Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Israel is not stopping saying it's attacks have inflicted significant
Speaker 1: damage to Ron's nuclear facilities, that they are just getting started.
Speaker 1: We paved the way to Tehran.
Speaker 3: At are pilots over the skies of Tehran will deal
Speaker 3: blows to the Iteonal regime that they cannot even imagine.
Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping you can get Mike Lillions on the show today.
Speaker 4: I think he'd be a great sounding board. And if
Speaker 4: he is on, can you ask him or can the
Speaker 4: guys ask him?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 4: Who in Iran is helping the masade? What internal factions
Speaker 4: are there that are helping to work against the mullas?
Speaker 1: Excellent suggesting getting Mike Lions on to discuss this, if
Speaker 1: you weren't following. Over the weekend, Israel and Iran exchanged
Speaker 1: strikes now for four days in a row where Israel
Speaker 1: hits Iran hard, Iran hits Israel attempts to hit them
Speaker 1: really hard, but about fifteen percent of the drones and
Speaker 1: everything missiles do get through and there have been deaths
Speaker 1: in Tehran for instance, I mean in Tel Aviv in
Speaker 1: a way that we haven't seen in a long time.
Speaker 1: True enough, I was going to say exchanging blows like
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson and my daughter would exchange blows, though proportionately.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Yes, we did not need to be prompted. We couldn't
Speaker 1: wait to talk to Mike Lions military analyst about this. Mike, welcome,
Speaker 1: always good to talk. What are your initial impressions.
Speaker 5: Hey, guys, great to be on. Look, this conflict is
Speaker 5: long time coming. This was something that should have been
Speaker 5: anticipated for years at this point, and Israel and I
Speaker 5: was just taken advantage complete and gotten the Iranians out
Speaker 5: of this gray zone of having proxies fight their war
Speaker 5: against them. They've all been wiped out. Israel was not
Speaker 5: going to stand by and watch anybody negotiate a deal
Speaker 5: with the Iranians that would potentially take away their nuclear capability.
Speaker 5: They were taking care of us. This starts back in
Speaker 5: nineteen eighty one when they take out the Iraqi facility
Speaker 5: in osuric in O seven, when they take out the
Speaker 5: Syrian capability, and we had the stucksnet with the Americans
Speaker 5: in the United States going after Scentifugiay. Israel's been at
Speaker 5: war with Iron since then, and this is a generational
Speaker 5: moment and I think we've got to take advantage of
Speaker 5: it in the United States right now. And I understand
Speaker 5: about America First policy, but it clearly, as the President
Speaker 5: has now said, this isn't our best interest to make
Speaker 5: sure the Iranians have nowhere near any kind of nuclear capability.
Speaker 5: And Israel's just not satisfied with just kicking the can
Speaker 5: down the road, which everything before this seemed to be
Speaker 5: driving at.
Speaker 1: What's your concerns with the forty thousand US Service people
Speaker 1: we have in the area at like a dozen different bases.
Speaker 5: Well, the limited capability that Iran has to strike would
Speaker 5: be more lucky if they hit anything at this point.
Speaker 5: I think they're you know, there's maybe some fiber attacks,
Speaker 5: I guess, and you know, the sleeper cells and all
Speaker 5: those kinds of things, but nothing from a strategic perspective.
Speaker 5: Right now, you can see what they're launching at Israel
Speaker 5: has has got tremendous circle era of probable airs. They're
Speaker 5: not they're not even trying to you know, they can't
Speaker 5: hit targets that they're like to hit their hitting civilian
Speaker 5: built up areas and nothing the like. And right now
Speaker 5: the focus that Israel is doing is going after their
Speaker 5: capability to do that. So they're gonna They're gonna run
Speaker 5: an animal pretty soon, run out of capability. And so
Speaker 5: I'm not concerned, and I'm sure those American forces are
Speaker 5: on high alert. But if the Iranians were dumb enough
Speaker 5: to go after the any American forces there, well, then
Speaker 5: now the President's got an open lane to bring in
Speaker 5: B two bombers and F sixteen's and everything else. That would,
Speaker 5: you know, pretty much speed up what's going to be
Speaker 5: the end of this Iranian regime?
Speaker 1: Mike? To what extent has Israel controlled the air over Iran?
Speaker 1: And how important is that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: One hundred percent of air of supremacy now at this point,
Speaker 5: and look that some of these missiles are going to
Speaker 5: get through. There's no such thing as one hundred percent
Speaker 5: air defenses that can lock. And I want to be
Speaker 5: glib and say commanders expect losses, but the amount of
Speaker 5: damage that the Israeli militaries exist is exhibiting right now
Speaker 5: against deep targets in Iran, against their drone sites and
Speaker 5: ammunition dumps. And now if you can see, they're kind
Speaker 5: of almost going away from the nuclear facilities first because
Speaker 5: they want to make sure they maintain this air superiority.
