Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show Kaddy.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and Arms live kind of from Studio
Speaker 2: C at a dimly lit room deeple from the bowels
Speaker 2: of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And today on
Speaker 2: a Friday, we are in the toilet under the title
Speaker 2: of the show Great Scott. It's a rare triple title
Speaker 2: day number one.
Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor more like Cringe Harbor or March Madness is
Speaker 1: highly upsetting?
Speaker 2: Or why does everyone want to bust a Philly?
Speaker 1: The lip Buster closer than ever to being done away with?
Speaker 2: Wow, I thought that was one of your titles yesterday
Speaker 2: and we never got around to talking about it.
Speaker 1: More endangered than pandas the Filipbuster. That's correct, Yes, I've
Speaker 1: held it over, but cleverly reinvented it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good topic. I didn't follow any of
Speaker 2: the March Madness. There were upsets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Actually the Biggie was a tiny little High Point
Speaker 1: University beat the mighty Wisconsin Badgers in the first round
Speaker 1: on what were their seeds there? Michael, do you know offhand? No,
Speaker 1: it's funny, Yeah, I was just being a big ten fan.
Speaker 1: I was kind of just fixated on I can't believe
Speaker 1: Wisconsin locked because they look like world beaters.
Speaker 2: But on my racket in front of me, I know
Speaker 2: that I had Wisconsin winning. So that's a bad start.
Speaker 2: Somebody looked that up. Please, I need to know. Is
Speaker 2: that a thirteen to four Wisconsin? Well, let's the well,
Speaker 2: somebody's going to look it up, Katie. Is business looks
Speaker 2: right as we speak. Look at a bracket, any bracket.
Speaker 3: Are you talking about Wisconsin? Number twelve seed high point
Speaker 3: total high five?
Speaker 2: It's always twelve fives. Yes, you were the eyes of
Speaker 2: the twelve five. And I had a twelve five upset
Speaker 2: because there's always a twelve five upset. But it wasn't
Speaker 2: that one done it. My back bracket has already busted. AnyWho.
Speaker 2: I woke, uh, I got a really bad sore throat
Speaker 2: middle of the day yesterday, and my son came complaining
Speaker 2: to me that he had a sore throat. So that's
Speaker 2: what maybe life has too. Seems like a heck of
Speaker 2: a coincidence that he and I both have sore throats. Anyway,
Speaker 2: So I started to chat gpting that and there are
Speaker 2: a variety of diseases rolling around. Have got that, So
Speaker 2: I hope I didn't bring anything into work to make
Speaker 2: anybody sick, but.
Speaker 1: Anything prominent on the list of because I'm curious what
Speaker 1: my sweetheart has.
Speaker 2: I thought thought it was blue but you, I thought
Speaker 2: you had determined it was the flu. Now, well, we were.
Speaker 1: Exposed to a guy who was coughing up along and
Speaker 1: then was diagnosed with the flu two days later. So
Speaker 1: that was why Sherlock Holmes, like you know, deduction, Yeah,
Speaker 1: coffee up.
Speaker 2: So he coughed and one of the lungs came up
Speaker 2: out through his mouth. Briefly he sucked it back in.
Speaker 2: That's what you gotta do quickly. Flu was on the
Speaker 2: list the top three choices though for things that could
Speaker 2: be a sore throat and you're feeling sick, so anyway,
Speaker 2: maybe let me talk about that later, because there are
Speaker 2: three particular things floating around the United States right now
Speaker 2: that involve a sore throat, and that'd be good news
Speaker 2: you can use in case your kids or you end
Speaker 2: up with a sore throat. Just saw that Israel killed
Speaker 2: another high profile dude, this time the spokesperson for the
Speaker 2: Republican guard has been snuffed. Wow. He probably didn't have
Speaker 2: much to report other than somebody's been snuffed anyway, So
Speaker 2: I have a report. More of us have been Well,
Speaker 2: my boss is dead, now I'm dead, that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I read an analysis by a actual authority on Iran
Speaker 1: that said the idea that well, next man up. It's
Speaker 1: just it doesn't go like that in running governments. Uh,
Speaker 1: but there you got levels of expertise, respect, connectedness, and
Speaker 1: man when you were remove layer after layer.
