Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty and he arms range live from studio c Hey
Speaker 1: Sing Hey, dym dimly lit, room deep with them, the Bowels,
Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And today we're under
Speaker 1: the tutelage of our general I'm sorry, we're toiling under
Speaker 1: the title of our show. Life expectancy for Ron's leaders
Speaker 1: declines from seventy six years to three days. Or Lincoln
Speaker 1: was right and we're in trouble. Lincoln was right, and
Speaker 1: we're in trouble. The House divided against itself cannot stand.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, heavy man, that's a little too heavy for
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's day. Don't you think it's a culture, not
Speaker 1: a costume. It almost snuck up on me as I
Speaker 1: don't have little kids anymore, just like I don't know.
Speaker 1: I came across it this morning. Holy crap. Do I
Speaker 1: even own a green shirt anymore? I don't know if
Speaker 1: I do. So I found one of those marginally green
Speaker 1: kind of army green. Yeah, Michael and Katie didn't believe me,
Speaker 1: But I am accidentally wearing this flame quarter zip. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just a coincidence. Was that this morning in the
Speaker 1: kitchen it was on the chair. I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's perfect. Grab it like the classic Saint Patrick's day
Speaker 1: green color or what is it? Katie? It's the luck
Speaker 1: of the Irish. It is the luck of the Irish.
Speaker 1: So Katie's wearing a green shirt on what's your say?
Speaker 1: Mine says, most likely to start the Shenanigans. That's great,
Speaker 1: that's fantastic. And then Michael, because you hate the Irish
Speaker 1: for some reason, you didn't wear anyhing. Yeah, no Irish.
Speaker 1: I had no idea was Saint Patrick's stane until I
Speaker 1: found out this morning, because you hate the Irish. No,
Speaker 1: it just didn't occur to me. Kids, Okay, should we
Speaker 1: get back on the potato plantations? Yeah whatever. I'm a
Speaker 1: little vague on the history or what you catch the
Speaker 1: boat back? You know, right exactly? No dogs or irishmen
Speaker 1: welcome in Michael's world? Right? Wow. Hate. This is what
Speaker 1: we're saying here, folks, is hate anti irishry. All right,
Speaker 1: I'll listen to you too today. Where does this where
Speaker 1: does this rank on our stupidest holidays? I'm using my finger. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's way up there, way up there, way upward at
Speaker 1: the top as it is. Is there what percentage? And
Speaker 1: I'm serious now of consideration of Irish culture and history,
Speaker 1: is there in the average Saint Patrick's Day gathering? Zero?
Speaker 1: Zero is the negative? That would be the would be
Speaker 1: the answer? Right? Uh? Yeah? And then I remember, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this, Katie, maybe you do,
Speaker 1: maybe this happened when you were a kid. But somewhere
Speaker 1: between my youth, when Saint Patrick's Day was not really
Speaker 1: a thing at home for me or any of my friends,
Speaker 1: and then when my kids were little, another make believe
Speaker 1: person was invented. So because I had to do Santa
Speaker 1: Claus as a parent, and I did the Easter Bunny,
Speaker 1: I didn't know I had to do Leprechauns until I
Speaker 1: had kids and found out everybody else's kids were doing this.
Speaker 1: So in Saint Patrick's Day, I'd have to stay up
Speaker 1: just like Christmas and Easter and do all this different
Speaker 1: stuff and the sprinkle green, sparkly stuff around the toilet.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I swear this is only you. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: nobody else. Every everybody I know did that. No they didn't,
Speaker 1: Yes they did. I know did that pete in your toilet? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have friends that have the little leprechauns and
Speaker 2: they put the green feet footprints out and the little
Speaker 2: pile of golden corn.
Speaker 1: But nobody has like reindeer first scattered around their toilet.
Speaker 1: Look Santa took a crap. Kids that sense forverse, Look
Speaker 1: Santa took a crap. I mean, if you want to
Speaker 1: have the leprecaun like heat cookies or something that's.
Speaker 2: Great, you should put some food die in the toilet,
Speaker 2: make it look like green pea perfect.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yes, yea, And I took that from a friend.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't even brilliant. Oh my god, the leprechaun.