Speaker 5: So they're hunting for those missile sites and missile platforms
Speaker 5: that I think within the next few days or so
Speaker 5: we'll really start to diminish, and then they go back
Speaker 5: towards hitting those the nuclear facilities there. It's going to
Speaker 5: take a while though. They're very deep, that one in
Speaker 5: Fertal for example, potentially up to two hundred and fifty
Speaker 5: feet deep concrete reinforced bunkers. For that to go, they're
Speaker 5: going to have to bring in the United States to
Speaker 5: be too bomber, They're going to have to bring in
Speaker 5: a different weapons systems, and I do believe that will
Speaker 5: eventually happen.
Speaker 1: So we're not directly involved right now, like like our
Speaker 1: planes and pilots are that sort of thing. But from
Speaker 1: what I understand, we've got a lot of assets in
Speaker 1: the area. We've moved some assets to the area to
Speaker 1: be ready for this. How how I don't want to
Speaker 1: use bogged down as overstating, but how how much of
Speaker 1: our attention is on this And for instance, if putin
Speaker 1: decided to use a tactical nuke in Ukraine thinking that
Speaker 1: you know, NATO's busy with this, or China did something right.
Speaker 1: I mean, how much of our attention is this Iran
Speaker 1: Israel thing taken? Well, two different.
Speaker 5: Combat commands, Sentcom is running this one here, so they're
Speaker 5: you know, well leaning forward, making sure naval assets for example,
Speaker 5: the Mediterranean, we've we've maintained assets. I think the concern
Speaker 5: would be if the Ranians again do something dumb like
Speaker 5: try to shut down the straits of our moots or
Speaker 5: do something where it impact, you know, the world economy.
Speaker 5: I think that's where there are some risk there. They're
Speaker 5: going to eventually get desperate, as this regime is going
Speaker 5: to try to negotiate its way out of it eventually.
Speaker 5: But I don't think the Israelis are going to let
Speaker 5: them there, and this is war. They're not They're not
Speaker 5: stopping until around says we surrender, and they're not. They're
Speaker 5: no longer looking for diplomatic solutions. And from my perspective,
Speaker 5: and you have the Israeli's kind of as the bad
Speaker 5: cop right now the United States, Donald Trump playing a
Speaker 5: good cop who knew that this was going to happen.
Speaker 1: But that that's.
Speaker 5: Really you know, this administration has been handed too tremendous
Speaker 5: gifts in the last six months. You've got the Ukrainian
Speaker 5: military destroying what's left of the Russian military in play
Speaker 5: still and then you have this situation where Israel is
Speaker 5: about to almost you know, redo the entire Middle East.
Speaker 5: The entire environment is completely going to be different. Now
Speaker 5: there's opportunity for us to get Lebanon resettled, Syria to
Speaker 5: join the League of Nations and the like. You'll see
Speaker 5: Saudi and Israeli deals that will make down. So this
Speaker 5: this has been a long time coming, and getting this
Speaker 5: problem resolved, it's been the number one foreign policy failure
Speaker 5: in my lifetime. I know we've talked about this before
Speaker 5: in a post World War two US foreign policy perspective,
Speaker 5: and I'm just glad it's coming because this was just
Speaker 5: a matter of time.
Speaker 1: Talking to military analysts, Mike Lyons, Mike, speaking of alliances,
Speaker 1: have you seen any signs that the I'm sorry for
Speaker 1: the lighthearted characterization here, but the axes of a holes
Speaker 1: in Russia, China, anybody rallying to her on support in
Speaker 1: any material.
Speaker 5: Way, not in the least and it speats. It's winners
Speaker 5: and losers, right, I mean, there's side, there's no one
Speaker 5: to come to their aid, and Russia has got no
Speaker 5: capability to do anything. The Chinese are smart enough to
Speaker 5: stay out of this, so no, there's no The entire
Speaker 5: proxy defenses have been stripped away. In the past, Israel
Speaker 5: would be concerned about militia brigades organized in Syria attacking
Speaker 5: on the Golden Heights or rockets coming in from Gaza
Speaker 5: and Hesba. Those guys are gone and everyone's done, like
Speaker 5: their entire force, their entire force. So again, gray zone over.
Speaker 5: This is war on war between two countries. I'm watching
Speaker 5: people talk about you know this is going to de escalate.
