Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 3: lit room deep with from the bowels of the Armstrong
Speaker 3: and Getting Communications Compound, And today we are toiling under
Speaker 3: the title of the show.
Speaker 2: I'd like to apologize.
Speaker 1: First of all, the titles of the show are utterly
Speaker 1: lacking in mirth or irony.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: I tried, and I tried, I came up with nothing.
Speaker 1: So here's your two sincere titles. Mundani's Islamuinus New York
Speaker 1: is hemorrhaging highers or if you prefer victory or surrender
Speaker 1: only two choices, compromise is out on what topic is
Speaker 1: victory or surrender? That would be your iran The situation, okay,
Speaker 1: the war that we're involved that nobody seems to be
Speaker 1: paying attention to. Oh no, they had it on right
Speaker 1: after the third consecutive day of the bison attack on
Speaker 1: the evening news. He watches, Yeah, nobody watches the evening newscast.
Speaker 1: But I use it as kind of a barometer of
Speaker 1: I don't know, they think that's what people want to
Speaker 1: know across the country.
Speaker 2: Or I'm like, but anyway, it.
Speaker 1: Was a good eight stories into the newscast before they
Speaker 1: got to the war with Iran. On the day that
Speaker 1: the President announced the war's back on, it was like
Speaker 1: after every YouTube video they could come up with, here's
Speaker 1: a cop wed to chase a guy across a golf course.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that a high speed chase on a
Speaker 1: golf course?
Speaker 2: That's wild.
Speaker 1: Here's two minutes on the Great Sam Neil, Now, oh right, yeah,
Speaker 1: Iran something something. So I don't know if they just
Speaker 1: have polling or something that shows them. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: and I don't know for you. I mean, we're always
Speaker 1: guessing what people are interested in. I can't believe that
Speaker 1: the war and nobody cares. Man, that's where we are.
Speaker 1: And eighteen days is the total length of the great
Speaker 1: big peace signing that they did in Versailles, France to
Speaker 1: make it a very big deal, because lots of peace deals,
Speaker 1: world wars and stuff like that have ended there oh yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and imagery and then eighteen days of nothing and now
Speaker 1: the war is completely back on. The blockade starts at
Speaker 1: four eastern this afternoon. Oh, man, I got to get
Speaker 1: some stuff shipped real quick before that kicks.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if it's occurred to you.
Speaker 1: These are really odd times, really really strange. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm plowing through the news of the day and the
Speaker 1: commentary and looking at the Democratic Party and some of
Speaker 1: the Republicans honestly, and oh gosh, just some of the
Speaker 1: conflicts going around the world, going on around the world,
Speaker 1: and Britain, perhaps our oldest closest friend, after our fairly
Speaker 1: bloody disagreement in the seventeen hundreds, has just completely lost
Speaker 1: his mind. There are very few rocks upon which to
Speaker 1: set one's feet.
Speaker 2: It would seem these days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've said, perhaps the rock of your salvation, your faith.
Speaker 1: I was on a big walk AI kick during my
Speaker 1: walk last night and listening to some of the big
Speaker 1: books on that and just being re reminded of, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's that. That might change everything everyone's ever known about
Speaker 1: everything by next year.
Speaker 2: Maybe. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sorry about the hardcore anti AI activists and how they
Speaker 1: have believed, some of the heavyweights of the industry that
Speaker 1: it is coming for the spine, the heart, the lungs
Speaker 1: of mankind. It will stamp out mankind Wow, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, that would be really really bad if that happened,
Speaker 1: and nobody's really sure. Strange times things are weird. They're
Speaker 1: getting weird fast. France Spain today, I've got no rooting
Speaker 1: interest in that. I haven't watched a second of France
Speaker 1: or Spain, whereas tomorrow it's Argentina England, and I've watched
Speaker 1: lots of both of those, so I'm kind of interested
Speaker 1: in that one. You have a France Spain rooting interest.
Speaker 2: I really don't know.
Speaker 1: I suppose France has been I talked to some hardcore
Speaker 1: Euros on our trip and they said, oh, yeah, France
Speaker 1: is just in a class all by itself.
Speaker 2: So I guess I'm rooting for the underdog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, France is supposed to be the most likely to
Speaker 1: win it all. England Headland Argentina is being called the
Speaker 1: greatest rivalry anywhere in sports, makes Yankees Red Sox.
Speaker 2: Look like nothing.
