WEBVTT - The Refs Hate Us! 0:00:07.690 --> 0:00:11.550 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:11.570 --> 0:00:16.580 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:16.660 --> 0:00:17.260 and Getty. 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:29.970 And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:30.430 --> 0:00:34.470 Live from Studio C. C, I don't see you, senor. 0:00:35.580 --> 0:00:38.120 A dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the 0:00:38.180 --> 0:00:42.340 Armstrong and Getty communications compound. And today, toiling under the 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:43.240 title of the show. 0:00:44.340 --> 0:00:47.580 Welcome the latest socialist, J.D. 0:00:47.700 --> 0:00:48.220 Vance. 0:00:49.460 --> 0:00:52.979 What? That's right. I'm accusing him. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.100 You're going to stir up some ass with that one. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.580 Oh, I love it. Or alternate title, Bad News, Don. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.740 I'm afraid you have a case of the Houthis. 0:01:05.170 --> 0:01:05.550 Oh, wow. 0:01:05.770 --> 0:01:06.710 That's a white-hearted look. 0:01:09.190 --> 0:01:14.300 Keeps me from crying. I am just. 0:01:14.180 --> 0:01:15.140 About to pull in. I had a bit of a 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:16.899 ZEP-bound emergency this morning. 0:01:17.540 --> 0:01:18.200 Oh, my. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.940 Talking to the doctor about that the other day. Those 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.600 of us on the GLP-1s, about 15% of us have 0:01:25.660 --> 0:01:30.420 a certain reaction to those wonder drugs. I seem to 0:01:30.459 --> 0:01:31.000 be one of them. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:37.910 I see. Rivaling the humble goose, are you? 0:01:39.490 --> 0:01:41.560 I don't imagine many people want a lot of details 0:01:41.620 --> 0:01:43.040 on that, but it can happen. 0:01:43.900 --> 0:01:46.639 Yeah, best to delay for a moment or two before 0:01:46.740 --> 0:01:48.280 one's morning drive, yes. 0:01:50.670 --> 0:01:54.410 Especially if you've had a good four, five-day buildup. 0:01:55.430 --> 0:01:58.610 Oh, now see. No, Katie, am I wrong? 0:01:59.150 --> 0:02:02.169 It was like you were so close to not going 0:02:02.230 --> 0:02:03.490 too far with that. 0:02:03.530 --> 0:02:06.010 You know what I mean? God, I thought, wow, he's 0:02:06.030 --> 0:02:08.269 turned over a new leaf. He's grown up, but no. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.480 So can we edit that out for the podcast? 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.400 Yeah, I'm sure we can favor that. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:20.360 Okay, so explain the J.D. Vance title. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.399 We'll be featuring some actual audio from Mr. Vance later 0:02:24.460 --> 0:02:27.320 on the show, but he has really gone in for 0:02:27.500 --> 0:02:32.820 central planning for the government needs to be making many, 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.480 many more decisions about how the economy works and apply 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:41.070 a heavier hand. We're all socialists now, it would seem. 0:02:41.570 --> 0:02:44.090 The Republicans are in a bidding war with the Democrats 0:02:44.610 --> 0:02:48.190 for who can hand out the most goodies. for the election, 0:02:48.230 --> 0:02:50.330 the most benefits, and that sort of thing. It's just, 0:02:50.370 --> 0:02:53.109 that's the new way. We're becoming Britain bit by bit. 0:02:54.030 --> 0:02:57.550 I remember many years ago, Newt was running for president. 0:02:57.750 --> 0:03:00.850 I think he was running for president. It was a 0:03:00.850 --> 0:03:03.970 long time ago, but when Newt Gingrich said, I don't 0:03:04.070 --> 0:03:08.220 like Republican social engineer, right-wing social engineering, any better than 0:03:08.250 --> 0:03:10.690 I like left-wing social engineering. And it always stuck in 0:03:10.740 --> 0:03:14.680 my head, like right-wing social engineering. But there is more 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:15.960 and more of that happening, definitely. 