Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Decide and he armsng.
Speaker 2: We'reor Huckleberry live from the studio Saint Say Senor Hey,
Speaker 2: dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Getty Communications Compound.
Speaker 1: And hey y'all today, how do we already get to Wednesday?
Speaker 1: We're under the twid ledge of our general manager. Liberation Day.
Speaker 2: How you're liberated from the cruelty of international trade?
Speaker 1: I already feel kind of liberated, feel different already. I'm shirtless,
Speaker 1: as you can see, for the three can be held
Speaker 1: down by the man. Liberation Day, you're shirtless?
Speaker 2: Yes, how do you like my Trump tattoo covers my
Speaker 2: entire chest? My chest hair is his hair. I've dyed
Speaker 2: it blonde obviously as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Liberation Day ats because when a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: big tariffs kick in today, and that's the theory, and
Speaker 2: let's all just sit back and you know, popcorn eating emoji,
Speaker 2: see how it turns out.
Speaker 1: Right right?
Speaker 2: I saw a really interesting video about the complexity of
Speaker 2: sorting out where a car is from. I think we've
Speaker 2: all gotten a little taste of that discussion, right, How
Speaker 2: there are parts in a Ford F one fifty, which
Speaker 2: is among the most American of American vehicles. There are
Speaker 2: parts from twenty four different countries in your F one fifty.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. Get a transmission.
Speaker 2: Alone has dozens and dozens and dozens of parts sourced
Speaker 2: from different places. That's interesting, Given I mentioned the graph
Speaker 2: I was looking at with the different makers, Ford is
Speaker 2: by far, of cars that have.
Speaker 1: International parts, the most American.
Speaker 2: Tesla's the only one major car company that is one
Speaker 2: hundred percent American, and of course that's the one everybody hates.
Speaker 1: The set fire to Elonza Nazi.
Speaker 2: But Ford has the most American in it of any
Speaker 2: like seventy five percent or something. But of course that
Speaker 2: leaves you twenty five percent. Yeah, yeah. And so any
Speaker 2: of those parts that come from they have a tariff
Speaker 2: on them.
Speaker 1: Oh well, yes, if it.
Speaker 2: Is an individual part that's easily like comprehended as a part.
Speaker 2: There there's different layers of tariffs. There's the overall tariff
Speaker 2: and then there's the Canada Mexico tariff. Found out some
Speaker 2: really interesting stuff about how China has been getting around
Speaker 2: our tariffs on him. And then you've got the super
Speaker 2: combo parts that the administration says they'll just be covered
Speaker 2: by the standard for now until we sort out that transmission.
Speaker 2: Oh that's forty three point one percent American. But the
Speaker 2: transmission in particular crosses the border six times to get built,
Speaker 2: and all the three times in the US it gets tariffed.
Speaker 1: Again. I know, I've heard that before.
Speaker 2: I'm amazed by that that obviously that's the most efficient
Speaker 2: way to do it, or the or companies wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2: But it's amazing to me that it is efficient to
Speaker 2: ship something in the United States, put a part on it,
Speaker 2: ship it back to Canada or Mexico or whatever, put
Speaker 2: another part on it, ship it back to the United States.
Speaker 2: Put It's amazing that that's the most efficient way to
Speaker 2: do it. But yeah, apparently it is, I would agree. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's very interesting. Of course, that's why we need to
Speaker 2: eliminate that border completely and make Canada our beautiful fifty
Speaker 2: first state.
Speaker 1: I knew what a tariff was.
Speaker 2: That's about the end of my knowledge starting with this
Speaker 2: whole tariff thing. I just learned recently from listening to
Speaker 2: a guy from AI AE the American Enterprise Institute.
Speaker 1: I got my letters in the wrong wor.
Speaker 2: He's explaining how one of the problems with tariffs and
Speaker 2: how conservatives traditionally have been against tariffs, is it it
Speaker 2: sets up the government for maximum doing favors for people
Speaker 2: for varieties of reasons. Skulduggery, right, because when you have tariffs,
Speaker 2: then you have carve outs.
Speaker 1: And we've already seen some of that.
Speaker 2: And you get carve outs by donating to a campaign
Speaker 2: or you know, be in the right color, state or
Speaker 2: whatever it is. And that's what always happens when you
Speaker 2: have a tariff regime, is all kinds of how come
Speaker 2: that company. It's like when during COVID, like you know
Speaker 2: that store had to be closed, but the ice cream
Speaker 2: shop was open. That's what happens with tariffs all the time.
Speaker 2: You know, like why is this business not getting there? Well,
Speaker 2: they're forty three percent this and thirty two percent that
Speaker 2: and whatever, and it might might be made up. It's
Speaker 2: because Congressman Jones is in a swing district and he
Speaker 2: really needed a win p period.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: The best way to old out political favors or to
Speaker 2: to to to gain favorable treatment is with a terrorf regime.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that till recently. I thought that was
Speaker 1: very interesting. Yeah, it is a great opportunity for that
Speaker 1: sort of thing to happen.
