Jack Armstrong (2:44)

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Joe Getty (2:52)

Armstrong and Getty.

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And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

Jack Armstrong (3:06)

I just saw it right now and

Joe Getty (3:07)

I couldn't believe it. It's not something I'm used to. I'm a tourist. But for me, that's too high, too expensive.

Jack Armstrong (3:13)

There in LA, we're about like $6

Joe Getty (3:15)

max, which is something that, you know, it hits everyone like crazy. But here it's $10. Never seen that.

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Probably could charge $20 a gallon.

Jack Armstrong (3:23)

And if you have to get gas,

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you have to get gas.

Jack Armstrong (3:25)

Where is it? $10 a gallon for gas?

Joe Getty (3:28)

Big Sur, California.

Jack Armstrong (3:30)

Oh, okay.

Joe Getty (3:32)

On that remote coastal parts of California, it's hitting 10 bucks a gallon.

Jack Armstrong (3:36)

Oof.

Joe Getty (3:38)

Yeah, that'll surely be a drag on the economy, Jack, is reflected in the miserable job numbers.

Jack Armstrong (3:44)

Job numbers, as we've already mentioned, came out and they were huge, defying expectations. The New York Times says U.S. job growth blew past expectations last month. A resilient rebound that defied concerns about. About a pending downturn. That's pretty positive language coming out of the New York Times, who wants the economy to be bad, of course, so they can be mad at Trump.

Joe Getty (4:05)

Yeah, I'll issue the usual annoying caveat that these numbers are going to get revised and sometimes substantially so. Take it with a grain of salt. But, I mean, it's not bad news.

Jack Armstrong (4:17)

No. The job gains were driven by a big rebound for the health care and social assistance sector, the pillar that has held up the labor market for much of the past year. It added about 90,000 jobs in March, a reversal from February when a West coast strike had sent us the other direction.

Joe Getty (4:37)

Anyway, I'm sorry, what would the what in social assistance sector?

Jack Armstrong (4:42)

The health care and social assistance sector. It's a health care sector that really drove these numbers. Total number, 178,000 new jobs. 178,000 new jobs.

Joe Getty (4:53)

I can't be the only one asking, what does social assistance mean?

Jack Armstrong (4:57)

I don't know. No idea.

Joe Getty (4:59)

It's just the official.

Jack Armstrong (5:01)

And I never. I never understand. How did the health care add tens of thousands of jobs just all of a sudden last month?

Joe Getty (5:11)

Yeah, I know. Well, that Was a country. It's a very big country. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're aging too. Boy, that's a hell of a lot

Jack Armstrong (5:19)

of in the last month.

Joe Getty (5:20)

Yeah, I know, I know. I share your skepticism, obviously. Interestingly enough, and I've been teasing this a bit, let's pay it off now. Wall Street Journal identified a particular field as the quote, sure fire new path to American prosperity. Plentiful jobs potential. Six figure incomes draw young people as other industries falter. It's the modern middle class jobs engine. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dog Walker. No, I'm kidding.

Jack Armstrong (5:49)

Nursing.

Joe Getty (5:51)

Nursing.

Jack Armstrong (5:52)

Nursing. So that's the healthcare.

Joe Getty (5:54)

Yeah, yeah. And they, they. First of all, you've got to start a story with a specific human being and tell their story for some reason these days. And it's a 33 year old gal who became a licensed practical nurse after earning a community college diploma. Later she went back to school.

Jack Armstrong (6:10)

Nurse, you go with your ankle and they say you're fine, walk it off. That's a practical nurse, right?

Joe Getty (6:17)

Right. It's not going to kill you.

Jack Armstrong (6:18)

A little ice and you'll be fine.

Joe Getty (6:21)

Later she went back to school for bachelor's in nursing and worked in an emergency room during the pandemic. Four years ago she got her doctorate and became a nurse practitioner. Wow, that's, that's an advanced thing. But these days she's working at a primary care clinic in Lincoln, Nebraska, earning about 120k a year, which is really good money in Lincoln. Factory worker used to be America's or factory work used to be America's most reliable ticket to the middle class. But as automation, globalized manufacturing, now artificial intelligence threaten, a lot of these past healthcare jobs have become the surest bet. At the time of uncertainty in the labor market, nursing offers not only stability but for some a pathway to real prosperity. The median annual wage for registered nurses in the US is 93. 6, compared with 49.5 for all occupations according to the Labor Department. For nurse practitioners and others with advanced degrees, it's around 132k.

