WEBVTT - Anyone Need A Foot Rub? 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.520 Armstrong and Getty and he. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:26.760 Armstrong and Getty, thank you very much, Flanked by everyday workers. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.080 The President talking up his big beautiful bill today. 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:33.160 Will deliver a record tax cut, a record spending cut, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.239 a record investment in border security. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.040 And revealing a new trade deal with China, although with 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:40.479 very few specifics. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.800 We just signed with China yesterday, right, just signed with 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.240 China in the China Deal. We're starting to open up China. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.880 Things that never really could have happened. 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.120 I remember when the summer was kind of slow news 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:56.360 wise back in the day. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:57.720 It sure isn't anymore. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.960 So much going on, so much talk about with Congressman 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:05.360 Tom McClintock of the fifth District of California, longtime friend 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.000 of the Armstrong and Getty Show. Tom, how are you, sir? 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.000 I'm doing fine. You're right. They've been busy little bees 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:12.600 around here. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.360 Yeah. Yeah, And we will get to that in a minute. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.120 I thought you might be interested to know what just 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.240 wrapped up A great conversation with Tim Sanderfer of the 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:24.320 Goldwater Institute about Independence Day since we're off next week, 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:28.240 and the Declaration of Independence and in its role in 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.920 the nation's history and ethics and the rest of it. 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:33.600 And as you are one of the great lovers of 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:38.080 liberty I've ever met in politics are out. When you 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.440 think about the Declaration of Independence, what do you think about? 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:41.160 What comes to mind? 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.280 Well, there's this revolutionary concept that there are certain rights 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:47.280 that don't. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.320 Come to us from government. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.960 They come to us from what the founders call the 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:56.160 laws of nature, and of Nature's God, God creates these rights. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.880 We create governments to protect these rights, and that's their 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.279 only legitimate function. 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.160 Yeah, I expressed to Tim, I've come to the belief 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.720 that the idea of liberty is just kind of background noise. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.480 It's almost like wallpaper in the American scene these days, 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.360 and people think that the role of government is to 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.720 be well, is to do things for us and give 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.760 things to us, and liberty needs to be an ever 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:27.600 present word, I think, or idea as we're discussing the 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:29.840 politics of our time, and I think that's been lost, 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.280 particularly among young people. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.400 Well, if you want to know the entire history of 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:40.400 human civilization and four words, it's freedom, works, socialism, sucks, 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.640 you know. And I talk to young people all the time, 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.640 who's a whole well Socialism that's sharing and taking care 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:50.359 of one another, and capitalism that's just doggy dog lookout 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:51.000 for yourself. 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:52.639 And I try to explain. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.760 To them, you've got it exactly backwards. The only possible 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:01.919 way to prosper and secces feed in a capitalist system 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.240 is you've got to figure out what somebody else needs 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.720 and how to get it for them better than they 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.840 can get it for themselves. There's no other way. It 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.919 might be mowing their lawn, it might be doing brain 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.920 surgery on their child, whatever it is, you've got to 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.280 help your neighbor if you're going to succeed and prosper. 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.880 Socialism is taking from one person what they've earned by 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.840 helping their neighbor and giving it to somebody who hasn't. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:26.440 And it's true. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.040 If I take a dollar from Peter and give it 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.120 to Paul, Paul's got an extra dollar to spend, Paul's 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.400 a happy man. Peter's got one less dollar to spend, 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.680 So you haven't helped the economy at all. But what 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.560 you've really done is you've robbed from both of them. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.840 A dollar's worth of incentive to help each other, Paul 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.400 because he no longer needs to, and Peter because he 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:49.360 no longer profits from it. And that's why socialism always 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.240 dissolves the bonds that hold a society together and ultimately 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.400 requires lots and lots of government force because you've got 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.920 to force people to act against their own interests. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.440 All right, You've removed the incentives the reward, so all 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.160 that remains is the punishments. And I love your illustration 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.920 of capitalism too. Are the free market, as I prefer 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:13.480 to phrase it, because I've got to do whatever I'm 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:20.200 doing to your satisfaction to profit from it. 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:24.200 It's an entirely voluntary arrangement. Whereas socialism you've got to 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:25.839 apply enormous amounts of force. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:27.320 And that's why. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.400 Socialist socialism dissolves first of all, the bonds that hold 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:39.000 the society together, creates enormous misery and deprivation, and ultimately 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.080 has to be enforced at the point of a bayonet. 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.480 Right, which is why I'm so astounded by the perhaps 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:51.360 probable election of this Zorondabi character in. 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:52.119 New York City. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.520 The idea that you could run rent control up the 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.479 flagpole and anyone would salute. We just we need to 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.520 do a better job, speaking of America's young people, of 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.360 teaching the basic economics. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.120 If you choke off the supply of something. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.720 If you remove the incentives for supplying it, you don't 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.680 get more of it, for instance, rental properties. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.440 Well, and I think young people are figuring it out. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.320 You're seeing that in all the polling data. Now, this 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.280 young generation is turning into the most conservative generation we've 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:22.880 had since the days of Ronald Reagan. 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.200 And if you recall, Ronald. 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.720 Reagan's success was driven by the youngest voters in the electorate. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:33.520 They understood their futures were at stake, and they spend 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:37.240 a lot of time figuring things out, connecting the dots 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.479 and starting to make very good decisions. That's what democracies 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.080 are all about. In normal times, they may go haywire, 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.640 but when things get tough, people start putting all of 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:51.280 their attention into their decisions. They start making very good decisions, 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.440 and they set things right. And I think that's what 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.000 happened across America in twenty twenty four. I think it's 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.159 one of the great realigning elections of American history. New 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:04.160 York is obviously an aberration and frankly, I've developed this 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.719 morbid curiosity to see just how completely they can destroy 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.200 a city, and I think they've just got the guy 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:10.719 to do it. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.600 That may be the only way to cure people of 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.720 their illusion that this stuff actually works. Maybe you have 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.560 to hit bottom like a drunk. Anyway, in my introduction 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.200 to Tom, i'd meant to mention that the congressman was 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.880 voted the best vote for taxpayers two years in a 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.719 row in the House of Representative Citizens against Government Waste 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.919 recently named Tom McClintock one of only two perfect votes 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.840 in the House fighting wasteful government spending. And in that spirit, sir, 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.200 as you keep an eye on the so called big 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.560 beautiful bill getting kicked around now in the Senate. What's 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.400 your perception of where we are and how optimistic are 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.040 you that we will birth something worth having. 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.280 Well, it's going to pass because it absolutely has to 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.920 pass without it, and average families taxes are going to 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:59.040 rise twenty two percent next year. That's about seventeen hundred 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.840 dollars a year, and additional taxes that'll make it the 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.680 biggest tax increase in American history. That's already on the books. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.479 This bill stops that tax increase from taking effect, and 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.000 at the same time it removes taxes on tips, and 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.400 over time it increases the standard deduction for seniors to 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:23.400 protect their Social Security earnings. So that by itself makes 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.560 it absolutely imperative that it passed. But it does a 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.480 lot of other very good things too. I could go 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.239 you know, through the list, among them increasing the border 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:39.160 patrol and securing the repatriation of the millions of illegal 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.800 aliens that the Biden administration led into this country, you know, 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:47.040 unleashing America's vast energy resources. But most importantly it comes 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:51.840 down to this. The only economic indicator that really matters 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.800 is how people answer this question next year. Are you 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.000 better off to day than you were two years ago. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.840 You can't spend the answer to that question. Every person 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.880 in their own lives how they're doing. If we can 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.440 get this bill into effect this summer, it'll have a 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.840 full year to work before people will be called upon 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.640 to ask that question in the next election. And that's 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:16.360 why it's going to pass, because it has to well. 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:20.200 And a third reference to America's young people. I think 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.760 there could be no more important issue than breaking the 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.560 choke hold that the teachers' unions have on our government 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:31.360 schools through competition and innovation. And I know there's some 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:36.520 really inspiring or interesting things in the bill pushing school choice, 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:37.760 So I was glad to hear about that. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.920 Well and well an Aeriel Durant wrote in their history Civilization, 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.880 what may support a good car Chevrolet competition? You want 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:50.640 to improve the public schools, restore competition, Allow parents the 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.600 means and the freedom to make their own decision on 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.360 the school that best meets their own child's needs, and 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.760 you will see a huge improvement in the public and 0:08:58.840 --> 0:08:59.600 private schools. 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.800 Congressman Tom McClintock is on the line, I couldn't agree more. Hey, 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.280 in the time, we have left your reaction to a 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:14.320 couple of geopolitical happenings, the stunning Israeli raid on Iran 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.679 and the US's role in helping out what do you 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:17.280 make of all that? 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.920 Well, I mean, without divulsion classified information, I think I 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.280 can safely say that that if you've ever seen the 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:27.720 film classic Bambi meets Godzilla, sort of. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:34.360 Like that, the efficiency and skill of not only the 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.199 United States fighting forces but our allies in Israel are 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:39.520 just awesome to behold. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:44.880 Yeah, and they did a splendid job. I mean, Israeli intelligence, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:49.160 the UN, the Iran Foreign minister all agree that the 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:53.640 Iranian nuclear capability has been, in President Trump's word, obliterated. 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.680 You know, the only people are saying otherwise are the 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.880 Supreme Mola of Iran and a CNN rep order. But 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.559 you know, ultimately, anything can be destroyed can be rebuilt. 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.760 The Iranian regimes made it clear that it intends to 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.840 acquire nuclear weapons and once acquired, to use them first 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:15.439 against Israel, then against US. And until they acquire that ability, 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.760 they're still going to be the prime sponsor of terrorism 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:19.760 around the world. I mean, they fund and direct the 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:23.240 hoodies hezbe Lajamas, and there's no reason to believe they're 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.560 going to stop. The good news is that regime is 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.319 like a rotting porch. It is just waiting to collapse. 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.560 They've oppressed the Iranian people for decades. There is a 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:38.520 very strong resistance movement there and in the Iranian diaspora abroad. 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:41.880 And the problem was every time it was on the 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.160 verge of revolution, the Obama and Biden administration stepped in. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:49.520 They sent the cargo pallets of cash to the moulahs. 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.840 They relaxed the sanctions. That's not going to happen under Trump. 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:57.240 So I think ultimately the only way to permanently resolve 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.960 this danger short of a bloody war is to bring 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.960 matt regime crashing down from within. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:03.920 And maybe now is the time. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.640 To start assisting the opposition groups in any way that 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:07.960 we can well. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.560 And it's just great to see deterrence back on the 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.960 scene because serious deterrence leads to peace. Congressman Tom McLintock 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.280 of the fifth District of California, Congressman, is always a pleasure. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.480 Thanks. Happy Independence Day to you and yours and we'll 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.959 talk again soon. Thanks Joe, great talking to you. Likewise. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.360 Clips of the week coming up in a moment or two, 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.559 and then a report from Jack in Sunny Florida. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.200 Stay with us. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.720 Tower grows hungrier with the eating. It's one of those 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:43.640 principles that we have either forgotten or just been duped 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:47.320 out of ignoring in the modern day, the fantasy that 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:51.800 government will just give us everything we need and that 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.960 there isn't any cost for it. And I don't just 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.640 mean literally the cost in tax dollars and confiscations and 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.120 the rest of it, but that it won't be in 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.600 love with its own power and metastasize, because it always 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.080 does and every example through human history, but we as 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:07.880 humans somehow lose that reality. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:08.240 Anyway. 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.760 Happy Independence Day a week early to you and yours. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.000 Jackie is going to be weighing in from Florida in 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.160 a couple of minutes where he is on vacation. Lovely 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.160 of him to join us in enjoying the conversations with 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.520 Tim Sandford and Tom McClintock and all sorts of people 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.800 about the declaration and the US and freedom and the 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:25.160 rest of it. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:26.640 Hope you've enjoyed. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.880 It too, if you're just joining us, grab the podcast 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.920 Armstrong and Getty on demand. All right, So we had 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.040 to put it off to accommodate the congressman schedule. But 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.120 it's time for the Friday tradition. Let's take fun look 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.480 back at the week that was. It's cow clips of 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:38.840 the week. 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:44.000 That place was demolished, totally obliterated, obliterated, obliterated, obliteration. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:47.080 Whips of the week. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.240 Mam bom bom bomber. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:58.040 US Central Command executed Operation Midnight Hammer. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.160 Started with the decoy group of two B two bombers 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.160 heading west towards Guam. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.480 From one world was looking the other way. Seven will 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.640 be twos taking off directly towards Iran. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:16.080 With a total of fourteen mops dropped against two nuclear 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:17.000 target areas. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.120 This is not a game playing president. When he says 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:21.839 he's going to do something, he will do it. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.240 The President obliterated the Iranian nuclear program. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.679 Iran's response came in the form of a missile strike. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.680 They don't know what the fuck they're doing. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:37.120 You understand that questions remain about the fate of Iran's 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.000 enriched uranium. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.960 Everything underneath that mountain is in bad shape. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.320 At least two of the Iranian nuclear facilities targeted were 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:47.920 not completely destroyed. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.160 But I think CNN is a gut lists group of people. 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:55.960 I know that better than you know that, and I 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.920 know that that's not the case. But I'm not see 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.360 whether the order was given, and the people say that 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.000 it doesn't matter the order was given. They have everything 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:04.439 they need to build nuclear weapons. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.400 If you want to make an assessment of what happened 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.920 at four doh, you better get a big shovel and 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:10.760 go really deep. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.680 If I'm the president, we will attack iron. We would 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.440 be able to totally obliterate. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.760 Them, totally obliterated, obliterated, obliterated. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.560 It was called obliteration. 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.840 On all midnight Hammer clips of the Week. We might 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.480 play the fun one later on in the hour, because 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.800 we have an alternate Clips of the week that Hansen 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.280 is prepared for US. I was reading about a great 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:51.040 piece written by Credit where it's due Dove Lieber inside 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.000 Operation Narnia, the Daring attack. Israel feared it couldn't pull off, 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.760 and my gosh, it's compelling. At midnight on June thirteenth, 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.400 Israel's general's gathered in a bunker beneath Israel Air Force 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:06.320 Headquarters Israeli Air Force Headquarters and watched his jets descended 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.320 on Tehran in an operation they called Red Wedding. Ooh, 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.520 anybody familiar with the Game of Thrones gets that reference. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.200 Hours later, in one thousand miles away, Iran's top military 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.880 commanders were dead, a mass killing much like the famous 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.200 wedding scene from the show Game of Thrones. The combination 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.960 of intelligence, information, military precision that enabled the attack surprised 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:32.200 people around the world, but it wasn't the only improbable success. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.360 At the outset of the twelve day campaign. 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:39.200 Another key part of the initial attack considered so fantastical 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.360 even by its planners, that it was called Operation Narnia 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:44.880 after the fictional C. S. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:45.680 Lewis series. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:51.320 It successfully killed nine top Iranian nuclear scientists almost simultaneously 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:55.600 at their homes in Tehran, the key being that pulling 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:59.359 off the attacks, which required elaborate ruses to ensure surprise 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.479 at the last moment they nearly fell apart. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.320 But the point being both the scientists and. 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:12.760 The generals, it had to be carefully coordinated, because you know, 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.640 the regime is sensitive to the fact that Israel was 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.080 on high alert and maybe coming for them the US 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.400 as well, And if one general got it, everybody else 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.920 would have gone to ground, and if one scientist got it, 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.800 all the rest would have vanished into the woodwork. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:29.720 So it all had to happen. 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:35.040 A thousand miles away, nearly simultaneously. And you know, part 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.680 of the untold story, well untold till now, is that 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:44.400 Israel's been conducting drills to get the skills down to 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:49.320 do this in very innocent seeming ways, flying large groups 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.760 of aircraft to Greece and refueling them over and over 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.920 again on the way without landing, in a way that 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.600 seemed odd to people, but they've been working on this 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.640 for years and years and pulled it off off against 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.000 all odds, and at least for now, the Mullahs don't 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:08.320 have nukes. That story will be ongoing, obviously, much more 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:08.680 to come. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:14.440 Stay with us, Armstrong and Geddy. A couple more segments 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:14.639 to go. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.680 We're going to finish Strong if we possibly can, including 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.399 with this special guest appearance by the co host of 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.640 the show, mister Jack Armstrong. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.879 Jack, where are you now? I took my talents to 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:26.760 South Beach. 