Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jetty en he Armstrong and Yetty Nicholas Buduro had
Speaker 1: his chance, just like Iron had their chance. Until they didn't,
Speaker 1: and until he didn't. He left around and he found out.
Speaker 2: What we've witnessed today is a powerful demonstration of America's
Speaker 2: joint force. We think, we develop, we train, we rehearse,
Speaker 2: we debrief, we rehearse again and again, not to get
Speaker 2: it right, but to ensure that we cannot get it wrong.
Speaker 1: Also, we haven't mentioned this yet today. New York Times
Speaker 1: was their reporting on Sunday that we had somebody next
Speaker 1: to Maduro. I mean, we had a mole in there,
Speaker 1: knew where he was hour by hour all the time.
Speaker 1: And so others have said, that's a good message to
Speaker 1: send to Putin or various bad guys around the world.
Speaker 1: Ayatola whoever, that we can get somebody really close to
Speaker 1: you that knows exactly what's going on.
Speaker 3: I'd like to know that raises a little paranoia among
Speaker 3: the evildoers of the world.
Speaker 1: Well haha, yeah, make some look around one. Oh but
Speaker 1: it's him. I saw the way he looked at me
Speaker 1: the other day at dinner. I'm gonna kill him super quick.
Speaker 3: Note had a really enjoyable conversation with Mike Lyons about
Speaker 3: this during hour two of the show to kick off
Speaker 3: our two. If you missed it, you'll probably enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Grab it via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. You
Speaker 3: ought to be subscribing that way, it downloads automatically.
Speaker 1: I've seen the pictures of Trump in the what do
Speaker 1: they call it, that room that they're in when these
Speaker 1: things are happening.
Speaker 3: Oh, the situation, the situation room.
Speaker 1: I like that we've got a situation happening, which is
Speaker 1: pretty big.
Speaker 3: After the guy from Jersey Shore, Mike, the situation pretty
Speaker 3: broad term because everything's the situation, but the situation.
Speaker 1: It's a fair point. And Trump's sitting in there, Tylas
Speaker 1: collar open, looking very stern faced. I'll bet he was,
Speaker 1: because same as Obama with gett know, Osama bin Laden
Speaker 1: or whatever. Man, these things go wrong, not only and
Speaker 1: I imagine first and foremost your thoughts or geez, I
Speaker 1: hope we don't have, you know, twenty marines die here
Speaker 1: or something like that. But then just the political fallout
Speaker 1: would be immense if that had been a disaster, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: both are true. Oh, Zelensky over the weekend more or
Speaker 1: less saying, how about, that's pretty cool what you did
Speaker 1: there at the Maduro, But you try the putting there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little different, different situation, but I see your point.
Speaker 3: Ah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it could have been a disaster.
Speaker 3: And one of the main things we talked to Mike
Speaker 3: Leines about was what a magnificent display it was of
Speaker 3: American military might and coordination and prowess.
Speaker 1: I reached out.
Speaker 3: To a person I am close with, a career military fellow,
Speaker 3: and expressed that in many words, and he responded back,
Speaker 3: we can do some serious ass, I said, yours is
Speaker 3: more concise than mine. We can like nobody else on earth.
Speaker 3: But we certainly didn't to when we were leaving Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: So why is that horrible leadership? That's what I'm wondering.
Speaker 1: Was it just was a Biden? Was the people below him?
Speaker 1: Was it just didn't plan? And the way they were
Speaker 1: just talking about there were you plan and plan and
Speaker 1: plan and plan or Yeah.
Speaker 3: One of the things I learned later in life that
Speaker 3: has to be taught to non military people. Is that
Speaker 3: one of the most difficult things the military ever does
Speaker 3: is withdraw or retreat.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure that's very, very hard. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And Joe Biden was a horrible president on virtual
Speaker 3: every level. So we heard General Cain there, Dan Raisin Caine.
Speaker 3: It's such a good nickname. I hesitate to use it
Speaker 3: because everybody uses it all the time, including our commander
Speaker 3: in chief. But his descriptions during the news conference of
Speaker 3: how the raid unfolded to me were just riveting.
Speaker 1: Jackie. Mind if we jump into that now, let's start
Speaker 1: with fifty two Michael.
Speaker 2: This was an audacious operation that only the United States
Speaker 2: could do. It required the utmost of precision and integration
Speaker 2: within our joint force, and the word integration does not
Speaker 2: explain the sheer complexity of such a mission, an extraction
Speaker 2: so precise. It involved more than one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: aircraft launching across the Western hemisphere in close coordination, all
Speaker 2: coming together in time and place to layer effects for
Speaker 2: a single purpose to get an interdiction force into downtown
Speaker 2: Caracas while maintaining the element of tactical surprise.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's I had no guess if you'd ask
Speaker 1: me to guess how many planes or aircraft were involved.
