Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yeddy. The new Supreme
Speaker 1: Leader has made his first statement since being named. Ayatola
Speaker 1: have that next, But first we give you Bill Maher
Speaker 1: talking to Adam Schiff. This statement from the administration.
Speaker 2: The President had the constitutional authority to direct the use
Speaker 2: of military force because he could reasonably determine that such
Speaker 2: use of force was in the national interest.
Speaker 1: That's too vague for you. Totally vague, okay, because that's
Speaker 1: from Obama. About Libya.
Speaker 3: Well, Obama made the argument initially that he could go
Speaker 3: into Syria without an authorisation. I and many others pushed
Speaker 3: back on that argument. Ultimately, he did not go forward
Speaker 3: with going after Assad, even though aside was gassing his
Speaker 3: own people, because he thought he might lose the vote
Speaker 3: in Congress. But I respect the fact that that was
Speaker 3: important to him, and the fact that he did not
Speaker 3: have the support of Congress meant that we weren't going.
Speaker 1: To go forward.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's a weasel, a talking weasel. That's really our headline.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, trainers or scientists have taught a weasel
Speaker 2: to speak.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty good move by Bill Maher.
Speaker 2: I thought, though, sure, yeah, yeah, well, and then Schiff's
Speaker 2: argument not to dwell on it too long because he's
Speaker 2: a lyne piece of garbage, but that we got.
Speaker 1: The smallest and his neck i've ever seen.
Speaker 2: It ended up being a good thing that Obama promised
Speaker 2: a red line and then destroyed American deterrence for a
Speaker 2: couple of decades because he would have lost a vote
Speaker 2: in Congress.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a complicated thing, though, and that's a problem
Speaker 1: we've got right now, and why presidents aren't going to Congress.
Speaker 1: If Trump had gone to Congress, it might not have passed.
Speaker 1: And then so you've got the president and the people
Speaker 1: around him who firmly believe this is a necessary thing
Speaker 1: for the United States to do for our world safety,
Speaker 1: our own safety, and for the safety of the world,
Speaker 1: and Congress, because they're all a bunch of freaking cowards,
Speaker 1: I think, said no, So I guess we'll just let
Speaker 1: them get a nuclear weapon eventually, or continue to harass
Speaker 1: the world or whatever. And Obama did decide, Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: put it to a vote, find out that it was
Speaker 1: going to lose, and so didn't enforce his own red line,
Speaker 1: which the commander in chief. So the commander in chief
Speaker 1: can't make red lines anymore without going to Congress first,
Speaker 1: I guess. And what I'm about to say is not
Speaker 1: a good thing. It's a bad thing.
Speaker 2: But not only are they cowards like you described, but
Speaker 2: they're flaming, flaming partisans. If there was an act that
Speaker 2: would cure cancer for all time, and Trump, the Trump
Speaker 2: White House, you know, or was promoting it, the Democrats
Speaker 2: would vote almost unanimously against it, and to put it
Speaker 2: to a vote would make it like an ink. A
Speaker 2: part is an issue, a strictly part is an issue.
Speaker 2: If he went before Congress, that's a bad thing. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying therefore he was smart to not go. It
Speaker 2: highlights what a bad situation we're in as a country
Speaker 2: in a constitution. Honestly, but right, I don't want to
Speaker 2: dwell on it because it's unsolvable.
Speaker 1: If everybody in Congress is scared to ever vote yes,
Speaker 1: you won't get in trouble for voting no, but you
Speaker 1: could get in trouble for voting yes. Hillary had the
Speaker 1: voting for the Iraq War hung around her her entire
Speaker 1: presidential campaign. It's probably the main reason she lost to
Speaker 1: Barack Obama in two thousand and eight for the nomination
Speaker 1: because she voted for the Iraq War. So now nobody
Speaker 1: ever wants to vote for it. John Kerry had the
Speaker 1: same problem on the Iraq War vote. So no, no,
Speaker 1: nobody ever wants to vote for it. But then you
Speaker 1: got the problem of do you want to have one
Speaker 1: guy deciding wars all the time, which doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: the best system.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't have time to philosophize too long on
Speaker 2: this point, but the trolley card dilemma makes it just
Speaker 2: so infinitely clear. People's sins of omission completely different than
Speaker 2: they've view sins of commission. Not doing something, even if
Speaker 2: you know that is a horrifying choice, is seen as
Speaker 2: less of a sin than doing something that might end
Speaker 2: up having a bad result.
Speaker 1: Humans are strange. I don't like you people.
Speaker 2: Well, I do like you people, I don't like humankind
Speaker 2: in general anyway. So, speaking of Donald Trump and his
Speaker 2: motivations and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Got the statement from the Supreme Leader to come.