Speaker 1: Oh and then you build a leprechaun trap, you know,
Speaker 1: box with something on a stick. You can enslave him great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just like the Irish people share cropping for the Brits.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Every year I was hoping would actually catch a leprechaun
Speaker 1: that could make it do my laundry or something. They
Speaker 1: always got away. Wow. White privilege is the ugly face
Speaker 1: of white privilege. But when I found out there was
Speaker 1: a third magical beast that I had to bow down
Speaker 1: to because a parent I was surprised because I didn't
Speaker 1: know anything ab that, because he don't have enough to do,
Speaker 1: right exactly, creating some sort of fantasy theme park for
Speaker 1: seasonal gremlins. Well it looks seasonalins Well, it looked really cool,
Speaker 1: and the kids were always just thrilled. They'd see the
Speaker 1: little footpints to the house and then oh my god,
Speaker 1: he peed in the toilet and there's green glitter because
Speaker 1: apparently they urinate glitter. I don't know how their kidneys work. Wow,
Speaker 1: no kidding, I don't know the kidneys of a leper
Speaker 1: gun works. And uh, and then all of stuff. But
Speaker 1: the cleanup was the hardest of any of the holidays.
Speaker 1: It took me like hours to clean up. Oh goodness,
Speaker 1: you don't need that. Plus you used permanent paint, which
Speaker 1: was a problem I didn't take ahead. Yeah, none of
Speaker 1: that happened when I was a kid.
Speaker 3: This is all.
Speaker 1: It was invented somewhere in between. And I know, yeah,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's regional. I have no idea. All I
Speaker 1: know is everybody, all the parents in my kids' classes,
Speaker 1: did that. I couldn't have my kids going to school.
Speaker 1: My parents don't do anything fun. Okay, schools, maybe teach
Speaker 1: the kids to read. Oh man, I feel like we
Speaker 1: got to start the show officially so that we can
Speaker 1: say something at least about the headlines of the day,
Speaker 1: which there are many. It was quite a day in
Speaker 1: the Middle East overnight. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
Speaker 1: on this it is? How did it already get to
Speaker 1: be Tuesday March seventeenth, traditionally known as Saint Patrick's Day,
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty six. We're armstrong and getting and
Speaker 1: we approve of this program. Let's be in then officially,
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Speaker 1: He welcomes the leader of Ireland to the White House
Speaker 1: to mark Saint Patrick's Day. In addition to a special
Speaker 1: lunch up on Capitol Hill for Ireland, the President will
Speaker 1: be presented with a bowl of shamrocks. The White House
Speaker 1: going all in on this holiday. We'll see if the
Speaker 1: President brings out his green time. Oh boy, here this
Speaker 1: is a country at war. Yes, I thought that last
Speaker 1: night when I was watching the news, I realized this
Speaker 1: is a big winter storm. But man, it's wintertime and
Speaker 1: there are winters, and we are at war, and no
Speaker 1: telling what direction it's going to go straight. H Hord
Speaker 1: Moves has closed down more or less. It seems like
Speaker 1: the lead story to me over a snowstorm in the winter.
Speaker 1: But what do I know. Maybe they're just judging the
Speaker 1: fact that most people weren't paying attention before it started
Speaker 1: and since it started, or still like eh, I have
Speaker 1: no interest. I don't know. I think there may be
Speaker 1: back to the house divided theme. There may be a
Speaker 1: bit of an uncertainty as to how to report it
Speaker 1: among the mindless lemmings of the media, because as you
Speaker 1: and others have observed, it seems to be entirely negative
Speaker 1: or entirely positive that it's as if the DNC and
Speaker 1: the RNC we're running all of the coverage, And so
Speaker 1: if you're trying to run even close to a serious
Speaker 1: news program and just report on the fact, and you
Speaker 1: are a lemming, it's got to be hard for them
Speaker 1: to know you know, how to report it exactly. I
Speaker 1: was watching MSNBC a little this morning, and their news
Speaker 1: coverage is as if we all have agreed already that
Speaker 1: this is a disaster. It was a terrible idea. It's
Speaker 1: everybody recognizes it from a start, that has been a disaster.
Speaker 1: And a terrible idea, and now what do we do
Speaker 1: about it, which I'm positive is not the case, certainly
Speaker 1: not no, and then not pointing out any of the
Speaker 1: possible drawbacks really on Fox, so you don't have much
Speaker 1: in between. Israel says they killed a couple of top
Speaker 1: leaders for Iran overnight, and Iran continues to attack their
Speaker 1: neighbors and our embassy in Iraq and lots of different places.
Speaker 1: And then to me and I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is significant or not pretty major attack on Afghanistan by
Speaker 1: Pakistan overnight because they are at war. That killed quite
Speaker 1: a few people, and I don't know how much Afghanistan's
Speaker 1: ability is to weigh war. They eventually drove us out
Speaker 1: of the country, but packstands a serious country with nuclear
Speaker 1: weapons and everything like that. So that separate war with
Speaker 1: Russia at war with Ukraine, and then all like eleven
Speaker 1: different countries involved in a war around Iran seems like
Speaker 1: a lot of war. Yeah. Absolutely, the war inside the
Speaker 1: country is the one that's really got my attention. We
Speaker 1: had been saying for years, Well, Jack would often ask
Speaker 1: do you think we can ever get any sort of
Speaker 1: national unity again? And the answer was always, well, maybe
Speaker 1: some sort of cataclysm like a major war or a pandemic.