Jack Armstrong (7:14)

I got a friend who mentioned their daughter is interested in going into nursing. For quite a few years now. You go into nursing, you could get a job anywhere in the country, which would be one of the really cool things. You could work anywhere.

Joe Getty (7:25)

One of those traveling fill in nurse jobs. It's obviously got its own challenges and stresses, but man, you can make really good money for a while if your foot loose.

Jack Armstrong (7:33)

I went to an impractical nurse, I had eczema and she said sleep hanging from your feet.

Joe Getty (7:38)

And I thought, no, no, this is not for me, not practical. Health care in general has generated some of the most consistent job growth of any US profession since. The profession since the 80s.

Jack Armstrong (7:50)

Yeah, I gotta say, I mean, you know, this is all interesting, but I like how monthly they, they you write about these big changes that are happening. Changes don't happen monthly, but every month we act like a new giant. You know, seismic shift has occurred of some sort. I guess you have to write that you're an economics report your job.

Joe Getty (8:13)

Everything is what folks fill in the blank test. Everything is clickbait. That's right. This is not though. So health care. Oh, soaring health care spending, aging population, plus the billions and billions of dollars of fraud of all of the government health care problems. There's a hell of a lot of profit and fraud. If you missed yesterday's discussion of the soon to be breathtaking fraud that becomes clear in California. Holy crap. There's a lot of money in it. But just a couple more figures then we can either analyze or move on. Total jobs in the industry overtook those in manufacturing and retail in the early 2000s. The gap has widened since then. According to University of Chicago, health care was the largest source of job creation in the US last year, as many other industries cooled or contracted. That trend continued in January through employment in the sector, although it dropped somewhat in February, partly because nursing strikes in New York City and elsewhere. But anyway, as we age and, and more and more money spent on healthcare, it's, it's a good gig. You got to be of a certain level of intelligence, ambition. You have to like to work hard and deal with human beings. But it's a good field.

Jack Armstrong (9:26)

I think the deal with human beings is the hardest part. Like the person I had the other day when my son went to get his physical, she was so fantastic. I thought you have got the gift for this kind of job, just personality wise, that I, I couldn't do it. Yeah, all day long, every day being nice to people. But New York Times writing about unemployment rate and that sort of stuff brought up, and this is kind of interesting, this actually is a change from fairly recently. The unemployment rate is where it is in part because the Trump administration's immigration crackdown that has curtailed the supply of workers. I mean that's absolutely happened. People are not going back and forth across the border like nobody is. We went from millions of people to nobody like overnight.

Joe Getty (10:15)

Oh yeah.

Jack Armstrong (10:16)

That means that employers don't need to create as many jobs as they used to in order to keep the unemployment rate steady because there ain't a whole bunch of people in the country looking for jobs.

Joe Getty (10:28)

There you go. Time. I don't know if you've noticed there's a lot of volatility these days. It seems like everything's changing all the time.

Jack Armstrong (10:35)

You think? Yeah, guys had lunch with a client yesterday who you're going to hear more about on the air in coming weeks and months, but he has kids similar age as mine are like, what are you supposed to be hoping your kid does? Both Discussing how most of the stuff people been sending their kids to college for over the last couple of decades are almost completely useless because of AI. You know, that's even without the uselessness of college because they've destroyed their, you know, their own thing by not teaching anything and blah, blah, blah. But with AI coming, what do you even hope for your kid? Nobody knows.

