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Broadcasting live from the abraham lincoln radio studio at the george washington broadcast center, jack armstrong and joe getty.
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Armstrong and getty. And now here. Here's arms.
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Live from Studio C. Si, senor.
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Why am I the only one who wore a helmet? Tour I've been wearing a helmet since midday yesterday when the drone attack warning came out.
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Keep meaning to get on a war footing. And I keep forgetting, boy, did drone
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attack warnings mean nothing to you people. I put on a helmet, I climbed under my bed, I stayed under my bed until about a half an hour ago. I drove to work with my helmet helmet on.
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It's just smart.
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Now live from Studio C where we have re fortified the Armstrong and Getty communications compound against the Iranian drone attack. And today we are toiling under the title of the show Dire.
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Straight or mine?
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Mine. Mine.
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Both references to the Strait of Hormuz, of course.
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Here is the least important thing I'm probably going to say all day. Is it straight or straights?
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I've become convinced it's straight. It's one straight.
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Ian Bremmer. I was looking at his feed and he's a very smart guy. He had a post where he said the Straits of Hormuz. And then he'd had another post from a couple hours, a couple hours earlier where he said the Straight of Hormuz. So he's doing it both ways.
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So much uncertainty in today's world.
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Yeah, I realize it's not important, but I hear smart people saying both, so I don't know what it is. It's the Straits of Joe. Joe Balt. A G word. Joe Gibraltar. Baltar. Boy, I can't say that.
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Wow. Wow. We need some speech therapy here. We have a therapist. Is there a therapist in the. On the plane. We need a therapist.
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Anyway, more important news. So yesterday, mid afternoon, the news goes nuts, especially on the west coast and in California about a potential Iranian drone strike. In California. And it got so much news attention and I don't understand, something was going on there. Why did that, why yesterday? So according to all the reporting on that, it's all about a memo that Went out in February that the FBI circulated that Iran aspired to conduct a surprise drone attack. Did not include targets, timing, or operation details. Early unverified intelligence and not deemed particularly credible. Then why yesterday did it erupt as a giant story? Is there a reason?
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Somebody got wind of it and because everything is clickbait now, they thought, oh, my God, people click on that like crazy.
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On the west coast, there's Gavin Newsom responding to the Iran retaliation drone threat.
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Oh, thank God. We have capable leadership to protect the West Coast.
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Some. Somebody wanted that to be a big story yesterday. I don't know.
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Why.
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I think.
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Who?
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I don't know. I don't even know.
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What are you looking at? Japanese? The Jews?
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I don't know. I don't know. To. To. To rally support. Look, Iran's threatening the United States. You need to be on board with this.
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I don't know.
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Maybe. I don't know. It's funny. I didn't react to. And perhaps again, I'm not helmeted, so I'm clearly not on a war footing. I just thought, oh, my gosh, that's a crazy interesting tidbit that'll get a
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lot of attention, but that doesn't seem to be any reason for that to have exploded as a story yesterday.
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What do you mean? If it appeared as a story, it's gonna explode because it's a super compelling story. That's what I'm trying to say. But.
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But who.
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Who got it out since it. Since it happened in February? Who got it out mid March as a story?
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Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who leaked it? Who found it?
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I think it was on purpose for something. I don't know. Gavin Newsom got to stand in front of American flag. He did the full on look like a president thing. He had an American flag over his shoulder. He's wearing the suit tie with a tie framed in a way to look like a president and talking about protecting California. So I don't think he did it on purpose.
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I think it's like the pizza index at the Pentagon that shows we're on a war footing. If Gavin Newsom was wearing a tie, you know, make sure your affairs are in order, folks. Serious times.
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I personally know three people. I was going to say a number of people, but I know the number. It's three.
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That is a number.