Speaker 1: Oh cool, Well, I'm into that one because I'm I've
Speaker 1: been following Argentina and England. England hasn't won the World
Speaker 1: Cup since nineteen sixty six, and super important to them,
Speaker 1: Argentina is an they shouldn't have won any of the
Speaker 1: last four matches they played, so they're just on this
Speaker 1: incredible come from behind How did you do that? Role?
Speaker 1: So it's exciting. I feel like I'm an interested in soccer,
Speaker 1: which most people don't. Actually, Well, the two countries had
Speaker 1: a war not terribly long ago in which they spilled
Speaker 1: each other's blood, so there's that, and then the the
Speaker 1: blood of the soccer field will describe that maybe give
Speaker 1: you a reason to watch and care. I don't know
Speaker 1: who I'm rooting for. I'm an Anglo file. I've always
Speaker 1: been an Anglo phile. I love Great Britain and it's
Speaker 1: common law and it's music and comedy rest. But on
Speaker 1: the other hand, currently.
Speaker 2: It just sucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's lost its mind. Yeah it really has. Here's
Speaker 1: the most interesting thing I've come across today. And I
Speaker 1: know you're going to talk some about the conspiracies around
Speaker 1: the guy who killed Charlie Kirk. That the trial didn't start,
Speaker 1: just the hearing for whether or not the guy should
Speaker 1: be charged, which is an opening shutcase as far as
Speaker 1: I can tell. The poor lost, murderous, crazy kid that
Speaker 1: killed Charlie Kirk for no good reason whatsoever, or not
Speaker 1: that there is a good reason but anyway, and what
Speaker 1: has happened out of that is underappreciated for its nuttiness.
Speaker 1: The fact that so many people have made this poor
Speaker 1: guy's wife with their little kids the villain in this
Speaker 1: story is just I mean, that might be the opening
Speaker 1: salvo in what the rest of all of our lives
Speaker 1: are going to be like, with the craziness of AI
Speaker 1: videos and the dispersing of media and nobody and no
Speaker 1: gatekeepers in the media whatsoever. Because I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: nuts that she somehow emerged as the villain. I'd like
Speaker 1: to amend my oft spoken slogan I'll be in the
Speaker 1: woods heavily armed.
Speaker 2: If you need. Yeah. I mean, it's absolutely despicable.
Speaker 1: It reminds me in a way of the Jim Jones
Speaker 1: Jonestown cult in Guiana that was like the starkest, most
Speaker 1: horrifying example of the gullibility of people and how they
Speaker 1: can be lured into various situations and manipulated by charismatic
Speaker 1: leaders and these uh Candice Owan style grifters who are
Speaker 1: latching onto people's weakness of mind and intriguing them with
Speaker 1: their you know, I'll give you the real secrets. You're
Speaker 1: not going to be duped. You're smarter than all those people,
Speaker 1: those enticements. I mean, it's just such a stark illustration
Speaker 1: of how the human mind can be manipulated. It's it's
Speaker 1: interesting even as it's horrifying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, both ends are interesting. The grifter ends interesting.
Speaker 1: The grifter end of it, the buns that are you know,
Speaker 1: the chart, the candis Owans and whoever that's making this
Speaker 1: thing go.
Speaker 2: But the fact that there's an audience for it.
Speaker 1: Is also just Yeah. So I came across this quote
Speaker 1: from Alan Moore. He is a uh is a guy
Speaker 1: behind the Watchmen and all kinds of comic book stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love him.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything. I didn't I had to google
Speaker 1: to who he was when I came across this quote.
Speaker 1: He is too, I guess that world, Comic.
Speaker 2: Book world, what graphic novel? Please? JK.
Speaker 1: Rowling is to like, you know, Harry Potter. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a really really big deal anyway, Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: what he said about conspiracies. The main thing that I
Speaker 1: learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy And we've said this.
Speaker 2: By the way, in recent months or whatever.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to give him, like all the
Speaker 1: insight credit in the world.
Speaker 2: And I can't draw a lick, but you know, we
Speaker 2: have said this stuff.
Speaker 1: The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is
Speaker 1: that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is
Speaker 1: more comforting. The truth of the world is that it's
Speaker 1: actually chaotic. The truth is far more frightening. Nobody's in control.
Speaker 1: The world is rudderless. Some people can't handle the fact
Speaker 1: that the world is rudderless. Yeah, And then you get
Speaker 1: the proportion the proportionality imbalance, where a good and important
Speaker 1: young man, for instance, or a president can be assassinated
Speaker 1: by a lonely loser, and it's so the effect is
Speaker 1: so disproportional with the actor. Some people can't accept that
Speaker 1: because it speaks to what mister Moore is talking about,
Speaker 1: the randomness and stupidity of the universe, that that could happen.
