Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3: So last night was a little bit quieter than it
Speaker 3: has been in recent days. The Iranians had been promising
Speaker 3: a night of fire and brimstone. They said that Iran
Speaker 3: was preparing the most intense bombardment by missiles against Israel
Speaker 3: that this country has ever seen.
Speaker 2: And it didn't really happen.
Speaker 3: There were a few explosions, there were a few missiles
Speaker 3: that were fired at this country.
Speaker 2: The Israeli Air Force says it.
Speaker 3: Now has complete freedom of operation over Tehran. But the
Speaker 3: Iranians are still firing some missiles at Israel. But last
Speaker 3: night on a relatively small scale, not this massive attack
Speaker 3: that they had been threatening.
Speaker 1: That has got to make the leaders in Iran. I
Speaker 1: don't even what your calculation is. When you have no
Speaker 1: defense and you're just at the mercy of some of
Speaker 1: the best planes and bombs that exist, I feel like it.
Speaker 2: I would suggest one thing you might do is after
Speaker 2: canceling negotiations with the US that were supposed to happen,
Speaker 2: I think over the weekend. H the ietolers are now
Speaker 2: frantically sending signals via every channel that exists that let's negotiate,
Speaker 2: let's negotiate. Lit's sen down, Kimoo. Where do you want
Speaker 2: to meet? We'll meet there, We'll be there, we'll be
Speaker 2: there early. So yeah, they understand the position they're in,
Speaker 2: especially after tuning in the news last night. Did that
Speaker 2: he took that hafern on everybody's TV or just mine? Oh?
Speaker 1: Man, the TV news got blowed up before they did sports. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who won the big soccerment?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So yeah, that's the scene in Tehran.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Trump tweets out last night. Uh yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I warned you, I told you so. Uh it's gonna
Speaker 1: be so much death. I suggest everyone gets out of Tehran.
Speaker 1: And everybody thought, oh, it's about to happen, like any minute.
Speaker 1: And then he leaves the G seven meeting up in
Speaker 1: Canada with all the leaders who signed off, by the way,
Speaker 1: and a proclamation Iran ain't getting a bomb.
Speaker 2: Everybody signed off on that.
Speaker 1: Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy others ain't gonna ain't gonna
Speaker 1: get a bump, and uh so Trump comes back early,
Speaker 1: but some people have speculated it's because he doesn't like
Speaker 1: meetings and it was a good excuse to get out
Speaker 1: of there earlier.
Speaker 2: I don't blame him for that at all.
Speaker 1: He comes from the real world, where you try to
Speaker 1: accomplish things, not the let's just sit around and talk
Speaker 1: and have a bunch of photos taken and stuff for
Speaker 1: days at a time, like you do in government work.
Speaker 1: I don't blame him at all for getting out of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially because there's a real element of trust fund
Speaker 2: kid among the leadership of the European countries and the
Speaker 2: Canadians in the G seven. They are kept by the
Speaker 2: United States security blanket to a large extent, and our economy.
Speaker 2: They are valuable trading partners blah blah blah, but they
Speaker 2: get to indulge all sorts of high falutant, enlightened sounding
Speaker 2: talk because they haven't until fairly recently, taken a real
Speaker 2: active role in their own defense. And so I just
Speaker 2: I get tired of there. We are culling. Well. For instance,
Speaker 2: they tried to pass a resolution calling for a cease
Speaker 2: fire and a de escalation between Israel and Iran, and
Speaker 2: Trump's like, no, that's not the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he wouldn't sign up. He wouldn't sign off on that,
Speaker 1: so they had to change the wording. So Trump makes
Speaker 1: that announcement, get out of tran time is up. So
Speaker 1: many people are gonna die. It's too bad. Didn't have
Speaker 1: to happen. Leaves the meeting, comes back early. Word breaks
Speaker 1: that he has assembled the National security team. They need
Speaker 1: to be at the White House ready for him when
Speaker 1: he walks through the door. That had all the sounds
Speaker 1: of it's about to go down like now. And then
Speaker 1: administration officials started contacting all the news agencies who interpreted
Speaker 1: it the way I interpreted it and said no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're not getting involved in the offensive like now or
Speaker 1: anything like that.
Speaker 2: Calm down.
Speaker 1: So what was Trump trying to do? He had to
Speaker 1: know how that was gonna land for the whole world.
Speaker 1: Was that just a psych Was that that? I really
Speaker 1: don't know. There are multiple layers of head fakes.
Speaker 2: Going on right now, all successful from Israel's point of
Speaker 2: view so far. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Is that a good idea and not for the most
Speaker 1: powerful world person in the world to do the whole
Speaker 1: We're gonna get you right now?
