WEBVTT - I String My Words Together Pretty 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:15.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.960 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:36.839 Jettie and he arms range from studio ce see ay 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.800 dimly lit, room deep put in the bowels of the 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:43.159 Armstrong and Getting communications Compound on Little Friday, and today 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.760 we are toiling under the title The Art of No 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:51.159 Deal or from the Penthouse to the Big House. The 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:59.400 Prince Andrew story. Uh Andrew the artist formerly known as 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:05.240 Prince who is now Andrew windsor mount Batten or is 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.360 it mount Batten whatever? What kind of name is that? 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:14.600 Jolly well? Right, we got arrested and is in custody somewhere. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.120 They don't know where, nor nobody's to London obviously, yeah, 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.120 off with his head, I say, yeah, let's not wait around. 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.880 And the straw that broke the camel's back apparently is 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:28.000 trading state secrets with billionaire Jeffrey Ebstein. So not only 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:33.160 was he secting up underage women, denying having ever met 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.399 people that then you see him within pictures he was 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.440 given state secrets to Epstein and that was too much 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:45.880 for his brother. What was that straw that broke the camels. Gotcha, 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.840 that was a camel. Oh the camel groaning in pain. Yeah, 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.920 that was too much for his brother, King Chuck the 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:58.280 third apparently. Yeah. Plus that that's high ranking aid that 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.320 the big wheel in British Paul Politics, who had to 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.920 quit not long ago, as tied closely to Keir Starmer. 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:09.160 He was involved in similar stuff a huge significance insider 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.120 trading in effect with their pal Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, so 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:17.440 the actual government is going down. Everybody says that, right, 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.639 the Prime Minister will fall here one of these days. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:23.480 So it's see, although he had a week ago anyway, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.400 a thirteen percent approval rating, and it's not just because 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.520 Epstein's stuff, which is kind of the way it's being 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.600 portrayed in the United States, but as listening to some 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.960 British journalists, the government. People hate that government for all 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.520 kinds of different reasons. They got economic problems that have 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.720 landed while he's in office and all that sort of 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.400 stuff that happens in the world. So the proval rating 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.320 was going to be incredibly low anyway, and then you 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.560 add this to it, thirteen percent. One more note on 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.680 British politics, if I might, I think it's a measure 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.519 of how miserable everybody is there that the other party, 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.240 the Tories, the alleged Conservatives, who are about where the 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.360 Democrats are in the United States. Honestly, they can't win 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.120 an election. I mean they got tossed out on their ears. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.040 They suck so bad in favor of Keir Starmer and 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.959 his gang. Good gracious, here's the most exciting thing to me, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.360 as I think the Royal family is stupid and always 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.760 have and it's why we went to war with them 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:21.560 over that whole idea, As listened to a British journalist 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.760 right now saying, the reason Charles moved is at this 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.400 point there we've got to protect the monarchy because the 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.760 monarchy could fall. People could turn against this. You know what, 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.320 this whole you get special privileges and we pay for 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.480 it thing. It's got to come to an end. They're 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:43.080 worried about that. It's still a minority of people that 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.760 want to get it rid of the constitutional monarchy set 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.120 up they've got. But apparently, according to this one Bridget journalist, 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:55.080 inside Buckingham Palace or wherever they're deciding this sort of stuff, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.520 and they have many many different places. Depends on whether 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.240 you're going on a fox hunt, or if you're having 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.000 royal you know, duties with the Prime Minister or whatever. 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.040 Don't do a fox hunt from a Buckingham palace. You're 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:10.600 not gonna find a single fox. Too much traffic. They're 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.480 really concerned with public opinion turning it against the monarchy 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.120 as a whole. So well, they're afraid the boot of history. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:22.719 I'll get them right in the family jewels. That gotta 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.320 laugh out at Katie. How are you this morning, kid? 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.640 I'm just a lifeful I'm jolly good. Yeah, we should, 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:33.599 we should do the British accents and support of something. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:34.800 I don't know whether it would be. I don't like 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:36.320 the royal family. I think the whole thing is dumb. 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.240 So yeah, I'm more sympathetic than I used to be, 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:43.599 having asked a bunch of Brits about it. But it's 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:50.760 definitely a weirdly mutated monster. Yeah. I don't, I don't, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.839 I can't. I can't have any respect for it whatsoever. 