Speaker 1: While we tried the pandemic no good. In fact, it
Speaker 1: made it worse. And now, apparently partly because of the
Speaker 1: way information flows in the modern world, and probably entirely
Speaker 1: for that reason, people are so siloed they just again
Speaker 1: get nothing but spin for their news, and so the
Speaker 1: perceptions of the world are so wildly different. I don't
Speaker 1: know how we come together. That's always worth three. It's
Speaker 1: not the fault of people necessarily, unless you take the
Speaker 1: time to really reach out there to different sources for
Speaker 1: news to try to figure out what's going on, like
Speaker 1: it's a homework assignment. If you just kind of follow
Speaker 1: the news that through the algorithm that gets sent to you,
Speaker 1: you know you're going to believe what you're being fed.
Speaker 1: And how would you believe anything else? Why would you? Right?
Speaker 1: And you can't guarantee people are going to take the
Speaker 1: time to seek out all kinds of alternate sources on
Speaker 1: every story to see what actually happened. I don't know
Speaker 1: that's going to work out now. I'm reminded in a
Speaker 1: way of certain things I believed going into college many
Speaker 1: many years ago, and I believe them firmly because I'd
Speaker 1: heard them repeated many, many times and really heard no dissent.
Speaker 1: And then I ran into a couple of professors who
Speaker 1: were well, for one thing, constitutional conservatives, who said, no,
Speaker 1: that's actually not true. This is and here's why. And
Speaker 1: it took honestly five minutes to completely change my mind
Speaker 1: because it was so clearly true. But if you'd ever
Speaker 1: challenged those ideas, how are you going to change them?
Speaker 1: We're in an odd spot. Yeah, And so there's a
Speaker 1: poll that came out yesterday Americans views toward Israel while
Speaker 1: has Israel taken a hit in terms of its support
Speaker 1: in the United States across every age group over the
Speaker 1: last few years, and that's going to be a long
Speaker 1: term problem for them and for our ability to support them,
Speaker 1: I think. So we got a lot of that stuff,
Speaker 1: We got all kinds of things to talk about, and
Speaker 1: Katie's headlines on the way, I hope you can stay here.
Speaker 1: So looking up at the TV, and you got some
Speaker 1: women up there doing that Irish dancing thing, getting ready
Speaker 1: to do that at some parade or something. Remember when
Speaker 1: Irish dancing was all the rage. That was fun for
Speaker 1: a couple of years Michael Flatley. He was the Lord
Speaker 1: of the Lord of the Dance, the Riverdance. Yes, the Lord.
Speaker 1: That was a big deal for a while. For some reason,
Speaker 1: it just caught on and then I went away. Ye, well,
Speaker 1: as happened. What's hot now? Spanish dancing? It's Lamenco. Nobody knows.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
Speaker 1: lead's story with Katie Green, Katie Oh, the lead on
Speaker 1: all the alphabet networks.
Speaker 2: ABC Israel says Iran security chief killed in overnight attack.
Speaker 2: NBC The Iran War throws Trump's China trip into doubt.
Speaker 1: That Beijing doesn't seem to mind.
Speaker 2: Waiting, and CNN US race to counter Iranian drones echoes
Speaker 2: response to roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: That's all I ran. More right, that's fine. Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 2: New York Post cops bust anti Semitic thugs who attacked
Speaker 2: Jewish diners at Posh San Jose restaurant.
Speaker 1: Yes, we will name names and give you all the
Speaker 1: details coming up. They found the three young brutal would
Speaker 1: be terrorists. They turned themselves in. Oh really, I don't
Speaker 1: know that story. I want to hear it from the.
Speaker 2: Guardian captain of Iranian woman's football team leaves Australia after
Speaker 2: initially accepting offer of asylum.
Speaker 1: Quote. Family members are missing. How about that? So most
Speaker 1: of the Iranian soccer women that originally we're going to
Speaker 1: stay in Australia have decided to go back because their
Speaker 1: families have disappeared. Wow, that is quite the story that
Speaker 1: you give. Virtually all of them. They are just one
Speaker 1: or two left. I thank you, you know, I heard
Speaker 1: somebody point this out. How was there nobody at the
Speaker 1: oscars that said anything about that or the plight of
Speaker 1: Iranian women at all? How would seem to be siding
Speaker 1: with Trump so they can't do it? We have audio
Speaker 1: of young women saying, oh, a woman is much better
Speaker 1: off in ran than in America. That's how crazy we've gotten. Wow.
