WEBVTT - Still Hard-Corp Jihadist? 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:06.680 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.760 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Ketty. 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:24.960 Armstrong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Hetty and what 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:26.319 we know about this peace plan. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.600 It does not call for new weapons, inspectors, or sanctions 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.240 on Iran. Instead, President Trump is saying that if they 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.600 color outside the lines, he will just drop some bombs 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:38.760 on their heads. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.200 Yeah, so we're gonna go through this report from Peter 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.800 Doucy of Fox who lays out the mo OU, the 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:48.800 memorandum of understanding that did come out yesterday. Nobody's denying 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.120 on either side. I don't think that this is a 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.440 an accurate version of the eight points or fourteen points 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.960 or whatever it is. It's a very short and vague 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.480 which I guess we'll get into the conversation about that 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.840 a little bit, because Trump kind of says its self 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.080 enforcing with common sense. But anyway, Peter Doocey goes on. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.399 And now the Boss has to sell this memorandum of 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.680 understanding to a skeptical American public. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:17.760 Key points shared by the White House. 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.559 The US will help develop quote at least three hundred 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.679 billion dollars for the reconstruction and economic development of the 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.120 Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.520 undertakes to make fully available for the use of frozen 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.640 or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.480 The increasing it's an easy one to answer. We have 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.399 taken a lot of their money, and we have their 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.560 money we have taken to them, or is there our money, 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:46.720 it's their money. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.880 The tone, the language on this and other clips you're 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:54.680 gonna hear from Trump is all so conciliatory for somebody 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.320 that in theory, you know, we've got our foot on 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.240 their neck and forcing them to do something because we 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.280 went to war with them and won. It doesn't sound like. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:08.040 That we're going to remove their civilization from the face 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:12.800 of the Earth's side demand unconditional surrender. Now it's like 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:17.639 we're best buddies and everything's fine. Yeah, and I could 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.120 even I mean, look, if he believes this is the 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:26.120 best deal for the country in the world, blah blah blah. Okay, great, 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.840 but there would be an uneasy We're watching them every step. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.160 We are going to absolutely withhold any of the carrots 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.680 until the terms of the deal are met. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:41.200 No it hasn't more of a feel of we're officially together. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.640 Or it was their money all along, so we took 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.720 their money and we're holding it. So yeah, we're giving 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:47.400 back their money. 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.639 Anyway. It rolls on on a fourteen point plan. It's 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.080 not until point number eight. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.760 But you find this, The Islamic Republic of Iran reaffirms 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.440 that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:01.760 Bomb Iran if they don't comply. 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.720 But there's nothing enforceable in the deal itself. 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:10.400 Is that correct? Does Yeah, so that's kind of self enforcing. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.480 Trump says, you don't need to write into the deal. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:18.919 You don't get a nuke, you don't try to buy 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.959 a nuke, you don't work on getting a nuke, or 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.040 will attack you because that's just understood. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.200 Sure, yeah, that's legit. Does that make sense to you? Yeah, 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.000 or will drop a bomb on your head. But who 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:29.840 believes he would? 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.960 Well, if iron doesn't believe that, it doesn't matter who 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:34.520 believes it. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.080 Well, I don't think Irona believes it because I don't 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:38.640 believe it. We're not going back to war. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:40.200 Yeah. 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.760 Yeah, we were looking for a good, solid defense of 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:45.320 this deal. 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:46.800 I think I've found one. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.240 Well, it's from James Lindsay, who we like in respect 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:50.720 around here. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.040 I'm brilliant, man. Do you want to hear that now? 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.480 Well, let's get the rest of the Peter Deucy report 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.400 and then we've got to comment from Trump and then 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.440 we can hear somebody say something good about this. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.520 The president's perspective on ending the war, it was just time. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.480 The thing that's going to stop them from doing that, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.000 because you can't cover everything in a document, is common sense. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:12.320 They don't want to get bombed. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:13.320 They don't want to get hit. 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.640 So that's the idea of the gentleman's agreement of they 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.800 understand that if they try to get a weapon, we're 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:28.880 gonna we're gonna go back to bombing them. Let's save 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.360 the missiles conversation for a different time because it's a 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.720 different topic. Give me General Jack Keene sixty one. Because 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.920 I have been surprised at how negative on this deal. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.080 Fox has been way more. 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.200 Than I've seen them do on anything with Trump through 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:47.839 either term of various hosts and guests talking about Trump 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.559 being wrong about something. But it's been endless on Fox 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.560 around this deal. Including General Jack Keene usually supports what 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:54.440 Trump does. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.880 There's a three hundred billion dollar investment fund. Who cares 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.240 where the money comes from if it doesn't come from 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.560 the United States. I get that, of course it shouldn't, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.360 but it shouldn't come from anybody. I mean, when we 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:08.000 recovered Germany and Japan, the Nazis weren't in charge, the 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:12.920 Japanese imperials weren't in charge. Here, the Runnians in charge. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.520 The killers and thugs are still in charge. They're going 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.960 to take that money and recover everything. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:23.960 Yeah, and it they get the money first, the straight opens, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.640 they get to start making money off oil revenue again, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:30.880 they get the investment money. And then in the future 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.720 we're hoping they comply on this trying not to get 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:36.239 a nuclear weapon. 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:39.599 Why would you believe they're going to do that. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:44.159 They just survived our best shot and realized we don't 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.320 have the stomach to go through with it. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:52.080 Right, Well, it all depends on if you believe clipt two. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.040 You know, you talk about regime change. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.520 Nobody will say that, but I guess that's the one 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.599 instead of leaders is all gone, The second set of 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.320 leaders is all gone. Yeah, third set of leaders a 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.680 little bit gone, but for the most part, and Frankly, 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.320 I think it's crishim change. I think they're going to 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.279 behave much differently. I think they see a different way 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.520 of life that they were never exposed to. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.159 You're right, that is the crux of the whole matter. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.080 Are these different people? Noah Roffman of the National Review, 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.120 writing the notion that there can be a dependable gentleman's 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:33.080 agreement with an Islamist terrorist organization constitutionally because this was 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:38.640 the organizing principle constitutionally committed to America's destruction, is insulting. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:40.120 But the question is. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.800 Are these still hard core jiah hottists or is it 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.719 like Trump said, no, we're down to like the third 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.760 layer of leadership, and these people aren't hardcourjia hotists. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.800 I would suggest that even in the Quran, the idea 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.280 is enshrined that, Look, if you've got to pretend to 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.719 not be a hard core jiah hottiest to get Allah's 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.480 will done, do that. Deny Islam all day long. If 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.400 you want, pretend you don't believe, if that will get 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.120 you passed your obstacle, do that. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.120 That's exactly what they're doing. That's interesting because that's much 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:09.120 different than. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:15.040 The way Christians have handled it for two thousand years, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.000 where many, many people, certainly in the early days of Christianity, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:23.360 went to their death rather than denounce Jesus. You go 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.520 ahead and get your head cut off, right. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.400 Yeah? Interesting, So a handful more criticisms. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.280 Then we'll get to a couple of fairly robust defenses 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.160 of the deal. Just a couple of headlines. This is 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:42.480 from David Sanger. Trump's Trump demanded Around's unconditional surrender. He 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.280 got a surprise instead. New York Times. Iran gets major 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:51.920 economic lifeline for minimal concession concessions an initial deal. New 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.520 York Posts. That's the headline is buried. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:55.720 Oh. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.880 Trump blasts critics of Isran plan as fools. 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:01.920 Where's the quote? 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.040 Blasted critics of the Ran deal as fools for not 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.800 thinking he was tough on Tehran, describing them as either jealous, 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:11.520 bad people or stupid? 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:13.880 Which am I? Since I think this is a bad deal? 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.640 Am I jealous? A bad person? Or stupid? Probably stupid. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:18.360 We'll take emails on that top. 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.440 These fools who think I haven't been tough enough on 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.080 Iran when the stock market just hit a record high 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:29.080 and oil prices are tumbling down, are either jealous, bad people, 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:30.440 or stupid, He wrote. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.200 He does everything on whether the stock market went up 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:34.960 or down. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.120 Let's see from the New York Post, Trump's Iran deal 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.480 secrecy was atrocious, and Vance's dodging made it worse. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.120 Here I got one positive thing to say. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.560 It's possible, and I wish he would say this out 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.360 loud if it's the case. Maybe he feels I could 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.920 be political suicide. But what if this is the case. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.960 It didn't work out like I thought it would. But look, 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:03.600 in reality and life, you have to go with reality now. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.960 And reality now is this is the best thing to do. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.400 Things didn't turn out the way I thought they would. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.200 We were wrong, We made a guess. Didn't happen, They 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.520 didn't fall, people didn't rise up, regime didn't quit, et cetera, 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.720 et cetera. But starting today, with the facts on the ground, 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.800 if you landed from Mars today and looked at the 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.120 facts on the ground, this is the best thing to 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.079 do going forward. It's like a going to consolidate our gains. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.400 It's like a sunk cost principle. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.960 Right exactly, not going to throw good money and lives 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:36.439 after bad. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.920 But have you already spent two million dollars on building 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.240 this house. It doesn't matter. It turns out this is 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.240 a bad idea. We need to start from today. What's 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:45.800 the best thing going forward? 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:46.360 Right? 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.160 Fair enough, and we will consider that and other defense 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:50.760 is in a moment after a word from our friends 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.160 that simply save home security. 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We're gonna 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.240 set them up today simply safe dot com slash armstrong. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:53.840 There's no safe like simply safe. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:11:01.160 The sunk cost principle is so clearly true intellectually, but 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:08.480 very difficult emotionally with anything in life, whether it's relationships, kids, jobs, 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.839 construction projects, investments, whatever it is. If you put a 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.760 whole bunch of effort and time and cost and blood, 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.840 sweat and tears into something, you feel like you got 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.400 to move forward on that project sometimes looking I can't 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.720 abandon that now, Yeah, exactly, exactly. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:27.880 Yeah. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.480 So JD Vance's political career is swirling the drain. In 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.480 my opinion, we can get to that. I don't want 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.880 to rush through the defense of the deal from the 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.120 fabulous James lindsay, So, why don't we take a break 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:40.800 and come back and take a look at that, because, 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:42.199 believe it or not, around. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:43.880 Here, we just want to know it's true, and often 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.280 you have to look at both sides. I'd be happy 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.760 to be wrong. I'd rather be wrong than right about this. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.199 That this turns out it's a good deal, that'd be awesome. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.840 It'd be fantastic. I don't think it is stay tuned. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.160 My problem with some of the people who have come 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:08.040 out against this is there's with this argument that this 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:12.120 isn't America first. Yeah, it really is America first. Every 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.080 single president has said we have we have to fix 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.920 this problem. But he tried to fix the problem. Everybody 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.440 has tried to fix the problem. He tried a new approach. Yeah, 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.000 and he may have kicked it down the road longer 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.320 than everybody else, but we're still having to deal with 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:31.880 the problem. But what's not America first is getting us 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.000 bogged down into another war in the Middle East with 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:35.880 troops on the ground. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.400 So that's Glenn Beck on Mark Alprin's show yesterday afternoon 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.600 making the argument that you know, we kicked the can 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.200 further down the road with a new approach, so have 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:49.520 an optimistic view of this. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.960 And we don't want to get bogged down into endless 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.480 two and a half month wars that were only like 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.920 four weeks of three weeks of fighting. See that whole 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.040 endless wars bogged down in wars thing you gotta have 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:08.200 like a long war or get bogged down to throw 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.280 that around. But anyway, this is the defense of the 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:15.280 Deal segment. James Lindsay, friend of the Armstrong Getty Show. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.960 We're big fans partly because James does not give a 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.199 crap what he's supposed to think. He thinks independently, which 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:25.319 is how he launched his anti woke crusade. Brilliant anti 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.160 woke crusade from Portland. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:31.400 He might be the most independent I say whatever I 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.560 think guy on Earth. Yeah, love Jack, You love to 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.920 know what his model is for making a living, how 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.400 he makes money and how you Anyway, he angers everyone 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:41.959 all the time. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.120 Yeah, he does, so. He writes my logic here. 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:49.120 All starts with this seemingly rogue comments with his trump 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:53.040 seemingly rogue comments about around keeping rockets and missiles, which 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.359 has freaked out many, particularly Israelis and their supporters. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:56.720 Jack. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.640 You mentioned that as well, very generous. I mean, yeah, 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:01.960 you get to keep building rockets. Everybody has rockets. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:02.560 It's fine. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.680 I'm betting the Gulf States are really uncomfortable like israel 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.560 Is with that statement. They're not stupid, They're also targets 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.400 like Israel is less, but a lot in the IRGC 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.040 or crazy bastards makes me think Trump made it for them. 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.760 The thing is they didn't do their parts and aren't yet, 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.280 and yet Trump's definitely pissed at them because they straight 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.720 up didn't help during the war so far. They wouldn't 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.680 even let us use their airspace and try to close 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:25.960 down our military basis. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:27.600 That's true in. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.080 A couple of cases, definitely not true in a couple 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.720 more cases, but we'll go on. Trump didn't like that, 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.120 and he didn't forget no way, So Trump letting them 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.200 feel some legitimate heat that can be resolved by accomplishing 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.920 his primary goals makes a lot of basic sense. If 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.720 we remember Trump's goals and work backwards, it's actually a 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.000 little easier to see how this makes sense, even though 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.000 the MoU with its big carrot big stick arrangement that 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.680 basically nobody believes will stick, thus terrifying Israel. But I'll 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.960 bet also those Gulf states. So what are Trump's goals? 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:06.760 One expand the Abraham Accords two KSA alliging formally with Israel, 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:11.160 which was happening until October seventh disrupted it. Thus restoring 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.440 a pre ten to seven piece agenda. Does he ksa 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:16.440 which one is that? 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:17.840 I don't know. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.600 I don't know anyway one of. 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:22.960 The major leaders in the Middle East, I guess three 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:27.000 increase their overall security dependence on the US and Israel, 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.400 thus shifting some of their hand in the region to US, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.240 and for standard trump Ism one to one, make them 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.160 active participants in their own security arrangements, just like what 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.160 he's doing with the EU and Pacific countries. No more 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:43.680 America carrying all the weight. The MoU itself creates conditions 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.440 by which Iran becomes agentic in this. If they behave 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.440 and they won't, they get rewarded, which they actually want bigley. 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.960 If they misuse that, and everybody expects they will, they 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.880 will get a well deserved stick. Everyone in the region 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.640 feels this fear and is vigilant about it. Essentially, he 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.640 says it's a very high risk, but it's a very 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.440 high stakes game. Heighst in decades that Trump is saying 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.440 to the Gulf States, Okay, you. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:07.080 Didn't help us. 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.800 We're going to stop then, and we're going to see 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.920 what happens next. And Iran is really really pissed at you. 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:13.200 Guys. 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.600 So let's see if they behave. If you don't think 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.520 they do, maybe you ought to reconsider how much you 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:17.960 help us. 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.560 So Ksa is the actual leader of Saudi Arabia, I 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.760 don't know why he goes with that guy since everybody 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.880 knows he's not actually in charge it to his son MBS. 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.640 But so I'm trying to follow this. 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.560 So Trump says, you wouldn't let us fly over your airspace, 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.560 you didn't join in help us everything like that, So 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:37.560 screw you. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.320 Ran gets rockets and that helps us out. 