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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty.
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And now here's Armstrong and G.
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The
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women's college basketball title game will be held tomorrow between UCLA and South Carolina. And no matter who wins, I hope that every one of those amazing athletes find a good husband. That was just mean spirited.
Joe Getty
That was an odd joke. Coming up, a really cool, awe inspiring Update from the Artemis 2 mission. Both Asia and Europe are going to be hurting for certain as the conflict with Iran continues. And we'll have some updates from Iran. Also interesting everyday news about AI and its probable effects and what to do about it. So stay with us.
Jack Armstrong
So CNN says Trump is considering 45 day ceasefire plan. I'm really confused by the reporting on this. Like only a couple of outlets are talking about it at all. So I can't tell if it's real or what. But Trump is doing Trumpian. Trump is doing a full press conference a little bit later today after we're done. So we'll see what he says about it then. We have been, I don't know where you are listening but we've been on the air in California for geez, decades and it is, people are tired of it. But job, we've been complaining about the bullet train in California for a very long time. It's just, it's one of the all time thieving of taxpayer money.
Joe Getty
Just, just awful fraudulent from day one.
Jack Armstrong
Absolutely. So it was really happy to see 60 Minutes do a big piece on it and let the country know what it's all about. Let's hear some of that. Michael. This is from 60 Minutes last night here outside Fresno in California's Central Valley, one of the few signs of concrete progress, literally structures like this. Locals here jokingly refer to it as their own Stonehenge. Ideally, these bridges and viaducts will one day be used to support California high speed rail. But for now, these are curiosities in a field. Monuments to promises that haven't been met and plans that haven't been executed.
Joe Getty
I think that the California high speed rail nightmare is the probably quintessential example of government waste and mismanagement.
Jack Armstrong
You say this needs to stop.
Joe Getty
Needs to stop.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. So did Gavin Newsom about however many years ago, remember we had that CLIP Last week, Gavin Newsom, way back in the day, saying, this has got an end. This is ridiculous.
Joe Getty
No aspect of this is realistic. We need to end this, he said. And he was right.
Jack Armstrong
But that was many, many, many, many billions of dollars ago. And now that he's running for president, he's all on board with high speed rail. That was Representative Vince Fong, who's a Republican in California, and he goes on. Congressman Vince Fong, a Republican from Bakersfield, sits on the House Transportation Committee. He says that when California voters first approved high speed rail, the promise and more marketing campaign than realistic projection.
Joe Getty
We're now in 2026. There are no trains, there's no track laid. There's a complete bait and switch.
Jack Armstrong
If I vote for a mansion in Malibu by next year and someone says, actually, you know what, in five years we're going to have a doghouse in Modesto, how do things go so off the rails?
Joe Getty
The business plan that was put out in 2008 was very theoretical. You know, this is what we think
Jack Armstrong
is going to happen. And it became very clear that they
Joe Getty
didn't have the specifics worked out. No offense, but that's not a marketing plan. That's fraud. There's a simple American word that people know the meaning of, fraud. Well, the Malibu mansion doghouse comparison was an apt one.
Jack Armstrong
This next clip, I forget what this guy's background was, but his point is really good. There were mistakes made. Some of the criticism on this, on this project, I think are very fair. What happened.
Joe Getty
I don't think the voters fully understood,
Jack Armstrong
and neither did we in the public
Joe Getty
sector, what it was going to take to actually get this project delivered.
Jack Armstrong
Now he's in favor of it because he's in Newsom's administration. But what I think is a lot of this piece was a real lesson in how the initiative thing doesn't work. States that have initiatives like California, it doesn't work because it's so easy to mislead voters, get them to vote for crap. Nobody understands what it is then it's got the force of a law behind it and it just keeps going.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that's absolutely true. I disagree, though, with your charitable view of this bloke who was on there. He's the guy, one of the guys running the project now who is saying, yeah, in the past there were misleading things said and mistakes made and boy, a lot of money got spent. But now that we're under the wise current leadership, it's, it's going to be a stunning success. So they're just at the point of the fraud where they have to say, oh my God, you're right. Terrible things were done and you were lied to, but now it's on track so you can keep squandering billions and billions of dollars.
