The Jelly Crisis Of 2026

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: The Jelly Crisis Of 2026 (March 16, 2026)

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Brief Overview

In this episode, Armstrong & Getty launch into a fast-moving, irreverent discussion of the precarious geopolitical situation in the Middle East—particularly the escalating conflict involving the U.S., Israel, and Iran. Along the way, they veer into domestic energy debates, the political implosion of the Oscars, and assorted cultural flashpoints ranging from AI controversy to the social perils of Ozempic in Hollywood. The show retains its trademark skeptical, satirical tone, punctuated by offhand humor, audience asides, and rapid-fire banter.

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Key Topics & Discussion Highlights

1. Oscars’ Politicization and Ratings Free Fall

• [04:15–05:39 | 12:42–14:45]
  • Neither host watched the Oscars, but both pounced on reviews and social commentary suggesting the ceremony was more political than ever.
  • Jack notes a "constant drumbeat" of activism at the event, including "Free Palestine" statements and anti-ICE rhetoric.
  • The hosts critique Hollywood's decision to "super serve" a niche audience, driving away moderate or conservative viewers.
  • They joke about Conan O’Brien’s Oscars monologue referencing the split:

    "Three quarters of America is at that Dave and Buster's" – Jack Armstrong [13:03]

  • Joe Getty highlights the key problem:

    “If it were merely political, that would be something… But no, it's got to be delivered with just angry, hateful contempt for anybody who could possibly disagree with me…” [14:32]

2. Middle East Escalation: U.S., Israel, Iran, and the Strait of Hormuz

• [05:39–09:57 | 10:03–13:29 | 15:31–16:01 | 19:03–23:14 | 27:01–31:41 | 33:10–38:47]
  • The U.S. and Israel are actively bombing western Iran, aiming to degrade missile production.
  • New technology could upend drone warfare:

    “We have the technology already... to shoot down these rockets and drones with lasers… It’s more like three bucks per laser to take something down.” – Jack Armstrong [06:14]

  • Trump attempts to form an international coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but European partners remain hesitant.
  • The hosts lampoon the European approach to collective action, comparing it to dodging the check at a group dinner:

    "They're used to like going to the bathroom when they see the waiter coming." – Jack Armstrong [09:22]

  • Discussion of a pipeline bypassing the strait, now under attack from Iran, and larger strategic calculus.
  • Historian Niall Ferguson posits: "Is this the beginning of World War III?" Jack notes Ferguson is not an alarmist.
  • Joe Getty contemplates the depth of international alliances and hostilities, referencing simultaneous global tensions (Pakistan/India, China/Taiwan, Russia/Ukraine).

3. American and European Energy Security: Drilling, Green Dreams, and Political Leverage

• [08:44–09:06 | 13:29–15:56 | 19:03–22:06 | 30:14–38:47]
  • Europe’s attempts to pivot to renewables have crashed, while Trump orders renewed offshore drilling (“drill, baby drill”).
  • Potential use of U.S. energy independence as leverage in negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz.
  • Satire enters as the hosts mock Newt Gingrich’s grand proposal to use nuclear detonations to create a new canal as a Hormuz bypass:

    "I think Newton needs to go sit down and enjoy some Jello." – Joe Getty [33:10]

4. Media Coverage, Public Sentiment & Truth in Wartime

• [27:01–31:19 | 42:51–47:51]
  • Armstrong & Getty lament the polarized, uninformative nature of media coverage—Fox News with boosterism, “the rest” openly rooting for American failure.
  • Jack Armstrong:

    “I've never seen such a disconnect ever between the reporting and the realities of what's happening in any sort of military [context].” [28:30]

  • Hiram Johnson’s quote gets invoked:

    "The first casualty when war comes is truth." – Joe Getty [43:48]

5. Life Inside and Outside Iran

• [27:01–29:39 | 45:54–47:00]
  • Iranian dissidents voicing hope the current unrest will ultimately topple the regime.

    “We are wa... waiting for the day that we can go out to the streets and get back our country from the Islamic regime.” – Iranian woman (quoted by Jack Armstrong) [27:06]

  • Stories of terror and repression by the Revolutionary Guard, with dramatic impact both inside Iran and on expats.

