1 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty. 3 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jet Katie and he. 4 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 3: Sure button than you, buddy, live a from studio scene, 5 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 3: a dimly lit room, give them the bowels of the 6 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound and hate y'all. 7 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 2: Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager, 8 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 2: Donald J. 9 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 1: Trump, the decider in chief. 10 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 2: He's our general manager. That's a heavy gun, you don't. 11 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 2: You don't do that very often? Do it with your 12 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 2: serious voice too, which kind of frightened me. Thanks, all right, 13 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: I did, Jack, Yeah. 14 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:01,959 Speaker 3: And the most. 15 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 2: Impactful decision of his term his presidency is. 16 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: Life whether to hammer iron? Quite possibly. 17 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 2: I was looking at the headline of the Weekly World News, 18 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 2: which is a newsletter I look at every single morning 19 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: when I wake up, and said, the world holds its 20 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 2: breadth for Trump's a weekly world news. 21 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: Are you sure? The wide world of news? I think? 22 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 1: Is what I say. 23 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 2: A weekly World News generally reports on the bat boy 24 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 2: in space, alien autopsies. 25 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: To go to during these serious times. 26 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 2: The first thing I read every single day, I want 27 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 2: to know if they figured out the moon landing or 28 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 2: a variety of other things. Uh. Yeah, so it hasn't 29 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 2: happened yet. For all the Trump's a madman talk for 30 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 2: so many years by a certain crowds, he is a 31 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 2: very deliberate person when it comes to this sort of thing, 32 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 2: so it would seem and a manager of a tumultuous 33 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 2: coalition as well, which we will discuss. Does Iran pose 34 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 2: a threat to the United States? A new pull out 35 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 2: from Fox, which is a very respected polling organization, and 36 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 2: it's about seventy five twenty five Yes. 37 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: Those three quarters of people yes, which is interesting. I'm not. 38 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 2: I suppose ultimately I'd end up there, but I don't 39 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 2: personally feel threatened by our end today. But long term, 40 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: I hate the idea of them getting a bomb. I 41 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 2: think it's worth going to war to keep them from 42 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 2: get a bomb. Well, they and their proxies have certainly 43 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 2: killed a prodigious number of Americans and damaged our stuff 44 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 2: many many times through the years. The isolationist wing of 45 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 2: the Republican Party might reply, well, you know, stick closer 46 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 2: to home and that wouldn't happen. I have it to disagree, 47 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 2: but yeah, I'm looking at a map of our assets 48 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 2: in the Middle East. Right now, we've got more aircraft 49 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 2: carriers and destroyers and planes and everything gathered in that 50 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 2: areas the most we've had since March of two thousand 51 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 2: and three when we invaded Iraq. So I mean we 52 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 2: are really geared up for things to go crazy. They 53 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:05,559 Speaker 2: do purely defensive or positioning forces for something more specific 54 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 2: and offensive. Well, if I had to bet money question, 55 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 2: I would think we're absolutely going to go offensive here 56 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 2: at any point in the next couple of days. But 57 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 2: I took in a number of podcasts yesterday with experts 58 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 2: on the whole where things could go wrong, if, if 59 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 2: things spiral, where it would be, and a lot of 60 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 2: it is the devolving into civil war. I mean what 61 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 2: we've been talking about. If the if the leader goes 62 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 2: who's in charge, and whoever's running the army might say 63 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 2: I'm in charge, But then whoever's running, you know, the 64 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 2: Revolutionary Guard or whatever the wing of military might say no, 65 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 2: you're not, I'm in charge, and various people gather behind them, 66 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 2: and the next thing you know, you got a full 67 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 2: on civil war. And then also religious breaks down by 68 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 2: those and then the idea of it's spilling into a rack, 69 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: which is not particularly stable, and there's a whole bunch 70 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 2: of people that are half. A lot of the country 71 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 2: in Iraq is half Iran already anyway, but a whole 72 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 2: bunch of it is not, and then just that becoming 73 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 2: a whole, big, giant cauldron of mess. 74 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. 75 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 2: The question of identity looms huge obviously in the Middle East, 76 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 2: because a lot of those Iraqis quote unquote you're referring 77 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 2: to don't see themselves as Iraqis at all. They see 78 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 2: themselves as Shia Muslims, for instance, and probably more specifically 79 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 2: this offshoot of Shia Islam. That is who I am, 80 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 2: and by God, I'm willing to die for it. But 81 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 2: is that worse than letting Iran get a bomb? That's 82 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 2: the whole. 83 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: Thing is, is. 84 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 2: That that would be awful if that happens, and we 85 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 2: have a giant civil war spreading across two giant countries 86 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 2: in the Middle East and all kinds of refugees headed 87 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 2: it into other countries in Europe and wherever. 