WEBVTT - Seasonal Gremlins 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:14.440 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:19.160 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:37.440 Getty and he arms range live from studio c Hey 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.320 Sing Hey, dym dimly lit, room deep with them, the Bowels, 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.000 the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And today we're under 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.600 the tutelage of our general I'm sorry, we're toiling under 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.960 the title of our show. Life expectancy for Ron's leaders 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:55.440 declines from seventy six years to three days. Or Lincoln 0:00:55.560 --> 0:01:00.200 was right and we're in trouble. Lincoln was right, and 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:05.440 we're in trouble. The House divided against itself cannot stand. 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.600 Oh boy, heavy man, that's a little too heavy for 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.280 Saint Patrick's day. Don't you think it's a culture, not 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.720 a costume. It almost snuck up on me as I 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.120 don't have little kids anymore, just like I don't know. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.520 I came across it this morning. Holy crap. Do I 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.240 even own a green shirt anymore? I don't know if 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.760 I do. So I found one of those marginally green 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.920 kind of army green. Yeah, Michael and Katie didn't believe me, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:31.360 But I am accidentally wearing this flame quarter zip. Yeah, 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.600 that's just a coincidence. Was that this morning in the 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.399 kitchen it was on the chair. I was like, oh, yeah, 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:40.160 that's perfect. Grab it like the classic Saint Patrick's day 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:44.320 green color or what is it? Katie? It's the luck 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.600 of the Irish. It is the luck of the Irish. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:48.560 So Katie's wearing a green shirt on what's your say? 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:54.840 Mine says, most likely to start the Shenanigans. That's great, 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.320 that's fantastic. And then Michael, because you hate the Irish 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.160 for some reason, you didn't wear anyhing. Yeah, no Irish. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.480 I had no idea was Saint Patrick's stane until I 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.520 found out this morning, because you hate the Irish. No, 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:11.560 it just didn't occur to me. Kids, Okay, should we 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.400 get back on the potato plantations? Yeah whatever. I'm a 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.079 little vague on the history or what you catch the 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.119 boat back? You know, right exactly? No dogs or irishmen 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:25.280 welcome in Michael's world? Right? Wow. Hate. This is what 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:30.080 we're saying here, folks, is hate anti irishry. All right, 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.760 I'll listen to you too today. Where does this where 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.240 does this rank on our stupidest holidays? I'm using my finger. Oh, 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.600 it's way up there, way up there, way upward at 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:44.679 the top as it is. Is there what percentage? And 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:49.600 I'm serious now of consideration of Irish culture and history, 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.880 is there in the average Saint Patrick's Day gathering? Zero? 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.480 Zero is the negative? That would be the would be 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.919 the answer? Right? Uh? Yeah? And then I remember, I 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:01.440 don't know if you know this, Katie, maybe you do, 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.360 maybe this happened when you were a kid. But somewhere 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.280 between my youth, when Saint Patrick's Day was not really 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.320 a thing at home for me or any of my friends, 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:14.360 and then when my kids were little, another make believe 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:20.200 person was invented. So because I had to do Santa 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.320 Claus as a parent, and I did the Easter Bunny, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.000 I didn't know I had to do Leprechauns until I 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.400 had kids and found out everybody else's kids were doing this. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.560 So in Saint Patrick's Day, I'd have to stay up 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.720 just like Christmas and Easter and do all this different 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:38.040 stuff and the sprinkle green, sparkly stuff around the toilet. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.760 But yeah, I swear this is only you. No, no, no, 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:47.080 nobody else. Every everybody I know did that. No they didn't, 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.920 Yes they did. I know did that pete in your toilet? Yes? 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.880 Yeah, I have friends that have the little leprechauns and 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.640 they put the green feet footprints out and the little 0:03:59.080 --> 0:03:59.960 pile of golden corn. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:05.520 But nobody has like reindeer first scattered around their toilet. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.920 Look Santa took a crap. Kids that sense forverse, Look 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.880 Santa took a crap. I mean, if you want to 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.800 have the leprecaun like heat cookies or something that's. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.280 Great, you should put some food die in the toilet, 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.080 make it look like green pea perfect. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.520 Yeah. Yes, yea, And I took that from a friend. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.680 I didn't. I didn't even brilliant. Oh my god, the leprechaun. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.720 Oh and then you build a leprechaun trap, you know, 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.440 box with something on a stick. You can enslave him great. Yeah, 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:39.080 just like the Irish people share cropping for the Brits. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:39.360 Yeah. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.880 Every year I was hoping would actually catch a leprechaun 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.120 that could make it do my laundry or something. They 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:51.640 always got away. Wow. White privilege is the ugly face 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.520 of white privilege. But when I found out there was 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.560 a third magical beast that I had to bow down 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.400 to because a parent I was surprised because I didn't 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.000 know anything ab that, because he don't have enough to do, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:06.440 right exactly, creating some sort of fantasy theme park for 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:11.880 seasonal gremlins. Well it looks seasonalins Well, it looked really cool, 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.200 and the kids were always just thrilled. They'd see the 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.039 little footpints to the house and then oh my god, 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.680 he peed in the toilet and there's green glitter because 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.679 apparently they urinate glitter. I don't know how their kidneys work. Wow, 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.560 no kidding, I don't know the kidneys of a leper 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.160 gun works. And uh, and then all of stuff. But 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.480 the cleanup was the hardest of any of the holidays. 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.480 It took me like hours to clean up. Oh goodness, 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.960 you don't need that. Plus you used permanent paint, which 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.840 was a problem I didn't take ahead. Yeah, none of 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:44.200 that happened when I was a kid. 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:44.720 This is all. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.720 It was invented somewhere in between. And I know, yeah, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.600 and maybe it's regional. I have no idea. All I 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.160 know is everybody, all the parents in my kids' classes, 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.880 did that. I couldn't have my kids going to school. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:06:00.560 My parents don't do anything fun. Okay, schools, maybe teach 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:06.120 the kids to read. Oh man, I feel like we 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:07.840 got to start the show officially so that we can 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.800 say something at least about the headlines of the day, 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.520 which there are many. It was quite a day in 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.960 the Middle East overnight. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:17.480 on this it is? How did it already get to 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:21.760 be Tuesday March seventeenth, traditionally known as Saint Patrick's Day, 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.560 the year twenty twenty six. We're armstrong and getting and 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.839 we approve of this program. Let's be in then officially, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.120 according to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at mark. 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.600 He welcomes the leader of Ireland to the White House 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.560 to mark Saint Patrick's Day. In addition to a special 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.080 lunch up on Capitol Hill for Ireland, the President will 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.839 be presented with a bowl of shamrocks. The White House 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.920 going all in on this holiday. We'll see if the 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:49.000 President brings out his green time. Oh boy, here this 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.640 is a country at war. Yes, I thought that last 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.640 night when I was watching the news, I realized this 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.320 is a big winter storm. But man, it's wintertime and 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:04.760 there are winters, and we are at war, and no 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.240 telling what direction it's going to go straight. H Hord 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.080 Moves has closed down more or less. It seems like 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.640 the lead story to me over a snowstorm in the winter. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.040 But what do I know. Maybe they're just judging the 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.760 fact that most people weren't paying attention before it started 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:20.800 and since it started, or still like eh, I have 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.480 no interest. I don't know. I think there may be 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.640 back to the house divided theme. There may be a 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.160 bit of an uncertainty as to how to report it 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.880 among the mindless lemmings of the media, because as you 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.520 and others have observed, it seems to be entirely negative 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.680 or entirely positive that it's as if the DNC and 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.000 the RNC we're running all of the coverage, And so 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.520 if you're trying to run even close to a serious 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.240 news program and just report on the fact, and you 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.520 are a lemming, it's got to be hard for them 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.920 to know you know, how to report it exactly. I 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.640 was watching MSNBC a little this morning, and their news 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.960 coverage is as if we all have agreed already that 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:10.000 this is a disaster. It was a terrible idea. It's 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:15.200 everybody recognizes it from a start, that has been a disaster. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:16.800 And a terrible idea, and now what do we do 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:21.000 about it, which I'm positive is not the case, certainly 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.680 not no, and then not pointing out any of the 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.640 possible drawbacks really on Fox, so you don't have much 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:33.400 in between. Israel says they killed a couple of top 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:39.800 leaders for Iran overnight, and Iran continues to attack their 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.760 neighbors and our embassy in Iraq and lots of different places. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.120 And then to me and I don't know if this 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:51.320 is significant or not pretty major attack on Afghanistan by 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.959 Pakistan overnight because they are at war. That killed quite 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:59.080 a few people, and I don't know how much Afghanistan's 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.400 ability is to weigh war. They eventually drove us out 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:07.000 of the country, but packstands a serious country with nuclear 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.559 weapons and everything like that. So that separate war with 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.160 Russia at war with Ukraine, and then all like eleven 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.079 different countries involved in a war around Iran seems like 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.120 a lot of war. Yeah. Absolutely, the war inside the 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.679 country is the one that's really got my attention. We 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.719 had been saying for years, Well, Jack would often ask 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:28.360 do you think we can ever get any sort of 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:32.440 national unity again? And the answer was always, well, maybe 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.120 some sort of cataclysm like a major war or a pandemic. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.880 While we tried the pandemic no good. In fact, it 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.079 made it worse. And now, apparently partly because of the 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.520 way information flows in the modern world, and probably entirely 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:50.839 for that reason, people are so siloed they just again 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:55.439 get nothing but spin for their news, and so the 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.000 perceptions of the world are so wildly different. I don't 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.800 know how we come together. That's always worth three. It's 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:06.920 not the fault of people necessarily, unless you take the 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.719 time to really reach out there to different sources for 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.959 news to try to figure out what's going on, like 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.640 it's a homework assignment. If you just kind of follow 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.800 the news that through the algorithm that gets sent to you, 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.560 you know you're going to believe what you're being fed. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.880 And how would you believe anything else? Why would you? Right? 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.240 And you can't guarantee people are going to take the 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.640 time to seek out all kinds of alternate sources on 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.719 every story to see what actually happened. I don't know 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.719 that's going to work out now. I'm reminded in a 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.800 way of certain things I believed going into college many 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.160 many years ago, and I believe them firmly because I'd 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.160 heard them repeated many, many times and really heard no dissent. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.959 And then I ran into a couple of professors who 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:56.719 were well, for one thing, constitutional conservatives, who said, no, 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.480 that's actually not true. This is and here's why. And 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.880 it took honestly five minutes to completely change my mind 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:08.200 because it was so clearly true. But if you'd ever 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.280 challenged those ideas, how are you going to change them? 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.439 We're in an odd spot. Yeah, And so there's a 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.640 poll that came out yesterday Americans views toward Israel while 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.080 has Israel taken a hit in terms of its support 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.079 in the United States across every age group over the 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.439 last few years, and that's going to be a long 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.760 term problem for them and for our ability to support them, 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.400 I think. So we got a lot of that stuff, 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.000 We got all kinds of things to talk about, and 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:37.800 Katie's headlines on the way, I hope you can stay here. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.079 So looking up at the TV, and you got some 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.120 women up there doing that Irish dancing thing, getting ready 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:48.960 to do that at some parade or something. Remember when 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.280 Irish dancing was all the rage. That was fun for 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.520 a couple of years Michael Flatley. He was the Lord 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:58.360 of the Lord of the Dance, the Riverdance. Yes, the Lord. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.360 That was a big deal for a while. For some reason, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.079 it just caught on and then I went away. Ye, well, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:07.880 as happened. What's hot now? Spanish dancing? It's Lamenco. Nobody knows. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.199 I don't know. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.880 lead's story with Katie Green, Katie Oh, the lead on 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:14.040 all the alphabet networks. 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:18.800 ABC Israel says Iran security chief killed in overnight attack. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:23.480 NBC The Iran War throws Trump's China trip into doubt. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.280 That Beijing doesn't seem to mind. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:29.440 Waiting, and CNN US race to counter Iranian drones echoes 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.360 response to roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.640 That's all I ran. More right, that's fine. Yeah, Yeah. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:44.800 New York Post cops bust anti Semitic thugs who attacked 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.800 Jewish diners at Posh San Jose restaurant. 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.079 Yes, we will name names and give you all the 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:55.280 details coming up. They found the three young brutal would 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.200 be terrorists. They turned themselves in. Oh really, I don't 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.520 know that story. I want to hear it from the. 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:05.720 Guardian captain of Iranian woman's football team leaves Australia after 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.800 initially accepting offer of asylum. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:13.000 Quote. Family members are missing. How about that? So most 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.480 of the Iranian soccer women that originally we're going to 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.840 stay in Australia have decided to go back because their 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:24.520 families have disappeared. Wow, that is quite the story that 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.480 you give. Virtually all of them. They are just one 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.400 or two left. I thank you, you know, I heard 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:33.400 somebody point this out. How was there nobody at the 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.160 oscars that said anything about that or the plight of 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:41.480 Iranian women at all? How would seem to be siding 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.480 with Trump so they can't do it? We have audio 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.280 of young women saying, oh, a woman is much better 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:53.000 off in ran than in America. That's how crazy we've gotten. Wow. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.400 From the New York Times, Trump says he will have 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.080 the honor of taking cub But. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.160 Trump has been saying some odd things lately. I think 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.360 the old man a loss of filter syndrome is kicking in, 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.199 and he's never had much of a filter at a 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.800 lot of my favorite thinkers seem to think that's clearly 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.720 on his list. It was Venezuela, Iran Cuba, but Iran 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:21.440 could be keeping him busy for quite a while. From 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:22.600 the Wall Street Journal. 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:28.120 America now has more spas and gyms than stores selling 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:29.080 actual stuff. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.120 First time ever, that makes sense. I don't know how 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.560 working services than goods. I was talking about something about 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.400 this the other day. Something I ordered and got there, 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:38.800 got it in like three hours. I don't know how 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.640 brick and mortars survive at all, and I feel bad 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.440 about that. I have friends who own brick and mortars. 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.920 But this is so easy to order stuff and get 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.960 it fast, and often it's cheaper. I thought this was interesting. 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:54.520 From the Washington Post, a Times of Israel reporter says 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.600 online gamblers pressured him to change his story about an 0:14:58.640 --> 0:14:59.920 Iranian missile. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:05.640 Strike so they could win a payout. Oh boy, And 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:07.400 I have an article I've been sitting on for a 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:12.280 few days about how intelligence services are looking at those 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:17.040 online betting platforms and seeing, for instance, oh hey, there 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.320 was just a big bet that the US would attack 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.320 something or whatever. I'll bet an insider knows it. So 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.800 they're minding them for intelligence. That's interest because the people 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.040 are ready to make money on their knowledge. 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.040 From the New York Post, I used to be a 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.920 happy drunk. O zempic made me a sad one and 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.960 the hangovers are horrendous. 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.880 Oh, change your relationship with alcohol. I'll be darned. I've 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:44.920 heard this from a couple of friends who. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:45.200 Are on it. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.240 Know what, the hangovers the worse. 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.560 The hangovers are worse, and it has completely killed their 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.320 desire to even have a drink like with dinner. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.080 Which a lot of people think is a positive right. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:57.520 You know, it depends how you look at it. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:06.400 Study fines your brain believes the crowd. Why reading bad 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.119 reviews can make painful experiences feel. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:17.120 Even worse fascinating and not surprising. Yeah, the information you 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.800 get if you hear a bad review of something, it's 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.800 really hard to not have that have an effect on 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.160 things or positive either way. 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:32.880 And finally, the Babylon Bee, Bill Clinton selflessly volunteers to 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.200 help short staffed TSA. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.840 With pat downs. Ess what come? I was really reaching? 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:44.760 It was really reaching. Wow, there are about fifty eight 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.440 thousand plus TSA people, fifty thousand plus. A couple hundred 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.920 quit the other day, so that's a big story. But 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.920 ten percent stayed home on Sunday. That's a big number. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:56.120 I know. 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.400 This is tried and true to the point of being 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.840 worn out. But can you imagine if the Republicans were 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.480 running a partial shut down refusing to fund the TSA 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.800 and the they are department. According to every news channel 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:13.960 I watched today, goodness sakes. So it's just depends on 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:15.840 your point of view. We got so much more news 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.200 of the day to get to and try to explain. 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.760 I hope you can stay here. Are strong and getty. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.800 Like the United States and Israel, we want to see 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.159 an end to Iran's nuclear and missile programs, but we 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.960 will not take part in this war. We have said 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.720 this from day one. That remains the position of the 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.040 federal government. This also means that as long as the 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:43.080 war continues, we will not participate in ensuring freedom of 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.520 navigation in the straight of hor moves by military means. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.680 We will not be drawn into the wider war. We 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.320 cannot allow the war in the Gulf to turn into 0:17:54.359 --> 0:18:00.480 a windfall for Putin. Well, there's Germany and Great Britain 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:05.600 saying we're not in on helping at all with this war. 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:12.919 She's a heck of a thing. Obviously, made no effort 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:17.680 to lay any groundwork where they would be on our side. 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:23.520 He's antagonized antagonized people over a lot of ridiculous things 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.920 over the last however, many months he's been president. As 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.760 the Wall Street Journal editorial board put it, good thing 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.320 the President hasn't antagonized allies with tariffs. There are threats 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.760 to invade Greenland. This is a reminder that treating allies 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:39.920 well as wise, so they are more likely to help 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:41.399 when you really need them. Well, do you think that 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:42.480 has anything to do with it? 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:43.920 You do. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.120 It might not be the deciding factor, but it's absolutely 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:53.800 a factor. Now, if you're talking about ker I'd rather 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:57.280 have a brick in a rope Starmer. That's a different 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.680 case than Germany. Okay, the Labor Party and is just 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:04.240 so weak. Let's hear a little of Trump's response to 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:09.000 these European allies using my finger quotes that aren't going 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:09.760 to help us and our in. 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.840 President Trump is blasting some key US allies for refusing 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.520 to answer his new call for help in reopening the 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.600 critical Strait of hor moves. The President claimed the UK 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:22.640 was unwilling to help in the beginning. President Trump said 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.639 today the UK is now offering aircraft carriers, but that 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.200 he told them it's too late. 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:31.040 He said, we're going to send over two aircraft carriers. 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.720 I said, I don't want them anymore. I don't want 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:35.840 them after we win. I want them before week. So 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.320 I don't need your aircraft carriers after we've already won. 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.080 The British Prime Minister says the concern is a wider 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.560 war and Germany is refusing to send help for the 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:46.679 Strait of Horn moves, saying quote, it's. 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:47.240 Not our war. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.040 Yeah, And we can play some clips of Trump later, 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.399 because he said a lot of things yesterday, like we 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.760 don't need anybody. We don't need anybody. We're the most 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:56.920 powerful military in the world. We don't need you. I 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.280 always thought this would happen. We're there for you for 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.080 all these That's why I hate NATO. We're here for 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.159 you all these years. We got troops in your country, 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:06.320 and now we need you and you won't help. We 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.040 don't need you anyway, so screw you. He didn't say 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.240 to screw you apart, but that was the tone. On 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.720 the same day, he said, numerous countries have told me 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.119 they're on their way. We're going to have an international 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.359 coalition of free up the Straits of Her Moves that 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.200 ended up, I guess being what I said yesterday. It 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:26.760 was the salesman presumptive clothes, which sometimes works. It doesn't 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:31.119 work on me. I hate the presumptive clothes. But he 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.400 was hoping that these countries think, well, he's already said 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:38.200 we were, so I guess we better. You know, I'm 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:43.320 not made for these times, Jack, because this discussion, it's 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:48.240 a great one, interesting one, but it deserves full sentences, 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.720 paragraphs of discussion and not shouting slogans back and forth. 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:56.080 I mean, for instance, I'll say this if we were 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:59.600 doing a talk show in Germany. First of all, we'd 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:04.159 be speaking in German. Secondly, we'd be saying, so, you 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.640 hit us with like these insane tariffs, jerk us back 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:12.560 and forth, insult us, and then start a war without 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.040 even informing us, And now you're a little bogged down 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:17.080 the strait of horm moves. And if we don't come 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:19.840 run and we're the bad guys. What's the matter with 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:23.159 this guy? Okay, we would be saying that. On the 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:27.399 other hand, it's mighty convenient because now Europe has an 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:29.440 excuse to do what they always do, which is very 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:34.560 very little in protecting their own economic and security interests, 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:38.440 because the straits of horror moves are incredibly important for everyone, 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:41.880 more for them than for us. Correct, we don't need 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:45.080 anybody's help to have enough oil. We could produce all 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:47.280 the oil we need in our own country if we 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:53.840 wanted to. They can't at all. Uh yeah, it is 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.800 once again a very convenient situation where they can feel 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:59.040 like because the United States is, as Trump said, the 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.720 most powerful mili the world, we will get that straight 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.000 back open one way or the other, and they will 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:07.520 benefit from it without having to do anything, which is 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.120 the way it often works for your European countries. If 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:12.600 I was a German politician, and keep in mind their 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:17.400 leaders are politicians, right, So I'm a German politician, I'm thinking, 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:19.600 all right, what are a couple of different scenarios. And 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:21.440 one we go in there and we help them out, 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:24.760 and we get a handful of our guys killed, and 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:28.320 you know, we're only kind of sort of helping because 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:31.159 the US has such an enormous and mighty military, including 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:34.840 the Navy. Or we sit back, we scribble a little bit, 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.000 we offer you a moral support or something like that. 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:40.600 The strait gets opened up again. I guess the prices 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:44.080 drop again, We're fine. That looks pretty attractive to me 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:47.400 as a cowardly German politician. Friends, I wish I knew 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:50.960 how much this stuff actually mattered to the politicians and 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:55.920