    “There are people in liberal areas... who look at anybody pro putting down Iran as being pro Israel... so they're not attacked by the progressives among them. I mean, it's just insane.” – Joe Getty [47:05]

6. News Briefs, Cultural Oddities, and Miscellany

• [19:18–23:14 | 22:06–23:09]
  • Reports of Netanyahu assassination rumors, TSA agents striking during a shutdown, OpenAI’s risk of becoming a “pornographic suicide coach”, and cultural commentary on Hollywood’s Ozempic-fueled body image crisis.
  • One-liner:

    "The jelly crisis of 2026 is upon us." – Joe Getty [31:30]

7. Pop Culture & Humor

• [14:45–15:56 | 38:47–39:41]
  • Jack raves about the Oscar-nominated "Marty Supreme" table tennis movie, particularly Timothée Chalamet’s performance—"freaking amazing".
  • Armstrong lampoons the modern Ides of March:

    “It's not just about stabbing, it's about coming together to stab in groups.” [39:33]

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• "[The Oscars] got all political and turned off half or more of the country. And for [Conan] to make a joke like it's a tiny portion of people that don't want those jokes..." – Jack Armstrong [13:03]
• "We have the technology already... to shoot down these rockets and drones with lasers... It's more like three bucks per laser to take something down." – Jack Armstrong [06:14]
• "They're used to like going to the bathroom when they see the waiter coming. Oh, I'm sorry, did the check come while I was in the bathroom? Thanks to whoever picked that up." – Jack Armstrong [09:22]
• "The jelly crisis of 2026 is upon us." – Joe Getty [31:30]
• "I think Newton needs to go sit down and enjoy some Jello. I think he is well past his prime. God bless him for his service to the country." – Joe Getty [33:10]
• "The first casualty when war comes is truth." – Joe Getty quoting Hiram Johnson [43:48]
• "I've never seen such a disconnect ever between the reporting and the realities of what's happening in any sort of military [context]." – Jack Armstrong, paraphrasing Noah Rothman [28:30]
• "We are wa... waiting for the day that we can go out to the streets and get back our country from the Islamic regime." – Iranian woman (quoted) [27:06]
• “It's not just about stabbing, it's about coming together to stab in groups.” – Jack Armstrong [39:33]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Oscars Politicization & Backlash: [04:15–05:39], [12:42–14:45]
• Mideast Conflict & Hormuz: [05:39–09:57], [10:03–13:29], [15:31–16:01], [19:03–23:14], [27:01–31:41], [33:10–38:47]
• Energy & Drilling: [08:44–09:06], [13:29–15:56], [19:03–22:06], [30:14–38:47]
• Iranian Sentiment / Internal Stories: [27:01–29:39], [45:54–47:00]
• Media Coverage & War Truth: [27:01–31:19], [42:51–47:51]
• Humor & Pop Culture: [14:45–15:56], [38:47–39:41]

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Tone, Language, and Style

• The hosts are wry, sardonic, and conversational, freely mixing analysis, sarcasm, and asides.
• Their style pushes back against groupthink and is skeptical of official narratives, media framing, and Hollywood’s moralizing.

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Takeaways for Listeners

• The episode is a rollicking tour through serious world events, filtered through a lens of slanted commentary, political skepticism, and acerbic wit.
• If you missed it, you’ll walk away with a sharp sense of the issues animating the news cycle—Middle East brinkmanship, energy insecurity, cultural battles—plus a string of memorable zingers and cultural touchpoints that capture the Armstrong & Getty flavor.

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[Joe Getty]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio

[Jack Armstrong]

studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

And now here's Armstrong and get. Live from Studio C. Senor. Brand new week. How do you like that? Who knows what's gonna happen this week? Welcome to a new episode of the Armstrong and Yeti show. And we are toiling under the title of the program.

[Joe Getty]

When you're counting on Europe, you're in trouble. Or when Hollywood's in a hole, it hires a backhoe to keep digging.

[Jack Armstrong]

Backho.

[Joe Getty]

A backhoe. It's the opposite of when you're in a hole, stop digging there. They get to keep digging.

[Jack Armstrong]

What did the. What did the Oscars do that would. I didn't see any of it. So what did they. What did they dig?

[Joe Getty]

Nor. Nor did I. The narrative in the liberal media was that in previous years, the Oscars weren't very political at all because they just had three, four, five notable political speeches. This year, apparently it was a constant drumbeat. Speeches and pins and patches and f ice and Free Palestine and big rounds of applause and I wouldn't know. I wasn't there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Might be a good idea at some point you got to. And this has happened to a certain extent in TV news and radio stuff. You recognize. Well, the audience has become very specific. So we might as well super serve that very specific audience.

[Joe Getty]

It might have been a mistake in driving everybody else away, but there you are.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. And you might as well just please the audience. You've still got.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway, I'll tell you one thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

The show didn't do is entertain. I did.