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I know three people that were actually worried about this yesterday, asking me about it, and I said, I'm not worried about it. That's all I could say. But three people that are actually worried about it, who weren't following the news that closely, but heard the big headline possible drone attacks in California for Iran. You know, all of a sudden that really, you know, landed on their mental desktop, if you will, as something to think about. But I don't know, I just wonder why that story came out yesterday. To me, that sounds. I guess there are technical reasons why it'd be difficult for Iran to do it, but would just be crazy. Wouldn't we just obliterate Iran? I mean, like, practically make it disappear from the earth if they launched multiple attacks in California.
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It's always interesting watching history unfold in front of us. For instance, the Iran regime continually calculating if we hit them good and hard, they'll back down.
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Now, I think this straight, straight. I'm gonna go with straits. I think the Straits of Hormuz ploy.
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Well, you know why it's only straight to Hormuz? Cause if you're a gay of Hormuz, they'll hang you from a crane in Iran.
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I'm not sure about the transition, but the point is accurate.
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And I want to make that point over and over again to show up what a bizarre perversion of the truth our progressives are engaged in these days. Back to you.
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I think this strategy of shutting down the Straits of Hormuz and driving up oil prices and making people wonder when will you ever be able to send ships through there again? Is a pretty damn good strategy. And I'm not exactly sure how the world is going to unknot that the idea of attacking California would be a horrible strategy. Yeah, I would think in the midst of this keep playing your Straits of Hormuz card. I would think if I'm Iran. I don't quite understand. I just heard a clip of a senator being asked, why are we not escorting ships through there? And he just said, I don't know. A Republican senator.
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I read what seemed to be a fairly authoritative statement. The Navy is saying it's way too narrow and dangerous for us. It would be a terrible risk.
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And this is why I want to talk to Mike Lyons later.
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How.
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Why can't we make it not dangerous with. With the control we have of the airspace and the assets we have in the region and the number of planes flying around drum bombs. I'm just surprised. I'm not a military guy. There must be a really good reason for this. But I just. I can't imagine how. We just can't, like, make that not dangerous.
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Right?
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Well, blow up so many freaking things they can't do in it.
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Exactly. It's A serious upping the ante back and forth that's going on right now. And what I have a feeling maybe Trump is communicating this directly to the Iranians through back channels or maybe it's just obvious. But it would seem unless they back down, what's going to happen is because the straight and or straits of Hormuz have to be open. We're saying, look, you can either back down or we'll reduce you to the point that you could never pose a threat. And Iran's like, well, as long as we've got a single mine, we'd pose a threat. Exactly, yes. We're gonna reduce you to gravel.
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Yeah, that does seem like a pretty good bargaining position.
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I mean, because to accomplish that goal, although it sounds all gung ho y and Murica, that would, that would require all out warfare.
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That reminds me, just sometimes in parenting where I've had to kind of play that card, this is, this is the end result. We're going to get to. This is going to happen. This is not even in question. So how, how are we going to get here? Are we going to get here this way or this way? With like, you know, some pain and consequences? But this is going to happen. Let's not be mistaken about this. And I would think that that would work. Look, it's got to be open. It's the world oil market. We're not going to allow this to be closed. So you either open it now or you open it after. We've just absolutely pummeled you. And I don't see that to be any advantage to you whatsoever. Yeah.
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How does that benefit you? It's going to be the same result. I think the thing would be good parenting, good relations.
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It only works with parenting, like you've talked about throughout the years, if the kids actually believe you. I think Iran doesn't believe it. They believe that we don't have the political will to keep fighting at that level, that the world will turn on it or something.
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Right. The key to deterrence is credibility. 100%, which we lost under Obama and Biden terribly. But whatever you think about this conflict.
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But it is a fact. I mean, that's not just a Trump thing or whatever. That has got to be open and oil needs to flow through there. That has to happen for planet Earth or the world.
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Well, the world economy would be transformed in a significant way.
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Well, and allow it, what, because of a bunch of theocratic camel humpers and then just allow them to shave off 20% of the world's oil economy? That seems like an odd way to run the planet. Oh, yeah. Just.
