1 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Kaddy Armstrong and Jackie 3 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:21,799 Speaker 1: and Pee. 4 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 2: Arms live from studio C say signor we are in 5 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 2: a dimly lit room, Dee put them the bowels. 6 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: Of the Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound. And today midweek Wednesday, 7 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: where we are under the tutelage. I'm sorry, we're working 8 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: under the title of the show w WMD what would 9 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: Marxists do? Or I'm particularly proud of this one. Big 10 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: brother Tom pulls Ice Barbie's head off. Wow. Anybody who 11 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,839 Speaker 1: anybody who grew up in a household with both boys 12 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: and girls, or perhaps has been a parative one, knows 13 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,839 Speaker 1: that occasionally a brother in a saucy mood will pull 14 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: off the head of his sister's doll. That problems, That 15 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: probably makes her unhappy. It causes conflict which often must 16 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: be settled by the parent, known as a decapitation. Well, 17 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: did capitation strike exactly? Yeah, Tom tell us the senator 18 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: from North Carolina kind of pulled Ice Barbie's head off 19 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 1: in a hearing yesterday. That would be Christy Nom And 20 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: that's a Republican, Yes, Sir, soon to be no longer 21 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: in the Senate. Republican who don't care. No, mo, that's 22 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: not a common thing to have somebody of your own 23 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: party go after you as a secretary of something. Yeah, 24 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:53,559 Speaker 1: she took a beaten. There are Republicans who consider her embarrassment. Yeah, 25 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: we got some information yesterday about how she is funneling 26 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: all this ad buy money. Spent in insane amount of 27 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: money on ads to try to convince people what she 28 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: was up to with all that immigration stuff was a 29 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: good idea and a lot of it went to people 30 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: as she used to hang out with in South Dakota. 31 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: That's weird. Yeah, so that it must have been the 32 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: low bidder and the best at the work. That ain't good. 33 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: That's government man, Yeah, no kidding. Lots of stuff. I'm 34 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: looking up at the television, has been watching news ever 35 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: since I got up this morning. And there's a lot 36 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: of things with smoke billowing out of them around the 37 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 1: Middle East. Lots of buildings with smoke coming up out 38 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 1: of them, some of them hotels and stuff like that. 39 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: Airports and military bases ours, including the biggest military base 40 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 1: we have in the entire Middle East, which got hit 41 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 1: with a rocket and nobody injured, as least that's what 42 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: the report is. They might not be telling us the truth, 43 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: which is fine. They found out my brother was in 44 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: that very hotel in Dubai the got smashed up last week. 45 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 1: Oh really, of all things makes you stop and thank 46 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: you UAE is getting has taken the brunt of the 47 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: Israeli sending rockets and missiles everywhere, and now a whole 48 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: bunch of your Arabs are having a big meeting today 49 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: on whether or not they should join up with the 50 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: United States and Israel. Now that would be historic, and 51 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: it would be the manifestation of something. Bb Net Yao, 52 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: who's been trying to get going. He made an announcement 53 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: I can't remember when it was a year ago something 54 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: like that. That look good. We need to have the 55 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: Abraham Alliance in the spirit of the Abraham Accords. We 56 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: all know who the danger is here. Israel has no 57 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: good beef with you. Guys. Go do your thing. It's 58 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: find it run a bunch of maniacs. We got a 59 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: band together, and now it's happening. So Lord Magbie. Fifty 60 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: nine years after the Six Day War, in which every 61 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: single country in the region attacked Israel, at the same time. 62 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: Now almost all of those countries would be on the 63 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: side of Israel taking on Iran. That's something that could 64 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: lead to peace in the Middle East. Yeah for a while. Yeah. 65 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: So the other thing I just read I thought was 66 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: really interesting is Israel is specifically targeting anybody and anything 67 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: that played a role in cracking down on the protesters 68 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: back in February, the twenty to thirty thousand protesters that 69 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 1: got gunned down in the street. Anybody involved in that 70 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: is getting a rocket on their head or their house 71 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 1: or their car, with the idea being there aren't a 72 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: lot of protests around Iran right now, and they need 73 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: the public to come out into the streets, have giant 74 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 1: protests force the government outs take over the country. And 75 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: they can't do it right now because they're all free 76 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: of being shot by their own government. Yeah. I listened 77 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: to a little NPR this morning to punish myself for 78 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: the terrible things I've done, and I will give them credit. 