0:03:16.550 --> 0:03:22.430 Well said, Newt. Where have you gone, Newt Gringrich? Your 0:03:22.470 --> 0:03:25.549 nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Woo, woo, woo. 0:03:26.310 --> 0:03:28.330 But from what I understand, you did not invent. 0:03:31.370 --> 0:03:34.590 Hey, it's Jack. I did not invent what? From what 0:03:34.690 --> 0:03:40.779 I understand, you did not invent the idea of Chay-D-Vance. No, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.900 I'd love to have the credit for that, but no. No, 0:03:43.940 --> 0:03:48.510 I heard that somewhere else. That's pretty clever. I have 0:03:48.550 --> 0:03:50.270 a feeling that's going to make a number of people very, 0:03:50.310 --> 0:03:52.930 very angry that are big J.D. Vance fans, and he's 0:03:52.970 --> 0:03:55.050 the most likely person by far to be the Republican 0:03:55.090 --> 0:03:59.520 nominee for president. Let me check my pockets. Fresh out 0:03:59.580 --> 0:04:00.080 of F. 0:04:01.020 --> 0:04:01.400 Sorry. 0:04:04.370 --> 0:04:06.720 I close them as I seize them. You don't like it? 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:08.480 I don't know what to tell you. Did you look 0:04:08.500 --> 0:04:12.260 in your man bag? Maybe there's some in there. I 0:04:12.340 --> 0:04:15.520 carry no man bag, sir. Let's start the show officially 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.350 before things get out of hand and then bring it 0:04:17.390 --> 0:04:20.390 back around. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. On this, 0:04:20.589 --> 0:04:24.900 it is Wednesday already. September the 16th, the year 2026, 0:04:24.900 --> 0:04:28.219 we are Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program. Okay, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.230 let's start officially then. According to FCC rules and regulations, 0:04:31.290 --> 0:04:33.710 enough with the preliminaries, the show starts at mark. 0:04:34.070 --> 0:04:36.770 Well, some TV news following a massive leadership change. The 0:04:36.810 --> 0:04:39.589 new season of 60 Minutes just premiered to its smallest 0:04:39.730 --> 0:04:41.849 audience in more than 25 years. 0:04:42.810 --> 0:04:43.089 Wow. 0:04:43.110 --> 0:04:45.469 For some reason, the image of a ticking pocket watch 0:04:45.550 --> 0:04:47.130 isn't resonating with younger viewers. 0:04:50.740 --> 0:04:51.120 What is that? 0:04:52.690 --> 0:04:55.270 To get more viewers, they're changing the show to 3,600 TikToks. 0:04:55.290 --> 0:05:01.090 Oh. That's pretty good. That's a funny joke. And I'm 0:05:01.190 --> 0:05:03.570 glad he went with that because there is no doubt 0:05:03.670 --> 0:05:06.450 that the younger crowd is not into anything that's on 0:05:06.490 --> 0:05:08.870 the network or an hour long or all those different 0:05:08.890 --> 0:05:12.530 sorts of things. But so that many people that were 0:05:12.690 --> 0:05:16.240 loyal 60 Minutes fans, like I have been since I 0:05:16.270 --> 0:05:21.210 was like 11 years old, Got the news that Barry Weiss, 0:05:21.310 --> 0:05:25.870 the so-called conservative, even though she's a gay pro-choice woman, 0:05:27.730 --> 0:05:30.350 and fired Scott Pelley and is so pro-Trump, I'm not 0:05:30.410 --> 0:05:33.440 watching anymore. So they had their lowest audience ever. That 0:05:33.630 --> 0:05:39.900 is unbelievable. After all those years of just ridiculous liberal 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:44.240 bias stories that were just out of bounds in terms 0:05:44.339 --> 0:05:47.400 of trying to be journalistic. Wow. That's where we are. 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.860 That is the playing field on which we play on 0:05:51.900 --> 0:05:54.200 when we play. I couldn't figure out how that's the playing. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.630 That's our playing field. That's what I'm trying to say. 0:05:57.070 --> 0:06:00.390 We just, the refs hate us. If the refs are 0:06:00.430 --> 0:06:02.690 the media, which is why new media is so much 0:06:02.730 --> 0:06:06.150 more important. So many people have correctly perceived that. Well, 0:06:06.170 --> 0:06:08.420 I wonder if they'll drift back over time, the viewers. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.540 Doesn't matter, but. The New York Times had a big, 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.420 prominently popular, Placed peace saying, no, it was 60 minutes. 0:06:16.500 --> 0:06:19.080 It was good. It was fine. It was good. Yeah, 0:06:19.180 --> 0:06:23.120 it was. And even handed their second story was pretty political, 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:27.200 but it was great. So AI continues to be in 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.050 the news and maybe for the rest of our lives. 0:06:30.330 --> 0:06:33.990 I can't tell if this is just a blip or 0:06:34.010 --> 0:06:37.720 we're going to be talking about this. At practically this 0:06:37.900 --> 0:06:41.279 level for a long time, like when COVID hit, I 0:06:41.380 --> 0:06:44.400 don't know. But man, there's sure a lot of heavyweight 0:06:44.540 --> 0:06:49.220 chatter among highly placed AI people and highly placed government 0:06:49.260 --> 0:06:53.040 officials and financial people yesterday, just like there has been 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.840 since last. Was it Thursday or Friday when the big 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:57.560 story dropped with the guy saying we're all going to 0:06:57.580 --> 0:07:01.750 be dead in 10 years? Yeah, yeah. You know, speaking 0:07:01.770 --> 0:07:04.050 of the New York Times, the New York Times-Siena poll 0:07:04.089 --> 0:07:09.530 just came out, and it has all sorts of results 0:07:09.610 --> 0:07:12.970 that the paper is featuring having to do with people's 0:07:13.010 --> 0:07:16.810 attitude toward AI and data centers and superintelligence and that 0:07:16.850 --> 0:07:21.150 sort of stuff. But the poll was taken 10 days ago. 0:07:21.830 --> 0:07:23.670 And they even say in the paper, you know, it's 0:07:23.730 --> 0:07:28.250 possible some people's opinions have evolved somewhat. And I was 0:07:28.290 --> 0:07:31.680 thinking to myself— In the last 10 days, there has 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.500 been an enormous change in people's perception of these things. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.960 And then I thought to myself, I says to myself, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:43.030 I says, how do we live in a world in 0:07:43.770 --> 0:07:50.450 which people can hear about something, something complicated? I mean, 0:07:50.470 --> 0:07:55.160 like the ultimate example of they're both true. Two seemingly 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:59.020 opposing ideas. But hear that, try to process it, understand 0:07:59.060 --> 0:08:02.140 what's actually happening, and develop a strong take that they 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.640 won't budge from, probably ever for the rest of their lives, 0:08:06.100 --> 0:08:10.140 in the space of a week. What is that? Tribalism? 0:08:11.020 --> 0:08:14.220 I guess. Oh, I got one more thought on that topic. 0:08:14.580 --> 0:08:16.240 I just, I want to express to the good people 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:21.460 listening how much I appreciate that you are here. Not 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.030 just because you're our listeners and customers, I don't need 0:08:25.070 --> 0:08:27.710 the money. I'm very wealthy. I bought 10,000 shares of 0:08:27.790 --> 0:08:34.550 Apple stock in 1994. 1979. Yeah. I couldn't remember when 0:08:34.570 --> 0:08:37.390 they started for my great life. Anyway, no, it's not 0:08:37.470 --> 0:08:40.470 just about commerce. It gives me hope that there are 0:08:40.510 --> 0:08:44.390 at least some people who think, hmm, there are smart 0:08:44.410 --> 0:08:46.569 people who seem to think the other thing. I wonder 0:08:46.610 --> 0:08:49.360 what their ideas are. You know, I hope there's a 0:08:49.410 --> 0:08:53.650 market for that. I really do. Yeah, well, we'll get 0:08:53.700 --> 0:08:58.760 into that coming up. I heard the best realistic description 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.920 of how AI would kill us yesterday, since that's been 0:09:01.980 --> 0:09:04.460 one of the questions for the past week. How exactly 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.440 would it kill us? You keep talking about it'll kill us, 0:09:06.460 --> 0:09:08.120 will it kill us, it might kill us. In what 0:09:08.179 --> 0:09:10.160 way will it kill us? And it turns out the 0:09:10.260 --> 0:09:14.700 answer is with a club. So that's not good. Barbaric! 