Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty Enough he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Alty's in Georgia reasicently, warrened parents to check their child's
Speaker 2: lunch after a student mistakenly had a canned cutwater lemon
Speaker 2: drop Martini in their lunch box, because even at that age,
Speaker 2: you're too mature for a cutwater lemon drop martini.
Speaker 1: Ah nice, you drink like your girl, shot man. I
Speaker 1: could have used a mixed drink in my lunch in
Speaker 1: school when I was in grade school. That would have
Speaker 1: help things, and to help things a lot. Don't even
Speaker 1: Dodgeball would have been a lot easier if I'd had
Speaker 1: a martini in under my belt. Bottom of this hour,
Speaker 1: About a half an hour from now, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to Mike Lyons, one of our favorite military analysts, about
Speaker 1: how the war is going in Iran. And you know
Speaker 1: we're at Warriner's. A heck of a lot going on.
Speaker 1: Trump just said just told CNN he's not worried whether
Speaker 1: Iran becomes a democratic state. Good. I think we all
Speaker 1: decided that was a failure the whole George W. Bush,
Speaker 1: We're going to impose democracy on all these countries that
Speaker 1: have never had it and don't want it. Yeah. Iran's
Speaker 1: a really interesting case in that it is. It has
Speaker 1: a long history of kings, I mean, almost the entire
Speaker 1: history of kings, and the Iotola might as well have
Speaker 1: been one. At the same time, they are people who demand,
Speaker 1: you know, the rights, property rights, speech rights, etc. And
Speaker 1: it's an interesting balance. So what it becomes nobody knows.
Speaker 1: But for them they get democracy. Maybe not. They should
Speaker 1: choose that themselves, though we should not spit upon them
Speaker 1: to that. Yeah. Yeah, here here another big update. The
Speaker 1: Israeli military pounded Ba Root Lebanon with air strikes today
Speaker 1: and issued more evacuation warnings as they intensified their campaign
Speaker 1: against Iran backed Hezbolah militants. As I mentioned earlier the
Speaker 1: well I'll just read it sentence this in the New
Speaker 1: York Times, Lebanon was fast becoming the most heated front
Speaker 1: in the metastasizing regional conflict that began with US Israeli
Speaker 1: strikes on a Ran a week ago. I think that
Speaker 1: as a wordsmith, I'm quibbling with the word metastasizing, because
Speaker 1: that implies a obviously a cancerous, unintended kind of random
Speaker 1: bad extension, and that's not what it is at all.
Speaker 1: It's okay, now it's time to do this. We are
Speaker 1: defeating these monsters for good, and now it's time for hesbola.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at at metastasizing. That's the new front.
Speaker 1: I'm looking up at Martha Radditts on ABC News and
Speaker 1: she's featuring the Iyatola's son who's emerged as a possible
Speaker 1: taking over. And we told you the story about him yesterday.
Speaker 1: I just saw him. He looks like a guy who
Speaker 1: can't get an erection. I mean, she just has that look.
Speaker 1: That's the story about him. Yeah. It was in the
Speaker 1: hospital for two months because they couldn't get in a direction.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they do to you in the hospital.
Speaker 1: Why are you here? The doctor might say, I can't
Speaker 1: get an direction? Okay, And why are you here? By
Speaker 1: the way, I'm the Iatola's son, Okay. I hope you're comfortable.
Speaker 1: Let us know if you what would you like me
Speaker 1: to do show you porn or what am I supposed
Speaker 1: to do with about anything? Beyond that? You gotta you know,
Speaker 1: I don't go to a bar or something because I'm
Speaker 1: not helping you. Yeah, that is the story. Is that
Speaker 1: clever propaganda that credit the guy in the Muslim world?
Speaker 1: I think probably so he's got he's got a theatrical beard.
Speaker 1: He can't grow a beard, and there's no leading a pencil.
Speaker 1: I mean that you can't get elected in the Muslim
Speaker 1: world or you can't take control in the Muslim world
Speaker 1: with that, you know, resume, there's no hope in that
Speaker 1: camel Oh boy, oh boy, that was actually pretty good.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else is important to you know? Oh lord,
Speaker 1: this is degenerated, and I think, Michael, it's clear who's
Speaker 1: at fault because it's not my fault. Now, if the
Speaker 1: avalanche of idiocy continues, he says, excusing himself, there has
Speaker 1: been yet another scandal in Saudi Arabia involving botox use
Speaker 1: in a camel beauty contest. Wow, you remember this rocked
Speaker 1: the camel beauty contest world a few years ago. I'd
Speaker 1: forgotten that they have those live team coverage coming up.
Speaker 1: Let's see where I was I. Oh yeah, as Iran's
Speaker 1: retaliatory strikes against the US hit US allies in the
Speaker 1: Persian Gulf. Saudi Arabia's defense ministry said on Friday it
Speaker 1: had intercepted and destroyed three ballistic missiles launched toward the
Speaker 1: Prince Sultan Air Base, a military complex south of Riad.