Joe Getty (11:12)

Two choices. Number one, nursing, Number two, defrauding the government. You want to talk about, you know, making a good living in it not being terribly difficult, judging by all the stories coming out and everything I read about it. Defrauding the government is not difficult. You got to be willing to run a, you know, at least a slight risk of doing time or getting fined, but very slight money in a Swiss bank. Do they still have those, let's call

Jack Armstrong (11:38)

it working the system as opposed to defrauding the government. And where. Where is that most prevalent? Always your socialist countries. And why is it more prevalent here? Because we become more and more socialist. The more giant programs you have with money sloshing around, the more people who figure out how to work the system.

Joe Getty (11:57)

And a lot of the people advocating for the growth of those systems intend fully to. What did you say? Exploit the system? Yeah, that. That's their intent when they promote it,

Jack Armstrong (12:08)

engage in a positive way. The system as it is.

Joe Getty (12:12)

I did not get to hammer this as much as I wanted to, but there was a big story, I think it was in the Journal a while ago, about the insurance companies, how they. They go to, like, all of their clients and they, like, send nurses to their homes and say, hey, look this person over and come up with a list of diseases they may or may not have. And then they charge the government for the treatment of those diseases. There's never any treatment. There's never any definitive diagnosis. It's a giant.

Jack Armstrong (12:41)

Well, that scam, that would be so easy. I mean, just look at. We've all done this. You Google. I have a headache and I've been really tired lately. Anything I might have, and it'll list a thousand diseases you have.

Joe Getty (12:55)

Oh, he's clearly got Blarney Syndrome. All right, government, you know, It's a. It's $10,000 for us to treat Blarney Syndrome, then nobody ever checks whether any treatment happened. And in many, many, many cases.

Jack Armstrong (13:08)

And with hipaa, you can't.

Joe Getty (13:10)

Well, right. And in many cases, the person who allegedly has the syndrome has no idea any of this has happened.

Jack Armstrong (13:15)

Sure, sure. Unpleasable.

Joe Getty (13:19)

Keep voting for bigger government, though. Okay, that's fine. It'll work out great.

Jack Armstrong (13:23)

We got to get into Tiger Woods. I don't mind kicking him. There was a piece in the making, a California Post yesterday. Tiger has been a fraud from the beginning, and people are just catching on. You, you, you. You were early on. The Tiger's a jerk.

Joe Getty (13:39)

I've been an anti Tigerist since, like, the second year he was on the

Jack Armstrong (13:43)

PGA because of his personality.

Joe Getty (13:45)

He's utterly ingracious. Yeah, yeah.

Jack Armstrong (13:49)

And, well, wait till you hear how he acted when he got talked to by the cops having flipped his car again.

Joe Getty (13:58)

And another thing to look forward to, more tape of Gavin Newsom seeming like a drug addict is coming out. And also of his Marxist wife shooting off her mouth. Oh, my Lord, the gift that just keeps giving. The first partner, soon to be, if Gabby gets his wish, the first lady.

Jack Armstrong (14:17)

We got to get to that this hour. Heard her talking about the way she raises their kids. Oof. See if you agree. All right, stay here.

Joe Getty (14:25)

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Jack Armstrong (17:01)

think it's become very clear over the years that Tiger woods is not a good person.

Joe Getty (17:04)

Right? He is a highly flawed individual. Yes.

Jack Armstrong (17:09)

So I guess that makes it easier for me to do this. I was complaining a couple of weeks ago with the Justin Timberlake stuff. You commit a misdemeanor, but because it's on video and it's entertaining for all of us, you get to be embarrassed in front of the world for a misdemeanor. I mean, Tiger woods is being charged with two misdemeanors. I just looked it up and there's a decent chance that because he did not submit to a urinalysis and all they've got to go on is refusing to, you know, take the test or whatever, which is its own crime. Second degree misdemeanor is what he might be looking at in Florida does that mean we all get to watch the video and then mock him?

Joe Getty (17:55)

Well, number one, he still has to wait for the blood test to come back, doesn't he? Or has that been assessed? I don't know that, but no. I get your greater point, though. I'm somewhat surprised having since he does this every other year, it's still a misdemeanor.