Speaker 5: It's not going to de escalate for a second. This
Speaker 5: is not stopping until Israel is completely satisfied that their
Speaker 5: nuclear capability is done with the implied task that this
Speaker 5: regime is out too. I know that we saw the
Speaker 5: report that the President denied Israel going after the leader
Speaker 5: of the committee there, which is fine. I think decapitation
Speaker 5: is always an issue. I hope we're working on what
Speaker 5: takes over, because that's going to be the issue. If
Speaker 5: hardline Republican Guard units take over the country. That's not
Speaker 5: going to be very good at all, But Israel will
Speaker 5: keep going until they find somebody that they can negotiate with.
Speaker 1: So we played a collar asking the question, you know,
Speaker 1: who's in Iran working with Masad? So the Masad was
Speaker 1: in Israel, it would seem for a month and a
Speaker 1: half getting that whole drawing set up going and everything
Speaker 1: like that. Do you think there are people within Iranian
Speaker 1: high levels of the military or whatever that are working
Speaker 1: with Israel. Yeah, no question there are.
Speaker 5: And the level of infiltration that MESAD has in the
Speaker 5: high levels of the Iranian government is just staggering, considering
Speaker 5: the fact that when the war started they were able
Speaker 5: to take out pinpoints specifically where some of those leaders were,
Speaker 5: the head of the chief of staff, the head of
Speaker 5: their rocket program, the nuclear scientists. You know, if you're
Speaker 5: a college professor teaching a nuclear course in Tehran right now,
Speaker 5: what look up because you might want to find yourself
Speaker 5: in a bunk or someplace because you're you're the next target.
Speaker 5: So the level of intelligence that Israel has to this,
Speaker 5: but it's been years in planning. This is again not
Speaker 5: something that they decided to do very quickly. They waited
Speaker 5: for this exact moment, and a lot of things went right.
Speaker 5: The this administration being in place, I think is another
Speaker 5: thing that that's helped Israel at this point. But starting
Speaker 5: on October seventh, when when not in YEAHO said this
Speaker 5: is a time for peace and time for war. That's
Speaker 5: where they're at. They've been on a war footing ever
Speaker 5: since they stripped out, took Hamas out, they took Lebanon out.
Speaker 5: You saw what happened in Uh in Syria, that that
Speaker 5: those militias are done, A rock is quiet, So now
Speaker 5: is the time to go after the Iranians. They were
Speaker 5: always going to do this, It's just a matter of time.
Speaker 5: Uh and now that it's started, it's not going to
Speaker 5: stop until the tennised.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Mike, you've you've partially answered this question. But
Speaker 1: what do you expect to see next in the last
Speaker 1: in the next several days.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm going to be concerned about civilians inside of
Speaker 5: Iran as as information starts getting out about their lack
Speaker 5: of services, as these Raelis are going after some critical
Speaker 5: infrastructure there, and what what what a revolution would look
Speaker 5: like and what it would take place and who takes over.
Speaker 5: I'd like to see again more military targets uh be acquired,
Speaker 5: especially on the nuclear side. They they they have not
Speaker 5: been as they've not gone after them as well as
Speaker 5: much as I thought in Florida and Thomas and Istrahan.
Speaker 5: It was another place where they're refining and doing things,
Speaker 5: and I think they've ad on those in order to
Speaker 5: ensure this air superiority. But I think it's going to
Speaker 5: go on for for many days, possibly many weeks, and
Speaker 5: to see what the Ranians try to do. But there'll
Speaker 5: be no deal. There'll be absolutely no The Iranians will
Speaker 5: try to buy time, they'll try to like like they've
Speaker 5: done with Hamas. They just want the Israeli military to
Speaker 5: stop because they think if they can stop that the
Speaker 5: rest of the world will come in on israel side.
Speaker 5: Everyone's very quiet about that right now. Everyone is fairly happy.
Speaker 5: In Saudi Arabia, for example, they put this memo out
Speaker 5: saying we're concerned about what Israel's doing. They're dancing inside
Speaker 5: the palace there knowing full well at Israels kicking out
Speaker 5: this nuclear capability.
Speaker 1: And before we let you go, would you think of
Speaker 1: the big army parade on Saturday. Yeah, I thought it
Speaker 1: was great.
Speaker 5: I thought it was too bad that a lot of
Speaker 5: people through beer from the bleachers. I read Peggy Unions
Speaker 5: op ed that, you know, tried to compare it to
Speaker 5: you know, North Korea and Russia. It was never going
Speaker 5: to be that way. I have faith in my army
Speaker 5: that they were going to put on a great show
Speaker 5: regardless of who was president. You saw the best of
Speaker 5: our country there two hundred and fifty years and the
Speaker 5: greatest fighting force that's ever been known to mankind. So
Speaker 5: I'm proud of my army and I'm so glad.
Speaker 1: It went off the way it was.
