speaker 1: So I was just looking at that article that you
Speaker 1: sent us, Katie about the AI images of bombings and
Speaker 1: pictures from the war that are flying around, and it
Speaker 1: made me think, what's the point of even reading the news,
Speaker 1: which might be where a lot of people end up
Speaker 1: in the near future. If there's a decent chance that
Speaker 1: what I'm looking at is not real pretty soon, it
Speaker 1: takes all the fun out of it, clearly, And we've
Speaker 1: just begun the era of I wonder.
Speaker 2: If this is real?
Speaker 1: Right, So I assume that there will be news organizations
Speaker 1: emerge that we trust that their motto is, look, we
Speaker 1: got a panel of twelve experts that do everything we
Speaker 1: can to make sure everything on here is real, and
Speaker 1: that we gravitate towards them. I assume that's the only
Speaker 1: thing that possibly could happen, or.
Speaker 2: We all es to.
Speaker 1: But it won't be a panel of experts. It'll be
Speaker 1: in an algorithm that'll detect AI. Okay, bring I think,
Speaker 1: but the same effect. Yeah, yeah, but that's almost got
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: If there is a desire for people to seek out
Speaker 1: the truth, I'm not sure there is.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I only know my own anecdotal life, But I know
Speaker 1: plenty of people who enjoy seeking out so much stuff
Speaker 1: that just verifies.
Speaker 2: Your worldview already, don't really care if it's real or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that fringe of the population, whether it's
Speaker 1: two percent or twenty percent, is going to be unreachable soon.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't reason with them, because they'll be
Speaker 1: able to construct their own universe.
Speaker 2: I mean even more than they do right now.
Speaker 1: Will that crowd vote or is that crowd so cynical
Speaker 1: That they will not vote depends what stripe of them
Speaker 1: you're talking about. But interesting question. If they don't vote,
Speaker 1: then I'm not sure how much it matters. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and chatter amongst yourselves on Twitter and whatever other social
Speaker 1: media form you got about your weird conspiracies or views
Speaker 1: and don't vote, and the rest of us will run
Speaker 1: the world. I think they probably will vote, but for
Speaker 1: bizarre and difficult to explain reasons. And you will have
Speaker 1: a just for instance, a JD. Vance who understands as
Speaker 1: consultants will tell them, listen, this is a pretty significant
Speaker 1: block of people in the fourth District of Illinois or whatever.
Speaker 2: All you have to do use the word rude to.
Speaker 1: Bega in one of your speeches, okay, because in their
Speaker 1: forum that's code for unearthing the anti Jewish or the
Speaker 1: Jewish cabal that runs the Builderberg group that is in
Speaker 1: touch with the space aliens.
Speaker 2: So just say rude vega and they'll be like, all right, Wow.
Speaker 2: Breaking moving news.
Speaker 1: Starbucks founder Howard Schultz is moving out of Seattle and
Speaker 1: going to Florida. It's amazing how many super blue like
Speaker 1: Hollywood stars or business leaders are. But when the rubber
Speaker 1: meets the road of taxes, they leave wherever they're from
Speaker 1: and go to Texas or Florida or Tennessee or any
Speaker 1: of those places.
Speaker 2: Maybe we can dig.
Speaker 1: Into this a little bit later, but I was just
Speaker 1: reading about how Europe's far left is having a moment.
Speaker 1: They're real lefty political parties are surging, and what they
Speaker 1: advocate is so pardon me, things stupid, unworkable and indicted
Speaker 1: and convicted by history over and over again. It's taking
Speaker 1: that anybody could advocate for it, but it's catching on,
Speaker 1: especially among somebody, anybody, the young, young voters. One thing,
Speaker 1: just since you mentioned it, so I saw a headline.
Speaker 1: I didn't look into the story that around the White House,
Speaker 1: Trump is starting to say.
Speaker 2: Maybe Rubio's the next guy.
Speaker 1: Not JDS, that's the word, but based on a couple
Speaker 1: of speeches and some you know, just hanging out with Rubio,
Speaker 1: maybe he's just super impressed with him. It is both
Speaker 1: amusing and troubling how much the White House can resemble
Speaker 1: the Apprentice Show, as he really likes to see people
Speaker 1: grapple with each other a little bit.
Speaker 2: See it comes out on top. Oh that's interesting, he thinks, Boy.
Speaker 1: If they Rubio says he won't run if JD Vance runs.
Speaker 1: JD Vance is gonna run. But that would be one
Speaker 1: of your all time epic battle Zoe, be like Hillary
Speaker 1: and Brock going at it, where Hillary is the presumed
Speaker 1: Hill and Brocks and no, no, I think this is
Speaker 1: my time, old lady. We'll have to see where events
Speaker 1: leave them in the great foot race for power. Because
Speaker 1: right now, if the election were held today, Rubio would
Speaker 1: be the guy. I don't quite understand why Rubio has
Speaker 1: said out loud he won't run if JD's runs. At
Speaker 1: the time, he said that jd was extremely popular and
Speaker 1: he's the sitting veep. It's tough to beat that, especially
Speaker 1: if he gets the nod from Trump and they're friends allegedly,
Speaker 1: although as the old saying goes, if you want a
Speaker 1: friend in Washington, get a dog.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we got mailbag on the way and then
Speaker 1: we'll get into some more news of the day.
Speaker 2: Stay here, I missed the connection.
Speaker 1: So the reporting is the CEO of Starbucks is leaving
Speaker 1: his hometown of Seattle because the legislature intle in Washington today.
Speaker 1: The legislature in Washington today passed a ten percent tax
Speaker 1: on anything over a million dollars that you make.