88 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: But is that worse than Iran getting a bomb? I 89 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 1: don't think so. 90 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: One interesting perspective on that question comes from India, which 91 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 2: had a chance to knock out Pakistan's you know, nascent 92 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 2: nuclear program back in the day and didn't do it, 93 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 2: and now a lot of Indians believe they're suffering death 94 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 2: from a thousand cuts. Is militant groups from Pakistan constantly 95 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: attack Indian It's people and they can't do a lot 96 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 2: about it because Pakistan has nukes, right. So anyway, so 97 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 2: we got a lot of information on that whole thing, 98 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 2: and I took in the entire Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz 99 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 2: interview throughout the afternoon eating last night because it's like 100 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 2: two hours long, and it took a while to get 101 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 2: through it, and news quite damned interesting. 102 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: I thought, was the whole thing is fever pitched? Is 103 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,359 Speaker 1: that clip we played yesterday? 104 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 2: Well, if the whole thing was, you'd have to know, 105 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 2: I don't think you'd listen to it. You know, you 106 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 2: drag him off of each other. Well, you can't stay 107 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 2: at eleven. I mean that that does. But it was 108 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 2: it was something. I mean, it got Tucker. It would 109 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 2: be hard to sit there with Tucker and talk to 110 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 2: him about something you disagree with him about for two 111 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 2: hours because Ted Cruz had kept saying, could you be 112 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 2: a little less condescending in your replies, so we can 113 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 2: have a conversation. Could you stop being so snarky every 114 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 2: time I say something? I mean, I don't know how 115 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 2: many times he said that. 116 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: Yeah. 117 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, As I said yesterday, I joked that I could 118 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 2: give a class on arguing unfairly. 119 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 1: Tucker would be the president of the university. Yeah, he is. 120 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:38,359 Speaker 2: One of the most amazingly skilled. He is to arguing 121 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 2: on fairly what Ornette Coleman was to blowing into a horn. 122 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 2: I mean he is an artist. Yeah, he really is, 123 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 2: he really is. I was studying his technique. I'm gonna 124 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 2: try to do it later this morning. I'm gonna have 125 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 2: Joe say something you could say practically anything, and then 126 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 2: I will try to do a Tucker carls an impersonation 127 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 2: of how you respond when somebody says them. It'd be 128 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 2: a good way if you want to get out of 129 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 2: your marriage, this would be a good way to do it. 130 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 2: Learn to argue out here to make someone hate you, Yes, 131 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 2: by arguing Tucker Carlson's style. 132 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely is that. 133 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 2: And and at one time, I mean he made one 134 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 2: time Tucker did apologize where Ted Cruse said, So there, 135 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 2: there you go with that laugh. 136 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: You're famous for that laugh. 137 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 2: So you just you go with the dismissive laugh and 138 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 2: then and Tucker said, you know what, you know what, 139 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 2: You're right about that. I sincerely apologize for that. It's 140 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 2: a it's a bad habit I have. I shouldn't have 141 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 2: done that. That was inappropriate. Wow, exposing something resembling a soul? Yes, 142 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 2: how to blow up your marriage or your relationship with 143 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 2: your boss by arguing Tucker Carlson style. We'll get to 144 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 2: that a little bit later. The one thing I did 145 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 2: figure out, though, it's fine. Ian Bremmer tweeted out that 146 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 2: he had watched the whole thing and he said, you 147 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 2: will learn nothing from about the world from this. And 148 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 2: I responded to Ian, I said, yeah, Ian, but I 149 00:07:55,760 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 2: learned a lot about this division between the Bucker world 150 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 2: and the rest of MAGA, like a lot by watching that, 151 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 2: which seems to be a topic that a lot of 152 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 2: the media seem is pretty damned interested in. I finally 153 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 2: understand better the woke right thing. Tucker brought it back. 154 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 2: I don't know how many times to the I walk 155 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 2: past people dying on the street every day, and we're 156 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 2: worried about Ukraine. I step over people who are dying 157 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 2: from drug overdises on the way to you know, my 158 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 2: car and the parking lot, and we care more about 159 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 2: Israel than that. The amount of time he spent worried 160 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,319 Speaker 2: about drug addicts on the street, that's the woke, right, 161 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 2: I guess, because I don't understand concerns in general. I think, well, 162 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 2: why do you keep using that example like five times? 163 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 2: Because people die? That's dramatic. 164 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. 165 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 2: I worry about drug addicts on the street only in 166 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 2: the fact that it interrupts my life so much, uh, 167 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 2: and they steal from me. 168 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: I worry about that. 169 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 2: Other than that, I don't know what government policy that 170 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 2: could be enacted if we spent less time defending Israel. 