79 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 1: They talk to a bunch of Iranians ex pats right 80 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 1: outside the country who are worried about their relatives. But 81 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: to a person they said, without being challenged that, oh, 82 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: this regime is unspeakably evil and horrible and we can't 83 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,119 Speaker 1: wait till it's gone. The only problem is they still 84 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: have the guns, and if we're to raid, you know, 85 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: an armory and try to get the guns, thousands of 86 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: people would die. So it's just it's not clear if 87 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 1: that can happen yet. Was the was the attitude? But 88 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: to your point, we're targeting absolutely every office, every armory, 89 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: every you know, house that was in charge of that effort. 90 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,720 Speaker 1: And it's good. I still think, you know, tipping pushing 91 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: the regime past the tipping point is going to be 92 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: an enormous challenge, but who knows. Secretary of War Pete 93 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: Hegseeth just gave a little presentation. We'll play clips of 94 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: it later, but he said the operation against Iran is 95 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: just getting started. So wow, if that's true, and this 96 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: is big breaking news. And luckily NATO shot down a 97 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: missile Iran. Senate Turkey trying to get Turkey involved somehow 98 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: or pissing them off. Still not positive on their strategy. 99 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: You know what, who's another big power around here we 100 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: could turn against us. Maybe it hasn't worked with the 101 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 1: other eleven countries, but let's try it with Turkey. There 102 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: are now thirteen countries, and I'm sure I couldn't name 103 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:26,799 Speaker 1: on a map where a lot of them are like your booty, 104 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: instance your booty, the Kingdom of your booty, where's your booty? 105 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: Shake your booty? Thirteen countries that the United States is saying, 106 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: if you're an American, get out, or don't go there 107 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: in the first place, but get out and don't be 108 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: wearing your Olympic hockey T shirt either. Low profile. I'm 109 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: amazed by the thousands upon thousands of Americans are in 110 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: all these different countries. I never have been to any 111 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: of these countries, and there's lots of people who do 112 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: business in these places. I guess lot of business being done. 113 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: I would love to visit. That part of the service 114 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: takes it a long and given our schedule, it's difficult 115 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: to do. Hey, I want to get back very briefly 116 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: to my other proposed title for the show WWMD What 117 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: would Marxists Do? It's become extremely clear that having pivoted 118 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: from the genocide in Gaza to ice out, now the 119 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: Marxist organizations have all the placards printed and are taking 120 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: to the straits, and now their thing is down with 121 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: the war of colonial oppressor aggression against the poor Muslims 122 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: of Iran. It's a genocide against the Muslims, and the 123 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: Red Green alliance is reborn, the alliance of fundamentalists to 124 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: Muslims and Marxists. I don't think that one's going to 125 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: work near as good as that there is a fair 126 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: amount of public support for their going after Ice. There's 127 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: not going to be a ton of public support for Iran, 128 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: is there. There might be public support against this war, 129 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: since it's at least so far not polling well, but 130 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: it's not. It's more of a we don't want to 131 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: get involved in wars in the Middle East, get sucked 132 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: into an Iraq, Afghanistan. It's not up with their Iranians, 133 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: is it? Were there? No? No, no, I mean, you'd 134 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: have to be insane or just a liar with a 135 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: bunch of soft headed fans adherents, you know, teammates in 136 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: your idiotic and Marxist organization that will just believe anything 137 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: you tell them. That's the only people who could make 138 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: that argument. Yeah. So Congress is going to have some 139 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: votes today on the War Powers Act and then a 140 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,439 Speaker 1: bunch of discussion tomorrow. Be really interesting to see where 141 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:45,559 Speaker 1: that goes, I know, Yeah, what the state of Congressional 142 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: oversight of war is at this point is anybody's guess. 