Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong in Showy arm Strong and
Speaker 1: Jettie and He.
Speaker 2: Armsrange, It's Fry live from Studio c Gee keep within
Speaker 2: the bowels of the Armstrong.
Speaker 3: And Getting Communications Compound, and today to end the week,
Speaker 3: We're toiling under the title of the show.
Speaker 1: First, you look like a military man? Are you on
Speaker 1: war footing?
Speaker 4: How are you not on a war footing? Swearing an
Speaker 4: olive drammed T shirt to a beanie looking ready to
Speaker 4: you know, throw on the union and do what needs
Speaker 4: to be done. Huh, because I'm part of the coalition
Speaker 4: of the willing.
Speaker 1: Jack's ready. They did up the age to enlist to
Speaker 1: forty two yesterday. Oh really Yeah? Not up to sixty
Speaker 1: one though, which I am. So I'm not sure I.
Speaker 4: Can be of any help. I'd be happy to help
Speaker 4: if I can, but I probably can't. Our title today titles,
Speaker 4: here's the deal you lose. That should be the only
Speaker 4: deal being offered to Iran.
Speaker 1: Or if you prefer.
Speaker 4: IOC says no fake chicks and gal sports fake chicks.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The IOC with a big announcement yesterday that we talked about.
Speaker 3: We'll get to more of that later. To your first headline,
Speaker 3: It's funny. I was just reading in Mark Alpern's newsletter
Speaker 3: of the day that between Trump and Israel, it's come
Speaker 3: down to one of two outcomes.
Speaker 4: Iran surrenders or Iran is decimated. That's basically what you
Speaker 4: just said. I've got to admit I was a little worried.
Speaker 4: What was it yesterday or the day before where Trump said, yeah, well,
Speaker 4: we're talking to the right people to give us a
Speaker 4: very nice gift, a very very valuable gift.
Speaker 1: And his tone was.
Speaker 4: Soft, and he's appreciated the flattery and everything.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh my.
Speaker 4: God, no, because they will. They will do anything. They
Speaker 4: will press all of his buttons. They've been studying him
Speaker 4: since he came down the escalator. I hope Marco, thank god,
Speaker 4: Marco is in his ear.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: So now we're back to practically unconditional surrender. I guess
Speaker 3: either you surrender or we're gonna decimate you that may
Speaker 3: force you to surrender.
Speaker 1: So those are two choices. I hope. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Cool, and looks like the whole tsa thing after forty
Speaker 3: some days is over. I didn't fly during that period
Speaker 3: of time, So it had no effect on me. I
Speaker 3: think it looks brutal, does it? It did look brutal.
Speaker 3: But does the media fly more than the rest of
Speaker 3: us as a whole? They must or something or yeah,
Speaker 3: because I saw the numbers on how many people what
Speaker 3: percentage of Americans would have flown during that period of time.
Speaker 4: Oh it's single digits. Really well, yeah, that makes sense
Speaker 4: sure in a given what six weeks? Yeah, m interesting. Nonetheless,
Speaker 4: that's just the non function and the abusiveness of the
Speaker 4: people from Congress these days. In the Senate, it happens
Speaker 4: to be the Democrats right now.
Speaker 1: It's just it's inexcusable. All they do is they look
Speaker 1: at the polls.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's see, the Republicans have the House barely and
Speaker 4: the Senate barely, and they have the White House.
Speaker 1: So they'll be blamed if there's a shutdown. So let's
Speaker 1: shut it down.
Speaker 4: Well, we're going to hurt a hell of a lot
Speaker 4: of people, and including government employees. I mean, these TSA
Speaker 4: guys are not rich. They live paycheck to paycheck. Let's
Speaker 4: let's screw them good and hard. Because polls show the
Speaker 4: Republicans will be blamed says Chuck Schumer, just disgusting.
Speaker 3: Well, who what normal sort of voter remembers any of
Speaker 3: these shutdowns with with any thoughts really of anything. They
Speaker 3: just they're coming to go and they're annoying, and then
Speaker 3: they go away, and you just think what a mess
Speaker 3: that is.
Speaker 1: That's kind of it the base.
Speaker 4: Maybe they're just signaling to the base, trying to hold
Speaker 4: out to his job that we're trying to abolish ICE,
Speaker 4: that we will not fund DHS unless ICE is reformed.
Speaker 3: Okay, people predisposed to already vote a certain direction, they
Speaker 3: were going to go that way anyway. I just don't
Speaker 3: think anything ever is accomplished with these shutsdowns, shutdowns, nothing,
Speaker 3: It's just there's no political gain.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if there's any political loss really.
Speaker 1: It just like it's just inconvenient for the voters and
Speaker 1: that goes go. We go along, such such a such
Speaker 1: a just dumb, just dumb and dumb and dysfunctional. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Another powerful Republican has announced he's retiring from the House.