0:09:16.420 --> 0:09:22.459 It's gruesome. I'm sorry. That's such a bad joke. Is 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.870 that what I was picturing? Being clubbed to death by AI. 0:09:26.230 --> 0:09:32.030 That's considerably more primal than I expected. That's not high 0:09:32.050 --> 0:09:36.010 tech at all. Okay, we will get to Katie's headlines 0:09:36.090 --> 0:09:37.630 coming up and more news of the day. Hope you 0:09:37.670 --> 0:09:38.189 can stay here. 0:09:38.210 --> 0:09:43.470 Armstrong and Getty. 0:09:43.490 --> 0:09:45.810 Is Saudi Arabia about to go to war with the Houthis? 0:09:46.010 --> 0:09:48.380 And the Houthis apparently are armed like a, well, like 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.300 a real military, like it could be a real war. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:54.420 So that's exciting. to have out there as a possibility. Also, 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.010 we got a story about an AI actress. I can't 0:09:57.030 --> 0:09:59.170 wrap my head around what that means. So I look 0:09:59.190 --> 0:09:59.970 forward to that discussion. 0:10:00.100 --> 0:10:00.320 Later. 0:10:01.980 --> 0:10:05.439 What the F type of A I S it did. Okay. 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:05.600 Yeah. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:11.250 Yeah. All right, we'll try to figure it out. But first, 0:10:11.270 --> 0:10:13.110 let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story 0:10:13.130 --> 0:10:16.090 with Katie Green. Katie, take it away. All righty. The 0:10:16.150 --> 0:10:17.910 Alphabet Network's ABC. 0:10:18.270 --> 0:10:18.650 U.S. 0:10:18.790 --> 0:10:23.449 Says Americans should, quote, reconsider travel to Saudi Arabia. 0:10:24.130 --> 0:10:24.650 I will. 0:10:24.929 --> 0:10:25.150 Yeah. 0:10:26.010 --> 0:10:26.590 NBC. 0:10:26.690 --> 0:10:30.020 Saudi Arabia accuses the Houthis of attacking Mecca, warns that 0:10:30.100 --> 0:10:36.370 Holy City is, quote, a red line. And CNN. 0:10:36.850 --> 0:10:41.290 So attacking their oil installations isn't a red line? Well, yeah, 0:10:41.330 --> 0:10:45.210 but attacking Mecca, that sounds to me like they're trying 0:10:45.230 --> 0:10:48.350 to whip up their people. Saudi Arabia is. They know 0:10:48.390 --> 0:10:50.490 they're about to go to war with the Houthis, and 0:10:50.530 --> 0:10:54.770 that's some really useful wartime propaganda. Because, you know, Saudi 0:10:54.809 --> 0:10:58.650 Arabia is an uneasy balance of modernity and, like, the 0:10:58.730 --> 0:11:03.380 year 832. with fundamentalist Muslims ooching about in the desert, 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:04.830 and they've got to rally their support. 0:11:06.429 --> 0:11:11.050 And also this one from CNN. Iran's newfound precision in 0:11:11.150 --> 0:11:14.970 hitting United States assets may have had Russian help. 0:11:16.270 --> 0:11:24.640 And Chinese help. NPR. Iran's back to building ballistic missiles, too. Goody. 0:11:26.450 --> 0:11:30.410 From NPR, the Fed is expected to raise interest rates 0:11:30.490 --> 0:11:32.429 for the first time in three years. 0:11:34.870 --> 0:11:37.130 Trump is probably going to level a blast at that 0:11:37.210 --> 0:11:39.320 new guy, Kevin Warsh, like he did at the Supreme 0:11:39.390 --> 0:11:42.240 Court justices yesterday. Yeah, I'm almost guaranteed. He's not the 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.240 guy I interviewed. He's a shell of himself. Interest rates 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.600 going up. Moving up. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:49.480 CNBC. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:56.429 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sides with NVIDIA's CEO on AI 0:11:56.510 --> 0:11:58.410 safety and the slowdown debate. 0:11:59.490 --> 0:12:03.530 Yeah, we got an interesting clip or quote from the 0:12:03.570 --> 0:12:06.970 guy that runs NVIDIA about the whole AI thing. See 0:12:06.990 --> 0:12:09.960 if you agree or disagree with what his take is. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.000 That's the most valuable company in the world. 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:12.300 Isn't it? 0:12:12.300 --> 0:12:16.360 It's damn valuable anyway. They should be proud of themselves. 0:12:18.590 --> 0:12:21.970 This was awful yesterday from the Washington Post. Three dead 0:12:22.130 --> 0:12:26.030 after L.A. news helicopter goes down while covering crash. 0:12:26.910 --> 0:12:31.809 Oh, that's a bad story. Yikes. And all the networks. 0:12:32.429 --> 0:12:34.650 I was watching a few of them at the same 0:12:34.690 --> 0:12:36.410 time while this was happening, trying to figure out if 0:12:36.470 --> 0:12:37.390 it was one of their news. 0:12:37.470 --> 0:12:37.950 Right. 0:12:38.450 --> 0:12:40.740 Oh, yeah. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.020 And friends of theirs and everything. 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:42.179 Yeah. 0:12:42.220 --> 0:12:43.220 I saw some of those clips. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:43.679 Yeah. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:43.800 Yeah. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.449 New York Post, forget your data privacy. 0:12:47.830 --> 0:12:51.390 AI chatbots already know more about you than your own mother. 0:12:53.270 --> 0:12:55.350 Oh, because of the information we give them while we're 0:12:55.390 --> 0:12:59.510 talking to them? Okay. Yeah, that's clearly true. Yeah, that's 0:12:59.590 --> 0:13:01.990 one thing. The new Apple Siri, if you've downloaded the 0:13:02.030 --> 0:13:05.110 new operating system that just came out, the new AI, 0:13:05.350 --> 0:13:07.750 Siri AI, it's supposed to be a leap forward, supposed 0:13:07.770 --> 0:13:10.330 to be on par with like chat GPT and stuff 0:13:10.350 --> 0:13:12.710 like that. I haven't tried it out yet. But it's 0:13:12.750 --> 0:13:14.870 going to keep track of everything you're saying and doing 0:13:14.910 --> 0:13:19.420 in one place, which could be very, very helpful. Hey, Siri, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.920 you know that meeting I have on Thursday because Siri 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.040 is looking at your email and your phone and everything 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:25.830 like that and, you know, just bringing it all together. 0:13:25.870 --> 0:13:27.849 But on the other hand, it's going to have an 0:13:28.010 --> 0:13:31.250 awful lot of info. Yeah, but they're competing with things 0:13:31.590 --> 0:13:34.370 that some of which we've just mentioned that do that 0:13:34.450 --> 0:13:39.010 without Apple's. incredibly strict privacy standards. One of the things 0:13:39.050 --> 0:13:42.750 holding Apple back in AI is that it protects people's 0:13:42.790 --> 0:13:45.030 privacy so much and isn't fast and loose with sending 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.860 data back and forth. But Siri being in your phone 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.580 can grab all that stuff in your phone. Right, right. 0:13:51.620 --> 0:13:53.620 There's a funny joke about that. Go ahead, Katie. I'll 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:58.929 find the joke. Hey Siri, snitches get stitches, huh? From 0:13:58.950 --> 0:14:00.250 the Wall Street? Yeah, mine too. 0:14:00.590 --> 0:14:00.890 Oh boy. 0:14:04.670 --> 0:14:07.699 Threat used to describe what will happen if someone informs 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.880 on them or another party yeah i know what it 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.700 means all right back to you. 