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This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human.
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Broadcasting. Live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong.
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Live kind of from Studio C, a dimly lit. Dimly. A dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. And today, on a Friday, we earned a toilet gun to the title of the show.
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Great Scott. It's a rare triple title day. Number one, Pearl harbor, more like Cringe Arbor or Marsh Madness is highly upsetting. Or why does everyone want to bust a Philly? The filibuster. Closer than ever to being done away with.
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Wow, I thought that was one of your titles yesterday and we never got around to talking about it.
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More endangered than pandas, the filibuster. That's correct. Yes. I've held it over, but cleverly reinvented it.
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Yeah, that's. That's a good topic. I didn't follow any of the March Madness. There were upsets.
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Yeah. Actually, the biggie was a tiny little High Point University beat the mighty Wisconsin Badgers in. In the first round.
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And what were their seeds there?
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Michael, do you know offhand?
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No.
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That's funny. I. Yeah, I was just being a big Ten fan. I was kind of just fixated on. I can't believe Wisconsin lost because they look like world beaters.
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But I don't have my bracket in front of me. I know that I had Wisconsin winning, so that's a bad start. Somebody look that up, please. I need to know, is that a 13 4?
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Yeah, Wisconsin. Well, what's the. Well, somebody's gonna look it up. Katie is busy right as we speak.
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Look at a bracket, any bracket.
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Are you talking about Wisconsin, number 12 seed, high point?
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It's always the 12 fives.
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Yes. Beware the ides of the 12 5.
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And I had a 125 upset because there's always a 125 upset. But it wasn't that one.
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Darn it.
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My bracket is already busted. Anywho, I woke. I got a really bad sore throat middle of the day yesterday and my son came complaining to me that he had a sore throat. So that's what.
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Maybe nothing has too. Yeah.
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Seems like a heck of a coincidence that he and I both have sore throats. Anyway, so I started to chat Gpting that. And there are a variety of diseases rolling around. They've got that. So I hope I didn't bring anything into work to make anybody sick, but
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anything prominent on the list because I'm curious what my sweetheart has. I Thought it was flu.
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But I thought you had determined it was the flu. No.
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Well, we were exposed to a guy who was coughing up a lung and then was diagnosed with the flu two days later. So that was my Sherlock Holmes like, you know, deduction. Yeah, coughing up.
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So he coughed and one of the lungs came up out through his mouth briefly.
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Yeah, he sucked it back in. That's what you got to do quickly.
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Flu was on the list. The top three choices though for things that could be a sore throat and you're feeling sick. So anyway, maybe, maybe talk about that later because there are three particular things floating around the United States right now that involve a sore throat and that'd be good news you can use in case your kids or you end up with a sore throne. Just saw that Israel killed another high profile dude. This time the spokesperson for the Republican Guard has been snuffed.
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Wow.
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He probably didn't have much to report other than somebody's been snuffed anyway. So have a report. More of us have been killed up.
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Now I've been killed. Well, I guess my boss was dead, now I'm dead.
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That's right.
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Yeah. I read an analysis by a actual authority on Iran that said the idea that, well, next man up, it's just, it doesn't go like that in running governments. There you got levels of expertise, respect, connectedness. And man, when you remove layer after layer, it's, it's a serious thing.
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Yeah, I would assume that it has to be. I think their respectedness, a word I've never said before, has got to be a lot of it because, you know,
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well, in the fear in a regime like theirs as well.
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Yeah, but you start ending up with the third in line in charge and then, then you know, all of a sudden that person's orders or decisions are like, yeah, I don't know if that's a good idea.
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Yeah, I've never been real impressed by him anyway.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't, I am, I really don't know. And I suppose none of us actually know. So I, I, I, I take in a lot of coverage on the war. I'm super interested in this. It's a very, very big story. It's, it could, it could get even more historical with a couple of, you know, zigs or zags any day now on, on the trajectory of this thing. But the coverage of like some of my favorite pundits say this is insane. The coverage of this war by the mainstream media. They act like we've lost, but we've Taken out this, we've taken out that, We've devastated this. They can no longer do that. I mean, the list of things that we've done to them is just off, off the charts. But mainstream media is treating it like we're losing. Okay, There's. There's that, and that, you know, makes an impression on me. Then there's also the. Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday gave a speech saying there's a decent chance the regime survives. So we need to look at it this way. Okay, was that an admission that they took our best shot, they're still there and we don't think we can take them out? Is that what that is?