Speaker 4: He's going off into private life, capping, I think, well
Speaker 4: capping so far dozens that have announced that, dozens of
Speaker 4: congress people and a handful of senators are like, this
Speaker 4: is stupid.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go do something else. Well, yeah, if you
Speaker 1: if you if you went to Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: Thinking you're going to do something, then you know you
Speaker 3: get there and realize, oh, okay, that's not what the
Speaker 3: game is at least currently.
Speaker 1: I want to to this thing.
Speaker 3: Yesterday, Willy Brown, doing a former mayor of San Francisco
Speaker 3: for most powerful politician in California for many, many years
Speaker 3: and guest on The Armstrong and Getty Show many many,
Speaker 3: many times, did an interview with Bill O'Reilly in which
Speaker 3: he explained why San Francisco got ruined. Oh, in Bill
Speaker 3: O'Reilly's special to Decline and Fall of San Francisco. And
Speaker 3: it's really interesting to hear from one of the most
Speaker 3: powerful Democrats of the last half century anywhere in the country,
Speaker 3: really Willy Brown, about how all this putting a bunch
Speaker 3: of social workers in charge of all this sort of
Speaker 3: stuff and everything like.
Speaker 1: That was a disaster.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: I'm glad to hear that from Willy What a fascinating guy, brilliant, charismatic,
Speaker 4: crooked as a corkscrew.
Speaker 1: I was happy to hear that.
Speaker 3: So I want to talk about that later, maybe We're
Speaker 3: going to get to a place where we realized that
Speaker 3: what we've been doing is not working, at least in
Speaker 3: blue cities and states. Oh, the big breaking news later
Speaker 3: in the day yesterday that the Pentagon is weighing sending
Speaker 3: an additional ten thousand ground troops to the Middle East.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that brings the total, Dude, do
Speaker 3: you know of troops that have been talked about over
Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks. It's good to be a
Speaker 3: pretty big chunk of people. You were getting closer to
Speaker 3: twenty thousand. Definitely very close to twenty thousand.
Speaker 1: I think one of the.
Speaker 3: Things I'm happy about with the TSA shutdown coming to
Speaker 3: an end is maybe newscasts can focus on what might
Speaker 3: end up being the most consequential war since Vietnam instead
Speaker 3: of making it like the third or fourth story every
Speaker 3: single day.
Speaker 1: It's shocking to me, I think this is a really
Speaker 1: big deal.
Speaker 3: And last night I was looking at my evening newscasts
Speaker 3: and one of them it was ten minutes, and the
Speaker 3: other one it was eleven minutes into the newscast, A
Speaker 3: thirty minute newscast before they get around to the war
Speaker 3: as important.
Speaker 4: As the Meduro thing in Venezuela could be in our
Speaker 4: hemisphere because we shouldn't have hostile communists to fake kleptomaniac
Speaker 4: regimes right next door. We just shouldn't wear a superpower
Speaker 4: that is a tiny fraction of the significance of the
Speaker 4: Irandil and it's not being treated it that way.
Speaker 1: No, it's not.
Speaker 4: I mean I phrase that kind of the opposite of
Speaker 4: what I meant. But yeah, Iran's coverage should dwarf that
Speaker 4: which was given to the whole Venezuela thing, which I
Speaker 4: admit was surprising and interesting and president breaking. But yeah,
Speaker 4: this is history changing. This is finally perhaps the reformation
Speaker 4: of the Middle East after all of these decades. It's
Speaker 4: just it's enormous, or.
Speaker 1: There's a possibility.
Speaker 3: I don't think this is what's going to happen, but
Speaker 3: the possibility we have ten the thousands of troops taking
Speaker 3: fire on the ground in a full on war with
Speaker 3: a serious country like within days, that is absolutely possible. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you think, or at the very very least, we're gonna
Speaker 3: take carg Island. You would think that would rank above weather,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't. No, particularly weather in the New York
Speaker 3: metro Yeah, no, kidding. Let's start to show officially, we
Speaker 3: got lots of good stuff.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 3: It's Friday, it's clips of the weekday, It's the day
Speaker 3: we start drinking dakeries in the fourth hour. I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 3: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, March twenty seventh.
Speaker 3: We're about out of March. People that you are twenty
Speaker 3: six Armstrong in getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 1: I feel bad.
Speaker 4: Michael and I were talking about what flavored dakeries and
Speaker 4: he insisted on plantain dakeries. Wow, I said some things
Speaker 4: I probably shouldn't have said. I got a little hot.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Michael. Okay, what an obscure fruit? Yeah, I know,
Speaker 4: I know, strawberries. No, I'm sorry. I'm started again. All right,
Speaker 4: let's be get at your officially, according to the FCC
Speaker 4: rules and rags.
Speaker 1: Here we go ahead. Mark, Apparently we're under attacking a homeland.