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:18.510 Katie from the wall street journal this english village is 0:14:18.590 --> 0:14:22.810 threatening to quit the uk over planned asylum camp. 0:14:24.070 --> 0:14:27.980 Oh is that a thing Can you quit? They're seceding. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.840 Yeah, they're up in arms over a proposal to house 0:14:32.260 --> 0:14:36.820 over 1,200, quote, asylum seekers at a former military base. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.700 And this is a town that has a population of 350. 0:14:40.700 --> 0:14:43.740 Good for y'all. Fight it as hard as you possibly can. 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.280 Fight it like your lives depend on it and your 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:50.160 daughter's lives depend on it. Study finds. 0:14:51.220 --> 0:14:57.360 Where Americans want pets out. Doctors' offices, grocery stores, and 0:14:57.500 --> 0:14:59.120 anywhere food is served. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:03.710 Yeah, I don't particularly want them all the other places either, 0:15:03.770 --> 0:15:06.190 but I suppose that ship has sailed as we've gone 0:15:06.250 --> 0:15:08.510 from a society that has kids to a society that 0:15:08.530 --> 0:15:10.630 has pets. I was telling my kids when we were 0:15:10.650 --> 0:15:12.960 at the hotel, I went to see my mom and dad. 0:15:13.830 --> 0:15:16.930 Dogs everywhere. I said, when I was a kid, if 0:15:17.130 --> 0:15:20.080 you walked into a hotel and somebody had a dog 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.960 in the elevator, you'd have thought, oh my God, there's 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:24.220 a dog in the elevator. 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:24.900 Right. 0:15:25.100 --> 0:15:28.620 Now it's always, like, more likely than not there's a 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.540 dog in the elevator. My bride and I are planning 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.030 a vacation, and I saw one hotel. we were looking 0:15:34.050 --> 0:15:37.270 at and said, you know, whatever. Jones Hotel is family 0:15:37.310 --> 0:15:41.410 friendly and Jones Hotel is pet friendly. I'm like, oh, great. 0:15:41.670 --> 0:15:45.700 The last hotel I was in, yapping dog right down 0:15:45.740 --> 0:15:48.620 the hallway. Yapped for an hour straight. Then we left. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.060 It might have gone for 12 hours straight. 0:15:50.100 --> 0:15:50.420 I don't know. 0:15:50.460 --> 0:15:53.420 We left. Unbelievable. A lot of y'all look miserable to me. 0:15:53.460 --> 0:15:55.700 You're like trying to corral your dog and you're trying 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.460 to get it to find some place to let it pee. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.640 It doesn't look that fun to me. I love dogs, 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.980 but I just don't get it. And finally, the Babylon Bee. 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.920 Sidney Sweeney tries to gain support of liberal women by 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:11.220 murdering multiple children. 0:16:11.740 --> 0:16:18.080 Oh, wow. That was a Clancy comment, not a Sidney 0:16:18.100 --> 0:16:21.440 Sweeney comment, really. I get it. That's good. Is there 0:16:21.460 --> 0:16:24.180 anything I could log into so I don't hear Sidney 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.820 Sweeney's name every again? Is there an opt-out place somewhere 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:32.690 where she never crosses my path in any way? As 0:16:32.990 --> 0:16:36.270 a heterosexual man, I will concede that Ms. Sweeney is 0:16:36.850 --> 0:16:40.620 of spectacular sexiness, but she has now achieved the level of, 0:16:41.130 --> 0:16:45.440 unless she cures cancer, or we used to say assassinates 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.420 the president, but now people try to do that over 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.680 and over again. So unless she cures cancer or sets 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.420 foot on the moon, I don't want to hear her 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:57.960 name again. There's actually a piece in the free press 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:04.200 about Sidney Sweeney derangement syndrome. Oh, really? Yeah. That's pretty clever. 