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It depends on whether we have the will and the capacity to. To come up with a different result. I think we do, but, you know, I've been throwing around we. It's got to be more than the United States. Well, France, we're about at the point that we need a little coalition of the willing.
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Yeah. France announced the other day they're willing to escort. But that was before. So we kind of left out. One of the big headlines is five cargo ships have been attacked in the last 24 hours.
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Oh, yeah.
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By around five.
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Yeah. The threat is real. And they're laying mines like crazy, including
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a sailor that did die overnight. They got the 37 off this big ship that was entirely engulfed in flames. But, yeah, these companies who have. I can't even imagine how much investment you have in one of those giant ships full of oil and the sailors and the business. So they're not willing to risk that. Right.
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And then insurance companies have enormous amount at risk as well, and they're not super happy about the idea. As we've discussed earlier, this is a sticky one.
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Maybe. Maybe halfway through the show, if we have not been under attack yet, I'll take my helmet off. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Jo Getty on this. It is Thursday, March 12, the year 2026, where Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program.
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It's funny how different human beings react to stuff like that. I mean, if I was told There was a 100% chance a drone attack will kill a person on the west coast of the United States, a west coast state of the United States, I'd be like, yeah, it's a big place, and I have work to do and
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probably not even think of it again
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unless I heard buzzing overhead.
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I agree.
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And some people freak out.
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I don't know if that makes me a simpleton or what, but, yeah, I was.
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Makes you somebody who understands geography. All right, let's begin. Now, officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, here we go. Plowing bravely through the straits of Truth at mark.
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I'm a reptile girl, so we're here for the snakes. I've never hung out with a snake,
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and I'm super excited to hold one or touch one.
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Inhale, come up mountain arms. Wave your arms in the air. Say, hey, Gemma. Gemma is one of my favorite snakes. In snake yoga, it's just a different vibe.
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This is, like, super relaxing and calming and especially the big snakes on you
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well, it's happened. Portland is now utterly unable to perceive when it's a parody of itself.
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Snake Yoga.
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Snake Yoga class in Portland, of course, Portlandia, Oregon.
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So my question is, because goat yoga was so popular for a while, was it Goat yoga? A snake got loose, got ate the goats and they thought, you know what, you make lemonade out of lemons. Let's just start having Snake yoga.
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Just change the sign out front.
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We'll have to talk about the Snake Yoga more later. Yeah, that is. Have you watched Portlandia? They mock this sort of thing, you see. All right, we got Katie's headlines on the way. Stay here.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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Did I say axe? I say axe sometimes. But ironically that time it was not ironic. It just came out. They you ask the question differently, you get a different answer. Latest poll from the Washington Post about the war in Iran shows a lot more support, slightly different view of the question. So that's something. Also locally to where we are broadcasting right this moment. Couple of guys speak in Hebrew get beat down in the street by some Iranian dudes in broad daylight.
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Yeah.
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Unbelievable. We got to get to that story later.
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Another anti Semitic attack in liberal California. Disgusting. All right, let's take a look around, figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
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Katie.
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All right, Alphabet networks are covering Iran. ABC three more ships set a fire in the Persian Gulf. CNN oil sees historic disruptions as Iran escalates attacks on shipping. And NBC Pentagon tells Congress first six days of Iran war cost $11.3 billion.
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Yeah, I want to talk about the way they figured the cost of the war a little bit later. But five attacks on ships in 24 hours is not a good thing. We do need to get away from let's be grown ups and not pretend that $100 because it's a triple digit is somehow super significant to the price of oil. Can we be more grown up about this?
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Yeah, I want to talk more about that later. I think People's inability or unwillingness to understand inflation or not having been had it explained to them. Right. That may be one of the biggest problems we have in America. Could be.
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Seriously?
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Yeah.
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From the Wall Street Journal. Tesla's grand plan for the future is
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a car with no steering wheel. Okay, well, if you go full self driving, I suppose you don't need a steering wheel, but feel like there's such
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a lack of control there.