Speaker 3: Okay, which national anthem from opening day was that Dodgers
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 4: It was Keith Williams, Junior, noted vocalist. He's sung the
Speaker 4: anthem many times at ballparks, but had a bit of
Speaker 4: a night.
Speaker 1: Apparently a rough tie.
Speaker 3: Man I was watching some of the rollout that the
Speaker 3: Dodgers did for fans and everything, and opening night that
Speaker 3: was quite the spectacle. Of course, you got the one
Speaker 3: of the greatest teams ever assembled, everybody picking them the
Speaker 3: three peat, maybe changing all of pro sports forever, and
Speaker 3: having to come up with some sort of rules so
Speaker 3: billionaires don't come along and just buy every good player
Speaker 3: in every sport.
Speaker 4: You got a budget fairly roughly similar to the federal government,
Speaker 4: about the same number. We're going to spend seven hundred
Speaker 4: and eighty trillion dollars on the Dodgers payroll this year.
Speaker 3: Well, they had the best player in baseball show hey Otani,
Speaker 3: you know, playing with the best pitcher in baseball, MVP
Speaker 3: of last year's World Series, and then a whole bunch
Speaker 3: of All stars and MVPs. And they've added people since
Speaker 3: they're repeat last year. Might win one hundred and fifty games.
Speaker 3: It's quite the experiment in pro sports to see if
Speaker 3: people dig that or not. We'll see the Dodgers fans
Speaker 3: certainly dig it.
Speaker 4: Anyway, we got a Gillen Sorry, every park around the
Speaker 4: country when the Dodgers in town, you gotta go.
Speaker 1: Your team's gonna lose.
Speaker 3: But you know, my my take as a casual fan
Speaker 3: of all sports is people kind of like dynasties, whether
Speaker 3: rooting for them or against them. Uh, seems to be
Speaker 3: over the top. Though this could be over the top, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they could. Well, all dynasties wear out their welcome, do
Speaker 3: or people get sick of it. Patriots, Chiefs, Yankees, Dodgers, Cowboys, Warriors, Lakers, whoever,
Speaker 3: they wear out their welcome People like ah Wan something different,
Speaker 3: But we'll see how that works out. We got lots
Speaker 3: of stuff to talk about today, Katie's headlines on the
Speaker 3: way you get clips of the week, so stay here.
Speaker 3: It's so easy without discipline to get sucked into these
Speaker 3: various online wormholes now and then.
Speaker 1: But last night I went down the rabbit hole of
Speaker 1: Erica kirk hate.
Speaker 4: Oh ye.
Speaker 3: That is one of the strangest phenomenons of my lifetime.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if that's just going to be
Speaker 3: the future of the world. Could you come up with
Speaker 3: a more compelling figure, a more you know, sympathetic figure
Speaker 3: than Erica Kirkin and what happened in her life and
Speaker 3: the way she's been turned into this villain by so
Speaker 3: many people. It's just crazy and as always an agent
Speaker 3: of the Jews.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I sent Jack this video of this woman who
Speaker 4: claimed it would be a CIA veteran or something, and
Speaker 4: it was just a classic, you know, describing an interaction
Speaker 4: then with the raised eyebrow, And that's not a coincidence.
Speaker 4: That's the way an asset behaves, an intelligence asset. Take
Speaker 4: it from me and then another and then they were
Speaker 4: at the same party. Do you think that was a coincidence.
Speaker 4: That's exactly how an asset behaves. And I just saw
Speaker 4: the people who are prone to believing that's sort of thing,
Speaker 4: just being pulled along like a bass with the hook through.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Even Joe Rogan the other day, you know, I erard
Speaker 3: Erica Kirk she's got a penis. Joe Rogan said it
Speaker 3: sounded completely serious, and he said, is she a crazy
Speaker 3: be or what used the word? And then they showed
Speaker 3: videos of her look at her eyes? Who does that
Speaker 3: with their eyes? And it's just I don't know what
Speaker 3: this whole thing is. And then and then the trying
Speaker 3: to make a giant we conspiracy we should all be
Speaker 3: afraid of out of it. I just I might it
Speaker 3: might be no country for old men. I might just
Speaker 3: not fit into the modern world. I don't even understand
Speaker 3: what's happening.
Speaker 1: It's it's mental illness.
Speaker 4: It's as if you know, humanity is a single brain,
Speaker 4: and we're all nodes in that brain. We're all neurons
Speaker 4: in that brain, and something's been introduced into our body
Speaker 4: chemistry that our brain can't handle. And that's the media
Speaker 4: and social internet and conspiracy, you know, theorists and that
Speaker 4: sort of thing. Uh, it's possible if you draw in
Speaker 4: that poison, it will it will ruin you as an
Speaker 4: individual node. And maybe the whole I don't know, hasn't
Speaker 4: ruined me. I just think you're all nuts. Anyway, Let's
Speaker 4: figure out who' supporting what. It's a lead story with
Speaker 4: Katie Green.