Speaker 1: I'd ha said, I don't know eight, Or if you're
Speaker 1: trying to be extravagant, you might have said thirty, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been able to come up with why
Speaker 1: you need thirty one hundred and fifty. Yeah. Yeah. He
Speaker 1: goes on describing how it unfolded as.
Speaker 2: A helicopter force ingress towards the objective at low level.
Speaker 2: We arrived at Maduro's compound at one one am Eastern
Speaker 2: Standard time or two to one am Caraccas local time,
Speaker 2: and the apprehension force descended into Maduro's compound and moved
Speaker 2: with speed, precision, and discipline towards their objective and isolated
Speaker 2: the area to ensure the safety and security of the
Speaker 2: ground force while apprehending the indicted persons.
Speaker 3: As Mike Lyons describes so beautifully, the wave of aircrafted whoops,
Speaker 3: there goes your defenses. Yeah, and now your power's out.
Speaker 3: Oh there's your cordon of security.
Speaker 1: Goodbye, fellas.
Speaker 3: And just coordinating then with the special forces both Army
Speaker 3: and Navy, and just a crazy level of coordinated forces
Speaker 3: that I guess we're the best in the world at
Speaker 3: thank God.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So Mike Lions did say, and you should listen
Speaker 1: to that segment if you have any interest in this
Speaker 1: sort of thing. But he said the same thing that
Speaker 1: that guy with the cool nickname just said. Our ability
Speaker 1: to coordinate our various branches is what separates us from
Speaker 1: the rest of the world, and that I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about, but I'll take their word for it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, The more I hear about that, the more I
Speaker 3: understand how incredibly important that isn't how impressive we are
Speaker 3: at it.
Speaker 1: Hey, Michael, I need your vote on this. Dan. Mike
Speaker 1: needs a great nickname too, Mike Roaring Lions. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: that's too much.
Speaker 3: Mike's great, Mike the Mighty Lions, Mike a pride of No,
Speaker 3: that's just obscure and showing off my knowledge of groups
Speaker 3: of animals.
Speaker 1: Working on it. I mean, the guy's name is Lions.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 3: Goodness sakes, we got to be able to come up with,
Speaker 3: you know, a good one.
Speaker 1: So Maduro is going to appear in court. He gave
Speaker 1: the thumbs up. I think he just did or he
Speaker 1: did whatever. Today. He's in court today past tense or
Speaker 1: or or present or freature. He will be in court today.
Speaker 1: But the other day when he got arrested in there,
Speaker 1: purple walking and everything like, he gave the two thumbs
Speaker 1: up to the camera. Well what is that all about?
Speaker 1: What are you give a thumbs up for? Dude? I mean,
Speaker 1: he's key, he's an optimist. I'd say, you're cool. I
Speaker 1: get to do whatever I want all the time. Life
Speaker 1: has just gone one hundred and eighty degrees the other direction. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not executed, which he may be. He may get
Speaker 1: the death penalty. I was surprised to see you.
Speaker 3: Flew first class, at least that's what I'm guessing, because
Speaker 3: that picture that the administration put out he had eye shades,
Speaker 3: which I assume were complimentary, and and the good headphones,
Speaker 3: not like dopey little earplugs, but like the good headphones
Speaker 3: they had him in.
Speaker 1: So that must have been a comfortable flight for him.
Speaker 1: And we don't usually grab the wife, but we grabbed
Speaker 1: the wife in this case too, because she is a
Speaker 1: full on.
Speaker 3: Accomplice co conspirator. Yeah, and there she was, why not
Speaker 3: snatch her up?
Speaker 1: But well, you wouldn't normally write you go and you
Speaker 1: get somebody, I mean, shoot bin Laden's old lady on
Speaker 1: person on purpose.
Speaker 3: No, not unless she reached for a weapon, which I
Speaker 3: think she did, or used her as a human shield
Speaker 3: or something. Anyway, she'll be missed. Uh So the question though,
Speaker 3: is what the hell now? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and Trump saying we run Venezuela. I mean
Speaker 1: he said that like an hour later or something like that.
Speaker 1: We now we're going to run the country until there's
Speaker 1: a judicious transition. Yeah, we're in charge of Venezuela. And
Speaker 1: everybody in the world, I think, said, what what does
Speaker 1: that mean? Yeah, how's that going to work? Exactly?