Speaker 2: Ah wow, wow, it's and and there are there are
Speaker 2: aspects of it that absolutely stink of government planning of
Speaker 2: the economy, and it's it's complicat and it's a little
Speaker 2: difficult to sort through for me anyway, because I believe
Speaker 2: so firmly in free markets and their incredible efficiency. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at, I'm looking up and seeing and Trump worked
Speaker 2: late into the night to perfect the terrorists.
Speaker 1: Oh they're perfect now, Okay, good right.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, the idea of that, well,
Speaker 2: we don't build warships at all, but our friends, the
Speaker 2: South Koreans do and are sometimes friends the other you
Speaker 2: know countries there.
Speaker 1: They'll help us out probably.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've got to have certain capacities just for
Speaker 2: our own defense and pharmaceuticals. You remember, China had us
Speaker 2: by the uh uh you know, the short ones during
Speaker 2: COVID because they made our drugs and masks and gloves
Speaker 2: and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: Right, And how do you break out of that reality?
Speaker 1: Where's the balance point?
Speaker 2: If you're a World War two fan, which means if
Speaker 2: you're a male, you know that during World War Two,
Speaker 2: the number of planes that we would crank out every
Speaker 2: single day, and bullets and tanks and jeeps and stuff
Speaker 2: was just amazing. Yeah, because we're such a manufacturing colossus
Speaker 2: at the time, and we switched over from you know,
Speaker 2: motor boats to tanks or whatever.
Speaker 1: Could we do that now? That's the big question, because
Speaker 1: we have so much less manufacturer.
Speaker 2: And I remember when I first learned this, and I
Speaker 2: found it very hurtful that the German machines were much better,
Speaker 2: significantly better than our machines, whether it was airplanes or
Speaker 2: tanks or what have you. We just outproduced them. We could,
Speaker 2: We could build so many of them so quickly. You know,
Speaker 2: they'd killed three to our you know, three of ours
Speaker 2: to their two, but we'd outproduce them three to one.
Speaker 2: So just keep running tanks out into the field. Likewise,
Speaker 2: airplanes compared to you know, some of the German and
Speaker 2: Japanese planes, we're fighting from behind. But so now the
Speaker 2: shoe is completely on the other foot, especially in terms
Speaker 2: of shipbuilding. We were talking about this the other day,
Speaker 2: that China can crank out what fifty ships to our
Speaker 2: one said the number might even be worse than that
Speaker 2: than that. Yeah, yeah, uh, that's a problem. On the
Speaker 2: tariff thing, I'd forgotten this. So there was a lot
Speaker 2: of moaning and fretting first Trump term around tariffs by
Speaker 2: mainstream media and Democrats, and then Joe Biden became president
Speaker 2: and kept them all in place, all of them, one
Speaker 2: hundred percent of the tariffs Trump put in place to
Speaker 2: make apped. Yeah, partially because it tends to be a
Speaker 2: lefty thing, the whole tariff thing, not a conservative thing.
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, although these tariffs are much much bigger
Speaker 2: than the first terms tariffs. But again, all the oh
Speaker 2: my god, this is horrible. What is he doing. He's
Speaker 2: going to wreck the world economy? And then a democratic
Speaker 2: and administration comes in and keeps them home place.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be fun to watch, you will it. It'll
Speaker 2: be a good time with your four to one k
Speaker 2: in hand, just to keep a refreshing your four one ks.
Speaker 2: Oh lord, this must be like one of those those
Speaker 2: series that are streaming that your friends tell you just
Speaker 2: get past the sixth episode and it's really good. Really,
Speaker 2: when that'll this will be entertaining to it really picks
Speaker 2: up in season four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, you can just stick it out.
Speaker 2: I saw the first episode of The Guy Ritchie Vehicle Mobland,
Speaker 2: British crime drama. Very good, very satisfying. If you like
Speaker 2: his movies, it's really really good.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: If I ever have time, there are so many TV
Speaker 2: shows I could I get to watch if I ever
Speaker 2: have time for this, Like I've never seen a moment
Speaker 2: of Game of Thrones. I could go way back to
Speaker 2: catch up on some of this stuff I've certainly never seen.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a second of Yellowstone or many of
Speaker 2: the other shows that I hear everybody watches all the time. Right, Well,
Speaker 2: there's a prominent movie star who is making movies with God.
Speaker 1: Now. Jack will reveal in a moment or two.
Speaker 2: And in his heyday was when I was raising three kids,
Speaker 2: and I have seen parts of his movies, but I'm
Speaker 2: not really familiar.
Speaker 1: Let's not show officially.
Speaker 2: Since Joe mentioned that, here we go, I'm Jack Armstrong,
Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this it is How did it
Speaker 2: get to be Wednesday, April the second, the year twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. We are Armstrong and getting we approved of
Speaker 2: this program.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 2: Officially now starting the show according to FCC rules or
Speaker 2: eggs at Mark, who are still dangerous?