Speaker 2: Okay, maybe next time. I mean it. It means that
Speaker 2: good or bell if the discussion was how do we
Speaker 2: get as many civilians out of Tehran as possible, and
Speaker 2: the answer is we make it seem like there's an
Speaker 2: impending catastrophic attack. That way they won't wait and see,
Speaker 2: they'll get the hell out of town. We can minimize casualty. Yeah.
Speaker 1: From for all the people who are critical of Trump,
Speaker 1: he does seem to really hate the loss of life
Speaker 1: that occurs in wars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an interesting aspect of his person.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: So for what it's worth, Saudi Arabia and the other
Speaker 2: Persian Gulf nations worried about a possible regional war. I'm
Speaker 2: quoting from the journal. Now, I've been lobbying Trump to
Speaker 2: pressure the Israelis to halt their campaign. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if they mean it. Interestingly enough, as the Arab States
Speaker 2: have condemned the Israeli attacks on Iran in carefully cloak languages,
Speaker 2: heinous attacks, violations of international law, blah blah blah, they
Speaker 2: don't mean it. Behind the scenes, they're saying, oh my god,
Speaker 2: this is the best thing ever. Interestingly serious new government
Speaker 2: led by President Ahmed al Sharra, who was tied to
Speaker 2: al Qaeda, the affiliated organization not terribly long ago, hasn't
Speaker 2: said a damn word. He is not condemned to Israel
Speaker 2: at all. He is desperate to get support from Western
Speaker 2: countries and also despises Iran, which provided military aid to
Speaker 2: Bashar Ala Saide to fight rebel forces during their fourteen
Speaker 2: year civil war, which he was on the other side of. So,
Speaker 2: you know, just you got to be a geopolitics freak
Speaker 2: to really be wondering what's going on in Syria and
Speaker 2: what does this guy want and what's he going to
Speaker 2: turn into. But he has not threatened Israel in any
Speaker 2: way from Syria, and that's the first time that can
Speaker 2: be said in a very, very long All these countries
Speaker 2: in the Middle East are thrilled about the idea of
Speaker 2: Iran being obliterated and maybe regime change happening.
Speaker 1: David Ignatius, writing in The Washington Post, Daneman, he's one
Speaker 1: of the people that DC insiders pay attention to the
Speaker 1: most in terms of his foreign policy writing, and he
Speaker 1: is pro regime change this point, which is something given
Speaker 1: the last twenty five years of US history.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a horrible, evil, sucky regime on every single level.
Speaker 2: Human rights, economics, foreign relations, its priorities, while the Iranian
Speaker 2: people were having crappy and declining standards of living the Mullahs.
Speaker 2: Instead of you know, making a more conventional army, we're
Speaker 2: farming out billions and billions of billions of dollars every
Speaker 2: single year to hasblon Hamas and some other notable proxies.
Speaker 2: It's a terrible way to run a country. Anyway, they
Speaker 2: should go. But I found this very very interesting, putting
Speaker 2: politics aside for a moment. The New York Times, who
Speaker 2: I was just shaming because they're shamelessly biased. When they
Speaker 2: get away from bias, they do really good reporting. For instance,
Speaker 2: this how missile defense works and why it fails, talk
Speaker 2: about Israel and Iran and even the world's best defenses
Speaker 2: can't always stop them. And I just found this very interesting.
Speaker 2: I hope you do too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, over the weekend, about fifteen percent of the missiles
Speaker 1: and drones got through.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, once a ballistic missile is fired into the air,
Speaker 2: and that's ballistic, remember like a ballistic report in a
Speaker 2: cop show, it's a bullet. It's a missile. Like a bullet,
Speaker 2: it travels a very predictable parabolic path. It's not a
Speaker 2: maneuverable weapon anyway. Once a ballistic missile is fired in
Speaker 2: the air, the defender has only minutes to identify its
Speaker 2: precise trajectory and try to shoot it down the target.
Speaker 2: An enemy warhead is inside an object about the side
Speaker 2: of a size of a car that typically flies through
Speaker 2: the edge of space at many times the speed of sound.
Speaker 2: I've heard it described as trying to hit a bullet
Speaker 2: with another bullet. The world's most advanced missile defense systems
Speaker 2: deployed by Israel in the US stop some of the
Speaker 2: missiles missiles, as Jack pointed out, not all of them.
Speaker 2: And here's why stopping a ballistic missile attack is so difficult.
Speaker 2: Ballistic missiles like the ones being fired by Iron escape
Speaker 2: the atmosphere and accelerate to great speeds as they fall
Speaker 2: back down to Earth. It takes about twelve minutes start
Speaker 2: to finish to fire them and get to their target
Speaker 2: in Israel from around, it's far less time to make
Speaker 2: critical decisions about how to stop them within seconds. And
Speaker 2: how these systems interlock was so cool to me because
Speaker 2: I think most of us think, all right, yeah, they
Speaker 2: shoot a missile and we've got sensors and then we
Speaker 2: send something up to shoot it down, which is essentially accurate,
Speaker 2: but this is more specific. So within seconds of launch,
Speaker 2: satellites must detect a heat signature given off by a missile.