Speaker 2: So they've got to invent in their minds.
Speaker 1: And some of us obviously don't have this need in
Speaker 1: the same way, but they've got to invent in their
Speaker 1: minds something that's proportional to the effect of the act.
Speaker 1: A giant worldwide cabal, which seems to usually be run
Speaker 1: by the Jews God help you anti Semitic scam.
Speaker 2: It is your idiots. Stop it.
Speaker 1: Stop it today. I'll tell you what you can be
Speaker 1: anti Semitic in a week or two. If you decide
Speaker 1: you're smart, that's what you want to be. Trust me
Speaker 1: when I tell you you will look back with shame
Speaker 1: and anguish at the period of your life in which
Speaker 1: various grifters got you to spout.
Speaker 2: This anti Jewish crap.
Speaker 1: Stop today, take a break, take a deep breath, and
Speaker 1: think about an end of screed. But back to the
Speaker 1: just conspiracies in general, and how it's comforting for people
Speaker 1: rather than the randomness of the world. Just like I
Speaker 1: can see how it'd be more comforting to think Russia
Speaker 1: killed than that my aorta.
Speaker 2: Could explode at any moment.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, good example, I mean, because that's pretty horrifying.
Speaker 2: Yeah wait, what right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Uh so do you think most people that are on
Speaker 1: the receiving end of conspiracies that buy into them easily
Speaker 1: are disturbed or weak or do you want to ascribe
Speaker 1: any characteristics to them?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yes, some of them are all of those things.
Speaker 1: I was shocked I mentioned this at the time, that
Speaker 1: some very good, normal fun to be with working guys
Speaker 1: who are part of the larger crew that was doing
Speaker 1: our remodel. I've chatted with them all the time, and
Speaker 1: at one point they were just like, yeah, and there's
Speaker 1: no way it's that simple that that kid, that kid,
Speaker 1: because I've hunted with that bullet. There's no way that
Speaker 1: bullet could kill a guy from that range. It ripped
Speaker 1: his arterial. You know, I'm sorry. It is a corotid
Speaker 1: artery out or whatever it was. Of course it and
Speaker 1: these guys hunting all but they're like, going, they've been
Speaker 1: listening to a little Kansas the Kandas owns, and well, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's gotta be more to it than that.
Speaker 2: They said, no, you're being drifted.
Speaker 1: These people are. They're just trying to drag you down
Speaker 1: this road for profit. They make this crap up. It's
Speaker 1: not as simple as it seems. And I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is obviously an appeal to people's pride. They're intellect
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let the powerful dupe me because they're
Speaker 1: the kind of guys who don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: affection for like your intellectual elite or your your higher
Speaker 1: ups in the government. You know, they're kind of tough,
Speaker 1: self reliant, working guys. So that has a real appeal
Speaker 1: to it, rejecting the status quo and saying, yeah, we
Speaker 1: know better that crap you're trying to feed us.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna start the show officially.
Speaker 1: Are you healing from your wounds after a vacation and
Speaker 1: getting flipped in the air by that buffalo? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all though the frostbite is still painful, and it's unforl Aska,
Speaker 1: my exploration of Alaska. It's unfortunate for you that that
Speaker 1: guy was there with the phone and everybody had to
Speaker 1: see that video of you going through the air. It's
Speaker 1: humbled me, no doubt, humbling situation. Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: July fourteenth, the year twenty twenty six, War Armstrong and
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Speaker 1: We got some more headlines to get to and lots
Speaker 1: of stuff today.
Speaker 2: Uh wow, man, I did a deep.
Speaker 1: Dive on uh uh stars and the origin of the
Speaker 1: universe and stuff like that. Oh my god, mind blowing
Speaker 1: stuff that that that I was into last night. Just
Speaker 1: I was laying there in bed full of wonder and awe.
Speaker 1: So ridiculous buffalo songs and astrophysics exactly all on the way.
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Speaker 2: That's buffalo. That's really really good.
Speaker 1: Some headlines that are out there, maybe the biggest news
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, and we'll discuss this later.
Speaker 2: I don't know what their motivations are.
Speaker 1: Iran has stuck it struck at least three ships in
Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours trying to go through the
Speaker 1: straight of Horror Moves. The United Kingdom announced one of
Speaker 1: their ships was struck on the starboard side, no injuries.