171 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: I have no idea what that would be. 172 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 2: Right today, at Tucker Carlson University will be studying the 173 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 2: false choice. What the hell are you going to do 174 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 2: about all the drug addicts out there who decide to 175 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 2: use the fentanyl and the new myth that's worse than 176 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 2: the old meth that ruins your brain? What the hell 177 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,679 Speaker 2: is that you're blaming that on our on the government 178 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 2: and society. I just don't get that. Oh, and or 179 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 2: implying that the only way to free up funds for 180 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 2: whatever you have in mind, or mind to share for 181 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 2: whatever you have in mind. Is to not support our allies. 182 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 2: It's just a terrible false traths. 183 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: We know in. 184 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 2: California we have spent so much money on the drug 185 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 2: addicts on the street, which they call the homeless problem. 186 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 1: Just an incredible. 187 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 2: Amount of money, right, and with more drug addicts on 188 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 2: the street. So Tucker acting like or the woke, right, 189 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 2: I guess, acting like there's there's a simple solution to 190 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 2: all the drug addicts on the street, and that was 191 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,959 Speaker 2: caused by our government's focus on other countries to start with, 192 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 2: and the government could fix that if they would just 193 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 2: spend some money on it. What are you talking about? Yeah, 194 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 2: that made me nuts. That's beyond a false choice to me. 195 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 2: I don't even know. I don't even know what you're 196 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 2: talking about. I wish Ted cruzould have pushed back harder 197 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 2: on that. But anyway, I want to get into that later. 198 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 2: The how to argue, like Tucker, and seriously, you want 199 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 2: to end your marriage, learn it. You could do it today, 200 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 2: You could do it this evening at the dinner table. 201 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 2: You make him or her hate you for the rest 202 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 2: of your life. Yeah, I I'm fascinated by the question 203 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 2: of what he actually, Tucker actually believes. I know, if 204 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 2: I were a shill for Putin, and I'm not saying 205 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:47,719 Speaker 2: that I know he is, he just acts like one 206 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 2: a lot. 207 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: I would make all sorts of arguments. 208 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 2: About why it is good and decent and moral not 209 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 2: to back Ukraine, for instance, or not to back Israel. 210 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 2: And the one we've been describing is that would convince 211 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 2: a certain percentage of people. And yeah, craft other arguments 212 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 2: to sway other people. 213 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: It's a bad argument. Well it's logically, it's it's a 214 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: hout of cards. 215 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 2: It doesn't really matter to me what one Tucker Carlson 216 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 2: thinks are why, But it does matter to me And 217 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 2: the fact that he has a lot of sway over 218 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 2: a ton of people, including a lot of you, that 219 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 2: I don't quite get. So that's what I was looking 220 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 2: to understand. Oh exactly. I think I was trying to 221 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,679 Speaker 2: imply that certainly, yeaheah, let's start the show. Officially, I'm 222 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It is Thursday 223 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 2: June nineteenth, known as juneteenth the year twenty twenty five, 224 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 2: or Armstrong and geddy, and we approve of this program. 225 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 2: All right, let's see get started now officially according to 226 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 2: FCC rules and regulations. 227 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: Here we go at Mark. 228 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 2: By the way, Tucker, it's a very weird thing, the 229 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 2: obsession with Israel. 230 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: Well, we're talking about for it. 231 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 2: You're not talking about Chinese, you're not talking about Japanesian, 232 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 2: not talking about the Brits, you're not talking about the French. 233 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,439 Speaker 1: The question what about the Jews? What about the Jews? 234 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: I'm an tay semi now, Senator, you're just and uestion. 235 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 2: You're asking why are the Jews controlling our foreign policy? 236 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: What you just asked? 237 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 2: And so Tucker for the next hour and a half 238 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 2: kept saying, you called me an anti Semite. 239 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: No I didn't, Yes, you did a lot of that beautiful. 240 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 2: Well, we read a letter from somebody of a very 241 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson esque bent yesterday that was flamingly proudly anti Semitic. 242 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 2: The rest of that, by the way, we'll play it later, 243 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 2: is you're calling me an anti Semite and you know it. 244 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 2: Ted Crew says, no, I'm not, and Tucker says, you 245 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 2: did it in a sleezy, feline way, and you should 246 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 2: be ashamed of yourself. So then the rest of the 247 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 2: the rest of the argument, Ted Cruz keeps coming back, 248 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 2: going back to you called me a sleezy feline, A 249 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 2: sleezy feline. 250 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: Wow, which is quite an insult. 251 00:12:54,360 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 2: Wow, everybody, calm down, back to your corners. Okay, we 252 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 2: got Katie's headlines, we got mail bag, we got other 253 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 2: news of the day. I hope you can stick around. 254 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 2: On the East Coast, there was that trial with that 255 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 2: woman with her husband, the cop who died, and she 256 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 2: was accused of being blamed for it, and she got acquitted. 257 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: Washington with SUV. 258 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 2: There's a crowd outside the courtroom cheering like crazy, and 259 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 2: the news ever, ABC News and everybody had it last night. 