Speaker 2: It's it's a serious thing. Yeah, I would assume that
Speaker 2: it has to be. I think the respectedness, a word
Speaker 2: I've never said before, has got to be a lot
Speaker 2: of it, because you know, in a regime like theirs
Speaker 2: as well, Yeah, but you start ended up with a
Speaker 2: third in line in charge and then and then you know,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, that person's orders or decisions are like, eh,
Speaker 2: that's a good idea.
Speaker 1: You never been really impressed by him anyway? Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I really don't know, and I suppose
Speaker 1: none of us actually know. So I taken a lot
Speaker 1: of coverage on the war. I'm super interested in this.
Speaker 1: It's a very very big story. It's it's hugely important.
Speaker 2: It could it could get even more historical with a
Speaker 2: couple of you know, zigs or zags any day now
Speaker 2: on the trajectory of this thing. But the coverage of
Speaker 2: like some of my favorite pundits say, this is insane,
Speaker 2: the coverage of this war by the mainstream media. They
Speaker 2: act like we've lost, but we've taken out this, We've
Speaker 2: taken out that, we've devastated this. They can no longer
Speaker 2: do that. I mean, the list of things that we've
Speaker 2: done to them is just off the charts. But mainstream
Speaker 2: media is treating it like we're losing. Okay, there's there's that,
Speaker 2: and that, you know, makes an impression on me. Then
Speaker 2: there's also the Benjamin Nettan Yah who yesterday gave a
Speaker 2: speech saying, there's a decent chance the regime survives, so
Speaker 2: we need to look at it this way. Okay. Was
Speaker 2: that an admission that they took our best shot. They're
Speaker 2: still there and we don't think we can take them out?
Speaker 2: Is that what that is? And it could be? And
Speaker 2: if so, then you know where are goals at that point?
Speaker 1: I guess t weaken them to the point that they
Speaker 1: can't disrupt global commerce and develop a nuclear weapon. It's
Speaker 1: the I think the narrative that there has to be
Speaker 1: one goal otherwise you don't have a goal, or that
Speaker 1: you're aimless, is not realistic. When you're taking on a
Speaker 1: challenge as big as Aron, you're going to reduce their
Speaker 1: capacity to export you know, terror and chaos to whatever
Speaker 1: extent you can. A regime change would be absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1: But if it turns out that would be too much work,
Speaker 1: well then you just new to them.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess the problem is without a regime change,
Speaker 2: do we get the straight of horror moves open back up?
Speaker 2: And getting the straight of horror moves open back up
Speaker 2: is got to happen at this point.
Speaker 1: I think so because of the incredible asymmetry of power.
Speaker 1: It might take a while, but you know, every time
Speaker 1: they take out a tanker, we take out a city.
Speaker 1: I mean, after a while, they'll get tired of that.
Speaker 1: Not to mention, we'll lop off another layer of command
Speaker 1: and control and the political leadership every time. Yeah, they'll
Speaker 1: they'll they'll give in.
Speaker 2: What I hope is happening is the people that are
Speaker 2: making the argument that yeah, they look like they've got
Speaker 2: their act together a little bit from the outside but
Speaker 2: they are a house of cards at this point that's
Speaker 2: just going to absolutely crumble any moment. I hope that's
Speaker 2: the case. And that sounds right, doesn't it Based on
Speaker 2: just what we're talking about about taking all taking out
Speaker 2: all the various levels of leadership, then the next guy,
Speaker 2: than the next guy, in all these different parts of
Speaker 2: their military capacity, that at some point it's just going
Speaker 2: to collapse. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't want to sound cynical or anything, because there
Speaker 1: are actual lives at stake, but this is so interesting
Speaker 1: to watch. You have a complete, you know, decapitation of
Speaker 1: a regime. It's degenerated into like you know, a region,
Speaker 1: both geographical regions and regions of power, like just no
Speaker 1: central flow of power.
Speaker 2: It's all kind of atomized. I guess the word would be.
Speaker 1: What that looks like in two months, six months a year?
Speaker 1: Is just super crazy interesting from a political science perspective,
Speaker 1: I have no idea, particularly given the utter hatred of
Speaker 1: the regime by huge swaths of the population, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: how does that dynamic play out? Can you just rebrutalize
Speaker 1: the population over and over and over again?
Speaker 2: And who knows? It's terrible but interesting.
Speaker 1: So Israel, thank God, you're American right now, friends, right now,
Speaker 1: Thank whatever God you hold dear that you are an
Speaker 1: American citizen. If you are, if not, welcome to our land.