Speaker 1: UAE announced two of their oil flagged tankers were struck,
Speaker 1: with one fatality and a couple of injuries. I don't
Speaker 1: know how long, Like I keep saying, these countries are
Speaker 1: going to put up with this crap, and that fits
Speaker 1: in with why Trump has announced the embargo or the
Speaker 1: blockade begins at four o'clock this afternoon, no more ships
Speaker 1: from Iran go anywhere, and announce that toll. By the way,
Speaker 1: in case you haven't heard this math, a twenty percent
Speaker 1: toil on oil shipped through the straight up horror moves
Speaker 1: would be an extra fifteen dollars per barrel, which is
Speaker 1: a pretty big jump with the price all at once,
Speaker 1: and like your big sh yips, it would cost thirty
Speaker 1: million dollars.
Speaker 2: That would what the toll would be to get your
Speaker 2: ship through. Wow. Wow, I had no idea they're toting
Speaker 2: that much. Value. It didn't be amazing.
Speaker 1: And there's a certain amount of irony here, as both
Speaker 1: Trump and Marco have in the past said, no, nobody's
Speaker 1: charging any damn tolls in international law.
Speaker 2: But we'll get into that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the trolling from the leader of Iran saying, Yep,
Speaker 1: you're right, tolling is a good idea.
Speaker 2: We will charge a toll, but much.
Speaker 1: Less when we're running the straight because it's our straight exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The ten second analysis of all this is Iran has
Speaker 1: decided the one thing we must have is control of
Speaker 1: the straight of Hormus because that ensures our survival. That
Speaker 1: is our new nuclear weapon. We will choke the world
Speaker 1: economy if anybody threatens us. That is the must we
Speaker 1: control that straight. That's why they're so hardcore about it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I know you teased for today the story about Apple
Speaker 1: suing Ai the Eater open Ai Chat GPT. It's the
Speaker 1: first time in fifty years Apple has sued a close partner,
Speaker 1: so that's a very interesting story. Elon had a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of tweets about that yesterday, scam Altman and various
Speaker 1: various nicknames for the guy that he got involved in that.
Speaker 2: I tried to tell you who he was, Elon said.
Speaker 1: All day long yesterday. So yeah, that's an interesting story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: headful of other stories. I mean, the shooting by ice
Speaker 1: guys in Maine is getting a lot of attention. As usual,
Speaker 1: you just kind of know what the facts are first,
Speaker 1: and that seems to be kind of difficult these days.
Speaker 1: Federal judge knocked down the whole Trump lawsuit against the Irs.
Speaker 1: That'll probably be appealed and bounced around the courts in
Speaker 1: a little while. Lindsey Graham's sister is gonna serve out
Speaker 1: the remainder of his term.
Speaker 2: Not clear if she'll run again. I haven't heard that
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 1: There's another guy that had lined up that they thought
Speaker 1: would win the races here. But I think she's going
Speaker 1: to get some momentum going. And Trump came out and
Speaker 1: said something yesterday about how she'd be a great senator,
Speaker 1: So who knows where that ends up.
Speaker 2: Is a bright and reasonable human being, so who knows.
Speaker 1: Probably I'm not a big fan of wives, husbands, sisters,
Speaker 1: brothers taking over offices like it's a family legacy.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Ukraine struck Russia deep one of the royal refineries again.
Speaker 2: Among other stories, we can get to a lot on
Speaker 2: the way. Please favor Armstrong and Getty. We have brand new.
Speaker 1: Inflation numbers out. We do not We're not really a
Speaker 1: breaking news show for all kinds of different reasons. We're
Speaker 1: on different stations at different times. And then a lot
Speaker 1: of of you listen through the podcast days, weeks, months,
Speaker 1: and years from now. Some of you might be listening
Speaker 1: to this in the year two thousand and thirty.
Speaker 2: Four for some Wow amazing.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure how relevant this news will be
Speaker 1: that is breaking. But the new inflation numbers are out
Speaker 1: for June. I've got the New York Times, Washington Post,
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times headlines here.
Speaker 2: They are.
Speaker 1: Inflation cooled the three points annual rate in June because
Speaker 1: of a brief pause in the war with the Rams
Speaker 1: is the New York Times. Inflation eased in June's gas
Speaker 1: prices fell, but relief may not last. The Washington Post
Speaker 1: have thing to throw in a negative on a positive story.
Speaker 2: For some reason, they.
Speaker 1: Found some economists to say, yeah, but it might not last. Okay,
Speaker 1: put that in the headline. I'm just I'm interested in
Speaker 1: the way people couch stories.