0:17:04.609 --> 0:17:04.850 Yeah. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.990 Well, we definitely have more news to get to. A 0:17:08.030 --> 0:17:10.890 lot going on. The whole Middle East thing, I know 0:17:10.930 --> 0:17:15.190 this sounds crazy to say. Oh, boy. Could just explode. 0:17:15.330 --> 0:17:17.869 I mean, if a Saudi Arabian and the Houthis really 0:17:17.910 --> 0:17:20.410 go to war, how's Iran and Israel and the United 0:17:20.430 --> 0:17:24.720 States get sucked into that? I don't know. Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:26.460 --> 0:17:30.460 Saudi Arabia is vowing to take firm measures against Iranian-backed 0:17:30.500 --> 0:17:34.730 Houthi fighters who continue to strike static oil infrastructure and 0:17:34.790 --> 0:17:39.250 threaten multiple cities, including Mecca. A drone attack last week 0:17:39.310 --> 0:17:43.510 hit the 700-mile east-west pipeline, forcing a shutdown that could 0:17:43.550 --> 0:17:47.060 last for weeks and impact the ability to transport four 0:17:47.190 --> 0:17:49.479 million barrels of oil a day to market. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.340 They've learned from Iranian training and Iranian support over the 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:57.280 years how to be essentially these effective Islamist pirates in 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:57.740 the region. 0:17:59.060 --> 0:18:03.850 So Iran and Saudi Arabia have been avowed enemies forever, right? 0:18:04.310 --> 0:18:07.149 You got the whole Sunni Shia thing going. One of 0:18:07.170 --> 0:18:11.530 them is one of them to Iran, Shia and Saudi Arabia, Sunni. 0:18:11.910 --> 0:18:12.340 Is that right? 0:18:12.859 --> 0:18:13.100 Yes. 0:18:13.300 --> 0:18:15.480 Uh, correct. Not to mention just the good old, uh, 0:18:15.580 --> 0:18:17.340 who's going to be the power. Who's going to be 0:18:17.380 --> 0:18:19.179 the top dog, right? Which might have more to do 0:18:19.220 --> 0:18:25.070 with it. Certainly among the leadership. Um, This is closer 0:18:25.090 --> 0:18:27.770 to them going to war, definitely, since the Houthis are 0:18:28.330 --> 0:18:32.280 full-on Iranian-created and backed. Although, I was reading a long 0:18:32.340 --> 0:18:34.760 article the other day about how they're way more independent 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:36.700 than a lot of these other groups at this point, 0:18:37.180 --> 0:18:42.280 and very, very well-armed. Interesting, yeah. The fight in Yemen, 0:18:42.300 --> 0:18:46.700 which has been the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in whatever number 0:18:46.740 --> 0:18:49.770 of decades. It's funny that college kids aren't marching about that. 0:18:49.890 --> 0:18:50.690 It's weird. 0:18:50.890 --> 0:18:51.050 Anyway. 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:56.220 It's long been a proxy fight between Iran and Saudi Arabia. 0:18:56.260 --> 0:18:59.750 Now it could just be a, it's on. No more proxies. 0:18:59.810 --> 0:19:03.260 I want to punch you in the face situation. That 0:19:03.300 --> 0:19:05.439 report from Fox goes on. 0:19:06.490 --> 0:19:11.109 Houthi fighters are overrunning Yemen government forces, leaving chaos and 0:19:11.190 --> 0:19:14.290 death in their wake, vowing to take control of one 0:19:14.310 --> 0:19:17.699 of the most strategic waterways in the world, the Bab 0:19:17.820 --> 0:19:21.680 al-Mandeb Strait, an 18-mile strip of water at the mouth 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:22.440 of the Red Sea. 0:19:23.170 --> 0:19:25.010 More than $ 1 trillion. 0:19:24.970 --> 0:19:29.780 Worth of cargo passes through the Strait each year, including 12% 0:19:29.780 --> 0:19:30.780 of the world's oil. 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:35.379 We are capable of closing Bab el-Mandab Strait and the 0:19:35.420 --> 0:19:38.900 Red Sea maritime navigation due to advances in our missile 0:19:38.940 --> 0:19:40.200 and aerial capabilities. 