Speaker 2: Launch radars then find the missile and try to calculate
Speaker 2: its exact course. A defensive missile called an interceptor must
Speaker 2: be fired soon after that to reach the incoming missile
Speaker 2: in time. That's all hard enough with one missile, but
Speaker 2: Iran has been firing a large volley of them. The
Speaker 2: goal appears to be to overwhelm Israeli defenses, partly because
Speaker 2: radars can only track so many targets at once, and launchers,
Speaker 2: once emptied, may need a half an hour or more
Speaker 2: to reload. Didn't know that, Yeah, yeah, so there are
Speaker 2: limits on quantity obviously. Beyond that, if they're concerned about
Speaker 2: future attacks, targeted countries may also need to make critical
Speaker 2: split second decisions to reserve valuable interceptors only for the
Speaker 2: incoming missiles that appear likely to do the most damaging.
Speaker 1: Right, you don't want to use your best stuff on
Speaker 1: some flying object that isn't going to do that much
Speaker 1: damage and miss the one that's going to wipe out
Speaker 1: an entire apartment building.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if I'm you know, if I'm the aggressor and
Speaker 2: I've got like class AB and C missile C being
Speaker 2: the most devastating ones, I'm going to send up a
Speaker 2: hell of a lot of a's and b's and try
Speaker 2: to occupy their missile defense. So, Israel's best known defense system,
Speaker 2: the Iron Dome, was built to stop short range rockets,
Speaker 2: and is too slow and limited when it comes to
Speaker 2: ballistic missiles. For that, Israel relies on several more advanced
Speaker 2: layers of defense designed to counter ballistic missiles at different
Speaker 2: stages of flight. The most advanced systems, long range interceptors
Speaker 2: like the Arrow three, operate in space, where ballistic missiles
Speaker 2: like those in Iran spend most of their time. They're
Speaker 2: the first chance to stop a missile, but high above
Speaker 2: the atmosphere there's room for error. Both an interceptor and
Speaker 2: an enemy missile shed the boosters that power them into space,
Speaker 2: and so they're just two smaller vehicles remain hurtling toward
Speaker 2: each other. The interceptor seeks a direct hit to destroy
Speaker 2: the warhead. It has sensors to track the enemy missile
Speaker 2: and thrusters to move it toward it, but by the
Speaker 2: time the interceptor senses a target a mile away, it
Speaker 2: has only a split second to adjust.
Speaker 1: It's amazingology here boggles the mine. Yeah, and it's amazing
Speaker 1: they shoot down as many as they do. And keep
Speaker 1: in mind to Ron's missiles.
Speaker 2: The ones they're sending over right now, it's like the
Speaker 2: best generation of them are only about three feet wide
Speaker 2: at the base. By the time they get rid of
Speaker 2: their booster and they're in space and they're traveling two
Speaker 2: miles a second. Try to hit that. Good lord, if
Speaker 2: that wasn't hard enough, some ballistic missiles carry decoys to
Speaker 2: trick the interceptor to brie left over from the boosters
Speaker 2: can also confuse it, and then you know, we can.
Speaker 2: We'll post this at Armstrong and getty dot com if
Speaker 2: you really want to dig into it, because there's even
Speaker 2: more the various layers of systems that interlock. But good lord,
Speaker 2: physics and science coming together in military applications, it's just
Speaker 2: it's crazy sophisticating.
Speaker 1: I mentioned this before we take a break. I was
Speaker 1: listening to the Telegraphs Ukraine podcast yesterday I usually get
Speaker 1: the update and they said, just would like to point
Speaker 1: out this was a couple of days ago. While Iran
Speaker 1: sent one hundred missiles toward tel Aviv, Russia just sent
Speaker 1: four times that many missiles toward Kiev, and nobody's talking
Speaker 1: about which is an interesting point, right because people are people,
Speaker 1: very similar dynamics involved in terms of really bad guys.
Speaker 2: Getting both conflicts could have huge pivotal effects on history.
Speaker 1: Sure we got a lot more on the way. That
Speaker 1: doctor involved with Matthew Perry is going to plead guilty
Speaker 1: in court today, So he must have been up against
Speaker 1: it to be willing to plead guilty to whatever he's
Speaker 1: being charged with. I'll look into that, among other things.
Speaker 1: You killed Chandler. You deserve to go to prison.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
Speaker 4: Singer Lee Greenwood perform God Bless the USA over the
Speaker 4: weekend at President Trump's military parade.
Speaker 2: Oh did he?
Speaker 4: Did anyone think he was gonna go up there and
Speaker 4: be like, here's one of the.