Speaker 1: Qatar's foreign ministry said, yeah, they've been attacking us too,
Speaker 1: and they're not having it. One of the worst miscalculations ever.
Speaker 1: Europe and Canada are way wishy washing and keep changing
Speaker 1: their minds and reversing themselves. They're ridiculous. But European leaders,
Speaker 1: several of whom disapproved of the initial assault, have stepped
Speaker 1: up their deployment of military assets in the Middle East,
Speaker 1: moves they said aimed at protecting their citizens and interests,
Speaker 1: as well as crucial shipping routes. Now, I promise this
Speaker 1: last hour and here it is, the fabulous JT and
Speaker 1: Livermore says, let's explain how Iran can be two weeks
Speaker 1: from breakout for years on end, and I will congratulate
Speaker 1: you folks. In evance. You will now know the answer
Speaker 1: to this question. Because it is often asked like it's
Speaker 1: a rhetorical question. It's not a rhetorical question. It's a
Speaker 1: substantive question. You need two things to create a nuclear bomb.
Speaker 1: Fissile material concentrated enough to support a chain reaction, which
Speaker 1: is around ninety percent concentration for uranium in a bomb
Speaker 1: capable of carrying out a controlled concintination of two lumps
Speaker 1: of fissile material into one lump's, preferably holding it together
Speaker 1: long enough to supercharge the chain reaction process. Iran has
Speaker 1: plenty of fissile material, some of which is that sixty
Speaker 1: percent concentration. Growing going from sixty to ninety would take
Speaker 1: about two weeks. Iran does not have a working bomb design,
Speaker 1: nor do they have the much more difficult missile capable
Speaker 1: bomb design that can be put on a ballistic missile.
Speaker 1: I think he means warhead. But that said, Iran may
Speaker 1: figure out the bomb park tomorrow or next week, or
Speaker 1: in two weeks, and since we don't know when that
Speaker 1: will happen, the breakout period is really defined by the
Speaker 1: minimum time it would take to create a working bomb.
Speaker 1: From the moment they create a working bomb design. You
Speaker 1: may be asking, why don't they just go ahead and
Speaker 1: get to ninety percent now than their breakout time would
Speaker 1: be zero. The short answer, it is much more difficult, expensive,
Speaker 1: and dangerous to handle fissile material at that concentration. Plus,
Speaker 1: there is zero use for ninety percent concentration other than
Speaker 1: making nuclear bombs, So any plausible dyn deniability that they
Speaker 1: have on legitimate research needs that ninety percent is non existent.
Speaker 1: Enough of that fizzle material. That was one of the
Speaker 1: features of the Oppenheimer movie. They had the big bowl
Speaker 1: with the whatever the marbles they were putting in it
Speaker 1: or whatever, to show how close they were to getting
Speaker 1: the amount that they needed, which is kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: That's the whole game. I'm kinda surprised Iran hasn't been
Speaker 1: able to buy or beg the effective warhead design from
Speaker 1: save Russia or North Korea or some malevolent actor, right,
Speaker 1: I think the like I see with North Korea, why
Speaker 1: it's a big deal. They've got the bomb, but what
Speaker 1: are they going to do without a rocket or a
Speaker 1: missile that can send it somewhere and then they may
Speaker 1: have the technology do that. Now Iran, they just need
Speaker 1: the bomb. I mean, they're so close to Israel. I
Speaker 1: don't know that they need a rocket. You get it
Speaker 1: over there in a boat or somehow practically. Trevo shay
Speaker 1: it In, Yeah from Gaza, Well you used to be
Speaker 1: able to you wouldn't think perhaps that I can do
Speaker 1: the Britney Spears dui story and turn it into a
Speaker 1: constitutional legal question. But I will tie it to her
Speaker 1: ex boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, who is suing currently to keep
Speaker 1: the footage of his DUI arrest from coming out. And
Speaker 1: it's kind of it's a pretty interesting question. And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm on this, I'm on I'm on his side, I think.
Speaker 1: But we can get to that. Oh and the Britney
Speaker 1: Spears stuff is just silly, and what a what a
Speaker 1: mess she is.
Speaker 3: Alone.
Speaker 1: Britney needs to leave Britney alone. Son, Brittany needs to
Speaker 1: leave the bottle alone. Oh clearly anyway, stay here for
Speaker 1: lots of stuff. I shouldn't hear.
Speaker 4: The mission One American Zoo out to save the endangered elephants.
Speaker 4: It's opening day at the San Diego Zoo Safari Parks
Speaker 4: spectacular New Elephant Valley, the largest project the Zoo's one
Speaker 4: hundred nine year history, visitors able to get closer to
Speaker 4: the endangered African savannah elephants than ever before. Just sprawling
Speaker 4: thirteen acres, allowing the elephants to roam freely, the trees
Speaker 4: and plants native to Africa, meant to mirror their natural landscape.
Speaker 4: The year's long project made possible with more than four
Speaker 4: thousand donors, and it's part of the nonprofit San Diego
Speaker 4: Zoo Wildlife Alliance, dedicated to global wildlife research and conservation.