143 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: Is there anything they can do about this one that 144 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: already started. There's some talk about them just passing some 145 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: legislation about the future future moves by this president or 146 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: other presidents, making it more delineating more on which actions 147 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 1: you need to come to talk to us about. I 148 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:08,959 Speaker 1: don't know if they go about this one that's already started. Well, 149 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 1: they could pass a resolution, you know, one of your 150 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: symbolic resolutions, reaffirming that the president has to come to 151 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: them within sixty days for reauthorization. Blah blah blah, give 152 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 1: me something like that, kind of just an assertion of 153 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: Congress is still here. We're over here, and we want 154 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: to roll in this. Well, I have to say, of course, 155 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: if you're a fan of history, you know that the 156 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: Vietnam War really came to an end when Congress finally 157 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: stopped funding any of it. If they always have that power, 158 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: we ain't giving you any more money to do any 159 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: of this. So that's how it ends. That is the 160 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: power Congress is very very powerful. If they'd ever decide 161 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: they want to be into all kinds of stuff. Let's 162 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: start the show. Officially, got a good clip for you. 163 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Wednesday, 164 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: May or March the fourth. Already they're twenty twenty six. 165 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: Where I'm strong you're getting we approve of this program. 166 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: Let's begin pelting the liars with truth bombs precisely according 167 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: to FCC rules regulations. Here we go at Mark. 168 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 3: Bowell shed no tears for the high Tolla COMBENI he 169 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 3: won the corn tosh and he elected to receive, and 170 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 3: bore did he receive? May he rest in pieces? 171 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:34,559 Speaker 1: May he rest in pieces? Boy? He won the quaint 172 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: thoughtson elected to receive? Oh god, how much time does 173 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:45,079 Speaker 1: he spend thinking of these his daily senate job. He's 174 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: in his office. I got a good one for you. 175 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: He hits his staff with the rolled her eyes. Mister Kennedy, 176 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: the Sigatary Agriculture wants to be with you. They don't 177 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: hold on him, and he's in there at the door 178 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: close trying to sing his chin. He couldn't raise corn. 179 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: If you no rest in pieces? That's a good one. 180 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: I like this from Andrew Styles and the Freebeacon. His 181 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: headline making fun of the rest of the media is 182 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: rest in pieces Ali Kameeni Demure progressive stalwart and Black 183 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: Lives Matter ally who inspired democrats and academics bombed to 184 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: death at eighty six. He expired on his own terms 185 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: mid resistance, surrounded by his closest friends and military aides. Wow, 186 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: So did this actually happen or was this somebody made 187 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: this up online? Did Trump? I came across this yesterday? 188 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: A reporter asked Trump, now that you've killed the supreme leader, 189 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: who's going to be the next head of Iran? And 190 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: Trump responded, I don't know. I guess the position is open. 191 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: I'm creating jobs in Iran too. Now did he actually 192 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: say that, I don't know? I hope so. Well? That 193 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: would be perhaps his all time. That's pretty good. We've 194 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: got Katie's headlines on the way. Stay here. Crenshaw loss 195 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,959 Speaker 1: last night. I liked him, iyepatch, God damn Crenshaw. Yeah, yeah, 196 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: former Navy seal. I was surprised to see that he 197 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: wasn't always Trump, He wasn't always on board of Trump 198 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: and got challenged by somebody trumpy and lost. That's the 199 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: way modern politics work. Most congressional seats are safe, but 200 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: not from your own party. If you aren't woken up 201 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: on the left or trump enough on the right, you 202 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 1: get defeated by your own party, which is a new thing. 203 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 1: You're a test that is a new thing that did 204 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: not happen very many years ago. Yeah, but better or worse, 205 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 1: And I don't know which is which. The whole every 206 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: seat safe thing hasn't been working for us. But it's 207 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: interesting that you now you're most vulnerable by far to 208 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: somebody in your own party who's more of whatever than 209 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: you are. Although that the sort of person who tends 210 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: to be one likely to vote in a primary doesn't 211 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: present the greater electorate. That's absolutely not that trend. That 212 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: is the problem. All right, Let's figure out who's reporting 213 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: what it's lead story. It's Katie Green, Katie all right. 214 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 4: Top of the headlines, of course, what's going on in Iran? 215 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 4: Starting with ABC as Iran retaliates largest US military base 216 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 4: in the Middle East hit BI ballistic missile CNN, Israel 217 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 4: vows to kill Iran's next supreme leader as to run 218 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 4: strikes back at NBC. Iran strikes risk more voter frustration 219 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 4: on the economy, with rising gas prices. 220 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, one basic got hit in Kuwait. They released 221 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: the names and pictures of four of the people killed. 