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy your estate.
Speaker 2: Learn to speak English, and don't overstay your visa. I tweeted.
Speaker 2: I tweeted out a guy standing there reporting where a
Speaker 2: missile felt like the block away from him. Did you
Speaker 2: see that? And that's what I tweeted yesterday was I'm
Speaker 2: glad I live in this country where that can happen.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of places in the world where that
Speaker 2: can happen. It can't happen here.
Speaker 1: The son of the president of Iran is keeping a
Speaker 1: bit of an online diary during the conflict, and some
Speaker 1: of the things he said are really really interesting.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that maybe next hour. Oh wow, that
Speaker 2: sounds good. Israel did make a statement yesterday that they're
Speaker 2: not going to attack any more energy infrastructure without our
Speaker 2: going along with it. So whether they stick to that
Speaker 2: or not, I don't know. Yeah, and it could be.
Speaker 2: I feel like that kind of hurts the whole The
Speaker 2: Jews are driving this and we're just their puppet narrative.
Speaker 1: Which is idiotic. Please if you're saying that you're an idiot.
Speaker 1: Stop saying anything. Idiots should be seen and not heard.
Speaker 1: It is also entirely possible because the whole we knew
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: We didn't do a about it. We gave him permission,
Speaker 2: we did.
Speaker 1: That's just it's absolutely entirely possible that as we coordinate
Speaker 1: with Israel, slightly different sets of goals. And we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that too, But Israel said, look, we've got to
Speaker 1: demonstrate that we're willing to take out their energy infrastructure.
Speaker 2: That's going to be the only way to get them
Speaker 2: to give.
Speaker 1: And we said, all right, one sample of how bad
Speaker 1: it could get, and then then we cool off because
Speaker 1: we don't want to upset the world markets.
Speaker 2: And there's you just said, okay, we'll take out this fit.
Speaker 2: That sort of thing happens all the time in war.
Speaker 2: Can you don't tell the New York Times, Maybe don't
Speaker 2: tell anybody for twenty five years when the when they
Speaker 2: exactly right papers are finally released. Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 2: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It is Friday,
Speaker 2: March twentieth, the year twenty twenty six, where I'm strong
Speaker 2: and getty, and we approve of this program. All right.
Speaker 1: Let's begin then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations,
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Speaker 2: Those are the student to play by play announcers.
Speaker 1: For a high point of beating Wisconsin round one, they're
Speaker 1: jumping up and down, hugging each other.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, no kidding, you know. And there's always so
Speaker 2: much excitement and happiness for the twelve that upsets the
Speaker 2: five or any big upset in the march madness, and
Speaker 2: nobody ever talks about the kids who've worked their whole lives.
Speaker 2: This is their senior year. They're not good enough to
Speaker 2: be in the pros. This is this is it, this
Speaker 2: is their whole thing, and they were gonna enjoy the
Speaker 2: tournament and they got knocked out by a team that's
Speaker 2: not even close to as good as them, and they'll
Speaker 2: never get over it. Hey, it sucks to suck, all right,
Speaker 2: should have won.
Speaker 1: It sucks. That might end up being your quote. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I stole that one. It's a friend of mine uses that.
Speaker 1: We often use it on the golf course.
Speaker 2: It sucks to suck, sucks to suck. That's pretty funny, Okay,
Speaker 2: We've got Katie's headlines on the way and lots of
Speaker 2: news to get to stay here. H MPV is what
Speaker 2: chat gpt is said, is really going around that starts
Speaker 2: with a sore throat. HMPV. You don't meta panoma virus. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's what I was afraid of RSV. Oh. It's a
Speaker 2: bad feeling, but at least me strap is what fits
Speaker 2: the pattern the most, and that's very contagious. Yes, it's
Speaker 2: a fast tard.
Speaker 3: Hope.
Speaker 2: I didn't give it to your handsome when I was
Speaker 2: breathing on you yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's the traditional kiss you insist on at the end
Speaker 1: of every show for years. Begged you to stop the superstition.
Speaker 1: All right, let's figure out who's reporting on. It's the
Speaker 1: lead story with Katie being Katie.