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.760 Well because it will terrify everybody else into joining together 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.080 with Israel in a brand new Abraham Affords with the 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.240 US unity. Wow, it's a version of what's going on 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.920 in Europe where and they doubled down on this recently, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.520 And I like half the strategy of saying, look, you 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.160 got to pay your fair share to NATO or we're 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:03.640 out as a way to strengthen the alliance. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.840 But this case would be like we're actually I see 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.119 you with putin to strengthen NATO. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.880 But in this case would be like we're actually helping 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:16.199 arm Russia to make the thread even worse so that 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.520 NATO will come around. I mean because we're helping Iran 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:23.280 rearm telling me, yeah, you can have rockets to try 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.280 to get our allies on board. 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.600 That's an interesting plan. Yeah. 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:37.440 The comments are really really interesting, some skeptical, some encouraging. 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.000 We'll take a break for this for a while because 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:42.320 I know it's not for everybody, But we have to 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.080 play the clip of Trump later explaining the whole rockets thing, 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.880 because that's really interesting. Iran gets rockets. All the other 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.280 countries have rockets. Why doesn't Iran get rockets? Well, the 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.440 same reason a criminal doesn't get a gun but a 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.440 law abiding citizen does. The other countries aren't firing off 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:57.639 rockets all the time. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.520 JB comments, people need to f out, have some patience. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.400 Let the team trump cook. And another guy says, I've 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.200 said the three dimensional chess things so many times. 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.680 Never again, ha gone. Oh boy, we got a lot 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.240 more other stuff on the way. If you miss a 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.399 get the podcast Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.240 And guy comes out and says, dude, buffets here, he 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:22.959 wants to meet you. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:24.240 I'm like, that's big money. 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.800 Like I am way too amorated to say a lot 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:27.320 to this guy. 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:31.080 I started talking to finances meet Buffett out shake his hand, 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.879 and man, we have the best conversation I've. 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:34.760 Ever had in my life. 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:36.679 The man is literally smiling from the ear to hear. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.120 I'm thinking, I'm gonna be rich here soon. You're gonna 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:40.840 Baker in the Vine investments. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.320 And he starts telling a story in high school when 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.800 he he picked up the guitar for the first time, 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:51.080 and I was like, no, wait or Buffet played the 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:56.720 guitar and then got tapped on the shoulder because he 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.119 had to go sing Margueritaville. 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.000 That's a well told story. That's Travis kelcey football player. 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.040 That was well constructed. 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:07.080 Yeah. 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:08.960 Have you got a chance to listen to the Kelsey 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.720 Brothers podcast. I highly haven't other than clips i've heard, 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.200 but yeah, they're both terrific communicators. 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:14.560 Wow. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.840 So so Travis Kelsey. He was super hammered drunk. Somebody 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:19.240 told him Buffett is here. He thought he was going 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.800 to go talk to Warren Buffett, the finance financier, uh, 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:23.840 one of the World Church's men. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.520 But it was Jimmy Buffett, who was also quite the businessman. 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.479 But yeah, yeah, I was gonna say, it's pretty funny 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:32.760 that is not a dumb football player there. 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:36.240 Uh, he is going to make a ton of money 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.160 in the announcing world. Then when his career is over, 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.800 if he wants to. Of course, he's marrying Taylor Swift, 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.000 so he doesn't really need to make a living, right, 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:49.119 depending on you know, what their agreement looks like. The 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:54.399 amount of travel in the sportscaster businesses is underappreciated. 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:58.000 I think I had uneasy life. You make, you make 0:19:58.040 --> 0:19:59.720 good money, but it's it's tough. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:01.520 I had a friend who was a sportscaster, and I 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.320 had never realized or thought about it before, but it is. 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:10.159 That's a brutal for nine months of the year. Is 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:12.000 this I don't know if this is the same data 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.040 you were working off yesterday, and I didn't have much 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.359 to say about it for whatever reason, But looking at 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.840 it today, it's really striking me as interesting. The opinion 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.080 piece a guest essay in the New York Times. We 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.600 liked remote work. Then we looked at the data. 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:29.680 In twenty twenty. 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.040