Speaker 1: Hey, David mir I realize you're the host of the
Speaker 1: number one most watched news show in America, so you'd
Speaker 1: probably tell me shut up. But why the same tone
Speaker 1: of voice for a new elephant habitat as first six
Speaker 1: died in Iran? That knows jackasses? Which is weird? Isn't
Speaker 1: that that he doesn't have different gears? Oh, it's bizarre.
Speaker 1: Most of your news people have their lighthearted tone that
Speaker 1: they go with a new elephant enclosure and then your
Speaker 1: serious voice for six soldiers killed in an attack in Iran.
Speaker 1: But he has the same voice no matter what it is,
Speaker 1: which is weird. It sounds pretty good. One of the
Speaker 1: best is too busy in the gym to develop another gear.
Speaker 1: One of the best zoos in the world is got
Speaker 1: their biggest thing they've ever done. Well, that sounds pretty cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they should have hit me up for a donation and
Speaker 1: being happy to help. But love the San Diego, Zoo.
Speaker 1: Remember a more innocent time, Gladys, Do you remember a
Speaker 1: more innocent time when Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears were
Speaker 1: young Disney stars that had to deny they were dating
Speaker 1: and probably smoking pot and having sex, which I think
Speaker 1: is a more innocent time. I think they've all confirmed
Speaker 1: they were, but that they're supposed to be just smiling
Speaker 1: Disney people who were friends, and they were both young
Speaker 1: and hot and underage, so they had to keep that
Speaker 1: all secret. And then they went on to be giant stars.
Speaker 1: Justin Timberlake like a incredibly talented, very very big pop star.
Speaker 1: Britney Spears mostly a big star because she's so hot.
Speaker 1: Her music always of medium grade, to my opinion, but
Speaker 1: medium grade is it a componiment it does not deserve.
Speaker 1: Justin Timberlake's life seemed to be pretty on the rails,
Speaker 1: married kids, has a good reputation, but got arrested in
Speaker 1: a dui last year, which we're gonna get to in
Speaker 1: a second. Britney Spears, as we all know, she's been
Speaker 1: off the rails her entire life, really, and you know
Speaker 1: you would be too if you're a child star, sexpot
Speaker 1: with her parents starting at a young age, your life
Speaker 1: would have been off the rails too, So I don't
Speaker 1: really judge her for that, but man, she is a mess.
Speaker 1: She has had nine to one one called about her
Speaker 1: house or from her house many many times in the
Speaker 1: last year. She lives in this I'm looking at this
Speaker 1: picture of this mansion. I don't have a value on it,
Speaker 1: but her Thousand Oaks SoCal La Area mansion is stunning.
Speaker 1: The thing is a compound. It looks like it's a
Speaker 1: hospital complex or a community college or something with tennis
Speaker 1: courts and pools, and it's just enormous. So she obviously
Speaker 1: one did pretty well and two still has control of
Speaker 1: enough money because that's quite the home. Who She got
Speaker 1: arrested for DUI night before last in Ventura County and
Speaker 1: she was driving her super fancy. I think she was
Speaker 1: in her what's that suv thing that the Mercedes makes
Speaker 1: that's designed to climb up a mountain that all the
Speaker 1: hotties and movie stars and rich people drive and never
Speaker 1: do anything more than we go to you know, to
Speaker 1: yoga rodeo, drive yoga class and back. But it's designed whatever.
Speaker 1: She was drunken. Apparently she cried the entire time she
Speaker 1: was in jail. It's you know, I feel bad for
Speaker 1: a lot of calls to nine one one or about
Speaker 1: her claiming somebody is trying to trespass, which might be
Speaker 1: she's probably getting involved with all kinds of n'ar to wells.
Speaker 1: If you've ever seen any of the videos she puts
Speaker 1: out regularly, where she'll just put out a video she
Speaker 1: gets dressed up in her hotty gear. I think she
Speaker 1: misses the days when she was like the number one
Speaker 1: sex pot in the world. And sometimes she gets all
Speaker 1: drunked up or high or whatever she does, and she
Speaker 1: puts on one of her hotty outfits and dances around
Speaker 1: in her and then posts it. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: what that is. I feel bad for her. Sad, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. Lots of wellness check nine one one
Speaker 1: calls about her house. I don't know who's calling those in.
Speaker 1: Somebody who's probably like and I just left Britney's house
Speaker 1: and she ain't doing so good. How much you go
Speaker 1: check on her? I ain't heard from her for a while.
Speaker 1: That sort of thing. No idea anyway, Transitioning to something
Speaker 1: real and maybe actually even important. Justin Timberlakes, dui goes
Speaker 1: back all the way to June twenty twenty four. At
Speaker 1: this point, you know it'll be two years here. Pretty soon.