Speaker 1: You can be my ringman anytime, you can be mine.
Speaker 1: And then they kissed.
Speaker 2: What was that? There was a discussion among the movie
Speaker 2: fans that I accused myself from you went with top
Speaker 2: gun to honor Valcomer's death. Oh my god, check in
Speaker 2: your testicles and go home. What are you all revealed
Speaker 2: yourself as gay?
Speaker 1: Wow? This is this is going home? Be part of this? Wow?
Speaker 2: Do pick tombstone clips for Valcimer's death. You've got to
Speaker 2: be freaking kidding me. That's the worst thing the show
Speaker 2: has ever done.
Speaker 1: Will there's a list Vlkilmer and.
Speaker 2: He, if he was a moment before death, would rise
Speaker 2: up on his feet and punch you all in the
Speaker 2: face and then die. His memoirs called Huckleberry, he says
Speaker 2: it's the greatest thing he ever did. This is an outrage.
Speaker 2: Will be God, that's an embarrassment. I'm embarrassedment. But just
Speaker 2: for the listener, I had nothing to do with choosing
Speaker 2: shirtless teenage girl movies.
Speaker 1: As opposed to the greatest Guy, he's gone too far.
Speaker 2: As opposed to the gosh, he has gone to the
Speaker 2: coolest guy movie of all time, maybe right up through
Speaker 2: The Godfather other great god guy movies.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm embarrassed. There's just I have to
Speaker 1: my chain.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a line of people walking out of
Speaker 2: here with cardboard boxes like we're the Department of the
Speaker 2: Labor or something like that.
Speaker 1: That hurt my soul. Wholesale job losses, yep.
Speaker 2: Oh no, Johnny Ringo, it looks like somebody just walked
Speaker 2: across your grave.
Speaker 1: Or I'm your Huckleberry.
Speaker 2: The title of his memoir is Huckleberry you go with
Speaker 2: freaking shirtless, oiled up high school girl movies.
Speaker 1: I'm embarrassing.
Speaker 2: I can name like five economists I know more about
Speaker 2: than I know about Val Kilmer, which is why I
Speaker 2: recused myself from the discussion. I was talking to somebody
Speaker 2: last night after the Newsbrooks said I watched Tombstone at
Speaker 2: least twice a year. They said, wow, Wow, I watched
Speaker 2: with my kids. Recently we had to watch it again.
Speaker 2: They liked it so much. It's one of the great
Speaker 2: guy movies ever.
Speaker 1: Again, I can't. I can't. I don't think I can
Speaker 1: recover from this. You can be my wing man. I
Speaker 1: might have to go home.
Speaker 2: You can be madgin very cool if you're a thirteen
Speaker 2: year old girl watching a movie in a movie theater,
Speaker 2: that is a very very cool scene.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Jack, go go put some creamer in
Speaker 1: your coffee and calm down. Oh my god, go go
Speaker 1: take an ice bath. All right?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that hurt. That hurt my soul. Oh
Speaker 2: all right, all right, let's move along. I don't think
Speaker 2: I can. We must, we must, the healing must begin.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of an example of, like, you know,
Speaker 2: Marlon Brando dies and you pick, I'd have to come
Speaker 2: up with something as ridiculous as him being in Top
Speaker 2: Gun and say that's the clip of Marlon Brando's career.
Speaker 2: There you go, one of those late movies is in
Speaker 2: his career. He slept, walked through sleepwalk.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez. Okay, we got Katie's headlines on the way,
Speaker 1: we got mail bag my gude, and I hope some
Speaker 1: freaking clips from Tombstone. Yeah, she misses on the way.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned.
Speaker 2: If you're just tuning in, it'd be impossible to explain
Speaker 2: these texts, so I won't.
Speaker 1: At least it was a line from Willow. I don't
Speaker 1: even know that one.
Speaker 2: Marlon Brando, the star of the Island of Doctor Moreau,
Speaker 2: died today.
Speaker 1: We got a bunch of those. That's a good one, Jack,
Speaker 1: I agree with you regarding Tombstone and val Klimmer Kilmer.
Speaker 2: I'm mounting a boycott'll be outside the studio channing Jack
Speaker 2: and Joe No, no, no, repeat, repeat, Wow powerful stuff.
Speaker 2: Liam Neeson passed away to day star of Taken five.
Speaker 2: I agree, wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 1: I just I won't stand for this apiece of the staff.
Speaker 2: Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story
Speaker 2: with Katie gree and Katie take it away.
Speaker 3: Well, get ready, Jack, run the Associated Press. Valve Kilmer
Speaker 3: top gun and Batman star dies at sixty five.
Speaker 1: That's right. I saw that the Great Batman. They did
Speaker 1: that in the New York Post.