Speaker 5: There was no politics involved, and again all the people
Speaker 5: with the cognitive dissidents that couldn't kind of figure out
Speaker 5: that it's possible that we can have that and still
Speaker 5: have a president like Donald Trump. Well, you know it,
Speaker 5: Mayson be seeing you saw what I think was the
Speaker 5: best of the best on display and Saturday.
Speaker 1: Well, said military analyst Mike Lyons. Always a pleasure. Thanks
Speaker 1: a million, Mike, Great guys, thanks for having me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on the parade. I just was looking up and they
Speaker 1: had a little coverage on ABC News and they showed
Speaker 1: the various old timing uniforms. They had people in Revolutionary
Speaker 1: War uniforms in World War One and all this different
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, and then all the way up to
Speaker 1: the most modern guys decked out in the coolest modern
Speaker 1: stuff with the robot dogs marching along next to him.
Speaker 1: Didn't you see that? No idea, Wow, the robot dogs.
Speaker 1: That's terrifying. Yeah, I've got a good to find A
Speaker 1: good highlight package was it was our wedding anniversary on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and we had room. So when you're having your wedding anniversary,
Speaker 1: you won't won't sit around watching cable news. Well, aren't
Speaker 1: you precious? Pipe down, honey, I'm busy watching news. Yes,
Speaker 1: I didn't go with that strategy. I have many more
Speaker 1: comments on what Mike Lyons said around a certain areas,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure we'll get to it later because this
Speaker 1: is a big topic for the day. A different story,
Speaker 1: A man known as the Superminator has hung up his
Speaker 1: gonads after many years of service. Friends and how you
Speaker 1: look at it, among other stories, we have to stay here,
Speaker 1: armstrong and welcome to la where something is always on fire?
Speaker 1: Why always? Guess we've had a little unrest, you know,
Speaker 1: a little you know, let's not over do this Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a few blocks downtown. It's downtown. We've in downtown.
Speaker 1: The authorities told the people who live there in that
Speaker 1: area just to be on the safe side, remain in
Speaker 1: your tent. Tru Dad. I walked around downtown on my
Speaker 1: sixtieth birthday. Remember I was staying downtown, and I went
Speaker 1: to that big church and walked around in Hey. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of people living in tents, lots lots of
Speaker 1: rundown hotels that occupied by homeless people. AnyWho, a camping
Speaker 1: weather in La. We have some developments in the war
Speaker 1: in them at least. But we'll leave that alone for
Speaker 1: a second and get back to it a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But there are new things happening as the bombing goes on.
Speaker 1: Happy Father's Day. It was Father's Day yesterday. In whatever
Speaker 1: way you honor that, I got a number of really
Speaker 1: nice texts from various people, which I appreciated. A guy
Speaker 1: named dubbed the Sperminator is decided to hang up his testicles,
Speaker 1: and he announced it yesterday on Father's Day, after he's
Speaker 1: turning fifty. Do you don't know this guy? You're wrinkling
Speaker 1: your eyes there as Katie riddling in my eyes at
Speaker 1: a lot of thanks at this story down. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm taking a wait and see a posture on this
Speaker 1: last secon. He was dubbed the Sperminator by the New
Speaker 1: York Post due to his prolific sperm donations. He uh,
Speaker 1: after more than seventeen years of donating his swimmers to
Speaker 1: complete strangers and generating one hundred and eighty one kids
Speaker 1: across five continents, He's finally retiring. For some reason. He's
Speaker 1: a math professor from New York. I think that makes
Speaker 1: you an incredible weirdo. But you know people need that.
Speaker 1: So I suppose you being the guy who shows up
Speaker 1: like every other day with a sample for some weird reason. Well, no,
Speaker 1: there's demand for him. Is probably a tall, good looking
Speaker 1: math professor, right, Yeah, that's part of it. Yes, the
Speaker 1: industry that says to him, you know, see you Monday.
Speaker 1: You know we're going to need more for more moms
Speaker 1: around the world, or are looking for tall, good looking
Speaker 1: kids who are good at math, the whole things. But
Speaker 1: then they and I know there is a need for
Speaker 1: that and all that sort of thing. But the idea
Speaker 1: that I got one hundred and eighty one kids out
Speaker 1: there that are not going to have any of my
Speaker 1: parenting or any stories about my dad and mom, or
Speaker 1: just none of the you know, and none of that.
Speaker 1: I just I think that's I hate that. So are
Speaker 1: you against sperm donation in general?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I mean, because if I had
Speaker 1: one kid out there answering the description you just gave,
Speaker 1: that's a tragedy. Although I know people who do have
Speaker 1: that information about the sperm donator. When it's you know,
Speaker 1: a person who do you know pass along that information
Speaker 1: or allow them to get in contact, you're not going
Speaker 1: to get in contact. Is he going to get in
Speaker 1: contact with one hundred and eighty one different kids? No,
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's not the nature that though, as
Speaker 1: long as you have the medical information, I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying I wouldn't want that. No, I hear you,
Speaker 1: I hear you. I hate Do you have a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of little mees out there with me in no
Speaker 1: role in whatsoever? We all hate that idea armstrong and
Speaker 1: getty authority.