260 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 2: And I didn't know a thing about it. So did 261 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 2: I miss out on a major trial? Is it an 262 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 2: East Coast thing? It's certainly hotter there as it was 263 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 2: the Boston area, right right, Yeah? 264 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. 265 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 2: I actually played golf with guy from the Boston area yesterday, 266 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 2: oddly enough, and he's been following the trial and asked me, 267 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,559 Speaker 2: with the excitement, are you following this all night? It's unbelievable, right. 268 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 2: Apparently in the Northeast it was just like it was. 269 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:49,319 Speaker 2: You know, it's one of those big trials that everybody 270 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 2: follows and talks about. And it didn't spread across the 271 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 2: country because I don't know anybody who brought it up. Yeah, 272 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 2: so maybe I we'll hit on that later. Let's jump 273 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 2: right into the headlines. What it's the lead story with 274 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 2: Katie Green. Katie hit it well. 275 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 4: Starting with Axios, Trump presses aids on whether bunker buster 276 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 4: plan to bomb Iran will work. 277 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a multiple days in a row where 278 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 2: he's been meeting with the National Security Council and talking 279 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 2: all the experts, and I guess, according to Axios, he 280 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 2: really grilled him on the hay, is this whole bunker 281 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 2: buster thing going to work like we claim it's going to? 282 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: So he is being very deliberate, and he active. 283 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 2: The White House actively leaked, obviously the fact that he 284 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 2: had approved the attack plan but was waiting. 285 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: To see if the ayatolas would come around. Give him 286 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: one more chance. 287 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 4: From the Associated Press, United States says foreign students seeking 288 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 4: visas must unlock all social media accounts. 289 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're America hating zealots, you can't come. 290 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: That seems perfectly reasonable. 291 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 2: Can you imagine some sort of virulent anti French government, 292 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 2: American saying, come on, you gotta let me study in Paris. 293 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 2: They said, no, we don't want you. We got enough trouble. 294 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 4: Perfectly reasonable from the New York Times, fed seas higher 295 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 4: inflation and lower growth ahead. 296 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 2: Higher inflation and lower goes. I don't like that. What 297 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 2: I don't think that good? Katie, No, bring me bad 298 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 2: news for for ESPN. 299 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 4: Los Angeles Lakers owners sell majority of Steak in the 300 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 4: team at. 301 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: Ten billion dollar valuation. The Lakers were almost their general manager. 302 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 2: Today, the most valuable sports franchise on Earth. Ten billion 303 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 2: dollars sale just completed. Yeah, that's a big deal. 304 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 4: From brightbart dot com, leftist echo chamber, Blue Sky suspends 305 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 4: jd Vance's new account within thirty minutes of creation. 306 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: Wow. 307 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 2: Did they give some sort of rationale for that or 308 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 2: they just they're a bubble, We're a bubble. 309 00:15:57,760 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. 310 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 4: And then after they they and they reinstated his account, 311 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 4: and that's upset. 312 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 2: So they're being performative in the way that he's often performative. 313 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 2: And that's all we do is we perform. And we 314 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 2: mentioned their name on the air. Wait to go, Katie, Great, Wow. 315 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 4: I'm really screwing This one up from the New York 316 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 4: post Man with real life girlfriend and child proposes to 317 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 4: AI chatbot after programming. 318 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: It to flirt. Quote, I think it's actual love. Oh 319 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: this is it. 320 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 2: Worse If this is real or if this is just 321 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 2: a way to get attention, they're both bad. 322 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 4: And finally the Babylon Bee Ted Cruz destroyed in interview 323 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 4: as he's unable to name Ayatola's favorite starter Pokemon. 324 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: I was actually thinking, why is Ted Cruz doing this? 325 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 2: And I thought he is trying to explain to the 326 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 2: Tucker crowd, bring bring some of them over to his side, 327 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 2: because because he realizes he's going to be running against 328 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 2: jd Vance, among other people, in twenty twenty eight, he's 329 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 2: going to be running for president, and he needs that crowd, 330 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 2: that's my guess. Well, and if he loves this country, 331 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 2: he might just be explaining his preferred foreign policy too. 332 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. 333 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 2: You have to get into a Tucker for that. But anyway, 334 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 2: I got more on everything on the way. 335 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: I hope you can stay. 336 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 4: Here, Armstrong and Getty. 337 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,200 Speaker 5: We had sirens. Everybody went into the shelter, but later 338 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 5: we learned it was just a few Iranian ballistic missiles. 339 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 5: Keep in mind, in the beginning of this there were 340 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,640 Speaker 5: two hundred and one night. Last couple of nights, it's 341 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 5: been thirty, so it's definitely a dramatic reduction. The military 342 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 5: announcing that they're beginning a phased reopening of the economy. 343 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 5: Shops are opening, people are sort of getting into more 344 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,160 Speaker 5: of a new normal posture, a little bit more relaxed, 345 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 5: but still vigilant. 