Speaker 2: All right, right, yeah, yeah, do you want to do
Speaker 2: that first your choice? Eh, eh, written comments.
Speaker 1: Written comments from the new Supreme Leader. First time he's
Speaker 1: said anything using my finger quotes since he was voted in.
Speaker 1: Is he alive? Is he able to speak?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: He sure hell doesn't want to go on camera. I mean,
Speaker 2: if anybody could possibly discern where he is, that's the
Speaker 2: last thing he wants. Staying alive's his main goal right now.
Speaker 1: Anyway, his message was that Iran will keep fighting and
Speaker 1: they are going to keep the straight of horror moves
Speaker 1: closed or straights of horrormons. I'm going back to Straits.
Speaker 1: I just saw the best map I've seen yet of
Speaker 1: that area. So you got that little island that's a
Speaker 1: straight between the island and that, and then the island
Speaker 1: is in the strait, so you have a straight on
Speaker 1: each side of the island. Oh, You've got a straight straight.
Speaker 1: So I think Straits is fine. I'm at a strait.
Speaker 1: This is not the biggest problem we have in America.
Speaker 1: But he vowed that the new Supreme Leader that they
Speaker 1: would avenge the blood of the martyrs. He has not
Speaker 1: appeared on video or in public since he was appointed
Speaker 1: on Monday. There are reports that he is injured. Uh
Speaker 1: how bad, we don't know, but like everybody around him
Speaker 1: was killed. His whole family is dead, including his dad.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of an interesting story, right there. Is
Speaker 1: there a chance that the Revolutionary Guard needed a religious
Speaker 1: figurehead to point as the leader while they get their
Speaker 1: act together, and he's either dead or barely old mon or.
Speaker 2: Not very much of a force, breaking speculation, breaking speculation.
Speaker 2: The New York Post is reporting reports have circulated that
Speaker 2: the new Supreme Leader is in a coma having lost
Speaker 2: his leg.
Speaker 1: Who's reporting that? A New York Post? I believe? Is that?
Speaker 1: What I just said? Wow, Yeah, he's in a coma.
Speaker 1: Who knows? Fogg of wore? So I think that could
Speaker 1: be psyops because we want the Revolutionary Guard or whoever
Speaker 1: might be following the Supreme Leader to think, oh my god.
Speaker 2: He shows himself. And when he shows himself, kerb.
Speaker 1: Lewis, yes, you will be missed. I st it.
Speaker 2: It's tough work being the Supreme Leader these days. So
Speaker 2: I think Barton Swim is correct. In the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 2: he wrote a great piece today about what's motivating Donald
Speaker 2: Trump and the various disparaging answers that are kicking around.
Speaker 2: Wants to distract attention from the Epstein files. I'm not
Speaker 2: a violent man, but I would like to slap anyone
Speaker 2: who says that at least a couple of good firm
Speaker 2: times two. He likes to be in the big shot,
Speaker 2: in the center of attention. Well, that's unquestionably true, but
Speaker 2: I don't think it's primary here.
Speaker 1: He wants to profit somehow.
Speaker 2: He's following the dictates of Benjamin Netnah, who read the Jews.
Speaker 2: But then Marton Swam points out none of these work.
Speaker 2: Trump's taken by far the biggest risk of his public life,
Speaker 2: approving Epic Operation Epic Fury. Now he staked his presidency
Speaker 2: on a better than pyrrhic outcome, I mean better than disaster.
Speaker 2: He's antagonized a material faction of his MAGA coalition, something
Speaker 2: he's not really done before. He's probably annoyed as vice president.
Speaker 2: The idea of Trump as a political animal cynically weighing
Speaker 2: the war's likely outcome in electoral terms also doesn't satisfy.
Speaker 2: He could have launched a few Tomahawk missiles, declared the
Speaker 2: mission of success, and blah blah blah in the manner
Speaker 2: of Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1: But Trump didn't do that.
Speaker 2: He authorized a full on complex assault on what a
Speaker 2: predecessor deemed a member of the Axis of Evil, and
Speaker 2: nearly two weeks later, despite relentlessly negative press coverage and
Speaker 2: the prospect of economic troubles, he has not called it off.
Speaker 1: The question is why.
Speaker 2: If mister Trump is either the unserious buffoon his detractors
Speaker 2: on left assume he to be, or the anti war
Speaker 2: peacenick as some of his MAGA supporters thought he was.
Speaker 1: Why did he do it?