Jack Armstrong (18:11)

I know, I know. It's horrifying that you can exhibit this level of recklessness of driving and. And continue to drive and not even really pay much of a penalty. The penalties are the cost. That's what keeps mo peop most people in line. The insurance cost and all that sort of stuff. Obviously, that doesn't apply to a Tiger woods, but here's first part of the tape that came out yesterday, and we'll. If you can't understand what it is, we'll explain it. The ending of this is Rich. This is Tiger talking to the CO after he flipped his vehicle again

Joe Getty (18:41)

down

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my phone, and all of a sudden, boom.

Jack Armstrong (18:46)

Can you tell me what happened real quick?

Joe Getty (18:48)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (18:48)

I was looking down at my phone. Do you want to look at changing stations? And next thing I know, boom.

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Are you okay?

Joe Getty (18:57)

Okay. Are you all right? Are you in any pain?

Jack Armstrong (19:01)

No Pain? No.

Joe Getty (19:02)

Back pain?

Jack Armstrong (19:02)

No.

Joe Getty (19:02)

Neck pain? No. Me? Nope.

Jack Armstrong (19:05)

Unfortunately, for the accident, you are at fault and subsequently you are issued a

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Jack Armstrong (19:12)

Okay.

Joe Getty (19:15)

Behind your back.

Jack Armstrong (19:16)

So at this time, I do believe

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you and all my faculties are impaired. Okay. And you're under that unknown substance. Okay. So at this time, you are directing for dui. Yes, sir.

Joe Getty (19:26)

Yeah, that's a narco. It's an arco. Yep.

Jack Armstrong (19:30)

Okay.

Joe Getty (19:30)

Okay.

Jack Armstrong (19:31)

Which clip was that, Michael? Somehow we got confused on this. Okay. I wanted 25, but maybe I misrepresented. Okay. That was. So that was him interacting with the cops and everything like that. This is. This is the. The rich one. Go with this. Mr. Woods. Mr. Woods. Get you to hang out down here with us, please.

Joe Getty (19:51)

Thank you so much.

Jack Armstrong (19:52)

All right, you got it.

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All right.

Jack Armstrong (19:53)

Thank you.

Joe Getty (19:56)

Just keep you down here with us, please. Yeah, I was talking to the President. I was talking to the President.

Jack Armstrong (20:06)

So he's over by the Bushes. You've probably seen the pictures and everything like that. Mr. Woods, can you come over? We need to talk. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. I was just talking with the President. I'll come over and talk with you now. Now that's a. That's the all time. Do you know who I am? I mean, that makes. Do you know who I am. Seem. Seem like nothing.

Joe Getty (20:24)

But you wouldn't think Tiger woods would have a higher gear of. Do you know who you're messing with?

Jack Armstrong (20:32)

Right.

Joe Getty (20:33)

Wow.

Jack Armstrong (20:35)

No kidding.

Joe Getty (20:35)

But you know, maybe talking to the president.

Jack Armstrong (20:37)

Maybe if you can literally flex. I was just on the phone with the president. You do it. Yes. Katie. I want to hear Trump's reaction to him dropping that. Has anybody nailed down if he actually was on the phone with the President? Because he's got the President's number. Talks to me. He was at that time. Yeah.

Joe Getty (20:51)

Trump. Trump said. Yeah. That I talked to Tiger. He's doing fine. He's. This is a tough time. He has a lot of pain. I talked about this the other day. He has a lot of pain. It's not good what he did. Right.

Jack Armstrong (21:02)

But I didn't lose the pain that. That happened at the scene. Okay. So.

Joe Getty (21:07)

Oh, yeah. I guess I didn't know that either. But yeah.

Jack Armstrong (21:10)

Yeah. I. I assumed he talked to him later because. Because Tiger's dating Trump's daughter.

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Ex.

Joe Getty (21:16)

Daughter in law.

Jack Armstrong (21:17)

Ex daughter in law.

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She was.

Jack Armstrong (21:19)

She was married to Eric or Trump Jr. Whichever. But so now she's with Tiger Woods. So did. So Tiger has the President's number, his phone flips his car and his thinking is, I'm gonna call the President. Wonder what he asked him to do.

Joe Getty (21:36)

I don't know. He's pilled up, so maybe his thinking was a little blurry. That's a. That's a great question.