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[Jack Armstrong]

All I did was read some reviews of the show, but it was like three hours long. And I read one review that said, man, they got to come up with a way to make this more entertaining. But, you know, whatever, not important. So we, we being US and Israel are bombing the crap out of western Iran right now as we speak, apparently trying to take out their missile making capabilities and all that sort of stuff. I'm pretty excited about. Did you see the second story in 60 Minutes last night about the lasers?

[Joe Getty]

I did indeed. Very intriguing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Intriguing and could change the whole game. The idea being that we have the technology already. It's just a matter of making enough of them and implementing it to shoot down these rockets and drones with lasers. That instead of costing, you know, $5 million per rocket or $2 million per rocket or whatever it is, it's more like three bucks per laser to take something down.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I thought, what was the price they gave for the Patriot missiles? I thought it was like 100 million. Maybe I'm crazy, but it was a ton of money. Enormously expensive. Yeah, yeah. And this would be just like the electricity it takes to run it and the dude to press the who makes 1750 an hour.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, it would completely upend the whole drone rocket thing. I mean, that would just mean it's over. Really. The whole drone rocket era that lasted a little while was over.

[Joe Getty]

Like Covid. That was crazy, wasn't it?

[Jack Armstrong]

Which is the way all military history goes. You know, somebody invents something and then somebody else invents a way to stop it and okay, I guess that's over. It's just the way it works.

[Joe Getty]

Turn in your pikes, fellas. They won't do you any good anymore.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that'll be interesting to see if that get gets implemented anytime soon.

[Joe Getty]

My reference in the other title to when you're counting on Europe, you're in trouble. Trump is trying to put together a coalition of the willing, if you will, to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. And the Euros usually are like, what us? Like close to where there's war. Can we call you back?

[Jack Armstrong]

Trump announced that the Strait would be reopened with the help of many other countries starting this week. But no countries have raised their hand and said, yep, we're on board. We Germans are on board. Are we French or were we whoever, like you just said? And their thinking is, well, we didn't start this. And we're. And we're cowards and never do anything.

[Joe Getty]

I have nothing to add to that incredibly accurate description.

[Jack Armstrong]

But yes, truth are true. Trump made the point that it affects you more than it affects us. We are, we, we could support ourselves on oil for the rest of all eternity if we wanted to.

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[Jack Armstrong]

You're the ones who need this more than we need it. So we'll see how that staring match goes down.

[Joe Getty]

At some point. I would love to get to some information I've come across about how Europe's green dreams have crashed and died in a sea of red ink and, and consumer backlash and the rest of it, they're, they're fantasies to go all renewable by like next week.

[Jack Armstrong]

And we're going the other direction, thank God. Trump ordered over the weekend to start drilling off the coast of California because there's lots and lots of oil out there. And like I said, we're already very capable of being self sufficient when it comes to oil and we're going to tap into more of our oil reserves. So, you know, maybe Trump just says, okay, fine, we'll leave the straight of Hormuz closed. Good luck, Europe, on figuring out where you're going to get your oil. We got our own.

[Joe Getty]

So although the price suggestion, Europe is standing there with Al or sitting there at Alligator Arms at the dinner table hoping somebody else picks up the check. When we get up and walk away,

[Jack Armstrong]

they're gonna be like, oh, damn. Exactly.

[Joe Getty]

Gotta do something.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly. When the check comes, you know, Germany and France and Great Britain, they're used to like going to the bathroom when they see the waiter coming. Oh, I'm sorry, did the check come while I was in the bathroom? Thanks to whoever picked that up.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Beautiful. Again, in their defense, though, and I rarely, rarely am, they're like this craziness. We were going to continue to just beg Iran to not have nukes because that's been working. I'm sorry. I said I'd be in their defense, then I attacked them. But no, it was not their idea to start this conflict. So I understand their hesitance to risk their sailors.

[Jack Armstrong]

Here's something I didn't know I learned this morning. It starts with an F. I should have written it down. I knew at the time I would remember the name of it.

[Joe Getty]

I know lots F words. What are we talking about?

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a pipeline that was built in one of your Arab countries, I think the uae, with the idea that someday we're gonna have to go to war with Iran and they're gonna shut down the Strait of Hormuz. So we got a way to get the. Wait got to have a way to get the oil around without using it. And it's a pipeline that they built years ago and it can't transfer as much oil as you can with all the tankers, but it can keep a steady flow going. Well, Iran has been bombing the crap out of it for the last couple of days because they're aware that that's the whole strategy.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

And we haven't been able to stop them from bombing it yet. They're trying to destroy that pipeline.