Speaker 5: Katie all right, the Big Headlines Associated Press. Trump said
Speaker 5: he will sign an emergency order to pay TSA agents.
Speaker 1: ABC Senate bill pass Senate.
Speaker 5: Passes bill to fund all parts of DHS except for
Speaker 5: ICE and.
Speaker 1: Parts of CBP and NBC.
Speaker 5: Trump says he will order DHS to immediately pay TSA
Speaker 5: officers as partial shut down drags on.
Speaker 3: So is that what got the Senate moving When Trump
Speaker 3: said he would sign an executive order because it was
Speaker 3: going to look like Trump came.
Speaker 1: To the rescue.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know either.
Speaker 5: From the Washington Post, US uses hundreds of Tomahawk missiles
Speaker 5: on Iran, alarming sum at the Pentagon.
Speaker 1: After How does.
Speaker 3: Iran continue to have so many missiles and rockets and
Speaker 3: everything like that. I hope we get to talk to
Speaker 3: Mike Lyons today, if not today, on Monday. Man, oh man,
Speaker 3: we have beaten the s out of them, as Trump
Speaker 3: said yesterday, and they still have the ability to fire
Speaker 3: off so much stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I understand the concern that we've got to have stockpiles.
Speaker 1: But it's funny.
Speaker 4: It's often presented in the media as we can't use
Speaker 4: the weapons because we have to have weapons. Why do
Speaker 4: we want to have weapons? Well, to use them, But
Speaker 4: that's what we're doing. Yeah, well then we won't have them,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: They're exhausting. Yes. From Reuters.
Speaker 5: Transgender athletes banned from female category at Olympic events.
Speaker 4: Good on the iOS there are men probably, Yes, I
Speaker 4: hope this should give cover to every state or high
Speaker 4: school in the country or the world.
Speaker 1: Well, we're just going to follow the Olympic rules.
Speaker 4: It does give them cover when the activist lunatics try
Speaker 4: to hurt them, because that's what active is lunatics do.
Speaker 1: They try to hurt you if you disagree with them.
Speaker 1: Good for good for the IOC. We've got more on
Speaker 1: that to come.
Speaker 5: ESPN MLB is twenty twenty six opener highlights growing ship
Speaker 5: to streaming, which is costing fans more.
Speaker 1: Well, what does that mean? Why does it cost me more?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: For example, like Netflix's price is just I think they're
Speaker 5: either going up today or went up yesterday because they
Speaker 5: got this deal with the Major League Baseball. Yeah.
Speaker 1: More and more games is are on subscription services at
Speaker 1: a lot of places.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think I saw yesterday there was a game on
Speaker 5: Peacock or something that I would take, take a golden
Speaker 5: goose of it's pro sports, and then just keep beating
Speaker 5: it with a bat since his baseball beat it with a.
Speaker 1: Bat to give it more goals. Yeah, make to make
Speaker 1: more money, yes, yes.
Speaker 5: Speaking of streaming. From the Financial Times, Netflix earns forty
Speaker 5: five point two billion dollars in revenue during twenty twenty
Speaker 5: five and projects fifty one billion in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Wow, I almost never watch anything on Netflix. I think
Speaker 1: we do weekly. Yeah.
Speaker 5: From the New York Post coca fueled sharks are on
Speaker 5: the prowl in the Caribbean, and scientists.
Speaker 4: Blame partying tourists. Wow, throwing cocaine in the water. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I guess dropping it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's been a little too expensive to
Speaker 1: throw the shark.
Speaker 4: I can't believe you're worried about the economics of it
Speaker 4: when we have cocaine fueled sharks swimming in our waters.
Speaker 4: Good Lord, missing the big point. Jack biting you. It'll
Speaker 4: just talk you to death.
Speaker 5: Study finds one in three women say being female has
Speaker 5: held them back, and gen Z says they feel it
Speaker 5: the most.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, barf. Wow.
Speaker 5: And finally, the Babylon Bee mysterious investor Pantsynelosi makes millions
Speaker 5: on oil trade minutes before Trump's I Ran announcement.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of talk about trying to crack
Speaker 3: down on this prop betting, particularly around legislation and events
Speaker 3: around the world that you know, various politicians could vote
Speaker 3: on or make decisions on how they're going to try
Speaker 3: to get it out out of our system. But we
Speaker 3: have to talk about that. Lots of people introducing rules
Speaker 3: to try to stop Then it was.
Speaker 1: Bad this week Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Trump is not going wobbly on his original plan to
Speaker 3: wipe out Iran's capability to continue to be the number
Speaker 3: one terror state and get nuclear weapons. That is all
Speaker 3: the reporting I'm reading, Okay from honest brokers. We got
Speaker 3: to get into more of that coming up.
Speaker 1: Excellent.