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.880 Way to go? So first question, you're there in Florida. 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.600 Is anybody alive? Because I remember they are calling Ron 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:36.920 de Santis ron death sentence during COVID. 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:41.359 Are there any Floridians? Yes, they seem to be alive 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.200 and scantily clad. Katie. 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.919 Maybe Katie can explain this. Why are bikinis so expensive 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.400 since they're so little material involved, especially in the modern era. 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.639 Please figure that out for me, because I don't know. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.359 Good Lord, So I have two teenage boys. We're on 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.280 the beach in South Beach and they're both playing it cool. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:01.720 But I. 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:04.000 Wouldn't. I wouldn't. 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:05.720 I don't know that i'd want to be a fifteen 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:10.840 year old boy in this environment. It would be a distracting, 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:12.760 torturous I. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.200 Would guess, Oh my god. 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.720 And I was talking to somebody before I came here, 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.600 and they said, man, you gotta really be careful to 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:24.000 not end up because I was explaining to my younger 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:28.159 Henry associates like scantily clad with a with danger for 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.000 some reason, like you're in a dangerous neighborhood if you're 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:32.320 seeing scantily clad people. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.480 And I was talking to somebody about that and they said, Oh. 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.439 It's very easy to end up on a beach where 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.399 you know it's topless hearing to see a lot of nudity, 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.040 and he will freak out if he sees that. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:46.800 So I'm trying to try to avoid that. Wow, that's interesting. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.480 I would never think of that as a concern on 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.200 a trip to Florida. 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:55.680 But there you are so much nudity. How hot is it? 0:18:55.680 --> 0:19:00.480 It's freaking hot? Oh my god, Mooie Colliente. So I 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.560 got here last night. This is kind of funny. So 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:03.640 I'm staying at one of those. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:05.919 If you've ever seen pictures of South Beach, Miami, the 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:10.359 colorful art deco hotels that are like in every postcard, 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.560 we're staying in one of those. And we, because of 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.480 Southwest weirdness, we got here like two and a half 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.280 hours later than we were supposed to, of course, sitting 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.720 on the tarmac for an hour fifteen in Houston for 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.080 no explanation whatsoever, and just that sort of thing. But 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.600 so we get to the hotel and we get dropped 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.000 off at one am and the doors open. 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:32.480 We walk in. 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.800 There's nobody at the front desk and there's like no 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:36.840 bell to ring or anything. And I thought, oh, you know, fine, 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:38.920 they're in the bathroom wherever. So we wait and we wait, 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:40.840 and like a half hour goes by and I call 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:42.760 the number and the phone rings there right in front 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:43.160 of me, and. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.320 Anyway pick up answer. 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.680 Two hours of a waiting from one am to three 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.680 am with nobody around, we eventually walked down the street 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:54.920 and got some pizza because we were starving, and there 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:55.760 was nobody there. 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.280 And I mean the bar was there. 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.119 I could have walked into the bar and poured myself 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.600 a top shelf drain if I wanted to. I could 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:05.720 have stolen many many things, and there was just nobody there. 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:07.040 It was so strange. 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:08.840 Boy, it's not like you're. 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.920 In some sort of village in northwestern Norway or somebody. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:14.880 Yeah, right right. 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:18.480 I wasn't visiting Greenland. I was in South Beach, Miami, 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:20.560 and I mean there's people everywhere, and the bars are. 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:21.840 Thumping and all that sort of stuff. 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.240 Anyway, so I went next door to a hotel and 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.240 had even though I'd already paid for three rooms at 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:28.120 this one, I went next door and got a couple 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:29.840 of rooms just because we needed somewhere to sleep. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.600 That it was now, that was three am, and I 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:33.520 got a street. Not today. 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:35.520 I took some video, some funny videos though, that I 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:38.520 showed to the manager today, and somebody's getting fired. They 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:41.080 even left their keys sitting on the desk, like the 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.080 I'm the janitor keys with like eight thousand keys on it, 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.720 and all the keys were labeled like bar, you know, 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.480 a master key for the rooms, you. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.480 Know, all the different stuff, and they just left it there. 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.680 Whoever it was, I don't know if they passed out 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:56.080 or had a hook up in one of the rooms 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:00.639 what happened, But wow, good gracious, Okay, I could have 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:04.359 made I could have made quite the reality show video 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:06.600