WEBVTT - The Legacy on the Line 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:06.360 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:11.440 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Getty Armstrong and Jett 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:12.720 and he. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.479 Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.080 What we should note is the reality on the ground, 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.200 and that is that Iran still has the ability to 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.840 launch missiles and drones at Israel and Golf countries. And 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.239 I spoke with a senior Israeli military official a few 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.879 days ago who indicated the incoming ballistic missile fire toward 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.120 Israel is expected to last for a few more weeks, 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.599 and so this is not anywhere close to over. And 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.199 Iran showed yesterday by targeting the energy infrastructure in the 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.000 Golf that they are willing to escalate this conflict and 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.760 target countries that have not previously targeted them. 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.720 That's ranks the Fox saying this is not anywhere close 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:02.240 to over. Yeah, that a little surprising to me. So 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.120 we've we and Israel have pounded the crap out of 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.240 Iran now for two and a half weeks, and they 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:13.520 still had plenty of power left to attack that gas 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:18.400 field in Qatar yesterday for instance, right right, And I 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:23.680 find myself uneasy, partly because, as usual, I have complaints 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.720 about Donald Jay and the way he communicates that back 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.200 and forth. We're about over, it's about done any minute now, 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.800 and then you know, the next day or ten minutes later, 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.920 it's well, there's a lot still to be done. That's 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.479 going to take some time. So I have no idea 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.920 what the plan was. Maybe this is precisely the plan. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:42.800 Oh yeah, it's going to be at least six weeks 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.560 of extensive bombing, and we expect it for tag attacks 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.960 and all. This is all a surprise. I'm not sure 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.440 this is precisely the plan. Applies to any war in 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:53.480 the history of war once you're a couple of weeks in, 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.280 because fair point, it's the whole everybody's got a plan 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.320 until they get punched in the face scenario. That seems 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.559 to be true about who's calling the shots though, who's 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:06.080 fed Okay, time for us to attack the gas fields? 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.360 Who made that call? Treyank's reports on the who's in 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:10.160 charge part of this. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.680 We don't know who is in charge of Iran right now. 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.000 We've not yet seen any proof of life from Mushtaba 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:16.000 kham And II. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:17.440 The current Supreme leader of Iran. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.639 Last night, through state media, he reportedly released a statement 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.480 calling for the avenging of the death of Ali Larajani, 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.040 the top official who was killed just about forty eight 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.480 hours ago. But we are seeing a concerted effort by 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.960 the Israelis and the Americans to take out what remains 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.800 of the leadership structure there, not just Larajani, but also 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.040 yesterday we reported the intelligence minister of Iran and also 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.000 a top besieged commander. We expect these types of strikes 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.600 to continue, but the Iranians are filling the shoes of 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.920 these leaders, and they are still firing on a variety 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.760 of different locations across the Middle East. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.399 So I'm like an Iranian general or a Republican guard guy, 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.360 and I hear you need to take vengeance in the 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.840 name of Lauren Johnny, I'm thinking, m already at war 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.800 with everything we've got. We've attacked all our neighbors. We're 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.880 sending drones like everywhere they can. What would that look 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:14.760 like exactly, mister Ayatola. I'm just still work shopping here. 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:20.280 Don't cut my head off. But uh man, when you 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:21.920 say don't cut my head off and r on, you 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:27.200 mean it. Yeah. So, but it's so interesting to know 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.600 how much communication do they have. Did word get around. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.280 Are there people in charge of what? I'm in charge 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.480 of this militia, You're in charge of the Republican Guard, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.400 You're in charge of the I don't know, the Mullah's 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.600 Secret Defense Force or whatever. There's like so many different entities. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.520 And did somebody here yesterday we attacked the gas field? 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.760 What whose idea was that? I mean almost certainly is 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.960 that the way it's going down? Who's eye? Who made 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.960 that decision? I don't know. So we're not trying to 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.680 line up support in the region now, we're trying to 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:03.000 alienate native everybody. Yeah, yeah, Well, I'm told that the 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.360 military and the Republican Guard has gone to a much 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.760 more decentralized command structure because it has to. You got 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.200 no choice. As to what Pete Hegsat said a couple 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:14.560 hours ago. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.240 The last job anyone in the world wants right now, 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:23.640 senior leader for the IRGC or besiege temp jobs, all 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.640 of them. And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.240 King in World War Two, we've decided to share the 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:36.360 ocean with Iran. We've given them the bottom half. We've 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.680 damaged or sunk over one hundred and twenty of their 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.440 Navy ships with battle damage assessments pending for many more. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.360 Man, that's some vintage wise assery there, that line from 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:50.239 WW two. I don't know. I don't know what I think. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.000 Sometimes I like the Wise astery, sometimes I don't. I 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.040 don't know. We're sharing the ocean with them. We'll give 0:04:55.080 --> 0:05:00.960 them the bottom half. That's hilarious. Although I was thinking 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.160 as I listened to Secretary Pete, who in a lot 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:05.920 of ways I think is doing a bang up job. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.560 But if this were a movie and he was a 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.880 character in it, I'd be like, you should have gotten 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.680 a better actor. This guy's just there's no subtlety to 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.359 this performance. You know. All he's got is I'm a 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:23.640 fast talking, hard ass. So yesterday was the biggest escalation 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.800 of the war since it's began. Iran attacked the world's 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.240 largest oil field, which is partially in their country in Qatar. 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:35.039 Qatar attacked or Israel first attack to the largest oil 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.560 field in Iran. Then Iran attacked to the world's largest 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.599 oil field that they share in Qatar, and so it's 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.719 on there. So Pete Hegzath said this Today. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.160 We've struck over seven thousand targets across Iran. And its 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:52.160 military infrastructure that is not incremental, that is overwhelming force 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:56.520 applied with precision. And again today will be the largest 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.640 strike package yet, just like yesterday was. As I've said 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.760 from day one, our capabilities continue to build, Iran's continue 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:09.640 to degrade. We're hunting and striking death and destruction from above. 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.920 Well, that's interesting. It's going to be the biggest strike 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:19.680 package so far in the war, and it increases every day. 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:24.599 And is Iran still has the ability to you know, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.039 work their mayhem like they did yesterday. Right, So what 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.880 happens now is reading from Mark Alprin's newsletter and he's 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.719 talking to lots of people inside the Pentagon, in inside 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.520 the White House with the plans are mentioned earlier. The 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.920 Pentagon is reportedly preparing to request another two hundred billion 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:51.520 dollars for the effort. And that's where Congress could get involved, obviously, 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.800 if they wanted to slow this down by by not 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.040 allowing that or having some serious debate about it. We'll 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.640 see if that happens or not. Among the options now 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.239 being according to Halprin's sources, are the seizure of carg 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.120 Island that's a strategic nerve center for Iran's oil exports. 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.800 There's also the prospect of deploying ground forces along segments 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.640 of the Iranian coast to secure freedom of navigation through 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.920 the Strait of Horror Moves. It is a scenario that 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:21.600 would make naval historians nod grimly mark Alperrin Wrights. Yeah, 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.680 so we've got twenty five hundred marines that are going 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.480 to be there like today or tomorrow, and we're sending 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.480 another twenty five hundred marines they announced today for a 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.760 total of five thousand. If you had announced at the 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.640 beginning of the war, we're going to have five thousand 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.000 or who knows how many thousand marines on the ground 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:37.880 securing the Strait of Horror Moves. I don't know how 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.000 that would upold on that topic, and I found this 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:45.440 very interesting. The latest deployment is the thirty first Marine 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.920 Expeditionary Unit, a rapid response force of about twenty two 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.600 hundred marines to the Middle East. The US could use 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.320 the unit to seize one or more of the islands 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:54.920 off the southern coast of Iran, to use it as 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.720 leverage or as a base to counter Iranian attacks on 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:02.920 commercial shipping. In short, to help secure the Strait. The 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.600 unit is slated to arrive in the Middle East from 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.560 Japan in just over a week. It's amazing how slowly 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.200 things move when you're moving this much gear. But here's 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.640 the really interesting part. A marine expeditionary unit is a 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.680 self sustained unit that operates off ships, using them as 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.640 a mobile base. It is composed of four elements. A 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:25.360 ground combat unit of marine infantry equipped with armored vehicles 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.680 and artillery. I think we all kind of pictured that 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.880 when we heard two hundred twenty five hundred marines. Also 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:36.040 an aviation unit of MV twenty two ospre rotor aircraft, 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.800 helicopters and jet fighters such as the F thirty five B. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.560 A command team that coordinates the unit's movement, and a 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.679 logistics battalion that provides essential support, supply and equipment maintenance. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.160 It specializes in conducting raids by sea and by air. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.520 So when you hear that the marine expeditionary unit is 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.240 twenty two hundred marines, it's a hell of a lot 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.920 more than that. It is a coordinated attack a juggernaut, 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:03.480 and now we're gonna have two of those, it would 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.000 seem that are going to be there. Yeah, that is 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:11.520 really something. The other proposal being advanced by Richard Haas, 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.720 who's always on MSNBC, used to run the some foreign 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.080 policy think tank. This is an interesting idea. It involves 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:22.920 constructing an international coalition to effectively shut down the Strait 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.560 to Iranian traffic, so rather than put in forces to 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.320 try to open it up for everybody else, shut it 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.880 down so the Iranians can't get their ships out of there. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.640 Because as Wall Street Journal and we've repeated it over 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.240 and over, Iran's actually exporting more oil than they did 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.640 before the war. But it'd be a lot easier to 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.120 stop that probably that it would be to open it up. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:46.920 So okay, now you can't get any through, So what 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:52.400 do you want to do. Yeah, that's not a bad plan. No, no, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.440 unless they are at the true caged beast point and 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.120 are not caged but a cornered beast point in the war, 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.080 and then they're like, we don't have the people in 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.520 infrastructure left to cash the checks we're getting for the oil. 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.960 This is complete chaos, and then you'll see them in 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.760 their death throes and what that looks like could be ugly. 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.600 And the other thing, thank god, they don't have a nuke, 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.040 no kidding. And the other thing being bandied about in 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.040 the White House and the Pentagon apparently is the possibility 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.920 of just expanding the scope of the US Israeli strikes, 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.679 more targets, more drones, more missiles, and the strategic objective 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:28.120 shifting significantly toward regime change, which has just kind of 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.320 been all along. Fine, if the regime changes, if you 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.880 just get like a more reasonable Mullah in charge, who 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.040 stops trying to get a nuclear weapon, we'd be fine 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.880 with that. Maybe we move toward not they gotta go, 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.200 which might be where we end up if they continue 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:44.880 to fight like this, although again it gets back to 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.800 the original question of who's in charge. The mullos might 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.040 not have anything to do with what's going on right now. 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.319 I would love to know the level of chaos. I mean, 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.800 it's got to be pretty high, I would think so. 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.079 And then just one more thing to look forward to, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.320 quote unquote one topic that hasn't got a lot of 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:07.000 discussion yet is at some point we e somebody needs 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:12.040 to seize or destroy the highly refined nuclear material that 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.400 everybody believes is stored deep under a mountain in Isfahan. 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:20.000 That would as described by the Wallster, I'm sorry. By 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.280 the New York Times, it would, by any measure, be 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.840 one of the boldest and riskiest to military operations in 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.760 modern American history, far more complex and dangerous than the 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.559 effort to kill Osama bin Laden in twenty eleven, or 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.080 sees Nicholas Maduro from his bed in early January. Nobody's 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.160 certain where all the fuel is. If the canisters holding 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.880 it are pierced, the escaping gas would be both toxic 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.440 and radioactive. The canisters come too close together, there is 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:49.240 the risk of an accelerating nuclear reaction. Wow, I know 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.480 nothing about the physics of that. I can only assume 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.960 that's accurate and not good. I can only assume that's 0:11:56.000 --> 0:12:00.120 not good. Fraught, as they say. And then at what 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.240 point do gas prices natural gas prices like really get 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.400 people's attention, Like it's the only thing people are talking about. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.560 If we end up with i'd say, ten dollars and 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.640 count what you Yeah, are we talking about the rest 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.760 of the country or California, Because we live with five 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:22.040 dollars gas regularly in California. That would be extraordinarily shocking 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.240 for much of the country to have five dollars gas. Yeah, 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.600 particularly given the fact that the rest of the country 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.840 has lower wages mostly than your higher cost to coastal states. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.920 But that I think I think that's the most likely 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.439 scenario that I see happening, is that we we have 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.720 gas prices that is like the only topic in the 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.560 country for a while. No, I don't want kind of 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.640 political pressure that causes Honestly, I would be shocked to 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.160 avoid that, right shocked if we can avoid that. Final note, 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.400 one of my friends text that I share this with 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.400 Jack off the air, that hey, great to see my 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.840 four to oh one k get murdered by stuff happening 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.280 nine thousand miles away. It really don't give an s out. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.960 And I assured him all this little tiff will be 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.160 over in the matter of days and then wealth for everyone. Yeah, 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:11.480 I was, I was kind of kidding. Uh, it could 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:16.959 be a while. The markets are concerned. Yeah, you know, 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.200 I'm sorry. This is analysis so obvious and everybody's saying it, 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.640 but I feel like I have to Donald J is 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.840 one hundred percent got his legacy on the line right now. Oh, 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.439 I'd say this was this very well could be the sentence. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.559 The first sentence in his biography obituary however you want 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.400 to look at it. Yep, this whole Oran thing. Wow, 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:41.280 A lot more on the way. Stay here. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.240 I've never felt older in my life than when I've 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.120 taxed a gen Z person and they only use lowercase letters. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.160 And then I bring up, like, why do you not 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.360 use capital letters? And as I said it, I felt 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.880 myself developed osteoporosis, like from how old I was. She's like, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:05.599 oh yeah, I turn it off on my phone, so 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.120 nothing capitalizes because it just feels so like formal. And 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.000 it's like, well, older people do. And I'm like, why 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.920 does it make me old to use capital letters? I 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:17.400 don't use capital letters either. Gen Z thinks capital letters 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:21.040 are just too intense, and a linguist agrees. I don't 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.360 know if that's it. I think it's just young people 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.360 separating themselves from their parents. They got to wear a 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.240 different hat than their dad was there does and just 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.520 I don't know. I see I see the conversations my 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.360 son has with his friends, and it's almost like a 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.080 foreign language. I mean, And that's not all I mean, 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.600 that's just it's just I don't know what they get. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.400 Why you got to do this as a young person. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.600 We should bring back that art curator describing the masterpiece 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.040 with gen Z slang that was that was really amusing. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:52.000 I have two completely conflicting thoughts on this. Number. One 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.360 of the beginning of this article talks about how gen 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.800 Z has developed many quirks that have come to define 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:01.160 the generation, from work minimalism to soft social blah blah blah. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.800 And I'm like, you know, up until like the late 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:08.800 sixties when some of the big national news organization started 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:13.560 writing about youth culture, the adult world just kind of 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:18.640 chuckled and ignored youth culture. But now it's like such 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.960 a constant topic of conversation. It's irrelevant to me. It 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.320 doesn't matter. I don't need to know it. I'm a 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.520 grown up, I have a job, I have payment bills, 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.800 blah blah blah. And I think that was better. We're 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:35.080 constantly focusing on it. Of course, it was second conflicting thought, 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:41.280 as this linguist explains it, the way we speak, the 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.720 way it sounds, the way we use inflection and rises 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.200 and falls and pitch, and everything I'm doing right now 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:55.400 changes in context constantly, from a formal presentation to meeting 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.440 someone new, to being with your good friends to being 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.320 with your spouse blah blah blah, and the lack of 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:05.000 capitals is the equivalent of the utterly comfortable tone of 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.080 voice you use with your friend's exactly why I do 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.960 it capitals at this point, they just they seem too 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.760 formal to me a lot. For a lot of phrases 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.280 that I throw at people, it just looks weird. It'd 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:20.160 be like I'm saying, how are you doing today? Which 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.080 you don't do. See, I'd rather lose a finger than 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.680 send the grammatically incorrect text. But I understand what you're saying, 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:36.680 and I understand what you're saying. Oh man. Yeah, Plus 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.760 what young people do for each other, doesn't that they 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.160 don't they stop when they grow up usually. Uh so 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.280 it'll be fine, It will be fine. Yeah, it was 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:53.400 interesting the Jeffrey Epstein crowd us like no punctuation or 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:57.040 capitals and bad spelling, and it's kind of odd some 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:03.480 of the elite of the planet, right, major banking news 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.360 that just came across, which is either good news or 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:13.359 disastrous news, which but that among other things on the way. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:14.880 I hope you can stay here. If you don't get it. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.040 Get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:22.680 Armstrong and Getty got two kind of breaking news things 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.560 for you coming up in a minute. 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:28.000 Which jobs are most and least vulnerable to being replaced 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:33.040 by AI. The latest highly scientific wild Guests started with 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.200 us no kidding everything with AI as a wild guest. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:41.720 So first this. So we've been asking other countries to 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.040 help us with opening the straight of the horror moves, 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:45.840 and they've been giving us a stiff armold. They just 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:50.440 put out a joint statement the UK, France, Germany, Italy, 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:54.960 Netherlands and Japan, and Trump is sitting down with the 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.960 leader of Japan today in the Oval Office. All put 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:02.600 out a joint statement expressing readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts. 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.200 There are some vague words for you. Readiness to contribute 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.600 it to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.800 Straight of Horror moves, welcoming nations and engaging in prep 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:17.399 planning and coordinating as ways to increase output, and called 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:21.000 for a RAN to cease immediately it's threats, laying of minds, 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.520 drone and missile attacks and other attempts to block the 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.400 straight commercial shipping and to comply with you in Security 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:30.280 Cancel Resolution twenty eight to seventeen, where it goes. Nobody knows, 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.600 but I think Marco Rubio might end up being one 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.440 of the great secretaries of State in the history of America. 