[Joe Getty]

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[Joe Getty]

They've got to preserve their only leverage. Yikes. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

There's a lot of. There's a lot more strategy going on. And you know, I don't know how many people thought ahead on this all along or not. History will tell. Neil Ferguson, one of our favorite people historian who we've had on the show before, has got a piece in the Free Press today. Is this the beginning of World War three? And just laying out all the different things involved and pressure points. And Russia and China are helping Iran now and more openly helping Iran and just, you know, how all this could come together in a bad way. And he's not the sort of guy that throws that talk around loosely either.

[Joe Getty]

I kind of wish he hadn't brought that up.

[Jack Armstrong]

Really.

[Joe Getty]

I was already feeling a little stressed, honestly.

[Jack Armstrong]

Really?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Oh, boy. WW3 had kind of put that off to the side now. Surely not. Surely not. Will prevail.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's pretty like throughout history, it's pretty easy. It's pretty easy to present situations where that could happen. I don't think it's going to happen. I mean, part of the problem like World War I, as is famously known, involved like nine individuals starting the whole thing. And they were all related because all the different various monarchs and royal family people stretching across a handful of countries and they could just be mad at each other and start a war. It's a little more complicated now. But you know, you got Pakistan and, and India basically are at war. China wants Taiwan and Russia is already at war with Ukraine. And you got this. And oil is one of the biggest deals on the planet and there's a lot of moving parts there.

[Joe Getty]

Boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway, I'm not predicting that. Let's get our opening clip going when we start the show because I want to mention a movie, Oscar nominated movie we watched over the weekend. I'm so excited, excited about. I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this. It is. How does it get to be Monday, March 16, the year 2026, where Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program.

[Joe Getty]

Let's commence then, officially, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go at.

[Jack Armstrong]

Mark, I should warn you, tonight could get political. Okay. And if that makes you uncomfortable, there's an alternate Oscars being hosted by Kid Rock.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's at the Dave and Buster's down the street.

[Jack Armstrong]

Man, oh, man, that's interesting.

[Joe Getty]

Three quarters of America is at that. Dave and Buster's.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay, Conan, that's an interesting joke to make, given the current situation where the ratings have just been plummeting over the years. I actually have how much it's dropped off in a short amount of time. It used to be second only to the super bowl, and it was huge, the Oscars. And then they got all political and turned off half or more of the country. And for him to make a joke like it's a tiny portion of people that don't want those jokes.

[Joe Getty]

A pathetic minority of angry little conservatives. Yes, I think, you know, I think it's exactly what you were suggesting earlier. They've. They've run off certain segment America. They're like, well, there's no one doing that. Let's steer into what we are now, I suspect.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. And go ahead.

[Joe Getty]

I don't care.

[Jack Armstrong]

And Conan probably knows this, but it's not because. Well, it's partially because the Oscars got political, but it's also because it got political. And it's always the same direction. It's only one point of view. All right. I mean, we, we catch on to that there. At a certain point, you have said to a giant segment, america, this show isn't for you, you freaking backward moron racists.

[Joe Getty]

See, that's the key part. I mean, if it were merely political, that would be something. I mean, if, if somebody would win an Oscar and say, and hey, look, as long as I got 20 seconds left, I'd like to point out that welfare programs often become bloated and ineffective for those they serve. Therefore, fiscal discipline is something I believe in.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, okay, that'd be great, but that's to my manager. Exactly.

[Joe Getty]

But no, it's got to be delivered with just angry, hateful contempt for anybody who could possibly disagree with me because they're. Whatever you said, a stupid little angry bigot or whatever.

[Jack Armstrong]

I do want to talk about Marty supreme later because we want. Me and the boys. Watch that. So I was really, really rooting for Timothy Chalamet last night.

[Joe Getty]

He lost Shut out.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm told he lost best Oscar to Michael B. Jordan, actor. Best actor who plays two different people because he plays twins and he plays two different roles in that Sinners movie. So he won the Oscar. And I said to my son, I said that's a gimmick playing two roles. He said, the Oscars are a gimmick. And I said, well, you win 14 year old Henry. But Timothee Chalamet was freaking amazing in that Marty Supreme Tenant table tennis movie. And I want to talk about that later because it's so freaking weird. Are you gonna buy out ping pong table now? No, it really doesn't have much to do with ping pong. It's that's just, that's not really the point of the movie.

[Joe Getty]

But human beings, Michael, it's about human beings.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm not exactly sure what it's about. You know how I hate formulaic movies and I always complain about them. This was not a formulaic movie. There was no formula ever written for this. Wow. But talk about that and a whole bunch of other things later. And there's lots of Iran war stuff and it's a really, really big deal. Katie's got her headlines on the way. I hope you can stay here.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty

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[Jack Armstrong]

Trump hinted that he might delay his meeting with President Xi in two weeks if China does not help with opening the strait. That's a heck of an interesting thing.

