Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and he.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty We listen. So I'm at do OT.
Speaker 2: I'm not in the energy sector, but from all the
Speaker 2: briefings I've had, once the straight opens, you'll see prices
Speaker 2: come down, come down immediately, and again there's going to
Speaker 2: be a tail to that. It's going to take time
Speaker 2: to get back to where we were before this conflict began,
Speaker 2: but you're gonna see I think, immediate relief once the
Speaker 2: straight open.
Speaker 1: And a lot of arguing back and forth between supposed experts,
Speaker 1: but they seem to be partisans to me, mostly on
Speaker 1: whether or not gas prices will go down right away
Speaker 1: when the when the war ends. If you hate Trump,
Speaker 1: you say no, it'll take a year before prices go
Speaker 1: back down. And if you like Trump, you say prices
Speaker 1: will go down immediately. And I don't know which is true.
Speaker 1: But on the topic of when the war ends, because
Speaker 1: the war will have to end, I think before gas
Speaker 1: prices are gonna come down. Man, it is getting hot today.
Speaker 1: So we came on the air as we record this
Speaker 1: podcast or we're on the airlive, depending on where you're listening.
Speaker 1: Trump yesterday announces that Operation Freedom is ships are going
Speaker 1: to start going through the Strait. He doesn't exactly explain
Speaker 1: how that's going to happen. Then, earlier today on Monday,
Speaker 1: two ships American flagships that had been stuck there since
Speaker 1: the beginning of the war, sailed through got out. That
Speaker 1: sounds like good news. Then a South Korean flagship gets
Speaker 1: fired upon. It looks like from the banks of Iran,
Speaker 1: somewhere in Iran k Pop indeed now a British ship
Speaker 1: or it's being reported by Great Britain for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a British ship. It doesn't say,
Speaker 1: but according to report from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations,
Speaker 1: an incident has occurred in the Strait. A vessel is
Speaker 1: currently on fire. No cause of the fire he's yet
Speaker 1: been determined. I suppose the cook could have had a
Speaker 1: grease fire as he's making the morning eggs it happens,
Speaker 1: or Iran has fired on a British ship. Now adding
Speaker 1: to that, looking at the first images from the UAE
Speaker 1: where there is a lot of smoke coming out one
Speaker 1: of their big cities an Iranian strike on their primary
Speaker 1: export hub. Iran is firing drones at the UAE, and
Speaker 1: they warned about that earlier, so who knows what that
Speaker 1: reaction is going to be.
Speaker 3: Like, the UAE has been hit with more ordnance than
Speaker 3: anybody else in this conflict.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, and I think, at least according to some
Speaker 1: of the statements from MBZ, they've about reached their level
Speaker 1: of tolerance for that sort of thing. Why Iran thinks
Speaker 1: that's a good idea to try to drag the UAE
Speaker 1: into the fight, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, boy, we could talk about that for a while.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to work. You know, it
Speaker 3: struck me when you were talking about the partisan bickering
Speaker 3: over how soon gas prices might come back down to earth.
Speaker 3: When was the last time you heard anybody dealing with
Speaker 3: the question of what level of pain is worth it
Speaker 3: to prevent nobody IRGC from getting a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 1: Nobody talks about that. Trump framing it in the context
Speaker 1: of what it's about, right that that should be the question. Man, Hey, Republicans,
Speaker 1: when you go on the Sunday talk shows, make make
Speaker 1: that the talking point or the point of discussion. How
Speaker 1: expensive would gas have to be before you'd think, you
Speaker 1: know what, Iran getting a weapon is okay? Is the
Speaker 1: way to present it, I think.
Speaker 3: And if people want to argue about whether they were
Speaker 3: going to or could or how long that argument?
Speaker 1: Yep? Gas currently though, and this is California. The circle
Speaker 1: K near my house six seventy three for the premium unleaded,
Speaker 1: it's awful close to seven Bucks diesel, which I put
Speaker 1: in my f two fifty seven forty five a gallon
Speaker 1: pushing eight dollars. What's the what's the regular? Is that
Speaker 1: probably like barely seven just regular six twenty nine for
Speaker 1: unleaded regular unload the premium six seventy three, yeah, wow wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: and going up. No reason to think it's going to
Speaker 1: go down anytime soon, especially with what's going on today.
Speaker 1: I assume that's gonna make the oil markets pretty jumpy.
Speaker 1: What's happening today? A couple of ships being fired on,
Speaker 1: UAA being fired on. Yeah, they go up, they go down. Ah,
Speaker 1: they're up right now.
Speaker 3: We had a lovely chat what was our three of
Speaker 3: the show with Mike Lions to kick off the hour.
Speaker 3: And what's clear is that everything is unclear. I have
Speaker 3: no idea this Operation Freedom. By the way, operation freedom.