Speaker 3: It was perhaps the greatest end We're gonna take control,
Speaker 3: YadA YadA, YadA, the greatest YadA YadA anna in the
Speaker 3: history of geopolitics. Now it's become more clear and we
Speaker 3: could probably play some of Marco Rubio on the various touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He also said over the weekend that because we have
Speaker 1: simultaneously happening, an even bigger event going on in Iran,
Speaker 1: because they've got protests all across the country and people
Speaker 1: are tearing down posters of the Iyahtola and defacing government
Speaker 1: buildings in a way that they've never been able to
Speaker 1: get away with it. I mean, it's really got that Okay,
Speaker 1: this is different. Wall coming down in Germany or Soviet
Speaker 1: Union look to him, Arab Spring looked to it. I mean,
Speaker 1: people are getting away with stuff they've never gotten away
Speaker 1: with before and got you almost have to assume that
Speaker 1: the security forces have decided not to shoot him down
Speaker 1: or what. And then there's New York Times saying the
Speaker 1: Ayahtola and h the closest people to him, have plans
Speaker 1: to get out of the country if they need to
Speaker 1: in the next couple of days. But I had a
Speaker 1: point that the reason I brought up in Iran. Whatever
Speaker 1: oh Trump said over the weekend about Iran, he said,
Speaker 1: if they start killing protesters, We're we're going to protect them,
Speaker 1: And I thought, Okay, how are we going to do that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what does that mean?
Speaker 3: I've got to admit I haven't been paying enough attention
Speaker 3: to the Iran situation just because I've been so I've
Speaker 3: long been a hardcore we need to be more activist
Speaker 3: inan our hemisphere guy, and so I'm really interested in
Speaker 3: the Venezuela thing and where I might go. But you're right,
Speaker 3: that's a huge story. There are two choices. Either there
Speaker 3: is going to be a terrible terrible blood bath at
Speaker 3: the hands of the security, for which Trump is vowed
Speaker 3: We're not gonna let happen, or this is the beginning
Speaker 3: of the end of the regime. Those are really the
Speaker 3: only two choices. Oh yeah, I can't think of some others,
Speaker 3: but those are the two main choices.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which would be huge.
Speaker 3: One final thought for now on the Venezuela deal, because
Speaker 3: oh the president, let's go ahead, Michael play I just
Speaker 3: was looking at it a second ago that there is
Speaker 3: a sixty sixty place.
Speaker 1: The next question is who's in charge of Venezuela right now?
Speaker 2: Have you spoken to the newly swarned president there, Rob Riguz,
Speaker 2: and what are your thoughts on the entire situation.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with the people.
Speaker 2: We're dealing with the people they just got sworn in,
Speaker 2: And don't ask me what's in charge, because.
Speaker 1: I'll give you an answer and it'll be very contulation.
Speaker 4: Does that mean it's.
Speaker 1: We're in charge? So we're in charge?
Speaker 3: And it became more and more clear as Marco Rubio
Speaker 3: made the rounds on the Sunday shows, and maybe we
Speaker 3: can sprinkle some of that in the rest of the hour,
Speaker 3: but it became clear that the plan is, Look, we
Speaker 3: are going to tell them what we need them to do,
Speaker 3: and if they resist or defy us, We're going to
Speaker 3: put a terrible, terrible hurting on them. It's not regime change,
Speaker 3: it's not democracy. It's not Ms Machado, the Nobel Prize,
Speaker 3: Peace Prize winner, nor her appointed successor when she got
Speaker 3: banned from the ballots who won the election, by the way,
Speaker 3: So there are a whole lot of big, giant question marks.
Speaker 3: But I had this thought, and I want to squeeze
Speaker 3: it in because I keep forgetting to one thing that
Speaker 3: was completely lost, especially during the Biden years. And Obama
Speaker 3: was like this too to some extent. And this is
Speaker 3: true in life as well as foreign policy. Sometimes the
Speaker 3: most insane gamble you can make, the most wild, out there,
Speaker 3: ill advised plan you can follow, is to do nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, and that Barack Obama definitely didn't understand that.
Speaker 1: The whole don't do stupides. Doing nothing sometimes is the
Speaker 1: stupidest freaking thing you could do.
Speaker 3: Right, It's the wild gamble, but in action looks like
Speaker 3: not a wild gamble, So people don't understand that. But letting,
Speaker 3: for instance, China especially, and Iran and Russia have a
Speaker 3: beachhead right across the newly renamed Gulf of America from
Speaker 3: US in Venezuela. That would have been the wildly stupid
Speaker 3: doing nothing strategy. And I'm glad it's over. Where it goes,
Speaker 3: nobody knows, but I'm glad it's over.
Speaker 1: I found the tweet from Trump about Iran. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that later because that's a heck of a thing
Speaker 1: if he's plans to back it up. Anyway, we got
Speaker 1: lots of other stuff to talk about Tuesday here, So
Speaker 1: I Jack did a lot of traveling over the two
Speaker 1: weeks we are off with my kids. We did two
Speaker 1: nights in San Francisco, three nights in New Orleans, and
Speaker 1: three nights in Wichita, Kansas for a family get together.