Speaker 1: He was in Sagharbor, New York. He left a bar,
Speaker 1: look kind of drunk, getting in his car, he runs
Speaker 1: a stop sign, driving erradically, gets pulled out, does the
Speaker 1: stupid human tricks that Todd Snyder would call them, and
Speaker 1: and he's drunk. So it's the deal. He gets a DWI. Well,
Speaker 1: now he is suing, and this is important, pled guilty
Speaker 1: to a reduced charge of driving while impaired, a non
Speaker 1: criminal traffic violation. That's what he pled guilty to of.
Speaker 1: That's what we as society decided was the penalty we
Speaker 1: would agree to. All right, And almost all DUIs are
Speaker 1: a misdemeanor. Unless there's aggravating circumstances of it being multiple times,
Speaker 1: or you're over a certain speed, or you hit somebody
Speaker 1: or whatever, they're almost always a misdemeanor. So he's suing
Speaker 1: to keep the body camera footage from becoming public. Somebody
Speaker 1: did a foyer request freedom of information request, probably TMZ
Speaker 1: or the National Inquirer or somebody like that. It's not
Speaker 1: to help us safe as Americans be safe as Americans.
Speaker 1: It's to you know, tonight ONDMZ first time footage of
Speaker 1: Justin Timberlake's arrest. It's going to be that sort of
Speaker 1: stuff to exert it in short eight hours of footage
Speaker 1: of the arrest, the talking to him, the taking him
Speaker 1: to jail, and then him being in custody, and then
Speaker 1: him getting out. They have the whole thing on camera,
Speaker 1: and there's an a t to get this released, and
Speaker 1: according to the law, that's what's supposed to happen. But
Speaker 1: Timberlake is suing, saying that the videos dissemination served zero
Speaker 1: public interest, which I would agree, and could lead to
Speaker 1: economic hardship. They did agree to delay the release pending
Speaker 1: a resolution. The case is ongoing, it's being bumped up
Speaker 1: to other courts. It's going to get looked at it
Speaker 1: various times. I've always thought that we got to figure
Speaker 1: out a way around this. A misdemeanor crime should not
Speaker 1: serve to come with the penalty of incredible embarrassment to
Speaker 1: you if you're aknown figure in your community on all
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I would agree. I mean all that
Speaker 1: hours of him being booked and the rest of it,
Speaker 1: maybe his nose was really itchy, and he's rubbing at
Speaker 1: his nose and blowing his nose. Here's my solution, and
Speaker 1: I've just thought about this for ten seconds. But there
Speaker 1: needs to be standing for a Foyer request, and it
Speaker 1: can be extremely broad. I'm a citizen, I pay taxes
Speaker 1: and this agency is doing X Y Z. I have
Speaker 1: a right to know how they handled DUI checkpoints. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that applies given the embarrassment to
Speaker 1: j T. That's a tough one. It's an interesting question.
Speaker 1: I don't think it should. I don't think we should
Speaker 1: be able to see it. I don't think it does
Speaker 1: serve anything. But how you how you do that? Like
Speaker 1: there Tommy List, who was the baseball coach that we
Speaker 1: used to make fun of. He was Tony LaRussa used
Speaker 1: to coach the Cardinals and the A's and a bunch
Speaker 1: of other teams. And he was sleeping at a stoplight
Speaker 1: and they woke him up and they asked him to
Speaker 1: do the alphabet backwards, and he said several letters in
Speaker 1: a row and all this different sort of stuff, and
Speaker 1: we mocked that and had fun with them. But that
Speaker 1: didn't serve any public interest other than mirth. Correct highly
Speaker 1: embarrassed a guy over I think what was a misdemeanor?
Speaker 1: Also a mister mean when their crime comes with a
Speaker 1: lifetime of ridicule. Now I feel bad about my mirth. Michael,
Speaker 1: find that podcast in arrased place. Oh, we've done it
Speaker 1: many times. I don't drink, so it doesn't apply to me.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'll be interested to see how I can
Speaker 1: see you becoming involved in some sort of hijinks that
Speaker 1: would yield a good video sometimes. Oh yeah, I definitely do.
Speaker 1: Let's not crossing off the positives. No, no, it's one
Speaker 1: hundred on the list of possibility. We got mic lines
Speaker 1: coming up to talk about Iran. Let us know what
Speaker 1: you think about that whole releasing the Dui footage, Yes
Speaker 1: or no? Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: The Iranian government is vowing not to back down, not
Speaker 5: to negotiate with the United States, and Iran's military says
Speaker 5: that it is going to continue targeting not just US
Speaker 5: assets here in this region, like military bases in the
Speaker 5: Gulf States, but of course continue to target Israel as well.
Speaker 5: The Iranians are saying that their missile stockpiles are still
Speaker 5: very much filled and that their missiles are very capable as.
Speaker 1: Well, you never know. It's blustering. What's not. Several got
Speaker 1: through in Israel last night. One thing I want to
Speaker 1: talk to Mike Lanes about is what is the likelihood
Speaker 1: that Ukraine, Israel, US, a bunch of people run out
Speaker 1: of these defensive pieces of equipment we've got and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden the reins of drones and rockets
Speaker 1: and everything start getting through. Let's start there with military analysts,
Speaker 1: Mike Allons. Mike, it's always great to have you. Why
Speaker 1: don't we start there? What do you think? How much
Speaker 1: ordnance do we have and how short are the supplies? Looking?