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It could be.
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And if so, then, you know, where are our goals at that point? I guess to weaken them to the
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point that they can't disrupt global commerce and develop a nuclear weapon. I think the narrative that there has to be one goal, otherwise you don't have a goal or that you're aimless, is not realistic. When you're taking on a challenge as big as Iran, you're going to reduce their capacity to export, you know, terror and chaos to whatever extent you can. A regime change would be absolutely wonderful, but if it turns out that would be too much work, well, then you just neuter them.
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Well, I guess the problem is, without a regime change, do we get the Strait of Hormuz open back up? And getting the Strait of Hormuz opened back up is got to happen at this point?
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I think so, because of the incredible asymmetry of power. It might take a while, but, you know, every time they take out a tanker, we take out a city, I mean, after a while, they'll get tired of that. Not to mention we'll lop off another layer of command and control and political leadership every time. Yeah, they'll. They'll. They'll give in.
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What I hope is happening is the people that are making the argument that, yeah, they look like they've got their act together a little bit from the outside, but they are a house of cards at this point. That's just gonna absolutely crumble any moment. I hope that's the case. And that sounds right, doesn't it? Based on just what we were talking about, about taking all. Taking out all the various levels of leadership, then the next guy, then the next guy, all these different parts of their military capacity, that at some point it's just going to collapse.
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Yeah. I don't want to sound cynical or anything because there are actual lives at stake, but this is so interesting to watch. You have A complete, you know, decapitation of a regime. It's degenerated into, like, you know, regional. Both geographical regions and like, regions of power. Like just no central flow of power. It's all kind of atomized. I guess the word would be what that looks like in two months, six months, a year is just super crazy. Interesting from a political science perspective, I have no idea. Particularly given the utter hatred of the regime by huge swaths of the population.
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Right.
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I mean, how does that dynamic play out? Can you just re. Brutalize the population over and over and over again and who knows? Terrible, but interesting. So, Israel, thank God you're American right now, friends right now, thank whatever God you hold dear that you are an American citizen. If you are, if not, welcome to our land. I hope you enjoy your stay, learn to speak English and don't overstay your visa.
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I tweeted, I tweeted out, guy standing there reporting where a missile felt like the block away from him. Did you see that? And that's what I tweeted yesterday was glad I live in this country where that can't happen. Happen. There's a lot of places in the world where that can happen. Can't happen here.
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The son of the president of Iran is keeping a bit of an online diary during the conflict, and some of the things he said are really, really interesting. We'll get into that maybe next hour.
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Oh, wow, that sounds good. Israel did make a statement yesterday that they're not going to attack any more energy infrastructure without our going along with it. So whether they stick to that or not, I don't know.
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Yeah, and it could be.
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I feel like that kind of hurts the whole the Jews are driving this and we're just their puppet narrative, but.
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Which is idiotic. Please saying that you're an idiot. Stop saying anything. Idiots should be seen and not heard. It is also entirely possible because the whole. We knew about it. We didn't know about it. We gave him permission. We did it. That's just. It's absolutely, entirely possible that as we coordinate with Israel, slightly different sets of goals, and we'll talk about that, too. But Israel said, look, we've got to demonstrate that we're willing to take out their energy infrastructure. That's going to be the only way to get them to give. And we said, all right, one sample of how bad it could get. And then, then we cool off because we don't want to upset the world markets. And Israel said, okay, we'll take out this.
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That sort of thing happens all the time.
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In war.
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Yeah, very.
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And you don't tell the New York Times.
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Yeah, maybe don't tell anybody for 25 years when the. When they. Exactly right papers are finally released. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, March 20, the year 2026, where Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program.
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All right, let's begin then. Officially, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go. The show starts at mark potato segments.
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Throw on the glass slipper. It's a Cinderella story in Portland, Oregon for the first time in program history. High Point break. We will see you in the round of 32. Oh, what a feeling.
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Those are the student play by play announcers for a high point beating Wisconsin round one. They're jumping up and down hugging each other.
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Oh, that's awesome. No kidding. You know, there's always so much excitement and happiness for the 12 that upsets the 5 at the or any big upset in the March Madness. And nobody ever talks about the kids who've worked their whole lives. This is their senior year. They're not good enough to be in the pros. This is. This was it. This is their whole thing. And they're gonna enjoy the tournament. And they got knocked out by a team that's not even close to as good as them. And they'll never get over it.