Speaker 2: From the New York Times, Trump says he will have
Speaker 2: the honor of taking cub But.
Speaker 1: Trump has been saying some odd things lately. I think
Speaker 1: the old man a loss of filter syndrome is kicking in,
Speaker 1: and he's never had much of a filter at a
Speaker 1: lot of my favorite thinkers seem to think that's clearly
Speaker 1: on his list. It was Venezuela, Iran Cuba, but Iran
Speaker 1: could be keeping him busy for quite a while. From
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2: America now has more spas and gyms than stores selling
Speaker 2: actual stuff.
Speaker 1: First time ever, that makes sense. I don't know how
Speaker 1: working services than goods. I was talking about something about
Speaker 1: this the other day. Something I ordered and got there,
Speaker 1: got it in like three hours. I don't know how
Speaker 1: brick and mortars survive at all, and I feel bad
Speaker 1: about that. I have friends who own brick and mortars.
Speaker 1: But this is so easy to order stuff and get
Speaker 1: it fast, and often it's cheaper. I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 2: From the Washington Post, a Times of Israel reporter says
Speaker 2: online gamblers pressured him to change his story about an
Speaker 2: Iranian missile.
Speaker 1: Strike so they could win a payout. Oh boy, And
Speaker 1: I have an article I've been sitting on for a
Speaker 1: few days about how intelligence services are looking at those
Speaker 1: online betting platforms and seeing, for instance, oh hey, there
Speaker 1: was just a big bet that the US would attack
Speaker 1: something or whatever. I'll bet an insider knows it. So
Speaker 1: they're minding them for intelligence. That's interest because the people
Speaker 1: are ready to make money on their knowledge.
Speaker 2: From the New York Post, I used to be a
Speaker 2: happy drunk. O zempic made me a sad one and
Speaker 2: the hangovers are horrendous.
Speaker 1: Oh, change your relationship with alcohol. I'll be darned. I've
Speaker 1: heard this from a couple of friends who.
Speaker 4: Are on it.
Speaker 1: Know what, the hangovers the worse.
Speaker 2: The hangovers are worse, and it has completely killed their
Speaker 2: desire to even have a drink like with dinner.
Speaker 1: Which a lot of people think is a positive right.
Speaker 1: You know, it depends how you look at it.
Speaker 2: Study fines your brain believes the crowd. Why reading bad
Speaker 2: reviews can make painful experiences feel.
Speaker 1: Even worse fascinating and not surprising. Yeah, the information you
Speaker 1: get if you hear a bad review of something, it's
Speaker 1: really hard to not have that have an effect on
Speaker 1: things or positive either way.
Speaker 2: And finally, the Babylon Bee, Bill Clinton selflessly volunteers to
Speaker 2: help short staffed TSA.
Speaker 1: With pat downs. Ess what come? I was really reaching?
Speaker 1: It was really reaching. Wow, there are about fifty eight
Speaker 1: thousand plus TSA people, fifty thousand plus. A couple hundred
Speaker 1: quit the other day, so that's a big story. But
Speaker 1: ten percent stayed home on Sunday. That's a big number.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: This is tried and true to the point of being
Speaker 1: worn out. But can you imagine if the Republicans were
Speaker 1: running a partial shut down refusing to fund the TSA
Speaker 1: and the they are department. According to every news channel
Speaker 1: I watched today, goodness sakes. So it's just depends on
Speaker 1: your point of view. We got so much more news
Speaker 1: of the day to get to and try to explain.
Speaker 1: I hope you can stay here. Are strong and getty.
Speaker 4: Like the United States and Israel, we want to see
Speaker 4: an end to Iran's nuclear and missile programs, but we
Speaker 4: will not take part in this war. We have said
Speaker 4: this from day one. That remains the position of the
Speaker 4: federal government. This also means that as long as the
Speaker 4: war continues, we will not participate in ensuring freedom of
Speaker 4: navigation in the straight of hor moves by military means.
Speaker 1: We will not be drawn into the wider war. We
Speaker 1: cannot allow the war in the Gulf to turn into
Speaker 1: a windfall for Putin. Well, there's Germany and Great Britain
Speaker 1: saying we're not in on helping at all with this war.
Speaker 1: She's a heck of a thing. Obviously, made no effort
Speaker 1: to lay any groundwork where they would be on our side.