Jack Armstrong
I wasn't attempting to indicate that I have a charitable view of that guy. I do not. I couldn't believe that the guy that they had representing this whole thing on, in the administration on 60 Minutes. Dude, you want to look like a guy who's not stealing my money? Don't sit there in a $10,000 suit. I thought that was not a good look. You are way too mafioso looking for a guy who's stealing hundreds of billions of dollars from taxpayers through lies. I thought that was here. Here. Poor imaging.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I would know a $10,000 suit if it was on me. But you're a keen eye.
Jack Armstrong
Let's roll on to get the necessary political buy in from the whole state. The plan called for the train to run inland, threading the farmland of the Central Valley. Yet the rail authority hadn't answered basic questions like precisely where it could lay down its tracks, what's known as right of way.
Joe Getty
3000 parcels had to be negotiated just for the segments that we're working on
Jack Armstrong
today in the Central Valley. It seems to me one farmer doesn't want high speed rail going through his field and you've got a guy that can gum up the works for a long time.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that's what happens sometimes in these processes. It's interesting to me that they listed that right of way or talked about that right of way issue in all those lawsuits as if it was, you know, one challenge we found was that, no, that was like a cannonball to the chest. You, if you don't know your right of way and you realize, oh, we've got to buy like individual parcels, tens of thousands of them. No, that's a fatal flaw.
Jack Armstrong
You add in California's ridiculous environmental rules and it just can't be done. I thought part of the takeaway for me, two things was just the whole ballot initiative thing is a terrible idea. It just, it doesn't work because voters don't pay enough attention. It might work if voters paid attention, but. And that I fear that the United States can't do this sort of thing. They, they kept pointing out on 60 Minutes how, how many other countries around the world have high speed rail that works pretty well for them and we just can't do that in the United States. Now the, they got the private guy, which they talked about for a while, this private effort to build some high speed rail between LA and Vegas. I could see that working. You. They said it would be two hours. You get back and forth between LA and Vegas in two hours and you know, you could sit there and watch a movie and read a paper and you don't have to get to the airport an hour early and you know, deal with traffic, blah blah, blah, blah, blah.
Joe Getty
Come on, I'm going to Vegas. I'm getting my drink on. It's the party train.
Jack Armstrong
Exactly. I could see that possibly working, but I just, I just wonder if the United States is not able to do stuff like this anymore. The way we built the Empire State Building during the Great Depression or the Golden State or the Golden Gate Bridge or stuff like that.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I think that is a return to a theme we've been wrestling with for many, many years. The fact that, and we're both small l. Libertarians believe in, you know, the Bill of Rights to my core, et cetera, et cetera, but we have lost a sense of this is for the national good. It's a shame that we're going to have to buy out a bunch of, you know, farmers or whatever because they've been there for years. But the needs this, we don't do that anymore. And I'm for very generous compensation if that happens. But when Ike was building the Internet, well, the interstate highway system with the population was a lot less too. But we just, we don't say, no, this is what's going to happen and we're doing it. Certainly not in California.
Jack Armstrong
Part of it might be you couldn't. How are you going to make the argument the country needs the high speed train between San Francisco and la? When you got Southwest Airlines, it works pretty damned well. It just there never was, as we know, because we've been looking at this for a long time. There were never any studies, real studies showing that people wanted this or were going to use it.
Joe Getty
No. And all of the numbers were hilariously fictional from the beginning that were used like a price of gas. They had projected to be $13 a gallon by now or whatever. And, and airline tickets would quadruple because of the gas. And a million people would ride this every day. Every man, woman, child. I mean they were all hilarious. But as you pointed out. But the drive by voter thought, wow, a bullet train. Cool. And checked.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, it's the biggest thievery of American taxpayer dollars in U.S. history. And the hilarious part is it continues. Yeah, we probably haven't even begun to spend billions of dollars of taxpayer money on something that'll never happen.
Joe Getty
And did you hear the current mobsters involved, quote, unquote opinion editorial they were admitting to? Yeah, it'll be a solid 125 billion. Yeah, and that's just, you know, the preliminary part. It's just, it's terrible.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I liked 60 Minutes continuing to point out several times that it's not from LA to San Francisco anymore. It's Bakers Bakersfield to Mercedes, what they're working on currently.
Joe Getty
And yes, most of America, including most of California, has to look at a map to figure out. Wait a minute, Bakersfield. I've heard of. Where's Merced?
