Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Getty and Key Armstrong and Jetty the brom Studio
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Speaker 1: Under the title of the show two to two World
Speaker 1: Cup related headlines. To choose from number one Spain crappy
Speaker 1: Ali excellent soccer team or if you prefer. World Cup
Speaker 1: Final was anti entertainment. It sucked entertainment out of the universe.
Speaker 2: Why it's interesting. I'm working on the other side of
Speaker 2: the street now. I thought it was awesome in terms
Speaker 2: of excitement the game. Yeah, I've gotten into now and
Speaker 2: I thought it was amazingly exciting.
Speaker 1: I hate World Cup Finals. They're too cautious. Everybody's so
Speaker 1: afraid of making a mistake, is just and I love
Speaker 1: the sport.
Speaker 2: I got into it for the first time in my life,
Speaker 2: but you know what I made the mistake of.
Speaker 1: For the first time. And I don't know how many years.
Speaker 2: I was rude, like I had an emotional interest in
Speaker 2: one team winning, and I haven't done that in years.
Speaker 2: I used to be a big sports fan, and I
Speaker 2: get wrapped up in various teams, and you know how
Speaker 2: it is. If you're really into a team and they lose,
Speaker 2: it's painful. It's like something bad has happened in your life,
Speaker 2: and it's like, it's what's painful, It's like a loss. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's feel hard in the expression since they lost. But
Speaker 2: I hadn't done that in forever, and I got sucked
Speaker 2: into the Argentina thing because I'm I don't know anything
Speaker 2: about soccer, and Messi's the most famous player. I started
Speaker 2: watching Argentina.
Speaker 1: At the beginning and every every game they'd fall behind
Speaker 1: and they'd come back and win it at the very end,
Speaker 1: and it was just amazingly excited and I got emotionally invested.
Speaker 1: And so because of that, them losing yesterday, I'm not
Speaker 1: enjoying hearing a freaking word about this tournament.
Speaker 2: Everything I hear about it is making me miserable. I
Speaker 2: want to move on with my life.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, he runs hot and cold, folks. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. When Argentina did mount a couple of threats
Speaker 1: very late, I thought, here it goes again, here we go. Well,
Speaker 1: what Messi's fault?
Speaker 2: He put a pass right there in the middle of
Speaker 2: the guy had kicked it up in the stands idiots. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I got to decide, is it better to root for it,
Speaker 2: get into sports and root for a team or not. Man,
Speaker 2: when they're winning, it's sure fun and the ride is
Speaker 2: sure fun when your team wins. But man, when they lose,
Speaker 2: it's just like, what am I doing with my life
Speaker 2: if I spend me emotional, emotion.
Speaker 1: And time on this. I think that's the classic case though,
Speaker 1: that it's the small amount of negative that goes with
Speaker 1: all the positive. I never did get to actually digging
Speaker 1: into this great piece by Arthur Brooks about how sports
Speaker 1: fans are happier, And it's not that happier people become
Speaker 1: sports fans, it's that the whole sense of community it
Speaker 1: makes people happier.
Speaker 2: Well, if nothing else, you're paying attention to something that
Speaker 2: doesn't really matter, And maybe that's a good distraction from.
Speaker 1: The real world. Yeah, sure, yeah, maybe it's that. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I'm not enjoying hearing a word about
Speaker 1: that soccer, so I'll have to force myself to talk
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: I am kind of interested. I'll be interested to see
Speaker 2: what the ratings were. They've been telling me every thing
Speaker 2: that ever happens in soccer my whole life, that this
Speaker 2: is the turning point, this is where Americans fall in
Speaker 2: love with soccer, and it's never really happened. But they're
Speaker 2: saying that again this time around, and we'll see. I'd
Speaker 2: be interested in what the ratings were. When there are
Speaker 2: two teams playing that weren't the United States. Thirty three
Speaker 2: million people watch the United States lose to Belgium, and
Speaker 2: that was the biggest crowd that had ever watched a
Speaker 2: soccer match ever.
Speaker 1: In US history. So I'm interested to see what yesterday was.
Speaker 1: It's got to be a boost. I mean, your your
Speaker 1: major league soccer. It's got to see at least a
Speaker 1: little goosing of the numbers. I would expect that we'll see.
Speaker 1: You know, it strikes me, since I spent so much
Speaker 1: time thinking and talking about geopolitics, when a country like
Speaker 1: Belgium beats of the United States, that's just wrong. A
Speaker 1: bunch of cheese eaten water up to their ankles, low
Speaker 1: country goofs. They got nothing, they got no economy, they
Speaker 1: got a couple of pretty cities, but all of them
Speaker 1: have gone downhill. I don't remember if I don't think
Speaker 1: you were here.