Speaker 1: He's antagonized antagonized people over a lot of ridiculous things
Speaker 1: over the last however, many months he's been president. As
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal editorial board put it, good thing
Speaker 1: the President hasn't antagonized allies with tariffs. There are threats
Speaker 1: to invade Greenland. This is a reminder that treating allies
Speaker 1: well as wise, so they are more likely to help
Speaker 1: when you really need them. Well, do you think that
Speaker 1: has anything to do with it?
Speaker 4: You do.
Speaker 1: It might not be the deciding factor, but it's absolutely
Speaker 1: a factor. Now, if you're talking about ker I'd rather
Speaker 1: have a brick in a rope Starmer. That's a different
Speaker 1: case than Germany. Okay, the Labor Party and is just
Speaker 1: so weak. Let's hear a little of Trump's response to
Speaker 1: these European allies using my finger quotes that aren't going
Speaker 1: to help us and our in.
Speaker 5: President Trump is blasting some key US allies for refusing
Speaker 5: to answer his new call for help in reopening the
Speaker 5: critical Strait of hor moves. The President claimed the UK
Speaker 5: was unwilling to help in the beginning. President Trump said
Speaker 5: today the UK is now offering aircraft carriers, but that
Speaker 5: he told them it's too late.
Speaker 3: He said, we're going to send over two aircraft carriers.
Speaker 3: I said, I don't want them anymore. I don't want
Speaker 3: them after we win. I want them before week. So
Speaker 3: I don't need your aircraft carriers after we've already won.
Speaker 5: The British Prime Minister says the concern is a wider
Speaker 5: war and Germany is refusing to send help for the
Speaker 5: Strait of Horn moves, saying quote, it's.
Speaker 3: Not our war.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And we can play some clips of Trump later,
Speaker 1: because he said a lot of things yesterday, like we
Speaker 1: don't need anybody. We don't need anybody. We're the most
Speaker 1: powerful military in the world. We don't need you. I
Speaker 1: always thought this would happen. We're there for you for
Speaker 1: all these That's why I hate NATO. We're here for
Speaker 1: you all these years. We got troops in your country,
Speaker 1: and now we need you and you won't help. We
Speaker 1: don't need you anyway, so screw you. He didn't say
Speaker 1: to screw you apart, but that was the tone. On
Speaker 1: the same day, he said, numerous countries have told me
Speaker 1: they're on their way. We're going to have an international
Speaker 1: coalition of free up the Straits of Her Moves that
Speaker 1: ended up, I guess being what I said yesterday. It
Speaker 1: was the salesman presumptive clothes, which sometimes works. It doesn't
Speaker 1: work on me. I hate the presumptive clothes. But he
Speaker 1: was hoping that these countries think, well, he's already said
Speaker 1: we were, so I guess we better. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: not made for these times, Jack, because this discussion, it's
Speaker 1: a great one, interesting one, but it deserves full sentences,
Speaker 1: paragraphs of discussion and not shouting slogans back and forth.
Speaker 1: I mean, for instance, I'll say this if we were
Speaker 1: doing a talk show in Germany. First of all, we'd
Speaker 1: be speaking in German. Secondly, we'd be saying, so, you
Speaker 1: hit us with like these insane tariffs, jerk us back
Speaker 1: and forth, insult us, and then start a war without
Speaker 1: even informing us, And now you're a little bogged down
Speaker 1: the strait of horm moves. And if we don't come
Speaker 1: run and we're the bad guys. What's the matter with
Speaker 1: this guy? Okay, we would be saying that. On the
Speaker 1: other hand, it's mighty convenient because now Europe has an
Speaker 1: excuse to do what they always do, which is very
Speaker 1: very little in protecting their own economic and security interests,
Speaker 1: because the straits of horror moves are incredibly important for everyone,
Speaker 1: more for them than for us. Correct, we don't need
Speaker 1: anybody's help to have enough oil. We could produce all
Speaker 1: the oil we need in our own country if we
Speaker 1: wanted to. They can't at all. Uh yeah, it is
Speaker 1: once again a very convenient situation where they can feel
Speaker 1: like because the United States is, as Trump said, the
Speaker 1: most powerful mili the world, we will get that straight
Speaker 1: back open one way or the other, and they will
Speaker 1: benefit from it without having to do anything, which is
Speaker 1: the way it often works for your European countries. If
Speaker 1: I was a German politician, and keep in mind their
Speaker 1: leaders are politicians, right, So I'm a German politician, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: all right, what are a couple of different scenarios. And
Speaker 1: one we go in there and we help them out,
Speaker 1: and we get a handful of our guys killed, and
Speaker 1: you know, we're only kind of sort of helping because
Speaker 1: the US has such an enormous and mighty military, including
Speaker 1: the Navy. Or we sit back, we scribble a little bit,
Speaker 1: we offer you a moral support or something like that.