Speaker 6: Well, there's two issues here, right there's the defense of
Speaker 6: these smissiles coming towards Israel and yet the US bases
Speaker 6: and the Middle Eastern countries. But then there's the offensive
Speaker 6: side to it. We have plenty of the offensive weapons.
Speaker 6: So I think this comes down to once again, archers
Speaker 6: and arrows, and if we go after the archers and
Speaker 6: then we take away their capability to have arrows, and
Speaker 6: we're going to accomplish the same thing. Took that from
Speaker 6: the Sencom Commander yesterday. We don't want to be on
Speaker 6: the defensive. These these missiles are very expensive. You know,
Speaker 6: those Block four and five missiles that we have in
Speaker 6: the destroyers. I was talking to my son about this
Speaker 6: last night. You know, twenty five to thirty million dollars
Speaker 6: for those missile systems that you know, we're developed under
Speaker 6: Obama and it's you know, we've got to thank in
Speaker 6: some ways that that administration for having a foresight to
Speaker 6: understand this, and they're really to protect the carrier, right
Speaker 6: those are the kind of weapon systems there, but those
Speaker 6: are being deployed out there right now. So there's definitely
Speaker 6: an economic side to this. But I guess to your question,
Speaker 6: I don't see us running out of either side.
Speaker 1: We'll get them.
Speaker 6: From someplace, but we're not going to get to that
Speaker 6: point because we're going to take out We're going to
Speaker 6: take out all the archers before before they launch them.
Speaker 1: Mike, I read with interest about Iran's missile cities they
Speaker 1: call them. They spent decades constructing these underground bunkers to
Speaker 1: shield their missile arsenal. But apparently now we know more
Speaker 1: or less where they are, and we're just circling them
Speaker 1: and waiting until they stick their heads up and then
Speaker 1: blowing the hell out of them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is the other positive side of the autonomous
Speaker 6: systems that we have. The drones we have right in
Speaker 6: the old days and you know, thirty years ago when
Speaker 6: we were scud hunting, we had to do that with
Speaker 6: live pilots and they had to you know, take a
Speaker 6: break and go back and we had to refuel. Now
Speaker 6: we can put these these reaper drones and we could
Speaker 6: put them on station. They could just sit up there
Speaker 6: in the loiter for twelve hours at a time and
Speaker 6: more than that. And some some Air Force officer in
Speaker 6: Nevada has got a joystick and he's watching on a
Speaker 6: screen and again the second pay move, next thing you know,
Speaker 6: they've got you know, hell fire missiles running down on them.
Speaker 6: So again, the little technology we've brought to the battle,
Speaker 6: the level of intelligence that we have is really putting
Speaker 6: a cramp on any kind of their ability to be
Speaker 6: the archer to launch those arrows.
Speaker 1: So we're all I'm sorry, let me jump in just
Speaker 1: very briefly. US Central Command said yesterday that Iron's missile
Speaker 1: launchers have dropped. Launchers have dropped eighty six percent in
Speaker 1: four days. Wow, So that strategy is working, Jack back
Speaker 1: to you. Sorry. So we are for the most part layman.
Speaker 1: You know, watching this and I don't know if you,
Speaker 1: like ever watched a basketball game or a football game
Speaker 1: with somebody who actually played professionally, they start pointing out
Speaker 1: things that you never think about. I'm asking you that
Speaker 1: question as somebody who has been there, done that when
Speaker 1: it comes to war in the Middle East, Like, what
Speaker 1: has gotten your attention or you're talking about that most
Speaker 1: of us are missing?
Speaker 6: Yeah, just the uniqueness of Iran trying to fight an
Speaker 6: air war of attrition. You never have seen that before. Right,
Speaker 6: We've seen wars of attrition on the ground against great
Speaker 6: powers and countries in World War One and grinding and
Speaker 6: inch by inch. The only way that the Iranians survived
Speaker 6: this is if they can do what you said initially,
Speaker 6: try to get the United States to expend its missile
Speaker 6: defense capability, and which is why they're going to be
Speaker 6: selective on what they're fighting. So they're going to try
Speaker 6: to win a war of air attrition. We've never seen
Speaker 6: something like that happen before. Now, frankly, they have no chance,
Speaker 6: and a lot of it is because they have no allies.
Speaker 6: I mean the issue, you know, Russia is not there,
Speaker 6: the Chinese aren't there, all. All this may be soft
Speaker 6: power they're providing to them is helping on some level,
Speaker 6: but they have no shot at doing this. But it's
Speaker 6: worth it.
Speaker 1: It's the only.
Speaker 6: Strategy that they can deploy right now. So from my
Speaker 6: perspective from a guy who's on the ground that you know,
Speaker 6: has watched you know, things happen, and from the air
Speaker 6: powers perspective, Look, I was in Desert Storm for thirty
Speaker 6: seven days and we watched the air strikes go on,
Speaker 6: but at the end of the day, we had to
Speaker 6: still go We had to still unleash ground troops. This
Speaker 6: might be one situation where again no large formations are
Speaker 6: showing up. One more, one more thing. I was at
Speaker 6: your first Academy the other day and we're talking to
Speaker 6: some of their professors about the eight tens are there.