Jack Armstrong
Well, the current long term plan is Gilroy to Bake to Bakersfield.
Joe Getty
Oh, that is exciting. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
It's depressing that that could happen, that you could waste that much money. And as I say, every single time this topic comes up, why aren't lefties upset about this? Wouldn't you like to have that hundred billion dollars to spend on whatever you think is important. Schools, the homeless, trans surgeries, whatever it is you care about. I would think you'd want that money rather than have it just be wasted.
Joe Getty
Right. It's more proof that lefties don't operate in a world of logic and sound policy. They operate in a world of emotion. Just they know they're supposed to say that, you know, I'm in favor of this and it makes them feel good and enlightened. So they say they're in favor of it and they don't get down to the practicalities. You know, you use the word depressing, which is absolutely a good one. It's also disturbing. To me, that's a boondoggle, a theft, I mean, because this is fraud and theft, clearly to route money to the cronies of the folks in power in Sacramento. It's disturbing that it could go on this long and be this expensive and cannot be killed. We've called it a vampire through the years can't be killed.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it is disturbing. I hope Gavin Newsom has to answer for it some more. If he ends up running for president, of course he's gonna be talking about his wife a lot. Let's see what they got from Newsom here on this clip. The last clip we've got there from 60 Minutes last night. Michael. By 2019, cost ballooning and the timeline, years off schedule, bipartisan political pressure mounted. Newly elected Governor Gavin Newsom said this in his first state of the state.
Joe Getty
Right now, there simply isn't a path
Jack Armstrong
to get from Sacramento to San Diego,
Joe Getty
let alone from San Francisco to la.
Jack Armstrong
That's what he said quite years ago. Now he's claiming that we're going to be able to turn this around and actually make it happen.
Joe Getty
No, he's getting his cut now.
Jack Armstrong
But are you going to be able to run for president on that, the bullet train thing?
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Joe Getty
Oh, speaking of his wife, Jennifer Siebel, nuisance man. She's the gift that just keeps giving. We've got more from her coming up. I think the answer to that question this is one of the hazards of being in power in a one party state is Gavi having gotten away way with for instance, the bull spit train thinks he can bull s his way past anything and people will vote for him.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. His wife put out an Instagram a long Instagram post over the weekend, which we'll play later. Some thoughts on the Patriarch Patriarchy. That's the name of her Instagram. Some thoughts on the Patriarchy on this Easter Sunday insert a quick word from
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Some of the people at Anthropic that's the Claude chat bot think Old Mario is nuts. That came out over the weekend and we can talk about that among other things. My sad Easter at the ihop. Lots of stuff on the way.
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No balls in one strike. Here's a drive out to right from Raleigh. Adele's back near the wall.
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He leaps and he caught it.
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There's a drive to right. Adele is back. He's at the wall. He leaps up.
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He caught it.
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Timed his leap again. Wow. Two home run robberies by one player
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in the same game.
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Here's Crawford with a fly ball to right toward the corner. It's Joe Adele again here. The foul pull.
Jack Armstrong
Leaping up. Did he catch it again?
Joe Getty
He fell into the crowd and then tipped over. Yes.
Jack Armstrong
So they gets it out three times the same guy robbed batters of a home run in one game. Never happened before. Leapt over the fence twice and left over the railing once.
Joe Getty
I mean, that's like your ultimate as a defensive player in baseball. That's your dream.
Jack Armstrong
You dream of doing that in a game ever? Three times in one career?
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Well, the first of all, the ball has got to just barely get over the fence to where you could even reach it, right?
Joe Getty
You got to time your leap, etc. Yeah, that's quite the play.
Jack Armstrong
I retweeted that yesterday because the visual is pretty cool. Do you remember years ago, I tweeted this out on Thanksgiving? It was the saddest thing I'd ever seen. And then some people beat me up for being mean because, you know, people different. Different people have different life circumstances and everything like that. But anyway, I was at the grocery store on Thanksgiving and they had a little tray that they'd put together and the title of it was Thanksgiving Dinner for one. And it was just like the idea that you go to the grocery store, get your little heat up, Thanksgiving dinner and just the one of you, just you're by yourself and you take it.
Joe Getty
How about you call it Thanksgiving dinner to go?
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
It's not, but you find a point.