Speaker 2: New album.
Speaker 1: Lee's Dreams. Yes, here's here's one of my new songs.
Speaker 1: I've never met someone like two, three, four, Okay, see, uh,
Speaker 1: you get paid for that. I think most places he
Speaker 1: probably does the Trump stuff for free to keep the
Speaker 1: brand out. In the old days, you'd be willing to
Speaker 1: do it just because you'd sell a lot of the records,
Speaker 1: but you can't make money on that anymore. So uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you must be getting paid well where it helps his concerts.
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's a good question.
Speaker 2: I think it's the latter, probably something like that.
Speaker 1: So, uh, I don't know if you know this. I
Speaker 1: speak Persian, so that's very handy.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The newscaster in Iran who got blowed up while she
Speaker 1: was doing the news last night, I should have translated
Speaker 1: that when we ran it earlier. Go ahead, Michael, I'm
Speaker 1: here's the charity. The Oklahoma City Thunder took a three
Speaker 1: to two lead in the NBA playoffs last night, holding
Speaker 1: off those dollars. She was doing sports. She was doing
Speaker 1: sports when we missiled.
Speaker 2: Her from downtown and goes the dynamite.
Speaker 1: Literally, boy, coming up, what are the Because you got
Speaker 1: a lot of cops graduates out there right now, you know,
Speaker 1: dun dun, dun dud. As we look forward, while we
Speaker 1: look back, they what majors pay the most or the least.
Speaker 2: As you head out into the workplace, we'll hitch you
Speaker 2: with that list. It's good. It's fun. Every single year well,
Speaker 2: I hope gender Studies is toward the top counting on it.
Speaker 1: FBI put out a warning yesterday, urgent warning to one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million iPhone users. Why I'm an iPhone user? Wow,
Speaker 1: delete this text as soon as you get it. The
Speaker 1: most popular scam that seems to be working right now
Speaker 1: is all kinds of stuff claiming to be from the DMV.
Speaker 2: They look very legit.
Speaker 1: They have your whatever state you're in, the logo and
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff telling you if you don't
Speaker 1: pay your unpaid toll or fine, he'd be subjected to
Speaker 1: having your driver privileges revoked, possible jail time, blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And so don't fall for that one,
Speaker 1: which of course is a real drag because like I
Speaker 1: had a situation not that long ago, like the toll
Speaker 1: system around here, to drive on the tolls in the
Speaker 1: Bay Area. I got some text saying you haven't paid
Speaker 1: your tolls. Well, that was a big scam, like a
Speaker 1: year ago, so I was ignoring those. It turned out
Speaker 1: this one was real. It was behind on one of
Speaker 1: my tolls, or my thing had run out or something.
Speaker 1: The last time I drove through my electronic thing, and
Speaker 1: I got in all kinds of trouble and it was
Speaker 1: a pain in the ass to fix it.
Speaker 2: What are you supposed to do?
Speaker 1: I supposed to supposed to go to their website and
Speaker 1: try to look it up or call somebody. That's a
Speaker 1: lot of work every time he got spam, fake email
Speaker 1: or text.
Speaker 2: Somewhere in America, there's a guy who got a text
Speaker 2: that he missed jury duty and he oa fine. He said,
Speaker 2: I'm not paying that fine. This is a scam. And
Speaker 2: then the cops came and he said, you're not cops.
Speaker 2: This is a scam. Then they took him to jail,
Speaker 2: and he's saying to the other inmate, say this is
Speaker 2: all a scam.
Speaker 1: You wait and say, but he actually missie duty, right,
Speaker 1: oh man, that's a drag. Top paying college majors, least
Speaker 1: paying college majors, among other things.
Speaker 2: On the way, hope you can stay here, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4: Otani kicks and throws, and off we go with a
Speaker 4: bouncing ball foul ninety eight on Otani's first pitch. Here's
Speaker 4: this payoff popped into center field. Pahes coming on dive
Speaker 4: in a Tempa can't get there and it's a blue
Speaker 4: pit for Tatis that.
Speaker 1: Things keep happening for Sati.
Speaker 2: This jammed on the ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Out for our fastball, but is able to dump it
Speaker 1: right in front of PA has.
Speaker 2: Eat off Man.
Speaker 1: That's enough thought inside baseball for US general fans.
Speaker 2: But show hey.
Speaker 1: Otani returned to pitching for the first time as a Dodger,
Speaker 1: pitched one inning through one hundred and point two mile
Speaker 1: an hour pitch. At one point as just reading an
Speaker 1: LA Times columnist who said that should not be possible
Speaker 1: physical for a guy of his bill to throw one
Speaker 1: hundred mile an hour pitch. And he's also one of
Speaker 1: the greatest hitters out there, and so there you go.
Speaker 2: We'll see how he You know, what's interesting is.