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Hey, it sucks to suck. All right. Should have won.
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It sucks to suck. That might end up being your quote.
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Oh, no, I stole that one. Hits. A friend of mine uses that. We often use it on the golf course.
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It sucks to suck.
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Sucks to suck.
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That's pretty funny. Okay, we've got Katie's headlines on the way and lots of news to get to.
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Stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
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HMPV is what Chat GPT said is really going around. That starts with a sore throat. Hmpv. I don't know. Meta. Panomavirus.
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Oh, that's what I was afraid of. Rsv. I know. No, it's a bad feeling,
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but at least me. Strep is what fits the pattern the most. And that's very contagious.
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Streptococcus aureus.
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Yeah, it's a bastard. Hope I didn't give it to you, Hanson. When I was breathing on you yesterday.
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That's the traditional kiss you insist on at the end of every show. For years I begged you to stop the superstition. All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green. Katie.
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All right, all the major news networks talking about Iran. ABC US targets mine laying vessels in the Strait of Hormuz amid blockade disrupted, disrupting global oil markets. NBC fears of an all out Israeli invasion mount in Lebanon. And CNN analysts warned the war could keep prices high for years as energy infrastructure is damaged in the region.
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I tend to doubt that. Yeah, there's a lot of alarmism because it gets clicks. Be afraid is the most powerful clickbait that exists on Earth.
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It's gonna stay high. It's gonna stay high forever because that energy infrastructure was damaged. Is a stupid take. Who wrote that? That's just a stupid take.
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Clickbait. Garbage.
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News Nation Transportation Secretary warns travel chaos will only get worse.
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They've got to settle this whole stupid DHS thing. Oh my God. We can get into it later if you want, but it's just. It's a publicity stunt by the Dems and you're the victims.
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From the Wall Street Journal. Tesla finally has its first semi truck and it's a hit with truckers.
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Oh, really?
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Was reading about it. Very impressive. Yeah, between the technology and a good solid 500 mile range.
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Yeah, I've seen them in person. They have them at that super fancy car museum in Los Angeles. They have them on display. There's something else. God, what do they weigh though? My Cyber truck weighs 7,000 pounds because the batteries are so heavy. What is the. What is one of those trucks?
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Way it's got to tear the hell out of the road. Huh?
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From Wired Robot goes berserk in California restaurant Dragged away by staff after smashing tableware.
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That's awesome.
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They had it in dance mode and it couldn't. They couldn't get it to stop dancing.
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That video.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It was dance flailing and breaking stuff and they're trying to wrestle it to the ground.
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Once I start dancing, I can't stop either.
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Dancing machine.
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Daily Mail. Venomous flying spiders the size of a human hand are spreading across the United States.
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Wow. That's crazy. I'm having this weird dream that I'm doing the show and there are flying spiders in the world. I gotta wake myself up.
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Flying spiders the size of a human hand. Good Lord.
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Wow.
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I'm moving.
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You gotta bring us that whole story.
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Where are they spreading across the United States?
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Starting from where?
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Oh, I don't know.
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Okay, we gotta. We gotta go deep on this story.
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It originated in Asia.
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Another sneak attack. Yeah. Okay.
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It started on the East Coast. They've been seen in Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas. Also in California.
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Build a wall to Mississippi.
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That's Right.
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But they've been seen in California as well, so you're screwed.
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Oh, my God.
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Study finds 19 million Americans have seriously thought about shooting someone.
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Seriously thought about it, yes.
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According to this headline, it's a national survey.
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Yeah. Does that include like a home invader? I mean, because anybody who owns a firearm had better think seriously about it and make sure you're mentally prepared to use it.
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I don't think that's.
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If you can.
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I don't think that's what they need.
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I don't think.
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Well.
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And finally, finally, the Babylon B. California celebrates installation of single LA trash can that cost $400 billion and took 18 years to build.
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Yeah, that's close to right.
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Fantastic. So we have venomous flying spiders the size of your hand. Okay, yes. That seems like the headline of the day. Really? And a bunch of other stuff to get to. We'll fill in all those stories for you. Hope you can stick around.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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It's Friday, so here in a couple hours we'll start drinking daiquiris. That's what we do on Fridays. Last hour the shows gets a little blue. So if you can't.