Speaker 1: Lots of hotel rooms, lots of flights, a million restaurant meals,
Speaker 1: and eight thousand Uber rides. Oh wow, by the way,
Speaker 1: everybody kept out. And I was telling people I was
Speaker 1: going to New Orleans. They said, Oh, You're gonna love
Speaker 1: the food there, and I'm not a foodie. I don't
Speaker 1: care that much about food. Holy crap, was the food
Speaker 1: good there? First trust we went to I got the
Speaker 1: sampler platter and their jumble line, had their gumbo, had
Speaker 1: their crawfits somethwhere other and had their red beans and rice.
Speaker 1: That was the best plate of food I've ever had
Speaker 1: in my life. In my life. Oh my god, that
Speaker 1: was good. Holy yeah, yeah, I love that style. Oh
Speaker 1: I could eat that every single day. But here's a
Speaker 1: story that disappeared from veg. You gotta move down there,
Speaker 1: and move down there and get bigger, a fat and
Speaker 1: wear a white suit and sweat a lot. Oh that
Speaker 1: sounds great. You know, I had no idea gets cold
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. It just, you know, I just didn't
Speaker 1: know that if, like, if we had gotten hired in
Speaker 1: New Orleans, I thought, oh wow, cool, I guess I
Speaker 1: get rid of all my coats. I didn't know it
Speaker 1: got cold there. It was twenty five degrees with a
Speaker 1: wind chill while we were there walking around the first
Speaker 1: day twenty five, the high was like thirty eight. I
Speaker 1: didn't know got that cold. Anyway, there's news to you
Speaker 1: if you ever go take a winter coat on the
Speaker 1: They're having the Sugar Bowl there at the super Dome,
Speaker 1: so everybody in town was there for the college football game,
Speaker 1: and it was very festive you add that to New
Speaker 1: Year's even I guess New Orleans is always FESTI probably.
Speaker 1: But here's a story that got obliterated by the news
Speaker 1: were broadcast were on in San Francisco. When we broadcast
Speaker 1: sixty miles from San Francisco. I went to San Francisco. Uh,
Speaker 1: when was it? Right after Christmas? Right before Christmas? And
Speaker 1: I hadn't even heard this story because I kind of
Speaker 1: was on a news blackout. The electricity went off in
Speaker 1: San Francisco for the entire day, the Saturday before Christmas.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, the busiest shopping day they have in one
Speaker 1: of the most Christmasy cities in America, and it is
Speaker 1: very Christmas is very, very cool. The electricity went off
Speaker 1: over the whole city, and I thought, one, how did
Speaker 1: this not make the news? And two my first thought
Speaker 1: all these of this stuff was was this the Chinese
Speaker 1: trying to see if they could work? And by the way,
Speaker 1: the official story was there was a fire at one
Speaker 1: of the power stations from PG and E. Nobody I
Speaker 1: talked to believe that. Nobody, not one person even kind
Speaker 1: I've took that as an explanation for while all the
Speaker 1: electricity went down in the whole city for an entire
Speaker 1: day and for parts of the city for multiple days.
Speaker 1: But they're just trying to limit the panic all bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but uh, this is what it's like if this the
Speaker 1: electricity goes off in a big city, and I hope
Speaker 1: we don't ever find out because the Chinese get involved
Speaker 1: in it. First of all, everybody sat around in the
Speaker 1: restaurants and bars and the shopping ball saying, well, we'll
Speaker 1: come back on, and then you ate a little longer,
Speaker 1: Then you ate a little longer, doesn't come back on.
Speaker 1: Then you realize you can't get your car out of
Speaker 1: the parking garage because the things don't go up or down.
Speaker 1: Then you realize that the way Mos all are confused
Speaker 1: because there are no traffic lights and are sitting at
Speaker 1: every street, blocking off every street in the entire city.
Speaker 1: Nobody could go anywhere the entire day. People just walked
Speaker 1: out of restaurants without paying because there was no way
Speaker 1: to pay. Cell phone towers are outs, nobody could communicate
Speaker 1: with anybody. With the Waymos down, you could everybody was
Speaker 1: just walking around wondering what we're supposed to do for
Speaker 1: the whole day. That's right.
Speaker 3: That is a weapon that could be wielded the ability
Speaker 3: to bring a major city to paralysis like that.
Speaker 1: That's a little scary. God, I would say, so you
Speaker 1: can buy Nowli so dependent on our technology, we really
Speaker 1: really are. Okay, a lot more on the way, stay here,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: An emotional tribute in Switzerland where hundreds of people held
Speaker 5: a silent memorial march to honor at least forty people
Speaker 5: killed at a barfire on New Year's Eve. It happened
Speaker 5: at a Swiss ski resort in the Alps. More than
Speaker 5: one hundred people were injured. Authority say that the victims
Speaker 5: were as young as fourteen years old.