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[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Lots of tentacles to this story.

[Joe Getty]

Tentacles. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green.

[Katie Green]

Katie well yeah, that's actually one of the that's the CNN headline is that President may delay his China summit. ABC IDF begins quote targeted ground operations in southern Lebanon and NBC Trump pressures NATO and China to reopen Strait of Hormuz.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's hard to imagine a situation where so we're going to ask that China have warships next to our warships and other allies warships in the same area it's an interesting thing.

[Joe Getty]

Or is this Marco Rubio trying to draw a bright line between China and its real motivations and ours?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

Look, we want to help the world, help y' all in Europe. China doesn't give a crap. Let's remember that, shall we?

[Jack Armstrong]

And is Israel going into Lebanon? Has that got anything to do with what we're wanting to do? Or is that just Israel looking out for themselves?

[Katie Green]

From the Wall Street Journal, terrorists are now often made in the usa.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, absolutely true. We need to get into that. Long story short, immigrants of a certain religion that shall not be named who decide for various reasons, they want to attack the West.

[Katie Green]

From the New York Post, Benjamin Netanyahu pokes fun at online assassination rumors. Quote, they say, I'm what?

[Jack Armstrong]

You see this?

[Katie Green]

Over the weekend, there was a huge rumor that went out saying that Netanyahu had been killed. CBS Trump. Thanks. TSA agents who are going to work but not being paid after first missed paycheck amid partial government shutdown.

[Jack Armstrong]

And so hundreds of TSA agents didn't show up. Is that right?

[Joe Getty]

It's begun like in Houston at the Hobby Airport. Half of them called in sick one day, then the other half the next day. You're gonna see more and more of that as Chuck Schumer's DHS shutdown continues.

[Jack Armstrong]

And they're currently saying if you got a domestic flight even, you should get there three hours early.

[Katie Green]

Hours.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. Get an app that tracks wait times. I would advise you to do that.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm not going anywhere.

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[Jack Armstrong]

I gotta be at the airport three hours before my flight.

[Joe Getty]

Good lord.

[Katie Green]

Also from the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI's bid to allow X rated talk is freaking out its own advisors.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, they're saying that there's a serious danger it'll turn into an, and I quote, I believe, pornographic suicide coach.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I want to hear more about this.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, sounds great.

[Jack Armstrong]

Have we crossed the line? Everyone was okay

[Katie Green]

from time magazine. Oscars 2026 sparks Ozempic debate. Has Hollywood gone too far with the weight loss drugs?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really?

[Katie Green]

Oh, my God. Some of these women last night.

[Jack Armstrong]

So scary. Is it formally heavy people that are now thin or like medium people that are now ridiculously skinny or thin people that are swizzle sticks, thin people that are skeletal? Well, you're already thin and you decide you want to be a walking skeleton, so you go on Ozempic. That's weird.

[Katie Green]

Study finds having annoying relatives could speed up your biological clock.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, so you wish for death.

[Jack Armstrong]

Like, meaning you. You get your period earlier. Or I mean, what, what are we talking about here?

[Joe Getty]

Biology more quickly. We gotta, we gotta bring that back up, Katie.

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[Katie Green]

And finally, the Babylon Bee quote. It's just a flesh wound, says legless torso of Iranian Ayatollah.

[Jack Armstrong]

No kidding.

[Joe Getty]

Little Monty Python action there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Boy, there's a bunch of stories there we need to, we need to get more details on. So I look forward to that. That's a good, that's a good tease right there for the whole show, which is coming up. And if you miss a segment, you get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand.

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Stick around Armstrong and Gettysburg.

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[Katie Green]

I can say the sound, it keeps us going.

[Jack Armstrong]

We are grateful for this opportunity and we are wa waiting for the day

[Katie Green]

that we can go out to the

[Jack Armstrong]

streets and get back our country from the Islamic regime. That's an Iranian woman. I don't know if she recognizes or represents most people's point of view there in Iran that they are happy about this. The the sound of explosions motivates them, wants them to keep going and someday they're going to get in the street and take back their country.

[Joe Getty]

I suspect she represents a large, large majority of the country. I really do. They just don't have the guns. It's actually remarkable. We ought to talk about it at length later. The accounts that are coming from inside the regime. The New York Times has a long piece written by all their foreign policy heavyweights about the machinations of the debate over who would succeed Weirdbeard Sr. And how lots and lots of forces and people within Iranian society were like, were thinking, saying, hey, how about a reformer? How about somebody kind of moderate who might like, you know, I don't know, want to Be friends with all the countries in the world. And the Republican Guard said no way. Nope. Weird beard Junior's our guy. We're going harder core than ever. Cracking down on the streets, fighting the US Building a nuke. We're going further down that road.