Speaker 7: Say, a suspected gunman impersonating a police officer targeted two
Speaker 7: Democratic lawmakers and their spouses in their homes, killing former
Speaker 7: Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. State
Speaker 7: Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvett were critically wounded.
Speaker 7: A list of additional targets was found in the suspects vehicle,
Speaker 7: as well as no kings flyers. Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas
Speaker 7: denounced the political violence and vowed to bring those responsible
Speaker 7: to justice.
Speaker 1: And that has happened. He got caught. Here's that report.
Speaker 1: The shooter is now in custody.
Speaker 6: The Ramsey County Sheriff's office calling fifty seven year old
Speaker 6: Vance Bolter the faith of evil after he was caught
Speaker 6: last night crawling in a field near his home in
Speaker 6: green Isle, Minnesota, southwest of Minneapolis, and this morning, police
Speaker 6: documents reveal that inside the car that Bolter ditched near
Speaker 6: his home, they found three AK forty seven assault rifles,
Speaker 6: a nine millimeter handgun, a list of other public officials,
Speaker 6: and outside of the car they found another gun, a mask,
Speaker 6: and a gold style police badge. Police say Bolter dressed
Speaker 6: like a police officer. He wore a Halloween style mask
Speaker 6: and drove what looked like a squad car.
Speaker 1: So the guy seems completely nuts to me. He murdered
Speaker 1: a couple of Minnesota state lawmakers tried to kill a
Speaker 1: couple of others. His what we've heard so far, and
Speaker 1: I'm not trusting of the media and that they're not,
Speaker 1: you know, only giving this information that helps their narrative.
Speaker 1: But because I'm not hearing enough about how crazy he is,
Speaker 1: he's got to have all kinds of other indications of
Speaker 1: his nuttiness. Well, yeah, I agree, although nuttiness can mean
Speaker 1: like psychosis, he's got serious mental illness, or could just
Speaker 1: mean an angry loser who wants to take his angry
Speaker 1: loserdom out on others. I think it's more that one, right,
Speaker 1: But the only anger toward government we've heard is all national,
Speaker 1: you know, with the no kings and not liking Trump,
Speaker 1: and you see it kill a couple of state lawmakers
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. I mean that's pretty freaking crazy. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had a well, he had a history of being hardcore
Speaker 1: anti abortion. He believed abortion was murder, and the lawmakers
Speaker 1: in question were abortion rights advocates. According to people who
Speaker 1: know this guy, his best friend said he'd done a
Speaker 1: three year stint in Africa. He fancied himself the head
Speaker 1: of a security company that never really got up and running,
Speaker 1: and his friend and sometimes roommates said that the company
Speaker 1: really never existed and he's had troubles since he got
Speaker 1: back from Africa. He had a LinkedIn, uh you know,
Speaker 1: page that had the Red Lion Group was a security company,
Speaker 1: but it had no employees. Other nobody can find that
Speaker 1: it really existed. He just he's an He seems to
Speaker 1: be an angry loser, you know, underachiever par excellence. It
Speaker 1: was a semi delusional I hired a couple of loser.
Speaker 1: I hired a couple of news outlets over the weekend,
Speaker 1: national news outlets who did not mention the party affiliation
Speaker 1: of the lawmakers that were killed. And I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: I wish there was more of that because it shouldn't
Speaker 1: make any difference. Political violence isn't whing and dollarate, right,
Speaker 1: so breaking it down by party is doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 1: You can't do it. We can't even think it's possible.
Speaker 1: You know, if you float around social media, you would
Speaker 1: certainly get the idea that plenty of people think it's okay.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that's sick. I was pleasantly surprised. Lisa Lehrer,
Speaker 1: whose work I don't know, was writing for The New
Speaker 1: York Times, and the headline is like school shootings, political
Speaker 1: violence is becoming almost routine, and to my delight, she leads,
Speaker 1: after the shock and horror of the assassinations in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: just one sentence, horrible news, said Representative Steve Scalise, who
Speaker 1: was shot at a baseball game in twenty seventeen. Paul
Speaker 1: and I are heartbroken, said former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband
Speaker 1: was bludgeoned with a hammer. Gabby Gifford's comments, then Josh
Speaker 1: Shapiro comments, Gretchen Whitmer President Trump. Two assassination attempts against
Speaker 1: Trump that she describes in some detail. Another man gun
Speaker 1: down a pair of workers from the Israeli embassy outside
Speaker 1: an event in Washington. Protesters calling for the release of
Speaker 1: hostages set on fire by lunatic Republican Party headquarters in
Speaker 1: New Mexico, and a Tesla dealership near Albuquerque fire bombed.