Speaker 2: Derek Couchers, Wall.
Speaker 1: Street Journal, inflation slowed three point five percent and June's
Speaker 1: gasoline prices fell.
Speaker 2: Slowed is a good word.
Speaker 1: And Financial Times US inflation fell more than then expected
Speaker 1: to three point five percent in June as oil prices tumbled.
Speaker 1: So they all have it around gas and oil. But
Speaker 1: it is slowing and more than expected. And it was
Speaker 1: the biggest slowing I think since before the pandemic, which.
Speaker 2: Is a pretty big deal.
Speaker 1: Although the war coming to a halt dropped energy prices
Speaker 1: a lot, really fast, sure, and that's why month to
Speaker 1: month that's the biggest drop since pre pandemic.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: I was struck, however, by the fact that yesterday, when
Speaker 1: it was declared that the stupid, useless piece deal was
Speaker 1: stupid and useless and dead and that it was on
Speaker 1: and the clash began in earnest once again, that oil
Speaker 1: prices skyrocketed to near eighty five dollars a barrel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: remember when we were all which historically speaking is is
Speaker 1: fairly cheap, no kidding. And remember when we were all
Speaker 1: worked up about whether or not it was one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars a barrel, and we're the only people pointing out that, Well,
Speaker 1: if you ingested for inflation. It's really not that much
Speaker 1: compared to like the Obama years. Sure, well now it's
Speaker 1: eighty five. So how excited can you get about the
Speaker 1: price oil? Yeah, well I am kind of excited, he
Speaker 1: says by way of transition, unless you had more to
Speaker 1: say on that topic. About the developments in Ukraine. You
Speaker 1: mentioned it just before the break, that they're hitting Russia
Speaker 1: deeper and deeper into Russia and especially in their oil
Speaker 1: refinery or refining in gaso Lean producing industries. I guess
Speaker 1: that's the same thing, isn't it. In short, their energy infrastructure,
Speaker 1: and there's a question about how long Russia can hold
Speaker 1: out as their population gets more and more annoyed by it. Also,
Speaker 1: European leaders got together to plan a Ukraine peacekeeping force
Speaker 1: so that useless Euros may actually be stirring themselves to
Speaker 1: action or potential action.
Speaker 2: They certainly should.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that Ukrainian drone attack fifteen hundred kilometers, So that's
Speaker 1: over nine hundred miles of Russian airspace that these drones travel.
Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing that Russia can't shoot down drones traveling
Speaker 1: across their country?
Speaker 2: Dang near a thousand miles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to hit the Salivat oil refinery and bash Kortassa Stan.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you you've never heard of that place anyway.
Speaker 1: There it is on fire out in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1: How about those drones US see drones the same roughly
Speaker 1: that rescued those fellas at sea the other day, blasting
Speaker 1: into a bunch of irony imports and sub facilities or
Speaker 1: something like that. But yeah, now we're using armed seed drones,
Speaker 1: which strike me as just surface torpedoes, aren't they kind
Speaker 1: of sort of it's a boat with no pilot in it.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they used here, but when they
Speaker 1: rescued those guys the other day, it would look like
Speaker 1: a regular boat, just didn't have a person driving it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these looked very similar.
Speaker 1: They had some unclassified video that they're similar anyway. I
Speaker 1: was also struck by an article that was discussing Ukraine's
Speaker 1: several different sorts of long range drones and what their
Speaker 1: weapons capacity was. How have you a payload they can carry?
Speaker 1: Because the heavier payload, the more fuel you need, the
Speaker 1: more sophisticated it needs to be. And you've got to
Speaker 1: compromise always if you want to hit an oil refinery,
Speaker 1: a thousand kilometers away. Obviously, you can't have eight hundred
Speaker 1: pounds of explosive you'd never get it there. And I
Speaker 1: thought that was very interest But I was struck by
Speaker 1: the fact that our sea drones, because you know, of
Speaker 1: the buoyancy of water, can carry serious, serious weaponry, serious
Speaker 1: explosive charges on them and go many, many, many miles. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: the future of warfare is taking shape right in front
Speaker 1: of our eyes. And it's not got many human beings
Speaker 1: involved in it, at least not on the shooting end.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, So you were on vacation for this report.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you came across this. So the
Speaker 1: average recruit into the military in Russia now has about
Speaker 1: a thirty day lifespan once you get to the front line.
Speaker 1: That's before you get to the front line. That's in total.