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.720 I've heard British people explain why it matters to them 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.960 historically and everything like that, but yeah, they're paying attention 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.960 to their lives though that Come on, don't you have 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:05.880 more to do with this small amount of time you 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.800 get on planet Earth than pay attention to royals in 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.560 their weddings and their offspring and the first pictures of 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.960 their babies and that sort of crap. Give me a break. Yeah, 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.160 I know it's it's ridiculous. I just think I think 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.400 it's unhealthy free humanity. No, well, of course it is. Yes, yeah, 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:26.120 absolutely anyway, So Prince Andrew actually in Irons in the 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.000 Tower of London, as Joe said, and likely to be beheaded. 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.320 The headsman's got his black hood on, He's got his 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.560 big old double sided axe ready. He's just kind of 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.760 putting a little rosin on his palms. He's getting ready. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.159 So Axios, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:45.440 others reporting that, and sources are saying to these organizations 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.200 that it's ninety percent likely we strike Iran. Now, it's 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.960 quite possible that's being leaked by the administration to these 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:57.920 news organizations to let Iran know we're serious, we ain't playing. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.800 Oh yeah, also might be true, which brings us back 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:02.960 to my other title for the show, The Art of 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.520 No Deal. There is not a deal taking shape with Iran, 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.720 and indeed, what you do when it's your best alternative 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:15.120 to a negotiated settlement. It's a long acronym, but what 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.440 do you do when there is no deal? Meanwhile, the 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.000 talks with Hamas are a joke. They're refusing to disarm, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.000 so that piece is soon to end. Ukraine and Russia 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:29.279 don't get me started, at least with a Hamas thing. Though. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:33.200 If Iran falls, that's yet another blow to that organization 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:38.560 having any half to whatsoever. Certainly, at least Axios's reporting 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.240 is according to officials who are probably leaking this on purpose, 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.880 such as the nature of war, this will be a 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:52.080 week's long, sustained campaign, nothing like the strikes that we 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.080 saw over the summer. This is going to look more 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:58.479 like an actual war, not like the fabulously named Midnight Hammer. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.400 Weeks long sustained campaign. I wonder, and since most of 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.320 America I don't think, is paying any attention to this story, 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.159 I wonder. I wonder how that will land politically. I 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:12.240 have no idea. I would be fascinated to see a 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:16.160 poll of Americans to figure out how many people understand 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.360 that we're at the brink of a significant armed conflict. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.680 In conflict with Iran, the biggest way it is very small, 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.760 biggest warn a quarter century. What was you guess percentage? 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.760 Maybe twenty, I don't know, ten, ten to fifteen. I 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.400 don't know what's your perception, Katie, just out of curiosity, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.120 probably to guess, I'd think you're just trying to curry 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.040 favorite with him. But if you watch, yeah, clearly twenty 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:47.440 five if like Katie, me, anybody, if you're following the 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:54.120 mainstream news, it's just not a story avalanches, missing women, 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.480 a dog getting loose on the track at the very cute, 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:00.280 very much watching. 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.920 I think it was ABC because I go through all 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.559 of the evening news. They treated it like, oh, side note, 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:07.560 this is happening. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:12.440 Yeah, they really do. The dog running across the finish 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.400 line at the Olympics was the Iran war, and the 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.560 Iran War was the dog running across the finish line. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.840 In terms of emphasis, yes, that is a society that 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.040 cannot last. I believe the legal ruling on whether a 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.360 wing is a nugget or not a buffalo wing is 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.800 a chicken nugget. That legal ruling, which we need to 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.839 get to later, got more time than the possible war 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:39.160 with Iran. Wow, I'm only barely aware of this controversy, Well, 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:43.240 what are boneless wings? Is the question. If you're serving 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:49.200 boneless wings and somebody sued, what is your deal. You 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.520 can't call those wings, these are nuggets, and so there 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.200 needed to be a legal ruling, and then it got 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:58.800 into what if you call something a vegetarian buffalo wings 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.840 made out of cauliflower or whatever. Clearly those are boneless 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.520 and not We're never at any point the wing of 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:11.680 any animal as they are Fevidently, what then you say, exactly? 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.400 They said that they're not the wings of a cauliflower. 