[Jack Armstrong]

So I mentioned this a couple times last week that journalist Mark Halperin had mentioned on his newscast that there seems to be two kinds of coverage on this war right now. There's kind of the Fox leaning coverage where it's like no skepticism whatsoever that, you know, anything bad could happen or is happening. And then you've got all the rest of the media that it seems like they're rooting for failure. Not only do they see failure, but they're happy about it. And that seems to be all the coverage. And I do find it fairly difficult to get a handle on what exactly is going on. I was following Noah Rothman of National Review over the weekend and his expertise is foreign policy. And he said in his life of following the news, he's never seen such a disconnect ever between the reporting and the realities of what's happening in any sort of military. I mean, because all of the, the specifics of what has happened so far in two weeks and a day of the war are just amazing in terms of world history. I mean, just obliterating their Air Force, their Navy, their, their ability to do this, their ability to do that in a two week period. And it's being reported universally except for Fox pretty much as just a disaster. And like as watched in Saturday Night Live and all the jokes seem to be landing with the crowd of just, it's obviously a disaster. It was obviously a horrib idea. And it's a, it's a joke that anybody would see it otherwise.

[Joe Getty]

With all due respect to the uncertainty which is to come, which is, you know, absolutely real. Yes, they are reporting over and over again, glass is 12% empty. That 12% emptiness in the glass is really terrible, Jim, when it's 88% full.

[Jack Armstrong]

So a couple different things around this. You got two views of the economy. For instance, Kevin Hassett, who's the Secretary of the treasury, is that yesterday on Fox News Sunday said if Iran thinks they're going to get President Trump to back down because they're going to make our economy weak, then they just don't understand economics. On the other hand, you have this from the Wall Street Journal. American oil executives delivered a bleak message to Trump officials over the weekend. The energy crisis that the Iran war unleashed is likely to get worse. And is already bad. So I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

I think it would be a mistake to call it a Crisis in the U.S. honestly.

[Jack Armstrong]

In the U.S. yeah. I don't understand how it's a crisis either. Although gas, the price of gas is up, how painful that is for people, I don't know. Trump was saying the other day, you know, the price of gas being kind of high for a while is a small price to pay to get rid of the evil Iran. I don't know how many people are on board. I think that that makes sense to me, but I don't know how the average person reacts to that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I don't mean to be glib about this or anything, but the, the word crisis is thrown around pretty routinely these days. Shouldn't we have some sort of scale

[Jack Armstrong]

of we're out of jelly, this is a crisis.

[Joe Getty]

The jelly crisis of 2026 is upon us. Yeah, I mean, you've got your annoyance, then you got a problem, then you got a pain in the ass, then you got a huge pain in the

[Jack Armstrong]

ass, and then you have a crisis. So here's two different things on topic open in the straight of horror moves I found interesting at a meeting in the Oval Office over the weekend, a frustrated Mr. Trump said new York Times, and they might be, you know, those kind of adjectives, who knows? But a frustrated Trump pressed General Dan Kane, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about why the United States could not open the strata Hormuz, which I could see how you would have as a question, because I had that question. We can't keep this open. Of all the things we can do, we can't anyway. The answer was straightforward from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Even one Iranian soldier, one or militia member zipping across the narrow neck of the Straight in a speedboat could fire a mobile missile right in to a slow moving supertanker or plant a mine on its hull. That's all it would take. And yet you can't eliminate them all. And that's enough to keep people from wanting to go through there. So that's a problem. Uh, Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House. I don't know what your ankamas now in terms of a thinker tweeted this out over the weekend. Now this is some creative thinking. Instead of fighting over a 21 mile wide bottleneck, the straight of Hormuz forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you've got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez and safe from Iranian attacks.

[Joe Getty]

I think Newton needs to go sit down and enjoy some Jello. I think he is well past his prime. God bless him for his service to the country. Thank you. No, thank you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Setting off 12 bombs that have never been used on planet Earth. This is different than what we use in Hiroshima. Yeah, that'd get the world's attention. But we're digging a canal. Lighting up. Geez, settle down.

[Joe Getty]

I'm pretty certain it would just cut a nice little canal through friendly territory. It would be filled in by seawater and then we could sail right through it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

It should take only a week.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let's begin.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, for God's sake, Newt.

