The Kingdom Of UrBooty

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: "The Kingdom Of UrBooty"

Date: March 4, 2026

Host: iHeartPodcasts

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EPISODE OVERVIEW

Main Theme:
This episode dives deep into escalating military conflict in the Middle East, particularly the U.S. and Israeli joint operations against Iran, recent political shakeups in the U.S. Congress, shifts in global alliances, and the media and political rhetoric surrounding these events. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty dissect geopolitical fallout, U.S. military strategy, congressional response, and public sentiment, blending analysis with their trademark mix of irreverence and biting commentary.

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KEY DISCUSSION POINTS & INSIGHTS

1. Show Moniker & Tone Setting

• The hosts introduce the day’s possible episode titles:
  • “WWMD: What Would Marxists Do?”
  • “Big Brother Tom Pulls Ice Barbie’s Head Off” ([03:41])
• Light, sardonic analysis sets the tone for the episode, poking at partisanship and infighting within the Republican party.

2. Republican Infighting & Kristi Noem Scandal

• Discussion about Senator Tom Tillis “pulling Ice Barbie’s head off”—meaning Tillis heavily criticized a member of his own party, Kristi Noem, for questionable advertising fund allocation in immigration messaging in South Dakota.
  • Jack Armstrong: “That’s not a common thing to have somebody of your own party go after you as a secretary of something.” ([04:28])
• Reflections on intra-party discipline and the growing willingness among Republicans to call out their own.

3. Escalating Middle East Conflict

• Reports of attacks across the region:
  • Major U.S. military base in the Middle East hit by a rocket, no reported injuries.
  • Civilian buildings (hotels, airports) targeted, impacting Westerners abroad.
• Joe Getty: “Just found out my brother was in that very hotel in Dubai that got smashed up last week. Makes you stop and think.” ([05:59])

Arab-Israeli Relations & Historic Shifts

• Discussion of the possibility of Arab nations joining the U.S. and Israel against Iran, referencing Netanyahu’s long-courted “Abraham alliance.”
  • Joe Getty: “That could lead to peace in the Middle East… for a while.” ([06:56])
• Notable: This is positioned as a nearly unprecedented realignment, opposite of the old Six Day War dynamic.

Targeted Retaliation in Iran

• Israel’s strategy to target those involved in crackdown on Iranian protesters earlier in the year, aiming to spark regime change through mass unrest.
  • Jack Armstrong: “Israel is specifically targeting anybody… cracking down on the protesters… Anybody involved in that is getting a rocket on their head or their house or their car.” ([07:02])
• Joe Getty: Shares that exiled Iranians describe the regime as “unspeakably evil,” but the threat of violence stymies further public uprising ([07:41]).

U.S. Military Posture and Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Remarks

• Discussion about the new Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, who declares the U.S. operation “just getting started.” ([08:36], [26:38])
• NATO involvement—report of NATO shooting down an Iranian missile headed for Turkey.

The “Kingdom of UrBooty” and Global Danger Zones

• Commentary on the growing U.S. “Do Not Travel” list of countries in the region, including the comical mispronunciation of "Djibouti" as "your booty." ([09:21])
• Jack Armstrong: “I'm amazed by the thousands upon thousands of Americans there are in all these different countries.” ([09:43])

4. U.S. Domestic Politics: The War Powers Debate

• Congress poised to vote on the War Powers Act in response to the new conflict, underscoring tension over executive branch war-making authority.
  • Jack Armstrong: “Congress is going to have some votes today on the War Powers act… Is there anything they can do about this one? That already started.” ([11:24], [11:44])

Congressional Leverage

• Insight into congressional powers (“Congress is very, very powerful. If they'd ever decide they want to be and do all kinds of stuff”).
• Historic note: The Vietnam War ended largely because Congress cut off funds ([12:24]).

5. Quotable Segment: “Truth Bombs” and the Ayatollah

• Jack Armstrong: “I will shed no tears for the Ayatollah Committee. He won the coin toss and he elected to receive, and boy, did he receive.” ([13:05])
• Joe Getty: “May he rest in pieces. Oh boy, oh boy.” ([13:15])
• Discussion about media reactions and a satirical obituary of Ali Khamenei ([14:03]).

6. US 2026 Congressional Primaries & Intra-Party Battles

• Eye patch Dan Crenshaw (“Former Navy Seal”) loses his primary for not being “Trumpy” enough ([18:21]).
• They reflect on the trend: politicians are now most vulnerable to primary challenges from the extremes of their own parties, not from the opposition.