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Yeah, yeah. You have none.
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Yeah. That's why
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Guardian, Meet the Americans withholding their federal income tax to protest against Trump.
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All right, good luck with that.
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Go ahead. Good idea. Super idea.
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ESPN Italy saves USA from ultimate WBC embarrassment by beating Mexico.
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Beat Mexico 8, nothing. They are a tough team, Italy. They are on a roll.
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And it turns out not only were our guys and the manager completely convinced that we were unbeatable, but they got the formula wrong for how you advance. And they didn't realize they were in danger of not advancing.
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What?
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Yeah.
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How are you not paying more attention?
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Guys, we're so good, nobody's gonna beat us.
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USA Today, Buffalo Wild Wings unveils wing flavored protein espresso martini.
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Oh,
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well, that's a lot. That's a lot to wrap my head around. Espresso martini. Wing flavor. Buffalo wing flavor.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Nobody wants me bad.
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I wonder what my vomit will look like.
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Oh, we just don't need it.
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New York Post.
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Bigfoot sightings up in the gloomiest corner of Ohio. Residents report their dogs are shaking in fear.
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This is officially your stupidest headline at.
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And it was just for you.
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What the hell?
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Bigfoot sightings are up in Ohio. Is your headline. Uh huh.
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Okay. Yeah.
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Study finds men with low testosterone may pay a steeper health price for a high sugar diet.
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Oh, interesting.
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It makes sense.
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It speeds up the fatty liver issue, apparently.
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Golly. Yeah, that's no good.
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And finally, from the Babylon Bee, Iran cancels plan to attack California after seeing that Gavin Newsom has already destroyed it.
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Hey, now.
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Oh, wow.
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Right?
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You could say here's a neighborhood hit by an Iranian drone. Oh, no, no, wait. This is footage from a neighborhood taken over by drug zombies.
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Exactly. It's been destroyed by a junkie camp. You see? Oh, look at, look, look at all the people running through the streets with stolen goods looting amok after the attack. I'm being told there was no attack. There's just looting.
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Yes.
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It's Tuesday. Yeah.
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Issue polling is stupid because it depends on how you ask the question. Among other things on the way. So stay tuned.
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We're doing our job so I had to take an excursion, but it's doing well. The market's holding up well. I figured we'd be hit a little bit, but we were hit probably less than I thought and we'll have be back on track in a pretty short while. Prices are coming down very substantially. Oil will be coming down. That's just a it's just a matter of war that happens where you can almost predict it. I would say it went up a little bit less than we thought. It's going to come down more than we than anybody understands. Man, it is so frustrating. I mentioned that Mark Halperin in his afternoon newscast I was watching the other day, he said it's really tough, the journalism on this because you either have like the Fox crowd where there's no skepticism about the war whatsoever, and then you have the seems like it's rooting for the other side crowd. And so often when I watch any of these stories, it's all run through the filter of how wrong was Trump about this or whatever and just God, who freaking cares? We got this major war going on that I want to turn out well.
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I happen to listen to a bit of NPR before the show to punish myself for the terrible things I've done. And indeed they come through as usual. They were the there was unmistakable enthusiasm to their reports about us accidentally hitting that school with clearly, clearly. I mean they believed in fact, I think that was the lead story. They teased at the top of the hour. Their highest calling is to criticize their own country. They are so obsessed with that way to show their enlightenment. And that's a comment on the left.
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Yeah, it's some weird because I, I know some people like this, like I personally know them well, so I don't talk politics with them because of this sort of thing. They have a, a self hatred about the United States. It's so odd to me.
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Yeah, it's, it's almost the, the pass, the backstage pass, you have to, have to be accepted in left of center circles. Anywho, and it's interesting because it's so incredibly knee jerk and these people often try to pass themselves off as intellectuals of some sort.