222 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: H Yeah, horrifying. You know you already know it's bad. 223 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 1: But when you see the names, pictures, ages, Yeah, hear 224 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: about their lives. It's brutal. One mom one, twenty year old, Yes, 225 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: just said on a lighter note. My favorite headline of 226 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: the day was from the New York Times. Iran has 227 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: announced that his postponed the public displaying of the iatolas, 228 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 1: by which is a missed opportunity for us to kill 229 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: him again. Wow, I mean bomb him again, blow up 230 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: the funeral. 231 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 4: From Breitbart, Zelenski worried the world could forget about Ukraine 232 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 4: and stop donating missiles because of Iran operator. 233 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll bet he is. He should be. Yeah. 234 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 4: From the Wall Street Journal, a record number of American 235 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 4: workers are pulling money from their four oh one k's 236 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 4: to cover financial emergencies. 237 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: This is not good, now, it really is not. We 238 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: need to talk about that more later. 239 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 4: From the New York Times. Krockett concedes Democratic primary in Texas. 240 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, Jasmine Krockett got beat by that James Tallerico phony 241 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: who believes God has many genders. Uh, so this shows 242 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: that her getting beat by someone more of her than 243 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: she was. Uh, he really connected with Hispanic voters, is 244 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: the analysis I saw in a way that she never 245 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: did because she's super woke. Hmm. He actually was sure 246 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: we have a tim O'hitler and the White House right now. 247 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 3: Yeah. 248 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: The Hispanics are like your little nutty for our taste, 249 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: and so it was not getting out woke exactly. Although 250 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: she's Jasmin Crockett's about Jasmin Crockett. She's an Instagram influencer. 251 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: Lease blind, bad built bush body says you crum. 252 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 4: CBS jury finds father of accused high school shooter guilty 253 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 4: of murder and all other charges. 254 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: Interesting case, troubled kid. Cops that had to come to 255 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: the house had a shrine to school shooters on his wall, 256 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 1: and dad buys him an aar fifteen. Oh, I want 257 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: to talk about that more later. Wow. 258 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 4: From the New York Post, lawsuit claims Google Gemini quote 259 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 4: AI wife pushed love sick man to plot catastrophic airport 260 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 4: truck bombing and kill himself. 261 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: There's a lot there. What Yeah, Okay, a lot more 262 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: details on that one. I don't get this one. 263 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 4: Today, find it funny study fines chimpanzees share human's fascination 264 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 4: with crystals. It could hint at the roots of symbolic thought. 265 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: Huh, the picture like shiny objects. 266 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, but the picture is a chimp holding a giant 267 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 4: like quartz crystal and she's just like looking at it 268 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 4: and kind of banging it on the ground. 269 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: Feeling like you feel the energy reaching my chakra. Right. 270 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 4: And finally from the Babylon, b Obama very confused to 271 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 4: see bombs falling on Iran instead of palettes of cash. 272 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: Oh boy, Well, as you heard, there's a bunch of 273 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: stories there we need to follow up on, all different 274 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: sorts of angles of the world. All very exciting. And 275 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: again we have some clips of Pete Heggsith's Secretary of 276 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 1: War just gave us an update on where things are 277 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: in a colorful way that he does so lots today. 278 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: If you missus, Segmanner now or get the podcast Armstrong 279 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: and get You on demand Armstrong and Getty. 280 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 5: I stand before you today with one unmistakable message about 281 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 5: Operation Epic Fury. America is winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy. 282 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: That's Secretary of War Pete hegzeth and we got more 283 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 1: clips of him. First, let me mention that I just 284 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 1: read the story Katie Green mentioned in her headlines about 285 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: the guy who was going to bomb an airport because 286 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: his AI girlfriend told him to. Holy crap, what an 287 00:17:54,960 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: interesting story about how the AI treated this dude highly. 288 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 1: This was Google Gemini in this case, Gemini in this case. Yeah, wow, 289 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: wait do we get to that? Okay, back to Pete hagsact. So, 290 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:13,640 Speaker 1: I personally have been in favor of what we did 291 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: in Iran over the weekend and have been kind of 292 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: ignoring that he doesn't know what's the day to plan 293 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff, and been kind of not 294 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: susceptible to that argument. Yesterday, for some reason, I started 295 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 1: to become susceptible to the where's this going, how do 296 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: you know when you're done? Argument on this. Yeah, well 297 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: that's it's a great question. Yeah, I'd say so. It 298 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: doesn't even if the answer is, you know, the remnants 299 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: of the regime remain in charge and it's still an 300 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 1: autocracy blah blah blah, it's that doesn't counter the argument 301 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: that we needed to bring them down on their capacity 302 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: to recorror. But I'm definitely not at the this was 303 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,959 Speaker 1: a bad idea stage or even close. But I am 304 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: at the hmm, I don't see what how this is 305 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: going to end? Oh yeah, yeah, it's a giant mystery. 