WEBVTT - A Very Impressive Stash 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:07.480 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:12.200 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:18.560 Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.560 We've heard from the foreign ministries of many of the 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.280 Gulf states who have come out and condemned Iran for 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:35.040 targeting Kuwaiti airspace, the US airbases that are on the 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:39.440 ground in Kuwait, causing Kuwaiti sirens to blare here overnight, 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:41.880 as well as the interceptors to be put in motion 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:43.879 in order to neutralize that threat. 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.479 Oh, the Arab states have condemned Iran. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.519 I bet they're feeling the rough side of the tongue 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:51.519 of the leaders who. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:52.960 Have condemned what they've done. 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:57.000 So first we'll update you on what happened overnight since 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.160 last you checked in on the war with Ran, there 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.639 was quite a bit and then where we are now 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.760 at the sanctions, which is pretty darned interesting. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.319 Here's tre Yanksta Fox. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:09.560 A significant development overnight as Iran launched drones toward a 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:13.000 commercial vessel attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.840 Sentcom says at least five one way attack drones were 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.120 launched toward the vessel and intercepted. We know that a 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.920 strike was also conducted against a control station near the 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.720 city of Bundar Abbas that was about to launch a 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.639 six drone. In response to the Iranians launched a drone 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.280 and ballistic missile attack against Kuwait, targeting a US based there. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.880 According to Iran's IRGC, the Kuwaitis confirmed an attack on 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.800 their territory that triggered sirens and alerts. Just two hours ago, 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.840 the Israelis conducted a targeted assassination against the Lebanese capital 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.080 of Beirut, taking out a top hesbal of missile commander 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:49.640 there Bill, thank. 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.240 You, Trey, Trey, yinks Tel Aviv. 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:56.280 This is all during the ceasefire, which a lot of 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.040 ceasefires through history have had a fair amount. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:01:59.880 Of back and forth. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.760 As long as both sides are saying the ceasefire still holds, 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.080 I guess you still have a ceasefire. Ceasefire is over 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.960 when one or more side says that's it. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.200 I need somebody to explain to me how the current 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.920 somewhat c c ceasefire is a better strategy than continuing 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:21.600 to pound Iran. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.320 I think go ahead. 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.400 I think that Trump just doesn't want to engage in 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:30.360 full out war. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:31.959 Whatever. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.960 Gulf States are probably saying, hey, hey, hey, can we 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.799 just let's give this a real good try before we 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.120 get the violence going again, because I know it was 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.600 absolutely devastating to the UAE. Some of those giant, gleaming 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.040 cities with the highest skyscrapers in the world and the 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.680 magnificent architecture and the resorts that are artificial, this, that, 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.119 and the other, they're empty right now. So I think 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.440 our allies in the region are probably desperate to not 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:02.280 have the you know, the the real hostilities start again. 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:07.520 Hoping Iran caves because of the financial situation. To that 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.560 In the New York Times New York Times Today, Iranian 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.160 state television reported on Wednesday that had obtained an initial 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.720 unofficial framework for an agreement. So this is a weird 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.120 thing that's going on right now. We'll say we have 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.400 an agreement, and we'll lay out what the stuff is 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.079 that's beneficial to us, and then Iran will say, we 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.440 don't agree to that. And now Iran is announcing we 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.680 have an agreement, and they lay out the stuff that's 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.720 beneficial to them, and we say we don't agree to that. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:36.200 Back to the New York Times. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.680 The White House roundly dismissed the report, calling it a 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.920 complete fabrication, and mister Trump said several of the terms 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.840 it outlined would be unacceptable. So Iran just did the 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:47.680 same thing basically that we did. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:48.200 Over the weekend. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.160 Sounds to me like where you announced there's a deal 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.720 and the other side hasn't agreed to it. I don't 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:55.240 know if both sides are trying to pull off the 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.640 presumptive clothes, or like we're talking to people who agree 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.720 to stuff but they aren't the reals. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:01.800 I don't know. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.720 History will tell, I guess. And there's so much happening 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.200 behind the scenes that I know. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.480 I'm not privy too. And here maybe for the forever, 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:11.200 under the now. 