Speaker 4: Just since I'm thinking about it, We just got a
Speaker 4: great idea from listener Ed who suggested we look up
Speaker 4: Mike Rowe and chat with him about the coming of AI. Oh,
Speaker 4: that's a good one and the nature of work and
Speaker 4: college and blue collar work and that sort of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we ought to see if we can connect with Mike
Speaker 4: love to do that.
Speaker 1: Good idea, Ed.
Speaker 4: It's the Friday tradition beloved by all. Let's take fun
Speaker 4: look back at the week that was. It's cow clips
Speaker 4: of the Week.
Speaker 1: About three weeks into the Iran War, which started with
Speaker 1: the death of one ay Tolla Homony and the appointment
Speaker 1: of another Aye Tala Homony hominy too. But one's dead.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: This thing's going to be settled very soon. We did
Speaker 1: a yojima. We can do this the Marines. My money
Speaker 1: is always on the marine. Then what makes you trust me?
Speaker 1: I don't trust anybody. I don't trust you.
Speaker 4: I would not believe it Ryan regime and never I
Speaker 4: am never in all the work I've ever done of
Speaker 4: ther own regime, they do nothing but life for their teeth.
Speaker 1: We're gonna end up with settling this. Otherwise we just
Speaker 1: keep bombing our little hearts out. Sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: escalate to d escalege. But I really hope the American
Speaker 1: people will be with him because he is doing this
Speaker 1: to make the whole world safer him.
Speaker 6: We are an idea that threatens Iran, that threatens this
Speaker 6: regime because we are open, we are progressive, we are tolerant,
Speaker 6: We're a vibrant economy, and you.
Speaker 1: Know they're effected. The amazing thing is we don't need
Speaker 1: the foremost string. We don't need it at all. We
Speaker 1: don't we have so much oil.
Speaker 4: A street band is coming your way and we are
Speaker 4: bringing hope over fear, Peace over.
Speaker 1: A Plato will provide a personalized experience adaptive to the
Speaker 1: needs of each student. You must be happy. I'm very
Speaker 1: happy Tola is dead. And what who what?
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 1: Who does ill toll us?
Speaker 5: This leg band has had plenty of girlfriends with penises.
Speaker 1: I can't explain that you know a person living like
Speaker 1: a rat. It pieces me off. That's what I was like,
Speaker 1: what should I do if it settle the clean We
Speaker 1: cannot incarcelrate our weight out of violence. We've already tried that.
Speaker 6: It is racist.
Speaker 1: It is more is unholy through the pass five. What's
Speaker 1: so proly we.
Speaker 2: Wors Gily Street.
Speaker 1: It's clips of.
Speaker 4: The week.
Speaker 1: A lot there.
Speaker 4: I've forgotten all about the subterranean sword junkies of Los Angeles,
Speaker 4: people living.
Speaker 1: In the sewers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh so uh Malania's speech about the robots, How
Speaker 3: do I understand the tech companies. They're they're for profit businesses,
Speaker 3: for profit businesses trying to convince.
Speaker 1: Everybody that this new world is going to be great.
Speaker 1: But I understand all the other people that are.
Speaker 3: Willing to present the new robot world, the new AI
Speaker 3: robot world, and everything like that in glowing terms all
Speaker 3: the time, because I don't know. I personally don't know
Speaker 3: a single person who doesn't seem to be mostly worried
Speaker 3: or scared about it. So I'm just surprised that so
Speaker 3: many people like Malanie Trump, but lots of other people
Speaker 3: and then teachers will be able to come into your home,
Speaker 3: the robot teachers and every single person I know, if
Speaker 3: I have every conversation I've ever had about this sort
Speaker 3: of stuff, talks about it in horrific terms.
Speaker 1: So what pushes the this is going to be fantastic
Speaker 1: from from some corners? Do you have any idea?
Speaker 3: Are they just? Is it because the government's the betting
Speaker 3: on the financial windfall of this? I don't know, But
Speaker 3: the real people are not reacting to all this robot
Speaker 3: stuff with oh.
Speaker 1: This is going to be great when robots are doing everything.
Speaker 4: Maybe somebody, some folks, because Malani is very bright, maybe
Speaker 4: she just lacks that whole I don't know, bit or
Speaker 4: pessimism or ability to see the will wait a minute,
Speaker 4: what will cause ds be so anxious to learn if
Speaker 4: they can't have a job and put like chuckling news anchors,
Speaker 4: it's just always and then soon the robots will be
Speaker 4: able to teach us and you know, wash our cars
Speaker 4: and work in the kitchens or restaurants. That's fantastic and
Speaker 4: weather I mean, I just that's not the way people
Speaker 4: are reacting. That's what's what I'm saying to Milania news
Speaker 4: anchors and other people.
