WEBVTT - Victory or Surrender 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:07.480 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.560 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty. 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:13.840 Armstrong and Jetty and He. 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:17.400 Arm draw. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.680 Problem the studio scene season your It is a dimly 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.240 lit room deep with from the bowels of the Armstrong 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:35.520 and Getting Communications Compound, And today we are toiling under 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:36.440 the title of the show. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:38.040 I'd like to apologize. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.240 First of all, the titles of the show are utterly 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:41.640 lacking in mirth or irony. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:42.040 Today. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:43.880 I tried, and I tried, I came up with nothing. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:48.600 So here's your two sincere titles. Mundani's Islamuinus New York 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:53.920 is hemorrhaging highers or if you prefer victory or surrender 0:00:53.960 --> 0:01:01.960 only two choices, compromise is out on what topic is 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.840 victory or surrender? That would be your iran The situation, okay, 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.040 the war that we're involved that nobody seems to be 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.119 paying attention to. Oh no, they had it on right 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.360 after the third consecutive day of the bison attack on 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:19.440 the evening news. He watches, Yeah, nobody watches the evening newscast. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.319 But I use it as kind of a barometer of 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.200 I don't know, they think that's what people want to 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:25.040 know across the country. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:26.480 Or I'm like, but anyway, it. 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.320 Was a good eight stories into the newscast before they 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.360 got to the war with Iran. On the day that 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:37.720 the President announced the war's back on, it was like 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.640 after every YouTube video they could come up with, here's 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.640 a cop wed to chase a guy across a golf course. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.280 Can you imagine that a high speed chase on a 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:44.839 golf course? 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:45.480 That's wild. 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:50.480 Here's two minutes on the Great Sam Neil, Now, oh right, yeah, 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.320 Iran something something. So I don't know if they just 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.720 have polling or something that shows them. So I don't know, 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.680 and I don't know for you. I mean, we're always 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.080 guessing what people are interested in. I can't believe that 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.240 the war and nobody cares. Man, that's where we are. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.400 And eighteen days is the total length of the great 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.360 big peace signing that they did in Versailles, France to 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.120 make it a very big deal, because lots of peace deals, 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.320 world wars and stuff like that have ended there oh yes, yeah, 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:21.880 and imagery and then eighteen days of nothing and now 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.840 the war is completely back on. The blockade starts at 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.120 four eastern this afternoon. Oh, man, I got to get 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.800 some stuff shipped real quick before that kicks. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:32.400 Yeah. I don't know if it's occurred to you. 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.560 These are really odd times, really really strange. I mean, 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.480 I'm plowing through the news of the day and the 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:42.760 commentary and looking at the Democratic Party and some of 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.680 the Republicans honestly, and oh gosh, just some of the 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.160 conflicts going around the world, going on around the world, 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:53.919 and Britain, perhaps our oldest closest friend, after our fairly 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.480 bloody disagreement in the seventeen hundreds, has just completely lost 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:03.160 his mind. There are very few rocks upon which to 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.560 set one's feet. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:06.560 It would seem these days. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:12.520 Yeah, I've said, perhaps the rock of your salvation, your faith. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.840 I was on a big walk AI kick during my 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.400 walk last night and listening to some of the big 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.079 books on that and just being re reminded of, oh, yeah, 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:25.560 there's that. That might change everything everyone's ever known about 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.520 everything by next year. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.160 Maybe. Yeah. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.919 Sorry about the hardcore anti AI activists and how they 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.400 have believed, some of the heavyweights of the industry that 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.720 it is coming for the spine, the heart, the lungs 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.920 of mankind. It will stamp out mankind Wow, I'm thinking, 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.720 you know, that would be really really bad if that happened, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.760 and nobody's really sure. Strange times things are weird. They're 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.880 getting weird fast. France Spain today, I've got no rooting 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.320 interest in that. I haven't watched a second of France 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.320 or Spain, whereas tomorrow it's Argentina England, and I've watched 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.360 lots of both of those, so I'm kind of interested 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.960 in that one. You have a France Spain rooting interest. 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:07.160 I really don't know. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.880 I suppose France has been I talked to some hardcore 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.360 Euros on our trip and they said, oh, yeah, France 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.039 is just in a class all by itself. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:17.560 So I guess I'm rooting for the underdog. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.479 Yeah, France is supposed to be the most likely to 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:24.080 win it all. England Headland Argentina is being called the 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.440 greatest rivalry anywhere in sports, makes Yankees Red Sox. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:29.040 Look like nothing. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.560 Oh cool, Well, I'm into that one because I'm I've 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.080 been following Argentina and England. England hasn't won the World 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:38.200 Cup since nineteen sixty six, and super important to them, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:42.800 Argentina is an they shouldn't have won any of the 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.080 last four matches they played, so they're just on this 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.320 incredible come from behind How did you do that? Role? 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.599 So it's exciting. I feel like I'm an interested in soccer, 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.400 which most people don't. Actually, Well, the two countries had 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.000 a war not terribly long ago in which they spilled 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.200 each other's blood, so there's that, and then the the 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.880 blood of the soccer field will describe that maybe give 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.600 you a reason to watch and care. I don't know 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.200 who I'm rooting for. I'm an Anglo file. I've always 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.960 been an Anglo phile. I love Great Britain and it's 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.359 common law and it's music and comedy rest. But on 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.520 the other hand, currently. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:18.320 It just sucks. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.640 Yeah, it's lost its mind. Yeah it really has. Here's 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.760 the most interesting thing I've come across today. And I 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:31.320 know you're going to talk some about the conspiracies around 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.760 the guy who killed Charlie Kirk. That the trial didn't start, 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.440 just the hearing for whether or not the guy should 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.440 be charged, which is an opening shutcase as far as 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:50.240 I can tell. The poor lost, murderous, crazy kid that 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.599 killed Charlie Kirk for no good reason whatsoever, or not 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.880 that there is a good reason but anyway, and what 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:02.680 has happened out of that is underappreciated for its nuttiness. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.279 The fact that so many people have made this poor 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:11.880 guy's wife with their little kids the villain in this 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:19.640 story is just I mean, that might be the opening 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.160 salvo in what the rest of all of our lives 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.080 are going to be like, with the craziness of AI 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:30.880 videos and the dispersing of media and nobody and no 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.719 gatekeepers in the media whatsoever. Because I mean, it's just 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.680 nuts that she somehow emerged as the villain. I'd like 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.440 to amend my oft spoken slogan I'll be in the 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.080 woods heavily armed. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.600 If you need. Yeah. I mean, it's absolutely despicable. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.120 It reminds me in a way of the Jim Jones 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.600 Jonestown cult in Guiana that was like the starkest, most 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.120 horrifying example of the gullibility of people and how they 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.479 can be lured into various situations and manipulated by charismatic 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:07.320 leaders and these uh Candice Owan style grifters who are 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.560 latching onto people's weakness of mind and intriguing them with 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.280 their you know, I'll give you the real secrets. You're 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.560 not going to be duped. You're smarter than all those people, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.120 those enticements. I mean, it's just such a stark illustration 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.920 of how the human mind can be manipulated. It's it's 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:25.840 interesting even as it's horrifying. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.800 Yeah, both ends are interesting. The grifter ends interesting. 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.920 The grifter end of it, the buns that are you know, 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.440 the chart, the candis Owans and whoever that's making this 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:34.760 thing go. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.160 But the fact that there's an audience for it. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.000 Is also just Yeah. So I came across this quote 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.720 from Alan Moore. He is a uh is a guy 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.000 behind the Watchmen and all kinds of comic book stuff. 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:48.520 Oh yeah, I love him. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.440 I don't know anything. I didn't I had to google 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.640 to who he was when I came across this quote. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:57.000 He is too, I guess that world, Comic. 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:01.480 Book world, what graphic novel? Please? JK. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.800 Rowling is to like, you know, Harry Potter. I mean, 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.680 he's a really really big deal anyway, Yeah, this is 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.080 what he said about conspiracies. The main thing that I 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.520 learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy And we've said this. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.800 By the way, in recent months or whatever. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.920 So I don't want to give him, like all the 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.080 insight credit in the world. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:19.920 And I can't draw a lick, but you know, we 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:20.840 have said this stuff. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.600 The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.760 that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.280 more comforting. The truth of the world is that it's 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.880 actually chaotic. The truth is far more frightening. Nobody's in control. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.920 The world is rudderless. Some people can't handle the fact 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.560 that the world is rudderless. Yeah, And then you get 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:45.240 the proportion the proportionality imbalance, where a good and important 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.840 young man, for instance, or a president can be assassinated 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.520 by a lonely loser, and it's so the effect is 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.920 so disproportional with the actor. Some people can't accept that 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.760 because it speaks to what mister Moore is talking about, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:03.240 the randomness and stupidity of the universe, that that could happen. 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.520 So they've got to invent in their minds. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.120 And some of us obviously don't have this need in 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:09.720 the same way, but they've got to invent in their 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.520 minds something that's proportional to the effect of the act. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.080 A giant worldwide cabal, which seems to usually be run 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.040 by the Jews God help you anti Semitic scam. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.440 It is your idiots. Stop it. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.160 Stop it today. I'll tell you what you can be 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.199 anti Semitic in a week or two. If you decide 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:30.040 you're smart, that's what you want to be. Trust me 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.199 when I tell you you will look back with shame 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:37.720 and anguish at the period of your life in which 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.000 various grifters got you to spout. 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.960 This anti Jewish crap. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.160 Stop today, take a break, take a deep breath, and 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.920 think about an end of screed. But back to the 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.240 just conspiracies in general, and how it's comforting for people 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:57.280 rather than the randomness of the world. Just like I 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.480 can see how it'd be more comforting to think Russia 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.160 killed than that my aorta. 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.120 Could explode at any moment. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.160 Oh wow, good example, I mean, because that's pretty horrifying. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:12.800 Yeah wait, what right? Yeah? 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.720 Uh so do you think most people that are on 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.880 the receiving end of conspiracies that buy into them easily 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:22.839 are disturbed or weak or do you want to ascribe 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:24.439 any characteristics to them? 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:26.080 Oh? 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.319 Yeah, well yes, some of them are all of those things. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.640 I was shocked I mentioned this at the time, that 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.880 some very good, normal fun to be with working guys 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.760 who are part of the larger crew that was doing 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:42.000 our remodel. I've chatted with them all the time, and 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.520 at one point they were just like, yeah, and there's 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.720 no way it's that simple that that kid, that kid, 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.480 because I've hunted with that bullet. There's no way that 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.760 bullet could kill a guy from that range. It ripped 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.199 his arterial. You know, I'm sorry. It is a corotid 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.400 artery out or whatever it was. Of course it and 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.160 these guys hunting all but they're like, going, they've been 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.600 listening to a little Kansas the Kandas owns, and well, yeah, yeah, 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.720 there's gotta be more to it than that. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:10.280 They said, no, you're being drifted. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.000 These people are. They're just trying to drag you down 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.600 this road for profit. They make this crap up. It's 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.880 not as simple as it seems. And I thought, Okay, 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:26.600 this is obviously an appeal to people's pride. They're intellect 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.920 I'm not gonna let the powerful dupe me because they're 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.719 the kind of guys who don't have a lot of 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:38.079 affection for like your intellectual elite or your your higher 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.160 ups in the government. You know, they're kind of tough, 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.920 self reliant, working guys. So that has a real appeal 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.360 to it, rejecting the status quo and saying, yeah, we 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.640 know better that crap you're trying to feed us. 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.320 So we're gonna start the show officially. 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.680 Are you healing from your wounds after a vacation and 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.480 getting flipped in the air by that buffalo? Yeah, yeah, 0:11:56.520 --> 0:12:01.040 all though the frostbite is still painful, and it's unforl Aska, 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.560 my exploration of Alaska. It's unfortunate for you that that 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.560 guy was there with the phone and everybody had to 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.800 see that video of you going through the air. It's 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:15.680 humbled me, no doubt, humbling situation. Let's start the show officially. 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.679 I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.959 July fourteenth, the year twenty twenty six, War Armstrong and 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.320 getting we approve of this program. And I've decided my 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.000 long white beard isn't nearly as flattering as I thought 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.079 it was. All right, here we go, let's begin the 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.280 show officially. Now according to SEC rules, eggs at mark. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.000 I go buffer fast, I go buffer slow. In the 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.320 buffer grass in the buffer snow. I've got buffer bars, 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.120 I've got buffer flow. I'm a buffer star, I'm a 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.240 buffer pro Buffolo Buffolo. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.480 I didn't realize that was a giant hit meme a 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.720 while back, and I had missed that. Somehow, I go 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.720 buffer fast, I go buffer slow. It is catchy. You 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.240 start singing in it and you can't stop all day long. Oh, 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.760 I had never heard that before. I'm up buff for pro. 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:09.280 Buffalo. Oh God, memes, memes, my friend memes. At the 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.600 end of up, the world is run on memes. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.400 We got some more headlines to get to and lots 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:15.160 of stuff today. 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.280 Uh wow, man, I did a deep. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.640 Dive on uh uh stars and the origin of the 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.280 universe and stuff like that. Oh my god, mind blowing 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.160 stuff that that that I was into last night. Just 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.680 I was laying there in bed full of wonder and awe. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:39.400 So ridiculous buffalo songs and astrophysics exactly all on the way. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.520 I go buffer fast, I go buffer slow. In the 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.840 buffer grass, in the buffer snow. I've got buffer bars, 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.560 I've got a buffer flow. I'm a buffer star, I'm 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:53.960 a buffer pro buffalo. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.960 That's buffalo. That's really really good. 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.920 Some headlines that are out there, maybe the biggest news 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.840 for whatever reason, and we'll discuss this later. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.480 I don't know what their motivations are. 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.520 Iran has stuck it struck at least three ships in 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.480 the last twenty four hours trying to go through the 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.600 straight of Horror Moves. The United Kingdom announced one of 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.280 their ships was struck on the starboard side, no injuries. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:24.720 UAE announced two of their oil flagged tankers were struck, 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.360 with one fatality and a couple of injuries. I don't 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.360 know how long, Like I keep saying, these countries are 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.240 going to put up with this crap, and that fits 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:38.040 in with why Trump has announced the embargo or the 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.920 blockade begins at four o'clock this afternoon, no more ships 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.240 from Iran go anywhere, and announce that toll. By the way, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.000 in case you haven't heard this math, a twenty percent 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.960 toil on oil shipped through the straight up horror moves 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:57.240 would be an extra fifteen dollars per barrel, which is 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:58.960 a pretty big jump with the price all at once, 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.560 and like your big sh yips, it would cost thirty 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:03.040 million dollars. 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:05.440 That would what the toll would be to get your 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:09.080 ship through. Wow. Wow, I had no idea they're toting 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:10.840 that much. Value. It didn't be amazing. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.240 And there's a certain amount of irony here, as both 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.640 Trump and Marco have in the past said, no, nobody's 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.800 charging any damn tolls in international law. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:20.120 But we'll get into that. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:24.320 Yeah, and then the trolling from the leader of Iran saying, Yep, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:25.800 you're right, tolling is a good idea. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.440 We will charge a toll, but much. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.400 Less when we're running the straight because it's our straight exactly. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:30.880 Yeah. 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.040 The ten second analysis of all this is Iran has 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.640 decided the one thing we must have is control of 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.720 the straight of Hormus because that ensures our survival. That 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.200 is our new nuclear weapon. We will choke the world 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.480 economy if anybody threatens us. That is the must we 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.440 control that straight. That's why they're so hardcore about it. 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:47.720 Now. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.720 I know you teased for today the story about Apple 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:57.040 suing Ai the Eater open Ai Chat GPT. It's the 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.480 first time in fifty years Apple has sued a close partner, 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.120 so that's a very interesting story. Elon had a whole 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:09.000 bunch of tweets about that yesterday, scam Altman and various 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.400 various nicknames for the guy that he got involved in that. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.360 I tried to tell you who he was, Elon said. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:21.320 All day long yesterday. So yeah, that's an interesting story. Yeah, 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.960 headful of other stories. I mean, the shooting by ice 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.800 guys in Maine is getting a lot of attention. As usual, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.080 you just kind of know what the facts are first, 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.120 and that seems to be kind of difficult these days. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.760 Federal judge knocked down the whole Trump lawsuit against the Irs. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.200 That'll probably be appealed and bounced around the courts in 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.320 a little while. Lindsey Graham's sister is gonna serve out 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.560 the remainder of his term. 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.160 Not clear if she'll run again. I haven't heard that 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:49.440 of you. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.720 There's another guy that had lined up that they thought 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.080 would win the races here. But I think she's going 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.360 to get some momentum going. And Trump came out and 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.920 said something yesterday about how she'd be a great senator, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.440 So who knows where that ends up. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.040 Is a bright and reasonable human being, so who knows. 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.320 Probably I'm not a big fan of wives, husbands, sisters, 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.440 brothers taking over offices like it's a family legacy. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:14.640 Right. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.840 Ukraine struck Russia deep one of the royal refineries again. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:22.919 Among other stories, we can get to a lot on 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.480 the way. Please favor Armstrong and Getty. We have brand new. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.760 Inflation numbers out. We do not We're not really a 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.120 breaking news show for all kinds of different reasons. We're 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.320 on different stations at different times. And then a lot 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.880 of of you listen through the podcast days, weeks, months, 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.800 and years from now. Some of you might be listening 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.080 to this in the year two thousand and thirty. 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.280 Four for some Wow amazing. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:47.679 So I'm not sure how relevant this news will be 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.280 that is breaking. But the new inflation numbers are out 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.720 for June. I've got the New York Times, Washington Post, 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:55.719 Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times headlines here. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:56.200 They are. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:02.600 Inflation cooled the three points annual rate in June because 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.359 of a brief pause in the war with the Rams 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.120 is the New York Times. Inflation eased in June's gas 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.760 prices fell, but relief may not last. The Washington Post 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.560 have thing to throw in a negative on a positive story. 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:15.320 For some reason, they. 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.080 Found some economists to say, yeah, but it might not last. Okay, 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.399 put that in the headline. I'm just I'm interested in 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.119 the way people couch stories. 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:26.720 Derek Couchers, Wall. 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.280 Street Journal, inflation slowed three point five percent and June's 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:31.760 gasoline prices fell. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:33.080 Slowed is a good word. 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.480 And Financial Times US inflation fell more than then expected 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.520 to three point five percent in June as oil prices tumbled. 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:42.119 So they all have it around gas and oil. But 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:47.359 it is slowing and more than expected. And it was 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.520 the biggest slowing I think since before the pandemic, which. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:51.200 Is a pretty big deal. 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:55.880 Although the war coming to a halt dropped energy prices 0:18:55.920 --> 0:19:00.480 a lot, really fast, sure, and that's why month to 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.160 month that's the biggest drop since pre pandemic. 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:03.560 I think. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.160 I was struck, however, by the fact that yesterday, when 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.920 it was declared that the stupid, useless piece deal was 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.199 stupid and useless and dead and that it was on 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:18.040 and the clash began in earnest once again, that oil 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:22.000 prices skyrocketed to near eighty five dollars a barrel. Yeah, 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.600 remember when we were all which historically speaking is is 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.200 fairly cheap, no kidding. And remember when we were all 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.320 worked up about whether or not it was one hundred 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.199 dollars a barrel, and we're the only people pointing out that, Well, 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.640 if you ingested for inflation. It's really not that much 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.600 compared to like the Obama years. Sure, well now it's 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.720 eighty five. So how excited can you get about the 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.359 price oil? Yeah, well I am kind of excited, he 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.399 says by way of transition, unless you had more to 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.679 say on that topic. About the developments in Ukraine. You 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.159 mentioned it just before the break, that they're hitting Russia 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.720 deeper and deeper into Russia and especially in their oil 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:02.400 refinery or refining in gaso Lean producing industries. I guess 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:06.560 that's the same thing, isn't it. In short, their energy infrastructure, 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.320 and there's a question about how long Russia can hold 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.280 out as their population gets more and more annoyed by it. Also, 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:16.520 European leaders got together to plan a Ukraine peacekeeping force 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.520 so that useless Euros may actually be stirring themselves to 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.080 action or potential action. 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:24.840 They certainly should. 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:29.360 Yeah, that Ukrainian drone attack fifteen hundred kilometers, So that's 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:34.159 over nine hundred miles of Russian airspace that these drones travel. 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:38.200 Isn't it amazing that Russia can't shoot down drones traveling 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:39.320 across their country? 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.320 Dang near a thousand miles. 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:47.760 Yeah, to hit the Salivat oil refinery and bash Kortassa Stan. 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:52.000 I guarantee you you've never heard of that place anyway. 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:53.800 There it is on fire out in the middle of nowhere. 0:20:55.720 --> 0:21:00.760 How about those drones US see drones the same roughly 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:06.560 that rescued those fellas at sea the other day, blasting 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:10.200 into a bunch of irony imports and sub facilities or 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.959