Speaker 3: You gotta have to words operations some thing freedom, enduring freedom.
Speaker 3: I don't know what Operation Oily Freedom maybe in this case,
Speaker 3: or Operation super Duper Freedom. Operation Freedom is just too
Speaker 3: stripped down. But anyway, even more freedom, that's a good one. Yes, Oh,
Speaker 3: nobody sure what the hell's gonna happen or what Trump's
Speaker 3: plan is, or that has any chance of coming together.
Speaker 3: And normally I'd say, well, come down it, let it
Speaker 3: come together, and we'll describe what happened. But there have
Speaker 3: been a lot of pronouncements about the Straight being open
Speaker 3: and being closed and being open and then closed and
Speaker 3: then open again, and I just all sounds like crap
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 1: Well, Trump announces ships are going to go through yesterday,
Speaker 1: IRGC announces today the Strait is closed and starts firing
Speaker 1: on ships. It seems to me that we're at the
Speaker 1: point of, oh, no, you didn't. We gotta start bombing
Speaker 1: the crap out of them. We have to show that
Speaker 1: we're serious about kinetic action. Again. I think they're kind
Speaker 1: of betting on that because of Trump's poll numbers and
Speaker 1: what the Europeans are howling about and all that. Different
Speaker 1: sort of thing, that we ain't going to go back
Speaker 1: to what we saw that first week or so of
Speaker 1: Enduring Freedom, where we're bombing everything. I think they're counting
Speaker 1: on the fact that we won't go back to that.
Speaker 3: I might throw in a little when Trump goes to
Speaker 3: talk to shijiin ping Old Winnie d Pooh is going
Speaker 3: to come hard at Hey, you got to go easy
Speaker 3: on run.
Speaker 1: We need the.
Speaker 3: Oil, or we're going to take away your chips or
Speaker 3: your rare earth minerals or something like that. Hey hit
Speaker 3: me with forty five here, Michael, would you please. That's
Speaker 3: Kevin Hassett.
Speaker 4: You know, I go down into the set room many
Speaker 4: times a week and get briefed on what's going on
Speaker 4: in Iran. And they're an economy that's really on the
Speaker 4: precipice of extreme calamity. They are having a hyperinflation, they're
Speaker 4: starting to have hunger. The bottom line is that the
Speaker 4: pressure on the great American people because of these people
Speaker 4: who are like really intent on American and Israeli destruction.
Speaker 4: Whether their nuclear weapons are still in power.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the point. It's got to be part of
Speaker 3: every damned discussion.
Speaker 1: Man. That's the big question out there isn't it. Who's
Speaker 1: more right about the fact that they're about to collapse?
Speaker 1: Is it? We went through all these predictions on Friday,
Speaker 1: I think all the different Some publications say two days.
Speaker 1: Trump says two days, but there are some publications that
Speaker 1: say a week. There are some publications that say many months,
Speaker 1: and everything in between.
Speaker 3: Give me a second Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Speaker 1: Yep, the two day prediction was wrong. The other ones
Speaker 1: I can't account for. Skip to forty seven.
Speaker 4: For me, Michael, the fact is that that regime has
Speaker 4: destroyed the country.
Speaker 1: Let me put it in perspective.
Speaker 4: In nineteen seventy eight, before the Ayatola came in, then
Speaker 4: the per capita GDP at it ran was about the
Speaker 4: same as for Japan and Italy. Now it's about the
Speaker 4: same as for Honduras. Right, So they've run that country
Speaker 4: into the ground. And that's before the straits were closed.
Speaker 4: So it's really really a country that's on the rock.
Speaker 3: You're Hondurans. They're like, hey, we're doing our best here.
Speaker 3: It's really hot.
Speaker 1: It's it's throw right on the equator.
Speaker 3: Quick comparing them to us, but that is something from
Speaker 3: Japan to Honduras.
Speaker 1: And aside that's unimportant. I believe when this war started
Speaker 1: most of us were saying the Straits of hormones. Then
Speaker 1: the tide seemed to turn toward the Strait of horm
Speaker 1: MoES for about three days, and then I feel like,
Speaker 1: having watched the Sunday Shows and heard that clip, the
Speaker 1: s is back and it's now once again the Straits
Speaker 1: of hormones, which I think if I look at the map,
Speaker 1: since the way it comes together to point, you kind
Speaker 1: of got this straight here, in this straight here and
Speaker 1: the point up there, I'm going back to straits.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm trying to come
Speaker 3: up with let's see, the dire Straits of horror moves
Speaker 3: they would play money for nothing? What dressed up in
Speaker 3: Middle Eastern garb. Right, it hasn't come together in my
Speaker 3: mind yet, but there's something there.
Speaker 1: Eh, that little Leftward's got his own jet airplane. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's see.