306 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: I agree completely. You want to hear a little more 307 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: of Secretary pteriis in fifty one. 308 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 5: We need to remember two things. First, we are only 309 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 5: four days into this. Metrics are shifting, dust is settling, 310 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 5: and more forces are arriving. It's very early, and as 311 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 5: President Trump has said, we will take all the time. 312 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 1: We need to make sure that we succeed. 313 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 5: Second, we are only four days into this and the 314 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 5: results have been incredible historic. Really, only the United States 315 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 5: of America could lead this, only US, But when you 316 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:49,639 Speaker 5: add the Israeli defense forces, a devastatingly capable force, the 317 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 5: combination is sheer destruction for our radical Islamist Iranian adversaries. 318 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 5: They are toast and they know it, or at least 319 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 5: soon enough they will know it. 320 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, what we in Israel pulled off in that 321 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 1: opening hour really is extraordinary. I was going to ask 322 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 1: my clients about this. We should probably have him on, 323 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,360 Speaker 1: you know, today or tomorrow, because this is every day 324 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: there's big news to ask about somebody with a military 325 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: mind for this. But how much advantage does this give 326 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 1: us if we ever end up go to war with China? 327 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: That they have not really engaged in any actual military 328 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: stuff in many, many, many years, and we have, for 329 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 1: better or worse, a lot of people that have done. 330 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 1: You know, I assume I've never been the military, but 331 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: I assume there's a big difference no matter how much 332 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: you train, between training and doing it for real. And 333 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: we've got a lot of people that have done all 334 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: this stuff for real, both individually and as an institution. 335 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 1: You know, the institutional learning of oh this is what happens, okay, 336 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:55,959 Speaker 1: and you put that into your training and your planning 337 00:20:56,040 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: and your options and the rest of it. It's incredibly important. Yeah, 338 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: So Secretary Pete, who is an absolute quote machine and 339 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,640 Speaker 1: is an incredibly capable spokesperson. I know he's on TV 340 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: and starts kit obvious, but man, is he good? Who 341 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 1: bringing it? We'll do fifty two then pause briefly, Michael. 342 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 5: Starting last night and to be completed in a few days. 343 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 5: In under a week, the two most powerful air forces 344 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 5: in the world will have complete control of Iranian sky's 345 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 5: uncontested airspace. 346 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: I just wanted to pause to note, and we'll get 347 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: back to this in a little bit, that virtually the 348 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 1: entire Israeli air force was in on the strike against 349 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: Iran in the early days. Virtually every fighter they had 350 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: headed for Iran to bring down the iotolin Is regime. 351 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: Is that accurate? That's interesting. I didn't know that the 352 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 1: two most powerful air forces in the world are US 353 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,440 Speaker 1: in Israel. I don't know that that's accurate. You wouldn't. 354 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: We are number one. I don't doubt that, But I 355 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,199 Speaker 1: didn't know Israel's number two. HM. Maybe in terms of 356 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: capability and experience. Getting back to your previous point, But 357 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: so Pete claims the Secretary that will have complete control 358 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: of their airspace, and the expands on that thought. 359 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:21,679 Speaker 5: I hope all the folks watching understand what uncontested airspace 360 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 5: and complete control means. It means we will fly all day, 361 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 5: all night, day and night, finding, fixing and finishing the 362 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 5: missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military, finding 363 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 5: and fixing their leaders and their military leaders, flying over Tehran, 364 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 5: flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the RGC, 365 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 5: Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only US and Israeli 366 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:59,919 Speaker 5: air power every minute of every day until we decide 367 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 5: it's over. 368 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: Wow, that's a good one. Yeah, it is go ahead. 