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Eight o' clock in the morning's a little early for me. But you know, I'm a team player.
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So you can't handle the blue hour when. When the daiquiri starts to sink in, you know, then maybe you're not, you know, you don't have the stuff for this show. Maybe that's the case.
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Wow.
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We'll start the daiquiris later, but there's a fair amount of news to get to. We got to get to Trump sitting with the Japanese Prime Minister here in a few minutes. In case you haven't heard it, it's all time for both my kids. Because I said this is one of Trump's all time greats.
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Good Lord. Cringe Harbor. As I said during the oh my God introduction. All right, but first, it's the Friday tradition. Let's take a fond look back at the week that was. It's cow clips of the week.
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We've won. Let me say we've won.
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We've not yet seen any proof of life from Moshtab Hamanai. The last job anyone in the world wants right now. Senior leader for the IRGC temp jobs.
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He went down the stairs. He was headed outside for something he had to like this is a dude.
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As Iran keeps its iron grip on
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the Strait of Hormuz.
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And we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows Better about surprise than Japan. Okay. Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay.
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You told the media that I was
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a freaking snake, sir.
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And you offer no apology today and no regrets.
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Dueling with two consenting adults is still there. I was pointing out what is still legal for 170 years. Governor of Texas Greg Abbott coming out saying we are not going to do Cesar Chavez day, which was our.
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He believed in non violence except against 13 year old girls if he was horny.
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In a nation used to hardship, Cubans say the situation has never been worse.
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I do believe I'll be the honor of having the honor of taking Cuba.
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Sean, you were called Officer Pound Cake multiple times.
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He received hundreds of pound cakes at work. I got the right to kick a can in my backyard. Use my freedom of speech, turn my bad times into a good time. Yes, I do. And I think I'm a sport for dealing stuff.
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We're all on a spectrum, right? It's just how society kind of pushes us and pressures us into these limiting gender roles and so to be able to just be roaming the Santa Monica
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mountains looking for seeds in that sacred
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solitude was such a blessing.
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Mama has the ick so bad. She looks like she's about to legit unalive her husband.
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Why do you not use capital letters?
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And as I said it, I felt, felt myself develop osteoporosis like from how old I was
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the best in baseball. It's clips of the week. A lot there.
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Clip of Gavin Newsom's wife. Society pusses, pushes us into gender roles. Oh my God. If she ends, we're all on a spectrum. If she ends first lady, it's going to be tough.
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We have more from her. She's really speaking out lately. She is a limousine Marxist. It occurred to me she is the perfect example example of that phrase I love from Matt Taibbi. Upper class twits promoting revolution.
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Anyway, that I wonder if there's. That would be a tough situation to be in. I mean, because obviously Gavin could be thinking she is not helping me get to be President of the United States. But how would I tell her to shut up? I mean, that'd be a tough situation.
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Obviously Gabby is getting a fair amount of attention online over the last 24 hours or so. He appeared at some stupid event with, I think it was criminal Rob Bonta, the Attorney General. But Gavi standing in the background just twitching non stop and rubbing at his nose and pacing back and forth. And I've never seen anybody behave like that unless they are, you know, A, coked up B, on meth or C, like waiting to go in for the interview. That'll make or break their career. But he is just twitchy.
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Really interesting. Interesting is right. Okay, Michael, we're gonna play clip 60. So the setting here is Trump is in the Oval Office with the Prime Minister of Japan, who is a woman. First time they've ever had a woman prime minister. She is quite a hawk on China and protecting Taiwan and that sort of stuff. And she is a friend of the United States. It's, it's good to have her in
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charge of Japan, but, oh, yeah, huge step forward.
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Trump, as he often does when he has world leaders there, starts taking questions from the press and you'll hear the question.
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Let me pick a beautiful looking person from a beautiful person from Japan. A question for the Prime Minister. Go ahead. Yeah. Oh, he doesn't believe he's beautiful. He's just sounding shot glass, please.
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Of course. No, Japan and us are very good friends. But one question. Why didn't you tell us allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran? So we are very confused about we Japanese citizens.
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Well, one thing, you don't want to signal too much. You know, when we go in, we went in very hard and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan?
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Okay.
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Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay, right. He's asking me now. You believe in surprise. I think much more so than us.
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So cringy.
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Oh, my God. And the Prime Minister is sitting there with a blank expression on her face like this moment. Let's let this get past this moment.