Speaker 6: So the A tens are a tactical air fighting vehicle
Speaker 6: and they're being used now against drones. And the A
Speaker 6: ten is from an army perspective, it's something that it's
Speaker 6: our friend. We saw them in Desert Storm again and
Speaker 6: they're just incredible against against tanks. But the level of
Speaker 6: equipment that we brought to the fight here in order
Speaker 6: to go against the drones and go against Iran is
Speaker 6: you know, everything's off the table. So again, an air
Speaker 6: war of attrition is something we've never seen before.
Speaker 1: Do you think Russia and to a greater extent, China,
Speaker 1: what lessons are they taking from what they're observing right now?
Speaker 6: Oh, China is in trouble. We are totally threatening their
Speaker 6: energy security. And this is another thing no one's talking about.
Speaker 6: And I think that you know, China has watched Germany
Speaker 6: and France in the Second World War or Japan. I'm
Speaker 6: sorry Germany and Japan lose the Second World War because
Speaker 6: they couldn't keep up with the industrial base. China, I think,
Speaker 6: looked at Desert Storm, looked at the United States military power,
Speaker 6: tried to create the supply chain that the US would
Speaker 6: be reliant on and hold these kind of choke points
Speaker 6: when it comes to energy. They just don't have the
Speaker 6: same energy that the United States has access to and
Speaker 6: all of and China has been on the sidelines, right
Speaker 6: because why aren't they supporting the Iranians, Why aren't they
Speaker 6: sending military equipment there? Well, that's because they're very passive
Speaker 6: and they just they just can't seem to commit there
Speaker 6: because they thought they would never have this place, Donald Trump,
Speaker 6: what this administration has done now taking away their oil
Speaker 6: that came from Venezuela. Now, if we end up controlling
Speaker 6: the oil within the Middle East and coming you know,
Speaker 6: from from through the straighter from moots here, Chinese energy
Speaker 6: is in real trouble. Their security is in trouble. And
Speaker 6: this could you know that there's no way that they
Speaker 6: can invade Taiwan right now.
Speaker 1: They don't.
Speaker 6: They don't have the amount of energy that it's going
Speaker 6: to take to sustain any kind of combat operations there.
Speaker 6: I think the dirty little secrets to that though, is
Speaker 6: I just I'm not sure the United States military would
Speaker 6: do much if that was the case. But anyway, I
Speaker 6: think China right now is really very concerned about how
Speaker 6: the US has projected power so quickly and has really
Speaker 6: put their energy in big trouble.
Speaker 1: So, speaking of China, I meant to ask this the
Speaker 1: other day. I've been wondering. I assume this war with
Speaker 1: Iran will be over in a couple of months. We we,
Speaker 1: for better or worse, have been involved in a lot
Speaker 1: of military activity around the world, so we have a
Speaker 1: lot of experienced people out there. How much advantage is
Speaker 1: that verse. This is a country like China that really
Speaker 1: hasn't been in battle in a very long time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it is an advantage. And although when
Speaker 6: we first went to combat, you know, when I first
Speaker 6: went to combat, I didn't have any advantage too, But
Speaker 6: then you gain it quickly.
Speaker 1: But we do.
Speaker 6: We've got you know, we're great power with in our
Speaker 6: DNA that that is good at combat, it's good at
Speaker 6: war and in a lot of ways because we don't
Speaker 6: pay attention to our doctrine. We have Americans that when
Speaker 6: they fight these wars, they take great initiative. In these
Speaker 6: other countries, it's so culturally different. I mean again, it's
Speaker 6: the great thing I think about our country. But yeah,
Speaker 6: so you know, the Chinese have great equipment, but maybe
Speaker 6: not the Chinese is looking at our navy absolutely destroy
Speaker 6: the Iranian navy, think it to the bottom of the sea. Well,
Speaker 6: the Chinese had a lot to do with formulating the
Speaker 6: Iranian navy as well. When this is going to be over, though,
Speaker 6: when is it going to be over is when we're
Speaker 6: going to find somebody. We're going to break the mold
Speaker 6: here from the last fifty years. We're going to find
Speaker 6: somebody in Iran to stand up and say we surrender.
Speaker 6: And I saw something that the Trump put out there.
Speaker 6: I think this morning about it. We're not We're not
Speaker 6: going to play this game anymore about you know, ceasefire
Speaker 6: and all this other stuff. You know, watching people try
Speaker 6: to say we're committing wark crimes by sinking ships and
Speaker 6: not rescuing survivors is just again beyond the pale here
Speaker 6: great powers. We're in a great power struggle right now,
Speaker 6: and we're just overtly displaying our power and we're not
Speaker 6: stopping until they say surrender.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The challenge obviously, and the surrender question is, I
Speaker 1: mean the highest ranking official and Iran might be the
Speaker 1: assistant manager of a grocery store at this point, who
Speaker 1: who surrenders and who's with them?