Jack Armstrong
Or even single serving sounds better for than. For one.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that is sad.
Jack Armstrong
Anyway, yesterday, Easter and I have had a few in my life, fantastic Easter meals. And my family and various other families that have been attached to or lots of people get together and Easter dinners are really, really big deal and they've been absolutely fabulous. That is not what I had yesterday as both my kids are or ill and I was out and about running some errands, getting them some medicine and stuff like that. And I was hungry and I. I went to ihop, which was the only place that was open and I was the only person in there.
Joe Getty
Oh my.
Jack Armstrong
Easter Sunday around noon at the ihop. Thank you for the music, Michael. It was completely empty. It was the cook, one waiter. There was an old couple over in the corner. They're, you know, they were at the point in their life where their kids are gone, I guess, or whatever. I don't know what's going on. And then it was just me once they left, left. And so I'm sitting there doing my Easter dinner at the ihop. But here's the best part, and I think they thought they were helping. The IHOP guy came by with a basket that had some plastic eggs in it and said, would you like one?
Joe Getty
Oh, right. Wow.
Jack Armstrong
So I took a plastic egg out of the basket alone at the IHOP and opened it and it was a coupon for 10% off a grand Slam meal. Next time I gotta, I gotta get
Joe Getty
this verse down before I forget it. Dinner alone at the IHOP Teaser in
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my eyes and they give you in my pancakes and they give you a plastic egg with a coupon.
Joe Getty
Oh so sad. Spaghetti.
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Artemis 2 just hours from the moon, making final preparations for that historic lunar flyby. When they swing around the moon, the astronauts will track more than a dozen lunar targets, capturing images of craters, lava flows and the far side of the moon, places never seen by the naked eye. Mission control expecting a 40 minute communication blackout as Orion passes behind the moon, the crew will hit a new milestone, officially surpassing Apollo 13 to mark the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth.
Jack Armstrong
So there'll be a 45 minute period where they're not in contact at all with us. Interesting.
Joe Getty
Yeah, reminiscent of that wonderful movie Apollo 13 about that incredible nearly disastrous mission. Yeah, they'll be out of range or. Well, the radio waves can't go through the moon apparently. And as we speak, as we record these words, if you're listening to the podcast in the future, they're actually in the midst of a really exciting period. They have just entered the lunar sphere of influence, which sounds like the part of the galaxy Moonman Control. You know, they, they charge tolls to spaceships and that sort of thing. But no, that's just where the pull of the moon's gravity becomes stronger than the Earth's. So. And as we speak, they are starting to speed up for the main event of the 10 day mission which is swinging around the moon for a first close up look by astronauts in more than 53 years it will be at 1:56pm Unlike like catching a flight to Chicago or something, they really have this dialed in right. They know exactly when things are happening. At 1:56pm Eastern the four astronauts including the Canadian will have traveled farther than any other human being, surpassing the Apollo 13 record by I think it's 4,100 miles. See to me that's just mean. These get these guys almost freaking died alone in space. Well with each other in space you can, you can pass them by just a couple of thousand miles out of hundreds of thousands just to tap dance and you know, do a touchdown.
Jack Armstrong
Say it did.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't know, that's kind of mean. Anyway, so less than an hour later, the Artemis 2 crew will begin hours of methodical observations of the moon. They're targeting 35 specific features on the lunar surface. And the commander of the mission actually was, was talking to mission control the other day. So cool. He said, you know, let's see is his last name. You know I'm not one for hyperbole but it's the only thing I could come up with. He said just seeing Tycho, there's mountains to the north, you can see Copernicus, Reiner Gamma. It's just everything from the training but in three dimensions and absolutely unbelievable. This is incredible. Yeah, yeah. Getting excited like a kid. So then this evening the Orion spacecraft, which the astronauts get to name astronauts named their own like little module there and they've decided to name it Integrity.
Jack Armstrong
Well and I would have gone with spacey McSpace face but
Joe Getty
integrity farms space capsule. Anyway, it'll pass behind the moon and communications fall silent as we were discussing. At its furthest point, Artemis will be 252,760 miles from the Earth. Farthest humans have ever gone. 20 minutes later or so they'll regain communications with mission control and they're expected to get mind blowing pictures not only of that far side of the moon, but of the phenomenon known as Earth rise. When they come around and the Earth is seen emerging from the edge of the moon, then a total solar eclipse actually is. The moon blocks the sun for 53 minutes and a couple hours after that they'll start sending images back to the Earth.