Speaker 3: You know, you got to excuse the gallows humor, folks,
Speaker 3: This conflict has been going on for.
Speaker 1: Two bods play. I know, I know that was a
Speaker 1: very good point that Hexeth made last week, and just
Speaker 1: we all got to calm down with our TikTok brains
Speaker 1: a sixty day war. God, the number of Democrats that
Speaker 1: I saw on the various shows yesterday and say, now
Speaker 1: we're you know, mired, the quagmire word and all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. Can you get miired in sixty days?
Speaker 1: Is that even a thing?
Speaker 3: And again, missing is the absence of the framework if
Speaker 3: the point is to deny an insane regime an atomic weapon,
Speaker 3: because they've signaled over and over and over again negotiation
Speaker 3: won't work with them, which they obviously could have done
Speaker 3: a better job of making the point at the very
Speaker 3: very beginning that that's what this war is. Because like
Speaker 3: day first couple of days he would say that, but
Speaker 3: then like day two he said, and it's oil. We're
Speaker 3: doing this for the oil. Oh okay, it's the oil.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The messaging has been horrible, true true fact. A Man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be following my open source intelligence thing all
Speaker 1: day long. I feel like the UAE ain't gonna allow
Speaker 1: their ports to be bombed. But man, if they start
Speaker 1: flying fire jets over I ranom bombing not coordinated with us,
Speaker 1: or maybe they would coordinate with US. I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's been talk of for the first time ever, the
Speaker 1: UAE might coordinate with Israel in a bombing campaign, which
Speaker 1: would be historic.
Speaker 3: Hmm.
Speaker 1: All those doesn't have a ton of guys, but they
Speaker 1: got a ton of weapons. All those little Arab fiefdoms
Speaker 1: that have been vowing death to the Jews since before
Speaker 1: their grandparents were born, gathering together in the Emirates and
Speaker 1: deciding to fly alongside the Israelis. That would be something,
Speaker 1: but might happen today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, nobody knows. And again we're almost two months
Speaker 3: into this, two months.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is for domestic politics. If diesel in California
Speaker 1: is seven and a half dollars and everything gets transported
Speaker 1: around this country on trucks, everything's going to get more expensive.
Speaker 1: Inflation was already knock going to on our asses. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the men, you're your right direction, wrong direction.
Speaker 1: View of the economy is gonna get even worse than
Speaker 1: it already is. And it's pretty darn bad if you
Speaker 1: saw the polls that came out over the weekend.
Speaker 3: But as Churchill and Roosevelt and Lincoln and Washington and
Speaker 3: everybody else would tell you, that's exactly why you've got
Speaker 3: to make it all the more clear to people. Why
Speaker 3: the pain must be endured, keep everybody focused on the goals.
Speaker 3: If the goal is noble and important enough, then the
Speaker 3: momentary discomfort just doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, their messaging is terrible. All right, it's
Speaker 1: enough of that. Is Jimmy Kimmel able to predict events?
Speaker 1: He made a joke about Rudy Giuliani dying apparently the
Speaker 1: other day, and now Rudy Giuliani is in the hospital.
Speaker 3: Okay, And then the Milania Joe because that's right, led
Speaker 3: to the assassination.
Speaker 1: Of Hurt right exactly. Maybe Kimmel's the Antichrist, not Trump
Speaker 1: everythink of that.
Speaker 3: Or maybe they're both the anti Christ, and the way
Speaker 3: they fool is by sniping.
Speaker 1: At each other all the time. Oh clever, that's tricky.
Speaker 1: We might want to remention some of those polls that
Speaker 1: came out over the weekend, because we are in a
Speaker 1: bad mood about the economy nationwide, but we've got lots
Speaker 1: of stuff coming up. Stay here.
Speaker 5: Three to two, swung on a pop fowl back here.
Speaker 5: They really hit me. I didn't know it was coming
Speaker 5: back that far. And Holmes read of a deal a
Speaker 5: ground ball. The third Donaldson squares throws the first end
Speaker 5: time ball game over Yankees.
Speaker 6: Yankees wo.
Speaker 1: That guy's famous for saying that at the end of
Speaker 1: Yankees games, and he is passed at the age of
Speaker 1: eighty seven. The legendary John Sterling took a blow to
Speaker 1: the head during the game but persevered an example for us.
Speaker 1: All right in a noggin.
Speaker 3: You know, as long as we're on the theme, Michael
Speaker 3: play seventeen for us, won't.
Speaker 1: You Gristlin Polkes won down the right field line and
Speaker 1: Bingch dies and makes it fantastic catch. Oh wow, Carson
Speaker 1: benj within a pulk Crtuninus play an a two man
Speaker 1: down of the ninth. I'm not gonna say it was
Speaker 1: polk Ratuninis, but I'm gonna take your word for it.
Speaker 1: That was an amazing play.