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.600 What the judge said, yes, correct. I am amused and 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.240 fascinated by this legal question, the fact that it is 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.960 a lawsuit. I want to find the plaintiff and beat 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.839 him to death with a chicken wing, which would take 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:32.040 a while. I mean, even to our story which we 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.080 led with talking about Prince Andrew getting arrested is getting 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.679 a hundred times more attention than the fact that we 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.320 are on the brink of a sustained war with a 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.480 major country. Well, you've got to admit, though, if a 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.800 second tier member of the British royal family were to 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.920 go to jail, that would change everything. Oh wait a minute, checking, no, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.640 it would have no effect on anything at all. So, 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.360 getting back to your original question, how many people are 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.680 paying any attention to it? So when the bombs start falling, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.760 I would suspect that the approval rating will be roughly 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.880 fifty to fifty, like everything with Trump. But a week 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.760 into it and maybe we've had a plane shot down 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:16.840 and I don't know, fifteen soldiers die. What is the 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:21.160 public opinion going to be on having no background of 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.679 why we're doing this whatsoever? Correct? Yes, we're an unserious 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.920 country where everybody votes and everybody gets their news from 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:33.200 tickety talk or you know, the stupid celebrity news that 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:37.439 is the network news these days. Yeah, it's unsustainable. I'm 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.400 just glad we have lots of guns and planes. So 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:44.040 you we go back tortum monarchy is what you're saying. Uh, yes, well, no, 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:49.960 the sweet spot. The founding fathers had the balance, right, 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.960 Come on, come on, don't say landed white males. That's 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:00.640 not what I mean. No, that is the public, not 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.560 a democracy. It is a democratic republic. Let's not quibble. 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:08.240 But a pure democracy is an idiotic idea. You do 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.880 have to tip your cat to the royal family that 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.080 they've got a lot of levers to pull to try 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.160 to help out a family member and keep him out 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.599 of trouble. In there, they're they're letting him twist in 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.160 the breeze. Oh no, King Chuck said, no, the justice 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:27.240 system should proceed. It's fine. Apparently behind the scenes Andrew 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.840 Andrew rings a bell. Apparently behind the scenes, Prince William 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.280 is a real driving force in This guy's a scumbag 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:38.640 and has got to go. He bringing us down Uncle Purvo. Yeah, 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.920 all that Wills, who seems to be a pretty straight 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:45.800 laced guy, does not dig Uncle Purvo's lifestyle. What did 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.319 they know behind this? All right, That's what I was 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.920 gonna say. I'm sure William and Charles, Charles, especially being 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:56.800 the older brother, has known for years. Right. Well, there 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.480 was that story that I think I mentioned yesterday where 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:06.520 Epstein and Andrew were bringing like multiple women of slatterly 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.839 habits as they used to say way back in the 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:14.720 day to Buckingham Palace for like lunches and cavorts. And 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.319 if Queen Liz got wind of that, I'm sure she 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.599 was really unhappy. I wasn't there some story if you 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.760 had some bimbo sitting in the throne or something. Remember that, 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.320 Remember that that sounds vaguely familiar. Here, there's a photo 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:32.800 came out of some Harlot sitting on a throne. Harlot. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.920 That's another good one. Yeah. Anyway, of course, some of 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.600 these people are not they're victims. They're just plain victims, 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.400 a lot of these people. Yeah, it's interesting. One more 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:46.199 thought on this, then I'll shut up. The Epstein case continues, 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.560 in spite of it being unsavorty that all of these 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.040 memos and stuff and emails have been put out to 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.000 yield really interesting stories about the upper crust and the 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:59.560 way they behave. In this modeling recruiter from France, super famous, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.160 like top of the industry, and how all the beautiful 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.320 girls in the world wanted to be models and he 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.679 would give them modeling contracts financed by Jeffrey Epstein. They 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.520 would fly all over the world, they would eat, they 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.200 would drink, they would be merry, they would sit on 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.720 the throne at Buckingham Palace, and occasionally they had to 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:19.360 give up a little sex. And there's probably a fair 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.960 number of people that are perfectly willing to make that trade. Well, right, yeah, 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.920 where hmm, what the hell? It'll be fun a little crazy, 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.360 he's not so bad looking ends and trafficking begins as 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.160 a line to drug Oh kidding, no kidding, We better 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.880 start to show officially. We've been jabbering on for a 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.000 long time. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.199 It is Thursday, February nineteenth, the year twenty twenty six, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.960 Armstrong and getting we approve of this program. All right, 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.080 let's be get officially according to FCC and British Royal 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:51.040 Family rules at Mark ext On persuaded, there's raved quicking 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:57.000 across store, flat contact and we are headed for overtime. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.640 We belne now, I'm quaint huge. Wait three and a 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:05.800 half minutes and over time when your ships pistons dolls? 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.760 When use him overtime? Let's him other of the United States, 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:15.560 Well on that face, sloop block here, Hey the Semis 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:24.240 got chills? What said you suck Swayton? Oh wow, wow, 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.080 you're like Trump? What these are our allies? You idiot? 