346 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 2: I didn't catch where a clears award. Is she in Tehran? 347 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 2: Or is she in Tel Aviv? Where is she that 348 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 2: they're having fewer missiles shot at her Israel? Probably I 349 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 2: haven't heard except for one guy with a written report 350 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 2: from Tehran. 351 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think. Yeah, I don't think anybody's there. 352 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, so that's said though by her last night. 353 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 2: One of Israel's biggest hospitals got hit today with some injuries, 354 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 2: and Iran says they weren't shooting for the hospital. They're 355 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 2: shooting for a military target and accidentally hit the hospital. 356 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 2: That's either true or it's not. I don't know, but 357 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 2: ain't good. So I was looking at yesterday's schedule when 358 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 2: I asked for the clip. Michael, if you would like 359 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 2: to yell at me. That would be I think appropriate. Probably, 360 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 2: That's okay, I'll let you off, Okay, all right, fine, Yeah, 361 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 2: I actually had a different clip in mind, but that's fine. 362 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 2: It was that Netta who want wants very much for 363 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 2: Trump to administer the final blow to knock out the 364 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 2: four to Oho facility. 365 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: And on that topic, obviously the big story of the day. 366 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 2: There are a couple of different angles that are that 367 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 2: are interesting about this. 368 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: Jack. 369 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:11,479 Speaker 2: You've been reporting on or leading the discussion on what 370 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 2: might go sideways if indeed the US joins in the attack. 371 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 2: I've just come across another poll. This is the j 372 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 2: L Partners poll poll of over one thousand registered voters, 373 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 2: including six hundred and twenty four Republicans, and the New 374 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 2: York Post published this one. 375 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: But man, I've come across some wacky results. 376 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 2: In this one, Republican voters back US strikes on I 377 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,160 Speaker 2: ran by a margin of fifty eight to twenty five 378 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 2: and that includes sixty five percent of self described MAGA Republicans, 379 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 2: an even higher number than traditional Republicans. 380 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: That the result strikes me as somewhat odd. Yeah, I 381 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: don't know that poll. Yeah, I don't either. 382 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 2: The fact that New York Post one with it suggests 383 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:06,360 Speaker 2: that it's not completely whacked dutally. But anyway, I thought 384 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 2: this was really interesting. A couple of writers in the 385 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal talking about why Iran's axis of resistance 386 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,199 Speaker 2: is missing in action, and I thought, well, it's because 387 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 2: you know, Israel blew the junk off of a lot 388 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 2: of Hesbala guys. 389 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: Is more or less decimated. 390 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 2: And that is absolutely true, but there's a lot more 391 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,640 Speaker 2: in Iraq. Your Iranian Bakshiite militias have not targeted US 392 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:37,360 Speaker 2: military basis as they have in the past. Yemen's who 393 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 2: these fired a few missiles at Israel on Sunday, but 394 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 2: have remained silent in the five days since, four or 395 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 2: five days since. And they mentioned that a lot of 396 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 2: these groups, when they were in a fight like with 397 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 2: Bashira Ala Sad, Iran didn't help them. It didn't step 398 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 2: up to help them. 399 00:20:58,560 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: Oh. 400 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 2: Interesting, And so that whole axis of a hole seems 401 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 2: to be falling apart and has been reported by a 402 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 2: number of people. 403 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: Russia's not coming to Iran's aid for whatever reason. Putin 404 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 1: has said. 405 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 2: Right, right, although he has helpfully volunteered to broker a 406 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 2: deal between Israel and Iran. Right, Well, now that's a 407 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 2: tempting prospect. 408 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 1: Isn't it. 409 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 2: Well he did that and we all laughed at it, 410 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 2: with the whole Syria using chemical weapons, and the administration 411 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 2: jumped on it, and John Kerry allowed. 412 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: Putin to negotiate. 413 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 2: The whatever it was with the chemical weapons, which everybody 414 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 2: thought was a farce, but it was an off ramp 415 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 2: for Barack Obama who'd drawn a red line. So right, 416 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 2: it is a good way to get out of it. 417 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 2: I don't think we're going to do it in this case. 418 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 2: So the other aspect of why some of the proxies 419 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 2: haven't left to Iran's defense or started attacking US and 420 00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 2: Israeli targets is a very simple illustration of the this 421 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 2: stuff works. I would I would summarize it. Well, I'll 422 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 2: quote this think tanker from London. For all of these 423 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 2: networks right now, it's about survival. They all understand the 424 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 2: wrath of these types of military campaigns. In other words, 425 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 2: they have all looked at it and said, no, the 426 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 2: big dogs are serious. Now we don't want any part 427 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 2: of your crap. We got our own problems, we got 428 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 2: our own little fight for supremacy in our corner of 429 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 2: the God forsake and Middle East and Israel in particular 430 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 2: is serious about putting a herd on people, so we 431 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 2: don't want any part of it. That's what we call. 432 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 2: I'll give you a hint. It's a D word, deterrence. 