369 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: Yesterday there was an actual dog fight, like old school 370 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: dogfight between an Israeli jet and an Iranian jet. The 371 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: Israeli jet prevailed. First dog fight Israel has been in, 372 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: or maybe anybody since the eighties. It's not a very 373 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 1: common thing in the modern world. I was surprised that 374 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: the Kuwaitis could bring down three of our jets using 375 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: our gear and our training. So I guess that was 376 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 1: pretty good gear and training. We'll talk more about that. 377 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: How that unfolded. Yeah, I'd like to know. That's super interesting. Yeah. 378 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: The key factorily is just that the airspace over Iran 379 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: and the region is incredibly complicated right now with missiles 380 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 1: and planes and drones flying around, and our bas had 381 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: just gotten hit and the Kuwaitis were on their toes 382 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: to prevent that from happening again and misread our planes 383 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 1: as some sort of Iranians. So was that right after 384 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 1: the strike that killed six soldiers? Yeah, exactly, So God 385 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 1: bless the Kuwaitis. They kind of screwed up, but they were, 386 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: as I said, on their toes trying to you know, 387 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,880 Speaker 1: really defend their airspace in our base along with US. 388 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: So anyway, let's see, I want to do just a 389 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,360 Speaker 1: little more pee tier. As fifty seven. 390 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 5: Iran senior leaders are dead, the so called governing council 391 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 5: that might have selected a successor dead missing or cowering, 392 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 5: and bunkers too terrified to even occupy the same room, sor. 393 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,400 Speaker 1: General's, mid level officers enlisted ranks. 394 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 5: They can't talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated 395 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 5: and sustained offensive. 396 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: That's not great for morale. But wait, there's more bad news. 397 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 5: The Iranian Air Force is no more built for nineteen 398 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 5: ninety six, destroyed in twenty twenty six. The Iranian Navy 399 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 5: rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf combat ineffective, decimated. 400 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: Destroyed, defeat. We did pick your adjective. 401 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:06,919 Speaker 5: In fact, last night we sunk their prize ship, the Solomoni. 402 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 1: Looks like Potis got him twice. Wow oof killed the 403 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 1: guy and the ship named after him. That one was 404 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: a US submarine used a torpedo in the Indian Ocean. 405 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: It's the first time we've torpedoed and sunk a ship 406 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: since World War Two. Really, yeah, that's some naval trivia 407 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 1: for you on trivial trivia. Yeah, if the true fury 408 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: and might of our navy ever had to get unlocked, 409 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 1: I think I think the world would be surprised capable 410 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 1: we are, yeah, oh right, right, yeah, that you have 411 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 1: such an awesome force so that you never have to 412 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: use it. So when we have full control of this guy, 413 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 1: which I assume could be very soon, then we're just 414 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: gonna just keep hitting every every everything that they have 415 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: a target for anybody who's so much as points a rifle. 416 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 1: I guess, I don't. I don't know. Again, the next 417 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: chapter is the one that's really uncertain because for the 418 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: entirety of you know, as long as there have been 419 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,120 Speaker 1: airplanes and air wars. The next thing is you bring 420 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 1: the guys in the troops. I'm not I'm not as 421 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,919 Speaker 1: bothered as some people are. And it doesn't mean I'm right. 422 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: I could be wrong about this, but I'm not as 423 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: bothered as as some people are about the the the plan. Again, 424 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,160 Speaker 1: I think you had the best opportunity or ever gonna 425 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 1: get to take out the evil, evil enemy of the 426 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 1: United States, and you did, and that's got to be 427 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 1: better than what happens next. So I hear all this 428 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: stuff about it's jazz, he's just improvising. Yeah, after he 429 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: had took out the guy because there was another no 430 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 1: other choice. I believe that. So it doesn't have to 431 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,959 Speaker 1: be you had a concrete, laid out plan of how 432 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,919 Speaker 1: it was gonna play out, and it exactly follows it 433 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: to me, right, and anybody who's into this sort of 434 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: stuff for a stuff, how did it realize? Is that 435 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,439 Speaker 1: your plans get blown up the minute you engage with 436 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: the enemy, And so I suspect that they've got four 437 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: or five or six plans depending on what happens, which 438 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: is exactly the way war goes. That's the classic Mike 439 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,679 Speaker 1: Tyson quote of everybody's got a plan until they get 440 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: punched in the face. Yeah, exactly. So that's not to 441 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,159 Speaker 1: guarantee that's going to end in some sort of rosy conclusion. 