Speaker 2: What's driving both Camp's battie is that the only plausible
Speaker 2: motivation for his order to strike Iran is a judicious
Speaker 2: and honorable one. And I should point out Marton swam
Speaker 2: is no Trump honk okay, but he says it's a
Speaker 2: judicious and honorable one. That the regime in Tehran constantly
Speaker 2: menaces America and its allies, that its rulers can be
Speaker 2: counted on to continue the pursuit of a nuclear weapon,
Speaker 2: and no bizarre ulterior motives are necessary. They're a violent, hateful, bloodthirsty,
Speaker 2: malign regime that's trying to get nukes.
Speaker 1: As fast as they can period.
Speaker 2: Mister Trump's disaffected anti war supporters of compiled video clips
Speaker 2: of the present and it's saying he won't start wars,
Speaker 2: he'll end them.
Speaker 1: Sure, you've probably seen those clips.
Speaker 2: Although he is a pretty solid counter argument, namely that
Speaker 2: the Islamic Republic started the war and has sustained it
Speaker 2: on an offer for the past forty seven years. The
Speaker 2: internal reasonings for mister Trump's decision on most subjects are
Speaker 2: protean difficult to discern, his explanations for them confusing, But
Speaker 2: bear one thing in mind. He's old fashioned. Recall some
Speaker 2: remarks he made a few weeks into his first term.
Speaker 2: We have to start winning wars again. I have to say,
Speaker 2: when I was young, in high school in college, everybody
Speaker 2: used to say, we never lost a war. We never
Speaker 2: lost a war. You remember we now we never win
Speaker 2: a war. We never win, and we don't fight to win.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The whole idea of the Pirate victory of it's
Speaker 1: from a famous battle where the general said something along
Speaker 1: the lines of we just won this battle, but I
Speaker 1: think we're going to lose the war because the expenditure
Speaker 1: of troops and treasure and all that sort of stuff
Speaker 1: would be that, you know, we have this great, big
Speaker 1: blast at the beginning, take out the supreme leader. But
Speaker 1: ultimately history decides it was a bad idea. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the way Trump has bet his entire presidency is
Speaker 1: how it eventually turns out. I mean, that's way history
Speaker 1: will judge it. Indeed.
Speaker 2: Indeed, and oddly enough, I want to get into the
Speaker 2: fatwah against Solomon Rushdie and how significant it was and
Speaker 2: is after And this is an odd transition. After talking
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Speaker 2: I will tell you this though, the fatwa against Rushdie
Speaker 2: was much much, much, much more than a bunch of
Speaker 2: religious extremists who are mad at an author. It's significance,
Speaker 2: it's ripples continued today and it was a signal we.
Speaker 1: Should have he died. Yeah, it's way back in the
Speaker 1: day and never forgotten. I read mem last year and
Speaker 1: I kept having that moment. I was like, how was
Speaker 1: this not a bigger deal at the time? And I
Speaker 1: hate with this headline. We'll get to later. Florida mom
Speaker 1: with face tattoo d Miles in mugshot after allegedly trying
Speaker 1: to murder sister, I think I can top that one. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good story, big murder trial going on.
Speaker 1: I mean, this one's wild and wooly. Okay. So, and
Speaker 1: how about that drone threat on California? That was a
Speaker 1: big story all day, Yes, California or the whole West coast.
Speaker 1: That was the whole West Coast? I guess, well, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: my god man, what the hell the listeners all over?
Speaker 2: There are people in Portland right now, in Seattle who
Speaker 2: are completely unaware.
Speaker 1: Of the practically non existent threat. I feel like La
Speaker 1: such a target. San Francis so much sodomy. Anyway, we
Speaker 1: got all that stuff on the waist to hear. The
Speaker 1: book to read on this topic is called Joseph Anton.
Speaker 1: I read it a couple of years ago by Salmon Rushdie.
Speaker 1: That's the name he lived under, not a pseudonym he
Speaker 1: wrote under because he wanted to have a cool pen name. No,
Speaker 1: it's the name he hid from murderist Islamic thugs. He
Speaker 1: had to live under that name for many, many years,
Speaker 1: away from his kids and wife and all of his friends,
Speaker 1: for fear of being killed by Islamists because of a
Speaker 1: book he wrote.