Speaker 2: I was horrified, But then I realized they did a
Speaker 2: separate piece only on Tombstone to talk about it, because
Speaker 2: that's the one the critics loved so much, and he
Speaker 2: got nominated for an Oscar and name of his memoir
Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff. That is way more
Speaker 2: Val Kilmer talk than we need on any one show.
Speaker 1: Probably for ABC. Trump's Liberation Day.
Speaker 3: Arrives as he gambles big on risky tariff policy.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, I'd say we're talking about this yesterday. Anybody
Speaker 2: who thinks, you know, he's just answering to Wall Street
Speaker 2: or this or that, or just going along to satisfy.
Speaker 1: The Mega Bay, He is.
Speaker 2: Laying it all on the line for history, because this
Speaker 2: could be one of the biggest mistakes in presidential ever.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, given some of the effects on the
Speaker 2: economy and consumer spending and investment, and might have especially
Speaker 2: combined with some of the tax ideas they're talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he could just see all of his support, certainly from moderates,
Speaker 2: vanishing the blank of an eye. Who knows or not,
Speaker 2: I don't know. We will see, but it's not the
Speaker 2: safe play. There's no way you can claim this is
Speaker 2: the safe play.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, And remember when I predicted with certainty that Joe
Speaker 2: Biden would not be on the ballot in November year
Speaker 2: and a half before he withdrew. I am at the
Speaker 2: polar opposite end of my predictive abilities in terms of
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Not a clue from.
Speaker 3: Brightbar dot com. Susan Crawford, winner of Wisconsin's Supreme Court
Speaker 3: election keeping Court's liberal majority.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a couple of things on this.
Speaker 2: Robbie suave of a reason he was tweeting out last
Speaker 2: night because he knows this. Study after study after study
Speaker 2: has shown you can't influence elections that much with money,
Speaker 2: but people keep trying. Everybody always talks about how much
Speaker 2: money spent, but that's generally doesn't have any effects.
Speaker 1: And off your special elections.
Speaker 3: Hoof from USA today, as I ran tensions build, US
Speaker 3: military moves warplanes to reinforce the Middle East.
Speaker 2: I've got some information on that. It is very provocative there.
Speaker 2: It's more than just moving warplanes. It's moving warplanes that
Speaker 2: you don't move unless you're gonna use them.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay.
Speaker 3: From Katie Grimes at the cal Globe, April Fool's Day.
Speaker 1: Bills to disallow.
Speaker 3: Trans women in girls sports killed by Assembly committee.
Speaker 2: Both bills, two bills Republicans tried to get through in
Speaker 2: California so dudes can't be in girls' sports, and they
Speaker 2: both got shot down. And I listen to NPR and
Speaker 2: they're playing the happy people with quivering voices. Thank god,
Speaker 2: we've stood up against these people to allow fairness or
Speaker 2: something or other trans women are women, and if the governor,
Speaker 2: if the governor of the state had any testicles, and actually,
Speaker 2: you know, was worried about running for president, he'd come
Speaker 2: out and say something about this, wouldn't he you know,
Speaker 2: he hinted at it in that podcast. Oh yeah, shouldn't
Speaker 2: he be out and proud today and say that was
Speaker 2: a mistake. Reporters asked him, what do you think of
Speaker 2: these bills?
Speaker 1: He said, I'm not familiar. I haven't seen them.
Speaker 2: Okay, how about work for Kamala Harris staying out of
Speaker 2: these issues?
Speaker 1: Gavin and finally the Babylon Bee.
Speaker 3: Actual Nazis struggling to stand out now that everyone.
Speaker 1: Is a Nazi.
Speaker 2: This is the golden age at driving around with a
Speaker 2: swastik on your vehicle because you could just clay, oh
Speaker 2: it was graffiti. You see one of your fellow Nazis,
Speaker 2: You're like, sighile. But to anybody you're trying to pass by,
Speaker 2: you say, ah, yeah, they painted it on there.
Speaker 1: Especially if you got a tesla, you could have a
Speaker 1: Nazi burned in your yard.
Speaker 2: You could will yeah.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: Research from Climate Central suggests climate change is fueling these
Speaker 4: increasingly tough conditions. As the earth warms and spring gets longer,
Speaker 4: plants have more time to grow.
Speaker 1: That means earlier pollen releases.
Speaker 4: Plus more spring glooms throwing extra pollen into the air,
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Speaker 4: keep your windows closed, wash your clothing, and shower when
Speaker 4: you get home.
Speaker 2: Uh. Of course, the story about how it's a really,
Speaker 2: really bad allergy season all across the country has to
Speaker 2: start with climate change, of course, So of course, sell
Speaker 2: the handkerchief you used to wipe your nose because it
Speaker 2: was cold, and buy a handkerchief you used to wipe
Speaker 2: your nose because you have allergies.
Speaker 1: The climate changes, deal with it. One before one more
Speaker 1: text before things that matter. Jack.