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:37.600 I've been been a big fan of his for a 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.239 long time. You see his tiny little fingerprints all over this. 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.560 Oh that was unnecessary, but yes, I suspect he was 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.639 central to this agreement. Yes, Okay, here's your other breaking 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:52.560 news thing that's either a good news or horrible news. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.760 So you remember how after a bunch of big financial 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:01.800 institutions broke the world economy, having no I don't remember. 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:08.560 That cost me several one hundred thousand dollars in my home, 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.480 and nobody went to jail, even though they were giving 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.000 loans to people who were crack heads with no job 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:22.399 and no credit, partly because the government made them so. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.040 Right after that, we put all these strict rules in 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.119 place for banks. I mean, you have to have so 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.040 much money held back in case something goes wrong that 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.040 we never need to bail you out again. Well, we've 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.720 lifted that. US regulators proposed more lenient capital rules for 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:39.359 big banks. Officials say, simplifying the rules and the requirements 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.879 intended originally to help banks survive a financial strain, we'll 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.480 get banks back to lending and boost the economy. So 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.639 this is either great news and that you're gonna be 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.080 able to go to your big financial institutions and they're 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.000 thrown around money like crazy, or we're gonna have another 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.040 crash someday and all the banks you're going to say, well, 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.160 we're gonna go under and bring down bring a world 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.800 depression on unless you bail us out. Too big to fail. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:05.160 Sorry again, why don't we go ask ten economists whether 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.200 this is a good idea or not and get ten 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:11.200 different answers. America's biggest banks will be allowed to hold 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.880 billions of dollars less in capital on their books under 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.359 this new proposal that's expected to be voted on by 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:23.600 the Federal Reserve later today and pass. So again, it's 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:32.400 either good news or bad news. Wow, I'm leaning bad news. 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.439 I mean is individuals you're attitude, it'll be easier to 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:38.520 get loans, but it's gonna we're gonna end up in 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.280 the same situation one of these days. These big financial 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.280 institutions are gonna get into trouble and you say, hey, like, 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:45.840 either bail us out or bring down the world economy. 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:52.439 Your choice. Because we got no savings here. That's a 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.120 feeling of precariousness that I've had for a while. It's 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.920 not getting better, no kidding, And I'm way too old 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:00.600 and lazy to like learn a new skill. Oh well, 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.760 that's not that's not on the table, live off the land. 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:07.560 I mean selling pencils and a cup on the corners. 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:11.680 More on the table than that. Anybody want to buy 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:15.439 a pencil. I'm not loving my chances as a pencil 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:19.680 salesman either. Oh my god, what's my profit per unit? 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:25.720 Unless there's some sort of international crossword puzzle craze, I'm 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:30.880 gonna go broke? Wow. Oh so I need to buy 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:34.720 the pencils in bulk and then sell them individually for 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:37.320 enough of a profit to be able to make my 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:41.320 rent and feed my family. Let's say I've done the math. 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.360 I need to sell per day eight point six million pencils, 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.840 and you walk out your door and everybody's got like 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:53.280 a tray of pencils walking out. I was the only 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.600 one that thought of this. Wow, I hate to even 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:59.199 go into this out of that because that feeling of 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.480 precariousness I'm talking about that I think we all have, right, 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:03.320 How do you not. 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:05.600 Well. 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:09.320 If you don't, you're not paying attention, or I don't know, 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:12.480 you've got to you know, five million dollars in gold 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.119 bars buried in your backyard. Because I've got to admit 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:17.520 I must stay in the market. Ride it up, ride 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:19.480 it down guy has always done well. If you miss 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.120 the upturn by a day and the turn by one day, 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:25.200 you'll lose something like twenty five percent of the games 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:27.800 you would have made. So I'm a ride it out guy. 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:30.640 But I've got to admit this current period has got 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:35.000 me slightly concerned. But we'll see rank you spinning by 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:37.200 the dip, thank you. I think the dip may be 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:40.560 around for a while, so no need to rush anyway. 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:45.880 The Washington Post with an interesting infographic article here see 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:49.120 which jobs are most threatened by AI and who may 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:53.240 be able to adapt. It's one of the most urgent 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:57.040 questions about artificial intelligence and one of the hardest to answer. 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:02.040 We'll start with the something fairly obvious, but to informative. 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:06.800