Speaker 1: Forty people died at a ski lodge, Swiss ski lodge.
Speaker 1: You don't expect that at a fancy place they had.
Speaker 1: Somebody came up with this stupid idea to put flaming
Speaker 1: sparklers on the champagne bottles, and everybody thought that was cool,
Speaker 1: and it caught the place on fire and killed four people.
Speaker 3: I'm reminded of that horrific fire where it was that
Speaker 3: the band Great White was playing a number of years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and all those people died because the pyrotechnics in the show.
Speaker 3: Look if next time somebody proposes, Hey, you know what
Speaker 3: we ought to do indoors is have some fireworks. You know,
Speaker 3: just ought to be rejected out of hand.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Another interesting aspect on it, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people picked up on, were all the videos that ended
Speaker 1: up coming out place catches on fire and everybody gets
Speaker 1: their phone out. Instead of immediately running for the door,
Speaker 1: they get their phone out to try to capture the
Speaker 1: moment because we all think we need to do that
Speaker 1: no matter what's going I think, and we'll get a
Speaker 1: bunch of clicks. Make your number one priority getting the
Speaker 1: hell out of a burning building. Yeah, wow, that is
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 3: It's I read a piece that made a big impression
Speaker 3: on me that was talking about people are turning their
Speaker 3: lives into Internet slop slop being the sort of content
Speaker 3: and you just scroll right through because I mean, it's
Speaker 3: it's fine, but it's not of any significance. And that's
Speaker 3: like an extreme example of, oh, something happening in my life.
Speaker 3: My first thought is I will post this for clicks
Speaker 3: et cetera, or likes or what have you, even to
Speaker 3: the point of ignoring that you're in mortal danger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now wild Yeah, different topic a couple of sports
Speaker 1: notes for you. In the NFL, if you're an NFL fan,
Speaker 1: your number one Seeds Seahawks in the NFC, Broncos in THEFC.
Speaker 1: Those are the two teams that get home field all
Speaker 1: the way through and there you go. Playoffs start this weekend.
Speaker 1: It'll be fun. In college girls basketball, first seven foot
Speaker 1: or ever? Wow? Texas Tech signed a seven to one
Speaker 1: woman all drink of water. Yeah. Stephanie aka Chukwu. Wow,
Speaker 1: she's got legs just like I like him up to
Speaker 1: my chin? Is she Chinese? I don't know that'd be
Speaker 1: interesting since yuh, your expert pronunciation of her last name
Speaker 1: left me wondering this. She perhaps African, but the tallest
Speaker 1: guy in the NBA before Wenby came along was from
Speaker 1: China also, So I just I get so many tall
Speaker 1: people are what's going on? Somebody look into that?
Speaker 3: Well, there's like a billion and a half people and
Speaker 3: cruel experiments on military human farms.
Speaker 1: Did you follow this story? Mom? Donnie's Hitler salute, which
Speaker 1: didn't get covered at all? Right, and they I only
Speaker 1: bring this up because it's really everything you need to
Speaker 1: know about taking in the news. So he gives his
Speaker 1: speech the other night where he talks about communism and
Speaker 1: collectivism and everything like that, and then he does more
Speaker 1: of a Hitler salute. It wasn't a Hitler salute. He's
Speaker 1: just waving to the crowd or putting his arm in
Speaker 1: the air. But it was closer to a Hitler salute
Speaker 1: than like any I've ever seen, right, including Elon Musk's
Speaker 1: non Hitler salute. Hitler salon. That's the point. So, I like,
Speaker 1: whoever post this. Here are the news networks who have
Speaker 1: not covered Zoran Mundani's salute. New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, MSNBC, NBR,
Speaker 1: USA Today, Reuters, Axios, and ABC News. Every single one
Speaker 1: of them had multiple stories about Elon Musk's salute, multiple
Speaker 1: stories about Elon Musk when he put his hand in
Speaker 1: the air at the So, I mean, that's all you
Speaker 1: need to know, isn't it. That's also question the power.
Speaker 3: Yep, it's so annoying truth telling business at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for something that actually does matter. I was up
Speaker 1: what night was it is? Two days ago? Three days
Speaker 1: ago now, So it's like Saturday night when the Venezuela
Speaker 1: thing had happened and the Iran thing was happening at
Speaker 1: the same time, and it looked like, uh, the revolution
Speaker 1: in Iran might do its thing this. At the same time,
Speaker 1: I was following both stories going back and forth on
Speaker 1: what's that Twitter feed that's so good open source intelligence?