433 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 2: You if you wish for peace, prepare for war. 434 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. 435 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,959 Speaker 2: David Sanger's piece in the New York Times today is 436 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:56,199 Speaker 2: what could go wrong basically, and his main thing, in 437 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 2: addition to a whole bunch of obvious stuff. I mean, 438 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 2: one of the dealth bombers, could you know, have mechanical 439 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 2: problems or get shot down, you know, they get a 440 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,920 Speaker 2: lucky shot with whatever defenses they got left or something 441 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:08,199 Speaker 2: like that. 442 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: Something like that could happen. 443 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 2: But more likely is Iran does start firing at our bases, 444 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 2: kills a couple American soldiers, and then there is a 445 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,439 Speaker 2: fair amount of public outcry and pressure on Donald Trump 446 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 2: to like really respond because now American soldiers have been killed, 447 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 2: and that escalates and you're very quickly to having to 448 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 2: take out the Iyatola because he's killing you as soldiers 449 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 2: that you could get. 450 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: There really quick, right. 451 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:44,360 Speaker 2: And on another front, similar though, and I've been it's 452 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 2: tough to know how seriously and literally to take some 453 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 2: of the stuff, But I think I do to a 454 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 2: large extent. If the US really got involved, that could 455 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 2: stir anti American anger in a way that we don't 456 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 2: quite get as Americans. Among the Middle Easterners. I mean 457 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 2: even and obviously there are quotes around this, but even 458 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 2: the evil Jew, I mean, the Arab folks never admit it, 459 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 2: but yeah, the Jewish folks have been in Israel controlling 460 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 2: Israel on and off for thousands of years. They are 461 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 2: of that region. They might be the Evil Jew, but 462 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,959 Speaker 2: they're you know, another one of the tribes, another one 463 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 2: of the religions of the Middle East, and it's. 464 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 1: On, we're trying to kill each other. 465 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 2: But when the big dog, who doesn't even live there, 466 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 2: starts wrecking stuff and killing people, people in that region 467 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 2: get get pretty unhappy about it. So there it could 468 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 2: trigger another wave of anti American anger, resentment, etc. All 469 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 2: these things to me, and I think this is what 470 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 2: ultimately is going to be decided. All these things could 471 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 2: be true at various levels or combinations. Still not as 472 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 2: bad as Iran haviling a nuclear weapon. And that's where 473 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 2: you end. You do have to boil it down to 474 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 2: that again and again you're right, yeah, right. 475 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting. 476 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,120 Speaker 2: Well, let me let me reach just read the first paragraph, 477 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 2: because I thought this was pretty good. US strike on 478 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,160 Speaker 2: o Rand would bring risks at every turn. 479 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: Man. 480 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 2: There was a great piece in the National Review the 481 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,199 Speaker 2: other day that Noah Rothman wrote about how we are 482 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 2: so for a variety of reasons of things that have 483 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 2: gone bad in the past, like so scared and so, 484 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 2: but what if this and what if that? With everything 485 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 2: we do now in a way that we didn't used 486 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,120 Speaker 2: to be. Yeah, there are downsides, sure, there always are, 487 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 2: but ultimately we don't want them to get away. 488 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 1: I don't know. 489 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 2: It's not a good it's not a good way to 490 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 2: look at your life. Well, what, we could go on 491 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 2: vacation this summer, but you know what if one of 492 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 2: us gets sick or we run out of gas or okay, 493 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 2: what if a pipe breaks when we're gone and now 494 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 2: gets flooded? 495 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: Right? 496 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm not trying to be too dismissive of 497 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 2: how awful like Iraq went, but you can't paralyze yourself 498 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 2: with every bit of things that could go wrong anyway. 499 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: The leading, especially because you. 500 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 2: Have to spend equal time and energy on what could 501 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 2: go wrong if Iran has a new Oh my god, yes, definitely. 502 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 2: It's easy to write those paragraphs. It sounds so surgical, 503 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 2: so precise, exactly the kind of air attack that only 504 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,479 Speaker 2: the US Force can air Force can execute. A series 505 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 2: of B two bombers lifts off from Whitman Air Force 506 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,679 Speaker 2: Base in Missouri. Refueled in the air, they head for 507 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 2: a remote mountain in north central Iran, far from civilians, 508 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 2: where they get Iran's most heavily fortified nuclear site, Foordoh 509 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 2: in their sights. They drop their giant thirty thousand palm 510 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 2: bunker busters, one after another, blasting a giant hole down 511 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 2: into the centrifuge halls that have been in the bullseye 512 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 2: since Barack Obama and other leaders of Britain and France 513 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 2: revealed their existence in two thousand and nine, destroying them. 514 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: And they turn around and they fly back. 515 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 2: It's something that they take off from Missouri, fly all 516 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 2: the way there, drop the bombs in, then fly all 517 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,120 Speaker 2: the way back. Right with all our bases around the world, 518 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 2: we don't want those B twos anywhere but in the homeland. 