442 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: But I think it's a false, false criticism. I also 443 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: want to dig into the whole the divide between Marco 444 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 1: Rubio and then the president who contradicted him about Israel 445 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: forcing the United States and blah blah blah. That is 446 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 1: a red herring, that is a false narrative and one 447 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: that is very very popular in the media today. I 448 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: will do my best to explode it, perhaps at the 449 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: top of next hour, our most hearing schedule, our most 450 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,959 Speaker 1: herring's white exactly. That's why the red ones are. You 451 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,439 Speaker 1: can't resist say, well, there's a red herring and you 452 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: chase it. Oh, okay, is that where that comes from? 453 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 1: I have no idea, my good herring? Oh why is 454 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: that herring? Red? Good lord? We'll follow it. No, I 455 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,199 Speaker 1: have no idea where that expression comes from. I've been 456 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,919 Speaker 1: thinking about this. I wish somebody would put out a 457 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,239 Speaker 1: video about this or something to explain it. Can you 458 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: imagine what the logistics of Saturday were with thousand airstrikes 459 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 1: within like a half an hour, with Israeli jets and 460 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: US jets That I can't even imagine, because they all 461 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,879 Speaker 1: had to have a target and that had to be 462 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: mapped in and locked in, and they all got to 463 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: be flying and they can't be running into each other. 464 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: So it's going to be timed in such a way that, like, 465 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: you know, I drop my bomb and get out of 466 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 1: the way before you drop your bomb, like a mile away, 467 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 1: and you got to land somewhere, take off from somewhere, 468 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: fuel somewhere, all that time. I can't imagine it's even 469 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 1: harrier than that, because while you're in the air, especially 470 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: executing the mission, you've got to defend yourselves and keep 471 00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: an eye out for the other guy and figure out 472 00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 1: how who's who in an incredibly crowded and kinetic airspace. 473 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 1: And I'm sure all kinds of contingency plans for what 474 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: if they shoot down this guy or these two jets 475 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: and then what do you come in and take out 476 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: the target or whatever. It's got to be just mind 477 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: bocklingly complicated. And the people who do that work who 478 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about unsung heroes that might be 479 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: sitting at a desk who knows where in the United 480 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: States that work all this stuff out on a you know, 481 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: an Excel sheet or something. Yeah. Yeah, God, I can't 482 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: imagine the amount of planning that's got to go into that. Yeah. 483 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons we enjoy talking to Mike 484 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: Lyons so much is he has a pretty good grasp 485 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 1: of that sort of thing and how logistics and planning 486 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: and infrastructure is just so critical to war fighting. Yeah, 487 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: coordination in short, we got we got so many good 488 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 1: things to talk about today, and really do want to 489 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: get to that AI story Gemini convincing a crazy dude 490 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 1: to do a crazy thing, and why did Gemini go 491 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: down that road that this part of AI I do 492 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: not understand. But anyway, we've got mail bag on the way. 493 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: Stay here. From the one more thing to be worried 494 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: about category that I've never thought of in my entire life. 495 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: The world shipping insurance market is crumbling. Hmm. Britain their 496 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: biggest thing is them ensuring pretty much the entire world. 497 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 1: I didn't know this, That's why I have Yeah, so uh, 498 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: and they didn't expect the war to be as big 499 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: as it's going to be. And it's a really or 500 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: billy big problem. I have to talk about that coming up. 501 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: I mean I knew nothing about this. Yeah, okay, shipping 502 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 1: insurance fascinating state, No I know. Boy. Here's your freedom 503 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: loving quart of the day, continuing our series about war. 504 00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: This from Norman Schwartzkopp. Remember him back in the The 505 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. 506 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: That's a good one. That is a good one, and 507 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 1: he's echoing in a way George Washington. We'll throw in 508 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: a bonus for no extra charge to be prepared for 509 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. 510 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 1: Amen of that, mister President, Sir mail bag, please feel 511 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: free to drop us a note. Mail Bag at Armstrong 512 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: in Geddy dot com is the email address mail bag 513 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: at Armstrong and getty dot com. Interesting crop of email. 