Speaker 3: All right, all the major news networks talking about Iran, ABC, US,
Speaker 3: target's mind lane, vessels in the Strait of war moves
Speaker 3: amid blockade disrupted, disrupting global oil markets. NBC fears of
Speaker 3: an all out Israeli invasion mount in Lebanon, and CNN
Speaker 3: analysts warned the war could keep prices high for years
Speaker 3: as energy infrastructure is damaged in the region.
Speaker 2: I tend to doubt that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of alarmism because it gets clicks.
Speaker 1: Be Afraid is the most powerful clickbait that exists on Earth.
Speaker 2: It's gonna stay big, It's gonna stay high forever because
Speaker 2: that energy infrastructure was damaged. Is a stupid take. Who
Speaker 2: wrote that? It's just a stupid take? Clickmit garbage news.
Speaker 3: Nation Transportation Secretary Warren's travel chaos will only get worse.
Speaker 1: They've got to settle this whole stupid DHS thing.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. We can get into it later if
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 1: But it's just it's a publicity stunt by the Dems,
Speaker 1: and you're the victims.
Speaker 2: From the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 3: Tesla finally has its first semi truck and it's a
Speaker 3: hit with truckers.
Speaker 2: Oh really, I was reading about it. Very impressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, between the technology and a good solid five hundred
Speaker 1: mile range.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen them in person. They have that super
Speaker 2: Fancia Car Museum in Los Angeles. They have them on display.
Speaker 2: There's something else. God, what are they weigh though? My
Speaker 2: cyber truck weighs seven pounds because the batteries are so heavy.
Speaker 2: What is the whatever trucks weigh it's got to tear
Speaker 2: the hell out of the road. Huh.
Speaker 3: From Wired Robot goes berserk in California restaurant, dragged away
Speaker 3: by staff after smashing te That's awesome. They had it
Speaker 3: in dance mode and it couldn't They couldn't get it
Speaker 3: to stop.
Speaker 2: Dancing and video.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it was dance flailing and breaking stuff and
Speaker 1: they're trying to wrestle it to the ground once so.
Speaker 2: I start dancing. I can't stop either.
Speaker 1: Shop here a dance dandtan stand dance stance dancing machine.
Speaker 2: Daily Mail.
Speaker 3: Venomous flying spiders guise of a human hand are spreading
Speaker 3: across the United States.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm having this weird dream that I'm doing the show
Speaker 1: and they're flying spiders in the world.
Speaker 2: I gotta wake myself up. Flying spiders the size of
Speaker 2: a human hand. Good lord, Wow, I'm moving. You gotta
Speaker 2: bring us that whole story.
Speaker 3: Where are they spreading across the United States?
Speaker 2: Starting from where? Oh? I don't know. Okay, we gotta
Speaker 2: we gotta go deep on this story.
Speaker 3: They originated in in Asia.
Speaker 2: Another sneak attack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, it started on the East Coast. They've been
Speaker 3: seen in Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas.
Speaker 2: Okay, also in California got to build a wall the Mississippi.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, that's right, but they've been seen in California
Speaker 3: as well, so you screwed.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Study fines nineteen million Americans have seriously thought about shooting
Speaker 3: someone seriously thought about it. Yes, according to this headline,
Speaker 3: it's a national survey.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, does that include like a home invader? I mean,
Speaker 1: because anybody who owns a firearm had better think seriously
Speaker 1: about it and make sure you're mentally prepared to use it.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's if you can. I don't think
Speaker 2: that's what they mean. I don't think well.
Speaker 3: And finally, finally, the Babylon Beat California celebrates installation of
Speaker 3: single La trash Can. The cost four hundred billion dollars
Speaker 3: and took eighteen years to build.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's close to right. Fantastic. So we have venomous
Speaker 2: flying spiders the size of your hand. Okay, yes, that
Speaker 2: seems like the headline of the day, really, and a
Speaker 2: bunch of other stuff to get to. We'll fill in
Speaker 2: all those stories for you. Hope you can stick around
Speaker 2: armstrong and getty. It's Friday. So here in a couple
Speaker 2: hours we'll start drinking daktries. That's what we do on Fridays.
Speaker 2: Last hour of the show's gets a little blue. So
Speaker 2: if you can't.
Speaker 1: Han'clock in the morning's a little early for me. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a team player.