Jack Armstrong
I would imagine that's going to be the furthest humans have ever traveled from Earth for quite some time. Until we finally launch a Mars mission.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah, probably so as far as I know anyway. So they practiced putting on their space suits, I guess including two of them like super accelerated in case of an emergency. Did a couple of their experiments. Excuse me. Here on Earth, allergies are terrible. Then Sunday night, Orion is scheduled to fire its thrusters for 14 seconds precisely. A small nudge to get on the desired path and then more or less come home. Oh to, oh, to Earth. I knew there was one more thing I wanted to throw in the. The toilet problem.
Jack Armstrong
Wonder how much free time they get up there because you can't be concentrating all day long.
Joe Getty
No, you do worse work. It's a good point.
Jack Armstrong
Well, how much free time they get to just like look out the window and daydream or do your wordle or whatever it is.
Joe Getty
Depends on the. I got it in 4 this morning. I was disappointed. Thought I had an in 3. Anyway, I'll bet in this mission there's a bit of time because the point is going to a place and getting pictures and stuff. They're not like, I don't think they're doing a ton of experiments on like, you know, tomato seeds or whatever, but I don't know. Good question. Anyway, back to the toilet. After experiencing intermittent problems first few days, the astronauts are able to use the toilet now without restrictions. Boy, you can restrict all you want, but I mean, when you got to use it, you got to use it.
Jack Armstrong
However.
Joe Getty
However, engineers still do not understand why wastewater is not quite flowing out into space. It's designed. It's kind of a complex engineering issue, said one of the flight directors. When you expose a liquid to vacuum, it's a pretty chaotic environment.
Jack Armstrong
Did you suggest that? Are we. Do you go and then it goes outside the capsule?
Joe Getty
Like we should just shoot our poop into space? That's correct.
Jack Armstrong
That's what we're doing.
Joe Getty
Tap dance. Yeah, it's exactly what we're doing. Yeah, it's like peeing off your deck, fellas in the backyard. But it off a spaceship right into space really.
Jack Armstrong
So we're just putting. We're just like when you go camping, you know, you know, leave nothing behind. But we're, we're camping in space and we're leaving deficit behind.
Joe Getty
As Joe said last week.
Jack Armstrong
As Joe said last week. An ass steroid, if you will.
Joe Getty
Putting the ass back in asteroid. Yeah, I phrased it.
Jack Armstrong
And then because it's in a vacuum with no atmosphere, does it decay or destroy or does it stay that way
Joe Getty
forever or does the lack of pressure cause it to atomize?
Jack Armstrong
I don't know.
Joe Getty
Gross get over it. Grub. Let's see, where were we? Oh, this. This will bring a chill to your soul. The engineers trying to fix the toilet. They also still do not know what caused a burning odor reported by the astronauts on Saturday. I hope that's not a sentence that comes back to haunt all of our souls.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Well, that's troubling.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
It smelled like a burning electrical problem.
Joe Getty
Yeah. It was probably nothing anyway, I'm sure that's fine. Yeah. Arg.
Jack Armstrong
I wouldn't think that was fine if it happened in my car.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah, no kidding. Anyway, we certainly wish them well and. And we'll be paying attention. I love this stuff. You know, I don't want to turn this negative at all because I've got one more story that's super interesting on this topic, but the negativity and defeatism that's consumed so much of this country. I was thinking about it a lot over the weekend, partly spurred by a great editorial I came across about all the defeatists and defeatism. So much of our perception of the world these days is formed by the attention economy and the super giants in that field that just want to keep you flipping and scrolling and looking and listening and psychologists, and we've talked about this through the years. Have realized people bond more quickly over what they don't like than what they like.
Jack Armstrong
Absolutely. That's Bill Burr's thing about a marriage. You got to hate the same things.