Speaker 1: The NBA Finals going on right now between Indiana and
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. I realize, unless you're not an NBA fan,
Speaker 1: you're not paying attention, and even a lot of NBA
Speaker 1: fans aren't because they're tiny markets that don't have a
Speaker 1: huge national following.
Speaker 2: At least in the National League.
Speaker 1: In baseball, right now, your three first place teams in
Speaker 1: the three divisions Dodgers, Cubs, Mets. That's the exact opposite
Speaker 1: the biggest markets with the biggest national following in the country.
Speaker 2: So there you go. Boy, the Mets not sucking maybe
Speaker 2: one of the signs of the apocalypse. You think, I'm
Speaker 2: beginning to take it seriously.
Speaker 1: Yankees and Detroit Tigers also in the American League, So yeah,
Speaker 1: baseball's got the opposite situation with the biggest, you know,
Speaker 1: splashest franchises at the top. Of course, it's very, very early,
Speaker 1: and that's enough of that by far. Uh. Tucker Carlson
Speaker 1: and Steve Bannon talking to each other on each other's podcast,
Speaker 1: and we got some of the highlights of that.
Speaker 2: It's a heck of a good thought starter.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get to that in an hour three of
Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty Show. But as we all know,
Speaker 1: many college graduates are walking across the stage to get
Speaker 1: their diploma and shake hands and bad mouth Israel and
Speaker 1: hate America and a variety of other things that college
Speaker 1: graduates do.
Speaker 2: Ah good times.
Speaker 1: And this list comes out every single year. What are
Speaker 1: the highest paying majors in the lowest paying majors out there?
Speaker 1: Do you want highest first or lowest first?
Speaker 2: Come on, Queer Studies, Come on, Queer Studies, We'll count
Speaker 2: up your top five majors. Yeah, there you go. Let's
Speaker 2: start with the winners jack.
Speaker 1: Highest paying majors. Now, this has been the same for
Speaker 1: many years in my lifetime. They're all engineers of one
Speaker 1: sort of another. All of the top five chemical engineer,
Speaker 1: computer engineer, nuclear engineer, naval architecture, and marine engineer.
Speaker 2: And at the top PATROLLI.
Speaker 1: Engineer that will make an average one hundred and eight
Speaker 1: thousand dollars straight out of school with a four year degree.
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of engineer my son's math
Speaker 1: tutor was, but he was an engineering student. Super nice,
Speaker 1: super sharp guy. But the thing with this is it's
Speaker 1: not like it's funny to la Times and their story
Speaker 1: about this, their opening paragraph was about this kid who
Speaker 1: he'd been trying to decide between art history or something else,
Speaker 1: but decided on biology because he heard that medical fields
Speaker 1: pay well. Halfway through the year, though, he got bored
Speaker 1: with some of his chemistry classes and thought, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I want to spend ten years learning to
Speaker 1: be a doctor. These aren't the kind of majors you
Speaker 1: don't choose between art history and being a doctor. That's
Speaker 1: not based on which is going to pay more. You
Speaker 1: either have the brain for being an engineer or you don't.
Speaker 1: It's not just you know, I could do a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of different things. Maybe I'll be an engineer. I could,
Speaker 1: God bless you. Yeah, I mean yeah, but a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't. So it's not it's not just that
Speaker 1: easy of a decision to become an engineer.
Speaker 2: It's also idea of me taking engineering classes at my
Speaker 2: alma mater. Hilarious.
Speaker 1: I could have, I think, but I'd have been bored
Speaker 1: to death.
Speaker 2: Is a problem.
Speaker 1: I just I couldn't. I couldn't have done that the
Speaker 1: rest of my life. I've always heard I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is still true. They've been saying forever that
Speaker 1: those a lot of those majors that start with really
Speaker 1: high salaries, they don't go up that much from there.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true or not. Where a
Speaker 1: lot of your lower paying majors there's a lot more
Speaker 1: room for growth. I don't have any idea if that's
Speaker 1: true or not anymore. Here's your bottom five, keeping well
Speaker 1: the number one bottom one. That's a little unfair, But
Speaker 1: so you're bottom five paying majors on average, number five
Speaker 1: fine arts, music, drama, well, it depends on whether you're
Speaker 1: good at.
Speaker 2: It or not.
Speaker 1: If you're good added enough and pursue a strategy of
Speaker 1: trying to make a living at it because you have
Speaker 1: to want to do that, well, you have.
Speaker 2: A one in a million chance of making a living. Sorry,
Speaker 2: that's that's the good ones witch. Sure, Yeah, but okay,
Speaker 2: number four, Well, you either don't care whether you want
Speaker 2: to be an educator or you're betting on hitting a
Speaker 2: home run.
Speaker 1: Most of the people I've known who did this don't
Speaker 1: seem to care. I think you probably eventually care when
Speaker 1: you're like forty or or something, but at the time
Speaker 1: don't seem to care.