Speaker 2: Right Jonathan Rosen wrote a brilliant piece for the Free
Speaker 2: Press that really made an impression on me, and he
Speaker 2: talked about the very things Jack mentioned, and he remembers
Speaker 2: hearing about the Fatwah. He had recently dropped out of
Speaker 2: graduate school. He was a writer himself, and he said
Speaker 2: it seemed to have served that a best selling novelist
Speaker 2: born in India, living in London, famous around the world
Speaker 2: might be murdered because the octogenarian ruler of an Islamist
Speaker 2: deocracy thousands of miles away had called for his head
Speaker 2: like the Red Queen shouting off with their heads and
Speaker 2: Alice in Wonderland. And then he said, and though the
Speaker 2: Iahtola died four months later, it soon became a parent
Speaker 2: that Rushdie's novel was no match for a few sentences
Speaker 2: read over the radio, calling on quote, all valiant Muslims,
Speaker 2: wherever they may be, to kill the author of the
Speaker 2: Satanic Versus and anyone else who helped bring his blasphemous
Speaker 2: book into the world. And there's a lot more to this,
Speaker 2: and I touch on it as Timer allows, but the
Speaker 2: takeaway for me was the calling card the announcement by
Speaker 2: the Ayahtola on behalf of fundamentalist Islam is that if
Speaker 2: you offend us, we will kill you and everyone you
Speaker 2: work with wherever you are on earth till the end
Speaker 2: of time, because we have that right. See the bombing
Speaker 2: last weekend in New York City, right, bombing, right, right,
Speaker 2: which goes on, and he makes the point among others
Speaker 2: that Rushti was persuaded to make a public apology in
Speaker 2: the early days of his death sentence, his forever a
Speaker 2: global death sentence, and the dying Eyetola fired back quote,
Speaker 2: even if Solomon Rushdi becomes the most pious man of
Speaker 2: all time, it is incumbent on every Muslim to employ
Speaker 2: everything he has, his life and his wealth to send
Speaker 2: him to hell. That's fundamentalist Islam, folks, there, it is there.
Speaker 1: It is well. And what rushed He couldn't believe. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, he got stabbed. What now a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago he got attacked on a stage by
Speaker 1: a Muslim lunatic, almost died, lost his eye. And I
Speaker 1: haven't read knife where he describes that whole thing, because
Speaker 1: it sounds too gruesome for me. But back in the
Speaker 1: time of the Fatwah, Rushti was so amazed at how
Speaker 1: many governments, including his own where he lived in Great Britain,
Speaker 1: made statements of we shouldn't be offending Muslims, and that's
Speaker 1: you know we we stand on the side of you know,
Speaker 1: those respects. Yes, exactly. They didn't take the side of
Speaker 1: free speech. They took the side of let's not offend
Speaker 1: radical Muslims.
Speaker 2: Wow, I just asked you to, you know, get some
Speaker 2: of the garbage off your lawn, and you're gonna murder me. Now.
Speaker 2: I don't think the sin was asking, hey, any chance
Speaker 2: you'll clean that up? But you know, I haven't come
Speaker 2: up with much to worth listening to in the past
Speaker 2: thirty years, I know. But one thing I used to
Speaker 2: say about Portland is they think they can passive their
Speaker 2: way out of this, and a lot of the Western
Speaker 2: world thought, and some still think, although like in Britain
Speaker 2: and France that are waking up in hurry and Germany
Speaker 2: and Sweden and other places, they think they can passive
Speaker 2: their way out of fundamentalist Islam. It's a terrible, terrible mistake.
Speaker 2: But let me read just a little more Rosen's piece.
Speaker 2: The question remains urgent even after the joint American and
Speaker 2: Israeli strikes on the early morning of feb twenty eight
Speaker 2: to mark a new phase in the long war wage
Speaker 2: by the Islamic Republic of Iran, which came into the
Speaker 2: world chanting death to America and death to Israel. I've
Speaker 2: been thinking a great deal about the Fatwa now that
Speaker 2: the murderous regime the Iyatola founded in nineteen seventy nine
Speaker 2: is teetering on the bloody brink, because it may yet
Speaker 2: be that all of the proxies nurtured over the years
Speaker 2: by the Islamic Republic for its apocalyptic showdown with the
Speaker 2: Jewish state in the West. After all the billions spent
Speaker 2: on Islamist militias, ballistic missiles, and global terrorism, plus half
Speaker 2: a trillion dollars on its nuclear weapons program in pursuit
Speaker 2: of its endlessly repeated aim of quote wiping Israel off
Speaker 2: the map. It is a few sentences read aloud on
Speaker 2: Radio Tehran mere breath that will remain its most successful
Speaker 2: method of exporting the Islamist revolution even after the murderous
Speaker 2: regime it created goes down. And again, this is several
Speaker 2: pages long. It's brilliantly written.
Speaker 1: We'll post it.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you'll get paywalled, but we'll post
Speaker 2: it at Armstrong and Giddy dot com under hot lengths.
Speaker 1: You had two guys get beaten down in a really
Speaker 1: nice shopping area yesterday near here San Jose because they
Speaker 1: were speaking Hebrew. And there's some Muslim fanatics round, folks.
Speaker 1: We're all salmon Rushdie, Armstrong and Getty. The New York
Speaker 1: Post will not let up on the fact that the
Speaker 1: Supreme Leader, the new Supreme Leader can't get an erection.