Speaker 2: When I came back after fourth of July, I read
Speaker 2: one piece that I thought was really really good about
Speaker 2: your Welcome World about how the fact that we don't
Speaker 2: care about soccer allows the World Cup to be interesting.
Speaker 2: If we cared about soccer, we'd win every time, and
Speaker 2: it wouldn't be interesting and.
Speaker 1: It'd be a much less big needle. Oh, I'd like
Speaker 1: to read that reasoning. I'm not sure i'd buy it.
Speaker 1: We'd win a lot.
Speaker 2: We'd win a lot if Steph Curry were a soccer
Speaker 2: player not a basketball player, or you can come up
Speaker 2: with many examples. So we certainly wouldn't be losing to
Speaker 2: Belgium if we cared about soccer the way we care
Speaker 2: about the NFL and the NBA, for.
Speaker 1: Instance, Bunch out Waffle Guzzlin, Jack asked us, I mean
Speaker 1: I can Humilioning.
Speaker 2: Got a new prime minister today who Andy Burnham, who's
Speaker 2: going to be the Prime Minister of Great Britain. And
Speaker 2: he is a Bernie Sanders if you're wondering what his
Speaker 2: politics are, So see how that works out.
Speaker 1: For Old England. Well, I think it'd you work out
Speaker 1: well because all of their problems are from that sort
Speaker 1: of policy. Oh wait a minute, No, that'll be the
Speaker 1: opposite of working out well. It'll be a freaking disaster.
Speaker 2: I just heard him given a speech where he blasted
Speaker 2: the market Thatcher years as a low point in British history.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when people were on their own economically and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. Good luck with that.
Speaker 2: Good luck with that, is right, and then uh to
Speaker 2: bring this up, but it should be the lead news story.
Speaker 2: More soldiers lost in the war with Iran over the weekend.
Speaker 2: I keep hearing the word we're back to all out war.
Speaker 2: I don't think you know what all out war is.
Speaker 2: This is not all out war. Now, somebody here and
Speaker 2: there is not all out war.
Speaker 1: We could we could destroy their entire capital and everyone
Speaker 1: in it in an hour if we decided to, and
Speaker 1: not even talking about nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2: That would be all out war. We're not doing that.
Speaker 2: We're not even within one hundred miles of that. So
Speaker 2: quick calling in all out war. But the war is
Speaker 2: definitely back on the MoU is now something for historians to,
Speaker 2: you know, argue over I'm sure if they'll look at
Speaker 2: it and say, what what happened when?
Speaker 1: And Jamie Vance said, what did anybody take this seriously
Speaker 1: at the time, they'll ask but we bombed them nine
Speaker 1: nights in a row, and nobody's exactly sure what the
Speaker 1: plan is yet. But we can talk more about that
Speaker 1: a little later.
Speaker 2: Most interesting thing I've come across today so far, this
Speaker 2: article in the New York Times about the age of
Speaker 2: a AI autonomous weapons is just about upon us.
Speaker 1: Oh goodie, they.
Speaker 2: We tested a drone looks like a fighter plane. Really,
Speaker 2: as has been saying for a long time, we need
Speaker 2: to come up with a better word than drones. You
Speaker 2: can't have the same word for the twelve dollars toy
Speaker 2: that you get your kid gets at Walmart as for
Speaker 2: something that is a fighter jet that doesn't have a
Speaker 2: pilot in it, or a boat that doesn't have a
Speaker 2: driver in it, or a train.
Speaker 1: We can't call them all drones. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: It's about as useful a term as airplane. It's even
Speaker 1: less us fighter jet or a single engine cessana.
Speaker 2: Since it can be a plane, a boat, or a
Speaker 2: train or a tank, it's not even as useful as that.
Speaker 1: Roab that neither fertilizes the cling nor right exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a big into be keeping.
Speaker 2: So fighter jet first time ever week before last, according
Speaker 2: to the New York Times, and we have the leading
Speaker 2: technology on this in the world, thank god, so far,
Speaker 2: made all the moves, did all the maneuvering around this
Speaker 2: and that, and then fired a rocket completely AI operated,
Speaker 2: no human being making any decisions, first time ever, did
Speaker 2: that two weeks ago. And so the age of drones
Speaker 2: making their own decisions and firing off stuff is upon us.
Speaker 2: All kinds of people are saying, well, well, well, we're
Speaker 2: not going to do that. A human being will make
Speaker 2: the decision. Yeah, that's going to last a cup of
Speaker 2: coffee till a second.
Speaker 1: You need the advantage it gives, right or or or.
Speaker 1: Various people are going to lie about it.