Speaker 3: Normal people are not reacting to this with overwhelming positivity
Speaker 3: based on my anecdotal evidence.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I liked the spirit of her speech, and
Speaker 4: because she's really into education and kids, all kids, poor kids,
Speaker 4: kids of all, you know, hues of skin color, getting
Speaker 4: access to serious education, which I think is a wonderful
Speaker 4: thing to aspire to.
Speaker 1: But if the economy is.
Speaker 4: Fundamentally not not just restructure, just reinvented by AI and
Speaker 4: computers and robots, what are the kids learning and for
Speaker 4: what purpose?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: You might as well say, well, we don't know, but
Speaker 4: let's default toward developing this stuff because it can't hurt
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well that's fine, but I don't need to default toward
Speaker 3: it's gonna be awesome without any skeptical questions, right.
Speaker 1: I just don't get that.
Speaker 3: And I gotta believe the teachers' Unions of America are
Speaker 3: not going to welcome with open arms robots that can
Speaker 3: be knowledgeable in every subject and to adjust to every
Speaker 3: child and everyone can have one in their home.
Speaker 4: They're not going to think that's awesome. Oh no, because
Speaker 4: they have no interest in the children's interests. They exist
Speaker 4: to extract dues from their membership and then to use
Speaker 4: those dues to influence politicians, so they get more dues
Speaker 4: from their membership. It's all money, and it's only money.
Speaker 4: So maybe I'll get to this in more detail a
Speaker 4: little bit later. But I was reading Mark Alprin's News
Speaker 4: round up today and he is going on about how
Speaker 4: a lot of mainstream media is just defying what the
Speaker 4: President says and facts on the ground about the whole
Speaker 4: Iran thing and presenting it as a clear disaster from
Speaker 4: the get go.
Speaker 1: Were were mired in a.
Speaker 3: Swamp of a disastrous war and Trump's looking for an
Speaker 3: off ramp. When Mark Helprin says everything Trump says and
Speaker 3: all is reporting about people close to Trump say, it's
Speaker 3: the exact opposite. He's as committed as ever to his
Speaker 3: goals and it's going really, really well. So I thought
Speaker 3: that was interesting. All this is a misreading of Trump's
Speaker 3: intentions and the facts on the ground to say he
Speaker 3: can't achieve these goals, which he uses a specific article
Speaker 3: from the New York Times to say, what are they
Speaker 3: talking about? But here's Mark Fieson in the Washington Post
Speaker 3: who has sources. Also, speculation is flying that President Donald
Speaker 3: Trump buffeted by rising gas prices and domestic political concerns.
Speaker 3: Is desperate for an off ramp and looking for a
Speaker 3: deal with Iran to end the war. These leaks, whisper
Speaker 3: and rumors are wrong. While others may be panicking, I
Speaker 3: know from well placed sources that Trump has never been
Speaker 3: more determined to see this military campaign through to completion.
Speaker 3: The message to Iran, and this is Mark Halpern's reporting
Speaker 3: from other sources. Mark Deeson's got his own sources. The
Speaker 3: message to Iran is clear, and this is what he's
Speaker 3: going to stay with. Either the regime gives Trump what
Speaker 3: he demands in total, or the United States will unleash
Speaker 3: hell and take it from them.
Speaker 4: These are the only two options that are being discussed.
Speaker 4: I've got to admit, I eye of all people, somewhat
Speaker 4: naively had assumed. I'm examining my own feelings now, Jack.
Speaker 4: I had naively assumed that when it came to war
Speaker 4: and life and death, the fun house mirror of the
Speaker 4: American media would at least get flattened out a little
Speaker 4: bit because it's so enormously important and impactful. And again
Speaker 4: people are being hurt and dying, and our country's military
Speaker 4: is involved. But no, no, they've They've kept calling place
Speaker 4: from the same playbook.
Speaker 1: I hate him. Yeah, it's interesting though. Hmm.
Speaker 3: So this guy writing in substack, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: do a little research on who he is. I don't
Speaker 3: know his name. He's got a Middle Eastern sounding name.
Speaker 3: It This was recommended as the most important thing to
Speaker 3: read today his opinion piece. Anyway, he said, the reading
Speaker 3: by the mainstream media is wrong on this. The war
Speaker 3: is not absence of absence of strategy. It is course
Speaker 3: of diplomacy terms first, pressure, second, pause, third, then renewed
Speaker 3: pressure from a stronger position, continuing until they're either decimated
Speaker 3: or they surrender.
Speaker 1: Well described.
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of this is the biggest or best or whatever.
Speaker 4: Friend of the Armstrong and Getty show sent this my way.
Speaker 4: This should be the biggest story in the country right now.
Speaker 4: Barksdale Air Force Base is the headquarters for our B
Speaker 4: fifty two nuclear bombers. It's where Bush sheltered on nine
Speaker 4: to eleven and sophisticated drones far more sophisticated than anything
Speaker 4: seen in Ukraine and well beyond Iranian capabilities attacked Louisiana's
Speaker 4: Barksdale bomber base. Was the first time a US air
Speaker 4: base was temporarily put out of operation in wartime, something
Speaker 4: that is that never happened to even in.