Speaker 3: Pulkratudinous, attractive, physically attractive, beautiful, I'll take your word for it.
Speaker 3: Like he did well baseball and folds at a fairly
Speaker 3: deliberate place at pay So you have time for Yeah,
Speaker 3: fourteen syllable words, look cut up words speaking of odd behaviors.
Speaker 3: We were in the previous clip and odd things happening.
Speaker 3: So there's a trial going on. Yeah, they're gonna they've
Speaker 3: they've indicted this woman, confusing headline New York door dash
Speaker 3: driver who allegedly filmed naked customer and posted viral TikTok
Speaker 3: has been indicted. And it's a man and a woman.
Speaker 3: And I was confused because I made some incorrect assumptions
Speaker 3: about what was going on.
Speaker 1: Here's the deal.
Speaker 3: This twenty three year old chick gets called to deliver
Speaker 3: door dash food. She gets to this guy's front door
Speaker 3: and it's like just the glass screen door, storm door,
Speaker 3: whatever you call it, and his main doors open. I
Speaker 3: guess you can see through it. And he's laying there
Speaker 3: pantless on the.
Speaker 1: Couch, which I'm allowed to do in my own home. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you don't want to see it. Don't look.
Speaker 3: He's he's passed out, he's asleep. He's dead to the world.
Speaker 3: And so she apparently either a mischievous little pixie or
Speaker 3: pissed off that she's not gonna get paid and tipped
Speaker 3: or whatever, although I guess that happens in advance. Anyway,
Speaker 3: she breaks out her phone and like squeezes in and
Speaker 3: videos him pantless on his couch, puts it on the TikTok,
Speaker 3: and it's seen by how many millions of people thirty
Speaker 3: million views before it was removed. Wow, well, drunky Von
Speaker 3: Hungerstein is pissed off about this, as you might be too, and.
Speaker 1: They didn't have to be drunk, he could just be sleepy.
Speaker 1: Von Schlong is out.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, as it turns out, he had been enjoying
Speaker 3: a couple of adult beverages, which I thought this was America.
Speaker 1: Is it not anymore? Yes, it is.
Speaker 3: Anyway, So investigators later determine the man was passed out
Speaker 3: drunk inside his home. She initially, why did investigators need
Speaker 3: to determine that I can be naked on my couch
Speaker 3: for any reason? Well, all right, yeah, just because you
Speaker 3: like to feel of the upholstery. But so here's the problem.
Speaker 3: On a hot day, Oh heck, yeah, she puts out
Speaker 3: this video that gets viewed thirty million times, and he's like,
Speaker 3: holy crap, what's going on here? You got to take
Speaker 3: that down and you're in trouble, And she's like, he
Speaker 3: sexually asked me, sexually asked me.
Speaker 1: That's why I put out the video. Turns out, no,
Speaker 1: he was passed out drunk.
Speaker 3: They had no interaction whatsoever, and so she's being prosecuted
Speaker 3: for the unlawful posting of an intrusion of privacy video
Speaker 3: something something, because you have the expectation of privacy in
Speaker 3: your own home.
Speaker 1: If you a real hot day, that cold upholstery on
Speaker 1: my bared cheeks, it's just sooner. Oh the leather, it's
Speaker 1: nice and chili in the air conditioning. So I'm in
Speaker 1: my house, I can obviously do that. But I have windows.
Speaker 1: Can you take pictures through my win No? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: How about if I'm on the sidewalk.
Speaker 3: Yes, And the legal doctrines involving like high fences and
Speaker 3: drones have now become completely incomprehensible.
Speaker 1: With that story for another day. I imagine Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: The president's announcement coming after another cargo vessel was reportedly
Speaker 6: attacked by multiple small craft off the coast of Iran.
Speaker 6: According to the British Navy's Monitoring Group, it's recorded more
Speaker 6: than forty incidents of vessels attacked, damaged, or turned back
Speaker 6: in or near the Strait of Hoe Moves since the
Speaker 6: war began, and says twenty thousand seafarers are trapped on
Speaker 6: ships which can't sail out.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, already today, a couple of US flagships have
Speaker 1: sailed out. Trump announced yesterday We're gonna start sailing ships.
Speaker 1: I think maybe what was going on here without an
Speaker 1: explanation of how he was going to do it. I
Speaker 1: think maybe he was coming up with causes Belly, a
Speaker 1: reason to restart the war. We're going to send those
Speaker 1: ships through. I know you're going to fire on them,
Speaker 1: but that'll give me what I need to start this
Speaker 1: all up again. To that point, Sentcom just announced that
Speaker 1: we eliminated six Iranian small boats this morning attempting to
Speaker 1: interfere with commercial shipping. That old story you just heard
Speaker 1: there about small boats running at ships, Well, we just
Speaker 1: blasted a bunch of amount of the water, similar to
Speaker 1: what we are doing in Venezuela. The UAE has again
Speaker 1: said that their air defenses are dealing with another wave
Speaker 1: of Iranian missiles that are coming in. All of this
Speaker 1: adds up to CNN is reporting right now that sources
Speaker 1: inside the administration have told them that a resumption of
Speaker 1: US Israeli air strikes is expected in the next day.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be surprised by the end of today.
Speaker 1: I don't know what time it is over there. It
Speaker 1: might be getting to be nighttime, but we in Israel
Speaker 1: are going to start bombing the crap out of them again,
Speaker 1: that's what I expect. It would maybe surprise, maybe with
Speaker 1: UAE fighter jets at the side of Israeli fighter jets,
Speaker 1: because they got to be fed up with this, right right,
Speaker 1: And it gets back to the whole question of if
Speaker 1: you can't eliminate all of their capability, you have to
Speaker 1: eliminate their will to use it.
Speaker 3: But maybe eliminating more of their capability gets you closer
Speaker 3: to that point. So let's go ahead and smash some
Speaker 3: more launchers. Because what's impossible to say with the regime
Speaker 3: of this sort is how much pain are they willing
Speaker 3: to bear, especially when most of the pain is borne
Speaker 3: by the people who they want to be.
Speaker 1: Martyrs for Allah?
Speaker 3: Anyway, how do you bring them to their knees per
Speaker 3: se somebody's quite sure, or but let them get a bomb? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: stay tuned, We'll let you know if it happens. So
Speaker 3: touched on this earlier and thought we'd get a little
Speaker 3: more time to flesh it out.
Speaker 1: No pun intended.
Speaker 3: This article about Jeff Bezos selling is half billion dollar
Speaker 3: mega yacht and it's a five hundred million dollars floating palace,
Speaker 3: and the support ship that goes along with it is
Speaker 3: seventy five dollars.
Speaker 1: That's like the dinghy.
Speaker 3: I guess although some listener knows about support ships emailed us.
Speaker 1: I haven't read it yet, maybe it will.
Speaker 3: But what really struck me about this article is the
Speaker 3: picture of Jeff Bezos and his wife.
Speaker 1: What's her face? What's Lauren Sanchez? What's her odd face?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the thing. She is so clearly a
Speaker 3: creation of plastic surgery.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before we go on with that, we should make
Speaker 1: it clear that show policy more or less is to
Speaker 1: not criticize people's looks or things you have no control over.
Speaker 1: But if if you get operated on to look a
Speaker 1: certain way, I think it's fair game, don't you. Yeah.
Speaker 3: What's really interesting is the cultural change, which is what
Speaker 3: we're about to talk about. See, I a guy who
Speaker 3: really likes girls the way God made them grown women.
Speaker 1: I don't get it at all. But I'm not part
Speaker 1: of this set, and that's the set who wants to
Speaker 1: look surgically redone because that's one of the only ways
Speaker 1: left to signal I'm the super rich. Yeah. We talked
Speaker 1: about this a little bit earlier and now makes sense
Speaker 1: to me for the first time. Why people do this?
Speaker 1: You want it to be noticeable. I always thought, wow,
Speaker 1: how did you go one too many? You know, you
Speaker 1: got your face lift, you got this done, you got
Speaker 1: that done, but you went one too many and now
Speaker 1: you look weird. That's the point is to look surgically obviously,
Speaker 1: surgically altered, which separates you as a certain level of rich.
Speaker 3: I in the way, like a designer handbag can't anymore
Speaker 3: because there are knockoffs or secondhand or whatever. Any signal
Speaker 3: I mean, you can artificial lab grown diamonds are so
Speaker 3: I mean, even if you're a jeweler, you can't tell
Speaker 3: unless you bust out the eyeglass. And so how do
Speaker 3: you signal you're super rich? Well by getting a procedure
Speaker 3: or three that cost anywhere from one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 3: to three hundred thousand dollars. If you've had the what
Speaker 3: you call it lyft. The other rich people can see
Speaker 3: that and realize, oh, all right, they're they're in.
Speaker 1: Our class, which is bizarre to me. And everybody's noticing.
Speaker 3: Two models in a Paris Fashion Week show for the
Speaker 3: luxury brand Unpronounceable last month caricature. The one percent by
Speaker 3: wearing prosthetics that resembled postop faces, including grotesque under eye bulges, skin.
Speaker 1: Pulled up in their temples under eye bulges. Yeah, like postop.
Speaker 1: Uh swelling. I think it gets your operation done early
Speaker 1: enough you wouldn't still be all swoll up for your runway.
Speaker 1: But okay, well it's it's a caricature, you get it
Speaker 1: that they're they're making fun of it. Ah, Okay, now
Speaker 1: I understand. Yeah, the caricature.