Speaker 2: My husband completely lost his s two last night when
Speaker 2: I was playing hot Shot Clips and not Tombstone the
Speaker 2: funniest thing ever, and I angered a World War II
Speaker 2: buff Huh with my description of who had technological prowess? Yeah,
Speaker 2: many paragraphs about that. Wow, Well, I will review them.
Speaker 2: I will internalize the information and never make such an
Speaker 2: egregious mistake again, so thank you for weighing in. Speaking
Speaker 2: of warfare, President made a statement the other day that
Speaker 2: was rather blunt, to the effect of, if Roan tries
Speaker 2: to get a bomb, we will bomb them. If they
Speaker 2: try to get a nuke, we're gonna bomb, We're going
Speaker 2: to take him out. Or somebody is what do you say, Well,
Speaker 2: some of that effect, and I don't know how that
Speaker 2: could not be our policy. Iran is the weakest they've
Speaker 2: ever been. I remember Ina Bremer agreed with that statement.
Speaker 2: Iran is the weakest they've ever been. Nobody in the
Speaker 2: world thinks the world is better if Iran has a bomb,
Speaker 2: except Iran.
Speaker 1: We got to. We have to.
Speaker 2: It'd be crazy not to. I just don't know if
Speaker 2: the world does that sort of thing anymore. Preemptive strikes
Speaker 2: in general, Right, you're a major, I mean a war
Speaker 2: starting preemptive strike.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We got this email from a from al anonymous. Time
Speaker 2: is running short for deployment of B two bombers points
Speaker 2: to coming action. As noted earlier, this is a quote
Speaker 2: from a bigger piece. The US has moved nearly half
Speaker 2: of its entire B two Spirit stealth bomber flyable fleet
Speaker 2: to the Indian O out post of Diego Garcia. In addition,
Speaker 2: close to twenty tanker aircraft were also moved to the base,
Speaker 2: effectively given the B twos, effectively giving the B twos
Speaker 2: the range need to attack any target in the region
Speaker 2: and specifically Iran. So why does the B two represent
Speaker 2: a threat to Iran as opposed to other possible targets
Speaker 2: in the Middle East. The hooth these isis connected groups, etc. Chiefly,
Speaker 2: it's all about what the planes carry and drop. The
Speaker 2: Spirit can deliver the not to be confused with Spirit
Speaker 2: Airlines Jack, which just carries people who can't afford to
Speaker 2: kits on more expensive airlines. The Spirit can deliver the
Speaker 2: GBU fifty seven, a thirty thousand pound bunker buster. These
Speaker 2: quote massive bombs are among the few believe capable of
Speaker 2: destroying buried and hardened complexes like Iran's nuclear sites at
Speaker 2: Fort Ou and Naton, and nobody has those but US
Speaker 2: analyt's say this forward deployment of B twos to Diego
Speaker 2: Carcia from the regular base at Whitman, Missouri, will allow
Speaker 2: the aircraft faster turnarounds in a sustained not one off off,
Speaker 2: but a sustained bombing campaign. For reference to Whitman's about
Speaker 2: sixty eight hundred miles from Iran, Diego Garcia is about
Speaker 2: thirty one hundred miles. Another issue that points to coming action.
Speaker 2: The B twos rely on. This is the part I
Speaker 2: found really really interesting. Well, I guess the first part's
Speaker 2: the most interesting. But yeah, that would be the biggest
Speaker 2: military action since March two thousand and three, wouldn't it
Speaker 2: state bombing campaign on a major country?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2: The B twos rely on coating slash skin technology developed
Speaker 2: specifically for this version of US stealth aircraft that is
Speaker 2: notoriously high maintenance. To maintain their full capability capabilities, the
Speaker 2: spirits must be hangared, and space at Diego Garcia is
Speaker 2: at a premium, especially when it comes to preferred air
Speaker 2: conditioned spaces Man, this is a high literally a high
Speaker 2: maintenance girlfriend this plane.
Speaker 1: The lack of hangar.
Speaker 2: Space means that some of the B twos are being
Speaker 2: left outside in the weather, left out in the elements
Speaker 2: for two long The airplane's stealth coatings, the skins require
Speaker 2: very expensive and time consuming refurbishment, which would also remove
Speaker 2: them from any other assignment for months at a time.
Speaker 2: The obvious point if you're still waking up being you
Speaker 2: don't do this casually. There is a significant cost, especially
Speaker 2: if they're sitting there for a long time. So it
Speaker 2: seems unlikely that they would be so worth noting that
Speaker 2: Aron is believed to have secured assurances from China Russia
Speaker 2: that they will safeguard the regime, bolster it's nuclear ambitions,
Speaker 2: and help it obtain nuclear weapons before the potentially lenient
Speaker 2: deadline set by Trump, regardless of the fallout. Rancies the
Speaker 2: moves being made, and they know the clock is ticking.