Speaker 1: World War Two. Did not owe that story. This is
Speaker 1: not I hate that. Oh, here it is. Here's the link.
Speaker 1: It's from Asia Times, which I think is a fairly
Speaker 1: substantial news organization. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I hadn't heard this at all. It was attacked by
Speaker 4: drone swarms during the week of March ninth. Okay, so
Speaker 4: it was a couple of weeks ago. I do remember
Speaker 4: hearing about that. It disrupted B fifty two H aircraft
Speaker 4: launches in support of Operation Epic Theory against Iran. First
Speaker 4: time US air base out of operation even World War Two.
Speaker 4: Each wave forced the Air Force to halt operations and
Speaker 4: send its personnel to shelters. Let's see what do we well,
Speaker 4: drone wave lasted around four hours each day.
Speaker 1: That's really interesting.
Speaker 3: I'd like to know more about that, and of course
Speaker 3: we certainly wouldn't be I amplifying that story, as our
Speaker 3: military wouldn't be anyway.
Speaker 1: For obvious reasons.
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Speaker 4: So a description of these drones. The drones themselves may
Speaker 4: have been autonomous or semi autonomous and operated in ways
Speaker 4: suggesting the drones were equipped with multiple sensors that directed
Speaker 4: the behavior of each drone over the base and in
Speaker 4: response to attempts at jamming. In a nutshell, the drones
Speaker 4: that operated over Barksdale are far more sophisticated than anything
Speaker 4: seen in Ukraine, where drones are used heavily and well
Speaker 4: beyond Iranian capabilities.
Speaker 1: China, maybe nobody's sure. We'll have to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 3: Are we going to keep on eye on the major
Speaker 3: controversy that is Trump's name is going to end up
Speaker 3: on our currency? Oh my god, he's just like Hitler
Speaker 3: or something. According to ms now I saw this morning.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't listen to the whole story,
Speaker 1: but Mshi, am I allowed to spell swear words on
Speaker 1: the air? What's the FCC say about that? That's a
Speaker 1: good question. I don't you'd think after being in broadcasting
Speaker 1: my entire life, I would know that.
Speaker 4: Can I spell a swear word? I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: think the FCC does anything at this point. I don't
Speaker 4: think so either. It should be disbanded. We should get
Speaker 4: our money back? Yes, indeed, ahah do you think we
Speaker 4: probably can and probably can't? Well, because I would like
Speaker 4: to from now till the end of our careers spell
Speaker 4: MS now is mshi.
Speaker 1: You know on.
Speaker 4: I can pause a second then say T, but having paused,
Speaker 4: it's okay to use those letters out there's having Seriously, folks,
Speaker 4: this is so interesting looking at the history of swearing
Speaker 4: and how it changes according to societies and languages and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. The idea that if I were to
Speaker 4: utter those letters of the alphabet in order, it was
Speaker 4: some sort of magic incantation out of Harry Potter and
Speaker 4: people's air would fall out, or people would go blind
Speaker 4: in their left eye or whatever.
Speaker 1: Old people would.
Speaker 4: Faint exactly like it has some sort of magical powers.
Speaker 1: It's really very silly. Do you know something about this, Katie?
Speaker 5: According to the interwebs, spelling a swear word on the
Speaker 5: radio is forbidden. According to the good old FCC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they can f you them.
Speaker 4: I had heard that you could do it, but you
Speaker 4: have to allow thirty seconds between each letter, so it's
Speaker 4: very slow entertaining.
Speaker 3: We'll look into these and other important questions to all
Speaker 3: of you coming up on the show ahead. We're going
Speaker 3: to talk to Mike Lines a little bit later about
Speaker 3: all those soldiers we got sending we're sending to the
Speaker 3: Middle East and what they might be doing and what
Speaker 3: sort of resistance they could face, So we'll get to
Speaker 3: that now. Or three got mail bag next along lines
Speaker 3: the airport are soon to be over. They got a
Speaker 3: deal to end the TSA blah blah blah. So good
Speaker 3: news for your traveling this weekend.
Speaker 4: Having resolved whatever stupidity they were pretending to argue over.
Speaker 4: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day and look great,
Speaker 4: Mark Twain, sent along by David Alert listener David.
Speaker 1: Thank you, David.
Speaker 4: The truth has no defense against a full determined to
Speaker 4: believe a lie. See the Internet mailbag. The truth has
Speaker 4: no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.
Speaker 3: Or kind of In a similar vein, It's easy to
Speaker 3: believe a lie if you want it to be true
Speaker 3: all which is really really hard to fight.
Speaker 1: In your own head.