519 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:12,920 Speaker 2: I guess that's my assumption too valuable, to important and 520 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 2: so little used. Maybe why would you why would you 521 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 2: keep them anywhere but in the middle of the United 522 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 2: States where they're safe well, right, and if you can 523 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 2: get them anywhere on Earth virtually and you know, within 524 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 2: a day, that's pretty quick. H Wow, that's going to 525 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 2: be exciting to watch when it happens. What's your sense 526 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:37,919 Speaker 2: of how much heads up will have, Like, will we 527 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 2: hear about it after it happened or will we be 528 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:47,880 Speaker 2: watching it live on television? The former, I think it'll 529 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 2: be will be told it has happened. Although with like 530 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 2: open source intelligence, the Twitter account we both like so much, 531 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 2: people are very very good at not reading the tea leaves. 532 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,719 Speaker 2: It's just seeing, all right, this refueling plane was just 533 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 2: moved to this base. Uh, these pilots were just scrambled bubbah, 534 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,880 Speaker 2: and people figure it out. Well, have you been following 535 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 2: the whole pizza thing that they do a number of 536 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,239 Speaker 2: websites are doing a thing. So yeah, So there are 537 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 2: some uh oh go ahead sorry Dominoes and various pizza 538 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 2: places around uh DC that when they get super crazy busy, 539 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 2: it's because they know people are up late having big 540 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 2: all night meetings and everybody's at work at the Pentagon, 541 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 2: you usually means something big is about to happen or 542 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 2: is going on, which is pretty an interesting way to 543 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 2: figure it out. Our fighting men and women deserve better pizza. 544 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 2: That's funny that even our civilian employees. I'm a fiscal conservative. 545 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 2: I don't want to waste money, but you got you 546 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 2: got some of our smartest minds deciding whether or not 547 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 2: to kick off World War three, and you're getting them dominoes. 548 00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 5: Yeah. 549 00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: Send that to who Iran. 550 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be so busy on the pot they won't 551 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 2: be Oh wait a minute, sorry, I'm coming off like 552 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon taking shots. As to what you call it, Arby, 553 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 2: I think you could get sued for that. You're it 554 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 2: was stated that Domino's peach. I didn't I misspoke. Okay, yes, Katie, 555 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 2: don't don't go knock in the dominoes. 556 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 1: We don't want it's too good to send Iran. We 557 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: got to send them something worse. I haven't had Dominoes 558 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 1: in a long time. 559 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 2: Dude. 560 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 4: I try their stuffed crust this last weekend, and it. 561 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: Was so good. 562 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 2: You what, my son and I are going to try that. 563 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 2: Maybe tonight, my son and I have Domino's pizza. I 564 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 2: haven't had it in a long dim. I should give 565 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 2: them another try. You know you're a flip flopper. You're 566 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 2: condemning them seconds ago, but based on perhaps old data. 567 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 2: Perhaps that's right, outdated information about Dominoes. 568 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, I should try it again too. 569 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 2: When the facts change, you change your mind. You're not 570 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:55,000 Speaker 2: a flip flopper, You're Churchillian. We've got mail Bank coming 571 00:29:55,080 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 2: up next. So our friend Tim Sanderfer has got a 572 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 2: little information about how Juneteenth that's today is the United 573 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 2: States most libertarian holiday. I'm actually going to read that 574 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 2: and try to understand it. Got to admit, I don't 575 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 2: quite have my head wrapped around Juneteenth, which is a 576 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,239 Speaker 2: company holiday for us. I found out when I got 577 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 2: to work national holiday. The fact that Joe Biden right, 578 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 2: the fact that we're all working today is a little racist. 579 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 2: By whom are we the racists or we the people 580 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 2: that compelled. 581 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: Me to work? I think I don't know. You and 582 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: Michael keep me out of it. Fair enough. Here's your 583 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: Freedom Woman quote of the day. 584 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 2: It's from Andre Breton, French writer and poet, co founder, 585 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 2: leader and principal theorist of surrealism. 586 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 1: Oh wow, he said. 587 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 2: There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to 588 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 2: take liberties as liberty itself. I might rephrase that is, 589 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 2: don't take liberties with liberty, protect it fiercely. Got you, yeah, 590 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 2: mailbag boot boot a note. Yeah, kind of like you 591 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 2: should believe in moderation, including you know, moderation and moderation 592 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 2: exact that it's one of them. Yep, you can drop 593 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 2: us a note mail bag At Armstrong and Giddy dot com. 594 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 2: Jessin Wiley, Texas writes on the Supreme Court transgender ruling 595 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 2: the other day and New York Times magazine coverage of it. 596 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 2: The problem isn't the transgender faults. It's that, much like 597 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 2: string theory and experimental jazz, most Americans can't grasp it 598 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 2: with their dumb, cheeseburger brains. That's her characterization of the 599 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 2: New York Times characterisation. 