Speaker 1: It was a remarkably even handed discussion of Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the whole our side, your side, one of ours, one
Speaker 1: of theirs. That's got to end, got to end. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's going too soon, do you probably not.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's you know, I'm racking my memory
Speaker 1: for memories of the rise of mostly left wing political
Speaker 1: violence in the early seventies and how it just kind
Speaker 1: of petered out as the energy of more extreme politics
Speaker 1: just kind of petered out. Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter
Speaker 1: and Ronald Reagan and those times just didn't really, they
Speaker 1: didn't fertilize. Is angry, time to blow up the system,
Speaker 1: kill somebody politics, and it just kind of petered out. Plus,
Speaker 1: there are aggressive prosecutions from roughly Kennedy's assassination in sixty
Speaker 1: three through a couple of attempts on Ford and seventy five.
Speaker 1: There were quite a few, as we all know, and then,
Speaker 1: like you said, it went away. That's the way these
Speaker 1: things go in it's a contagion and school shootings or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's it's odd and hard to control. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: think there needs to be full throated condemnation of this
Speaker 1: sort of thing from all sides, every single time, which
Speaker 1: includes torching businesses and and and looting and beating down cops,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, because if you think they're they're
Speaker 1: not tied together, you're wrong. We have some updates on
Speaker 1: story in the Middle East. We'll get to a little
Speaker 1: bit later there are there are the developments there, so
Speaker 1: stay tuned for that. I'm glad they caught the guy
Speaker 1: in the shooting that story for I suppose good reason
Speaker 1: led a lot of the Sunday talk shows yesterday when
Speaker 1: we do have the biggest war in the Middle East
Speaker 1: in decades going on, which is clearly the lead story
Speaker 1: for the planet. So getting back to the theme though,
Speaker 1: of the whole Red versus Blue thing and people being
Speaker 1: so crazy fired up, I thought this was so interesting.
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal Red versus Blue is dividing stock
Speaker 1: portfolios like never before. Gallup poll this spring showed the
Speaker 1: Democrats who expected stocks to tumble over the next six
Speaker 1: months exceeded Republicans who thought the market was going to
Speaker 1: decline by sixty points. Wow. Republicans expecting stocks to climb
Speaker 1: over that period top Democrats by forty seven points. That
Speaker 1: is by enormous, enormous ratios, the biggest such gap ever
Speaker 1: observed by Wall Street. So that's not like specific I'm
Speaker 1: gonna invest in Nike because they say black lives matter.
Speaker 1: That's more of a I think the tariffs are going
Speaker 1: to be so damaging I'm getting out as opposed to
Speaker 1: I trust my sides thinking on this. That's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Trump in general and tariffs and all the rest of it. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's going to be so disastrous we need to sell everything.
Speaker 1: Or no, I think it'll go fine. I'm going to
Speaker 1: invest in the market. It could say, the more I
Speaker 1: think about it, I mean, I'm just I'm talking off
Speaker 1: the top of my head. You could say one side's
Speaker 1: more emotional and reacts quickly to big headlines, and the
Speaker 1: other side is more steady as she goes, you know,
Speaker 1: hold and wait. I think that's probably true as a personality. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's absolutely a factor in this. The party
Speaker 1: affiliations of Americans have long shaped how they feel about
Speaker 1: the economy or the price of eggs or milk at
Speaker 1: the grocery stores. People give lower marks when their party
Speaker 1: is out of power, of course, but the forty seven
Speaker 1: point gap in part is an optimism is the largest
Speaker 1: divide ever. For instance, during they just started measuring this.
Speaker 1: In one that year, during George W. Bush's presidency, the
Speaker 1: optimism gap between Republicans and Democrats was thirteen percent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's another thing that was now forty seven. It's another
Speaker 1: thing we've just started measuring. Because you had, Nobody would
Speaker 1: think of it. Prior to that, things weren't so flip
Speaker 1: and political that you would look at I wonder how
Speaker 1: democrats invest in the stock market versus Republican We didn't
Speaker 1: make everything about this back then, right, Well, yeah, every
Speaker 1: time he got to the end of year study, it'd
Speaker 1: be like, well, the difference is really subtle and insignificant. Again, sir,
Speaker 1: are you sure you want me to do this again
Speaker 1: next year? Right? Ah? Bah blah blah blah blah. Where's
Speaker 1: the part I wanted to get to. They make the
Speaker 1: point that is, it's utterly disastrous to invest and sell
Speaker 1: off emotionally like this. No way, she told me that's
Speaker 1: not a good idea. All right, I know, it's just
Speaker 1: but like disastrously bad ideas in terms of your ultimate return.