Speaker 2: So you can't handle the blue hour when the dakery
Speaker 2: starts to sink in, you know, and maybe you're not
Speaker 2: the you know know, you don't have the stuff for
Speaker 2: this show. Maybe that's the case. Wow. We'll get to
Speaker 2: the how we'll start the bactries later, but there's a
Speaker 2: fair amount of news to get to. We got to
Speaker 2: get to Trump sitting with the Japanese Prime Minister here
Speaker 2: in a few minutes. In case you haven't heard it,
Speaker 2: it's all time for both my kids, because I said,
Speaker 2: this is one of Trump's all time great.
Speaker 1: Good lord cringebor, as I said during this oh my gosh, introduction.
Speaker 1: All right, but first it's the Friday tradition. Let's take
Speaker 1: a fond look back at the week that was.
Speaker 2: It's cowl clips of the week week. Won Let me
Speaker 2: tell it, we one we've not yet seen any proof
Speaker 2: of life from moshtaba kama i e the last.
Speaker 3: Job anyone in the world wants right now, Senior leader
Speaker 3: for the IRGC temp jobs.
Speaker 2: You went down the stairs. He was headed outside for
Speaker 2: something hid like this, dude, as Iran keeps its iron
Speaker 2: grip on the straight of horror mood.
Speaker 4: And we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.
Speaker 4: Who knows better about surprise than Japan. Hey, why didn't
Speaker 4: you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
Speaker 2: He told the media that I was a freaking snake, sir.
Speaker 2: And you offer no apology today and no regrets.
Speaker 1: Dueling with two consentents also still there, I was pointing
Speaker 1: out what an.
Speaker 4: Illegal for one hundred and seventy years.
Speaker 2: Governor of Texas Greg Abbott coming out saying we are
Speaker 2: not going to do Caesar Chavez Day, which was that
Speaker 2: Senate He believed in non violence except against thirteen year
Speaker 2: old girls if he was horny, and the nation used
Speaker 2: to hardship. If you want say, the situation has never
Speaker 2: been worth.
Speaker 4: I do believe I'll be the honor of having the
Speaker 4: honor of thinking Cuba.
Speaker 2: Ok Sean, you.
Speaker 3: Were called Officer pouncy multiple times.
Speaker 2: I got the right to kick a can in my backyard.
Speaker 4: Use my freedom of speech, turn my bad times into
Speaker 4: a good time.
Speaker 2: Yes, I do. And I think I'm a sport for dealing.
Speaker 2: So we're all on a spectrum, right.
Speaker 3: It's just how society kind of push pushes us and
Speaker 3: pressures us into these limiting gender roles.
Speaker 2: And so to be able to just be roaming the
Speaker 2: Santa Monica Mountains looking for seeds in that sacred solitude
Speaker 2: was such a blessing. Mama has the icks so bad,
Speaker 2: she looks like she's about to legit. I'm alive, her husband,
Speaker 2: why do you not use capital letters? And as I
Speaker 2: said it, I felt myself developed osteoporosis, like from how
Speaker 2: old I was best? It's clips of the week lot
Speaker 2: there that clip Gavin Newsom's wife. Society push pushes us
Speaker 2: into gender roles. Oh my god. If she honestly that drum,
Speaker 2: if she as lady, it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: We have more from her. She's really speaking out lately.
Speaker 1: She is a limousine Marxist. It occurred to me she
Speaker 1: is the perfect example of that phrase I love for
Speaker 1: Matt tayeebe upper class.
Speaker 2: It's promoting revolution anyway. Uh, that whateer if there's that
Speaker 2: would be a tough situation to be in. I mean,
Speaker 2: because obviously Gavin could be thinking, she is not helping
Speaker 2: me get to be president of the United States. But
Speaker 2: how would I tell her to shut up? May That'd
Speaker 2: be a tough situation.
Speaker 1: Obviously, Gavy is getting a fair amount of attention online.
Speaker 1: Over the last twenty four hours or so, he appeared
Speaker 1: at some stupid event with I think it was criminal
Speaker 1: Rob Bonta, the Attorney General. But Gavy's standing in the background,
Speaker 1: just twitching NonStop and rubbing in his nose and pacing
Speaker 1: back and forth. And I've never seen anybody behave like
Speaker 1: that unless they are, you know, a coked up be
Speaker 1: on meth or c like waiting to go in for
Speaker 1: the interview that'll make or break their career.