Speaker 1: The strait gets opened up again. I guess the prices
Speaker 1: drop again, We're fine. That looks pretty attractive to me
Speaker 1: as a cowardly German politician. Friends, I wish I knew
Speaker 1: how much this stuff actually mattered to the politicians and
Speaker 1: to the public. Did it land with the public when
Speaker 1: Trump made various comments about our NATO allies didn't help
Speaker 1: us at all in Afghanistan and Iraq when they lost
Speaker 1: you know, significant numbers of soldiers and help against in
Speaker 1: those wars. Yeah, oh, what's and what's the deal with
Speaker 1: the British aircraft carriers? Now He's like, no, we don't
Speaker 1: want them now, but we've got the whole straits of her.
Speaker 1: Most things still going on. I don't know. More firepower
Speaker 1: looks helpful from where I send. Maybe we had to
Speaker 1: talk to Mike Lyons or somebody. It sounds like the
Speaker 1: sort of childish reaction I might have if I was
Speaker 1: really angry and wish I hadn't said it. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: heard it this because it doesn't actually make sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what it looks like to me. I don't know. Dang, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is that is something. Though, this is a this
Speaker 1: is a moment. Germany is a big deal. They're the
Speaker 1: most they're the richest, most powerful, country in the EU
Speaker 1: by quite a bit, and them saying this is your war. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not helping with this at all. Okay, when Iran
Speaker 1: has been an evil presence on the planet now going
Speaker 1: on a half century, disrupting trade, constantly threatening to close
Speaker 1: the Straits of Ormus, exporting terrorism, and he pressing its
Speaker 1: own slaughtering its own people in the streets. If they
Speaker 1: were rats, people would say, isn't there a can't you
Speaker 1: be better in your treatment of rats? I mean unspeakable evil,
Speaker 1: And to get rid of them or reduce them to
Speaker 1: a tenth of their power is beyond question, a great
Speaker 1: and good thing to do. There's not even a debate.
Speaker 1: How it's being implemented is a little rocky at times,
Speaker 1: but let's not lose sight of the main principle here, which,
Speaker 1: of course our lefty media is pretending isn't true. And
Speaker 1: they're actually getting beat up pretty good for it now,
Speaker 1: at least some of them are, And I'm glad to
Speaker 1: see that because the coverage has been ridiculous from Wall
Speaker 1: Street journal. Trump is pressuring al to help reopen the
Speaker 1: Strait of hor move and as we've just been talking
Speaker 1: about so far, most of them aren't biting. Germany has
Speaker 1: rejected taking part, while Japan and Australia have indicated they're
Speaker 1: unlikely to send vessels to help Britain. France said they
Speaker 1: are assessing possible action, but haven't committed to doing anything
Speaker 1: before fighting halts all our close allies. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: not our war. We did not start it, as you
Speaker 1: just heard. Let me scroll up for some good news.
Speaker 1: We need some good news. This is from the Washington
Speaker 1: Post kind of on the war. Overall, Iran's remaining decision
Speaker 1: makers are confused, paranoid, and having difficulty communicating with one another,
Speaker 1: I'll bet, said one Western security source, speaking on the
Speaker 1: condition of anonymity to discuss intelligent assessments. I can't even
Speaker 1: imagine how they're functioning in Iran. I think paranoid's the
Speaker 1: wrong word because their fears are one hundred percent valid,
Speaker 1: So fearful, I think is better word. Yeah, you're not
Speaker 1: paranoid when you got the world's mightiest military blasting the
Speaker 1: hell out of you every single day, chopping bombs on
Speaker 1: your head. Yeah. The head guy in Iran what everybody thinks,
Speaker 1: not weird Beer Junior. But the other head guy in
Speaker 1: Iran whose name I have around here somewhere just got
Speaker 1: snuffed overnight, or so it would seem the top the
Speaker 1: Iranian security official Ali Larijani. As I've said several times,
Speaker 1: I think the conversation of we have no idea is
Speaker 1: they've still haven't explained why we're doing this. Yes they have.
Speaker 1: I think it's obvious why we're doing it. I don't
Speaker 1: understand that narrative. On the other hand, the question of
Speaker 1: how is this going to end? How is this going
Speaker 1: to end? What is going to what is the ending
Speaker 1: going to be? There are a handful of different possibility.