Speaker 2: But that is upon us, and for better or worse,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's here, and the New York Times article
Speaker 2: about it is freaking frightening as it talks about we
Speaker 2: are entering into a new era nobody's ever seen before,
Speaker 2: of autonomous weapon fighting each other, making decisions on their
Speaker 2: own and strict watch.
Speaker 1: I guess the future of exactly. The future of warfare
Speaker 1: is a giant, bloody game of battle bots on FX
Speaker 1: or whatever the station used to carry that. Do they
Speaker 1: still carry it? Where people would craft killer robots that
Speaker 1: would try to whack each other, burn each other, flip
Speaker 1: each other over. It must still with human beings dying.
Speaker 1: BattleBots must still be a thing.
Speaker 2: When I was in Vegas, there's a great big building
Speaker 2: called the BattleBots Arena where people go watch that sort
Speaker 2: of thing. It's gonna be kind of like the soccer
Speaker 2: match yesterday, I guess where we all watch and say, Wow,
Speaker 2: I thought we would have won that against China, but
Speaker 2: we lost.
Speaker 1: Huh. I'll be darned at the end since although with
Speaker 1: cities being obliterated. Yeah, I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it's going to look like, but
Speaker 2: I'll read some more from that New York Times story later.
Speaker 1: It's it's damned interesting.
Speaker 2: And I don't know how many times I've read the
Speaker 2: phrase in the last few years. This new age is
Speaker 2: upon us for the first time ever, this first time ever,
Speaker 2: that from now on, this, from now on, that too many,
Speaker 2: too much change, too fast?
Speaker 1: Can I opt out? Is there an opt out? Apparently?
Speaker 1: There's not Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna plug my ears for this opening clip because
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear it. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Speaker 2: Joe Getty on this It is Monday, July twentieth year,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: We are armstrong in getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go officially according to s SEE
Speaker 1: rules and regulations, the show starts at Mark sulks it in,
Speaker 1: Williams knocks it down. Will not be the Dolls. The
Speaker 1: Winds Spain their second World Cup titles.
Speaker 2: Spain, for the second time in their history, have won.
Speaker 1: The World Cup. You know I'm a straight man, Jack,
Speaker 1: you know van about me. But I tell you what,
Speaker 1: between the Urgentines and the Spanish, there are some handsome
Speaker 1: devils running around that pitch yesterday. Tell you what, young youngs,
Speaker 1: good looking young lads, more more tattoos than I would prefer,
Speaker 1: more neck tats.
Speaker 2: Specific Chloe learned something about Joe Michael. He likes some
Speaker 2: young and not tattooed.
Speaker 1: And and Hispanic catsh Yeah, both teams spoke Spanish and
Speaker 1: you never hear anybody complaining about Spain deal and colonizer
Speaker 1: even though you got two teams completely different parts of
Speaker 1: the world that both speak Spanish, colonial oppressor. Well, and
Speaker 1: you've got like light skinned Spanish speaking quote unquote Hispanic
Speaker 1: people in the United States saying we didn't cross the border.
Speaker 1: The border crossed us. Wait a minute, Your forefathers slaughtered
Speaker 1: people by the hundreds of thousands and took over that
Speaker 1: entire land mass. What are you talking about, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: Spain had the young men, Argentina had old men. That
Speaker 1: was one of the problems.
Speaker 2: The thirty eight year olds playing against nineteen year olds
Speaker 2: gets the oftentimes inevitable result, hence the lopside of score
Speaker 2: of one zero.
Speaker 1: Here's the argument for it. So I found it exciting
Speaker 1: of actually understand soccer enough to have found it exciting,
Speaker 1: But I can understand old me complaining about you had
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five minutes of the sport and
Speaker 1: one goal was scored at the end. Okay, I'll pass.
Speaker 1: Argentina didn't have a frigging shot. No, not like one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteenth minute time, one shot until the game
Speaker 1: was over. Oh stupid. Though, Yeah, I still can't figure
Speaker 1: out when the game actually ends because they always say okay,
Speaker 1: they're adding four minutes, they're adding five. I don't know
Speaker 1: what they're doing. I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: The thing I really don't understand is the penalties. I
Speaker 2: don't understand that at all. Next time foul comes around
Speaker 2: four years from now, I'm gonna have to chat GPT
Speaker 2: the actual rules and the penalties because I'm just completely
Speaker 2: people beating the crap out of each other.
Speaker 1: But something else happens and they throw a flag or whatever,
Speaker 1: like what what was that over there? I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's amazingly physical. People just flat out tackling each other
Speaker 1: and rolling out of bounds like it was that a
Speaker 1: foul of any kind of Okay, fine, I ambsolutely brutal
Speaker 1: the rules. That was the most violent soccer game I've
Speaker 1: every Okay, we'll get to some more headlines coming up.