Speaker 2: But he is just twitchy, really interesting, interesting, right, Okay, uh, Michael,
Speaker 2: We're gonna play clips sixty. So the setting here is
Speaker 2: Trump is in the Oval Office with the Prime Minister
Speaker 2: of Japan, who is a woman, first time they've ever
Speaker 2: had a woman prime minister. She is quite a hawk
Speaker 2: on China and protecting Taiwan and that sort of stuff,
Speaker 2: and she is a friend of the United States. It's uh,
Speaker 2: it's good to have her in charge of Japan. But
Speaker 2: oh yeah, a huge step forward. Trump, as he often
Speaker 2: does when he has world leaders there, starts taking questions
Speaker 2: from the press, and you'll hear the question.
Speaker 4: Let me pick a beautiful looking person from a beautiful
Speaker 4: person from Japan, A question for the Prime minister. Go ahead, yeah,
Speaker 4: oh he doesn't really, Oh he's just selling chet go ahead.
Speaker 5: Of us, know Japan, and this is a very good friend.
Speaker 5: But one question, why isn't use allence in Europe? And yeah,
Speaker 5: as like Japan about the wol before looking out. So
Speaker 5: we are very confused about we're telling.
Speaker 2: Well, one thing. You don't want to signal too much.
Speaker 4: You know when we go in, we went in very
Speaker 4: hard and we didn't tell anybody about it because we
Speaker 4: wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise in Japan? Hey,
Speaker 4: why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, do you believe in surprise? I think much
Speaker 4: more sound than us.
Speaker 2: So cringey god, And the Prime Minister is sitting there
Speaker 2: with a blank expression in her face, like this moment.
Speaker 2: Let's let this get past this moment.
Speaker 1: Oh man, go to another question, right, exactly, Witch, this
Speaker 1: is Mike Zelensky. You have no cards moment, got to
Speaker 1: stay calm, right, right, So I'll just.
Speaker 2: Give you a smattering of the reactions.
Speaker 1: There are a number of people who are offended or
Speaker 1: pretending to be offended in Japan and other you know places,
Speaker 1: including the capitals of the intelligency in the United States.
Speaker 2: Well, let's let's dwell on this before you move on. Sure,
Speaker 2: let me think, Oh, yes, I hadn't thought about the
Speaker 2: idea of being offended. As Japan it is everybody's always
Speaker 2: everything's always got back to go back to the Hitler
Speaker 2: in the Nazis. But like, if it was Germany and
Speaker 2: you make some joke that like equates to the current
Speaker 2: current Germans with the Nazis, that would definitely be offensive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you made some comment about, oh, you're gonna
Speaker 1: put the cake in the oven, that's not the same
Speaker 1: ovens you used for you know, the Jews more about.
Speaker 2: Ovens than the than the Nazis. Huh huh, yeah, all
Speaker 2: the ovens.
Speaker 1: It has an element of bringing up an incredibly painful
Speaker 1: and unpleasant chapter with a friend.
Speaker 2: Right, and it's similar. I mean, they had an out
Speaker 2: of control an nihilist, militaristic society at the time with
Speaker 2: enormous popular support with them. So there's that the emperor
Speaker 2: is a god, et cetera. Uh SO TV commentator said
Speaker 2: it shows an unpleasant side of President Trump. He doesn't
Speaker 2: care at all that the Japanese Prime Minister is sitting
Speaker 2: next to him. Here's A professor of Japanese politics at
Speaker 2: University of Tokyo said that many Japanese would probably shrug
Speaker 2: off the joke, seeing it is just another over the
Speaker 2: top remark by mister Trump. Yeah, he added, this is
Speaker 2: something that absolutely shouldn't be said. You might just start
Speaker 2: saying things like Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fine, weren't they
Speaker 2: For Japanese people, we can't accept that. I will tell
Speaker 2: you this.
Speaker 1: This will come and go like a summer rain already,
Speaker 1: has I suppose Yeah, yeah, I will tell you this.
Speaker 1: And I didn't get permission to tell the story, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep it vague. I have a friend
Speaker 1: who was in South Korea on business and one of
Speaker 1: his coworkers is Japanese, and they went to a South
Speaker 1: Korean museum and there were so many exhibits of when
Speaker 1: Korea was sneak attacked by Japan.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a theme that happened over and
Speaker 2: over again.
Speaker 1: Perhaps one person started nicknaming the other person's sneak attack
Speaker 1: because the Japanese were so repeatedly into that.
Speaker 2: And how no, and how did the person of Japanese
Speaker 2: persuasion take the nickname? I was laughing.