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Is this all about what I'm about to tell you, this latest Washington Post poll. Is this all about the way they ask the question or has the
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mood
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changed a little bit in the 13 days since the war started? Or I suppose both is a possibility. Yeah, because when I first looked at this, I thought, okay, this is gonna be a bad poll. Do you support or oppose the US military campaign against Iran? Support 42. Oppose 40. Support. Beat. Oppose 42, 40. Now all the polling early on was not even close. And as it says here in their write up about their own poll, a Washington Post poll shortly after the strikes began found 39% supported President Trump ordering airstrikes against Iran, while 52% opposed. Now one thing you might notice different about the way they posed the question might be the whole ball of wax here. The word Trump is in the first question and it was 5239 upside down. You take the word Trump out and it's 4240 support. So it might just be taking the word Trump out of there for people who don't pay attention. Wow, Trump, Trump did something. I oppose. It might just be it, I don't know. It is also possible. This is, this is my wishes being the father of my thoughts. This is what I hope is I hope that a bunch of people that had no idea when the war first started, why we were doing it, were against it, have read a little bit about it, heard a little bit about it and decided no, this sounds like a good idea.
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Again, it's probably a little of both. I heard a report and I wish I could remember the specific number, but it was quite striking. If you to your point about the way you word issue. Polling questions is just, that is the whole game. The question was in one poll worded are you in favor of the attack on Iran to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons. And the numbers were something like 25 higher. Yes. Than without that mention of nuclear weapons. And if you are paying any attention at all to the Iran situation over the last couple of years, you almost don't even have to mention that because that's what we're doing. But enough people didn't know that, that it had that big, made that big a difference in the result, which is it makes you stop and think, here's
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maybe a better one that fits in with my. Maybe my wishes aren't the father of my thoughts. Maybe they're just act. Maybe my wishes are accurate.
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Maybe there's the uncle of your thoughts, like a really beloved uncle, a close
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friend who's practically a family member. Maybe that's what my wishes are. Right, because they asked this question exactly the same way at the very beginning of the war. And then yesterday, do you think the US should continue military strikes against Iran or stop military strikes at this time? Continue was 25% the day after the war started. Now continue is 34%. That's almost a double digit jump in Continue the strikes 13 days into the war. That's interesting.
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Agreed.
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I'm not exactly sure what's going on there. Again, I'm hoping it's people read up on this, became aware and thought, okay, they killed 30,000 of their own people, they're trying to get a nuclear weapon,
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blah blah, blah, blah, blah.
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All these different things.
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Yeah, yeah. Boy, this is such a big sprawling topic. I'm trying to figure out exactly what we can squeeze in this segment and what to wait on.
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Lots of unsures in all these polls though. People that just aren't paying enough attention to have an opinion, I guess.
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Well, right. And you've gotta, you know, occasionally I'll be a little harsh about people who have no idea what they're talking about, but digits, you know, they're ignorant, they're bad Americans. They're, well, you know, ignorant, unsophisticated. Maybe there's a lot here and people don't spend their lives studying geopolitics. And if you give me say three, four minutes and literally just three or four minutes to talk about the history with Iran and what they're trying to do and how they consider the existence of the state of Israel a profound insult to Islam. So they must wipe it out and they will never stop trying. And they consider us a friend of Israel, so we must be wiped out and we are the great Satan. They have been attacking us and our troops for 50 years. We didn't start this war. They did. God, I heard it and it's been brutal and bloody. We're trying to finally end it. You give me and hell, that was far less than three minutes. I could alter those numbers by 20%.
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I was listening to an analyst on News Nation this morning. He said, I got Iranian shrapnel on both my knees, so I understand what Iran's all about. I thought that's a, that's, that's a powerful line.
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Yeah. Which is not, by the way, to say therefore this is a great idea and it will end well, you just never know. There's a lot of risk here. It's absolutely true.