Speaker 2: So this should be another thing that is not the
Speaker 2: safe play for Donald Trump if he wants to stay popular,
Speaker 2: you know, launching a major war. Anytime you do that,
Speaker 2: things can go sideways in ways that are completely unpredictable. Yeah,
Speaker 2: on the politics side, it would be a little challenging
Speaker 2: for the Democrats, especially you know, out side of her Rashida,
Speaker 2: to leave lunatics to stand up in defense of the Mullahs.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that'd be a weird, a weird stance
Speaker 2: to take. They would find a way to do it,
Speaker 2: but I don't think it'd be the very powerful politically,
Speaker 2: And second, point. This seems to be another example of
Speaker 2: Trump is like, yeah, I don't really care about the polls.
Speaker 2: I'm doing what's best long term.
Speaker 1: I'm all for it.
Speaker 2: I think we absolutely should try to take out their
Speaker 2: nuclear capability. I just can't imagine why we wouldn't. And
Speaker 2: once they have a bomb, I mean, man, that changes
Speaker 2: the structure. You see how we react to Russia and
Speaker 2: their invasion of Ukraine, which Iran you know, gets more
Speaker 2: aggressive than they have been over the last since nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy nine, and they've got nuclear weapons. Right, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: read a piece. I wish I could remember where it was.
Speaker 2: I don't want to impugne the wrong source, but the
Speaker 2: argument essentially was, well, you've already got like Pakistan and
Speaker 2: a couple other countries that aren't very good, you know,
Speaker 2: countries with the bombs, So why would you go to
Speaker 2: a lot of trumbled you know, knockout Iron's program?
Speaker 1: And I thought that that is.
Speaker 2: The weakest, stupidest argument I've ever heard, and it was
Speaker 2: in it was in a reputable publication.
Speaker 1: I remember that Just silly.
Speaker 2: The problem is, I said, when you when you launch
Speaker 2: a war, you never know how things are going to
Speaker 2: turn out, and so you could have.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a tragic story over the weekend where a.
Speaker 2: Big some sort of hum vy or truck or whatever
Speaker 2: over in there in Europe got stuck in the mud
Speaker 2: and we got four soldiers drowned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just horrible story.
Speaker 2: In Lithuania was yeah, Lithuania, or a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: a plane went down I think here in the United
Speaker 2: States and killed like six guys. You could have you
Speaker 2: could have an accident where you lose twenty people and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, that's going to be look at
Speaker 2: the incompetent Trump administration, Pete heggsth et cetera, et cetera. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it'll be all that turn into Carter's down fall, the
Speaker 2: mission to rescue the hostages in or on Acting seventy nine.
Speaker 1: So but but I think, I think, I think we
Speaker 1: got to do it.
Speaker 2: What was it? I heard something really great yesterday. This
Speaker 2: is a tangent, but I want to Hey, let me
Speaker 2: throw this in. You're a neo Khan there now you
Speaker 2: don't have to bother writing your email. This is a
Speaker 2: bit of a tangent. So, but it's kind of along
Speaker 2: these lines. It goes back to the old days when
Speaker 2: people would argue that sort of thing about the United
Speaker 2: States or the Soviet Union. You know, we we we
Speaker 2: tell other countries what to do. They tell other countries
Speaker 2: what to do. They got lots to nuclear weapons, We
Speaker 2: got lots of nuclear you know, just that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Where do we get off acting like we're better than
Speaker 2: they are by being better than they are? And the
Speaker 2: famous line from William F. Buckley was that is looking
Speaker 2: at it like you got a guy who pushes an
Speaker 2: old woman out of the way so she doesn't get
Speaker 2: hit by a bus, and you got a guy who
Speaker 2: pushes an old woman in front of a bus, and
Speaker 2: the headline you go with his old man man pushes
Speaker 2: old woman.
Speaker 1: You can't act like they're both the same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that is.
Speaker 2: The view of like US versus US, versus Iran or
Speaker 2: any of these countries. What's your intent? What are you
Speaker 2: trying to do on the world stage? And I can
Speaker 2: picture that sort of person saying that sort of thing,
Speaker 2: and they're probably educated. They think that makes them sound
Speaker 2: really enlightened and really above the stupid jingoistic quote unquote
Speaker 2: patriot idiots who know nothing about the world. Oh, just
Speaker 2: laying the groundwork for this, because this could happen any day,
Speaker 2: this attack on Iran, and it's gonna be a big deal.
Speaker 2: This is not, I think from everything I've read, because
Speaker 2: there was a lot about it in Bob Woodwards book
Speaker 2: and David Sanger's book that I read, and New York
Speaker 2: Times has stuff about it.
Speaker 1: This will be a big deal.
Speaker 2: This won't be one of those it happens overnight and
Speaker 2: it makes it the third page of the news.
Speaker 1: This will be a giant story.