514 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: I wish we could do more of it. A lot 515 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 1: of intra good, you know, thought provoking thoughts. Jim in 516 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: San Jose. Rights might have been a war a choice today, 517 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: but in a couple of years it would have been 518 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: a war of necessity. Should we have waited to fight 519 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,719 Speaker 1: a more well armed and possibility nuclear Iran. Just stopping 520 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: their drone production will save lives? Right, I don't get 521 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 1: that argument. I like the term preemptive better. I think 522 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: that gets closer to the middle ground and makes more sense. Yes, 523 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 1: I like yeah, well, said Garrick in the People's Republic 524 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,719 Speaker 1: of Davis, California. Yeah. I think this is a war 525 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: of choice. However, after looking at the choice, I like it, 526 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 1: so I choose to be behind it. But I still 527 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: believe it is a war of choice. And that's after 528 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 1: listening to you guys and others. I think you can 529 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,239 Speaker 1: be behind the move and that's going on with it 530 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 1: being a choice thoughts. Yeah, it's a whole war of choice, 531 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: war of necessity as a rhetorical flourish that has no 532 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 1: specific definition. Yeah, I think to use the term war 533 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 1: of choice, like John Stuart was on The Daily Show. 534 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: That's what brought it up to me, as if that's 535 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 1: by definition a bad thing is where you're getting into 536 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 1: childlike views of international situations, right, it's preaching to the 537 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 1: choir stuff. You say war of choice and everybody's doing. Yeah. Yeah, 538 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: more on that than the idea of necessity coming up later. 539 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 1: JT and Livermore points out Hillary has zero room to 540 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 1: be whining about Pizzagate. It's a little too much for 541 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 1: her to complain about the made up scandal known as Pizzagate, 542 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: given that she created an even bigger hoax that still 543 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: negatively affects our country today, aka the Russian collusion hoax. 544 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: I don't know how many people believe in the Pizzagate story, 545 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: but it has to be a fraction of the people 546 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: who still believe in the Russian collusion hoax, given that 547 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: a majority of Democratic voters still believe it was legitimate. 548 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: And he has a link to an article I didn't 549 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: really have time to look at. But yeah, it's a majority. 550 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 1: Getting back to the war of choice thing, isn't old? 551 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: What's his name? Whoever was the prime minister at the time. 552 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 1: His name escapes me? Back World War Two, the appeasement 553 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: Guy O Nevill Chamberlaine. Isn't Neville Chamberlain still getting beaten 554 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 1: up for trying to negotiate the whole situation rather than, 555 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: you know, recognizing that a was an enemy and doing 556 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 1: something about it. That would have been a war of 557 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: choice to take on Hitler before he moved right, Yeah, yeah, 558 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 1: good point. Jay T says, ps. Our country will never 559 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: be united until the Democratic Party learns to love the 560 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: country more than they hate Trump or the GEOE. And 561 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 1: then excuse me once again. I want to get into 562 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 1: the whole imminent threat question. But let's see. Oh, I 563 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,359 Speaker 1: like this note from Ryan. Your recent talk about pacifists 564 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 1: and people not factoring in the cost of inaction has 565 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 1: really put the trolley problem to the front of my mind. 566 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,440 Speaker 1: There are a lot of variations, but I think the 567 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,320 Speaker 1: West has been dealing with this on multiple dimensions. Iran 568 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: national debt, deportations, etc. The train is careening down the rails, 569 00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,400 Speaker 1: there's something in the distance that's a little fuzzy, or 570 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 1: people pretend not to see it, but it's certainly a 571 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 1: bunch of people tied to the track, a bunch. The 572 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,960 Speaker 1: train can be diverted by flipping a relay switch, but 573 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: doing so will definitely send it in this other direction 574 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 1: and kill a single person we can clearly see right 575 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 1: in front of us. Do you proactively intervene to kill 576 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,479 Speaker 1: the one person even though you're quite likely saving many more. 577 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,319 Speaker 1: Trump is willing to flip that trolley switch if it 578 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,439 Speaker 1: were up to Congress. For most presidents, that train would 579 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 1: continue on to hit whatever it is in the distance, 580 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,960 Speaker 1: and he gives the examples of interest Bomb Ryan getting 581 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,760 Speaker 1: new Cotca, but not through any direct action of Congress. 582 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: Safer to not flip the switch and assume the explicit 583 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 1: blame for a likely smaller direct outcome. Bold leaders know 584 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,239 Speaker 1: that flipping the switch is sometimes the right thing to do. 585 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 1: Kk Y HCC. Keep keeping your hands clean cowards, hmmm. 586 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,759 Speaker 1: We'll see what Congress does today and tomorrow. In terms 587 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: of keeping their hands clean. I think that that's going 588 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 1: to be their goal, not have their fingerprints on anything 589 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: in case anything goes bad if you miss a segment 590 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,360 Speaker 1: with the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. Good stuff 591 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,320 Speaker 1: on the left, Armstrong and Getty