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.310 Well, that seems like a big deal. It's a huge 0:19:43.350 --> 0:19:45.570 deal in a lot of different ways. The war part, 0:19:45.630 --> 0:19:48.950 which you've outlined, and also energy-wise, that was one of 0:19:48.970 --> 0:19:52.119 the main... bypasses the Saudis were using to get their 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.600 oil out because the Strait of Hormuz is a tad 0:19:54.660 --> 0:19:57.780 clogged up, you may have heard. So, yeah, this is 0:19:57.900 --> 0:20:03.899 a development. So then we go to Trey Yankstofox, who's 0:20:03.940 --> 0:20:07.960 got our involvement in some of the violence that's going 0:20:08.020 --> 0:20:08.419 on over there. 0:20:09.030 --> 0:20:11.950 Tension remains high around the Strait of Hormuz as reports 0:20:12.140 --> 0:20:14.740 indicate multiple explosions. 0:20:14.100 --> 0:20:15.420 Were heard there overnight. 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:19.439 The Iranians claim they shot down an MQ-1 Predator drone 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:21.050 belonging to the United States. 0:20:21.390 --> 0:20:22.330 And we do know that U.S. 0:20:22.410 --> 0:20:25.890 Forces targeted a number of small Iranian boats that were 0:20:26.150 --> 0:20:28.310 reportedly trying to steal a U.S. 0:20:28.390 --> 0:20:32.419 Sea drone earlier this week. We fired off a ton 0:20:32.500 --> 0:20:36.740 of our best, we're running low on munitions yesterday. I 0:20:36.780 --> 0:20:38.440 was just going to jump in and say before we 0:20:38.460 --> 0:20:42.030 continue with Trey, yeah, we fired 70 or more of 0:20:42.130 --> 0:20:47.900 our high-end munitions. defense interceptors when Iran launched that brief-ish 0:20:47.980 --> 0:20:51.560 missile attack on Jordan, not to mention, so it was 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:54.760 60 to 70 Patriot interceptors and also a dozen or 0:20:54.820 --> 0:20:59.290 so THAAD interceptors. And that expenditure is what we've used 0:20:59.330 --> 0:21:02.010 in a full week at other times in the war. 0:21:02.869 --> 0:21:09.450 Iran is changing its tactics, including firing these rockets, munitions, missiles, 0:21:09.490 --> 0:21:11.830 I'm not sure the proper term, that as they get 0:21:11.869 --> 0:21:16.590 close to the target, they split into multiple munitions. They 0:21:16.670 --> 0:21:19.469 multiply like the Hydra, right? And then so you have 0:21:19.490 --> 0:21:22.109 to use lots and lots of Patriots and Thads to 0:21:22.130 --> 0:21:24.730 shoot them down, and we are burning through our supply. 0:21:25.390 --> 0:21:30.940 Which is a strategy from the bad guys to have 0:21:30.980 --> 0:21:33.170 us run out of those, I think. Oh, yeah. 0:21:33.450 --> 0:21:33.870 Oh, yeah. 0:21:33.930 --> 0:21:39.379 I think you're absolutely right. And here's the 30,000-foot view 0:21:39.460 --> 0:21:44.180 of that situation. The really good missile defense stuff we've developed, 0:21:44.220 --> 0:21:48.580 and it's amazing. It's a tribute to American scientific imagination, 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:52.909 hard work, and genius in manufacturing. Anyway, that is— Oh, 0:21:52.990 --> 0:21:57.669 my God. Good point. But that's enabled— the sort of 0:21:57.710 --> 0:21:59.840 warfare we've seen, you know, we're going to punch you 0:21:59.880 --> 0:22:01.379 good and hard in the face and see if you 0:22:01.420 --> 0:22:04.810 come around and you'll retaliate, but we'll shoot down your rockets. 0:22:04.850 --> 0:22:08.220 So then we'll, We'll have more negotiations than, I don't know, 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:10.520 maybe kick you a couple of times, and you'll shoot back, 0:22:10.540 --> 0:22:12.980 and we'll shoot those down, and, you know, we'll go 0:22:13.020 --> 0:22:15.240 back to the table, blah, blah, blah. As opposed to, 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:20.180 you know, in the past, your soldiers were vulnerable to attacks, 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:25.580