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.400 Three of the four semifinal games, I'm sorry, quarterfinal games 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.520 went to overtime. Three of the four. Greatest day in 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.840 Olympic Hockey history. Oh really, and we won? So that's cool. Uh, 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.280 we've got Katie's headlines on the way and lots of 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:43.760 stay here Armstrong and Getty. We used a whole lot 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.080 of time with our silliness around Prince Andrews. Who we 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.320 gotta get to it? Who's reporting what? It's the lead 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.040 story with Katie Green Katie all right, Well, just because 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.840 we have to if all of the alphabet networks are going, 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.520 Prince Andrew at the very top, Yeah, because they love 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.600 royal stuff. And this this is a big one. Yeah, 0:14:59.240 --> 0:14:59.920 New York Times. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.240 US military moves into place for possible strikes in Iran. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.200 Yeah, like the biggest error of power that's ever been 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:10.240 assembled in the Middle East. 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:15.400 And so three from the Washington Post, Ilia malanin the 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.320 quad God says the person who came to the Olympics 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.480 a few weeks ago is now dust. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:27.120 Well that's interesting. It's the new Ilia. Science has explained 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.480 his failure. It involves apes. Stay with us, and the 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.080 Blade Babes ain't doing so well either. We're struggling with 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:34.120 our ice skating. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:40.200 From NBC. 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Can't wait to hear about the 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.160 rich draining the blood of the young. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:15.800 Study fines rotator cuff tears found in seventy three percent 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.280 of adults over forty What. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.520 You know, I actually talked to an athletic trainer about 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.960 this from what well, it's it takes a lot of beating. 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.880 Your rod to your shoulder is an incredibly complicated joint, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.240 and your rotator cuff gets beat up through the years. 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:34.000 It's super common. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:40.080 And finally the Babylon be amazing new study suggests you 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.440 can just think thoughts without posting them online. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.640 Oh I love that. I know mine's from pat myself 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.640 on the back. That's where I really do damage. That'll 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:55.280 do it. Yeah, it's awkward. We'll bring up to speed 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.240 on some more stories. I'm it is going to be 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.240 I think the biggest news story and the biggest surprise 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.600 news story in America when we're all of a sudden 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.120 at a full on war day after day after day 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.840 after day for several weeks, which of course can always 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.200 go sideways and other countries get involved or anything could happen. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.280 And what percentage of Americans will think Iran is Iraq 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.879 where Saddam used to romp and play right, significant lots 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:22.320 on the way if you missed a segment at the 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:28.800 podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty Prince 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.439 Andrew's sixtieth birthday today, by the way, sixtieth birthday. That's 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:37.359 a landmark birthday. Happy birthday, you're a worldwide pariah and 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:43.000 a laughingstock. Happy birthday. You're in jail probably probably for 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.160 the rest of your life in that country. The sort 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.959 of things he's done is a life sentence. The second right, 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.280 the sex stuff and the trading state secret stuff could 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.200 easily put him in jail the rest of his life. Wow, 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.760 and King Chuk has said heh let the justice proceed, 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.600 the justice system do what it does, washing my royal 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.680 hands of this. So an hour two we're going to 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.600 have a reporter. We don't do this very often. We're 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.320 actually gonna have a reporter on the social media trial 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.800 that's been going on in Los Angeles. Zuckerberg was on 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.440 the stand yesterday. Just a little tease for you. I 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.120 was surprised by this. I thought the defense was going 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:24.800 to be, you know, what's addictive, what's not. Nobody really 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:26.920 knows the line on that sort of stuff. Is it 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.320 against the law to make your product? Make a product 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.160 people like so much they can't stop eating or using 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:37.600 or watching or whatever. No, he went with He denied 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.800 that Meta seeks to make Instagram addictives, saying, I'm focused 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.760 on building a community that is sustainable. I'm not trying 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.400 to maximize the amount of time they spend every month 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:52.160 on it. Oh so he lied, that's just obviously not true. Testillying. Yes, 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.400 why did he say that. I mean, he's got I assume, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.600 some of the most expensive lawyers on the planet, and 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.439 you decided to deny you're trying to make your product 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.399 something we can't put down. Well, that's just false on 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:08.160 its face. He's a very smart guy. On the other hand, 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.600 speaking of royalty, he has kingly powers that most kings 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:17.240 would envy, status and wealth and probably a lot of 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:22.280 self regard. And you know, I don't blame him. I'm 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.639 surprised because I thought so he thought he could. Just 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.600 he's so used to people saying yes, mister Zuckerberg, yes sir, 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.640 that he's lost his filter for what's clearly bull less 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.520 and what's not. Because I thought I could. I was 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.159 helping you along, Mark by saying, you can't make it 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.320 against the law to make a product so good people 