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:15.280 Under the framework released by Iran, Iran would reopen the 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.240 Strait of horr Moves to commercial ships, but it would 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.039 continue to control the strait in cooperation with Oman, and 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:22.440 she would not charge tolls. 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:22.960 It would just. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.280 Charge huge fees for navigation assistance. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:27.800 Please yeah. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.800 In return, the United States would lift its naval blockade 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.520 on ships entering and leaving Iranian ports. So we leave 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.640 and you get to control the strait. Is not a deal. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.240 We're going to agree to, I would assume. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.120 And the report that Iran put out saying we have 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:47.520 a deal made no mention of the most contentious issues, 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.080 like the future of their nuclear program or the stockpile 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:52.159 of their enriched uranium. 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.640 So other than that, we're very close. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.520 The Wall Street Journal version Iran's hardline rulers aren't willing 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.160 to conced much to secure a deal. 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.280 They're eager to deter future. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.840 Attacks, and they want the sanctions to end, but they 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.120 aren't willing to give on a whole bunch of different stuff. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.960 But the government is also very eager to secure financial 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.800 relief because the blockade is deepening the economic crisis. One 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.440 Iranian official said the economy had held up earlier in 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.440 the war, but that has changed now after Washington began 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:27.120 stopping vessels from entering and leaving Iranian terminals. The amount 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.640 of money they're getting dropped off so much that they're in. 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:30.920 Really bad shape. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.960 And one Iranian officials said nationalism can only work for 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:38.040 so long, referring to Iranian's reasons to support the regime's 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.360 war effort. That's the people that get in the streets 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.640 and chant death to America. At some point they're gonna say, 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.080 according to this Iranian, they're gonna say. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:46.800 All right, that's enough. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.400 We ain't got no food, we ain't got no fuel, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:53.479 we ain't got no electricity. And to that point, the 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:58.599 sanctions associated press, the Trump administration today or yesterday placed 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.560 additional sanctions on Iran. I'll never understand this with sanctions. 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:06.000 I've wondered about it my whole life. Some country or 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.520 person does something horrible to us, and we put sanctions 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.039 on them, and then something else happens, and then they 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.239 announce additional sanctions, and I always think. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.840 How bad does it gotta get? Why if these if 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.120 there are more sanctions available. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:25.920 Before yesterday, why weren't we doing them already ready? 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.279 Exactly? Yeah? Yeah, Why we never understood that. And I've 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:30.560 never had it explain to me. 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:35.960 Why aren't we doing the absolute maximum, to the absolute 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:37.760 limit of sanctions that we have. 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.360 Power over already? 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:40.880 What is it? 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.599 There are a couple of reasons you wouldn't want to 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.719 do that, because some of them involve kind of abusing 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:52.120 your status as the world financial clearinghouse. And you don't 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.520 want to get a rep for doing that too much, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.279 or you or be that anymore. Well, yeah, but there's 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.120 a long history of US continuing to, you know, not 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:05.560 freeze assets and seize things. Anyway, I don't want to 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.120 get into those weeds, but I see your point generally. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.720 I thought it was interesting that the what's this guy's 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.880 the speaker the parliament, Iranian president, whatever the hell that means. 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:20.280 They're talking about how prices of like your staple foods, rice, meat, bread, 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.920 cheese have skyrocketed in recent weeks, and Iranian households are 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.120 super pressured, blah blah blah, and the government's afraid of 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:32.720 stability falling in part again, and the President Massud Pazekian 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.400 and other pragment has realized the slide will have to 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.240 be stemmed if they're to maintain stability meeting. The worsening 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.160 economic picture is becoming a key pressure point in the 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.480 negotiations with Washington. Here's what he said to the Tehran 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.559 Chamber of Commerce Wednesday. I'm sure their meetings are cheery 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.760 these days, he said. The main war is in the 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.520 economic field. If you failed, the country fails. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:08:01.120 The Tehran Chamber of Commerce, yeah, they're like, yeah, yeah, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.000 there won't be lunch this week, and in fact, there 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:05.520 won't be any water or. 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.520 Electricity at the big meeting, So come as yard, bring 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.080 a flashlight and a bottled water. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.680 So the question is, let me give you Mark Halprin's. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.000 Assessment of all those articles from the New York Times, 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:21.320 Wall Street Journal, et cetera, et cetera. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:21.800 Excellent. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.880 We all need to stop asking if there's going to 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.400 be a US Iran agreement that holds not under the 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.880 current trajectory, there can be no sustainable deal with Tehran. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.240 So the question is what does Donald Trump plan to 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:38.079 do to change the trajectory. Maybe Scott Bessant, Treasury Secretary, 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.240 will make that clear at the White House briefing today, 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.400 But if the President won't go back to full scale war, 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:47.320 maybe maybe the economic pressure is still the answer. There's 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.920 got to be a limit to how long Iran can 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.600 put up with this. They're just hoping that that they 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.800 can hold out longer than Trump will is willing to 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.160 hold out. With the high gas prices in the midterms, 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.560 and like I watch MSNBC and and every day they're 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.280 just hammering the gas prices and Trump doesn't care about 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.800 your you know, financial well being, and they. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.240 Run that clip over and over again. I'm sure or 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:12.559 he said I don't care about that. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.480 And some of my favorite pundits who were pro war 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.760 in the beginning have turned and now think it was 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.200 a bad idea. I don't understand how we attach gas 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.640 prices to this at all. He either got to stop 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:26.800 ran from getting a nuclear weapon because it would be 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.000 like the worst thing that ever happened to the world, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:34.040 or it's not and you just gotta It's like, it's 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.320 like if you have to amputate a leg because you 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.559 got an infection that'll kill you. Yeah, it's really, really horrible, 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.959 but the alternative is worse. Yeah, it's a good metaphor, 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.040 and you're really I'm getting the bomb could literally be 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.800 the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.280 Yeah, that's not an exaggeration. 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:52.760 Could be the worst thing that ever happened on the 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.559 planet if Iran got a bomb. In fact, I think 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.960 it probably would be. But let me get back to 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.000 Helprin's analysis. Unless this is directly related, the book might 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.959 be related, but the administration has not done a good 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:07.640 job of convincing people of that. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.400 Back to Halpern's analysis, which I thought was terrific. As usual, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:19.320 him talking about observing the current trajectory there's no chance 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:23.120 of a deal, a sustainable deal. I agree completely. I 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.520 just I think, what the hell are any of you 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.280 talking about. On the other hand, the trajectory might be 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.720 different than we think it is because of the economic 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.719 stuff going on behind the scenes and ran as we've 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:41.240 been discussing, or the diplomatic behind closed doors conversation is 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:46.760 so wildly, radically different than the public pronunciations. We're all 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.280 getting misled by the public, you know, the pronouncements. I 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:54.080 should say, it's one of those two things. Or we're 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:58.000 just completely wasting our time, and Trump is getting strung 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.360 along and we're not pounding around for I don't know 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.480 some of the reasons we've discussed. It's all so murky. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.880 I mean, war in conflict is always somewhat murky, but 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.360 I swear this is this is like an algebra equation 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.640 with all variables. I don't even know how to do 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:14.120 the math. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.959 I'll bet Trump paces the Oval Office every. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.120 Day thinking they can't they can't put up with this 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.120 much longer, thinking, you. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:23.600 Know, they've got to be about to fall. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.680 And if you're old enough in terms of regimes following falling, 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.959 whether it's you know, the wall coming down, in East 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.160 Germany or the Soviet Union, or the Arab Spring or 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:37.440 all these differs. Every regime looks solid up until the 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:38.320 moment they're not. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:43.080 So that's why it's always really hard to tell. Yeah. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:47.160 My final thought on the topic is on the popularity 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.000 of the war and people saying it was a good 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.240 idea or a bad idea. I'm back to you know, 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.600 success as a thousand fathers and failures an orphans. It 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.920 reminds me of what every NFL coach knows. If I 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.559 go for it on fourth and two and make it, 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.280 I'm the world's greatest genius. But if we don't make it, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.920 I should be fired immediately, right. That is true, same play, 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.840 same situation. So this thing turns around around, gives up 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.280 the nukes, the Middle East becomes a peaceful you know 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:16.520 of Valahila. 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.040 Well, then this is eighty eight percent. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.000 Of Americans to say, hell, yeah, the war was a 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.679 great idea up with the USA. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.200 So we just got to see do we make it 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:28.320 on fourth and two or not. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.199 I just wish they'd make the argument better. You can't 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.760 have a well guess will be too expensive during the summer. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.640 Be the other side of the argument of Iran having 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:40.599 a nuclear. 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.600 Weapon, right, that's crazy, right? 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.920 Anyhow, what are your thoughts? Text line four one five 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.479 two nine five KFTC. 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.240 While we're talking to you from the vehicle, looking at 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.120 the fire, you look, I'm all these people. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:02.280 What if we have you get out? 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.440 My baby's break down there and I will tell you. 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:05.640 How about this? 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.080 What if we have you get out of the car. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.199 We'll put you in one of our cars and will 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.320 drive around the corner so we're somewhere about their everybody. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:13.360 I only get in this. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.240 So I said, you gave them to my house. 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:16.800 I'll make you soar to lasagna or. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:17.360 Whatever you want. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.280 Oh, I have a pool. My babies are coming to 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:21.640 my house to nice before. 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:29.800 Oh why say drunk Britney Spears, trying to argue during 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.080 a DUI arrest that she'll bring them to the house 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.200 and make them lasagna and let them swim in her pool. 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.080 So I didn't know what that was and until we 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.520 got to until I heard lasagna. Because we've had this 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.200 clip for several days. The fact that Britney Spears offered 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:45.440 the cops lasagna. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:47.520 Come to a house and I'll make you lazagnia. 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.800 I gotta admit Britney Spears says, you want to come over, 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:50.680 I'll make you lasagna. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.160 I think I'm in Wow. We gotta at least think 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:58.760 about it. She sounded like a child, and she's forty five. 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:02.280 I think, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And the whole part 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.720 about my babies are coming to my house tonight. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.079 She has some serious mental problems. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.880 Which you would too, and she was afraid she'd lose 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.559 like visitation or whatever the situation is with her kids. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.000 You would have mental problems too if starting as a 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.040 like sixteen year old. Well actually she Disney, she started 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.160 as like an eight year old. But starting as a child, 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.520 your parents trotted you out as a sex object to 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:34.400 the world to make gazillions of dollars, and you've been 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.760 famous and hounded since you were a child. You'd be 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:37.440 pretty weird too. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:42.880 Speaking of lawbreakers, this is something a former CIA official 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.000 has been accused of stealing. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.120 What if she's a good cook. You think Britney Spears 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:48.880 is a very good cook. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.160 You know there are some really good like frozen lasagnas 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.400 you could get, or you know there's a pasta store 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.880 not far from my place where you can order them 0:14:58.880 --> 0:14:59.960 to make you a lasagna. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.680 There's good frozen lasagna. You can order a lazagia that 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:04.640 they'll make for you. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:06.760 The way I phrased it made it sound like you 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.520 go in there and say make meal lasagna. No, no, no, 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:15.720 you can order a lasagna made by the You could order. 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:20.400 Them right yes, right away there. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.760 So yeah, yeah, a homemade lasagna is really really good, 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.880 but there are some really good options prepared wise. That 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:35.480 was always our traditional traditional summer vacation meal. We would 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.000 drive Gladys. These were good times back in the day. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.040 We would drive from the Sacramento area up to sun River, Oregon. 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.720 It's about nine hours with a minivan full of the kids, 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.760 and we were all very tired and hungry when we 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.440 got there, and we would pop a lasagna, frozen lasagna 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.760 that was thawed from the nine hour drive into the oven. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.000 We'd all have lasagna to kick off our summer vacation. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:56.840 It was delightful. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.680 My lasagna story that I've told many times, and I 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.880 always think that this is a deficit we have in 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.120 the United States. So I knew a bunch of Italians 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:06.840 way back in the day. For some reason, they were 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.920 all university like Gradston the mob. For a while he 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.080 was an enforcer. He didn't like having to kill people, 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:12.680 but he did it. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:13.320 It's a job. 