Speaker 2: I think maybe I could get on Mike Walts's signal
Speaker 2: chat and figure out if it's going on now. It
Speaker 2: might start it already, but be prepared for the He's
Speaker 2: just doing this to distract from the dropping stock market
Speaker 2: or whatever, the tariffs which are designed to help the rich,
Speaker 2: right that sort of thing. The rich are looking at
Speaker 2: their stock portfolio and saying.
Speaker 1: It isn't working.
Speaker 2: We've got mail bag on the way to bunch of
Speaker 2: other stuff. Any thoughts on any of these things? Text
Speaker 2: line four one nine KFTC. The administration has admitted that
Speaker 2: deported at least one man to that horrifying Salvador in prison.
Speaker 2: That was a mistake. I mean they said, yeah, that
Speaker 2: that guy. We shouldn't have sent him there. So yeah,
Speaker 2: he's a gang guy, but he had a specific do
Speaker 2: not deport on him that for reasons of refugee status.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was moving a little too fast, a
Speaker 2: little too loose. I mean, I'm not shocked. It's not
Speaker 2: like he was, you know, only a suburban dad and
Speaker 2: little league coach, born and raised in Omaha Baptist.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Redheaded Baptist. No, no, but it was definitely a mistake.
Speaker 2: Here's your freedom loving.
Speaker 1: Quote of the day.
Speaker 2: I decided, since we were talking about war, to look
Speaker 2: for quotes about war, and the Google AI overview gave
Speaker 2: me a couple of dozen in three groups on the
Speaker 2: futility of war, on the human cost of war, on
Speaker 2: the importance of peace. I like this one, and then
Speaker 2: I hate it. Have Locke Ellis says, I don't know
Speaker 2: who that is. There is nothing that war has ever
Speaker 2: achieved that we cannot better achieve without it. That's the
Speaker 2: dumbest thing. You were a moron. If you say that
Speaker 2: out loud, I would just get up and walk out
Speaker 2: of the room. If an adult said that a lot,
Speaker 2: because you can't engage with them. No, No, that's a
Speaker 2: very dopey point of view. Oh my god, John Kennedy.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, what if the other side wants
Speaker 2: to go to war, then what do you do? We
Speaker 2: could have better achieved it with peace. Yeah, I just
Speaker 2: that's that is greeting card rhetoric. I mean, he's not
Speaker 2: wrong exactly, but that's that's the sort of thing people
Speaker 2: say because they don't want to engage in the really
Speaker 2: difficult decisions of adulthood of reality. Right mail bag was
Speaker 2: a note mail bag at Armstrong Andngetti dot com. That's
Speaker 2: the kind of guy that's gonna watch Top Gun in
Speaker 2: honor of Val Kilmer as opposed to Tombstone.
Speaker 1: That guy right there, that's too harsh.
Speaker 2: Jack asides your Bob Wright's on the topic of the
Speaker 2: Wisconsin Supreme Court saying, I guess I'll just call my
Speaker 2: boss this morning and tell him to f write off.
Speaker 2: The end of civilization is near, according to Elon, and
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna spend what a little time we have
Speaker 2: left working.
Speaker 1: Good point, Bob. Let's see.
Speaker 2: Barry from Thailand, who was actually from the US but
Speaker 2: he's in Thailand, says, for all the good Musk has done,
Speaker 2: he who really needs to stay under the radar for
Speaker 2: a while. He's becoming like the brother who lives in
Speaker 2: the White House. Keep doing good stuff, Elon, but quietly, Yeah,
Speaker 2: well the Democrat won there in Wisconsin, and how much
Speaker 2: it had to do with Elon?
Speaker 1: Who knows?
Speaker 2: But the left the mainstream media is acting like it
Speaker 2: was a referendum on Elon. Clearly that the whole election
Speaker 2: was a referendum on Elon. None of us live in
Speaker 2: Wisconsin and saw all the ads or have any idea
Speaker 2: what either of the judges are like personality wise or
Speaker 2: anything like that. Right, it's just a referendum on Elon.
Speaker 2: If the mainstream media can successfully make it a referendum
Speaker 2: on Elon for the twenty twenty six midterms, Oh god,
Speaker 2: dang it, you're gonna get tired of hearing about Elon.
Speaker 2: Musk oh Tesla stock first quarterdown thirteen percent. Numbers just
Speaker 2: came out today, too late. Already I'm already tired of
Speaker 2: hearing about him. Not what he's doing, just hearing about it.
Speaker 2: Yesterday was it Monday?
Speaker 1: I brought up?
Speaker 2: I read an email from a chap who said, Hey,
Speaker 2: the illustration you gave of price controls and socialism by
Speaker 2: telling a story about a dairy farmer, and you couldn't find.
Speaker 1: The right episode.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's not that you have two cows
Speaker 2: in communism X and socialism.
Speaker 1: Why.
Speaker 2: I know that that's very good and very funny, but
Speaker 2: this is something different, So please stop writing those emails.