Speaker 2: And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've always kind of wondered what you what you're assuming
Speaker 1: is going to happen, But you know whatever. Fourth lowest
Speaker 1: paying major education, early childhood, elementary special ed.
Speaker 2: That's surprising to me.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I live in California and that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff faced pretty well. Social sciences, general anthropology, history, psychology. Mmmm,
Speaker 1: that's tough. My youngest I keep pushing him toward wanting
Speaker 1: to be like an anthropology sort of, but that's social sciences.
Speaker 1: He's more into the science science end of it. Forty
Speaker 1: dollars a year on average, depending on where you live.
Speaker 1: But you know you live in California, they ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot. Leisure and hospitality is a major. What
Speaker 1: do you study when you major? Major in leisure and hospitality?
Speaker 1: Rules of volleyball, a lot of that.
Speaker 2: How to set up a banquet buffet so that people
Speaker 2: get filled up on the potatoes before they get the
Speaker 2: like crab legs at the end.
Speaker 1: Making sure there's a lot of critical that.
Speaker 2: You got to scout out the buffet, folks. You gotta
Speaker 2: start at the end, see what your prospects are.
Speaker 1: Then you go to the beginning. Don't load up BBC.
Speaker 1: Do not load up your plate with rolls. You can
Speaker 1: get rolls anywhere, right, you're freaking shrimp down there.
Speaker 2: They know what they're doing. Oh but yeah, to scam
Speaker 2: these buffets hotel well, it kind of is, but it's smart. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all sorts of hotel management. That didn't you know how
Speaker 2: to set up a banquet hall. You get your U
Speaker 2: shaped table, you got your year round table. It's many
Speaker 2: different tables.
Speaker 1: Do they teach you ask them for a driver's license
Speaker 1: and a credit card?
Speaker 2: Did they teach you that? Well, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2: I got out of college and I worked for a
Speaker 2: company that did convention planning, among other things, just for
Speaker 2: a couple of years. And trust me when I say
Speaker 2: there's very little you couldn't learn on the job. I
Speaker 2: don't know that you need to invest in it. It's
Speaker 2: like people who go to like broadcast college, radio college. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't want to disparage anybody, but I do get
Speaker 2: the very basics down, then go get a job. Trust
Speaker 2: me on that.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be in radio, So I don't know
Speaker 1: why I went to college. Oh, they had a really
Speaker 1: really good radio program at the community college I went to,
Speaker 1: and they had a high percentage of people that got
Speaker 1: hired into jobs, and so I took radio there and
Speaker 1: within a couple of months I got a job, and
Speaker 1: by the end of the first year, I had full
Speaker 1: time job. So I was working in the radio industry
Speaker 1: while people were at other places taking radio classes. And
Speaker 1: it always seemed to me, I'm in the industry. I'm nineteen,
Speaker 1: I'm making a living, I have health insurance. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm working. This is this is what you want to do.
Speaker 1: Why are you over there? What are you learning? I
Speaker 1: think they get sold on an idea.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I felt so bad. I've told this story before. The
Speaker 1: circle K near me where.
Speaker 2: I start, where's my phone talking place? Silence here devices
Speaker 2: I pressed the wrong button.
Speaker 1: The CIRCLECA near me, where I would stop regularly to
Speaker 1: get I don't know water, Philip with gasser.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: There was a guy there that worked every night, and
Speaker 1: I would go in there and I kind of kind
Speaker 1: of became to where like we'd chat a little bit
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: At some point he told me he.
Speaker 1: Had a master's in radio from the University of San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Is that a thing, I guess, do you know, Katie?
Speaker 2: I mean masters and like broadcasting or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's what he wanted to do. He wanted
Speaker 1: to work in radio, and he got a master's degree.
Speaker 1: He went again and got the four year degree, and
Speaker 1: then and then stick around and got the masters. I
Speaker 1: did not tell him what I did for a living,
Speaker 1: because I thought that would just be a cool thing
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: Wow, do.
Speaker 1: Dude, that's not the way somebody. It would be like
Speaker 1: getting a master's degree. And I want to be a
Speaker 1: blues guitar player, to me get in a band and
Speaker 1: see how good you are and get better and try,
Speaker 1: but getting a practice a lot, yeah, and getting an
Speaker 1: advanced degree in this. I don't know what.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're it's a scam, it is,
Speaker 2: you know, I am selling a dream. It's just it's
Speaker 2: the wrong route.
Speaker 1: I had a buddy who was who taught radio classes,
Speaker 1: who finally had to quit because as the industry changed,
Speaker 1: it got like, way way way harder to get a job,
Speaker 1: Like when when Joe and I got and you could
Speaker 1: go get jobs because there were thousands of radio stations
Speaker 1: across the country.