Speaker 1: There's quite a bit of news to get to.
Speaker 2: Didn't get a chance to see The Odyssey, couldn't get
Speaker 2: good tickets to the IMAX going this week. Read a
Speaker 2: lot about it though, and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here, hetty. Coming up, highly disturbing story from the
Speaker 2: Washington Post about our situation in Iran? How are how
Speaker 2: our military is doing? Anonymous source so they just have
Speaker 2: to be a little skeptical. But uh well, we'll we'll
Speaker 2: talk about it at the bottom. Also later, I want
Speaker 2: to get to Elon Musk with a little da tribe
Speaker 2: about where where i AI is going to take us
Speaker 2: within three years?
Speaker 1: God, if he's right, Oh my god, how do you
Speaker 1: it's hard to get out of bed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to be the most depressing show show.
Speaker 1: And I'm too late. Those two back to back were
Speaker 1: too much. I can't take it. Oh my god, we'll
Speaker 1: speak for the audience. Stop it. And I was with
Speaker 1: your nothing's going my way. I watched the British open
Speaker 1: for hours yesterday and my guy lost that too. It
Speaker 1: was just a downer, downer weekend. A couple more headlines.
Speaker 1: You got your Spain winning, You got your Tate brothers
Speaker 1: arrested in Miami on various charges of rape, pine and
Speaker 1: sex trafficking. Isn't this like the third country they've been
Speaker 1: arrested on those charges? They look like rapists. Doesn't help
Speaker 1: him any Uh? No, No Iran did turn LOOSEI gal On,
Speaker 1: an American gal dual citizen I think, had been held
Speaker 1: for nearly a year and a half. Trump called to
Speaker 1: release a gesture of goodwill. Oh my god, and fighting
Speaker 1: was paused for a second and a half and then
Speaker 1: I've said, I have no idea what's happening. Then they
Speaker 1: launched drawn attacks on military bases and killed our soldiers,
Speaker 1: is what they did. Yes, indeed, uh, several dads have
Speaker 1: quite a few more wounded. And it just came out.
Speaker 1: I don't have it right in front of me, but
Speaker 1: that in the last round of attack they were far
Speaker 1: more wounded than we knew.
Speaker 2: Right, hundreds have been seriously wounded. Was the report they
Speaker 2: had on ABC this week yesterday. Right, that has been
Speaker 2: kept from us. Awful. I want to talk about this
Speaker 2: at some point. The Mumdani administration is weighing whether to
Speaker 2: arrest Benjamin net Yahoo if he visits New York for
Speaker 2: the UN General Assembly in September.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. I believe the Prime Minister Netna, who belongs to
Speaker 1: the hagues is mndami. So a mayor of a city
Speaker 1: is going to, under the auspices of the International Criminal
Speaker 1: Court arrest the leader of a country at the UN
Speaker 1: for whatever hair brained leftist charges. The ICC came lacrosse,
Speaker 1: It came up with all the rogues, including that the
Speaker 1: freaking mullas who've come to Iran, all the monsters from
Speaker 1: communist regimes, totalitarian, just the bloodthirsty dictators. You're gonna arrest Netanyahu,
Speaker 1: are you, mister mayor? Good lord?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Neil Ferguson the historian with a downer of
Speaker 2: a piece. We can't have all downers today. Nobody wants
Speaker 2: to start to wreak that way. With a downer of
Speaker 2: a piece on how he's failed utterly as a historian,
Speaker 2: apparently by not convincing people about the evils anti Semitism,
Speaker 2: he said, he announced every weekend. He has failed, he said, essentially, Yeah,
Speaker 2: historians have lost to algorithms.
Speaker 1: Ooo. That's troubling. Oh my guds. We gotta come up
Speaker 1: with something that's good news. We'll do it, we promised
Speaker 1: catrong Andy.
Speaker 3: Militarily, it's relatively far off, but the economic warfare that
Speaker 3: is unfolding is quite significant. The US naval blockade of
Speaker 3: Iranian ports is back in place, and the Iranian economy
Speaker 3: is once again suffering, losing hundreds of millions of dollars
Speaker 3: each day.
Speaker 1: We know the inflation is.
Speaker 3: Rapidly rising inside of Iran. The Iranian reality is almost
Speaker 3: two million to one US dollar, one of the highest
Speaker 3: levels that it's ever been as a result of the
Speaker 3: economic conditions that the Iranians are currently facing.
Speaker 2: I've never, since I was a kid, understood hyperinflation.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how.
Speaker 2: I understand what it is and that it happens, but
Speaker 2: I don't understand how it lasts as long as it does.
Speaker 2: And I mean, how could that be two million to
Speaker 2: one US dollar?