Speaker 1: That has been their story now for a week and
Speaker 1: particularly apparently the guy spent time in the hospital to
Speaker 1: try to deal with the fact that he couldn't get
Speaker 1: it up enough to impregnate his wife so that they
Speaker 1: could have a male heir, because he needed to have
Speaker 1: a male air. As you can see, he's now the
Speaker 1: Supreme Leader because his dad was. It's like you know,
Speaker 1: the Middle Ages over there. Sure, But anyway, so the
Speaker 1: new Supreme Leader put out a statement like an hour
Speaker 1: or so ago. We'll get into that a little bit later,
Speaker 1: but their headline in the California Post is soft launch
Speaker 1: a round. Supreme Leader puts out.
Speaker 2: A hour I'm not sure that's fundamental to what's happening.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe it is. I don't know, Okay, we got
Speaker 1: a little game show, this very very silly game show
Speaker 1: thing we're gonna do here coming on, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: play a sound and you got to guess what the
Speaker 1: sound is. Okay, So that's coming up in just a
Speaker 1: little bit. But first gonna be a tough one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: First I'm gonna have to listen very carefully. But first seriousness.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Just a quick follow up on the Solomon
Speaker 2: Rushdie Fatwah thing. If you're not familiar with the history
Speaker 2: of the thing, I just wanted to point out that
Speaker 2: ten days after the Ayatola Komeni issued the Fatwah, two
Speaker 2: bookstores in Berkeley, California, were fire bombed. Both had been
Speaker 2: selling the Satanic Versus. One of bookstores one of the
Speaker 2: author's favorites. Bookstores pulled it off the shelves, the publisher
Speaker 2: yanked it all over. The Salmon Rushi couldn't believe that
Speaker 2: everybody caved to the Iyatola's threats rather than saying, no,
Speaker 2: damn it, free speech.
Speaker 1: This is a Western society. We will write and read
Speaker 1: what for the hell we want. No, that's not how
Speaker 1: the world reacted. The world reacted with fear, and you know,
Speaker 1: helped give these nut jobs the idea that they could
Speaker 1: boss us all around, and that's why they've been bossing
Speaker 1: us around for fifty years.
Speaker 2: If you didn't hear the last segment, number one, get
Speaker 2: it via podcast Armstrong and getting on demand. And secondly,
Speaker 2: just a very brief recap. We were talking about how
Speaker 2: the fatwa against Rushiti was really a calling card to
Speaker 2: the world from fundamentalist Islam before anybody understood where it was,
Speaker 2: and how a lot of wise during governments thought we'll
Speaker 2: pass of our way.
Speaker 1: Just don't anger the Muslims, they thought, and we'll be okay.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so you had those fire bombings in Berkeley, California.
Speaker 2: Rushdie's Japanese translator was stabbed to death in nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: one outside the university in Tokyo where he taught. Rushdie's
Speaker 2: Italian translator had been stabbed in Milan the week before,
Speaker 2: but survived. In October nineteen ninety three, as Norwegian publisher
Speaker 2: was shot in Oslo, and though gravely wound, it survived.
Speaker 2: A Zizna is in a Turnish editor, an intellectual who
Speaker 2: had announced his intention to translate the Satanic Verses Versus
Speaker 2: into Turkish narrowly escaped being burned alive in July of
Speaker 2: ninety three when his hotel in eastern Turkey was torched
Speaker 2: by an angry mob after the artist, musicians and writers
Speaker 2: inside refused to send out the seventy eight year old
Speaker 2: Nessen to be murdered. Thirty seven people died in the fire.
Speaker 2: He was helped down a ladder by firefighters who began
Speaker 2: beating him once they realized who he was, and someone cried,
Speaker 2: this is the devil we should have really killed. And
Speaker 2: there's more. But yeah, that was the calling card a
Speaker 2: fundamentalist Islam. This is how we are, this is what
Speaker 2: we do. You will bow before us.
Speaker 1: Well, and then just a couple of years ago, rush
Speaker 1: To himself was almost stabbed to death. Forty years after
Speaker 1: that book came out, is it longer? Yeah? Crazy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they have a memory for this sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Well, so probably a little transition music is necessary here, Michael.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm not sure it's ever been more necessary.
Speaker 2: Little Soviet era transition music appropriates At the time we were.
Speaker 1: Discussing, do you know, you probably don't know this, do
Speaker 1: you kdie You've been too new to the show to
Speaker 1: know this transition music. This is a fascinating story. We
Speaker 1: should we should show you the video. Okay. It was
Speaker 1: a hit song in the Soviet Union. The song had words,
Speaker 1: but the Soviet Communist government thought the words were too
Speaker 1: too there's a love song. They're too much for society.
