1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and Key. 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Dad live from Studio C Say Sanor brand 5 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: new week. 6 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 2: How do you like that? Who knows what's gonna happen 7 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 2: this week? 8 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: Welcome to a new episode of The Armstrong Ngiddy Show, 9 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: and we are toiling. Under the title of the program, 10 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: when you're counting on Europe, you're in trouble. Or when 11 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: Hollywood's in a hole, it hires a back hoe to 12 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: keep digging. 13 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: Back hoe, a. 14 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: Back ho It's the opposite. When you're in a hole, 15 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: stop digging there they can get to keep digging. What 16 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: did the What did the Oscars do? That would I 17 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: didn't see any of it, So what did they dig? 18 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 1: Nor did I? The narrative in the liberal media was 19 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: that in previous years the Oscars weren't very political at all, 20 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 1: because they just had three, four, five notable political speeches. 21 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: This year, apparently it was a constant drum beat interest 22 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:28,639 Speaker 1: speeches and pins and patches and f ice and free 23 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: Palestine and big rounds of applause. And I wouldn't know. 24 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: I wasn't there might be a good idea at some 25 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: point you got to uh, and this has happened to 26 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: a certain extent in TV news and radio stuff. You recognize, well, 27 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: the audience has become very specific, so we might as 28 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: well super. 29 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 2: Serve that very specific audience. 30 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: It might have been a mistake in Drive and everybody 31 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: else away, but there you are, yeah, and you might 32 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: as well just please the audience you've still got anyway. 33 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing the show didn't do entertain. 34 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 2: I did. All I did was. 35 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: Read some reviews of the show, but it was like 36 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: three hours long, and I read one review that said, man, 37 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: they got to come up with a way to make 38 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 1: this more entertaining. Of it, you know whatever? Not important? 39 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: So were we we? We being us in Israel or 40 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: bombing the crap out of Western Iran right now as 41 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: we speak, apparently trying to take out their missile making 42 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: capabilities and all that sort of stuff. 43 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 2: I'm pretty excited about. 44 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: Did you see the second story in sixty minutes last 45 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: night about the lasers? I did, indeed very intriguing, the 46 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: intriguing and could change the whole game. The idea being 47 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: that we have the technology already. It's just a matter 48 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: of making enough of them and implementing it to shoot 49 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: down these rockets and drones with lasers that instead of 50 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: costing you know, five million dollars per rocket or two 51 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: million dollars per rocket or whatever it is, it's more 52 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 1: like three bucks per laser to take something down. Yeah. 53 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: I thought what was the price they gave for the 54 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: Patriot missiles. I thought it was like a hundred million. 55 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: Maybe I'm crazy, but it was all a ton of money, 56 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: enormously expensive. 57 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 3: Yeah. 58 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, and this would be just like the electricity it 59 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: takes to run it and the dude to press the button, 60 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: who makes seventeen fifteen an hour. Yeah, it would completely 61 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: upend the whole drone rocket thing. 62 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 2: I mean that would just mean it's over. 63 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: Really, the whole drone rocket era that lasted a little 64 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: wild was over like COVID. That was crazy, wasn't it. 65 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 2: Which is the way all military history goes. 66 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: And you know, somebody could invent something and then somebody 67 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: else invents a way to stop it, and oh, okay, 68 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: I guess that's over. It's just the way it works. 69 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: Turn in your pikes, fellas, they won't do any good anymore. 70 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 3: Yeah. 71 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, So that'll be interesting to see if 72 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: that gets implemented anytime soon. My reference in the other 73 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: title too, when you're counting on Europe, you're in trouble. 74 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: Trump is trying to put together a coalition of the willing, 75 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: if you will, to protect shipping in the Strait of 76 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: Horror Mooze, and the Euros usually are like what us 77 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: like like close to where there's war? 78 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 2: Can we call you back? 79 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: Trump announced that the Strait would be reopened with the 80 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: help of many other countries starting this week, but no 81 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: countries have raised their hand and said yep, we're on board. 82 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: We Germans are on board, or we French or were 83 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: we whoever you just said? And uh they're thinking is well, 84 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: we didn't start this, and we're cowards and never do anything. 85 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: I have nothing to add to that in the accurate description, 86 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: but yes, Trumps are true. Trump made the point that 87 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: it affects you more than it affects us. We are 88 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: we We could support ourselves on well for the rest 89 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 1: of all eternity if we wanted to. Right, you're the 90 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: ones who need this more than we needed. So we'll 91 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 1: see how that staring match goes down. At some point 92 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: I would love to get to, uh some information I've 93 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: come across about how Europe's green dreams have crashed and 94 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: died in a sea of red and consumer backlash and 95 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: the rest of it. They are fantasies to go all 96 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 1: renewable by like next week. 97 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 2: And we're going the other direction. Thank god. 98 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: Trump ordered over the weekend to start drilling off the 99 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: coast to California because there's lots of lots of oil 100 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: out there, and like I said, we're already very capable 101 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: of being self sufficient when it comes to oil, and 102 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: we're going to tap into more of our oil reserves, 103 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: so you know, and maybe Trump just says, okay, fine, 104 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: we'll leave the straight at horm Moos close. Good luck 105 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: Europe on figuring out where you're gonna get you troil. 106 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: We got our own, So expect Europe is standing there 107 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: with Ala or sitting there at alligator arms at the 108 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,919 Speaker 1: dinner table, hoping somebody else picks up the check. But 109 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: when we get up and walk away, they're gonna be like, 110 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: oh damn, exactly got to do something exactly when the 111 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: check comes. You know, Germany and France and Great Britain 112 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: there used to like going to the bathroom when they 113 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: see the waiter coming. Oh, I'm sorry, did the check 114 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: come while I was in the bathroom? Thanks to whoever 115 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: picked that up? Yeah, beautiful. Well again, in their defense though, 116 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 1: and I rarely rarely am, they're like, this is craziness. 117 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: We were going to continue to just beg Iran to 118 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: not have nukes because that's been working. I'm sorry. I 119 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: has said i'd be in their defense that I attacked them, 120 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: but no, they it was not their idea to start 121 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: this conflict. So I understand their hesitance to risk their sailors. 122 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 1: Here's something I didn't know I learned this morning. It 123 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: starts with an F. I should have written down. I 124 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: know at the time I would remember the name of it, 125 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: but I know lots off words. What are we talking about. 126 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 1: It's a pipeline that was built in one of your 127 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: Arab countries. I think the UAE with the idea that 128 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 1: someday we're gonna have to go to war with Iran 129 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: and they're gonna shut down the straight of war moves. 130 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: So we got a way to get the way. Gotta 131 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: have a way to get the oil around without using it. 132 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: And it's a pipeline that they built years ago, and 133 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: it can't transfer as much oil as you can with 134 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: all the tankers, but it can keep a steady flow going. Well. 135 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,359 Speaker 1: Iran has been bombing the crap out of it for 136 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: the last couple of days because they're aware that that's 137 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: all strategy, right, and we haven't been able to stop 138 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: him from Bombina yet. 139 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 2: They're trying to destroy that pipeline. 140 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, they've got to preserve their only leverage hike. Yeah, 141 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: there's a lot more strategy going on, and you know, 142 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: I don't know how many people thought ahead onto this 143 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: all along or not. 144 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 2: History will tell. 145 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: Neil Ferguson, one of our favorite people historian who've had 146 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: on the show before. He's got a piece in the 147 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: Free Press today, is this the beginning of World War Three? 148 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: And just laying out all the different things involved and 149 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: pressure points in Russia and China are helping Iran now 150 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: and more openly helping Iran, and just you know how 151 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: all this could come together in a bad way. 152 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 2: And he's not the. 153 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: Sort of guy that throws that talk around loosely either. 154 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 2: I kind of wish he hadn't brought that up. Really, 155 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 2: I was already feeling a little stressed. 156 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: Honestly, really yeah, oh boy, three, I'd kind of put 157 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: that off to the side. 158 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 2: No, surely not, surely not will prevail. 159 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: It's pretty like throughout history, it's pretty easy. It's pretty 160 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: easy to present situations where that could happen. I don't 161 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: think it's going to happen. I mean hard of the 162 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: problem Like World War One is famously known involved like 163 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: nine individuals starting the whole thing, and they were all 164 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: related because all the different various monarchs and royal family 165 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: people stretching across a handful of countries, and they could 166 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: just be mad at each other and start a war. 167 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: It's a little more complicated now, but you know, you 168 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: got Pakistan and India basically at war, and China wants Taiwan, 169 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: and Russia's already at war with Ukraine, and you get 170 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: this and oil was one of the biggest deals of 171 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: the planet. And there's a lot of moving parts there. Boy, Anyway, 172 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:47,839 Speaker 1: I'm not predicting that. Let's get our opening clip going 173 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: when we start the show, because I want to mention 174 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: a movie Oscar nominated movie we watched over the weekend. 175 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: I'm so excited about. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty 176 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: on this it is how does it get to be? Monday, 177 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,439 Speaker 1: March sixteenth, year, twenty twenty six, were armstrong, you're getting 178 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: we approve of this program. Let's commence then officially, according 179 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at Mark. 180 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 4: I should warn you tonight could get political. Okay, and 181 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 4: if that makes you uncomfortable, there's an alternate OSCARS being 182 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 4: hosted by Kid Rock. Yeah, it's at the David Busters 183 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 4: down the street. 184 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 2: Man, No, man, that's interesting. 185 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 1: Three quarters of America is at that Dave and Busters. Okay, Conan, 186 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:32,119 Speaker 1: that's an interesting joke to make given the current situation 187 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: where the ratings have just been plummeting over the years. 188 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: I actually have how much it's dropped off in a 189 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: short amount of time. It used to be second only 190 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: to the super Bowl, and it was huge the Oscars, 191 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: and then they got all political and turned off half 192 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 1: or more of the country. And for him to make 193 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: a joke like it's a tiny portion of people that 194 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: don't want those jokes, a pathetic minority of angry little conservatives. Yes, 195 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: I think you know, I think it's exactly what you 196 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: were suggesting earlier. They've they've run off certain segment of America. 197 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: They're like, well, there's no one doing that. Let's steer 198 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: into what we are now. I suspect, yeah, and go ahead. 199 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: I don't care. 200 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 2: And Conan probably knows this. 201 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: But it's not because well it's partially because the Oscars 202 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: got political, but it's also. 203 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 2: Because it got political, and it's always the same direction. 204 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 1: It's only one point of view, all right, I mean 205 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,839 Speaker 1: we catch on to that there At a certain point, 206 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: you have said to a giant segment of America, this 207 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: show isn't for you. You freaking backward more on racists. 208 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: See that's the key part. I mean, if it were 209 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,959 Speaker 1: merely political, that would be something. I mean, if if 210 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: somebody would win an Oscar and say, and hey, look 211 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: as long as I got twenty seconds left, I'd like 212 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: to point out that welfare programs often become bloated and 213 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: ineffective for those they serve. Therefore, fiscal discipline is something 214 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 1: I believe in. Well, okay, that'd be great, but most 215 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: to my manager exactly. But no, it's got to be 216 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 1: delivered with just angry, hateful condemn for anybody who could 217 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: possibly disagree with me because they're whatever you said, a stupid, little, 218 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: angry bigot or whatever. I do want to talk about 219 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: Marty Supreme later because we want me and the boys 220 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: watch that. So I was really really rooting for Timothy 221 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: shallow May last night. He lost shout out. I'm told 222 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: he lost best Oscar to Michael B. Jordan actor best 223 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: actor who plays two different people, because he plays twins 224 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: and he plays two different roles in that Centers movie. 225 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: So he won the Oscar And I said to my son, 226 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: I said, that's a gimmick playing two roles. He said, 227 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: the oscars are a gimmick, and I said, well, you win, 228 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: fourteen year old Henry. But Timothy shallow May was freaking 229 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: amazing in that Marty Supreme ten table tennis movie, and 230 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: I want to talk about that later because it's so 231 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: freaking weird. Are you gonna buy out Ping Pong Table now? 232 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 2: Now? 233 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: It really doesn't have much to do with Ping Pong's 234 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: that's just that's not really the point. 235 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 2: Of the movie. 236 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: But human beings, Michael, it's about human beings. 237 00:11:58,280 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 2: I'm not exactly sure what it is about. 238 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: You know how, I hate formulaic movies, and I always 239 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 1: complained about him. This was not a formulate movie. There 240 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: is no formula ever written for this. Wow. 241 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,439 Speaker 2: But you talk about that. 242 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: And a whole bunch of other things later, and there's 243 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: lots of Iran war stuff, and it's a really really 244 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: big deal. Katie's got her headlines on the way. I 245 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: hope you can stay here, arm Strong and Getty. 246 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 2: Trump handed that. 247 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: He might delay his meeting with President she in two 248 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: weeks if China does not help with opening the strait. 249 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 2: That's a heck of an interesting thing. 250 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 1: Wow. 251 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, lots of tentacles to this story. 252 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: Tentacles, let's figure out who's reporting what it's leads story 253 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: with Katie Green. 254 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 5: Katie, Well, yeah, that's actually one of the that's the 255 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 5: CNN headlines is that President may delay his China summit. 256 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 5: ABC if begins quote targeted ground operations in southern Lebanon, 257 00:12:55,240 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 5: and NBC Trump pressures NATO and China to reopen straight moves. 258 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine a situation where so we're going 259 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: to ask that China have warships next to our warships 260 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: and other allies warships in the same area. 261 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 2: It's an interesting thing. 262 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: Or is this Marco Rubio trying to draw a bright 263 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: line between China and its real motivations and ours. I 264 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 1: don't look we want to help the world, help y'all 265 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,679 Speaker 1: in Europe. China doesn't give a crap. Let's remember that, 266 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: shall we mm? And is Israel going into Lebanon? Has 267 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: that got anything to do with what we're wanting to do? 268 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 1: Or is that just Israel looking out for themselves? 269 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 5: From the Wall Street journal, Terrorists are now often made 270 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 5: in the USA. 271 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely true. We need to get into that long 272 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: story short immigrants of a certain religion that shall not 273 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,959 Speaker 1: be named, who decide, for various reasons they want to 274 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: attack the West. 275 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 5: From the New York Post, NET and Yahoo pokes fun 276 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 5: at online assassination rumors. 277 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 2: Quote they say, I'm what did you see this? 278 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 5: Over the weekend there was a huge rumor that went 279 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 5: out saying that net and Yaho had been killed m. 280 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:15,079 Speaker 2: CBS. 281 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 5: Trump thanks TSA agents who are going to work but 282 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 5: not being paid after first missed paycheck amid partial government shutdown. 283 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 2: And so hundreds of TSA agents didn't show up. Is 284 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 2: that right? 285 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: It's begun? Like in Houston at the Hobby Airport, half 286 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: of them called in sick one day, then the other 287 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: half the next day. You're going to see more and 288 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: more of that as Chuck Schumer's DHS shut down continues. 289 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: And they're currently saying, if you got a domestic flight, 290 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: even you should get there three hours early hours. Wow, 291 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: I had labs that tracks wait times. I would advise 292 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: you to do that. I'm not going anywhere where. I 293 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: gotta be at the airport three hours before my flight. 294 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 2: Good lord. 295 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 5: Also from the Wall Street Ernel open Aiy's bid to 296 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 5: allow X rated talk is freaking out its own advisors. 297 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: Yes, they're saying that there's a serious danger it'll turn 298 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: into an and I quote I believe pornographic suicide. Coach. 299 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 2: Oh, I want to hear more about this. 300 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds great. 301 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 2: Have we crossed the line? Everyone was? Okay? 302 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 5: From Time Magazine Oscars twenty twenty six, sparks ozempic debate. 303 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: Has Hollywood gone too far with the weight loss drugs? Oh? 304 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 2: Really? Oh my god? Some of these women last night? 305 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 2: So is it gary? 306 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 1: Is it formally heavy people that are now thin or 307 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: like medium, people that are now ridiculously skinny, four swizzle 308 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: sticks tin, people that are skeletal. Well, you're already thin, 309 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: and you decide you want to be a walking skeleton. 310 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 2: See you going ozempic. That's weird. Mm hmm. 311 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 5: Having annoying relatives could speed up your biological clock. 312 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: Oh so you wish for death? Well like meaning you 313 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: uh uh you get your period earlier or I mean, 314 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: what are we talking about here? Biology? We gotta we 315 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: got to bring that back up, Katie. 316 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 5: Okay, And finally the Babylon b quote. It's just a 317 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 5: flesh wound, says Legless Torso of Iranian Ayatola. 318 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: No, no kidding, little money python action there. Boy, there's 319 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 1: a bunch of stories there we need to uh, we 320 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: need to get more details on. 321 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 2: So I look forward to that. That's good. 322 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: That's good tease right there for the whole show which 323 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: is coming up. And if you miss a segment, you 324 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: get the podcast Armstrong, you Getty on demand, stick around arm. 325 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 5: Strong and Getty. 326 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 3: I can say the sound it keeps uscrewing. And we 327 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 3: are great for this opportunity and we are waiting for 328 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 3: the day that we can go out to the streets 329 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 3: and get back our country from the Islamic region. 330 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 2: That's an Iranian woman. 331 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:12,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if she recognizes or represents most people's 332 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: point of view there in Iran that they are happy 333 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 1: about this. The sound of explosions motivates them, wants them 334 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 1: to keep going, and some day they're going to get 335 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: in the street take back their country. I suspect she 336 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: represents a large, large majority of the country. I really do. 337 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: They just don't have the guns. It's actually remarkable. We 338 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 1: ought to talk about it at length later, the accounts 339 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,360 Speaker 1: that are coming from inside the regime. The New York 340 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: Times has a long piece written by all their foreign 341 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:48,119 Speaker 1: policy heavyweights about the machinations of the debate over who 342 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 1: would succeed a Weird Beard Senior and how lots and 343 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: lots of forces and people within Iranian society like we're saying, hey, 344 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: I about a reform, about somebody kind of moderate who 345 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 1: might like you know, I don't know, I want to 346 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: be friends with all the countries in the world. And 347 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:09,880 Speaker 1: the Republican guards said, no way, Nope, Weird Beard Junior's 348 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: are guy. We're going harder core than ever, cracking down 349 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: on the streets, fighting the US, building a new corep 350 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: going further down that road. 351 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 2: So I mentioned this a couple times last week that. 352 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 1: Journalist Mark Alpern had mentioned on his newscast there seems 353 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:29,399 Speaker 1: to be two kinds of coverage on this war right now. 354 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 1: There's kind of the Fox leaning coverage where it's like 355 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: no skepticism whatsoever that you know, anything bad could happen 356 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: or is happening. And then you've got all the rest 357 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: of the media that it seems like they're rooting for failure. 358 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: Not only do they see failure, but they're they're happy 359 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: about it. And that seems to be all the coverage. 360 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: And I do find it fairly difficult to get a 361 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: handle on what exactly is going on. I was following 362 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: Noah Rothman of National Review over the weekend, and his 363 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 1: expertise is for policy, and he said, in his life 364 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 1: of following the news, he's never seen such a disconnect 365 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:09,120 Speaker 1: effort between the reporting and the realities of what's happening 366 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: in any sort of military I mean, because all. 367 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 2: Of the. 368 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: Specifics of what has happened so far in two weeks, 369 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: in a day of the war are just amazing in 370 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: terms of world history. I mean, just obliterating their air force, 371 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: their navy, their ability to do this, their ability to 372 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 1: do that in a two week period, and it's being 373 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: reported universally except for Fox, pretty much as just a disaster. 374 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,239 Speaker 1: And like as watched Sin Saturday Night Live, and all 375 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 1: the jokes seem to be landing with the crowd of 376 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: just it's obviously a disaster, was obviously a horrible idea, 377 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: and it's a joke that anybody would see it otherwise, 378 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: with all due respect to the uncertainty which is to come, 379 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: which is you know, absolutely real. Yes, they are reporting 380 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: over and over again glass is twelve percent empty. That 381 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: twelve percent emptiness in the glass is really terrible, Jim, 382 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: when it's eighty eight percent full. So a couple of 383 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: different things around this. You got two views of the economy. 384 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: For instance, Kevin Hassett, who's the Secretary of the Treasury. 385 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 2: Is that right? 386 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 1: Yesterday on Fox News Sunday said if Iran thinks they're 387 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 1: going to get President Trump to back down because they're 388 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 1: going to make our economy weak, then they just don't 389 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: understand economics. 390 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 2: On the other hand, you have this from the Wall 391 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 2: Street Journal. 392 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: American oil executives delivered a bleak message to Trump officials 393 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: over the weekend. The energy crisis that your Ran war 394 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: unleashed is likely to get worst and. 395 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 2: Is already bad. 396 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: So I don't know, I think it would be a 397 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: mistake to call it a crisis in the US. Honestly, 398 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: in the US. Yeah, I don't understand how the crisis either. 399 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 1: Although gas the price of gas is up, how painful 400 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: that is for people? I don't know. Trump was saying 401 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: the other day, you know, the price of gas being 402 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: kind of high for a while is a small price 403 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 1: to pay to get rid of the evil Iran. 404 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:03,120 Speaker 2: I don't know how many people are on board. 405 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: I think that that makes sense to me, but I 406 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 1: don't know how the average person reaction to that. 407 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 3: Yeah. 408 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: I don't mean to be glib about this or anything, 409 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: but the word crisis is thrown around pretty routinely these days. 410 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: Shouldn't we have some sort of scale of we're out 411 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: of jelly, This. 412 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 2: Is a crisis. 413 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: The jelly crisis of twenty twenty six is upon us. Yeah. 414 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: I mean, you've got your annoyance, then you've got a problem. 415 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 1: Then you got a pain in the ass, then you 416 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 1: have a huge pain in the ass, and then you 417 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:36,919 Speaker 1: have a crisis. So here's two different things on topic. 418 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: Opening the straight of horror moves, I found interesting at 419 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: a meeting in the Oval office over the weekend. A frustrated, 420 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: mister Trump said New York Times. And they might be, 421 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: you know, those kind of adjectives. Who knows. But a 422 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: frustrated Trump pressed to General Dan Kine, Chairman of the 423 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: Joint Chiefs of Staff, about why the United States could 424 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: not open the strata or moves, which I could see 425 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: how you would have as a question, because I had 426 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 1: that question. We can't keep this open. Of all the 427 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 1: things we can do, we can't anyway. The answer was 428 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 1: straightforward from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Even one 429 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: Iranian soldier one or a militia members zipping across the 430 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 1: narrow neck of the Strait in a speedboat could fire 431 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: a mobile missile right in to a slow moving supertanker 432 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 1: or plant a mine on its hull. That's all it 433 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 1: would take. And yet you can't eliminate them all. And 434 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: that's enough to keep people from wanting to go through there. 435 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 1: So that's a problem. Newton gamb Rich, former Speaker of 436 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: the House, I don't know want your rank commands now 437 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,439 Speaker 1: in terms of a thinker tweeted this out over the weekend. 438 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 2: Now, this is some creative thinking. 439 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 1: Instead of fighting over a twenty one mile wide bottleneck, 440 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:47,679 Speaker 1: to straight of horn Moose forever. 441 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 2: We cut a new channel through friendly territory. 442 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: A dozen thermonuclear detonations, and you've got a waterway whiter 443 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe 444 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: from Iranian attacks. I think needs to go sit down 445 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 1: and enjoy some jello. I think he is well past 446 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: his prime. God bless him for his service to the country. 447 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:14,880 Speaker 1: Thank you, No, thank you. He has setting off twelve 448 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 1: bombs that have never been used on planet Earth. This 449 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: is different than what we use in Hiroshimah. Yeah, that'd 450 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: get the world's attention, but we're digging right. No, jeez, 451 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: sottle out. I'm pretty certain it would just cut a 452 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 1: nice little canal through friendly territory. It would be filled 453 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 1: in by seawater and then we could sail right through it. Yes, 454 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: it should take only a week next weekend. Oh, for 455 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: God's sake, I thought that was pretty good. So Donald 456 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: Jay is beseeching the Euros in particular to help protect 457 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 1: shipping through the strait. I've heard that it would take 458 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: one or two ships one or two protection vessels per 459 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: like big oil tanker to escort them through the right 460 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: or like for a flotilla of a dozen ships. It 461 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: would take five or six boats to protect them. Who 462 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: knows where these estimates come from, but so it would. 463 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 1: It would take the UK, it would take the EU. 464 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: And they have made statements that are kind of ambiguous, saying, 465 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: let's see, we have the right to take all necessary 466 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: measures blah blah blah, but nobody's committed to do anything yet. 467 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 2: Oh well, yeah, that fits in. 468 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: I didn't get to the next sentence of the analysis 469 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: of what that. Dan Kane, Chairman of the Joint Chief said, 470 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: So since only one a raining or militia member in 471 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: a speedboat could stop a giant tanker from coming through, 472 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,919 Speaker 1: that means there is no securing the Strait of Hormuz 473 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:56,120 Speaker 1: without Iran's being part of it. 474 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 2: It just can't be done. 475 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,400 Speaker 1: So there has to be some sort of negotiated settlement 476 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,360 Speaker 1: that Iran as part of to make that thing work, 477 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: which gives them quite a bit of leverage until they're 478 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: completely beaten down. Because, as we were discussing briefly earlier, 479 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: the fact that the IRGC the Republican Guard ruled over 480 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: the succession question the game of thrones there in Iran, 481 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: who would take the empty throne. They are absolutely the power. 482 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: They're not going to give in. They're hardcore. They're harder 483 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 1: core than I expected them to be, honestly. The New 484 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: York Times reported over the weekend that Trump has been 485 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: regularly on the phone with Saudi Crown Prince MBS, and 486 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: the Prince has been advising the President to keep hitting 487 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 1: the Iranians hard. For several officials, that's a change, man. 488 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: I mean, if you haven't been following the Middle East 489 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: and world history, that's a pretty big change that the 490 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 1: leader of Saudi Arabia is on board with US bombing 491 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,200 Speaker 1: the crap out of somebody in the Middle East. Oh yeah, yeah, 492 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: one hundred percent. So getting back to the question of 493 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: securing the Gulf, I mean, you gave us, I think 494 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 1: the short answer, and it's probably pretty accurate. But in 495 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: an escort operation, US warships, maybe in conjunction with allies, 496 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: would travel through the Straight alongside oil tankers to clear 497 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 1: mines and fend off Irani and attacks from the air, 498 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 1: as well as from Iran's Mosquito fleet of small attack 499 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: fast attack boats. That's a good name. The Mosquito fleet 500 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 1: experts estimated could take two ships per tanker here it 501 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: is there a dozen ships to guard convoys of five 502 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: to ten tankers to have the necessary air defenses. The 503 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: short distances involved make shooting down missiles and drones much 504 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: more difficult because it's just you know, it's like somebody 505 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,439 Speaker 1: throwing a fastball from forty feet away instead of sixty 506 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 1: feet and six inches. 507 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 2: You just have very little time to react. Let's see. 508 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,679 Speaker 1: Brian Clark, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, veteran naval officer, 509 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: estimates that alongside warships, it would require at least a 510 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: dozen MQ nine Reaper drones patrolling the skies and striking 511 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,360 Speaker 1: Irani and missile and our own launchers when they pop 512 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: up on the coast. He says, quote, that's thousands of 513 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: soldiers and sailors and a pretty sizable investment of money, 514 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: and you might have to do it for months. Man, 515 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: that's a tough nut to crack. Well what do you 516 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: think of? Yeah, So a lot of that gets back 517 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: to the The only way this straight of horm Moves 518 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: is going to be open again is if Iran's on board. 519 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: In other words, there has to be some sort of settlement, 520 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:28,879 Speaker 1: some sort of political agreed upon okay, right, or you 521 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,919 Speaker 1: go with the plan I was just discussing, which is 522 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 1: enormously expensive and also takes a hell of a lot 523 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: of ships away from doing other things. 524 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 2: Well, that just doesn't seem doable to me, not for 525 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 2: any period of time. 526 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: It's huge. Yeah, it's huge. Yeah, yeah, I would tend 527 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: to agree soon. Or buy American oil. Drill baby, drill 528 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 1: a dozen thermonuclear weapons. You carve a new Panama deeper 529 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,439 Speaker 1: than wider than Panama, then deeper than the Suez and 530 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,440 Speaker 1: what could be? What could go wrong? 531 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 2: Problem solved? 532 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: How about Trump announced it over the weekend. They're going 533 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: to drill off the coast to California and using some 534 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 1: sort of power, the president has to make that happen. 535 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 1: Despite Gavin news some howling about how awful it is. Oh, 536 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: Gavey had to be just as excited as can be. 537 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: Chin to chin raining blows down upon each other's heads, 538 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: Gavin and Donald J. I mean that's what he's been 539 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 1: praying for. Yeah, absolutely, to the grease. He haired one, 540 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: no kidd and he had to think, yes, this is fantastic, 541 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: and then he's got to put on his mad face 542 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: and walk out. This is we will not stand for 543 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: this awesome. He's thinking to himself, is he still wearing 544 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: his borrowed tie from the other night? Where do you 545 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: find a tie? Seems like I had another comment I make. Okay, 546 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: So I'll just go to the vis before we take 547 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: a break and get to mail bag. So today is 548 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: the sixteenth day after the IDEs of March. If you're 549 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 1: a Shakespeare fan, you know that the Eydes of March 550 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: refers to the soothsayers at the beginning of Julius Caesar 551 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: saying be where the eydes of March which is a 552 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: fifteenth archer the middle of March? And when Caesar gets 553 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 1: assassinated and I came across this, it's kind of like 554 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: the reason for the season stuff we talk about with 555 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: various holidays. 556 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 2: People are losing the spirit of the IDEs of March. 557 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: It's not just about stabbing, it's about coming together to 558 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: stab in groups. Oh that's good. 559 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty good too. 560 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: So maybe I'll gather around your boss today. Excellent Shakespeare humor. 561 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 2: We've got mail bag on the way. Stay here. 562 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: So many articles I want to read today and I 563 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: can't because I can't get into And I understand why 564 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: all these newspapers and free press and everybody. They got 565 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 1: to be careful or they give away their product for 566 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: free all the time. But if you go too far 567 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: with all that sort of stuff, and your users can't, 568 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: it's just too burdensome to I don't have to like 569 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: go seek up my username and password to grab the 570 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 1: new paper off the driveway in the morning, back in 571 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 1: the day, right, and then you know it's they sign 572 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: you out constantly. Then they've got to email you a 573 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: code to get back in. But it's you know, in 574 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: my case, sometimes my wife's email account, so I got 575 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: to call her. They're about to send your code, or 576 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 1: the email shows up ten minutes later. You want to 577 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: read it now, that sort of thing, right, Yeah, yeah, 578 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 1: here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing on 579 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: our series about war. I'm really excited about tomorrow's it's 580 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: a yin and yang, but today's I brought up just 581 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: because this is the actual wording from high Room Johnson. 582 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: The first casualty when war comes is truth. 583 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 2: That's a good one. 584 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: It's been cleaned up a little. The first casualty of 585 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: war is the truth. But yeah, yeah, so true, Hiram Johnson. 586 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: When did he kick. It was he a Civil war guy. 587 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 2: I don't remember. 588 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: I'd have to look it up, and I'm too lazy, 589 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: mail bag. I'd have to look it up, and you 590 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: know I don't want to. So yeah, let's slow the 591 00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: show down. It's all about pacing. Pacing. I was no 592 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: mail bag at Armstrong in geddy dot com. If you'd 593 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: like to be heard mail bag at Armstrong in getty 594 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: dot com, Doctor Brian Rice, you dropped to metaphor on 595 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: Friday like it was a common saying. I understood your meaning, 596 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: but I've never heard it before. It's a pretty good one. 597 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 1: That's when I referred to the pig in the python, 598 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: which is, you know, like you're what would an example 599 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 1: be like income in the United States. There are people 600 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: who make, you know, two dollars an hour, and then 601 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: there's people who make a billion dollars. But the big, fat, 602 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: thick part of America, the pig of the python is 603 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 1: probably between you know, it's sixty and two hundred. Anyway, 604 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 1: I don't know if I made that up. Probably not 605 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: Barry from Thailand. Hey, fellas, when we consider how many 606 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 1: of our wars have lasted for many years, what is 607 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: the urgency by the mainstream media to want to know 608 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: when this one will end. For crying out loud, it's 609 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: been barely two weeks. They really are awful. Yeah, I yeah, 610 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: the bulk of the media with this has been a failure. 611 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 1: Why isn't it over already after two weeks? In a day, 612 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 1: it's quite amazing. Yeah, it's an accommodation of Trump arrangement syndrome, 613 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 1: and I think completely unrealistic expectations set in part by Trump. Honestly, 614 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: the Maduro thing was insanely successful, and then the taking 615 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 1: out of the Fordo facility back in was it June 616 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 1: last year? Yeah, let's see. Moving along, a Persian woman. 617 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: I know. I once had a person say, uh, Iranians 618 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: referring to themselves as Persians is ridiculous, like an Italian 619 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 1: referring to themselves as a Roman. But I don't know. 620 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: They're trying to disassociate themselves from what they consider to 621 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 1: be an evil regime. I get it. 622 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 2: Can't blame them for that anyway. 623 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: Let's see, Sean says, I work with a Persian woman. 624 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 1: She informed me the two of her relatives were killed 625 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 1: in Iran last weekend by the Iranian government. Apparently those 626 00:32:55,560 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: a holes aren't busy enough yet. And also of the 627 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: incredible fear among the expat community. They don't trust anyone 628 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 1: because the Iotol and his boys are constantly looking to 629 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:17,240 Speaker 1: hurt anybody who resists their regime across the globe. Yeah, 630 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 1: crazy came across the story yesterday of this is horrible. 631 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,800 Speaker 1: But some nurses who had been tortured and raped by 632 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: the Revolutionary Guard because they had helped some of the 633 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 1: protesters who got wounded that night that they all got shot, 634 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: so they tortured the nurses who helped them. I mean, 635 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: that's who we're dealing with. And that's why, like the 636 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: average Iranian is more worried about their own government than 637 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 1: anything accidentally hitting them from the United States and then 638 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 1: anonymous rights that, and I got to summarize this to 639 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 1: keep it vague, But there are people in liberal areas 640 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:04,440 Speaker 1: of the country who look at anybody pro putting down 641 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:09,840 Speaker 1: Iran as being pro Israel and because they hate Israel 642 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 1: and the Jews on the left, free Palestine, Free free Palestine. 643 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,759 Speaker 1: A lot of Iranians afraid to say who they are 644 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 1: and what they think so they're not attacked by the 645 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: progressives among them. I mean it's just insane. Well, let's see, 646 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: we don't have time for that. Got a great note 647 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 1: from Mike about why Apple is so behind in the 648 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 1: AI wars. Really interesting analysis i'd like to know. Gets 649 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,799 Speaker 1: it that next hour. Yeah, sure, we got plenty of 650 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 1: stuff that has nothing to do with the war in Iran. 651 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 1: For you, that's pretty danged interesting and I hope you 652 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,240 Speaker 1: can stigure around for that. If you miss a segment, 653 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 1: you get the Oscar Award winning Armstrong and Getty One 654 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,280 Speaker 1: More Thing podcast Armstrong and Getty