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Oh, man.
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Go to another question.
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Right, exactly.
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Switch.
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This is my Zelinsky, you have no cards moment. Got to stay calm. Right, right. So I'll just give you a smattering of the reactions. There are a number of people who are offended or pretending to be offended in Japan and other, you know, places, including the capitals of the intelligentsia in the United.
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Well, let's, let's dwell on this before you move on. Oh, sure, let me think. Oh, yeah, I hadn't thought about the idea of being offended as Japan. It is. Everybody's always, everything's always got to back to go back to the Hitler and the Nazis. But like if it was Germany and you make some joke that like equates the current Germans with the Nazis, that would definitely be offensive.
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Yeah. If you made some comment about, oh, you're going to put the cake in the oven, that's not the same ovens you used for, you know, the Jews.
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Who knows more about ovens than the, than the Nazis?
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Huh? Huh, huh? Yeah.
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All about ovens.
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It has an element of bringing up an incredibly painful and unpleasant chapter with a friend.
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Right. And it's similar. I mean, they had an out of control, a nihilistic, militaristic society at the
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time with enormous popular support. So there's that.
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Yeah.
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The emperor is a God, etc. So. TV commentator said it shows an unpleasant side of President Trump. He doesn't care at all that the Japanese Prime Minister is sitting next to him. Here's a professor of Japanese politics, University of Tokyo, said that many Japanese would probably shrug off the joke, seeing it as just another over the top remark by Mr. Trump.
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Yeah.
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He added, this is something that absolutely shouldn't be said. He might start saying things like Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fine, weren't they, for Japanese people? We can't accept that. I will tell you this. This will come and go like a summer rain already has.
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I suppose.
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Yeah, yeah. I will tell you this. And I didn't get permission to tell the story, so I'm going to keep it vague. I have a friend who was in South Korea on business and one of his co workers is Japanese and they went to a South Korean museum and there were so many exhibits of when Korea was sneak attacked by Japan. I mean, it was a theme that happened over and over again. Perhaps one person started nicknaming the other person sneak attack because the Japanese were so repeatedly into that.
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And how did. And how did the person of Japanese persuasion take the nickname?
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I was laughing.
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I didn't ask did they find that funny or.
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I have no idea. But the point is, Trump was right. He was 100% right.
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Not necessarily.
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You want to bring up your friends worst moment in front of them.
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Probably not, because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan?
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What do you mean Trump was right? What does that mean? What do you mean, Trump was right?
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Well, Japan and the sneak attack are practically synonymous.
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Well, yeah, you're experts. You're experts. I don't know if you put that in the category of right. There's lots of things that. There are gazillions of things that are correct, but you don't say them.
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That's right up there with origami and sushi. It's part of the Japanese culture. He was just observing that. He was paying tribute to their culture.
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A
Oh, my God.
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B
At least he didn't bring up Godzilla.
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A
Yeah, you guys, you guys did a very Good job of getting Godzilla under control. I took my cat to that.
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B
Tell you what, a couple of subway cars, but, you know, what are you gonna do? Yeah, no, it was terrible. It was absolutely terrible, but of no great, lasting significance.
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A
He is so unbelievable. He's one of the more unique people who've ever been of prominence in the history of the world.
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B
I would love to know. I guess we'll know maybe going forward. How much of it is the media and the swamp were so brutally unfair to his first administration. He's got an F it, F you and F it attitude going. Plus, he's got the old man filter going away thing, so. Holy cow. Fasten your seatbelts.
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He might. Here's what I liken it to. I also need to be vague so I don't hurt anybody's feelings. Somebody I know when I was a kid, this bothered me. When I got older, I understood what was happening. There are some people that. Their personality is. They always like to have you uncomfortable and on your heels, even if they're. You're not liking a negotiation or anything like that. They just want to have you a little rattled.
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B
Yeah.
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A
That's the way they live their lives. They want everybody around them to be a little rattled. It puts them in a position of power or comfort or. I don't know what it is. As a psychological trait. I think Trump is that he likes to have people around him just a little off kilter in case he needs it.
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B
I think so. Yeah. 100%. Yeah.
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D
Because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan?
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A
You should have told me about Pearl Harbo harbor, which, of course, is a weird thing since nobody was born at the time, but little Tora.
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B
Tora. Torah reference or something. Yeah. Come on. Come on.