[Jack Armstrong]

I thought that was pretty good.

[Joe Getty]

So Donald J. Is beseeching the Euros in particular to help protect shipping through the strait. I've heard that it would take one or two ships, one or two protection vessels per, like, big oil tanker to escort them through the strait. Or like, for a flotilla of a dozen ships, it would take five or six boats to protect them. Who knows where these estimates come from? But so it would, it would take the uk, it would take the eu and they, they have made statements that are kind of ambiguous, saying, let's see, we have the right to take all necessary measures, blah, blah, blah, but nobody's committed to do anything yet.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, well, yeah, that fits in. I didn't get to the next sentence of the analysis of what that Dan Kane, Chairman of Joint Chief said. So since only one Iranian or militia member in a speedboat could stop a giant tanker from coming through, that means there is no securing the Strait of Hormuz without Iran's being part of it. It just can't be done. So there has to be some sort of negotiated settlement that Iran is part of to make that thing work, which gives them quite a bit of leverage

[Joe Getty]

until they're completely beaten down. Because the. As we were discussing briefly earlier, the fact that the irgc, the Republican Guard rul over the succession question, the game of thrones there in Iran, who would take the empty throne? They were absolutely the power. They're not going to give in. They're hardcore. They're harder core than I expected them to be, honestly.

[Jack Armstrong]

The New York Times reported over the weekend that Trump has been regularly on the phone with Saudi Crown Prince mbs and the Prince has been advising the President to keep hitting the Iranians hard for several officials. That's a change, man. If you haven't been following the Middle east and world history, that's a pretty big change that the Leader of Saudi Arabia is on board with US bombing the crap out of somebody in the Middle east?

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah, yeah, 100%. So getting back to the question of securing the Gulf, I mean, you gave us, I think, the short answer, and it's probably pretty accurate. But in an escort operation, US Warships, maybe in conjunction with allies, would travel through the strait alongside oil tankers to clear mines and fend off for Iranian attacks from the air, as well as from Iran's Mosquito fleet of small attack fast attack boats. That's a good name, the Mosquito fleet. Experts estimate it could take two ships per tanker. Here it is. Or a dozen ships to guard convoys of five to 10 tankers to have the necessary air defenses. The short distances involved make shooting down missiles and drones much more difficult because it's just, you know, it's like somebody throwing a fastball from 40ft away instead of 60ft and 6 inches. You just have very little time to react. Brian Clark, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, veteran naval officer, estimates that alongside warships, it would require at least a dozen MQ9 Reaper drones patrolling the skies and striking Iranian missile and drone launchers when they pop up on the coast. He says, quote, that's thousands of soldiers and sailors and a pretty sizable investment of money, and you might have to do it for months. Man, that's a tough nut to crack.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, what do you think of. Yeah, so a lot of that gets back to the. The only way this straight to Hormuz is going to be open again is if Iran's on board. In other words, there has to be some sort of settlement, some sort of political agreed upon. Okay, Right.

[Joe Getty]

Or you go with the plan I was just discussing, which is enormously expensive and also takes a hell of a lot of ships away from doing other things.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, that just doesn't seem doable to me, not for any period of time.

[Joe Getty]

It's huge. Yeah, it's huge. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

I would tend to agree.

[Jack Armstrong]

So buy American oil, drill, baby drill, dozen thermonuclear weapons. You carve a new Panama deeper, wider than Panama than, Deeper than the Suez.

[Joe Getty]

What could be, what could go wrong?

[Jack Armstrong]

Solved. How about Trump announced it over the weekend, they're going to drill off the coast of California and using some sort of power, the President has to make that happen. Despite Gavin Newsom howling about how awful it is.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, Gabby had to be just as excited as can be.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, you know, chin to chin, raining

[Joe Getty]

blows down upon each other's heads. Gavin and Donald J. I mean, that's

[Jack Armstrong]

what he's been praying for yeah, gift

[Joe Getty]

to the greasy haired one.

[Jack Armstrong]

No kidding. He had to think, yes, this is fantastic. And then he's got to put on his mad face and walk out. This is. We will not stand for the this awesome. He's thinking to himself.

[Joe Getty]

Is he still wearing his borrowed tie

[Jack Armstrong]

from the other night? Where'd he find a tie? It seems like I had another comment I make. Okay, so I'll just go to this before we take a break and get to Mailbag so Today is the 16th day after the Ides of March. If you're a Shakespeare fan, you know that the Ides of March refers to the soothsayers at the beginning of Julius Caesar saying beware the Ides of March, which is the 15th of March or the middle of March March and when Caesar gets assassinated. And I came across this. It's kind of like the reason for the season stuff we talk about with various holidays, people are losing the spirit of the Ides of March. It's not just about stabbing, it's about coming together to stab in groups.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that's good.