Jack Armstrong (21:42)

What was he hoping for?

Joe Getty (21:44)

A pardon?

Jack Armstrong (21:45)

Hey, Mr. President, could you get on the phone with these cops and tell them to leave me alone?

Joe Getty (21:49)

Can I put you on with the cops? They do, they'll think you're an imitator. So you gotta like proves you're you. What? Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (21:57)

I was talking to the President.

Joe Getty (21:58)

I was talking to the President.

Jack Armstrong (22:01)

That's the all time flex, man.

Joe Getty (22:03)

Wow. Wow.

Jack Armstrong (22:05)

Good on the cops for not. You can't in the modern era of body cams and all that sort of stuff. I suppose. But man, oh man, oh man. It'd be pretty easy to say he's on the phone with the President. Let's just let him go. Let's just drive him home, put his car back on the wheels. Call it. Good.

Joe Getty (22:21)

I have more questions about the nature of the charges and all. We're out of time. But more on that to come.

Jack Armstrong (22:27)

Stop. Stop trying to kill people.

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Joe Getty (25:05)

Exclusive CNN reporting about the extent of

Jack Armstrong (25:08)

damage to Iran's military capability. Roughly half of of Iran's missile launchers are still intact despite the daily attacks

Joe Getty (25:17)

by the US and Israeli military. Thousands of one way attack drones also

Jack Armstrong (25:23)

remain in Iran's arsenal. One source says Iran is quote, still

Joe Getty (25:27)

very much poised to wreak absolute havoc

Jack Armstrong (25:29)

throughout the entire region.

Joe Getty (25:31)

A PENTAGON spokesperson calls CNN's reporting, quote, completely wrong.

Jack Armstrong (25:36)

Right. So this is really interesting and I don't know what to think. So you've got now the mainstream media who's taking as negative a view on the war as they possibly can, in some cases practically actively rooting for our defeat. On the other hand, the history of all administrations in my lifetime going back to, you know, Johnson and Obama around about Afghanistan, administrations lie always and sometimes are lied to themselves and then they lie to the public not knowing it about the success of their military operations. It's just, it's just a thing. So, and, and I fit that in with I was watching a News Nation report today where they had somebody on the ground in Israel where they got hit with lots and lots of rockets overnight by Iran again. And this reporter saying a lot of people here on the ground are really confused and surprised by Iran's continued ability to project power and shoot rockets at him. So and I think a lot of us are like how is this still possible? That every day you can blow up a tanker or hit this base or that base or keep firing it. I don't know what the right answer is. So CNN's reporting that like half the rocket launchers are still working. The Pentagon says that's completely not true. Right?

Joe Getty (26:55)

Boy. Well, there are a number of topics you brought up there. One being that the, the necessary right to deceive in warfare because sometimes you have to do that as a government. It's the perfect example of a power granted that is always abused. I mean I get the reasons you do that and they're absolutely valid. But as you point out, every administration abuses it and goes way beyond any justifiable keeping the home front together, not demoralizing the troops or fooling the enemy or whatever, they all lie. The second thing about the missile capability,

Jack Armstrong (27:33)

why do you think that happens?

Joe Getty (27:35)

Why did,

Jack Armstrong (27:39)

why did the Defense secretary and everybody beneath him mislead Johnson in Vietnam? Why did everybody lie to Obama and he thought the war was going great in Afghanistan and then the Washington Post blew that open with now it's going

Joe Getty (27:50)

horrible and everybody knows right up the chain everybody lied. Yeah, yeah. I think because it's life and death. And people think since the stakes are so high, their justification is strong to and they, they wouldn't say mislead the president. They'd say stay optimistic or not be overly negative or what have you. It's a great question. I'm sure there are books written about it.

Jack Armstrong (28:16)

I suppose to a certain extent it might be as simple as how often do you want to tell your boss you're not doing a good job or haven't been successful at the big project he gave you?