Speaker 1: Once you get to the front line, it's about twenty minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty minutes. Wow. How is that even possible that you
Speaker 1: can feed human beings into that. Yeah, it's just it's
Speaker 1: mind blowing. If that can occur on Earth in the
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty six, major country and the world doesn't
Speaker 1: have an interest in stopping it. I've got to see
Speaker 1: if I can refine this. Let me know if you
Speaker 1: talked about this. It was just I think, just as
Speaker 1: I was going on vacation, I came across some fantastic analysis.
Speaker 1: Might have been the dispatch, might have been the free press,
Speaker 1: about how the Russian military is utterly, utterly corrupt, including
Speaker 1: at the front and every level of organization, from the
Speaker 1: smallest unit up to say two or three levels above
Speaker 1: that actually doing the combat and supplying the arms, in
Speaker 1: the food and everything. Not at the giant general level,
Speaker 1: but at the you know, the American equivalent of like
Speaker 1: your colonels and captains down to your sergeants are completely corrupt,
Speaker 1: and they are making money hand over fist. If you
Speaker 1: have any authority, you make everybody you for everything in
Speaker 1: the armed forces. You want to bed to sleep in,
Speaker 1: you got to bribe somebody. Well, on a more fundamental level,
Speaker 1: do you want to be in that next squad that
Speaker 1: I send to your death?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: You don't, that's gonna cost you. You bribe constantly every
Speaker 1: single level. Why does this matter? Because all of those
Speaker 1: people who are in considerably less danger, some of them
Speaker 1: practically no danger in NOL than the actual infantry guys
Speaker 1: they want this to continue because they're sending tons of
Speaker 1: money home, unthinkable amounts of money home. And then, yeah,
Speaker 1: it certainly does extend up to the generals, but they're
Speaker 1: all getting rich, and so they're sending reports on up
Speaker 1: the line.
Speaker 2: And we saw this a little bit in Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: But all of their reports are utter fiction, reporting how
Speaker 1: well it's going, how much ground they're grabbing, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And there's a belief that Vladimir Putin at least believes
Speaker 1: some of it, and Potent himself has a completely delusional
Speaker 1: view of how the war is going. Yeah, if in
Speaker 1: our press and military Barack Obama was being fed fanciful
Speaker 1: information about how things were going in Afghanistan, right merely
Speaker 1: as like as protecting as opposed to you're making a
Speaker 1: profit off of it.
Speaker 2: Add in the fact that you're getting rich off of it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and so then I know the question, then,
Speaker 1: does Putin have any idea that the average recruit lasts
Speaker 1: twenty minutes once they get to the front line? And
Speaker 1: you know, at least as much as I do about
Speaker 1: how the Soviet system, and look, there's a hell of
Speaker 1: a lot of the Soviet system that's become the current
Speaker 1: Russian system. But the one thing the Soviet system punished
Speaker 1: was truth telling. If you said, duh our factory is
Speaker 1: producing five hundred directors per month, even though you're producing eleven,
Speaker 1: it was fine because the guy above you could then
Speaker 1: say we whole region producing very good and he would
Speaker 1: get praised from abubblah.
Speaker 2: The one thing you could not do is say.
Speaker 1: Hey, we're producing eleven tractors over here, because you'd fall
Speaker 1: out a conveniently open window, or the whole thing would
Speaker 1: go to hell and you would be the most hated,
Speaker 1: loathed man among the Communist party. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of that in the military too. You don't dare tell
Speaker 1: the truth upward. So there is a huge like multi layered,
Speaker 1: you know, each one fueling the other system of dishonesty
Speaker 1: and delusion in the entire Russian army.
Speaker 2: Which always happens in socialism.
Speaker 1: By the way, young socialists out there, all excited about
Speaker 1: the new ideology that you've discovered. How cynical a human
Speaker 1: being do you have to be that you can take
Speaker 1: some young guy and send him to the front to
Speaker 1: be killed in twenty minutes for profit.
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine how you get there as a
Speaker 2: human being.
Speaker 1: That's the world that you live in. Human beings adopt
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Speaker 1: I keep seeing a bunch of promotional stuff for the Odyssey,
Speaker 1: the big movie.
Speaker 2: What's his name the director? Nolan?
Speaker 1: Sam Nolan, Sam, that's not it, Jimmy Nolan, Eddie Nolan,
Speaker 1: ed Nolan, Nolan, Van Nolanstein. Anyway, Uh, it's coming out
Speaker 1: this weekend and I can't and I'm going to see
Speaker 1: it in the Imax.