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A
That is so amazing. Oh, the look on the Prime Minister's face. And at this particular moment where they had stated 24 hours previous that they were not going to help us out. And then they decided to sign on to that letter with all the European countries about helping us get the Strait of Hormuz open. And that was a. That was a major win for Marco Rubio or whoever got put that together. And then Trump makes flattering the crap
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B
out of Trump, too.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I mean, like to the point that she knew what she was doing and she was choking down her pride and all, but figured out you got to do it with this guy. And then that. That thing. Yeah.
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Oh, my God. Anyway, it's just, you know, and then kind of like the person that I'm imagining who used to do that all the time until I figured out, oh, okay, I get what it is, is you get, you expect it, you get used to it. You know, that's their personality. You might not like it, but it's just, it's not as shocking as it would be coming out of somebody else where you're not used to it. And I think Trump's definitely that way. The Overton window for what behavior might happen in a conversation is much different in a room with Trump than with anybody else.
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B
Yeah. And world leaders have definitely caught onto it. I mean, this gal is Japanese, so the Japanese people are legit famed for their reserve. And, you know, they're not an effusive people.
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A
Joe, why didn't you tell us about Pearl Harbor?
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B
Well, he said, why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Wait, what?
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D
Because we tried surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan?
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B
I tell you what, WTF is the universal language because as her translator translates that to her, you see her face be like, what? He said, what?
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A
Oh, Jesus.
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B
But she tried to keep her composure, but, you know, that look crept in.
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A
Oh, my God. Okay, we got Mailbag next. Stay here.
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B
Armstrong and Getty.
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A
So does your wife Judy have any symptoms other than a sore throat?
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B
Just the general malaise and sniffles and that sort of thing.
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A
Trying to figure out what's going around the country right now that starts with a really bad sore throat. Since I've got one and my son's got one and your wife has one.
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B
Yeah, yeah. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Oh, this is a great one from Churchill. In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Interesting thought. The truth is so precious should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Deception is part of war. Absolutely, Mailbag. Let's see, we'll start with this. Barry. Oh, drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongandgetti.com Barry said, Can someone explain to me on population decline in AI what the concern is about nations experiencing declining populations? And he gives some of the stats. Since AI will be eliminating untold jobs, does it really matter if the population goes back to 1975 levels should also benefit the planet with regards to climate change, excessive resource extraction, pollution, etc. If I'm being stupid, please inform me.
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A
Well, from everything I read about demographics, the problem with that is it tends to be trends that keep going in a direction. And if you keep going to the direction of not having kids, the population spiraling down really takes off. It's Exponential the way the numbers work, you know?
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B
Right.
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A
Find someplace to read about it. Because it's amazing how quickly it can go down to a tiny number.
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B
And every western democracy has a pyramid scheme welfare state.
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A
Right.
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B
And that is going to be fiscally disastrous during that low reproduction period. At some point it'll probably go away in some form or another and we'll probably have Lord of the Flies, cannibalism, et cetera.
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A
But being. Being concerned about people not being born. How do you be concerned about someone who's not born? Is an interesting idea.
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B
Agreed. Yeah. On the topic of Cesar Chavez, dolores la huerta, etc. Tom writes, what happened to Dolores Huerta was terrible. She got raped by Cesar Chavez. Not in a marriage. But she stayed not in a marriage to protect kids, but in a business relationship to further a cause. That's a choice she gets to make if it only affects her. But she used his right hand lady and his. Is it not possible that she allowed others to suffer because the man was the cause and the cause was too important to get derailed by her coming forward to protect them? Why only after others came forward 30 years after his death did she say me too. I'm not trying to tear her down, but can we take a moment before we elevate another to hero status? Changing names and rewriting textbooks costs money. How about we do it only once?
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A
She is in a difficult position.
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Yeah, I was going to say I hesitate to judge the actions and inactions of rape victims in the 70s. Victims. Victims of very, very powerful men. Yeah, but interesting point. Christo and Reno reminds us that Cesar Chavez street in San Francisco was originally called Army street for 130 years. Maybe it's time to rename it that in honor of our fighting men and women. Let's see. Great analysis here on the around thing. We don't have time. And we particularly Jack, were completely wrong about animal overpasses late in the show yesterday. We will gobble some delicious humble pie.
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A
Yeah, whatever. We got a lot more on the way. Stay here.
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B
Armstrong and Gettysburg.