Speaker 1: I had stuff since they had stuff going from Tehran
Speaker 1: and Venezuela at the same time, and it was really interesting.
Speaker 1: I tweeted out, this could be quite the historic night.
Speaker 1: Based on the breaking news, hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 1: flooded the streets of Tehran in Iran trying to topple
Speaker 1: Kamane's Islamist regime and tearing down posters and defacing buildings
Speaker 1: and all this different sort of stuff, the sort of
Speaker 1: thing that you don't usually see in Iran, or at
Speaker 1: least it don't last very long. Couple interesting things on
Speaker 1: that topic as it is still going on. Jeb Bush,
Speaker 1: if you remember him, tweeted out, the Islamic Republican does
Speaker 1: not represent the greater Iranian people. President Trump continues to
Speaker 1: demonstrate historic leadership on Iran. From Jeb Bush, Wow, got
Speaker 1: it like that? And then leak Donald Trump tweeted out,
Speaker 1: and this is what got my attention. If Iran shoots
Speaker 1: and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom. The
Speaker 1: United States of America will come to the rescue. We
Speaker 1: are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you
Speaker 1: for your attention to this matter. I thought, what does
Speaker 1: that mean, because it's almost certainly either either the IOLA
Speaker 1: is leaving on a plane, which the New York Times
Speaker 1: says he is ready to do, which would be huge
Speaker 1: international news if you don't follow this sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: Iran is well one the number one state sponsor of
Speaker 1: terror in the world and a sworn enemy of the
Speaker 1: United States for many, many, many decades, now half a century,
Speaker 1: and it would have killed many many US soldiers and
Speaker 1: servicemen in Americans around the world. Be a huge deal
Speaker 1: if the IATOLA fled. But usually they have these uprisings
Speaker 1: a little bit protests, and they may slaughter people in
Speaker 1: the streets until it ends. Trump has vowed we are
Speaker 1: locked and loaded and will come to their rescue. What
Speaker 1: does that mean?
Speaker 3: And usually it's in the big cities, maybe the college
Speaker 3: campuses that you have some of these demonstrations, but it's
Speaker 3: filtered out into the hinterlands.
Speaker 1: Of towns across the morn. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, among their many gripes is not only the oppression
Speaker 3: but the fact that the annual inflation rate climbed to
Speaker 3: forty two point two percent last month, forty two percent
Speaker 3: devaluation of your pay in your savings year after year,
Speaker 3: and the food inflation is even bigger, actually the price
Speaker 3: of food.
Speaker 1: So that is definitely one to keep your eye on
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. Like I said, it'd be a big
Speaker 1: deal if they Iotola fell and it you know, got
Speaker 1: into that. Yeah, what do he thinks? Most likely though,
Speaker 1: some sort of military dictatorship run by the Revolutionary Guard?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, just I mean that's certainly I would hope
Speaker 3: and pray for something different, but.
Speaker 1: Still could be less less of an enemy to the
Speaker 1: United States than I totala though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and once you let the genie of liberalization out
Speaker 3: of the bottle, it's very very hard to get back in.
Speaker 3: So if the Revolutionary Guard were to say, look, we're
Speaker 3: in charge now, it's not the Iyatola, and we realize
Speaker 3: you're pissed off about this and that, and so we're
Speaker 3: gonna we're gonna work with you on that. We're gonna
Speaker 3: liberalize a little bit here, We're gonna make sure that
Speaker 3: you know, whatever, this economic policy is a little more
Speaker 3: enlightened If they fail on that, then they're back to
Speaker 3: bloody crackdown on an emboldened population, or they get swept away.
Speaker 1: Well, but then, what do you think about Trump saying
Speaker 1: we ain't gonna stand for you shooting protesters in the street.
Speaker 3: I think, wow, wow, that that requires a bit of
Speaker 3: a Do we have a second? Yeah, we have a
Speaker 3: second for an answer, a couple of things. Number One,
Speaker 3: that gives the Iyatolas and the Revolutionary Guard the ability
Speaker 3: to say, look, this is an outside attack or being
Speaker 3: attacked by the evil West and by the infidels, and
Speaker 3: they will appeal to everybody's Muslimism, but it might not
Speaker 3: be enough because the regime is so hated enough. Iranians
Speaker 3: would be like, look, I don't want to be occupied
Speaker 3: by the US. But if they're going to punch the
Speaker 3: iatola in the I R C U right and the beard, well,
Speaker 3: then good good on him and we'll do the rest
Speaker 3: of the overthrowing.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the help. I think we get a couple
Speaker 1: of patchy helicopters in there, throw a lasso around that beard,
Speaker 1: yank him up, him up about the beard? Okay, less serious, fair.