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.160 These were all grad students, like PhDs and that sort 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.320 of stuff, but they're from Italy and one Christmas I 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.560 got to hang out with him and they all made 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.880 lasagna and it was like eight different dudes made lasagna 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.680 and they were all completely different and all amazing. But 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.520 the fact that every one of these guys learned to 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:37.200 make homemade lazagna completely from scratch, roll out the pasta, 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.400 all the sort of stuff, that it was still a 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.240 tradition in the two thousands. That you do that, I mean, 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.600 we don't do that with our culture for whatever reason. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.000 I'll bet that was some damn good lasagna. Oh man. 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:51.560 But grown men that. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.960 Knew how to make lasagna from scratch because their moms 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:55.840 taught him to and they thought it was an important 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:56.720 thing to carry. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.640 On right right culture tradition. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.880 Yeah, I love that former CIA official accused of stealing 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.160 will tell you what he stole. Coming up, it's more 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.160 than you're guessing. Guess again. Nope, still not enough. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:08.159 Holy crap. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.560 Plus an AI update so interesting, including what the Pope 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:13.160 had to say. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:14.879 Awesome all on the way if you miss it. Get 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.760 the podcast Armstrong A Getty on the Man Armstrong and 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.120 Getty man O Mano. 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:20.320 Men. 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.639 We got lots of stuff to talk about. We Trump 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.960 said some amazing things at. 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.840 The cabinet meeting yesterday that we probably should get to probably. 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.040 Hit that in hour three. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.280 So a lot of interesting the AI stuff to talk about, 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.680 but I wanted to pay off this story first. It's 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.560 the headline from the Washington Post. A former CIA official 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:42.800 has been accused of stealing three hundred and three gold 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.879 bars worth more than forty million dollars WHOA from the 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:52.480 spy agency and stashing them in his Virginia residence, according 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.800 to a criminal complaint. Here's my favorite part of the story. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.560 I mean, obviously, the fact that you could steal three 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.560 hundred and three gold bars worth more than forty million dollars. 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:03.640 That's enough, certainly. 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.560 But he's also accused of misleading his superiors about his 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.560 education military service and falsely claiming college degrees he did 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.520 not have, and seventy seven thousand dollars in military leave 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:19.600 pay he wasn't entitled to. If I'm this guy's spouse 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:24.199 or partner in crime, or just his freaking brain, you 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:28.600 have forty million dollars in gold bars, and you can 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.080 nickel and dime the government over leave pay. 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:37.159 Don't take any leave. Everything's by the book. Just don't what. 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.240 You're gonna slip a rim of paper under your sport 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.640 code on the way out too. You've got forty million 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.560 dollars in gold bars in your house cap a low profile. 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.480 Yeah, it's it's It's interesting how many. 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:58.240 Criminals are either stupid or what's driving them is not 0:18:58.560 --> 0:18:59.400 the result. 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:00.560 There's something else. 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.560 There's some sort of screw screwing the man or or 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.919 getting away with it and showing that they're smarter than 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.719 other people or something. Because if all you wanted was money, 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.160 first of all, don't steal that many. You don't need 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.440 forty million dollars take it. So I did the math. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.720 That's they're about one hundred and thirty thousand a piece. 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.680 You don't grab a few that wouldn't be as likely 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.440 to be noticed. And yeah, don't don't try to cheat 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:27.840 on your vacation pay and everything else. 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:28.840 You moron. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.160 The uh part of the piece in the post rather 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.360 raises a really good question about the efficacy of US 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.159 government background checks on this dude, as well as how 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.760 he was allegedly able to persuade his superiors to entrust 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.840 him with tens of million dollars millions of dollars in 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.040 gold and large amounts of foreign currency. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:51.720 No kidding, that's the story. So your thorough background check 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.280 for who should be, you know, in charge of some 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.760 of the nation's important secrets and both bars and whatever 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.720 else doesn't include actually seeing if they went to the 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.680 university they wrote down on a piece of paper, because. 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.600 That requires like a phone call to figure out. Yeah, 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:09.280 no kidding. 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:14.800 So the AFFI David by the FBI said, Rush that's 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.720 this guy's name, made several requests for golden cash between 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.320 November and March. Subsequent search of his government office revealed 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.600