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.080 can't stop using it. That's what I was trying to 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.280 because I think that's true what I just said. Sure, 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:48.760 but you can't claim that you weren't trying to make 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:54.000 a product we can't stop using. That's hilarious. Yeah, Yeah, Anyway, 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:57.080 we'll get a report on that testimony coming up an 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.520 hour or two. Let's belied by like a thousand different 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.680 internal documents and emails and that sort of thing. Just amazing, Okay, 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.920 looking forward to that. Here's the story we should talk about, 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.560 and the one I want to talk about, the one 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.840 we should talk about. US gathers the most air power 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.040 in the Mid East since the two thousand and three 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.960 Iraq invasion. I would argue, I don't know this, but 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.520 I'll bet it's true that because of technological advances, it's 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.840 the strongest force that's ever been gathered anywhere on the planet, 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.200 and I'm serious in saying this. It probably includes the 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:35.920 discombobulator ray. Oh yeah, that was used to like shocking, astonishing. 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:40.160 Nobody's talking about it, science fiction y effect in snatching 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:44.040 up Maduro. So yeah, I would agree with you. Technological advances. Yeah, 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.960 you're probably right, well said the subhead is. US is 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.240 ready to strike around, but President Trump hasn't yet decided 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:55.320 to do so. First of all, some of the facts 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:57.360 and then a little analysis. Over the past few days, 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:00.320 the US has continued to move Cutting Edge thirty five 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:04.000 and twenty two jet fighters toward the Middle East. Second 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.240 aircraft carrier loaded with attack and electronic warfare planes is 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.879 on the way. Command and control aircraft vital for orchestrating 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:14.159 large air campaigns are inbound, and critical air defenses have 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:16.760 been deployed to the region in recent weeks to our 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:20.880 bases and other places. The firepower will give the US 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.480 the option of carrying out a sustained, weeks long air 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.160 war against Dran instead of the one and done midnight 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:30.439 hammer strike we were discussing earlier, and the talks are 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.800 going on. I suspect very strongly that Iran's thinking, yeah, 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:38.800 let's string out these talks because it always works, always works, 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.440 and Trump is thinking, yeah, we're still working on Saudi's 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:44.720 in the UAE and using their airspace because that has 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.119 saves a lot of fuel, and let's get our air 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:51.320 defenses up and run. And then in about a week Kerbluwie, Yeah, 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:56.280 and Mark Alprin's newsletter today he wrote, this is going 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:59.879 to be a big play for history, justice and one 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:02.840 for all, once and for all dealing with Tran's theocracy. 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:07.440 This will be for history. Yeah. Yeah, I am seeing 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:11.720 just as kind of an aside, more and more folks 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:16.280 joining us in saying out loud, you know, a lot 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:21.280 of this is the Western world, the enlightened world against Islamism. 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:24.720 For a while, it was kind of taboo, it was 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:28.239 out of fashion even say that. It's it's always been 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:30.879 clear to me. I don't I don't know. It's it's 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:32.879 my great gift that I couldn't give a crap what 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.639 people think. It's funny, it's gonna accuse me of being 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:39.960 an islamophobe, whatever that is. I'm not. It's funny that 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:42.280 we have enough distance after nine to eleven that this 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:46.480 story is not being run through that lens. Really, but 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:51.680 it is. It's a theocracy. It's fundamental Muslim theocracy. Right, 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:53.840 That's not the only challenge, and that's not the only 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:56.320 kind of totalitarian you know, evil that we've got a 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:58.280 face in the world. But it's a big one, yeah, 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:01.200 and it exists all around the world. You know. They're 0:23:01.359 --> 0:23:05.280 terrorist attacks in the name of ISIS or al Qaeda 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:08.920 or various offshoot groups all over the place in Africa 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:13.480 and France and wherever as we know. So yeah, one 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:16.800 more note about the armaments the administration is assembling. Not 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:19.200 all of the weapons the US could use to strike 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:21.320 Iran are currently in the Middle East, nor even need 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:24.880 to be. This is worth remembering. The two stealth bombers 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:28.040 have long trained to carry out Middle East missions directly 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:31.600 from the US, as they did in June against the 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:35.719 fordoh plant there, or from joint US UK based Diego 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:38.600 Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Other long range US bombers 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:40.840 can do the same, and in fact, trumpa wrote in 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:43.000 a social media post Wednesday, which is a curious way 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:45.480 to communicate, but that's what he does, that quote, it 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:48.480 may be necessary for the US to use Diego Garcia. 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:52.560 So on a completely different topic, I can't believe we 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:56.200 haven't talked about this yet. Oh coming up, science explains 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.879 the quad god's choke. I want to hear about that. 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:04.120 I'm I'm as a guy who choked always in every 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:09.040