Speaker 1: They couldn't handle. So they had to turn this hit
Speaker 1: song into la la la la la to get past
Speaker 1: the communist government. Oh wow, no yah. They actually tried
Speaker 1: a couple of times. In the review board or whatever,
Speaker 1: it always said no, still not good enough. They're like,
Speaker 1: all right, so well, for the sake of the show,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of happy they did that great transition music
Speaker 1: so the guy would sing this on you know, variety shows,
Speaker 1: is a hit song with no words, just because the
Speaker 1: Communist party doesn't think we should have work. Good grief,
Speaker 1: I know. Isn't that crazy? Yeah that is okay.
Speaker 2: Zorondami got elected in New York City. All right, okay,
Speaker 2: try to identify this song. You can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, this sound. Try to identify this sound. You can't.
Speaker 1: I just tell you right off the bat. You're gonna
Speaker 1: guess wrong. Oh you've ruined the game. But try to guess.
Speaker 4: Betty, Please don't be careful. Oh my god, he's doing it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what was the grunting about? Why was
Speaker 1: that guy grunting?
Speaker 2: Fifty year old John Stevenson, a kickbox boxer, proved he
Speaker 2: had balls of steel after becoming the first person in
Speaker 2: the UK or probably anywhere else, to pull a car
Speaker 2: using justice testicles. Hmmm, is that what you guess, Katie?
Speaker 2: That spot I actually have a spot on. Thought it
Speaker 2: was a pickup truck. I thought it was a guy
Speaker 2: pulling a pickup truck with his testicles.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a guy pulling a train with
Speaker 1: his tongue. But I was close, but just not right.
Speaker 2: And he munched on a bag of nuts while completing
Speaker 2: his challenge. He joked afterwards, quote, when I'd finished, my
Speaker 2: plums were bright purple.
Speaker 1: But I'm still firing on all cylinders. How did it
Speaker 1: not just yank them off in the way that he
Speaker 1: into it, in the way that I have participated in
Speaker 1: castrating hogs?
Speaker 2: Oh lord, the details are unairable. He is trying he
Speaker 2: was trying to raise awareness of men's mental health issues.
Speaker 1: Oh that's well he did. So you say he's the
Speaker 1: third person to No, it turns out.
Speaker 2: He's the first person oh to pull a car in
Speaker 2: the UK with his testicles, but Jack an excellent question.
Speaker 1: Whether you realized it or not.
Speaker 2: Using your genitals to pull a vehicle isn't a new concept.
Speaker 2: Chinese ki kwong Qui kong gum Quigong master Tu Jingsheng
Speaker 2: has earned himself the nickname of iron Crotch for his
Speaker 2: displays of penile power.
Speaker 1: Iron Crotch kung Fu master yeong Wai.
Speaker 2: He went to even greater lengths to pull a five
Speaker 2: ton military helicopter, but there's no record of it ever
Speaker 2: being done.
Speaker 1: In the UK before, I, uh, do you work up
Speaker 1: to it?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Do I start with lightweight and work up to it?
Speaker 1: Start with like two pound dumbbells and like move up
Speaker 1: to a kettlebell and then exactly then I'm pulling maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know, a bicycle.
Speaker 2: His sister Sherry was among those who turned out to
Speaker 2: cheer for his latest feet. She said, quote, it was amazing,
Speaker 2: It was bizarre to watch, but we're all really proud
Speaker 2: of him.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, Oh yeah, you gotta be super proud. What's
Speaker 1: the apparatus that attaches to you? What is that?
Speaker 2: Like some sort of silk scarf, like a lasso around.
Speaker 1: All of this sounds like a terrible idea.
Speaker 2: A long orange like scarf looking, how do you not
Speaker 2: just end up garrotted, I don't know, castrated like a goat. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you've got to fashion exactly the right kind of not.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when I boy, this is I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody wants to hear this. Do
Speaker 1: you remember when I probably not? You remember when I
Speaker 1: brought that tool in and I ask everybody what this is?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it was for castrating male goats. And it's
Speaker 1: an interesting piece of handheld equipment. And you put rubber
Speaker 1: bands around it, and then when you squeeze it, it
Speaker 1: opens up the rubber bands into a big circle, and
Speaker 1: then you put that around the junk of the goat,
Speaker 1: and then you slide it off the piece of equipment,
Speaker 1: and then the rubber bands go tight around the bottom
Speaker 1: underneath the test and then eventually it just cuts off
Speaker 1: the blood circulation and the testes just drop off handy,
Speaker 1: And then, having observed it myself, owls fly in and
Speaker 1: grab the testicles and fly off with them, delighted with
Speaker 1: their find. Well, you know, it's circle of life or something.