Speaker 2: Nine said, that's so. There you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you think people rich people aren't gonna leave your
Speaker 1: city or state when you raise your taxes. Billionaire tax
Speaker 1: billionaire texts you're nuts. Yeah, they'll think, gosh, that's too bad.
Speaker 1: I like this house and and I'll miss my friends,
Speaker 1: but I'll fly back and see him goodbye. Here's your
Speaker 1: freedom loving quote of the day, continuing our series on war.
Speaker 1: This one from Euripides ancient wisdom, and it rhymes ten
Speaker 1: soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Speaker 2: There you go. Think about it. Huh, mail bag without
Speaker 2: a leader not missing their heads? No, literally headless. It's
Speaker 2: a metaphor, you see.
Speaker 1: You could go with This is the classic Sun Sou quote.
Speaker 1: The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy
Speaker 1: without fighting.
Speaker 2: That's worth remembered.
Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, here's your mail bag us no mail bag
Speaker 1: at armstrong e getty dot com.
Speaker 2: Don wants to know.
Speaker 1: Hey, the new Kamane weird Bear Junior has no interest
Speaker 1: in becoming a martyr.
Speaker 2: What would he do with seventeen virgins? Right? Because he's impotent?
Speaker 2: I get it up. Is there a virgin shortage? I
Speaker 2: thought it was seventy two virgins.
Speaker 1: I like the meme where seventy two virgins are all
Speaker 1: male video gamers. Anyway, moving along, not that there's anything
Speaker 1: wrong with video.
Speaker 2: Does inflation play a role in this? That's right?
Speaker 1: Adjusted for inflation, that is thirty five virgins. I guess
Speaker 1: that would be backward Moving along, Zach who is a
Speaker 1: man of the military right. I've been looking in on
Speaker 1: Twitter since the wars started. I see extremist left and
Speaker 1: right claiming we're fighting for Israel, saying they don't want
Speaker 1: to send American sons and daughters to die for Israel,
Speaker 1: et cetera. I must have missed the die for Israel
Speaker 1: clause in my enlistment contract with the army.
Speaker 2: Oh well.
Speaker 1: Biggest things social media and this conflict have shown me
Speaker 1: is one there are way more anti Semites than I
Speaker 1: realized existed. And two, there's a massive disconnect between civilians
Speaker 1: and the military and veteran community. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of vet's loving this. GWT what does that stand for?
Speaker 2: GWT?
Speaker 1: That is your girl, I don't know, I'll look it up.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of g WT vets living this
Speaker 1: and I have young guys in my unit itching for
Speaker 1: a Middle East deployment right now. Not young, but so
Speaker 1: am I What a weird time we live in anyway,
Speaker 1: cheers boys, mind you Zach, my brother's that way, respect
Speaker 1: my lad. Global war on terrorism? Ah oh I see
Speaker 1: I see yeah, Okay. Thanks for the note, Zach, and
Speaker 1: thanks for everything you do. Let's see Jack and Joe,
Speaker 1: writes Anita, gaining steam as a frequent correspondent Progressives in
Speaker 1: the press and the Christian and the Christians who never
Speaker 1: darkened the door of a church may not care much
Speaker 1: for religious world views, but the Iranian theocracy is premised
Speaker 1: on bringing about the return of the Mahdi, that is,
Speaker 1: their particular brand of Shia Islam.
Speaker 2: This correct. To do so, they must destroy Israel. The
Speaker 2: whole of the regime has existed to do just that.
Speaker 1: And the deceased Dietola decided to pursue nuclear weapons because,
Speaker 1: in his words, Israel is a quote one bomb country.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how many of us refuse to believe people
Speaker 1: when they say what they are, Just like the thing
Speaker 1: of Hey, it turns out Stalin and Lenin actually believed it.
Speaker 1: They were actual communists, and it turns out the Mullahs
Speaker 1: and Iran they actually believe this. They believe they're going
Speaker 1: to bring back everything good for the world. That's why
Speaker 1: they're so into this. American progressives and oddly Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: I don't think get religious fanaticism.
Speaker 2: Moving along, great note from Jim.
Speaker 1: Jack's comments about adjusting oil prices for inflation are spot on.
Speaker 1: Even one hundred dollars a barrel, we aren't anywhere near
Speaker 1: the historic peaks.
Speaker 2: Ee this graph.
Speaker 1: I've attached love the show, have been navid listener for
Speaker 1: about two years now. My only regret is not listening earlier.
Speaker 1: Oh Chippi, come on, you're two kinds. But my problem
Speaker 1: with that is I'm an idiot. Why did it take
Speaker 1: me to point that out. Why hasn't some news organization said,
Speaker 1: by the way, one hundred dollars barrel oil is not
Speaker 1: the magic number it used to be. Blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. It's a measure of how horrifyingly terrible our
Speaker 1: media are. I mean, really terrible. But Jim, helpfully sending
Speaker 1: along the chart, he indicated its inflation adjusted monthly prices
Speaker 1: from crude oil nineteen forty six through the present. In
Speaker 1: June twenty twenty five dollars, and by that measure, the
Speaker 1: highest ever prices adjusted for inflation were in June of
Speaker 1: twenty oh eight. Oddly enough, at all eighty six dollars
Speaker 1: a barre wow during the Great Financial Collapse. That's more
Speaker 1: significantly higher than December of nineteen seventy nine or the
Speaker 1: arab oil embargo of the early seventies. And I don't
Speaker 1: particularly right around the average price really, I don't particularly
Speaker 1: remember that being the big topic in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: I guess because housing prices and everything else right, right,
Speaker 1: it's skyrocketed up and then fell very quickly too. It
Speaker 1: looks by like it in six months on this chart,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't recall it specifically. Much more to come.
Speaker 1: Hope you can hang around. That's pretty interesting. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of interesting stuff hopefully on the way.
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