Speaker 2: Will you look it up for Michael. What's the guy's
Speaker 2: name for crying out loud? Nolan? Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: It is woke, by the way, I know you always
Speaker 1: try to keep an open mind. Forget it, forget it.
Speaker 1: I'm on the woke, I'm on the anti side.
Speaker 2: Christopher Nolan, Christopher Christopher. No, everybody knows that when what when?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: When?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: Way? Do they claim it's woke because sometimes it isn't.
Speaker 1: I've seen a bunch of these movies where it turned
Speaker 1: out to be I watched Uh he he asks me
Speaker 1: a question that he makes the opposite. You go ahead, sir,
Speaker 1: you make that little casey years and wait, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give it's such a kick. And folks, I watched
Speaker 1: Don't Look Up again the other day. I've seen it
Speaker 1: three times now. The fact that I love that movie
Speaker 1: it was described as woke is nuts. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: just a good movie that equal opportunity man has attacked everyone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hilarious. I want to watch that movie again as
Speaker 1: soon as I can. So there is I'm interested just
Speaker 1: because this story is, you know whatever, it is eight
Speaker 1: thousand years old.
Speaker 2: So what did they do to wocal by it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, Walt Nolan is a terrific director, I mean, and
Speaker 1: well respected. But do you know the film critic, the
Speaker 1: critical drinker on YouTube, I do not actually scerbic Scotsman.
Speaker 1: Hilariously funny, super insightful, fair minded. He reviewed it and
Speaker 1: he said, look, first of all, it's based on this
Speaker 1: infamous nineteen seventies feminist translation of the Odyssey that's just scholarlyly,
Speaker 1: very very weak. Secondly, it engages in the obligatory race
Speaker 1: switching of Helen of Troy and her sister, and they've
Speaker 1: got to be African women, black women.
Speaker 2: Uh it's fine, overlook that easily. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's just it's a storiative effect. And there's more,
Speaker 1: and there's more, and that casts prominently transsexual. Elliott Page
Speaker 1: from The Former Girl Turned Boy as a brave, powerful
Speaker 1: warrior stands like five foot two, one hundred and eleven
Speaker 1: pounds and is just obviously a former girl.
Speaker 2: And uh, just.
Speaker 1: Annoying in that level. Others have said, though, and Nolan
Speaker 1: is a terrific right.
Speaker 2: And I saw an interview it's a great action movie.
Speaker 1: I saw an interview with him where he said, why
Speaker 1: would I want to when I get the opportunity with
Speaker 1: all this money to make a movie about a story
Speaker 1: I wanted to do my entire film career care about politics.
Speaker 1: That's what he said in an interview. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: a movie. So it's just because I say with confidence
Speaker 1: having not seen a single frame of it.
Speaker 2: A guy like him, in his.
Speaker 1: World doesn't see a radical feminist translation of the Odyssey
Speaker 1: is political.
Speaker 2: He sees that as the right one. It's a good theory.
Speaker 2: I have no idea. If it's true.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see it in the IMAX, I hope with
Speaker 1: my son. Oh and so I got this text yesterday
Speaker 1: from a friend before we take a break, isn't it
Speaker 1: weird that in the Odyssey Matt Damon is a man
Speaker 1: who wants to get home, just like in The Martian
Speaker 1: and he did an interstellar and saving Private Ryan.
Speaker 2: No one wants to get home more than Matt Damon.
Speaker 1: That's good analysis right there, that the only role he
Speaker 1: can play is someone who needs to get home. Well,
Speaker 1: there are only I think it's twenty three recognized stories.
Speaker 2: I've got a book about it.
Speaker 1: There are only a few stories, and that's one of them.
Speaker 1: You know, a person overcomes difficulty and finds themselves, boy
Speaker 1: meets girl, they fall in love, etc. There are very
Speaker 1: few stories and just variations on them, which is fine.
Speaker 1: We're human beings. That's what we do.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: If Matt Damon ends up in a sword fight with
Speaker 1: someone in a maga hat, I will admit that there's
Speaker 1: something going on there.
Speaker 2: But I watched the movie and report back.
Speaker 1: We got mail bag on the way stay here. They're
Speaker 1: calling them death pants, made by a company called Zara,
Speaker 1: so wide, women are tripping and falling to their deads.
Speaker 1: They're getting horribly injured. We'll have an update on death
Speaker 1: pants an hour or two. I will not be donning
Speaker 1: the death pants. Sounds like a terrible idea. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it'd be a good look for you, any man. There
Speaker 1: are a few looks that are good looks for me.