Speaker 1: I cannot not watch Dick Clark's Rock in New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: I've watched it every year since I was like eight
Speaker 1: years old. I can't not watch it. And my kids
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Hey, we enjoy hating on it. We enjoy
Speaker 1: mocking all so much. It's a show. It's just it's
Speaker 1: so much fun to hate. First of all, who the
Speaker 1: hell is watching that show? Who knows who Dick Clark is?
Speaker 1: Old people go to bed. They don't stay up till midnight,
Speaker 1: at least to all the ones. I can't be tractual.
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine what's going on. But I got
Speaker 1: a text from somebody and they said, ooh, they keep
Speaker 1: teasing Diana Ross. I got to stay up for this.
Speaker 1: They're big teas. So Ryan, Dick Clark died a long,
Speaker 1: long time ago. If you don't know this, he was
Speaker 1: a big deal when rock and roll started in the fifties,
Speaker 1: Dick Clark, and then he had this New Year's Eve celebration.
Speaker 1: He died a long time ago. Ryan Seacrest runs it now.
Speaker 1: Ryan has had too much work. He has now crossed
Speaker 1: over into Little Dolly Parton, got a little Kenny Rodgers
Speaker 1: thing going there. Little too much. So just a tip
Speaker 1: to Ryan Seacrest you've gone too far full Mani Low. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's what he looks like, Barry man Low. And he's
Speaker 1: not that old. Can I somebody get me an age
Speaker 1: on Ryan Seacrest? But he's already had too much surgery anyway.
Speaker 1: FT four sounds about right, It's a guess sounds about right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you got daty? Katie? One fifty one? He
Speaker 1: just turned fifty one.
Speaker 3: Cool, it's way too old to be getting the man
Speaker 3: Low too young? I'm sure it's way too young. You
Speaker 3: have had so many surgeries that it's noticeable. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But anyway, how could you possibly be teasing your big
Speaker 1: teas for the evening? So the show is always people
Speaker 1: well past their prime, and then people that are so
Speaker 1: new you've never heard of them, and so it satisfies nobody.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to see any of these people. And their
Speaker 1: big tease was the Queen of Motown, Diana Ross, only
Speaker 1: one hour away, like, who in the hell is this four?
Speaker 1: And the crowd is all teenagers in early twenty somethings.
Speaker 1: Who Diana Ross? I looked? I told my kids, I said,
Speaker 1: I think she was a hit before I was born.
Speaker 1: And Joe and I are old. Her first hit was
Speaker 1: Before we were born, nineteen sixty four, and you're teasing
Speaker 1: that as your big git for New Year's Eve. Just hilarious.
Speaker 1: She came out there. She's almost she's a one year
Speaker 1: younger than my mom. She's eighty one years old. Oh bo,
Speaker 1: she was old when I was a kid. She's dressed
Speaker 1: just like she always did, in a super tight long
Speaker 1: dress and a bowl around her neck, and her big
Speaker 1: giant hair and so much makeup you can't even tell
Speaker 1: what she is. And she came out there and she
Speaker 1: sang her song. So was it lip SYNCD? She actually
Speaker 1: sang them you could tell because she got so winded.
Speaker 1: She was breathed.
Speaker 5: Up side upside down.
Speaker 1: She was so winded from walking around the stage and
Speaker 1: twirling around at her age, she almost ended up upside down.
Speaker 1: Got on, Michael, that's the first staff joke of the ear.
Speaker 1: They get nothing, friend. Wow, it's funny.
Speaker 3: If you'd asked me to come up with a funny punchline,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure I could have done that.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Stay tuned, everybody, because we've got a special treat for you.
Speaker 1: Was Gary Puckett Jaffa God silly? I mean it's wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful s yes, half a century stress right, yes, Michael.
Speaker 1: You remember how long they kept at Clark on the air.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, well well well passed his
Speaker 1: ability to after a stroke or anything like that. But
Speaker 1: I'm just amazed by it. And so the way these networks,
Speaker 1: because I mentioned this earlier, the final year end network
Speaker 1: ratings came out and NBC ended up being number one,
Speaker 1: but just by a sliver. Their average in primetime is
Speaker 1: four million people. I'll about the average in primetime when
Speaker 1: we were kids, with something like forty five million people,
Speaker 1: forty million hit shows. Yeah yeah, well I averaged out
Speaker 1: of course, yeah yeah. And now it's four million for
Speaker 1: the number one network you get down to whichever finished last.
Speaker 1: I think ABC was like three and a half million.
Speaker 1: And so why they continue to hang on to the
Speaker 1: old model until it's completely dead as opposed to try
Speaker 1: to come up with something new and resonate with the
Speaker 1: new generation. It's bonkers to me. Yeah, oh breaking Maduro news.
Speaker 3: He went before the judge and told the judge he
Speaker 3: rejects the charges because he was kidnapped. No, the English
Speaker 3: word is apprehended there, Nikki, So shut up. And get
Speaker 3: back to yourself.