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you're right, it's the assistant to the general manager.
Speaker 6: Could be that. I don't know, they're going to find
Speaker 6: somebody is really, I'm sure working on it. And you know,
Speaker 6: look at it's the Venezuela situation. We're going to keep
Speaker 6: going until we find someone that has any kind of
Speaker 6: authority that wants to negotiate. Now. Also, you saw the
Speaker 6: Kurds have entered the bat the fight. They could be
Speaker 6: this this force on the ground that could, that could,
Speaker 6: but that keeps the Revolutionary guards at bay. So again,
Speaker 6: big country, lots of lots of time to go, but
Speaker 6: we're not again, We're not stopping until we find that
Speaker 6: person that says I surrender. We're going to do a
Speaker 6: battleship Missouri, get a thousand sailors having signed some kind
Speaker 6: of document and declare victory. That's the only way it's happening.
Speaker 1: Military analyst Mike lyons, Mike, great stuff. We will look
Speaker 1: forward to chatting again. Have a great weekend. Thanks, thanks
Speaker 1: for having Thanks Mike. That whole curd thing is really interesting.
Speaker 1: So there's a whole bunch of Kurds in Iraq, there's
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of Kurds in Turkey. Then they've been
Speaker 1: wanting their own state forever. They have helped us a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of different times. This might be the time
Speaker 1: that they think it's now or never for us to
Speaker 1: carve out a chunk of land. Yeah. At the same time,
Speaker 1: did you see and I thought I had it, I
Speaker 1: can't find it. There was a letter from the first
Speaker 1: Lady of Iraq, who is Kurdish evidently, and she said,
Speaker 1: you screwed us in ninety two when you blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and then we stood up for you against ISIS, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we weren't your good buddies when
Speaker 1: Turkey complained or whatever. The Kurds are not your hired gunman,
Speaker 1: leave us alone. So I wonder how widespread that sentiment is. Well, then,
Speaker 1: so there was talk yesterday, I don't know how long
Speaker 1: that lasted, or of the Kurds putting together a military
Speaker 1: and moving into Iran. And then Trump made that announcement
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Speaker 1: if you're a chiefs and or Patrick Mahomes fan. Also,
Speaker 1: we need to check in on the burn Wars with
Speaker 1: that McDonald's CEO burger tasting video that has gotten so
Speaker 1: much attention and Gavin Newsom getting a well deserved kicking.
Speaker 1: He ain't gonna be the nominee. No, way, Wow, that's
Speaker 1: your prediction. That is my prediction, not even the nominee,
Speaker 1: let alone elected president that kind of chance. Stay tuned
Speaker 1: before we get to that McDonald's burger commercial that's getting
Speaker 1: so much attention. Maybe your kid has a Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: jersey no matter where you live, because when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, I was a Miami Dolphins fan. You know
Speaker 1: why because I was a little kid and they won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl a couple of times, so I was
Speaker 1: rooting for the team that that won, and a lot
Speaker 1: of my friends were Pittsburgh Steeler fans. So I know
Speaker 1: so many kids that have Patrick Mahomes jerseys because the
Speaker 1: Chiefs have been the best team for practically a decade.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: He you're a bandwagon jumper early as childhood. Disgusting.
Speaker 5: So he.
Speaker 1: Tore his acl last game of the season, and they
Speaker 1: didn't know if he'd be able to play this year
Speaker 1: at all, maybe half the season. It looks like he's
Speaker 1: gonna be ready to start. And I was just reading
Speaker 1: some descriptions from the doctors and the trainers saying he
Speaker 1: does not have the normal body. He does not having
Speaker 1: the normal pain tolerance, and he does not have the
Speaker 1: normal healing process. They don't exactly know what all is
Speaker 1: going on there, but all for the better, All for
Speaker 1: the better. Yes, yes, yes, yes, he hasn't so he's
Speaker 1: gonna be ready to go. This was clearly a win
Speaker 1: for McDonald's clearly. I mean, I guarantee you the CEO
Speaker 1: is thrilled, even though he's being mocked all around the
Speaker 1: world for his kind of goofy video he put out
Speaker 1: about tasting their new sandwich. Everybody knows about the sandwich now.
Speaker 1: They couldn't if they'd have spent a billion dollars on commercials,
Speaker 1: there wouldn't be as many people know about the new
Speaker 1: sandwich as know about it now. And you know it's funny.
Speaker 1: In your introduction you called it a commercial, which it isn't.
Speaker 1: But of course it is right, the new viral video
Speaker 1: as commercial. It's a zillion dollars worth of advertising. That's
Speaker 1: why they work so hard on making them this one,
Speaker 1: I think unintentionally. So it's just him sitting at the
Speaker 1: table in the lunch room there at Mcdonald'sville, USA, looking
Speaker 1: like a dweeb with the new sandwich. It sounds like this, Chris.