Speaker 1: My life is better now that I know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting though. I love the version of Show and
Speaker 1: Tell is bringing in a castration tool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no kidding. I knew most people in the
Speaker 2: Middle Ages. I knew most people wouldn't be able to
Speaker 2: guess what that was.
Speaker 1: No, you were right on that. Not to turn this serious,
Speaker 1: because I do everything.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm rarely invited to gatherings. The grit and
Speaker 2: reality of farm life, which used to be known damn
Speaker 2: near universally among Americans, is now so distant. Most people's
Speaker 2: lives are so you know, sterile and no unintended, not intended,
Speaker 2: so you know, and safe and careful and in a
Speaker 2: life and death and where meat comes from and all.
Speaker 2: It's just we all pretend it's not happening.
Speaker 1: I've told this story before.
Speaker 2: I hope it's every bit as good as the last one.
Speaker 2: Do owls eat anybody's balls in this one.
Speaker 1: I'm from a small town Kansas. I had a girlfriend
Speaker 1: from small town Nebraska. She was even from a smaller
Speaker 1: town than me. And their field trip that they did
Speaker 1: in grade school was they walked down the street in
Speaker 1: this town of three hundred people. They walked down the
Speaker 1: street to the butcher where they had a steer standing
Speaker 1: in the back room, and the guy shot the steer
Speaker 1: in front of the kids and then butchered it so
Speaker 1: the kids would understand where meat came from. And how
Speaker 1: old are these This was not an eighteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1: This would have been in She was five years younger
Speaker 1: than me, so this would have been in the late seventies.
Speaker 1: I guess around nineteen eighty. Wow, yeah, shoots you think
Speaker 1: fifth grade? She said, Wow, fifth grade shoot a steer
Speaker 1: in front of you. They probably didn't do that in
Speaker 1: the Bay Area of California, did they?
Speaker 4: Caty?
Speaker 1: Oh, No, I did not go on that field trip.
Speaker 2: And have to shoot the genderbread person and butcher him,
Speaker 2: hurt them.
Speaker 1: They them. So do you think it's a meaningful in
Speaker 1: any way that we're further away from the from that
Speaker 1: grit do we need to be? I mean, we're further
Speaker 1: away from other really really gritty things from the Middle
Speaker 1: Ages that I think we're probably better off for.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In Dave Grossman's book on Killing, which is really an
Speaker 2: interesting read even if you don't agree with every bit
Speaker 2: of it, he talks about how we've become so distant
Speaker 2: from death because it used to be ninety nine percent
Speaker 2: of people died in their home with the family around
Speaker 2: and the rest of it, and you'd call the undertaker
Speaker 2: and everything, but everybody understood that Grandpa's passed and now
Speaker 2: they're going to take his body and his soul is
Speaker 2: with God or whatever. And animals were frequently slaughtered in
Speaker 2: the yard and then they were on your plate an
Speaker 2: hour later or whatever. And we've gotten so far from that.
Speaker 2: We've kind of fetishized death a weird way. It's distant,
Speaker 2: but we're obsessed with it. And I'm not doing a
Speaker 2: good job of explaining. But perhaps I've sold a book
Speaker 2: or two.
Speaker 1: Or is it the flip side that we value life more?
Speaker 1: Is that the case?
Speaker 2: Or no, that's an interesting question by God length the
Speaker 2: response required by God.
Speaker 1: But life was cheap in a lot of parts of
Speaker 1: the world for and still is. Or it just doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to have hardly any meaning whatsoever. So here's the question.
Speaker 1: If your brother, you find out your brother is gonna
Speaker 1: pull some heavy object with his testicles, do you tell
Speaker 1: the news anchor I'm so proud of him. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Depends if he succeeds or fails I mean, if you
Speaker 2: like chickens out or gives up when you know the
Speaker 2: thousands of pounds of pressure are applied.
Speaker 1: What if they just proud of him, pull right off.
Speaker 1: I think I would pretend I didn't know him. He's
Speaker 1: trying to draw attention to men's mental health.
Speaker 3: Just kind of do the Homer Simpson back into the
Speaker 3: bush thing exactly.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, good job, good yeah, Okay, more
Speaker 1: on the way next.
Speaker 4: It of course the big investigator.