Speaker 3: The one percent by wearing prosthetics that resembled postop faces,
Speaker 3: including grotek undry bulges, skin pulled from their temples, and
Speaker 3: lips that appeared unnaturally inflated.
Speaker 1: And stitched at the edges.
Speaker 3: Then they name check South Park depicting Christy Nome, and
Speaker 3: from the met Gallo to the Oscars and every red
Speaker 3: carpet in between, these rich faces are everywhere. A rich
Speaker 3: face is stretched taut, often incapable of varied expressions, and
Speaker 3: plumped with filler or implants or a person's own grafted fat.
Speaker 3: I mentioned earlier that the lovely Miss Bezos there has
Speaker 3: lips that a toddler could sleep on. There so enormous
Speaker 3: she looks ridiculous to my mind, but well exactly, but
Speaker 3: not to hers.
Speaker 6: Not.
Speaker 1: If the point is you need to be ridiculous enough
Speaker 1: that it's obvious, it can't be subtle. I wonder if
Speaker 1: she's had work done. That's not what they want.
Speaker 3: To Oh, no, that would be a swing and a mess,
Speaker 3: which I think all of us have assumed for long
Speaker 3: time because this was true. You wanted subtle enough that
Speaker 3: people didn't know.
Speaker 1: That's why. You know.
Speaker 3: You know a woman who'd have little work or something
Speaker 3: like that, and she'd always say, well, I had a
Speaker 3: breathing problem with my nose or whatever, and it's fine, whatever,
Speaker 3: do whatever you want with your life.
Speaker 1: But I kept falling over backwards, so I thought to
Speaker 1: balance myself out, I would get these giant hooters.
Speaker 3: Right exactly, It's just a practical decision. They mentioned the
Speaker 3: number of times in science fiction, from The Hunger Games
Speaker 3: to Doctor Who to I remember the movie Brazil, which
Speaker 3: was a eighties dystopian classic and disturbing and good. They
Speaker 3: featured like wealthy socialites, the super rich you revel in
Speaker 3: luxury and excess, often have sculpted altered faces. But now
Speaker 3: it's among the ultra wealthy that's what they want, and
Speaker 3: they mentioned Let's say they quote plastic surgeons in Washington,
Speaker 3: DC or navigating a surgeon requests for a Mara Lago face.
Speaker 3: That's what women are asking. I want the Mara a
Speaker 3: Lago face. Today's cleverly marketed aesthetic treatments include global facial
Speaker 3: micro optimization, which involves numerous procedures to tweak everything from
Speaker 3: eyetilt to the way light reflects off the jaw and
Speaker 3: costs between one hundred and fifty thousand to three hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: The way light reflects off the jaw, Yes, there's something
Speaker 1: I've never thought about. You don't want an unlit jaw? Yeah, idiots,
Speaker 1: If I ever got work done, I would want it
Speaker 1: to be I would be in that old category of
Speaker 1: I don't want people to notice.
Speaker 3: Cause you're a sad zach poor guy. And here's where
Speaker 3: it gets even crazier. The masses want in. Millennials who
Speaker 3: say they cannot afford homes are spending money on their
Speaker 3: faces instead.
Speaker 1: Looks again, exactly.
Speaker 3: You got vogue in Allure who write articles about when
Speaker 3: not if you should get your face left, because everybody
Speaker 3: should get a facelift.
Speaker 1: I want to get my I'm gonna get my neck
Speaker 1: done at some point. I really want to. Oh you should.
Speaker 1: We've had people want us to endorse them before. Uh,
Speaker 1: we've had companies that want us, wanted us to endorse them,
Speaker 1: and we always said no in the past. I'm saying yes, now,
Speaker 1: whoever's the best out there, I'm willing to endorse your necktuck. Yeah.
Speaker 3: See, I don't I've yeah. Uh, maybe I'll skip that
Speaker 3: that discussion for now.
Speaker 1: Uh, you don't want a necktuck, you want something different.
Speaker 1: I don't want anything. What I want sunshiny day in
Speaker 1: my gal by my side. You're not looks maxing. It
Speaker 1: looks max. So is the reason people are looks like
Speaker 1: everybody's looking looks mixing, the way you just predetrade it there,
Speaker 1: it's not if, it's not when, it's not if? But when?
Speaker 1: Is that? Because everybody does the whole posting themselves online
Speaker 1: thing that's such a part of your life. Yeah, I guess,
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't think about this a lot.
Speaker 3: And they mentioned going from jokes about Joan Rivers back
Speaker 3: in the day saying I've had so much plastic surgery.
Speaker 3: When I die, they'll donate my body to Tupperware. But
Speaker 3: she was ahead of her time. Procedures are a sign
Speaker 3: of making it in the most Kardashian coded way.
Speaker 1: Get rich, then buy a face. Boy, did Joan Rivers
Speaker 1: look weird at the end?