Speaker 1: Where's that? Well, I just paraphrased it this close enough.
Speaker 1: It's a horrible, horrible idea. Then, finally, on this note,
Speaker 1: Beckett Adams with a really good piece of National Review
Speaker 1: talking about how and we didn't talk much about this,
Speaker 1: it's so Beltway self obsessed. But Trump showing up to
Speaker 1: the Kennedy Center for the big opening night of the
Speaker 1: season and Les miz and a bunch of cast members boycotted,
Speaker 1: and there were cheers and booze as he walked into
Speaker 1: the box with Milania. And according to the Peter Baker,
Speaker 1: chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, for
Speaker 1: those of us born and raised in Washington, the Kennedy
Speaker 1: Center was always a place to escape politics. And Joy,
Speaker 1: I can't let you get through the sentence. Give me
Speaker 1: a freaking break. Do you want how many things I've
Speaker 1: watched on PBS from the Kennedy Center where they give
Speaker 1: some award to somebody as they give these lefty speeches
Speaker 1: in the crowds fans and jeers in my lifetime, Give
Speaker 1: me a freaking break. Continuing on, after my voluble partner
Speaker 1: has done with his screed, Now I'm i gotta go
Speaker 1: sell a bunch of stock. Now it's been turned on
Speaker 1: bad idea. Oh idiot, that's a bad idea. Now it's
Speaker 1: been turned into just one more venue for the polarization
Speaker 1: of the current era, writes Peter Baker, with a tear
Speaker 1: poised on the edge.
Speaker 4: Of Oh it fell his dear fell down his.
Speaker 1: Cheek Live team coverage, and Beckett makes the point many
Speaker 1: of us on the right have been pleading, begging for
Speaker 1: the politically obsessed to spare a few areas of modern life,
Speaker 1: just one or two from the never ending politics.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So I guess in his mind he watched the Oscars
Speaker 1: all those years and thought, it's nice to have a
Speaker 1: non political awards show while we got lectured constantly. Right,
Speaker 1: those of us who learned in early childhood how to
Speaker 1: separate the art from the artists, that prayed for those
Speaker 1: fixated on the life political to just once or maybe
Speaker 1: twice take a break so the rest of us may
Speaker 1: enjoy our entertainment and edification and relative peace. The political
Speaker 1: elite responded with a resounding gleeful no. Over the past
Speaker 1: twenty years, everything from knitting to birding, and he gives
Speaker 1: examples to the Bachelorourette, have been swallowed up by the
Speaker 1: insatiable monster, birthed then nursed to maturity by partisan psychotics.
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga was condemned in twenty seventeen for not incorporating
Speaker 1: an overtly anti Trump message into her Super Bowl performance.
Speaker 1: The actress Sidney sweety us you did a defensive statement
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, rallying to her family support
Speaker 1: after critics attacked them for showing up to her mother's
Speaker 1: birthday party in magas style hats that read make sixty
Speaker 1: great Again. The phrase Taylor Swift silence is deafening, which
Speaker 1: arose from the songwriter's previous for life tends to weigh
Speaker 1: in a hot button isshes is now a trope because
Speaker 1: the act of bullying artists into supporting political causes has
Speaker 1: become so predictable, And now Trump just shows up to
Speaker 1: the Kennedy Center and oh, the right is politicizing entertainment
Speaker 1: and what's next sports? Oh my lord, that pretty gough,
Speaker 1: said Peter Baker. Are you are delusional?
Speaker 2: Sir?
Speaker 1: I'm going to explain to you why electric cars are
Speaker 1: never going to catch on after my weekend, uh, at
Speaker 1: least unless things change a lot with electric cars. Of course,
Speaker 1: most of you knew that and don't buy an electric
Speaker 1: car and hate the idea, so I don't need to
Speaker 1: convince you. But among other things, we got to talk
Speaker 1: about some developments. We've moved another giant aircraft carrier. It
Speaker 1: looks like we're headed toward the Middle East to be ready,
Speaker 1: and we're talking to Mike Glines about that earlier this hour.
Speaker 1: How much of our attention is being taken by this
Speaker 1: whole thing in the Middle East. Trump said a very
Speaker 1: interesting thing to the Atlantic for the crowd in his
Speaker 1: movement that Finks were supposed to be non interventionist, which
Speaker 1: I really really liked. We'll get to that at some
Speaker 1: point too. We do a lot of stuff. I hope
Speaker 1: you can stick around.