Speaker 2: But that's not true anymore anyway. My buddy quit. Well
Speaker 2: they're not They exist as signals, but they're not functioning
Speaker 2: radio station.
Speaker 1: No, they don't have you know, all the employees and
Speaker 1: everything like that they used to. Thanks to the Telecommunications
Speaker 1: Act of nineteen ninety six by Booklan, which they claimed
Speaker 1: was going to make radio better for listeners across the country,
Speaker 1: it has made it vastly worse.
Speaker 2: I do agree. I think the current state is the
Speaker 2: best ever.
Speaker 1: And I wish I could talk to Congress about that,
Speaker 1: but it's too late. My buddy quit. He couldn't handle
Speaker 1: it because he felt like he was lying to people.
Speaker 1: He was selling a scam like you were talking about,
Speaker 1: is having these you know, these kids come here and
Speaker 1: somebody who's paying for it, their parents or whoever, take
Speaker 1: these classes to go out and get involved in an
Speaker 1: industry that doesn't exist anymore. He just couldn't do it
Speaker 1: with a clean conscience. Right, So I've always wondered that
Speaker 1: about some of these majors. Do they tell fine arts, music, drama?
Speaker 1: Do they tell their graduates or the people in the class, Look,
Speaker 1: you got like a one in a million chance. I'm
Speaker 1: fine with you doing this, trying to discourage you, but
Speaker 1: you got like a one in a million chance of
Speaker 1: making a living.
Speaker 2: Did they tell you that?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Ask my son who has a useless degree, what they
Speaker 2: told him. That's what he wanted to do. I said,
Speaker 2: go live your life leisure in hospitality.
Speaker 1: Do they tell you, Look, you're gonna you're gonna be
Speaker 1: h telling people where the elevators are down the hall,
Speaker 1: and it ain't gonna pay much and it ain't gonna
Speaker 1: get much better.
Speaker 2: The last class you take is just watching the white lotus. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just all right, Look, you're gonna be a balance and
Speaker 2: scraping to a bunch of drunk obnoxious tourists develop a
Speaker 2: taste for pills because you're gonna be throwing down your throat.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be popping them like paths. All right, just
Speaker 2: get used to it.
Speaker 1: Second to lowest paying major that's out there performing arts.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that differs from fine arts, music
Speaker 1: and drama. I have no idea how they make a
Speaker 1: distinction there and the least paying major there is which
Speaker 1: I could major in this, I would find it fascinating.
Speaker 1: I still may do this in my life. Theology and religion, Ah.
Speaker 2: The Bible.
Speaker 1: That one's a little bit among other things, sir, Yes,
Speaker 1: that one's a little different. That's a that's a vocation,
Speaker 1: that's a life pursuit of a certain kind of knowledge
Speaker 1: and whatever. I don't think you get into that thinking
Speaker 1: this is my ticket to driving.
Speaker 2: A Porsche, right, not unless you're you know, some sort
Speaker 2: of a phony mega church fundraising the TV preacher something
Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, gotta believe there's an extra warm room
Speaker 2: in hell for people like that. No offense to people
Speaker 2: who are into that.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Swaggert's about to die any moment now. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw that one of the biggest televangelists
Speaker 1: of the last Well ever, he I didn't know he
Speaker 1: was still alive. But he's gonna die soon, and there
Speaker 1: will probably be the conversation around that whole televangelist thing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're going strong today. They just have a
Speaker 2: different act. The act is much more suburban. It's okay
Speaker 2: to want to get rich. Let's all get together and
Speaker 2: sing lame pop songs that mention Jesus a couple of times. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm a little hostile to the whole mega church modern thing,
Speaker 2: but teach there on me. Who am I do I
Speaker 2: have a pipeline to God? Well? I kind of believe
Speaker 2: I do, just like you?
Speaker 1: But uh, okay, as much or as little you have,
Speaker 1: as much or as little, Yes, Mike.
Speaker 2: Right, exactly, you judge me as harshly as you want. Friends.
Speaker 1: Finally, completely useless statistic. Would you like that?
Speaker 2: Oh? Super?
Speaker 1: It would take a long time to break down how
Speaker 1: useless the statistic is? The average starting salary for a
Speaker 1: college graduate this year will be about sixty eight thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year. What a useless statistic, so averaged among
Speaker 1: all the majors, which doesn't make any difference to you
Speaker 1: because you only care about your major right, and it
Speaker 1: varies completely whether you're taking the job in the Miami, Florida,
Speaker 1: New York City, Omaha, Nebraska, some tiny town, Idaho, or whever.
Speaker 1: So that is a useless statistic. It's amazing anybody would
Speaker 1: even ask the question, figure it out and then print
Speaker 1: it anywhere, because it has no value to you.