Speaker 7: K here with you've heard about it here. It is
Speaker 7: the Big Arch. I'm gonna do it tasting right now,
Speaker 7: but I'm gonna eat this for my lunch, just so
Speaker 7: you know. So here we go.
Speaker 1: First, Holy cow, god, that is a big burger. So
Speaker 1: much going on with this. First of all, let's okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to it to the comedian mocking it, who
Speaker 1: plays a lot of it too. So one comedian mocking
Speaker 1: at every comedian is mocked in. There are gazillions of
Speaker 1: memes out there, including among the CEOs of the various
Speaker 1: burger places. The Burger King Guy did one, The Jack
Speaker 1: in the Box guy did one. Everybody's done one of
Speaker 1: some version or another. That that are all pretty funny. But
Speaker 1: here's a comedian talking about it.
Speaker 3: So I've just seen a video of the McDonald's CEO
Speaker 3: eaten a McDonald's and it's probably the funniest thing I've
Speaker 3: ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: The Big Arch.
Speaker 7: This is something that we have tested already Portugal, Germany, Canada.
Speaker 3: We've tested it on the Germans and the Canadians and
Speaker 3: now we believe it may even be fit for human consumption.
Speaker 1: Love this product. It is so good.
Speaker 3: I love to consume this product. Yeah, give me two
Speaker 3: burger product place this man does not eat McDonald's. He
Speaker 3: looks like he would try and read the ingredients on
Speaker 3: the back of a banana.
Speaker 7: I do a tasting right now, but I'm gonna eat
Speaker 7: this for my lunch.
Speaker 3: Just so you know, he's making excuses as to why
Speaker 3: he's not gonna eat the barger. I will allow the
Speaker 3: product to enter Ada later to it during my launch.
Speaker 3: It's been tested on the Canadians. I'm not a friend
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 1: I kind of get this thing. I don't even know
Speaker 1: how to attack it.
Speaker 3: The man doesn't even know how to hold a barger.
Speaker 3: Why'd you let him on here without any practice?
Speaker 1: That is funny. He looks like he'd read the ingredients
Speaker 1: on the back of a banana. That is funny. I
Speaker 1: don't even know how to Oh my gosh, look at this.
Speaker 1: I saw another comedian the other day because it's going
Speaker 1: through there and you got this. You got this bread
Speaker 1: on the Yeah, it's a bun. It's a bun. We've
Speaker 1: all seen a bun. It's like every bum on every
Speaker 1: birdy sh lighting up. I don't know how to attack this.
Speaker 1: Hand it to me, I'll show it. And of course
Speaker 1: the funniest part is he takes such a tiny little
Speaker 1: nibble of it. Oh, kind of like if you tell
Speaker 1: your kids to try something that they think or no,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna like we take a tiny little bite
Speaker 1: and say, okay, it just sits in the little nibble
Speaker 1: and then sets it down conspicuous cut where he clearly
Speaker 1: spit it out. And yet and yet it's because it's
Speaker 1: a Grand Slam home run to McDonald's, absolutely a home
Speaker 1: run that everybody's talking about the Big Arch in the
Speaker 1: New Sandwich. Yeah. Yeah, we were talking yesterday later in
Speaker 1: the show if you missed it, about the influencer economy
Speaker 1: and the tens hundreds of billions of dollars now that
Speaker 1: are flowing into you know, dweebs you've never heard of
Speaker 1: in your life who have one point seven million followers
Speaker 1: on instagrammer YouTube or TikTok or whatever. We'll say, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I just used this whatever, lipstick, garden hose,
Speaker 1: you know, guitar string, just every you know, subcategory of
Speaker 1: the economy. Yeah. Uh, And so what is the Big Arch?
Speaker 1: What is it? Roughly, I've never paid attention to the
Speaker 1: commercial of the actual details of it. And what way
Speaker 1: is it different than the other What was the other
Speaker 1: that Carls Junior or somebody had the ten dollars burger
Speaker 1: or something like that. It's almost like, yeah, good point.
Speaker 1: It's just like that, this is the super deluxe. All Right,
Speaker 1: you like McDonald's, but you're not poor. Here's a here's
Speaker 1: a real burger for you, fantastic dollar menu or real
Speaker 1: burger dollar menu to the left place. That's that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. Trump announced he must have a role in
Speaker 1: choosing Iran's next leader and called the son of the
Speaker 1: Iola who can't get direction unacceptable, probably because of his
Speaker 1: lack of virility. Yes, and particularly how do we feel
Speaker 1: about the Trump saying I should have a role in
Speaker 1: choosing the next leader?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: In effact, Yeah, if somebody surrenders to you in more time,
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of assumed almost, I think tell you
Speaker 1: who you shouldn't assume is going to be a leader,
Speaker 1: as Gavin knew, somewhat a weak act. He is Details
Speaker 1: on that to come. Mark Wayne Mullen excellent choice for
Speaker 1: DHS should have been the first choice. Problem is not
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Not from where I sit? No,
Speaker 1: but you live and learn all of that more next hour.
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