Speaker 1: How are people buying stuff? We're back in you know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, why Mare, Germany or or some South America interscy,
Speaker 2: some South American country or whatever where they talk about,
Speaker 2: you know, you need a wheelbarrow full of whatever their
Speaker 2: money is to buy a local bread. Well, how does
Speaker 2: that last more than like an afternoon before it completely
Speaker 2: all falls up?
Speaker 1: Well? Right, does everybody get a seventy five percent raise
Speaker 1: every Monday to be able to continue buying the bread? Right,
Speaker 1: and it was able to go to work, I would
Speaker 1: sell wheelbarrows. Literally.
Speaker 2: Why would you go to work if you make, you know,
Speaker 2: just to make up numbers. If you make fifty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars a year, and and your grocery bill is going
Speaker 2: to be fifty thousand dollars today, why would you go
Speaker 2: to work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know they Does it become the barter system
Speaker 1: really quickly? Or that's a great question. Something different must
Speaker 1: happen than the exchange of the money for products, because
Speaker 1: that doesn't make any sense. Yeah. I've had various teachers
Speaker 1: trying to pound economics into my head since I was
Speaker 1: a teenager, and I've never heard, well, I guess I've
Speaker 1: heard a couple like in World War two, but I've
Speaker 1: never heard a really thorough account of what hyperinflation looks
Speaker 1: like over the you know, medium term. That's a great question.
Speaker 2: Weeks or months. Yeah, you'd have to get a raise.
Speaker 2: We had made a raise in the afternoon from the morning.
Speaker 1: Well, you're right about the barter part, though, because a
Speaker 1: good has a value that's separate from money. Money is
Speaker 1: just a signaling mechanism, is you know, economists would tell you,
Speaker 1: but if I have a loaf of bread and you have, say,
Speaker 1: four eggs, there you go. You got a transaction. Let's
Speaker 1: keep our increasingly ridiculous currency out of the transaction.
Speaker 2: That will bring us to Elon Musk's screed about what
Speaker 2: AI is going to do for money and things. Maybe
Speaker 2: we'll get to that an now or two which frightened
Speaker 2: the hell out of me last night. Okay, I got
Speaker 2: to reset my brain. That was tree yankst with some
Speaker 2: good news about the war with Iran. It's bad news
Speaker 2: for Iran, which is good news for us. Have to
Speaker 2: keep in mind that every channel butt Fox, pretty much
Speaker 2: in every news outlet and channel butt Fox, wants to
Speaker 2: give you the worst version of the war with.
Speaker 1: Iran because they hate Trump and want Trump to look bad.
Speaker 2: That is where keeping in mind, because you're not hearing
Speaker 2: that sort of thing on CBS or anywhere else. Really,
Speaker 2: what Trayanks just told you about how much economic damage
Speaker 2: has been done to Iran and how much trouble they're in,
Speaker 2: including this on.
Speaker 3: The ground inside of Iran, domestic pressure is growing on
Speaker 3: the regime. There are power cuts and reports that people
Speaker 3: are being told to turn off air conditioning units.
Speaker 1: Remember, even when there isn't.
Speaker 3: A state of war inside of Iran, the Iranians have
Speaker 3: trouble getting water to their own people.
Speaker 1: And so each and every day.
Speaker 3: That this US naval blockade remains in effect, it puts
Speaker 3: new pressure on the Iranian regime.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't want to be misled as to how
Speaker 2: the war is going, and I think we're in a
Speaker 2: bad situation currently, but Iran's in trouble. They were in
Speaker 2: trouble before the war started. Definitely in trouble now. That
Speaker 2: wanted the little good news there leading up to this
Speaker 2: report in the Washington Post, which Mark Alprin writes is
Speaker 2: explosive if true. The fact that he put if true
Speaker 2: in there about a Washington Post article means he's not
Speaker 2: sure he believes it either. You remember when journy would
Speaker 2: handle the second part before they even got to the
Speaker 2: first part. Yeah, this is from an official speaking on
Speaker 2: the condition of anonymity because they're not authorized to talk
Speaker 2: to the media. That could be this stuff could be
Speaker 2: made up. Probably not, but it certainly could be from
Speaker 2: somebody in the government who doesn't like what we're doing,
Speaker 2: trying to spread the most negative information they can possibly
Speaker 2: have exaggerated or made up in the Washington Post, happily
Speaker 2: reporting it because it makes Trump look bad.