Speaker 1: But Matt, why buy the cow for the milk is free?
Speaker 1: Is that one?
Speaker 2: No, that's a different one too, Matt writes, Guys, just
Speaker 2: use chat GPT. It'll tell you in three seconds. Check
Speaker 2: out this interaction. How easy he was to find the info.
Speaker 2: Here's what he did. What's the episode of Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Geddy where Joe explains socialism by telling a story about
Speaker 2: a dairy farmer in fraction of a second? It appears
Speaker 2: that Joe Getty discussed socialism using a dairy farmer analogy
Speaker 2: and at least two episodes of the Armstrong Getty on
Speaker 2: demand podcast Oh My God. The first instance is in
Speaker 2: the episode titled Hell Yeah Say That out Loud, published
Speaker 2: approximately seven months ago. Second occurrence is in the ang
Speaker 2: replay Thursday Hour four, released about three months ago. In
Speaker 2: both episodes, Joe uses the example of a dairy farmer
Speaker 2: to illustrate economic principles relating to price controls and government intervention.
Speaker 1: That's amazing, and then gives the date of the episode
Speaker 1: so I can find it on Armstrong. You getting on
Speaker 1: demand so in the near.
Speaker 2: Future it's going to be was the name of that
Speaker 2: girl she always wore a ponytail sat next to me
Speaker 2: in fourth grade English class. That was Jenny Jones Jack
Speaker 2: She's grown up, cute as a button too.
Speaker 1: Would you like me to reach out via Facebook? Right?
Speaker 1: I hear her marriage is on the rocks? Whoa cha GVT?
Speaker 2: Whoa? She mentioned you the other day to a friend
Speaker 2: and got a far off look in her eye. How
Speaker 2: about this bridget and beautiful Hillsborg, California. Guys, I'm one
Speaker 2: hundred percent with you on college needing a complete, almost
Speaker 2: uber esque overhaul after completing my sociology degree. Sorry Joe
Speaker 2: at Johns Hopkins. You know at least one of my
Speaker 2: kids has a worthless degree. It's just what they were
Speaker 2: really really into. Anyway, I had no idea what I
Speaker 2: wanted to be when I grew up. The best thing
Speaker 2: that happened to me was joining a consumer products division
Speaker 2: at a major company, where I got to see in
Speaker 2: real time, in the real world what each department of
Speaker 2: this vertically integrated business did I got to see sales, operations, finance, production, HR,
Speaker 2: legal and marketing. After a year, I knew that my
Speaker 2: path was marketing and never looked back. That's what college
Speaker 2: needs to be a place where students can be in
Speaker 2: different work environments to identify their desired path.
Speaker 1: What was that word in there?
Speaker 2: Though? I think that word in there that that's where,
Speaker 2: that's where the work. I'm not sure that how often
Speaker 2: that happened? Yeah, yeah, there's that. Let's say I've learned
Speaker 2: more about sleep chronotypes. We can talk about that in
Speaker 2: a little while. Yeah, we got a story today Katie
Speaker 2: dug up about what was that? Oh, screen time and
Speaker 2: going to sleep a new study. Yeah, Katie's probably a dolphin.
Speaker 2: Jack is a wolf or a dolphin in terms of sleeping.
Speaker 2: I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
Speaker 1: Let's see. And this is al Anonymous.
Speaker 2: I think the cold plunge sounds terrible, but his life
Speaker 2: changing unheated pool works great. I thought about that the
Speaker 2: other day. I got a pool in the backyard that's
Speaker 2: freezing cold right now.
Speaker 1: He does it before bedtime. Oh god, four three four
Speaker 1: days a week.
Speaker 2: Even if I could do it the first day, I
Speaker 2: just don't think I could do it. The next night,
Speaker 2: I'd stand there and think why am I doing this?
Speaker 2: And then Scott brings up quite correctly that if you're
Speaker 2: gonna paint a swastik on a car for being a
Speaker 2: literal Nazi, there's a much better brand nominee. Okay that
Speaker 2: Old Ah himself may have helped get going back in
Speaker 2: the day in Germany, but they're not freaking Nazzies.
Speaker 1: And either is the on? Quit? What the swastik is you? Moron?
Speaker 2: What's the swastik in Tesla? Is it all because of
Speaker 2: that wave they claim was a Seghile? Is that the
Speaker 2: whole thing?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, it's that he's banding with Trump and having federal
Speaker 2: workers fired. That proves he's a Nazi. He's on Trump's side.
Speaker 2: Trump's a fascist, He's the new Hitler.
Speaker 1: Where have you been? Man?
Speaker 2: Trying to make government smaller makes you a Nazi? Everybody
Speaker 2: knows that. Are you a closeted Nazi yourself? I'm beginning
Speaker 2: to wonder I'm gonna pay a swastik on him.
Speaker 1: More an hour two? I hope you can stick around
Speaker 1: Armstrong and getdy