Joe Getty (28:25)

That's part of it, yeah. You're tasked to accomplish something and you don't want to be the one to say this can't be accomplished because that sounds like I can't accomplish it anyway. There are a bunch of headlines to hit today. Live updates. U.S. fighter jet reportedly shot down over Iran. At least one American pilot was reportedly ejected from their aircraft today when it was shot down over southwestern Iran, according to multiple outlets. Let's see. A television channel in this province instructed Iranians who find downed US pilots to leave them alive and take them to security agents agencies for a precious prize rather than kill them as they had previously advised on the air. Well, that's very civilized of you. Thank you, Iran. Another headline. Iran beefs up defenses and recruits children as it prepares for a ground war. Whoa. Yeah. They've stepped up defenses of their biggest oil port while threatening to attack a wider array of targets around the Gulf and launching a mass recruitment drive reminiscent of its 1980s war with Iraq. The Tehran is mobilizing its population ways that seek to harness the spirit of the 80s war with Iraq. That includes drives to recruit millions of Iranians, including children. A fixture of the tribute to martyrs via street signs and posters that are still part of the Iran's daily life. Iran is also hardening defenses on Kharg island, among the other strategic islands. Steps include boosting guided missile systems, laying mines along the coastline and booby trapping facilities, according to an Iranian official.

Jack Armstrong (30:09)

I feel like the trying to get the uranium out project has got historic disaster written all over it. I don't know if they're still considering that or not. Trying to secure a giant area and the number of people and the amount of equipment we'd have to have in place. I mean, if RAN has got any ability to fire rockets or launch attacks or anything when that's going on, they will.

Joe Getty (30:38)

Yeah, they would go nuts trying to achieve that psychological and, you know, frankly, real victory. Speaking of which, another headline, great article written by the musically named Yaroslav Trofimov

Jack Armstrong (30:52)

we forgot to do our great tease. Let me do our great tease.

Joe Getty (30:55)

Oh, okay. Sorry. We interrupt this story to bring you this.

Jack Armstrong (30:59)

Gavin Newsom's wife is going to be the gift that keeps on giving.

Joe Getty (31:03)

Oh, yeah.

Jack Armstrong (31:03)

As they dig up old interviews. And probably once he was running current interviews.

Joe Getty (31:09)

Well, yeah, because he's going to try like crazy to muzzle her and she ain't gonna have it.

Jack Armstrong (31:14)

She ain't muzzle able. Right.

Joe Getty (31:17)

I don't think. But we got a clip of her

Jack Armstrong (31:20)

talking about how they raise their kids that I think you'll find pretty.

Joe Getty (31:24)

So stay tuned for that and you might take his wonderful parenting advice. So stay with us. Anyway, back to Yaroslav Trofimov. Control over Strait of Hormuz will determine who wins the war. Iran is seeking permanent leverage over the Middle east with new rules. Rules for the strategic waterway. You gotta give them points for having cojones. So they're getting the hell battered out of them and trying to hold onto the regime. And they say, you know what? Not only are we gonna fire on the Straits of Hormuz to bring this to an end, but we now own it and we're going to charge enormous tolls to anybody who goes through it from now till the end of history. So, holy cow. We either have to batter them to the point that they can't do that, which it seems increasingly might not be achievable, or make them not want to do it anymore.

Jack Armstrong (32:14)

Well, yesterday we blew up their brand new giant bridge that they've got between Tehran and somewhere else that they apparently want to get in cars. But we blew up that bridge. And Trump, Trump tweeted, or truth doubt. Our military, the greatest and most powerful by far anywhere in the world, hasn't even started destroying what's left in Iran. Bridges next, then electric power plants. New regime leadership knows what has to be done and has to be done fast. There's. It's very possible that the, the big overarching headline that will be written about this war someday is that Trump was wrong about the Iranian regime's willingness to die fighting

Joe Getty (33:01)

or just their resilience in general.