Speaker 1: What do you think the most likely scenario of how
Speaker 1: this ends? Oh goodness wow. With the remnants of the
Speaker 1: regime so weakened, they cut a deal that is acceptable
Speaker 1: Venezuela style, and then they opened but they let the
Speaker 1: straight of horor moves open back up again, and we
Speaker 1: declared victory and get out. Well some of that. I
Speaker 1: think we maintain a significant presence in the area, so
Speaker 1: that if they renag on the deal, we hammer them,
Speaker 1: and that the agreement is we're going to stop killing
Speaker 1: the hell outIo for now. You better behave we're watching.
Speaker 1: And that doesn't mean Israel would stop no, not necessarily.
Speaker 1: They might think, hey, we got free reign to drop
Speaker 1: any bomb any we want, anywhere we want in our
Speaker 1: own and they can't stop us, So let's just keep going.
Speaker 1: Although for what purpose? I mean, if they've got the
Speaker 1: regime so reduced that it hardly exists anymore. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's where Because I got a no military background, I
Speaker 1: don't know anything about this. We've hit ten thousand targets
Speaker 1: or something like that. Are there endless targets? Do you
Speaker 1: run out of things to hit? I don't know a
Speaker 1: lot of it's hidden, right, So I also keep hearing
Speaker 1: about how AI is factoring into a lot of what
Speaker 1: we're doing. I wish I knew more about that. Is
Speaker 1: that like significant AI? Or is it just I mean,
Speaker 1: because really, I mean if I use a calculator to
Speaker 1: come up with a number, that's kind of using AI.
Speaker 1: So is it significant AI or is it just kind
Speaker 1: of basic AI? I don't really know, right right, like
Speaker 1: crazy advanced? Or is it? Hey, chat GPT, what are
Speaker 1: the thirtieth through fiftieth sized cities in Iran? Uh huh?
Speaker 1: Now we'll bomb those right now? I don't know. But
Speaker 1: as you're talking about a divided, a house divided against
Speaker 1: itself must fall. The media coverage presenting this war as
Speaker 1: if it's clearly a disaster has been from the get go.
Speaker 1: I wonder where that's going to land. With the poll numbers,
Speaker 1: the last poll numbers we had to end last week,
Speaker 1: I guess they'd gone up. People's support for the war
Speaker 1: had gone up since it started, which was a little
Speaker 1: little bit of a surprise to me. I don't know
Speaker 1: how long that will last. If you've got relentless coverage
Speaker 1: of how this is going badly and it's clearly a disaster,
Speaker 1: which it's not, to my mind, going badly, and it's
Speaker 1: absolutetely not clearly a disaster. The straight uh hoorm moose
Speaker 1: thing is a problem. But we are only two weeks
Speaker 1: into this thing. In a couple of days. It's a
Speaker 1: very short period of time for a war to accomplish
Speaker 1: something of great historical importance. Yes, final note, fans of Irony,
Speaker 1: the senior Iranian leader I just mentioned to Ali Lara
Speaker 1: Johnny the security chief who have played a big factor
Speaker 1: in machine gunning tens of thousands of his countrymen who
Speaker 1: hate him and are trying to escape their God forsaken country.
Speaker 1: He had warned President Trump last week to quote, watch
Speaker 1: out for yourself lest you be eliminated. He's the guy
Speaker 1: who said that, hey, you got a bomb dropped on
Speaker 1: his head overnight, So goodbye. Now he's in his beard
Speaker 1: is in heaven along with the rest of him, or
Speaker 1: wherever he well, I doubt it's heaven. How about that
Speaker 1: story about the soccer team. Those players are going back
Speaker 1: because their families have been abducted. That what happened, Well,
Speaker 1: in a couple instances, their families have disappeared and ran
Speaker 1: got word to them. So the soccer players have decided
Speaker 1: to having accepted asylum there go back, Yeah, to try
Speaker 1: to save their families. And the report I was reading
Speaker 1: last night from an Iranian journalist said, these people, these
Speaker 1: women are going to be tortured and murdered. That is
Speaker 1: what's going to happen to them when they get back.
Speaker 1: That's a terrible story. Yeah, they've been offered amnesty for
Speaker 1: their sins, but there are so many examples in Iran
Speaker 1: history where that offer is made and oh you end
Speaker 1: up at the end of a crane. That's a tough call, man,
Speaker 1: That has to be a tough one. Because your family
Speaker 1: might be thinking, no, stay there. This place sucks. It's
Speaker 1: always sucked. It's going to suck when you get back.