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So there's a little more to the polling that I, that I actually think is interesting. So they broke it down by party. Your support for continuing strikes. Democratic Support is up 5%. Independent support for the strikes. So even Democratic support is up. And the stop strike number dropped five. So. Yeah, but so for independence it's up double digits. 11% increase among independents from day one to day 13 of continuing the strikes. So that's just paying attention, I guess. Or maybe when they started, you know, firing our oil tankers or I have no idea. Or seeing Iran attack 13 other countries made you realize how nutty they are. I don't know what changed people's minds there.
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A lot of, lot of stuff like that.
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I think it's all a stew of greater awareness.
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And this to what you were just talking about. Do you think Trump has clearly explained the goals of the US military actions? 2 thirds of Americans say no. And I would agree.
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Yeah, they're, they're correct.
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He made almost no effort, maybe on purpose. Maybe he thought, you know, nobody pays attention to this sort of stuff anymore. Why, why alert people to something that might have negative results? So.
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Well, yeah, and the press would have murdered him if he had been truthful and said, look, there are like three different results we could get out of this. We're certainly hoping to go to a third base. But it's possible we're just going to get to first base and realize the rest of it'd be way too hard. But we've got to do the first base thing. We've absolutely got to do it. Now see, that's, that's got a lot of ambiguity to it and it's be a tough sell, especially for somebody who doesn't tend to be a great salesman of complex things like Donald. Jeff.
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And finally, do you think U.S. military actions in Iran will or will not contribute to the long term security of The United States. It's basically a 50, 50 split. I don't know how you could possibly think that this wouldn't help the United States in terms of our security in the long run.
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But unless there's some sort of terrible, unforeseen development that's right around the corner. But it's unforeseen. So can't even imagine what that would answer a poll.
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I can't even imagine what that would be that we would just allow to stay that way and leave it alone.
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Oh, China decides we're depleted in our arms and moves on Taiwan or Canada or something like that. You know, just something one of your follow on effects of war.
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Okay, maybe I am a Brit in August of 1914 saying how could the murder of Ferdinand possibly make us less safe?
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I'm not pro Archduke homicide, but I just don't understand how it affects me.
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Right, right.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. The, the various. What I want to get into next hour is the various attempts at explaining why Trump is doing what he's doing and how the most obvious one is probably true. And also I was reminded of the incredible significance of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.
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I know a lot about that, so I look forward to talking about it. I read his book where he described
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that whole thing, and it's much more significant than, say, murdering an archduke on a street corner. The number of bombings and murders that unleashed.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Lots of people in his. People around him publishing died or were.
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Yeah, yeah. Poor innocent people in bookstores.
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Underappreciated story.
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And, you know, I don't want to bring everybody down. I'm a little down myself today.
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I'm up, though, so I'll balance it up.
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Oh, thank God. I'm up. You will lead us bravely into whatever comes. The fact that a lot of our young people and people on our political left have lost sight of or been convinced of the opposite of the fact that this is a. This regime represents everything. They despise everything and they're aggressive at exporting it. They are evil personified. For all of our flaws as a nation, they are an unspeakable evil. And yet we've got a bunch of young people, particularly on college campuses, honest to God chanting Death to America at Columbia, for instance.
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And then just to leave you with the headline once again, at least according to the Washington Post today, there is more support for this war with Iran than there is opposition. At least as of today it is. The support has grown since it started. Really interesting. We've got Mailbag on the way and lots of other stuff. Stay here.
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Now we gotta blow his beard off. Got to do it. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
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Oh my God.
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Sent along by Chuck in Vancouver, Washington. It's from James Baldwin who once said, not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Yeah, clearly true.