Joe Getty
That's funny. And then there's another kind of similar fact, and that is the best clickbait in the world is you are at risk. You are you. You are in danger, or something bad is happening. So when you've got a giant economy of the. The greatest minds currently on the planet devoted to scaring us and making us angry over and over and over again, I don't think it's any mystery why there's so much negativity and defeatism. Some of it's political. But I just. Yeah, I don't know what to do about it other than be aware of it. And, you know, maybe you can be aware of it too, and become less miserable. But here is the super bonus story I referred to, and this is. This is a blockbuster from the journal. Elon Musk's Starship Heavy could revolutionize warfare. The US could keep powerful munitions in orbit to be deployed quickly and without risk to American troops, they point out, striking Iran's nuclear facilities in June. Operation what was that? Hammered a bejesus out of him. Midnight Hammer. Yeah, yeah, Hammer. The bejesus out of him. Oh, that, that reminds me. It's been a while since we've used the clip of the day, Michael. Oh, come on, where is it?
Jack Armstrong
Open the expletive straight, you crazy bastards.
Joe Getty
I like the Jake Tapper because he drops the F bomb because it's cable, you can't on broadcast, but you can on CA because the people's airwaves. Oh, shut up. Oh, so silly and antiquated. Open the straight, you crazy bastards. Thank you, Jake. Well said. So they give the example that Operation Midnight Hammer, a fleet of B2s rather each carried two 30,000 pound bombs. The round trip took 37 hours. B2s cost around 135 grand per travel hour. Now that's expensive flying private. Total cost for the attack amounted to about $5 million for each airplane. And that's just the B2S. That excludes tankers, fighters and other components of the mission. If Iran's air defenses had still been functioning, it would have been even more risky and expensive. And the Defense Department is exploring ways to reduce time and money required for military strikes. It spent billions over decades developing hypersonic weapons to strike anywhere in the world within an hour. But. But by decreasing the cost to place material into orbit, Starship makes possible major new alternative military options that would be at least as effective and a lot cheaper. The cheapest launch platform in the world is Elon's Falcon heavy. Costs about $1,500 a kilo to reach low earth orbit. Which is about 1/7 1/6 of what it costs. Like the Delta IV heavy. And Elon with Starship, he intends to bring that cost down to about 10 bucks a kilogram. Although even 10 times that would be revolutionary. So launch costs would no longer restrain the blasting of cheap disposable equipment into space. Sending equipment to land anywhere on Earth will also become cheap and fast. It takes about an hour in suborbital path to travel between any two points on the globe. So Starship will make it possible to use low earth orbit as a parking lot for a giant space based arsenal. Arsenal that then you could send anywhere within minutes. Wow. Blue my damn mind reading this.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
For instance, tens of thousands of small munitions in orbit would become cost effective at around 100 bucks a kilogram. Munitions could include bunker busters, kinetic weapons, anti personnel incendiaries, fuel air explosive cluster munitions and anti tank anti aircraft and anti ship capabilities. With sophisticated terminal guidance, Starship's payload capacity promises to be so great that it will enable the deployment of much larger larger single munitions than today's biggest airplanes, enabling conventional effects of a greater magnitude against even the most deeply buried targets.
Jack Armstrong
So we could have a bunker buster anywhere on the planet within a couple of minutes.
Joe Getty
Yeah, or as wild or as this writer who I should credit because this is really well written says, and new kinds of strikes would become feasible. Imagine a strike package of thousands of 200 pound bombs, each landing precisely at the same time on electric grid sites, government buildings, railway crossings, border stations and road intersections without putting planes or any personnel at risk. Hey, anybody still laughing at Trump from the first term developing the space force? You cynical bitter jackasses.
Jack Armstrong
Boy, this has got to be a message to China. Some serious deterrence about trying to take Taiwan.
Joe Getty
Boy, and we had better be first in this place.
Jack Armstrong
No kidding. And stay first for quite a while.
Joe Getty
Yes please.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's really interesting. We got some AI stuff for you that we want to get to a little bit later. We're going to talk to Mike Lyons, our favorite military analyst, about everything that's going on in Iran and Trump's deadline for tomorrow afternoon of when they're going to start taking everything out unless they agree to it peace plan, which I don't think they're going to. So stay tuned for all that. Open the expletive straight you crazy bastards.
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Candy maker Reese's announced that after complaints from its founder's grandson, it will return to using chocolate instead of a chocolate compound coating. Not to be outdone, the grandson of the Peeps founder wants to go back to real skin. I watched Saturday Night Live the host, the musical guest was Jack White, which was very cool. The host was Jack Black. Jack Black is a funny comic actor, but I have never dug his whole music thing. Do you enjoy it? I just don't. I just don't enjoy it. Okay. You're a good singer and then you make funny words to popular rock songs. I don't know, it's just not. I always leaves me cold, so it's okay.