Jack Armstrong (33:03)

He thought, and maybe reasonably so, that they were like regular people. You realize you're losing, you make some sort of deal to make your life better. You don't just go. You don't just let everything around you get destroyed and you die. Who would do that? And these, and this might be the crowd that does that. They let everything get destroyed and they die. And they don't care because they're going to Meet the virgins in heaven and

Joe Getty (33:26)

or those who aren't religious. Cultist dead enders are saying, hey, I get 25% of the rebuilding cost. So, you know, hell, it's just the scam will change shape a little bit, but the scam will continue. So one final thought on the Strait of Hormuz Valley. Nassar, professor at Johns Hopkins University, former State Department official, blah blah, blah, involved in informal discussions, quote, now the only reason why. Oh, to the Iranians, the Strait of Hormuz now matters more than the nuclear program. The nuclear program was symbolic but didn't provide them with any deterrence. Not yet. Now the only reason why they're surviving the war is because of the strait. Iranian thinking is that at the end the strait must remain under their control because it is their only deterrence and only source of revenue.

Jack Armstrong (34:11)

So why did Marco Rubio the other day say he made the goal taken out their ability to fire off rockets. They learned from North Korea. And I heard a smart person explain this. Why does North Korea have a bomb? They have a bomb because all the rockets they had and their ability to hit Seoul. Back in 1994, Bill Clinton was in the standoff that ended up leading to North Korea getting a nuclear weapon with plans on the table to attack North Korea and take out their nuclear weapon making capability. But they're so worried about North Korea attacking Seoul where we had 30 some thousand troops and it's a big city and lots of people dying that we couldn't. And Iran learned that lesson and knew it. So as long as they got enough rockets to attack Israel or their neighbors or whoever their belief was, the world can't come take out our nuclear site. So now we believe that the way to stop them from getting nukes is they don't have the rocket capability.

Joe Getty (35:11)

Yeah, interesting. Bill Clinton I've been working on this. Should have paid less attention to Thong and more attention to Zhang Ill. And

Jack Armstrong (35:20)

because it rhymes, it's more powerful or I don't.

Joe Getty (35:23)

Oh, clearly everybody knows that. A couple more quick notes to shoehorn into this segment. The fabulous Victor Davis Hansen writing for the Free Press. The war and the war on the war. This. It's actually reminiscent of something we've been talking about. The Wall Street Journal editorialist phrased it as defeatists on the left, Pollyanna's on the right. But VDH says militarily the war is going as well as could be envisioned. Yet Democrats seek to turn it into another Vietnam or Afghanistan, hoping to win control of Congress at the expense of national security and VDH is nothing if not a realist. He's pointing out that it's gone absolutely fabulously well thus far. But that doesn't mean the uncertainties have gone or the difficulties of war are no longer real. But all you can hope is that a war is going fabulously well. There is an unspoken or spoken comment or question in the media that, well, you say it's going well, but there's still a great deal of uncertainty ahead. So it's not going well, but that's just to misunderstand war. That.

Jack Armstrong (36:34)

Yeah, exactly. That's worth pointing out. And that's why Trump the other night in his speech laid out how long Iraq took, Afghanistan took, World War I, World War II took. Because if we end up completely taking out their rockets. Getting back to that topic, if we end up completely taking out their launchers on day 90, which would be three times as long as we've been at it so far, roughly, you'll look back on and think, wow, they took the United States, took out a top 20 world military in less than 90 days would seem shockingly effective. But right now at the 30 day mark, people are acting like it's a disaster.

Joe Getty (37:12)

Right, right. And throw in with admittedly tragic yet very, very small scale losses of human life. Final note from vdh. The left seeks to create abject chaos that it can only be eliminated, alleviated by the political dest of Donald Trump. So the anti war hysteria follows the pattern of the left's embrace of Tesla vandalism, violent demonstrations against ice, the incoherent no Kings protests and three government shutdowns. Such nihilism shares a common trait of offering no positive counter agenda. Yeah, I would tend to agree with vdh. And finally, Neil Ferguson. We don't really have time for this, but love NF. How great powers lose wars. They're winning. Nearly 70 years after the Suez crisis, the US may have marched into a strikingly similar trap in the Strait of Hormuz. He's his main point. Maybe we spend a little more time on this later. Is stopping before the job is done because that last x percent is the toughest part of the battle. Well, on that to come.

Jack Armstrong (38:27)

Eisenhower, dealing with Suez didn't have to deal with a tick tock world where we expect everything to happen at 30 seconds at a time. That's another pressure that's just completely modern. The timetable.