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So true. Stopping our series on war for a moment. Mailbag, drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrong armstrongetti.com we're gonna get back to the war situation in Mailbag in a minute. But first, other things Am in Vegas. Writes referring to the discussion of Gen Z kids in the workplace, Joe very well illustrated the days of play that up until the Gen Z years were filled with peer interactions, conflicts and revolution resolutions, teamwork and communication with minimal to no parental intervention. That is now the days of the past. These days, however, were the days that prepared us for life and survival. Those days taught us the work, workplace social and life social skills to successfully navigate this society. Depriving Gen Z of this was likened to depriving the child of wholesome food and and Jack, you said well food, they'd starve to death. But then and wanted to further explore that metaphor, these Gen zers without help from the previous generation will indeed starve. We have essentially as a society, stopped teaching the man to fish. We've set them up for failure to thrive and quite literal starvation or worse, communism. The only system that those who never learned to fish are attracted to embrace.
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Wow.
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Yeah, interesting. M. Thanks.
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And then not to just over complicate things. I'm not sure how you teach a man to fish with AI coming down the pike.
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Are you picturing fishermen robots out there
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catching our fish for us, supporting themselves?
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Yeah. Well, let's see. Speaking of alarm clocks, which we were on the fascinating Armstrong, you get a One More Thing podcast yesterday.
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Sounds like a fascinating topic.
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Steve in Plumas Lake, California writes. Enjoyed your segment. Wanted to share what I've come up with. I'm a single father of a 16 year old boy who often stays up late playing video games on school nights. Tisk. Tisk. I started a new job last summer that requires me to leave for work before it's time for my son to wake up for school. We implement an alarm clock that's been effective every day so far in the school year. Blah, blah. We have an extra cell phone we keep around the house as a backup. It's basically a dedicated alarm clock for my son with a twist. The twist is that it's kept outside his bedroom on a desk in the hallway and is always connected to a Bluetooth speaker which we plugged in, powered on all the time. It is an old block rocker speaker from Costco that's very similar to a guitar amplifier. Amplifier. The thing is loud. Too loud according to my son, but he hasn't missed the bus yet.
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Wow. Yeah. That's the sort of thing you come up with when you're single parenting because you got lots of balls in the air.
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Yeah, indeed. Let's see. Okay. To the war. Dave writes, on the topic of Iran strategy, I have to agree with you. It seems like a really stupid strategy by the Iranians to keep attacking the ships in the Strait or Straits of Hormuz. If they will continue to attack ships until they're destroyed, then we must destroy them. If we were to just say the war is over, would they stop attacking ships? I don't think so. They must be decimated.
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Yeah, they were actually making that point on MSNBC today that at this point we couldn't stop the war because the Strait of Hormuz is going to stay closed. So now that has become an issue.
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All right, enough war talk for now. We'll be back to it soon enough. I like this. On the topic of asking for more money. Jack, you talked about your college calling you to ask for more money long after you graduated. There's another entity that does this, hospitals and medical clinics. Writes Mike. My wife had cancer. We spent many thousands, including thousands out of pocket for our deductibles and patient share. And after they sent us requests asking us to donate money to them, as if the money I gave them for my treatment was not enough and I should give more. Yeah, that's crazy. And then putting an exclamation point on this one. Kevin, the Texas Marine with an observation about Jack getting contacted by his old college alma mater is a fancy term US Marines can't even spell. Anyway, he says, as an alumnus of the Corps, I don't get random phone calls for cash. They just take it out of my paycheck in the form of taxes.
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Ouch. That's a good one.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaking of medical bills. So I had a family member that needed to ride in an ambulance back in December. I won't explain what was going on there, but it was your ambulance ride. And I've been talking about this for a couple of years now. Well, apparently inflation has hit the ambulance ride thing.
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Oof.
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I was expecting a $3,000 bill that insurance doesn't cover. $4,600 to ride in the ambulance. Insurance doesn't cover it. What the hell is that? What is that? I gotta start walking on bloody knees or carrying people or whatever. Who can afford that?
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Yeah, Uber has to come up with like, plastic sheets. Uber. If you're bleeding, go ahead and call us. You'll save a hell of a lot of money.
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That's a lot of money. Okay, we got some more on the way.
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