Speaker 3: Woo oh yeah, frightening children ran from her terror.
Speaker 1: One more and one more.
Speaker 3: Note social media's turbo charts the normalization of cosmetic work.
Speaker 1: One plastic surgeon said, that is gen Z patients. This
Speaker 1: is gen z folks. These are kids, you're still young.
Speaker 1: That's really, really sick. They take selfies at their appointments
Speaker 1: as if it's a concert or a get ready with
Speaker 1: Me video. They want everybody to know. It's a way
Speaker 1: to say, look what I just bought. I know a
Speaker 1: woman who got a uh what she called a mommy
Speaker 1: makeover in Mexico. She went down to Mexico to get
Speaker 1: it done, and it was like super cheap. Yeah. Yeah
Speaker 1: about the UH, I don't know about the UH. I
Speaker 1: don't know how i'd feel about when you're down there,
Speaker 1: what you know, if things go wrong, is your insurance covered?
Speaker 1: Or how do I deal with that? Since I don't
Speaker 1: speak the language and just all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, from what I've heard in the ninety percent of
Speaker 3: cases where everything goes fine, you're fine. Sure, it's that
Speaker 3: ten percent you gotta worry about it. If something went wrong,
Speaker 3: it would suck.
Speaker 1: Though you can't talk to anybody, your insurance doesn't cover it.
Speaker 1: Here's one more thing. You don't feel good enough to
Speaker 1: get back to the United States.
Speaker 3: See this is I wouldn't mind having like lots and
Speaker 3: lots of money, but the day I join like this counterculture,
Speaker 3: it'll never happen or subculture never never never never never.
Speaker 1: But here's here's how much you ear's lifted or you're
Speaker 1: I know, knees tucked or something. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd like to lose twenty pounds, but who has that time.
Speaker 1: Of course, rich face has regional variations. Bravo's Real Housewives
Speaker 1: of the Upper East Side in Hampton have a settler
Speaker 1: look then their counterparts on Netflix is members only Palm
Speaker 1: Beach who dream of access to mar A Lago.
Speaker 3: So the Florida rich face is definitely more look look
Speaker 3: look than the more subtle Northeastern brand.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you the Rodeo Drive Beverly Hills face
Speaker 1: that I've seen before at the fancy shopping malls is nutty,
Speaker 1: like it's hard not to stare. Of course they want
Speaker 1: you to stare. I assume, yeah, yeah, all right, a
Speaker 1: couple more senses. This is so fascinating to me. Human beings,
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do with them?
Speaker 3: Designer bags may be silly, overpriced, and quite often unethically made,
Speaker 3: but at least there's little chance they will disfigure you.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the risk of a.
Speaker 3: Grizzly outcome is part of the appeal for the ultra
Speaker 3: wealthy to have the ability to pay for the best care,
Speaker 3: along with more treatments if things go wrong. Oh okay,
Speaker 3: The luxury of viewing your face lift less as a major,
Speaker 3: potentially ruinous surgery and more as a routine.
Speaker 1: To do list item is the ultimate status symbol.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like, even if you could afford
Speaker 1: your own plane, you couldn't afford to operate your own plane.
Speaker 1: So this is like, maybe you can afford the surgery,
Speaker 1: but you can't afford the you know, minor tweaks or
Speaker 1: what if something went wrong?
Speaker 3: So right, oh, this Thursday, I almost forgot I'm having
Speaker 3: a face left or a three hundred thousand dollars whatever
Speaker 3: the hell it's called I'm getting the palm beef, my
Speaker 3: palm beach face redone.
Speaker 1: My mar A Lango worried about the way the light
Speaker 1: reflects off my jaw line. I keep my jaw line
Speaker 1: carefully hidden under layers of fat. So bother anyone said,
Speaker 1: nobody told steal it to night. We will finish strong.
Speaker 1: Next earlier we are going through some of the Babylon
Speaker 1: b headlines that were funny from today. Spirit Airlines announces
Speaker 1: they will tell you why they went bankrupt for an
Speaker 1: added fee of fifty dollars. We mentioned this one, which
Speaker 1: is definitely doctors confirm life after age thirty five is
Speaker 1: just endless cycle of dieting and back pain until you die. Correct, Oh,
Speaker 1: which is so true. That is funny. But then this
Speaker 1: one which actually leads us into news. Iran issues serious
Speaker 1: threat that they have a massive reserve of more serious
Speaker 1: threats and they're putting their money where their mouth is
Speaker 1: as they are firing on the UAE. Currently, the UAE
Speaker 1: has just said we reserve the right to respond. They
Speaker 1: just made that announcement like in the last ten minutes.