Speaker 2: Whatsoever on any level, croup, any level.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is the correct answer if you had any
Speaker 1: comments on any of those things. Our text line four one,
Speaker 1: five two nine five KFTC bar Strong and.
Speaker 5: Getty, the most visited museum in the world failing to
Speaker 5: open due to a spontaneous strike by the Louver staff,
Speaker 5: warning that the home of the Mona Lisa is buckling
Speaker 5: under the weight of mass tourism. It comes just a
Speaker 5: day after coordinated anti tourist protests swept across a dozen
Speaker 5: European cities. As tourists in Barcelona sat down to enjoy
Speaker 5: tapas or a cold beer on Sunday, they were instead
Speaker 5: hit with water guns to cool down runaway tourism. Campaigners
Speaker 5: argue mass tourism, and specifically the touristification of hotspots, forces
Speaker 5: locals out of the city center and raises the cost
Speaker 5: of living.
Speaker 1: OOO was hitting people with water guns to try to
Speaker 1: discourage the tourists. The city was doing the protesters. Where
Speaker 1: does the protest you get a water gun?
Speaker 2: I wish we had more time to talk about this
Speaker 2: because it's an interesting phenomenon. It's yet another ruinous impact
Speaker 2: of the Internet. But yeah, like Venice is, I can't
Speaker 2: remember the figure, only like fifteen percent of dwellings now
Speaker 2: in Venice are people who live there. They've all been
Speaker 2: sold for airbnps and tourists. And you're like, going to
Speaker 2: it's like going to Disneyland. It wouldn't exist if not
Speaker 2: for the only thing around you is tourists, right, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 1: It's funny just the video of this. All the locals
Speaker 1: have these super soaker squirt guns and then you see
Speaker 1: all these tourists dorks with their floppy hats sitting there
Speaker 1: at the cafes and they're just walking by just spraying them.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, different strokes for different folks. But I
Speaker 1: was watching a lot of the videos of this various
Speaker 1: places that doesn't look enjoyable to me on any level.
Speaker 1: On any level, I certain wouldn't certainly wouldn't pay thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars for the experience, but.
Speaker 2: You're like hyper crowded tourist locations. Yeah, and to be surrounded.
Speaker 1: I well, you know the disneylandification of various places.
Speaker 2: So what am I experiencing here?
Speaker 1: You could almost literally go to Disneyland, or you know,
Speaker 1: walking around the Venetian in Vegas is as much Venice
Speaker 1: as Venice.
Speaker 2: Or you go to the balcony that overlooks those colorful
Speaker 2: buildings on the Greek Isles that you've seen in a
Speaker 2: dozen ads, and the line to take your Instagram shop
Speaker 2: there is an hour and a half long. Right, It's
Speaker 2: too bad.
Speaker 1: It sucks, and maybe if you can go an off
Speaker 1: season it would be better. But man, I was looking
Speaker 1: at the video up there at Paris. I thought, I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to go to I've never been to Friends
Speaker 1: and never been in Paris, but not that whatever that
Speaker 1: was I just saw on TV. That looks horrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it looks like a punishment. Yeah. Another economic topic,
Speaker 2: some of the biggest merchants in America, like Walmart and
Speaker 2: Amazon dot Com are exploring how to issue or use
Speaker 2: stable coin. You know what stable coins are. They're like bitcoins,
Speaker 2: They're like cryptocurrency, except they're tied to the value of
Speaker 2: the dollar or other government you know, treasury bonds or
Speaker 2: something like that, so they don't have like wildly fluctuating values.
Speaker 2: It's like having a dollar in your pocket. It's just
Speaker 2: a means of electronic purchasing and transferring of money. And
Speaker 2: the significance of that is for these super giant businesses
Speaker 2: it would save credit card fees and they would become
Speaker 2: their own credit card company, and you could zap money
Speaker 2: back and forth and make purchases effortlessly, so it could
Speaker 2: really really shake up the world of big banks and
Speaker 2: credit and that sort of thing. If you're in that business,
Speaker 2: you probably know more about it than I do. But
Speaker 2: moving along, I found this really interesting. Do we have
Speaker 2: time for this? I don't think we do. We do not.
Speaker 2: Thirty seconds. That is not enough time to do almost
Speaker 2: anything I.
Speaker 1: Can today, isn't it? Jim sure is hot? Tucker Carlson said, war.
Speaker 2: With THEO do that in thirty seconds? Yes?
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson said, war with Iran would collapse the American Empire.
Speaker 1: Steve Bannon agreed. Donald Trump responded and even gave Tucker
Speaker 1: a nickname because Trump knows that a certain section of
Speaker 1: MAGA is pretty into the whole Tucker Carlson thing.
Speaker 2: And don't leave out Candice Owen's hating on the Jews.
Speaker 1: Come on, we'll get to that in our three Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Geddy