Speaker 3: ARMSTRAWI, an Italian museum, is calling for visitors to respect
Speaker 3: art after a jeweled chair reached its breaking point, the
Speaker 3: crystal covered seat collapsing after a man sat on it
Speaker 3: out of Verna gallery. He and a companion then walking out.
Speaker 3: Police still searching for the pair. The chair thankfully has
Speaker 3: been fixed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was an art display in the I thought
Speaker 1: it was just a regular chair. And he sat down
Speaker 1: on his wife like grabs his armor a and it breaks,
Speaker 1: and he's a man of larger carriage. Also, it's an
Speaker 1: embarrassing video.
Speaker 3: You're making this seem like you're making it seem like
Speaker 3: it was an accident, like he didn't know that the
Speaker 3: chair was a piece of art.
Speaker 1: You think, Oh, no, I think he was posing. I
Speaker 1: watched the video. I thought he was posing for some
Speaker 1: sort of funny Instagram pick, but lost his balance and
Speaker 1: crushed it. Oh okay, yeah, okay, well that's not cool
Speaker 1: neither people in their selfies. People in their selfies, Joe,
Speaker 1: of course you're gonna build a bejeweled chair. Ought to
Speaker 1: be able to support your average fat tourist. So electric
Speaker 1: cars are never going to catch on unless they haven't.
Speaker 1: And it's going the other direction. And now that Trump
Speaker 1: has done away with the various mandates and tax breaks,
Speaker 1: I mean it's really without the tax breaks. How many
Speaker 1: people would have not purchased an electric vehicle if you
Speaker 1: hadn't gotten the big tax break. I mean, it would
Speaker 1: be it's a tiny dentis that it would even being
Speaker 1: a tinier dent. But I, stupidly, and I can't believe
Speaker 1: I did this. Chose to drive my cyber truck to
Speaker 1: drop off my son at boy Scout Camp in Long
Speaker 1: Beach over the weekend, and by doing that turns a
Speaker 1: six hour drive in a gas powered car. If I
Speaker 1: had driven my Ford F two to fifty diesel with
Speaker 1: a thirty gallon tank, I could have driven all the
Speaker 1: way to Los Angeles, dropped him off, and driven one
Speaker 1: hundred miles back before I ever needed to stop for fuel.
Speaker 1: In the Tesla cyber truck. You got to stop every
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty miles to charge, which takes you
Speaker 1: half hour to forty five minutes to an hour, depending
Speaker 1: on the charger and how many people are there, because
Speaker 1: if there's a whole bunch of people there, it charges
Speaker 1: really really slow. And I turned a six hour drive
Speaker 1: into an eight hour drive each way, so instead of
Speaker 1: twelve hours of driving, I did sixteen hours of driving.
Speaker 1: Because I care about the planet so much and drove
Speaker 1: an electric vehicle. It is never going to work. And
Speaker 1: if you're thinking about buy an electric vehicle, everyone should
Speaker 1: know this. Those are such exaggerations, you know, how about
Speaker 1: what you buy a vehicle and it says on the
Speaker 1: window it gets thirty five miles per gallon, but you
Speaker 1: never quite get that because they exagger With electric vehicles,
Speaker 1: it's like double you have to cut everything in half.
Speaker 1: So if it says you got three hundred miles of range,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go one hundred and fifty miles before you
Speaker 1: need to charge back up again. So it's completely misleading
Speaker 1: to people and it just doesn't work. It's so amazingly
Speaker 1: impractical that I can't believe Places like the state of
Speaker 1: California have been pushing the idea that we're all going
Speaker 1: to drive electric fields. Oh yeah, have you done it?
Speaker 1: You know, I've sent myself for an article. I can't
Speaker 1: find it. But the CEO of Toyota, I think it was,
Speaker 1: just said, Hey, look throughout its lifetime, an electric vehicle
Speaker 1: produces triple the pollution of a hybrid for instance. That's interesting.
Speaker 1: Stop it with this and I'm sure I can dig
Speaker 1: it up again. Pollution being mean what the energy it
Speaker 1: takes to make the electricity or top to bottom soup
Speaker 1: to nuts as they say. I don't like that term.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. Yeah, not favor. Get your head
Speaker 1: out of the gutter. That's just an old timey meal reference.
Speaker 1: Hat to nuts. It's the whole thing, soup to nuts.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, what was I gonna say? Oh no,
Speaker 1: just from the beginning of the production process to the
Speaker 1: end of the vehicle's useful life, it will produce triple
Speaker 1: the pollution is a hybrid, for instance, such a pain
Speaker 1: in the ass. Every hour and a half you have
Speaker 1: to find a station, pull in, sit there for an
Speaker 1: hour before you get back on the road. People don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. It sucks. Armstrong and Getty