Speaker 1: I think they are going to respond. And even though
Speaker 1: a couple of us flagged ships got out of the
Speaker 1: straight over removes. Today Iran is fired on a British
Speaker 1: ship and a South Korean ship, and Trump just said,
Speaker 1: speaking with Fox's Trey yinst he threatened that Iran will
Speaker 1: quote be blown off the face of the earth if
Speaker 1: they attack US ships guiding vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.
Speaker 1: Blown off the face of the earth.
Speaker 3: Is a threat back to the ending and entire civilization style, big,
Speaker 3: big threats.
Speaker 1: Yes, and when we could actually do if we wanted to.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we have the capability to do that.
Speaker 1: We'll see if that actually happens. I think this is
Speaker 1: the week apparently, and maybe today's the day that we
Speaker 1: go back to the war and get to talk about that,
Speaker 1: for better or worse. One other story that I wanted
Speaker 1: to bring up. Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in critical critical condition,
Speaker 1: has pneumonia, poor health, eighty one years old. You get
Speaker 1: pneumonia in your eighties and already in poor health. You
Speaker 1: never know what's going to happen. But and I'm not
Speaker 1: hoping he dies. But when Rudy Giuliani does die, and
Speaker 1: he looks like he has been on the doorstep for
Speaker 1: quite some time, will we get some sort of final
Speaker 1: reckoning of what was going on there was he always
Speaker 1: crazy and we just didn't catch on when he led
Speaker 1: America through nine to eleven. If he hadn't gotten involved
Speaker 1: with Trump when he finally died, he would have been
Speaker 1: You know, don't you wish they still made people like that,
Speaker 1: like Rudy Giuliani, You know that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it took decades for progressives in New York to
Speaker 3: re grab the reins of power because Rudy was so effective.
Speaker 1: As a conservative.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it wasn't permanent, although I'm not
Speaker 3: sure they could have pulled it off if it were
Speaker 3: not for his.
Speaker 1: Unfortunate association with some of Trump's.
Speaker 3: More unfortunate ideas that might have gotten a de Blasio in.
Speaker 1: Well did but did he was he normal at one
Speaker 1: back in the day and then and when he hit
Speaker 1: it or did he go bad as crazy? I mean,
Speaker 1: not just because he supported Trump, but then he started
Speaker 1: saying and doing nutty nutty things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe age wasn't kind to him and he was
Speaker 3: desperate after his divorces because he was broke. I'm thinking
Speaker 3: I'll ride a pony naked into Times Square if it'll
Speaker 3: make me a grand I mean, it's just in that
Speaker 3: part of his life.
Speaker 1: Final thoughts, Strong Eddy, you get the facts. They're sharp
Speaker 1: and steady. Don't shoot fuck Eddy for more from Strong
Speaker 1: and Yet that is so good. Whoever you want, whoever
Speaker 1: you are that made that. That is really high quality.
Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Let's get a final thought from everybody in the crew
Speaker 3: to wrap up the show for today.
Speaker 1: Michaelangelo in the control room. Michael, what's your final thought? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm missing Katie today. Yeah, there's no one here to
Speaker 1: make us sandwiches and my.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: No, Michael, that is not accepted.
Speaker 5: I know you.
Speaker 1: They didn't think it was funny. That's a word sort
Speaker 1: of cloche. It's a good angle, Michael. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Katie's off on maternity to leave Jack.
Speaker 1: Final thought for us, Hanson, I told you it wasn't funny.
Speaker 1: Is a very clever angle. I'm gonna start doing that, Michael. Thanks,
Speaker 1: something doesn't work. I told you, Hanson, that's a bad idea. Anyway,
Speaker 1: what is my final thought? My final thought is I
Speaker 1: think the war is back and we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about it a lot this week. Yeah.
Speaker 3: My final thought is that Trump's approval rating on the
Speaker 3: cost of living is twenty three percent. On inflation it's
Speaker 3: twenty seven percent, and with their on it's thirty three percent.
Speaker 3: Those are cratery numbers.
Speaker 1: Can he turn them around? Price? No, no, no no no.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the war comes back, guess gets more expensive. It's
Speaker 1: gonna He's gonna be in the teens. Man. When I
Speaker 1: filled up with diesel over the weekend, I was like,
Speaker 1: Holy crap, how are people doing this? Armstrong ngetdy wraping
Speaker 1: up another grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you see you tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong
Speaker 1: and getty the loco a little too much, docky Doc.
Speaker 1: We work together and continue to work together and to
Speaker 1: work together. Get out of here. You more on you,
Speaker 1: hear me. I haven't said a word, so stop yelling
Speaker 1: at me.
Speaker 3: So let's go out with If your brother slept with
Speaker 3: your wife totally with the Biden family and you later
Speaker 3: reconciled with him, would you name your next kid after him?
Speaker 1: But I'm trying here. I don't know that I note
Speaker 1: thank you all very much, Armstrong and Getty