[Jack Armstrong]

I thought that was pretty good too. So maybe I'll gather around your boss today.

[Joe Getty]

Excellent Shakespeare humor.

[Jack Armstrong]

We've got Mailbag on the way. Stay here.

[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

So many articles I want to read today and I can't because I can't get into. And I understand why all these newspapers and free press and everybody. They got to be careful or they give away their product for free all the time. But if you go too far with all that sort of stuff your users can't, you know, it's just too burdensome to I don't have to like go seek up my my username and password to grab the newspaper off the driveway in the morning back in the day, right?

[Joe Getty]

And then you know it's they sign you out constantly, then they've got to email you a code to get back in. But it's, you know, in my case sometimes my wife's email account so I gotta call her. Hey, they're about to send you A

[Jack Armstrong]

code or the email show up 10 minutes later. You want to read it now, that sort of thing, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing on our series about war, I'm really excited about tomorrow's. It's a yin and yang. But today's I brought up just because this is the actual wording from Hiram Johnson. The first casualty when war comes is truth.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's a good one.

[Joe Getty]

It's been cleaned up a little. The first casualty of war is the truth. But yeah, yeah, so true. Hiram Johnson, when did he kick it? Was he a Civil war guy?

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't remember.

[Joe Getty]

I'd have to look it up and I'm too lazy. Mailbag.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'd have to look it up and you know, I don't want to. So let's slow the show down.

[Joe Getty]

It's all about pacing, pacing. Drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongandgetti.com if you'd like to be heard. MailbagarmstrongandgettI.com Dr. Brian Rice, you dropped a metaphor on Friday like it was a common saying. I understood your mean meaning, but I've never heard it before. It's a pretty good one. That's when I referred to the pig in the python, which is, you know, like you're. What would an example be, like, income? In the United States, there are people who make, you know, $2 an hour and then there's people who make a billion dollars. But the big fat, thick part of America, the pig of the python is probably between, you know, 60 and 200.

[Jack Armstrong]

Anyway.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know if I made that up. Probably not. Barry from Thailand. Hey, fellas. When we consider how many of our wars have lasted for many years, what is the urgency by the mainstream media to want to know when this one will end? For crying out loud, it's been barely two weeks. They really are awful. Yeah, I, yeah,

[Jack Armstrong]

the, the bulk of the media with this has been a failure. Why isn't it over already? After two weeks in a day, it's quite amazing.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's a combination of Trump derangement syndrome and I think completely unrealistic expectations set in part by Trump. Honestly, the Maduro thing was insanely successful. And then the taking out of the Fordo facility back in. Was it June last year? Yeah. Let's see. Moving along. A Persian woman. I know I once had a person say Iranians referring to themselves as Persians is ridiculous, like an Italian referring to themselves as a Roman. But I don't know. They're trying to disassociate themselves, themselves from what they consider to be an evil regime. I get it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Can't blame them for that.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway, let's see. Sean says, I work with a Persian woman. She informed me that two of her relatives were killed in Iran last weekend by the Iranian government. Apparently those a holes aren't busy enough yet. And also spoke of the incredible and fear among the expat community. They don't trust anyone because the Ayatollah and his boys are constantly looking to hurt anybody who resists their regime across the globe.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, Crazy. Came across a story yesterday of this is horrible, but some nurses who had been tortured and raped by the Revolutionary Guard because they had helped some of the protesters who got wounded that night that they all got shot. So they tortured the nurses who helped them. I mean, that's who we're dealing with. And that's why like the average Iranian is more worried about their own government than anything accidentally hitting them from the United States.

[Joe Getty]

And then Al Anonymous writes that

[Jack Armstrong]

and

[Joe Getty]

I gotta summarize this to keep it vague, but. But there are people in liberal areas of the country who look at anybody pro putting down Iran as being pro Israel. And because they hate Israel and the Jews on the left, Free Palestine. Free Free Palestine. A lot of Iranians are afraid to say who they are and what they think, so they're not attacked by the progressives among them. I mean, it's just insane. Let's see. We don't have time for that. Got a great note from Mike about why Apple is so behind in the AI wars. Really interesting analysis. I'd like to know that next hour. Yeah, sure.

[Jack Armstrong]

We got plenty of stuff that has nothing to do with the war in Iran. For you, that's pretty dang interesting and I hope you can stick around for that. If you miss a segment, you get the Oscar award winning Armstrong and Getty. One more thing.

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