Speaker 1: Or it could be true. You never know. I'll just
Speaker 1: read it for you. The US is planning for a
Speaker 1: wider war, said one US official familiar with the internal
Speaker 1: administration discussions, adding that the Pentagon was increasing the number
Speaker 1: of military aircraft in the region that was reported by
Speaker 1: a bunch of places day. We're sending all kinds of
Speaker 1: more planes there. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity,
Speaker 1: cautioned that the expansion of US operations will be limited
Speaker 1: by dwindling stockpiles of air defense and long long range munitions,
Speaker 1: and constraints on the ability to surge more troops and
Speaker 1: aircraft into the area because of battle damage. We do
Speaker 1: not have enough to safely sustain operations, and I don't
Speaker 1: think the White House is aware of that, the officials said. Wow.
Speaker 2: Military experts have said that in addition to the toll
Speaker 2: taken on US equipment and munition stocks, the US is
Speaker 2: unprepared for possible ground operations inside Iran that Trump last
Speaker 2: week refused to rule out. The recent US troop deads
Speaker 2: have revived questions about the safety of American forces at
Speaker 2: bases in.
Speaker 1: The Middle East. A soldier who had previously deployed to
Speaker 1: Jordan's air base where the two US service members were
Speaker 1: killed over the weekend said many of the buildings there
Speaker 1: are containerized or metal buildings and tents and are not
Speaker 1: able to withstand rocket, mortar or drone attacks.
Speaker 2: Man if we have soldiers sitting in tents while Iran
Speaker 2: is raining down rockets on them. That's not good. But
Speaker 2: even the military's newer construction in some bases in the region,
Speaker 2: where they are hardened with layers of thick walls, cannot
Speaker 2: protect against a direct hit from ballistic missiles, said the soldier,
Speaker 2: who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear
Speaker 2: of retaliation. In early March, during an intense exchange of
Speaker 2: missile strikes between US and Iran, a direct hit on
Speaker 2: a hardened barrick in Kate broke through the layers of protection,
Speaker 2: destroying about half the structure. The soldier said, similar heavy
Speaker 2: destruction has occurd at US military facilities across the region.
Speaker 1: We're getting beat up across the board, the soldier said, Boy,
Speaker 1: there's a lot there. One truism that leaps to my
Speaker 1: mind is that a military, and I'm leaving out the
Speaker 1: special forces, but a military that has not been used
Speaker 1: on a significant scale for a significant amount of time
Speaker 1: is a military that is unprepared. Just because the nature
Speaker 1: of bureaucracies and you know, budget priorities and that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. It doesn't shock me at all to hear,
Speaker 1: you know, we're actually way short of boats and planes
Speaker 1: and secure facilities and munitions and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how short What does dwindling mean? Are
Speaker 1: we down to fifty percent or ten percent? There's a
Speaker 1: lot of vagueness there, but yeah, I'm not shocked by that.
Speaker 1: I'm disturbed by it, but I'm not shocked by it.
Speaker 1: We are a comfortable country that's enjoyed a prolonged period
Speaker 1: of mostly peace.
Speaker 2: How exposed our soldiers are at those various bases don't
Speaker 2: know either. After we launched our ninth round of pretty
Speaker 2: serious attacks overnight ninth ninth day, ninth night in a row,
Speaker 2: they shot more missiles at some of our bases. We've
Speaker 2: been shooting most of the stuff down, but not all
Speaker 2: of it. As you saw, we have two soldiers killed
Speaker 2: in that sort of thing over the weekend. Then another
Speaker 2: one died in Iraq trying to dismantle a drone or
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, trying to controlled explosion of it or something
Speaker 1: like that. It's dangerous work. No, definitely.
Speaker 2: The other report that came out over the weekend that
Speaker 2: was highly troubling if true, is that China and Russia
Speaker 2: are giving Iran the location information that they don't have
Speaker 2: and that's part of how they pulled off an attack
Speaker 2: on one of our military bases that killed some soldiers.
Speaker 2: If China and Russia are helping Iran kill you as soldiers,
Speaker 2: that's a big deal. And the President so far is
Speaker 2: not commented on that story. I think that came out Saturday.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, the very first thing you said. I wanted
Speaker 1: to come out on that real briefly too, is that
Speaker 1: we're preparing for a wider conflict. Well, given the fact
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Speaker 1: those sorts of quotes are always difficult, because the military
Speaker 1: prepares for all kinds of contingencies, even if they think
Speaker 1: it's fairly low likelihood.
Speaker 2: I think the likelihood of a wider conflict, I'm not
Speaker 2: even sure what they mean by wider conflict, but I
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Speaker 1: Before we take a break to make room for Mailbag,
Speaker 1: executive producer Hanson had an interesting point about the halftime.
Speaker 2: Show of the soccer match yesterday. Gotta admit I just
Speaker 2: I had. I had the entire thing on all day long,
Speaker 2: but I never sat down for a moment.