Speaker 1: You stay there and live your life. And I mean
Speaker 1: that's a tough one as a parent. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And why's it doesn't get more sympathy with like the
Speaker 1: college campus is the you know, the Hollywood Oscar crowd
Speaker 1: or whatever. It seems like such a sympathetic story. That's
Speaker 1: how twisted they are over Trump. Yeah. Man, that's a
Speaker 1: bad one. But I'll bet we're gonna hear. I bet
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear about that when they get back, or
Speaker 1: they'll just disappear and never be heard from again. We've
Speaker 1: got a mail bag on the way, stay tuned. Good
Speaker 1: music on our broadcast. It's all Irish bands because of
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's day. So you're honoring everything that Saint Patrick
Speaker 1: did for our country in the founding signer of the
Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence exactly and won the Battle of Bunker Hill,
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Speaker 1: Quote of the day. Continuing our series on war, A
Speaker 1: couple of contrasting thoughts here. First of all, John Randolph,
Speaker 1: the surest way to prevent war is not to fear it,
Speaker 1: very similar to George Washington saying the best way to
Speaker 1: prevent wars to prepare for it. Then you got Percy
Speaker 1: biciuses is Shelley the great poet man has no right
Speaker 1: to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he
Speaker 1: does so in uniform. He only adds the infamy of
Speaker 1: servitude to the crime of murder. And I have a
Speaker 1: collection of those various poets and thinkers of beautiful thoughts
Speaker 1: about how war is unjust and terrible, and it is
Speaker 1: absolutely terrible. The problem is, Percy, what if the guy
Speaker 1: next door decides to come and kill you, what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Write him some nice poetry. No, you
Speaker 1: gotta kill him back. That's why I value our poets
Speaker 1: and dreamers, but they can't be in charge. Mail bag,
Speaker 1: drop us note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com,
Speaker 1: JT and Livermore. I seriously don't get what's going on here,
Speaker 1: he says. I rejected david ignacious premise that Iran has
Speaker 1: survived America's artist punch. How can an educated man say
Speaker 1: Aaron has survived anything, let alone our hardest punch. First off,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to define exactly what the hardest
Speaker 1: punch would be, but I know enough that it would
Speaker 1: include completely wiping out around single most important economic engine oil.
Speaker 1: Trump hasn't touched the oil producing segments of the economy,
Speaker 1: but he can easily wipe out carg islands, oil process
Speaker 1: and capability, along with every tanker, port, pipelines, and even
Speaker 1: the fields themselves. He hasn't done that, But even that
Speaker 1: wouldn't be America's hardest punch because it leaves out all
Speaker 1: the other infrastructure elements communications, power, water, roads, bridges that
Speaker 1: could be damaged, but it have been largely left alone.
Speaker 1: A real reporter would have pointed this out from the beginning.
Speaker 1: A real report would have included the fact that the
Speaker 1: leadership in Iran seems oblivious to the fact that Trump
Speaker 1: hasn't even started playing hardball yet, let alone has he
Speaker 1: delivered his hardest punch. God, you can't hate the media enough.
Speaker 1: I think it's the hardest punch that we're going to
Speaker 1: be willing to throw because we don't want to destroy
Speaker 1: the In theory, we'd like the people to rise up
Speaker 1: and take over the country and still have, you know,
Speaker 1: to produce and bridges and all kinds of infrastructure. We
Speaker 1: destroy all that, then we might be in a you
Speaker 1: broke it, you own it situation. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we can destroy their infrastructure and then say bye, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we could, but it certainly wouldn't earn us many friends.
Speaker 1: And the point is not to have enemies in that
Speaker 1: part of the world, which actually is going in a
Speaker 1: great direction. We're down to a minute. Good lord, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll stick with this topic. 'ron from Chicago. Guys, you
Speaker 1: brought this up on the show today. Why Trump's doing
Speaker 1: what he's doing, Read the art of the deal. This
Speaker 1: has been his modus operandi for fifty years. I was
Speaker 1: actually going to say, when we were talking about the
Speaker 1: Allies cooperation or lack thereof, that, he's probably expecting Germany
Speaker 1: to say, oh, right, you need our help. We need
Speaker 1: you to knock down the tariffs and buy more Mercedes Benzes,
Speaker 1: and Trump would go, Okay, that's fine. He's not about friends,
Speaker 1: He's about transactions, and so yeah, maybe you're right. Ron
Speaker 1: and Bremmer made the point last night that the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court taking away Trump's tariff power hurt him a lot,
Speaker 1: because you know that that's what he would have done
Speaker 1: with for instance, Germany and Great Britain yesterday when they
Speaker 1: were talking about how they want help us with the war.
Speaker 1: He would have slapped him with tariffs over that. You
Speaker 1: know he would have, But he doesn't have that power anymore.
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