600 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: That's pretty funny. I must I actually read part of it, 601 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 1: and I'm digging into it. 602 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 2: I must have a cheeseburger brain because I have tried 603 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 2: to understand string theory and quantum physics and I just 604 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 2: cannot get it. 605 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 1: Yeah. 606 00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 2: I gave up more or less at the beginning, so 607 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 2: uh frequent correspond to JT and liber war on the 608 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 2: topic of a crazy, crazy Iran. Iran has sworn to 609 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 2: destroy Israel and all the Jews. To that end, Iran 610 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 2: has empowered and sponsored several nation states to also attack Israel. 611 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 2: Iran sanctioned tens of thousands of missile attacks from Lebanon 612 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 2: and Gaza, attacked there's Raeli ships at sea, and of 613 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 2: course all the atrocities on October seventh were facilitated and 614 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 2: condoned by Iran. Iran also pays families of suicide bombers 615 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 2: a pension if their children killed Jews and a suicide attack. 616 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: Many people would call any. 617 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 2: Or all of these actions acts of war, but apparently 618 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 2: Iran didn't actually declare war. In fact, Iran claims Israel's 619 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 2: attacks are the declaration of war. What does it say 620 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,080 Speaker 2: about Iran that they swear to destroy Israel, get four 621 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 2: nation states to attack Israel, culminating on October seventh, then 622 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 2: blame Israel for daring to fight back. Question, how do 623 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 2: you deal rationally with people and countries that are irrationally 624 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 2: saw somebody pointing out yesterday that during the Iran Raq 625 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 2: war in the eighties and which a million people died. 626 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 2: Iran was using children to send out into mine fields 627 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 2: to try to clear minefields. That's how they would do it, 628 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 2: and tell their parents. You know, they're going to be 629 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 2: martyred and they'll be welcome by However, that whole thing 630 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,719 Speaker 2: works after the dead, So send the kids out there 631 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 2: to get their legs blown off. Figure out where the 632 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 2: minds are. 633 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 1: Nice culture. Yeah, indeed, his ps is. 634 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 2: Following your discussion about how China has so many big 635 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 2: successful laps that are stealing data from every customer, I 636 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 2: realized at least one day devastating way that China could 637 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 2: use that info in a coordinated attack against the US 638 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 2: if they ever decided to. China could take all the 639 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,479 Speaker 2: credit card information they're supposed to be keeping safe, secret, 640 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,720 Speaker 2: and secure. They could flood the e commerce world with 641 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of false charges, false money transfer requests, 642 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 2: and other general bogus financial interactions. Imagine the chaosk and 643 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 2: confusion if along with our attacking our power, water, and communications, 644 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,280 Speaker 2: they also used all those credit cards to make bogus 645 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 2: purchases and cash advances trust China. He says, that would 646 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 2: be the most annoying attack that I can imagine. There 647 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 2: are other attacks where I think I'd rather you blew 648 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 2: up my house or my car. Then you gave me 649 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 2: a bunch of paperwork that I'm gonna have to straighten 650 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 2: out over months. Yeah, if the water is shut off, 651 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 2: the need to straighten out a false cash. 652 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,360 Speaker 1: Advance is fairly a minor concern. 653 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 2: But uh, let's see, uh skip around. How about side 654 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,320 Speaker 2: show Bob, I haven't heard anyone mention the threat of 655 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 2: potential terrorist attacks here linked to Iran. We've been told 656 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 2: that large numbers of suspicious Middle Eastern citizens across the border, 657 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,359 Speaker 2: So wouldn't it make sense that their Iranian handlers would 658 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,400 Speaker 2: give them the green light if they perceive were declaring 659 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,000 Speaker 2: war on them? 660 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:38,280 Speaker 1: This is my fear. 661 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,879 Speaker 2: Brings up another question, why haven't we heard of any 662 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 2: deportations of Middle Eastern or Chinese people? And is the 663 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,280 Speaker 2: DHS and their leadership being too myopic about their mission. 664 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:51,439 Speaker 2: It's a discussion for another day. So today's Thursday, by 665 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 2: the way, and remember the Israelian bassador of the United 666 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 2: States said Thursday or Friday, you're going to see something 667 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 2: that makes the pager attack pale and compared Garrison. So Okay, 668 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,920 Speaker 2: is that gonna happen the day or tomorrow. Israel is 669 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 2: well ahead of us time zone wise. Yeah, so yeah, 670 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:11,880 Speaker 2: it's it's getting late on Thursday. 671 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, clock's a ticken. Don't lie to me, man. 672 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:20,560 Speaker 2: I want some exciting uh Ted Cruz and Tucker getting 673 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 2: into it, kind of explaining the whole rift in the 674 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,520 Speaker 2: Mago world. We can get into that in now or two, 675 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,760 Speaker 2: among other things. Get the podcast you missed the segment 676 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:29,280 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getdy