Speaker 1: I was doing other stuff. All those is on, But
Speaker 1: the halftime show was a big super Bowl looking halftime spectacular,
Speaker 1: and Hanson pointed out that it looked like what halftime
Speaker 1: shows used to be. It wasn't like politically edgy in
Speaker 1: any way or anything like that. It was like kids
Speaker 1: dancing around on the turf and Madonna and stuff like
Speaker 1: people and Madonna. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was that and ted Lasso came out and did
Speaker 2: a thing or whatever, and it just didn't have that that.
Speaker 2: Jay Z's been running the halftime shows for US football
Speaker 2: for years and they are all like in your face
Speaker 2: in one way or another, and I think designed to
Speaker 2: create controversy, and the one yesterday looked like the pre
Speaker 2: controversy era of halftime.
Speaker 1: Shows, just fun and innocence and Madonna. What I thought
Speaker 1: was interesting before the whole thing started was talking about the.
Speaker 2: Billion people around the world that are watching. They always
Speaker 2: say that for the Super Bowl for our sport, and
Speaker 2: I always think, are they Who's watching this in some
Speaker 2: town on the other side of the world where they don't.
Speaker 1: Even play this sport, nobody plays.
Speaker 2: I just find it hard to believe that they give
Speaker 2: a crap whether you know New England's team wins or
Speaker 2: Philadelphia's team wins or whatever. Whereas with the soccer, the
Speaker 2: most popular sport in the world, I believe there were
Speaker 2: probably were a billion people around the world watching.
Speaker 1: Yeah here here, it was great. I noticed before the
Speaker 1: things started, Tom Cruise called it football. We might have
Speaker 1: to change the name of our sport. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: he's a scientist, a scientologist, and a globalist. Bastard. You're right,
Speaker 1: he's a scientologist and he calls it football. We can't
Speaker 1: come to sports called football. That doesn't work. Well, No, no,
Speaker 1: we gotta. Are we going to start calling our football
Speaker 1: American football? I don't know, and be a little weird,
Speaker 1: but collar's American cheese from the think of it, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm gonna have to think about this coming
Speaker 1: up in mailbags and exciting Skylar coal Fax information Skyler
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Speaker 1: of the US in eighteen seventy. Okay, I did not
Speaker 1: know that stay tuned for that. You don't want to
Speaker 1: miss it. And Elon scared the crap out of me
Speaker 1: over the weekend with what where are we going to
Speaker 1: be in three years with Ai? They can wear it fast.
Speaker 1: I've made so many bad decisions UH preparing for this.
Speaker 1: A lot on the way stay here.
Speaker 2: A lot of fights broke out after the UH soccer
Speaker 2: match was over one hundred and twenty five minutes with
Speaker 2: one goal Spain wins one nothing, and then a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of people were fighting rolling around on the field,
Speaker 2: which is not a good look. No, it's not super sportsmanlike,
Speaker 2: but they're beating the crap out of each other for
Speaker 2: a couple life. And somebody gives you, you guys suck
Speaker 2: you know whatever, you're like f you. I'm tired and
Speaker 2: mad and I ain't putting up with that.
Speaker 1: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. I promised
Speaker 1: last week to do this, and now I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Some great quotes from Stephen Pinker's Brilliant Enlightenment, now one
Speaker 1: of the great defenses of Western civilization ever written. He
Speaker 1: points out in the memories of many readers of this
Speaker 1: book and the experience of those and less fortunate parts
Speaker 1: of the World War. Scarcity, disease, ignorance, and lethal menace
Speaker 1: are a natural part of existence. We know that countries
Speaker 1: can slide back into these primitive conditions, and so we
Speaker 1: ignore the achievements of the Enlightenment at our peril.
Speaker 2: I got something good on that for later. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: put the Terrek back in esoteric, but it's it's on
Speaker 2: that very topic.
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Speaker 1: Some trivia I thought you'd find interesting. Vice President Jade
Speaker 1: Vance and his wife Rushia welcomed their son, Alec on
Speaker 1: July nineteenth. This marked the first time a sitting vice
Speaker 1: president has had a child while in office in over
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty years, with the last being Skylar
Speaker 1: Colfax in eighteen seventy.
Speaker 2: Boy, there's some trivial trivia.
Speaker 1: It's a happy occasion. I didn't realize JD's only forty one.