Speaker 1: I didn't ask did they find that funny? Or I
Speaker 1: have no idea. But the point is Trump was right.
Speaker 1: He was one hundred percent right.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily you want to bring up your friend's worst
Speaker 2: a moment in front of them.
Speaker 4: Probably not because we wanted to surprise. Who knows better
Speaker 4: about surprise than Japan.
Speaker 2: Trump was right? What does that mean? What do you
Speaker 2: mean Trump was right?
Speaker 1: Well, Japan and the sneak attack are practically synonymous.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you're experts, you're experts. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you put that in the category of right. There's lots
Speaker 2: of things that there are gazillions of things that are correct,
Speaker 2: but you don't save them.
Speaker 1: That's right up there with origami and sushi. It's part
Speaker 1: of the Japanese culture. It was just observing that he.
Speaker 2: Was paying tribute to their culture. Oh my god, at
Speaker 2: least he didn't bring up Godzilla. You guys said, you
Speaker 2: guys did a very good jobagating Godzilla under control. I
Speaker 2: took my cat to that. Tell you what a couple
Speaker 2: of subway cars. But you know, what are you gonna do? Yeah? No,
Speaker 2: it was terrible. It was absolutely terrible. But of no
Speaker 2: great last No, he is so unbelievable. He's one of
Speaker 2: the more unique people who have ever been of prominence
Speaker 2: in the history of the world.
Speaker 1: And I would love to know. I guess we'll know
Speaker 1: maybe going forward. How much of it is the media
Speaker 1: and the swamp were so brutally unfair to his first administration.
Speaker 2: He's got an f it, f you and f it
Speaker 2: attitude going.
Speaker 1: Plus he's got the old man filter going away thing,
Speaker 1: So how fasten your seatbelts?
Speaker 2: He might here's what I like at it too. I
Speaker 2: also need to be vague so I don't hurt anybody's feelings.
Speaker 2: Somebody I know when I was a kid, that's bothered me.
Speaker 2: When I got older, I understood what was happening. There
Speaker 2: are some people that their personality is they always like
Speaker 2: to have you uncomfortable and on your heels, even if
Speaker 2: they're you're not liking a negotiation or anything like that.
Speaker 2: They just want to have you a little rattled. That's
Speaker 2: the way they live their lives. They want everybody around
Speaker 2: them to be a little rattled. It puts them in
Speaker 2: a position of power or comfort or I don't know
Speaker 2: what it is as a psychological trait. I think Trump
Speaker 2: is that he likes to have people around him just
Speaker 2: a little off kilter in case he needs it. I
Speaker 2: think so, yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise
Speaker 4: than Japan.
Speaker 2: You should have told me about Pearl Harbor, which of
Speaker 2: course was a weird thing since nobody was born at
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: But little Tora torah tora reference or something. Yeah, come on,
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 2: That is so amazing of the look on the Prime
Speaker 2: Minister's face and at this particular moment where they had
Speaker 2: stated twenty four hours previous that they were not going
Speaker 2: to help us out, and then they decided to sign
Speaker 2: on to that letter with all the European countries about
Speaker 2: helping us get the straight up war moves open. And
Speaker 2: how does a major win for Marco Rubio or whoever
Speaker 2: got put that together? And then Trump makes.
Speaker 1: The boy flatter and the crap out Trump too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, like to the point that she knew what
Speaker 1: she was doing and she was choking down her pride
Speaker 1: and all but figured out you got to do it
Speaker 1: with this guy and then that thing, yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it's just you know, and then kind of like
Speaker 2: the person that I'm imagining who used to do that
Speaker 2: all the time until I figured out, Oh, okay, I
Speaker 2: get what it is. You expect it, you get used
Speaker 2: to it. You know that's their personality. You might not
Speaker 2: like it, but it's just it's not as shocking as
Speaker 2: it would be coming out of somebody else where you're
Speaker 2: not used to it. And I think Trump's definitely that way.
Speaker 2: The Overton window for what behavior might happen in a
Speaker 2: conversation is much different in a room with Trump than
Speaker 2: with anybody else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and world leaders have definitely caught on to it.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is Japanese, so the Japanese people
Speaker 1: are legit famed for their reserve, and you know that
Speaker 1: they're not an effusive people. Jo, why didn't you tell
Speaker 1: us about Pearl Harbor? Well, he said, why didn't you
Speaker 1: tell me about Pearl r?