Joe Getty
I remember being pressed, being impressed by his his duo.
Jack Armstrong
Okay. Yes, Katie. Huge tenacious D fan. Okay, I'm wrong. I'm wrong. People must like it. I mean he's always on Saturday Night Live and he always does it.
Joe Getty
They're a lot of fun live. I think the difference is Katie has a capacity for joy.
Jack Armstrong
That's it. I've lost my capacity for joy. I'm taking some weird joy in this. So Trump. Has Trump made any comments about Iran with that Easter bunny standing next to him? Michael Hanson? Because he's doing a white. He's doing the White House Easter thing, which they always do on Monday for some reason, I guess because everybody's doing their family Easter thing. I don't care.
Joe Getty
Well, in an Easter egg roll is very secular, so it might be disrespectful to do it on Easter Sunday.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, maybe that's it. That's interesting now that one of the churches who I've taken the kids to, they do an Easter egg hunt after the church service, which is. Yeah, I don't know what the. Anyway, Trump's standing up there. He's got Melania on one side and a guy. And I assume it's a guy or a woman in a giant Easter rabbit costume. So. All right. With a big smile on its face, you know, because it's a mascot.
Joe Getty
We will bomb their dams. We will bomb their power plants. We will.
Jack Armstrong
And the Easter bunny's standing there. I don't know if I have time to get thoroughly into this. I came across this over the weekend. The number of law school grads getting extra time for the bar is surging. For the bar exam in California, more than one in eight test takers get some sort of special accommodation to take extra time because of their ADHD or anxiety or whatever their problem is.
Joe Getty
Allegedly.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Allegedly. Or really. Or somewhere in between. We have. This is exploding in schools. As we all know, the percentage of kids at some. This is what's interesting, though. At affluent high schools, the number is much higher than it. Like you're just a regular working class school. Now, either that's because the affluent schools have the important diagnosis ability that maybe poor families don't have, or the rich kids are a little more pampered. Then you come up with an excuse for why they need extra time. I don't know.
Joe Getty
Well. And their families are a little more calculating. We'd be fools not to take advantage of this.
Jack Armstrong
At affluent high schools Today, more than 30% of students have disability diagnosis. 30%. One out of three. At Affluent High schools.
Joe Getty
It's ridiculous.
Jack Armstrong
By Contrast, less than 3% of students at Springfield Tech Community College have had claimed any sort of disability. So at the tech school, 3%. At the super fancy university, you're getting whatever kind of degree. 30%. Yeah. That's quite a difference.
Joe Getty
Yeah. And while I love the idea of people with actual disabilities, an education and getting a degree and that sort of thing. It's such an artificial construct because once you get out into the world of work, you can't tell your client a it's going to take a lot of time because I need special dispensation, right?
Jack Armstrong
How about that disparity between the tech school at kind of a regular town and the super fancy school at a super fancy town? 30% versus 3%. What does that mean? You tell us. Text us if you missed a segment. Get the podcast Armstrong and Yeti on demand. We got much more on the way.
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In this episode, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty blend sarcastic wit and trenchant critique to tackle a range of topics, from the latest on California's high-speed rail boondoggle, the Artemis 2 lunar mission, technological shifts in warfare, and the quirks of American culture. The conversation swims freely from government waste, space travel, and military innovation to personal anecdotes and observational humor, all while lampooning political figures and the bureaucracy that shapes the news.
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The episode is packed with sardonic wit, rolling laughter, and the duo’s signature mix of cultural pessimism and comic banter. They balance sharp analysis of public policy and societal changes with playful mockery of American rituals and foibles, all while tossing in irreverent pop culture references and running gags.
This episode is an Armstrong & Getty classic: an unfiltered, deeply skeptical (yet oddly upbeat) look at massive government failures, the excitement of space exploration, and the bizarre corners of American life. For listeners, it’s an engaging rapid-fire tour through the week’s big stories, punctuated with the hosts’ inimitable back-and-forth—a must-listen for anyone who likes their news analysis with a heavy dose of irreverence.