Speaker 1: He's really young, but he's got the dishonesty of a
Speaker 1: man twice his age. I used to be a big,
Speaker 1: big fan. Now I just I check my I checked
Speaker 1: to see I still have my watch every time you
Speaker 1: shake my land still very popular with the bass. You've
Speaker 1: probably angered many people, all right, Anna Louisa and hot
Speaker 1: La Mesa rights guys. After watching the FIFA final match,
Speaker 1: I felt very sad, not just because I was rooting
Speaker 1: for Argentina, but because the whole World Cup tournament was
Speaker 1: over realized. How much I'm gonna miss all of it,
Speaker 1: the games, the fans, the singing, the joy, and the enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: It was infectious. I especially loved hearing the fans singing
Speaker 1: and chanting in pregame rallies and during the games. She
Speaker 1: lists a bunch of stuff in the Viking rowing chant
Speaker 1: American sports. Could she use more singing, maybe there'd be
Speaker 1: fewer fighters joy. I'm not sure. We don't have as
Speaker 1: much joy, I think as the as your World Cup
Speaker 1: soccer teams do. I don't know why. I don't know either.
Speaker 1: I got into it too.
Speaker 2: I was looking forward to I would on a day
Speaker 2: by day basis know when the next match was that
Speaker 2: I wanted to watch. I'm kind of it's gonna leave
Speaker 2: a hole in my life now that it's over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I really really enjoyed the fact that
Speaker 1: folks came from all over the world and discovered the
Speaker 1: United States is nothing like they'd been led to believe.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get shot. We're friendly, welcoming people. We
Speaker 1: think it's fun that you're here. We hope you have
Speaker 1: a great time, and we have enormous stores.
Speaker 2: I had the very experience running into the Swedes drunk
Speaker 2: Swedes at the bar in Vegas.
Speaker 1: That was fantastic. Oh oh wow, that would have been great,
Speaker 1: Tom writes, Dear President Trump, the word you're looking for
Speaker 1: but can't seem to find when it comes to the
Speaker 1: current Iran regime is vanquish. To defeat thoroughly, not deal,
Speaker 1: not ceasefire, vanquish. That's exactly what we did the Nazi Germany,
Speaker 1: Fascist Italy, imperial Japan, and always the way to defeat tyranny.
Speaker 1: Once you get this right, I'll be back in touch
Speaker 1: to educate you on the right words to use for
Speaker 1: Greenland T Y F Y A t TM. Thank you
Speaker 1: for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 2: And we aren't gonna bomb Tehran into rubble though that's
Speaker 2: what we did to Germany to win.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna do that with Iran. It's just not
Speaker 1: on the table as an option. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk a lot of iran. I'm gonna shelve that one
Speaker 1: for now and go to this from JT and Livermore.
Speaker 1: Kaiser Permanente literally says, it is it's important that my
Speaker 1: race be identified correctly. Federal law requires that Kaiser Permanente
Speaker 1: medical records identify your race because this information could improve
Speaker 1: your health care. Blah blah blah. So federal law requires
Speaker 1: that I correctly identify my true race because it could
Speaker 1: improve my health care. Nobody's saying anything about correctly identifying
Speaker 1: my sex, which is a much more important piece of
Speaker 1: information that impacts my health care. Obviously, I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: the left cares about race, but they don't care about
Speaker 1: misdiagnosed gender related issues, just like they don't care about
Speaker 1: mutilating miners with experimental drugs and disfiguring surgeries. I would agree, sir.
Speaker 2: Had my physical last week. I declined half the questions
Speaker 2: they asked me. I'm not answering that crazy.
Speaker 1: What's your race? Declined to state, do you have any
Speaker 1: firearms in your home? Declined to state, how are you
Speaker 1: feeling today? Declined to state? How long has this been swollen?
Speaker 1: Declined to state.
Speaker 2: Why is that bone sticking out? None of your business,
Speaker 2: mind your own huh huh. Let's see, that's very serious.
Speaker 2: Why don't we end on that cheery note. I just
Speaker 2: I'm not in the mood. Sorry, I picked the wrong
Speaker 2: team to root for. How many goals did Spain give
Speaker 2: up in the entire World Cup?
Speaker 1: Eight matches? Ten matches?
Speaker 2: How many goals did Spain give up in the entire
Speaker 2: World Cup? One?
Speaker 1: One?
Speaker 2: One accidentally happened during one every other team they shut out.
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. Yeah yeah, and their defense and their goalkeeper
Speaker 1: get a lot of credit. But Argentina's goalkeeper was a monster.
Speaker 1: Holy cow. Oh they got to erect a statue to
Speaker 1: him in the central square something. Poor son of a
Speaker 1: gun deserve to win the game. Well, they didn't need
Speaker 1: the whole field.
Speaker 2: They could have just played half field and bought the
Speaker 2: fans them closer, because the bowls never going to get
Speaker 2: down on the other end.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. World Cup finals are often like that. It's
Speaker 1: like those bike races in the Olympics where everybody just
Speaker 1: goes real slow and looks at each other until everybody
Speaker 1: get job. No. Start from the beginning, we're dumb. According
Speaker 1: to Elon. We'll have that an hour or two and
Speaker 1: Getty