Speaker 4: Asked, let's see drop us note mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 4: and Giddy dot com. We'll start with Aaron, who includes
Speaker 4: a link that would take too long to explain what
Speaker 4: it has to do with gender bending. Madness is as
Speaker 4: a resolve to correcting people when they use gender language. Example,
Speaker 4: someone refers to a surgeried woman on hormones as he
Speaker 4: I say, it's she. It's twenty twenty six. This does
Speaker 4: two things highlight not only that it's over and the
Speaker 4: jig is up, but also how short lived the scene
Speaker 4: actually was.
Speaker 3: Well, we got Bob Costas later coming out and saying
Speaker 3: the IOC was correct. If Bob Costas is now on
Speaker 3: that side of it, now you know the jig is up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: On the topic of the social media trial and addiction
Speaker 4: that sort of thing, William from Beautiful Clovis Rights, Clovis, California.
Speaker 4: I love to go fishing, but the thing is, every
Speaker 4: time I go, I catch a fish or two. The
Speaker 4: fact that there are more fish in the lake is
Speaker 4: making it addictive. Who do I go to to sue
Speaker 4: God for maliciously placing more fish.
Speaker 1: In the lake? Why this is?
Speaker 4: The press is so much fraud? Why does God keep
Speaker 4: making these delicious fish reproduce? As a Californian, I believe
Speaker 4: it's my duty to sue. Anyway, Love your show, keep
Speaker 4: up a good work, keep up the good emails.
Speaker 1: William.
Speaker 3: Thanks endless scrolling on Instagram, endless fish in the lake.
Speaker 3: There's all kinds of way that these businesses trap you.
Speaker 3: We must sue God.
Speaker 4: JT and livermore with a great thought about robot umpires.
Speaker 4: Baseball is the last sport that he drove out onpires.
Speaker 4: Unlike most all major sports, baseball season even its playoffs,
Speaker 4: are built around the notion that on any given day,
Speaker 4: the worst team in baseball can beat the best team
Speaker 4: in baseball. So why the season is one hundred and
Speaker 4: sixty two games long? So why the playoffs feature best
Speaker 4: of seven and best of five and best of seven series.
Speaker 4: In other words, the structure of baseball already counts for
Speaker 4: the randomness of the occasional bad call.
Speaker 1: It does. It's you know, well, he's absolutely right.
Speaker 4: A dominant, great basketball team will beat a terrible basketball
Speaker 4: team almost every single game, and baseball not so much. No,
Speaker 4: there's much more randomness to the game. And this wonderful
Speaker 4: email from Katie in La. You have to hand it
Speaker 4: to these Raelies. Our media doesn't cover the extent of
Speaker 4: the damage and death in Israel with the recent bombings
Speaker 4: by Iran. The Iranians are now sending cluster bombs which
Speaker 4: are getting through the Iron Dome, causing tremendous damage. Scores
Speaker 4: of people have been killed even inside shelters. They're constantly
Speaker 4: running back and forth into shelters and safe rooms. Soldiers
Speaker 4: and reservists are exhausted, most people aren't working. Level of
Speaker 4: stress and psychological damage the country has yet to be
Speaker 4: fully realized. Yet with all this, they're keeping their creativity
Speaker 4: and sense of humor. Some apps that have been recently
Speaker 4: developed and are very popular in Israel.
Speaker 1: Do I have time to shower? You enter your location.
Speaker 4: The app calculates the probability of getting a siren within
Speaker 4: the next half hour, so you don't have to worry
Speaker 4: about running the shelter with shampoo in your hair. There's
Speaker 4: bomb Shelter Locator. Even off line, you can find the
Speaker 4: nearest shelter wherever you are. Shelter Leaderboard calculates the number
Speaker 4: of hours spent in shelters and creates leader boards based
Speaker 4: on location and sirens data. This one's been around since
Speaker 4: October seventh, but it's still genius. Before any siren is
Speaker 4: sounded and you get a text message to let you
Speaker 4: know it's coming, This helps reduce jumpiness when you hear
Speaker 4: sirens like police, an ambulance and that sort of thing,
Speaker 4: and you know, okay, there's the air raid. I knew
Speaker 4: it was gonna come. Gives you a chance to head
Speaker 4: for the shelter and Katie's favorite hooked.
Speaker 1: Scan a QR code as.
Speaker 4: You enter the bomb shelter and you'll get matched with
Speaker 4: other singles in the bomb shelter.
Speaker 1: With you kinda She says that go ahea.
Speaker 3: Did you see the video of the rocket hitting in
Speaker 3: some town and the car flipping up in the area yesterday?
Speaker 1: God, I can't imagine living like that, she says. I
Speaker 1: wonder if this attitude is another reason people hate to
Speaker 1: choose the resiliency and creativity that allows them to get
Speaker 1: through all the horrible times. She signs off, addicted to
Speaker 1: your show, even though it's the most depressing show on
Speaker 1: the radio. Thank you, Katie and lay it is. We're
Speaker 1: trying to fix that. We've got more on the way.
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