Speaker 1: But you have a lot of things happening, and all
Speaker 1: we can do is take them as they come. We
Speaker 1: know where most of them are. We've got our all
Speaker 1: of them, I think. So that's Donald Trump yesterday talking
Speaker 1: about sleeper cells, Iranian sleeper cells across the country, that
Speaker 1: he says, we have our eye on them, all of them,
Speaker 1: we think. Which that was a question asked out of
Speaker 1: the news floating around throughout the day of this threat
Speaker 1: of a drone attack on and I guess it was
Speaker 1: specifically California drone attacks on California by the Iranians, but
Speaker 1: that that story was from back in February. Wyatt just
Speaker 1: erupted yesterday and then became chatter. I'm not exactly sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was on I don't know
Speaker 1: if it just reached the media somehow, or if somebody
Speaker 1: leaked that out on purpose to have a you know,
Speaker 1: get people's attention. Hey, this is serious. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It does have a bit of a rally around the
Speaker 2: flag feel to it, but it's still so hard to say.
Speaker 1: No one other thing before we get to the Supreme
Speaker 1: Leader making his first statement. Well not really, but Ian Bremer.
Speaker 1: Ian Bremer tweeted out, the streets of horror moves aren't
Speaker 1: completely closed. Iranian tankers are still passing through, bringing oil
Speaker 1: to China and oil revenue to the Islamic Republic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal had the story that Iran is
Speaker 1: actually exporting more war oil than they were before the
Speaker 1: war started. Ian wrights. The United States could stop them,
Speaker 1: but that would antagonize China and further escalate the war.
Speaker 1: So here we are. That's an interesting one. So China
Speaker 1: gets seventy percent of its energy from other places. Thank
Speaker 1: god we are not in that situation, but so we
Speaker 1: think it would antagonize China if we stopped the oil
Speaker 1: shipments from Iran. Well, this is a delicate balance. We
Speaker 1: got going here anyway, Iran's new Supreme leader. This is
Speaker 1: the way this went down. So apparently I had it
Speaker 1: backwards in my head. So first the rumors were floating
Speaker 1: around the Middle East that he is in a coma.
Speaker 1: So that story was first, the story that the Supreme
Speaker 1: leaders he's in a coma, had his leg amputated and
Speaker 1: is badly hurt. That story has been floating around I
Speaker 1: guess Iran. So then they put out this no here,
Speaker 1: here's a statement from the Supreme Leader. And then they
Speaker 1: put out a written statement read on Iranian state TV
Speaker 1: without any explanation of why he was not on camera
Speaker 1: or you weren't hearing his voice right, which is a
Speaker 1: little who's that for the Iranian people? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I need proof of life. Yeah, he says he's alive.
Speaker 1: RAN's new Supreme leader allegedly released his first statement today,
Speaker 1: vowing to use the lever of closing the Strait of
Speaker 1: Hormuz to international energy shipping after reports circulated that he
Speaker 1: was in a coman had his leg amputated from those
Speaker 1: strikes that killed his dad and pretty much all of
Speaker 1: his family. No explanation provided for why the fifty six
Speaker 1: year old did not appear or read out his purported words.
Speaker 1: We are in the audio business. We know very well
Speaker 1: that recording somebody at this point in world history is effortless.
Speaker 1: If you own a phone, if you own a computer,
Speaker 1: if you've got anything, you could record somebody's voice. Now,
Speaker 1: it is possible that they're just so concerned about somehow
Speaker 1: it being tracked to his location, because hiding him is
Speaker 1: going to be of the utmost importance Israel or US.
Speaker 1: We're going to kill him the first chance we get.
Speaker 2: I wonder what security protocols he does have in place
Speaker 2: right now, because, for instance, you could put your phone
Speaker 2: on airplane mode, record his message hand curry you're at
Speaker 2: somewhere else, and then broadcast it with never never connecting
Speaker 2: to the internet. But I wonder if they just don't
Speaker 2: even want to see a currier coming and going from
Speaker 2: wherever he is, right they think we're watching from the
Speaker 2: clouds and we are.
Speaker 1: Well, they got to be pretty paranoid. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: after the first couple of rounds of snuffins, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: But to not have a picture at all or hear
Speaker 1: the voice when you're trying to show that you're still alive,
Speaker 1: that's not usually the way it works. Yeah, maybe he
Speaker 1: isn't a coma.
Speaker 2: So many question marks about what's next, what we can do,
Speaker 2: what we probably will do. We'll have Mike Lions on
Speaker 2: in just a couple of minutes. Hope you can hang around.
Speaker 2: If you can't podcast Armstrong, you getting on demand.
Speaker 1: My main questions for Mike Lions is because don't understand this.
Speaker 1: How can we not take out whatever Iran has that's
Speaker 1: allowing it to fire on these ships? They hit five
Speaker 1: ships yesterday, tankers trying to go through the straight of
Speaker 1: horror moves. How can we now take that out? I
Speaker 1: want to hear what Mike's explanation for that is. Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty