1 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 3 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: Getty and he arms range live from studio c Hey 4 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: Sing Hey, dym dimly lit, room deep with them, the Bowels, 5 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And today we're under 6 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: the tutelage of our general I'm sorry, we're toiling under 7 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: the title of our show. Life expectancy for Ron's leaders 8 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: declines from seventy six years to three days. Or Lincoln 9 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: was right and we're in trouble. Lincoln was right, and 10 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: we're in trouble. The House divided against itself cannot stand. 11 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: Oh boy, heavy man, that's a little too heavy for 12 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's day. Don't you think it's a culture, not 13 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: a costume. It almost snuck up on me as I 14 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: don't have little kids anymore, just like I don't know. 15 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: I came across it this morning. Holy crap. Do I 16 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: even own a green shirt anymore? I don't know if 17 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: I do. So I found one of those marginally green 18 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: kind of army green. Yeah, Michael and Katie didn't believe me, 19 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: But I am accidentally wearing this flame quarter zip. Yeah, 20 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: that's just a coincidence. Was that this morning in the 21 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 1: kitchen it was on the chair. I was like, oh, yeah, 22 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: that's perfect. Grab it like the classic Saint Patrick's day 23 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 1: green color or what is it? Katie? It's the luck 24 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: of the Irish. It is the luck of the Irish. 25 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: So Katie's wearing a green shirt on what's your say? 26 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: Mine says, most likely to start the Shenanigans. That's great, 27 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: that's fantastic. And then Michael, because you hate the Irish 28 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: for some reason, you didn't wear anyhing. Yeah, no Irish. 29 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: I had no idea was Saint Patrick's stane until I 30 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: found out this morning, because you hate the Irish. No, 31 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: it just didn't occur to me. Kids, Okay, should we 32 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: get back on the potato plantations? Yeah whatever. I'm a 33 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 1: little vague on the history or what you catch the 34 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,119 Speaker 1: boat back? You know, right exactly? No dogs or irishmen 35 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: welcome in Michael's world? Right? Wow. Hate. This is what 36 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: we're saying here, folks, is hate anti irishry. All right, 37 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: I'll listen to you too today. Where does this where 38 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: does this rank on our stupidest holidays? I'm using my finger. Oh, 39 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: it's way up there, way up there, way upward at 40 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:44,679 Speaker 1: the top as it is. Is there what percentage? And 41 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: I'm serious now of consideration of Irish culture and history, 42 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: is there in the average Saint Patrick's Day gathering? Zero? 43 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: Zero is the negative? That would be the would be 44 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: the answer? Right? Uh? Yeah? And then I remember, I 45 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: don't know if you know this, Katie, maybe you do, 46 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: maybe this happened when you were a kid. But somewhere 47 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: between my youth, when Saint Patrick's Day was not really 48 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: a thing at home for me or any of my friends, 49 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: and then when my kids were little, another make believe 50 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: person was invented. So because I had to do Santa 51 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: Claus as a parent, and I did the Easter Bunny, 52 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: I didn't know I had to do Leprechauns until I 53 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: had kids and found out everybody else's kids were doing this. 54 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: So in Saint Patrick's Day, I'd have to stay up 55 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: just like Christmas and Easter and do all this different 56 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: stuff and the sprinkle green, sparkly stuff around the toilet. 57 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: But yeah, I swear this is only you. No, no, no, 58 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: nobody else. Every everybody I know did that. No they didn't, 59 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: Yes they did. I know did that pete in your toilet? Yes? 60 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, I have friends that have the little leprechauns and 61 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 2: they put the green feet footprints out and the little 62 00:03:59,080 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 2: pile of golden corn. 63 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: But nobody has like reindeer first scattered around their toilet. 64 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: Look Santa took a crap. Kids that sense forverse, Look 65 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: Santa took a crap. I mean, if you want to 66 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: have the leprecaun like heat cookies or something that's. 67 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 2: Great, you should put some food die in the toilet, 68 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 2: make it look like green pea perfect. 69 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yes, yea, And I took that from a friend. 70 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't even brilliant. Oh my god, the leprechaun. 71 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 1: Oh and then you build a leprechaun trap, you know, 72 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: box with something on a stick. You can enslave him great. Yeah, 73 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: just like the Irish people share cropping for the Brits. 74 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. 75 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: Every year I was hoping would actually catch a leprechaun 76 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: that could make it do my laundry or something. They 77 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: always got away. Wow. White privilege is the ugly face 78 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: of white privilege. But when I found out there was 79 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: a third magical beast that I had to bow down 80 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: to because a parent I was surprised because I didn't 81 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: know anything ab that, because he don't have enough to do, 82 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: right exactly, creating some sort of fantasy theme park for 83 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: seasonal gremlins. Well it looks seasonalins Well, it looked really cool, 84 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: and the kids were always just thrilled. They'd see the 85 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 1: little footpints to the house and then oh my god, 86 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: he peed in the toilet and there's green glitter because 87 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:22,679 Speaker 1: apparently they urinate glitter. I don't know how their kidneys work. Wow, 88 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: no kidding, I don't know the kidneys of a leper 89 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 1: gun works. And uh, and then all of stuff. But 90 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 1: the cleanup was the hardest of any of the holidays. 91 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: It took me like hours to clean up. Oh goodness, 92 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: you don't need that. Plus you used permanent paint, which 93 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: was a problem I didn't take ahead. Yeah, none of 94 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: that happened when I was a kid. 95 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 3: This is all. 96 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 1: It was invented somewhere in between. And I know, yeah, 97 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 1: and maybe it's regional. I have no idea. All I 98 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 1: know is everybody, all the parents in my kids' classes, 99 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: did that. I couldn't have my kids going to school. 100 00:05:55,160 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: My parents don't do anything fun. Okay, schools, maybe teach 101 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: the kids to read. Oh man, I feel like we 102 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 1: got to start the show officially so that we can 103 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: say something at least about the headlines of the day, 104 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: which there are many. It was quite a day in 105 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: the Middle East overnight. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty 106 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: on this it is? How did it already get to 107 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: be Tuesday March seventeenth, traditionally known as Saint Patrick's Day, 108 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty six. We're armstrong and getting and 109 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: we approve of this program. Let's be in then officially, 110 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: according to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at mark. 111 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: He welcomes the leader of Ireland to the White House 112 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: to mark Saint Patrick's Day. In addition to a special 113 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: lunch up on Capitol Hill for Ireland, the President will 114 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: be presented with a bowl of shamrocks. The White House 115 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: going all in on this holiday. We'll see if the 116 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: President brings out his green time. Oh boy, here this 117 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: is a country at war. Yes, I thought that last 118 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: night when I was watching the news, I realized this 119 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: is a big winter storm. But man, it's wintertime and 120 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: there are winters, and we are at war, and no 121 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: telling what direction it's going to go straight. H Hord 122 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: Moves has closed down more or less. It seems like 123 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: the lead story to me over a snowstorm in the winter. 124 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: But what do I know. Maybe they're just judging the 125 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: fact that most people weren't paying attention before it started 126 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: and since it started, or still like eh, I have 127 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: no interest. I don't know. I think there may be 128 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: back to the house divided theme. There may be a 129 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: bit of an uncertainty as to how to report it 130 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: among the mindless lemmings of the media, because as you 131 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: and others have observed, it seems to be entirely negative 132 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: or entirely positive that it's as if the DNC and 133 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: the RNC we're running all of the coverage, And so 134 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: if you're trying to run even close to a serious 135 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: news program and just report on the fact, and you 136 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: are a lemming, it's got to be hard for them 137 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: to know you know, how to report it exactly. I 138 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: was watching MSNBC a little this morning, and their news 139 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: coverage is as if we all have agreed already that 140 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: this is a disaster. It was a terrible idea. It's 141 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: everybody recognizes it from a start, that has been a disaster. 142 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: And a terrible idea, and now what do we do 143 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: about it, which I'm positive is not the case, certainly 144 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: not no, and then not pointing out any of the 145 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: possible drawbacks really on Fox, so you don't have much 146 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: in between. Israel says they killed a couple of top 147 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: leaders for Iran overnight, and Iran continues to attack their 148 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: neighbors and our embassy in Iraq and lots of different places. 149 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: And then to me and I don't know if this 150 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: is significant or not pretty major attack on Afghanistan by 151 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,959 Speaker 1: Pakistan overnight because they are at war. That killed quite 152 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 1: a few people, and I don't know how much Afghanistan's 153 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: ability is to weigh war. They eventually drove us out 154 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: of the country, but packstands a serious country with nuclear 155 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,559 Speaker 1: weapons and everything like that. So that separate war with 156 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: Russia at war with Ukraine, and then all like eleven 157 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:17,079 Speaker 1: different countries involved in a war around Iran seems like 158 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: a lot of war. Yeah. Absolutely, the war inside the 159 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 1: country is the one that's really got my attention. We 160 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,719 Speaker 1: had been saying for years, Well, Jack would often ask 161 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: do you think we can ever get any sort of 162 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: national unity again? And the answer was always, well, maybe 163 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: some sort of cataclysm like a major war or a pandemic. 164 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: While we tried the pandemic no good. In fact, it 165 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,079 Speaker 1: made it worse. And now, apparently partly because of the 166 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: way information flows in the modern world, and probably entirely 167 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:50,839 Speaker 1: for that reason, people are so siloed they just again 168 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:55,439 Speaker 1: get nothing but spin for their news, and so the 169 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: perceptions of the world are so wildly different. I don't 170 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: know how we come together. That's always worth three. It's 171 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: not the fault of people necessarily, unless you take the 172 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,719 Speaker 1: time to really reach out there to different sources for 173 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:12,959 Speaker 1: news to try to figure out what's going on, like 174 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: it's a homework assignment. If you just kind of follow 175 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: the news that through the algorithm that gets sent to you, 176 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: you know you're going to believe what you're being fed. 177 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: And how would you believe anything else? Why would you? Right? 178 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: And you can't guarantee people are going to take the 179 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: time to seek out all kinds of alternate sources on 180 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,719 Speaker 1: every story to see what actually happened. I don't know 181 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:38,719 Speaker 1: that's going to work out now. I'm reminded in a 182 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: way of certain things I believed going into college many 183 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: many years ago, and I believe them firmly because I'd 184 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: heard them repeated many, many times and really heard no dissent. 185 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,959 Speaker 1: And then I ran into a couple of professors who 186 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:56,719 Speaker 1: were well, for one thing, constitutional conservatives, who said, no, 187 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: that's actually not true. This is and here's why. And 188 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: it took honestly five minutes to completely change my mind 189 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: because it was so clearly true. But if you'd ever 190 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: challenged those ideas, how are you going to change them? 191 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 1: We're in an odd spot. Yeah, And so there's a 192 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: poll that came out yesterday Americans views toward Israel while 193 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 1: has Israel taken a hit in terms of its support 194 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,079 Speaker 1: in the United States across every age group over the 195 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,439 Speaker 1: last few years, and that's going to be a long 196 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: term problem for them and for our ability to support them, 197 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: I think. So we got a lot of that stuff, 198 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: We got all kinds of things to talk about, and 199 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: Katie's headlines on the way, I hope you can stay here. 200 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:44,079 Speaker 1: So looking up at the TV, and you got some 201 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: women up there doing that Irish dancing thing, getting ready 202 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 1: to do that at some parade or something. Remember when 203 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: Irish dancing was all the rage. That was fun for 204 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: a couple of years Michael Flatley. He was the Lord 205 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: of the Lord of the Dance, the Riverdance. Yes, the Lord. 206 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: That was a big deal for a while. For some reason, 207 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,079 Speaker 1: it just caught on and then I went away. Ye, well, 208 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: as happened. What's hot now? Spanish dancing? It's Lamenco. Nobody knows. 209 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's 210 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: lead's story with Katie Green, Katie Oh, the lead on 211 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: all the alphabet networks. 212 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 2: ABC Israel says Iran security chief killed in overnight attack. 213 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 2: NBC The Iran War throws Trump's China trip into doubt. 214 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: That Beijing doesn't seem to mind. 215 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 2: Waiting, and CNN US race to counter Iranian drones echoes 216 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 2: response to roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. 217 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: That's all I ran. More right, that's fine. Yeah, Yeah. 218 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 2: New York Post cops bust anti Semitic thugs who attacked 219 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 2: Jewish diners at Posh San Jose restaurant. 220 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,079 Speaker 1: Yes, we will name names and give you all the 221 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: details coming up. They found the three young brutal would 222 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: be terrorists. They turned themselves in. Oh really, I don't 223 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: know that story. I want to hear it from the. 224 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 2: Guardian captain of Iranian woman's football team leaves Australia after 225 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 2: initially accepting offer of asylum. 226 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: Quote. Family members are missing. How about that? So most 227 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: of the Iranian soccer women that originally we're going to 228 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: stay in Australia have decided to go back because their 229 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: families have disappeared. Wow, that is quite the story that 230 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: you give. Virtually all of them. They are just one 231 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: or two left. I thank you, you know, I heard 232 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: somebody point this out. How was there nobody at the 233 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: oscars that said anything about that or the plight of 234 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: Iranian women at all? How would seem to be siding 235 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: with Trump so they can't do it? We have audio 236 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: of young women saying, oh, a woman is much better 237 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: off in ran than in America. That's how crazy we've gotten. Wow. 238 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 2: From the New York Times, Trump says he will have 239 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,080 Speaker 2: the honor of taking cub But. 240 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: Trump has been saying some odd things lately. I think 241 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: the old man a loss of filter syndrome is kicking in, 242 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 1: and he's never had much of a filter at a 243 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: lot of my favorite thinkers seem to think that's clearly 244 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: on his list. It was Venezuela, Iran Cuba, but Iran 245 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: could be keeping him busy for quite a while. From 246 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. 247 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 2: America now has more spas and gyms than stores selling 248 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 2: actual stuff. 249 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: First time ever, that makes sense. I don't know how 250 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: working services than goods. I was talking about something about 251 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: this the other day. Something I ordered and got there, 252 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: got it in like three hours. I don't know how 253 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: brick and mortars survive at all, and I feel bad 254 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: about that. I have friends who own brick and mortars. 255 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: But this is so easy to order stuff and get 256 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: it fast, and often it's cheaper. I thought this was interesting. 257 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 2: From the Washington Post, a Times of Israel reporter says 258 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 2: online gamblers pressured him to change his story about an 259 00:14:58,640 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 2: Iranian missile. 260 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: Strike so they could win a payout. Oh boy, And 261 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: I have an article I've been sitting on for a 262 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 1: few days about how intelligence services are looking at those 263 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: online betting platforms and seeing, for instance, oh hey, there 264 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: was just a big bet that the US would attack 265 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: something or whatever. I'll bet an insider knows it. So 266 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: they're minding them for intelligence. That's interest because the people 267 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: are ready to make money on their knowledge. 268 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 2: From the New York Post, I used to be a 269 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 2: happy drunk. O zempic made me a sad one and 270 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 2: the hangovers are horrendous. 271 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: Oh, change your relationship with alcohol. I'll be darned. I've 272 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: heard this from a couple of friends who. 273 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 4: Are on it. 274 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: Know what, the hangovers the worse. 275 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 2: The hangovers are worse, and it has completely killed their 276 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 2: desire to even have a drink like with dinner. 277 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: Which a lot of people think is a positive right. 278 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: You know, it depends how you look at it. 279 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 2: Study fines your brain believes the crowd. Why reading bad 280 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,119 Speaker 2: reviews can make painful experiences feel. 281 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: Even worse fascinating and not surprising. Yeah, the information you 282 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: get if you hear a bad review of something, it's 283 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: really hard to not have that have an effect on 284 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: things or positive either way. 285 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 2: And finally, the Babylon Bee, Bill Clinton selflessly volunteers to 286 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 2: help short staffed TSA. 287 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: With pat downs. Ess what come? I was really reaching? 288 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: It was really reaching. Wow, there are about fifty eight 289 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: thousand plus TSA people, fifty thousand plus. A couple hundred 290 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: quit the other day, so that's a big story. But 291 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: ten percent stayed home on Sunday. That's a big number. 292 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 4: I know. 293 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: This is tried and true to the point of being 294 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: worn out. But can you imagine if the Republicans were 295 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: running a partial shut down refusing to fund the TSA 296 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: and the they are department. According to every news channel 297 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: I watched today, goodness sakes. So it's just depends on 298 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: your point of view. We got so much more news 299 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: of the day to get to and try to explain. 300 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: I hope you can stay here. Are strong and getty. 301 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 4: Like the United States and Israel, we want to see 302 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 4: an end to Iran's nuclear and missile programs, but we 303 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 4: will not take part in this war. We have said 304 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 4: this from day one. That remains the position of the 305 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 4: federal government. This also means that as long as the 306 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 4: war continues, we will not participate in ensuring freedom of 307 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 4: navigation in the straight of hor moves by military means. 308 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,680 Speaker 1: We will not be drawn into the wider war. We 309 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: cannot allow the war in the Gulf to turn into 310 00:17:54,359 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 1: a windfall for Putin. Well, there's Germany and Great Britain 311 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: saying we're not in on helping at all with this war. 312 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:12,919 Speaker 1: She's a heck of a thing. Obviously, made no effort 313 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 1: to lay any groundwork where they would be on our side. 314 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 1: He's antagonized antagonized people over a lot of ridiculous things 315 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 1: over the last however, many months he's been president. As 316 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal editorial board put it, good thing 317 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: the President hasn't antagonized allies with tariffs. There are threats 318 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: to invade Greenland. This is a reminder that treating allies 319 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 1: well as wise, so they are more likely to help 320 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:41,399 Speaker 1: when you really need them. Well, do you think that 321 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: has anything to do with it? 322 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 4: You do. 323 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 1: It might not be the deciding factor, but it's absolutely 324 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: a factor. Now, if you're talking about ker I'd rather 325 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: have a brick in a rope Starmer. That's a different 326 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 1: case than Germany. Okay, the Labor Party and is just 327 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: so weak. Let's hear a little of Trump's response to 328 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: these European allies using my finger quotes that aren't going 329 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: to help us and our in. 330 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 5: President Trump is blasting some key US allies for refusing 331 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 5: to answer his new call for help in reopening the 332 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 5: critical Strait of hor moves. The President claimed the UK 333 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 5: was unwilling to help in the beginning. President Trump said 334 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,639 Speaker 5: today the UK is now offering aircraft carriers, but that 335 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 5: he told them it's too late. 336 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 3: He said, we're going to send over two aircraft carriers. 337 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 3: I said, I don't want them anymore. I don't want 338 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 3: them after we win. I want them before week. So 339 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 3: I don't need your aircraft carriers after we've already won. 340 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 5: The British Prime Minister says the concern is a wider 341 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 5: war and Germany is refusing to send help for the 342 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:46,679 Speaker 5: Strait of Horn moves, saying quote, it's. 343 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 3: Not our war. 344 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, And we can play some clips of Trump later, 345 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: because he said a lot of things yesterday, like we 346 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: don't need anybody. We don't need anybody. We're the most 347 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 1: powerful military in the world. We don't need you. I 348 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: always thought this would happen. We're there for you for 349 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: all these That's why I hate NATO. We're here for 350 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 1: you all these years. We got troops in your country, 351 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: and now we need you and you won't help. We 352 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: don't need you anyway, so screw you. He didn't say 353 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: to screw you apart, but that was the tone. On 354 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: the same day, he said, numerous countries have told me 355 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 1: they're on their way. We're going to have an international 356 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 1: coalition of free up the Straits of Her Moves that 357 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: ended up, I guess being what I said yesterday. It 358 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: was the salesman presumptive clothes, which sometimes works. It doesn't 359 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 1: work on me. I hate the presumptive clothes. But he 360 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 1: was hoping that these countries think, well, he's already said 361 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 1: we were, so I guess we better. You know, I'm 362 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: not made for these times, Jack, because this discussion, it's 363 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: a great one, interesting one, but it deserves full sentences, 364 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: paragraphs of discussion and not shouting slogans back and forth. 365 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: I mean, for instance, I'll say this if we were 366 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: doing a talk show in Germany. First of all, we'd 367 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 1: be speaking in German. Secondly, we'd be saying, so, you 368 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 1: hit us with like these insane tariffs, jerk us back 369 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: and forth, insult us, and then start a war without 370 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: even informing us, And now you're a little bogged down 371 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: the strait of horm moves. And if we don't come 372 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: run and we're the bad guys. What's the matter with 373 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 1: this guy? Okay, we would be saying that. On the 374 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 1: other hand, it's mighty convenient because now Europe has an 375 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: excuse to do what they always do, which is very 376 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: very little in protecting their own economic and security interests, 377 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: because the straits of horror moves are incredibly important for everyone, 378 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,880 Speaker 1: more for them than for us. Correct, we don't need 379 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: anybody's help to have enough oil. We could produce all 380 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: the oil we need in our own country if we 381 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: wanted to. They can't at all. Uh yeah, it is 382 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: once again a very convenient situation where they can feel 383 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: like because the United States is, as Trump said, the 384 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: most powerful mili the world, we will get that straight 385 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: back open one way or the other, and they will 386 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: benefit from it without having to do anything, which is 387 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 1: the way it often works for your European countries. If 388 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: I was a German politician, and keep in mind their 389 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:17,400 Speaker 1: leaders are politicians, right, So I'm a German politician, I'm thinking, 390 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: all right, what are a couple of different scenarios. And 391 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 1: one we go in there and we help them out, 392 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: and we get a handful of our guys killed, and 393 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: you know, we're only kind of sort of helping because 394 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 1: the US has such an enormous and mighty military, including 395 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: the Navy. Or we sit back, we scribble a little bit, 396 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 1: we offer you a moral support or something like that. 397 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: The strait gets opened up again. I guess the prices 398 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: drop again, We're fine. That looks pretty attractive to me 399 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: as a cowardly German politician. Friends, I wish I knew 400 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: how much this stuff actually mattered to the politicians and 401 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: to the public. Did it land with the public when 402 00:22:56,119 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: Trump made various comments about our NATO allies didn't help 403 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: us at all in Afghanistan and Iraq when they lost 404 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: you know, significant numbers of soldiers and help against in 405 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: those wars. Yeah, oh, what's and what's the deal with 406 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 1: the British aircraft carriers? Now He's like, no, we don't 407 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: want them now, but we've got the whole straits of her. 408 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 1: Most things still going on. I don't know. More firepower 409 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: looks helpful from where I send. Maybe we had to 410 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: talk to Mike Lyons or somebody. It sounds like the 411 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: sort of childish reaction I might have if I was 412 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: really angry and wish I hadn't said it. Yeah, but 413 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: heard it this because it doesn't actually make sense. Yeah, 414 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 1: that's what it looks like to me. I don't know. Dang, yeah, 415 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: that is that is something. Though, this is a this 416 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: is a moment. Germany is a big deal. They're the 417 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: most they're the richest, most powerful, country in the EU 418 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: by quite a bit, and them saying this is your war. Yeah, 419 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 1: we're not helping with this at all. Okay, when Iran 420 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: has been an evil presence on the planet now going 421 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 1: on a half century, disrupting trade, constantly threatening to close 422 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: the Straits of Ormus, exporting terrorism, and he pressing its 423 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: own slaughtering its own people in the streets. If they 424 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: were rats, people would say, isn't there a can't you 425 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: be better in your treatment of rats? I mean unspeakable evil, 426 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,200 Speaker 1: And to get rid of them or reduce them to 427 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: a tenth of their power is beyond question, a great 428 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: and good thing to do. There's not even a debate. 429 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: How it's being implemented is a little rocky at times, 430 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: but let's not lose sight of the main principle here, which, 431 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: of course our lefty media is pretending isn't true. And 432 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: they're actually getting beat up pretty good for it now, 433 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: at least some of them are, And I'm glad to 434 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 1: see that because the coverage has been ridiculous from Wall 435 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: Street journal. Trump is pressuring al to help reopen the 436 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: Strait of hor move and as we've just been talking 437 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: about so far, most of them aren't biting. Germany has 438 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,120 Speaker 1: rejected taking part, while Japan and Australia have indicated they're 439 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: unlikely to send vessels to help Britain. France said they 440 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 1: are assessing possible action, but haven't committed to doing anything 441 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: before fighting halts all our close allies. Yeah, this is 442 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: not our war. We did not start it, as you 443 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: just heard. Let me scroll up for some good news. 444 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 1: We need some good news. This is from the Washington 445 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: Post kind of on the war. Overall, Iran's remaining decision 446 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 1: makers are confused, paranoid, and having difficulty communicating with one another, 447 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 1: I'll bet, said one Western security source, speaking on the 448 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 1: condition of anonymity to discuss intelligent assessments. I can't even 449 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: imagine how they're functioning in Iran. I think paranoid's the 450 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 1: wrong word because their fears are one hundred percent valid, 451 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 1: So fearful, I think is better word. Yeah, you're not 452 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: paranoid when you got the world's mightiest military blasting the 453 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: hell out of you every single day, chopping bombs on 454 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 1: your head. Yeah. The head guy in Iran what everybody thinks, 455 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: not weird Beer Junior. But the other head guy in 456 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: Iran whose name I have around here somewhere just got 457 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 1: snuffed overnight, or so it would seem the top the 458 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 1: Iranian security official Ali Larijani. As I've said several times, 459 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: I think the conversation of we have no idea is 460 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: they've still haven't explained why we're doing this. Yes they have. 461 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 1: I think it's obvious why we're doing it. I don't 462 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 1: understand that narrative. On the other hand, the question of 463 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: how is this going to end? How is this going 464 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: to end? What is going to what is the ending 465 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: going to be? There are a handful of different possibility. 466 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: What do you think the most likely scenario of how 467 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: this ends? Oh goodness wow. With the remnants of the 468 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: regime so weakened, they cut a deal that is acceptable 469 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 1: Venezuela style, and then they opened but they let the 470 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: straight of horor moves open back up again, and we 471 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: declared victory and get out. Well some of that. I 472 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 1: think we maintain a significant presence in the area, so 473 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: that if they renag on the deal, we hammer them, 474 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: and that the agreement is we're going to stop killing 475 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: the hell outIo for now. You better behave we're watching. 476 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: And that doesn't mean Israel would stop no, not necessarily. 477 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 1: They might think, hey, we got free reign to drop 478 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 1: any bomb any we want, anywhere we want in our 479 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 1: own and they can't stop us, So let's just keep going. 480 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: Although for what purpose? I mean, if they've got the 481 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: regime so reduced that it hardly exists anymore. I don't know. 482 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: That's where Because I got a no military background, I 483 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: don't know anything about this. We've hit ten thousand targets 484 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: or something like that. Are there endless targets? Do you 485 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,399 Speaker 1: run out of things to hit? I don't know a 486 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: lot of it's hidden, right, So I also keep hearing 487 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: about how AI is factoring into a lot of what 488 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 1: we're doing. I wish I knew more about that. Is 489 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: that like significant AI? Or is it just I mean, 490 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: because really, I mean if I use a calculator to 491 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: come up with a number, that's kind of using AI. 492 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: So is it significant AI or is it just kind 493 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: of basic AI? I don't really know, right right, like 494 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 1: crazy advanced? Or is it? Hey, chat GPT, what are 495 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: the thirtieth through fiftieth sized cities in Iran? Uh huh? 496 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 1: Now we'll bomb those right now? I don't know. But 497 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 1: as you're talking about a divided, a house divided against 498 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: itself must fall. The media coverage presenting this war as 499 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,879 Speaker 1: if it's clearly a disaster has been from the get go. 500 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: I wonder where that's going to land. With the poll numbers, 501 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 1: the last poll numbers we had to end last week, 502 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: I guess they'd gone up. People's support for the war 503 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: had gone up since it started, which was a little 504 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: little bit of a surprise to me. I don't know 505 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: how long that will last. If you've got relentless coverage 506 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: of how this is going badly and it's clearly a disaster, 507 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,479 Speaker 1: which it's not, to my mind, going badly, and it's 508 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: absolutetely not clearly a disaster. The straight uh hoorm moose 509 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: thing is a problem. But we are only two weeks 510 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 1: into this thing. In a couple of days. It's a 511 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: very short period of time for a war to accomplish 512 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: something of great historical importance. Yes, final note, fans of Irony, 513 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: the senior Iranian leader I just mentioned to Ali Lara 514 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: Johnny the security chief who have played a big factor 515 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: in machine gunning tens of thousands of his countrymen who 516 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: hate him and are trying to escape their God forsaken country. 517 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 1: He had warned President Trump last week to quote, watch 518 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: out for yourself lest you be eliminated. He's the guy 519 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 1: who said that, hey, you got a bomb dropped on 520 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: his head overnight, So goodbye. Now he's in his beard 521 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: is in heaven along with the rest of him, or 522 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: wherever he well, I doubt it's heaven. How about that 523 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: story about the soccer team. Those players are going back 524 00:29:54,840 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: because their families have been abducted. That what happened, Well, 525 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: in a couple instances, their families have disappeared and ran 526 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: got word to them. So the soccer players have decided 527 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: to having accepted asylum there go back, Yeah, to try 528 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: to save their families. And the report I was reading 529 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 1: last night from an Iranian journalist said, these people, these 530 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 1: women are going to be tortured and murdered. That is 531 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: what's going to happen to them when they get back. 532 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: That's a terrible story. Yeah, they've been offered amnesty for 533 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: their sins, but there are so many examples in Iran 534 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: history where that offer is made and oh you end 535 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: up at the end of a crane. That's a tough call, man, 536 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 1: That has to be a tough one. Because your family 537 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 1: might be thinking, no, stay there. This place sucks. It's 538 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: always sucked. It's going to suck when you get back. 539 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 1: You stay there and live your life. And I mean 540 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: that's a tough one as a parent. I don't know. 541 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 1: And why's it doesn't get more sympathy with like the 542 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: college campus is the you know, the Hollywood Oscar crowd 543 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: or whatever. It seems like such a sympathetic story. That's 544 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: how twisted they are over Trump. Yeah. Man, that's a 545 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 1: bad one. But I'll bet we're gonna hear. I bet 546 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: we're gonna hear about that when they get back, or 547 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 1: they'll just disappear and never be heard from again. We've 548 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: got a mail bag on the way, stay tuned. Good 549 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: music on our broadcast. It's all Irish bands because of 550 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's day. So you're honoring everything that Saint Patrick 551 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 1: did for our country in the founding signer of the 552 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence exactly and won the Battle of Bunker Hill, 553 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 1: Patruck Ole Patrickmann and mail bag, I'm sorry, freedom loving 554 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: Quote of the day. Continuing our series on war, A 555 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: couple of contrasting thoughts here. First of all, John Randolph, 556 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: the surest way to prevent war is not to fear it, 557 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 1: very similar to George Washington saying the best way to 558 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: prevent wars to prepare for it. Then you got Percy 559 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: biciuses is Shelley the great poet man has no right 560 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he 561 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: does so in uniform. He only adds the infamy of 562 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: servitude to the crime of murder. And I have a 563 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 1: collection of those various poets and thinkers of beautiful thoughts 564 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: about how war is unjust and terrible, and it is 565 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 1: absolutely terrible. The problem is, Percy, what if the guy 566 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 1: next door decides to come and kill you, what are 567 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 1: you gonna do? Write him some nice poetry. No, you 568 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 1: gotta kill him back. That's why I value our poets 569 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: and dreamers, but they can't be in charge. Mail bag, 570 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 1: drop us note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com, 571 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: JT and Livermore. I seriously don't get what's going on here, 572 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: he says. I rejected david ignacious premise that Iran has 573 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: survived America's artist punch. How can an educated man say 574 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 1: Aaron has survived anything, let alone our hardest punch. First off, 575 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: I don't know how to define exactly what the hardest 576 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: punch would be, but I know enough that it would 577 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 1: include completely wiping out around single most important economic engine oil. 578 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: Trump hasn't touched the oil producing segments of the economy, 579 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 1: but he can easily wipe out carg islands, oil process 580 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 1: and capability, along with every tanker, port, pipelines, and even 581 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: the fields themselves. He hasn't done that, But even that 582 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: wouldn't be America's hardest punch because it leaves out all 583 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: the other infrastructure elements communications, power, water, roads, bridges that 584 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: could be damaged, but it have been largely left alone. 585 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 1: A real reporter would have pointed this out from the beginning. 586 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: A real report would have included the fact that the 587 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 1: leadership in Iran seems oblivious to the fact that Trump 588 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 1: hasn't even started playing hardball yet, let alone has he 589 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: delivered his hardest punch. God, you can't hate the media enough. 590 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: I think it's the hardest punch that we're going to 591 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: be willing to throw because we don't want to destroy 592 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: the In theory, we'd like the people to rise up 593 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: and take over the country and still have, you know, 594 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 1: to produce and bridges and all kinds of infrastructure. We 595 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: destroy all that, then we might be in a you 596 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: broke it, you own it situation. I don't know if 597 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:15,239 Speaker 1: we can destroy their infrastructure and then say bye, yeah, 598 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 1: well we could, but it certainly wouldn't earn us many friends. 599 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,840 Speaker 1: And the point is not to have enemies in that 600 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: part of the world, which actually is going in a 601 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,279 Speaker 1: great direction. We're down to a minute. Good lord, all right, 602 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 1: we'll stick with this topic. 'ron from Chicago. Guys, you 603 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:33,960 Speaker 1: brought this up on the show today. Why Trump's doing 604 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,200 Speaker 1: what he's doing, Read the art of the deal. This 605 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: has been his modus operandi for fifty years. I was 606 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 1: actually going to say, when we were talking about the 607 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: Allies cooperation or lack thereof, that, he's probably expecting Germany 608 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,799 Speaker 1: to say, oh, right, you need our help. We need 609 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 1: you to knock down the tariffs and buy more Mercedes Benzes, 610 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 1: and Trump would go, Okay, that's fine. He's not about friends, 611 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:03,439 Speaker 1: He's about transactions, and so yeah, maybe you're right. Ron 612 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 1: and Bremmer made the point last night that the Supreme 613 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: Court taking away Trump's tariff power hurt him a lot, 614 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,359 Speaker 1: because you know that that's what he would have done 615 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,440 Speaker 1: with for instance, Germany and Great Britain yesterday when they 616 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,920 Speaker 1: were talking about how they want help us with the war. 617 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,239 Speaker 1: He would have slapped him with tariffs over that. You 618 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 1: know he would have, But he doesn't have that power anymore. 619 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:23,839 Speaker 1: We got a lot more to go. If you missed 620 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 1: a second, Mae, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on 621 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,600 Speaker 1: demand Armstrong and Getty