Speaker 1: Here's your freedom today. I've decided on a series of
Speaker 1: quotes about Iran, this one from Mohammed Ben Solomon, which
Speaker 1: is so important to remember, damn it. NBS said, the
Speaker 1: leader of Saudi Arabia Iran believes that before Imam Mahdi reappears,
Speaker 1: it must prepare a fertile ground for him, and that
Speaker 1: it must control the Muslim world. They are actual religious
Speaker 1: fanatics who believe they must control the world for Heaven
Speaker 1: to be manifest on.
Speaker 2: Earth the sun, and that she is believe that uh no,
Speaker 2: that she.
Speaker 1: Is the twelfth Mahdi thingy, that's a Shia thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so must. NBS is pointing out these people are freaking crazy.
Speaker 1: The best you can do is manage them, right, and Americans,
Speaker 1: especially progressive Americans, have this tendency to think everybody thinks
Speaker 1: like us and just wants to be friends. That's why
Speaker 1: I kept saying last week, Well, while you were being
Speaker 1: flipped upside down by Buffalo, Trump had it right when
Speaker 1: he called him crazy efforts. Yeah, absolutely true. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not racism. That's not bigotry, that's not ugly Americanism. That's realism.
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Speaker 1: dot com speaking of the Islamic Republic, it's not even
Speaker 1: a republic, Paolo, Right, So you've been wondering why Iron
Speaker 1: is doing what it's been doing. Maybe it's just that
Speaker 1: they want to influence politics ear to their benefit. The
Speaker 1: worst politically, very bad for Trump and Republicans generally.
Speaker 2: So Ron wants to keep it going. Pretty sure.
Speaker 1: They believe they'll have an easier time realizing their nuclear
Speaker 1: ambitions with Democrats in charge.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: They want to keep the war going as it is
Speaker 1: without risking the US actually getting serious and taking the
Speaker 1: Strait and militarily. It's fine line for them to walk,
Speaker 1: stir things up and keep the US responding, but not
Speaker 1: so much that it cracks open a big can, a
Speaker 1: big time wool pass, so he suggests. Paulo suggests the
Speaker 1: following policies. One, no more talking with Iron un till
Speaker 1: they completely open the straight and two, don't attempt a
Speaker 1: military take over the Strait if we're not willing to
Speaker 1: do whatever it takes to win. Nothing would be worse
Speaker 1: than trying and then abandoning the effort.
Speaker 2: I would agree with that second point definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow. Mark in San Francisco said, yes, so here are
Speaker 1: my thoughts. No point in doing this with half measures.
Speaker 1: Go for it, finish the job, whatever it takes. Forget
Speaker 1: about a negotiated deal. They'd never keep to it anyway.
Speaker 1: Bomber ran into submission. Try to avoid civilians, but otherwise
Speaker 1: no holds barred in conventional war terms. You know, I
Speaker 1: hear you, Mark, but it's pretty widely agreed by military
Speaker 1: experts that you can't win the fight from the air.
Speaker 1: You know, planes and missiles and bombs and stuff. You've
Speaker 1: got to put guys in. That's where America goes.
Speaker 2: Wait what.
Speaker 1: Let's see Kevin the Texas Marine with one question is
Speaker 1: Greg the Army Guy wrote yesterday my long lost twin, krusty, old, cynical,
Speaker 1: yet somehow still optimistic. Sounds like me, even if you
Speaker 1: joined the wrong effing branch. First drink on me should
Speaker 1: we ever meet. Pess this on to him if you can, please,
Speaker 1: There you go, Greg the Army Guy. Kevin the Texas
Speaker 1: Marine wants to buy you a drink and tell you
Speaker 1: joined the wrong effing branch. Let's see in Pacific Grove
Speaker 1: on the few ruining life for the many. It occurs
Speaker 1: to me that the refusal to punish criminal offenders your
Speaker 1: story on repeat Offenders yesterday was great. It's exactly the
Speaker 1: same issue as the refusal to punish students who disrupt classrooms.
Speaker 1: This misguided compassion starts early and continues into adulthood, to
Speaker 1: the detriment of all. Yeah, I was thinking about that
Speaker 1: when we were talking about police having the babysit a
Speaker 1: certain percentage. It reminds me of classes, you know, or
Speaker 1: bullies on the playground. There's only a handful, but they
Speaker 1: can be very disruptive if you just let them keep
Speaker 1: doing it.
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