Joe Getty (38:40)

Yeah. And then Neil also asks there's now a rising probability that Trump's war backfires on him as much as Eden's dead. That was the British guy back in the day in the Suez Canal economically, politically and geopolitically. Which raises the question, is this the American Suez? It could be. It could be.

Jack Armstrong (39:01)

So we gotta leave time to get to Gavin Newsom's wife and child rearing and see if you agree with it or not. As a lifestyle, it's next

Joe Getty (39:11)

Armstrong and Gettysburg.

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Jack Armstrong (42:17)

By the way, History buffs if you're into the Suez Canal standoff or you've never gotten into it, the book Ike's Bluff by Evan Thomas is a page turner fantast book about that and and really gets into that's the moment where Great Britain's military dominance of the world really came to an end and we took over was right then. So Gavin Newsom's running for president almost certainly and his wife is going to end up being I we think a serious liability as she's got all kinds of woke craziness she has said over the years and nobody is paying attention. She's the wife of a governor and

Joe Getty (42:54)

whatever she goes around she's California's first partner, sir.

Jack Armstrong (42:57)

She goes around to various things and talks. Here she is in front of a group of people sitting in big comfy chairs having a conversation about raising kids. Here's what she sounded like I've given

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our boys dolls, even if they tear the head off, I've given them dolls to learn that care and caregiving is not just an activity that's reserved for women, but that it's also an activity that is a responsibility of men. What I've done with both my daughters and my sons is if I'm reading a book and the protagonist is a male, I just change the he to a she and it just normalizes. For my sons in particular, it's not even I don't even just do it for my girls. I do it for my sons because I want them to see that women can be the center of A story that women matter, that women are interesting.

Jack Armstrong (43:46)

And she is saying this in the year 1580, apparently, where women get no respect and aren't seen as, like, the main character in any story or whatever. What the hell are you talking about? I've never understood why the left can't understand when they've won. You won that argument, all right? There are more chicks in college and law school, medical school, and everything else you can think of than there are boys. We've got a boy crisis. You don't need to. When you read a book, change the protagonist, if it's a boy, to a girl, to make sure girls think they can go out in the world and be something. What are you talking about?

Joe Getty (44:26)

Two points. Number one, it's the. It's the advocacy. That's the point. It's not the goal. It's just, look at me. I'm a fighter for justice, even if the goal doesn't make any sense. And yeah, your point is an excellent one.

Jack Armstrong (44:38)

Let's let her finish, and then we'll. I'll continue to rent and raise.

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At the end of the day, we're all kind of like in this place in history maybe, where we're recognizing what it is to ultimately deconstruct all these gender roles and ultimately be human. And that's exciting to me. So, you know, I'll just continue to kind of do my work and try and deconstruct all of these, like, limiting narratives about ultimately what it means to be human.

Joe Getty (45:06)

Yeah, if you know the code words. She's a postmodernist neo Marxist. You're deconstructing everything and. And. And whatever the party tells you to do. That's the new reality.

Jack Armstrong (45:16)

Since you're about to be a mom and a woman. Katie, we'll let you weigh in. Oh, I was just thinking about. No wonder he's doing drugs.

Joe Getty (45:24)

Yeah, that.

Jack Armstrong (45:25)

That stuff about I give my boys dolls so they can understand that men, too, have energy. Oh, thanks for insulting the entire male population. And we don't just automatically understand the. The need to be nurturing for our children or whatever, blah, blah, blah. Unless you tell us.

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Oh, yeah, she is like 140 proof distillation of being desperate to find a problem and. And pretending you've found it and be

Jack Armstrong (45:54)

the leader of fixing it. Yeah, right.

Joe Getty (45:56)

Exactly. What are you even talking about?

Jack Armstrong (45:58)

You change the male protagonist in a book to a girl so that your boys can understand, your girls can understand that sometimes the girls can be the center of a story.

Joe Getty (46:06)

What girls can even be a do or a lawyer. I need to teach my boys that what the hell. Armstrong and Getty

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