Speaker 1: He says he is not guilty. He pleaded not guilty
Speaker 1: there in court. I'm contrare, says the prosecutor. Did some
Speaker 1: talk of the death penalty. Any chance of that us
Speaker 1: executing Maduro on us soil? Probably doubt it. I doubt it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of it's a lot of headache to
Speaker 1: go to. We got cages. Put him in a cage,
Speaker 1: put him in a day in cage. We will finish strong.
Speaker 1: Next the Tao has cracked forty nine thousand for the
Speaker 1: first time ever because of Maduro. More on that tomorrow, my.
Speaker 3: I drilling into him or selling him or what so
Speaker 3: I'll give you a very short version of this and
Speaker 3: maybe pay it off tomorrow. I had long been skeptical
Speaker 3: of the cliche that people, kids, especially who are bookworms,
Speaker 3: wore glasses more or that you know, intellectuals wear glasses,
Speaker 3: Chairman mount famously.
Speaker 1: But I was wrong.
Speaker 3: It's absolutely true, and ophthalmologists are raising alarms about an
Speaker 3: epic an epidemic rather of childhood myopia, which is shortsightedness.
Speaker 3: And we'd all known that social media and smartphones is
Speaker 3: good for kids, mental health and hearts.
Speaker 1: But reading.
Speaker 3: Staring at a screen looking at something close to you
Speaker 3: for a prolonged time causes the eyeball to grow longer
Speaker 3: from front to back, making it harder to focus farther away.
Speaker 1: No one wants a long eyeball.
Speaker 3: Well you got a long eyeball, Son, And that's why
Speaker 3: kids who are bookworms need glasses more interesting. In fact,
Speaker 3: it's been declared a national emergency in China.
Speaker 4: More reading glasses, strong, strong, Ready.
Speaker 1: Here's yours for final thoughts, Joe Getty, let's get.
Speaker 3: A final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap
Speaker 3: up the first show of the year. Katie Green or
Speaker 3: esteem and use woman? Yeah, why don't you lead us off?
Speaker 3: Katie will shake it up?
Speaker 1: Go ahead? What's your final thought? I have to go
Speaker 1: through my pantry and get rid of all of the
Speaker 1: chocolate that I was given of Christmas.
Speaker 3: Oh oh boy, good lord, so much chocolate. Michael Aangelow
Speaker 3: are technical director. As a final thought for US, Michael, Yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe I'm just being power hungry, but what if the
Speaker 3: US takes over Chili.
Speaker 1: I like the off season fruit and I like to
Speaker 1: have full access to it.
Speaker 3: You know, it's an issue, certainly, fruit Jack a final
Speaker 3: thought for us.
Speaker 1: I'll be tuning in the CBS Evening News tonight, as
Speaker 1: they have vowed on too many stories, the press missed
Speaker 1: the story because we've taken into account the perspective of
Speaker 1: advocates and not the average American. We put too much
Speaker 1: weight on the analysis of academics and elites and not
Speaker 1: enough on you. That changes. Now that's the new Berry
Speaker 1: Weiss Evening News starting tonight. I love that so much
Speaker 1: I can't even tell you. I know.
Speaker 3: My final thought is I was really enjoying vacation and
Speaker 3: looked at returning to work. Is a lot of people
Speaker 3: return to work even though we have a great job.
Speaker 1: And you know what I did.
Speaker 3: I sat down and read a bunch of emails that
Speaker 3: we got on the last show of the year last year,
Speaker 3: a lot of you saying absolutely lovely things about how
Speaker 3: much you enjoy the show. And I thought, it's not
Speaker 3: about you, dumb, dumb, It's about the good people.
Speaker 1: Right. So you're their dancing monkey. Here, we are dancing
Speaker 1: like the little monkeys.
Speaker 3: We are put a fun head on us and watch
Speaker 3: us go yay I'm kidding, Oh boy, Armstrong, you getdy.
Speaker 1: Wrapping up another grueling four hour workday, so many people.
Speaker 3: Thanks so a little time. Go to Armstrong Egeddy dot com.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, Katie, no more at and one of
Speaker 1: those kind of things. Just gotta gotta get him out
Speaker 1: of here. We'll see tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong
Speaker 1: in Getty.
Speaker 2: The United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation.
Speaker 2: This was an audacious operation that only the United States
Speaker 2: could do.
Speaker 1: If you would have seen what I saw last night,
Speaker 1: you would have been very impressed.
Speaker 2: We train, we rehearse, not to get it right, but
Speaker 2: to ensure that we cannot get it wrong.
Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro had his chance. He left around and he
Speaker 1: found out Armstrong and Getty