Speaker 2: Wait what?
Speaker 4: Because we surprise who knows better about surprise than Japan.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, WTF is the universal language? Because
Speaker 1: as her translator translates that to her, you see her
Speaker 1: face be.
Speaker 2: Like what he said? What? Oh Jesus. But she tried
Speaker 2: to keep her composure, but you know that look crept in.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Okay, we got mail back next day here.
Speaker 2: So does your wife, Judy have any symptoms other than
Speaker 2: a sore throat?
Speaker 1: Just the general malaise and sniffles and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Trying to figure out what's going around the country right now.
Speaker 2: It starts with a really bad sore throat. Since I've
Speaker 2: got one, and my son's got one and your wife
Speaker 2: has one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 1: M Oh, this is a great one from Churchill in
Speaker 1: war time, truth is so precious that she should always
Speaker 1: be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Interesting thought, The
Speaker 1: truth is so precious should always be attended by a
Speaker 1: bodyguard of lies. Deception is part of war. Absolutely. Mailbag
Speaker 1: woo woot.
Speaker 2: Let's see we'll start with this.
Speaker 1: Barry, Oh, drop us a note mailbag at armstrung and
Speaker 1: getty dot com. Barry said, can someone explain to me
Speaker 1: on population decline in AI what the concern is about
Speaker 1: nation's experience in declining populations? And it gives some of
Speaker 1: the stats and say I will be eliminating untold jobs.
Speaker 1: Does it really matter if the population goes back to
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five levels? Should also benefit the planet with
Speaker 1: regards to climate change, excess resource extraction, pollution, et cetera.
Speaker 2: If I'm being stupid, please inform me well from everything
Speaker 2: I read about demographics, the problem with that is it
Speaker 2: tends to be trends that keep going in a direction.
Speaker 2: And if you keep going to a direction of dot
Speaker 2: m kids, the population spiraling down really takes off. It's
Speaker 2: exponential the way the numbers work. You know, right to
Speaker 2: find some place to read about it, because it's amazing
Speaker 2: how quickly it can go down to a tiny number.
Speaker 1: And every Western democracy has a pyramid scheme welfare state, right,
Speaker 1: and that is going to be fiscally disastrous during.
Speaker 2: That low reproduction period.
Speaker 1: At some point it'll probably go away in some form
Speaker 1: or another and we'll probably have Lord of the flies, cannibalism,
Speaker 1: et cetera. But being being concerned about people not being born,
Speaker 1: how do you be concerned about someone who's not born
Speaker 1: is an interesting idea agreed now. On the topic of
Speaker 1: ses Archeves, Delors, Lauerta, etc. Tom writes, what happened to
Speaker 1: Dolores Wuerto was terrible. She got raped by cesar Cheves,
Speaker 1: not in a marriage, but she stayed, not in a
Speaker 1: marriage to protect kids, but in a business relationship to
Speaker 1: further a cause. That's a choice she gets to make
Speaker 1: if it only affects her. But she is his right
Speaker 1: hand lady, and it is it not possible that she
Speaker 1: allowed others to suffer because the man was the cause,
Speaker 1: and the cause was too important to get derailed by
Speaker 1: her coming forward to protect them. Why only after others
Speaker 1: came forward thirty years after his death did she say
Speaker 1: me too. I'm not trying to tear her down, but
Speaker 1: can we take a moment before we elevate another to
Speaker 1: hero status. Changing names and rewriting textbooks costs money. How
Speaker 1: about we do it only once she is in a
Speaker 1: difficult position. Yeah, I was gonna say, I hesitate to
Speaker 1: judge the actions and inactions of rape victims in the seventies,
Speaker 1: victims of very very powerful men.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but interesting point.
Speaker 1: Christo and Reno reminds us that sees Archives Street in
Speaker 1: San Francisco was originally called Army Street for one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty years. Maybe it's time to rename it that
Speaker 1: in honor of our fighting men and women. Let's see
Speaker 1: great analysis here on the around thing. We don't have time,
Speaker 1: and we particular early Jack, we're completely wrong about animal overpasses.
Speaker 1: Late in the show yesterday, gobble some delicious humble pie.
Speaker 2: Yeah whatever, we got a lot more on the ways
Speaker 2: to here, Armstrong and Getty