7. Media Headlines & Domestic Issues (With Katie Green: [19:21])

• Middle East dominates headlines (US base hit, Israeli vows, economic impacts from Iran strikes)
• Personal stories: e.g., reading the names and details of fallen U.S. soldiers brings home the cost ([19:46]).
• Joe Getty: “You already know it's bad. But when you see the names, pictures, ages… it's brutal.” ([19:53])
• Lighthearted: study shows chimpanzees have a fascination with crystals ([22:28]).

8. AI and Mental Health Tragedy

• Brief coverage of a lawsuit where a man was allegedly encouraged to a terror plot and suicide by Google’s Gemini AI ([22:06]).
  • Teaser for a deep dive on this unusual and alarming story.

9. Further Analysis of Middle Eastern Strike Operations ([26:38] onward)

• Secretary Pete Hegseth (clip):
  • “America is winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy.” ([26:38])
  • Outlines the rapid progress in establishing air supremacy over Iran:
    • “The two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace.” (Hegseth, [30:32])
    • “Iran's senior leaders are dead… Iranian Air force is no more. Built for 1996, destroyed in 2026… Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.” ([33:34]–[34:00])
• Armstrong & Getty analyze the technical, logistical, and strategic complexity of coordinating thousands of air strikes—planning, targeting, avoiding friendly fire, etc. ([37:23]–[38:51])
• Debate over what “victory” means, worries about unclear endgames, and comparisons to U.S. military history.

10. Congressional Avoidance and the Trolley Problem

• Listeners’ emails weigh in on “war of choice” vs “war of necessity.” Hosts critique the black-and-white rhetorical framing.
• Parallels drawn to the “trolley problem”—do you take direct action that saves more people, or stand back and keep your hands clean? ([46:53])

11. Miscellaneous Notables

• The British shipping insurance market crumbling under war risk—the potential for major economic ripple effects ([42:32]).
• Quotes of the Day:
  • “The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.” — Norman Schwarzkopf ([43:07])
  • “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” — George Washington ([43:26])

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NOTABLE QUOTES & MEMORABLE MOMENTS

• On Intra-GOP Drama:

  • Jack Armstrong: “That’s not a common thing to have somebody of your own party go after you as a secretary of something.” ([04:28])

• Dark Humor on Ayatollah Khamenei:

  • Joe Getty: “May he rest in pieces. Oh boy, oh boy.” ([13:15])
  • Jack Armstrong: “He won the coin toss and elected to receive.” ([13:05])

• On Military Overreach:

  • Jack Armstrong: “I’m amazed by the thousands upon thousands of Americans there are in all these different countries.” ([09:43])

• Secretary of War Pete Hegseth:

  • “America is winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy.” ([26:38])

• On War’s Uncertainty:

  • Jack Armstrong: “I'm not as bothered as some people are about the, the, the plan. Again. I think you had the best opportunity you're ever going to get to take out the evil, evil enemy of the United States, and you did. And that's got to be better than, than what happens next. So I hear all this stuff about. It's jazz. He's just improvising.” ([35:38])

• On Congress and Avoidance:

  • Jack Armstrong: “We'll see what Congress does today and tomorrow in terms of keeping their hands clean. I think that that's going to be their goal, not have their fingerprints on anything in case anything goes bad.” ([47:39])

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IMPORTANT SEGMENTS & TIMESTAMPS

• Republican Drama, Kristi Noem: (03:41–05:13)
• Middle East Attacks, Abraham Alliance: (05:14–06:56)
• Israel Retaliation/Protest Suppression: (07:02–08:46)
• U.S. & NATO Action, Iran, Turkey, “Kingdom of UrBooty”: (08:46–09:28)
• Congressional War Powers Debate: (11:06–12:24)
• Ayatollah Khamenei “Rest in Pieces” Segment: (13:05–14:44)
• Dan Crenshaw Loses Primary: (18:21–18:47)
• Katie Green Headlines (Iran, Economy, Elections, AI “Wife”): (19:21–23:10)
• Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Press Conference Clips: (26:38–34:27)
• Analysis of Air Strikes, Military Logistics: (37:23–39:06)
• Trolley Problem, War of Choice vs. Necessity Email: (46:53–47:39)

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FINAL THOUGHTS

This episode delivers what regular Armstrong & Getty listeners expect: irreverent, insightful commentary on the day’s most pressing geopolitical headlines, delivered with a blend of dark humor and skepticism toward media, government, and ideologies of all stripes. The team shines brightest when drawing clever historical analogies and unpacking the deeper implications of the day’s news, especially their breakdown of military logistics and war powers.

For listeners seeking a nuanced, if at times sardonic, window into current events—the clash in the Middle East, American politics, the war powers debate—this episode is not one to miss.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington broadcast center,

[Joe Getty]

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty. And now here,

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong. Live from studio C. See, senor, we are in a dimly lit room deep

[Jack Armstrong]

within the bowels of the Armstrong and getting communications compound. And today, midweek Wednesday, we are under the tutelage of. Sorry, we're working under the title of

[Joe Getty]

the show wwmd what would Marxists do? Or I'm particularly proud of this one. Big brother Tom pulls Ice Barbie's head off.

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[Joe Getty]

Anybody who. Anybody who grew up in a household with both boys and girls or perhaps

[Jack Armstrong]

has been a parent of one knows

[Joe Getty]

that occasionally a brother in a saucy mood will pull off the head of his sister's doll.

[Jack Armstrong]

That probably taunt them. That probably makes her unhappy.

[Joe Getty]

It causes conflict which often must be

[Jack Armstrong]

settled by the parent known as a decapitation.

[Joe Getty]

Well, a decapitation strike. Exactly. Yeah. Tom Tillis, the senator from North Carolina, kind of pulled ice Barbie's head off in a hearing yesterday.

[Jack Armstrong]

That would be Kristi Noem, That's a Republican.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, sir. Soon to be no longer in the senate. Republican who don't care.

[Jack Armstrong]

No mo. That's not a common thing to have somebody of your own party go after you as a secretary of something.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, she took a beating. There are Republicans who consider her an embarrassment.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, we got some information yesterday about how she was funneling all this ad buy money. Spent insane amount of money on ads to try to convince people what she was up to with all that immigration stuff was a good idea. And a lot of it went to people she used to hang out with in South Dakota. That's weird. Yeah. So that.

[Joe Getty]

That must have been the low bidder and the best at the work.

[Jack Armstrong]

That ain't good.

[Joe Getty]

That's government, man.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, no kidding. Lots of stuff. I'm looking up at the televisions. Been watching news ever since I got up this morning and there's a Lot of things with smoke billowing a lot of them around the Middle East. Lots of buildings with smoke coming up out of them. Some of them hotels and stuff like that. Airports and military bases, ours, including the biggest military base we have in the entire Middle east, which got hit with a rocket. Nobody injured is. At least that's what the report is. They might not be telling us the truth, which is fine.

[Joe Getty]

Just found out my brother was in that very hotel in Dubai that got smashed up last week.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, really? Of all things.

[Joe Getty]

Makes you stop and think.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, we, the UAE is getting, has taken the brunt of the Israeli sending rockets and missiles everywhere. And now a whole bunch of your Arabs are having a big meeting today on whether or not they should join up with the United States and Israel. Now that would be historic and it

[Joe Getty]

would be the manifestation of something BB Netanyahu has been trying to get going. He made an announcement. I can't remember when. It was a year ago, something like that, that. Look, we need to have the Abraham alliance in the spirit of the Abraham Accords. We all know who the danger is here. Israel has no good beef with you guys. Go do your thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's fine.

[Joe Getty]

Iran a bunch of maniacs. We ought to ban together.

[Jack Armstrong]

And now it's happened so. Or maybe 59 years after the Six Day War in which every single country in the region attacked Israel at the same time. Now almost all of those countries would be on the side of Israel taking on Iran.

[Joe Getty]

That's something that could lead to peace in the Middle East. Yeah, for a while.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. So the other thing I just read, I thought was really interesting is Israel is specifically targeting anybody and anything that played a role in cracking down on the protesters back In February, the 20 to 30,000 protesters that got gunned down in the street, Anybody involved in that is getting a rocket on their head or their house or their car. With the idea being there aren't a lot of protests around Iran right now and they need the public to come out into the streets, have giant protests, force the government out, take over the country. And they can't do it right now because they're all afraid of being shot by their own government.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I listened to a little NPR this morning to punish myself for the terrible things I've done. And I will give them credit. They talked to a bunch of Iranians expats right outside the country who are worried about their relatives. But to a person, they said without being challenged that, oh, this regime is unspeakably evil and horrible and we can't wait Till it's gone. The only problem is they still have the guns. And if we were to raid, you know, an armory and try to get the guns, thousands of people would die. So it's just, it's not clear if that can happen yet. Was the, was the attitude. But to your point, we're targeting absolutely every office, every armory, every, you know, house that was in charge of that effort. And it's good. I still think, you know, tipping. Pushing the regime past the tipping point is going to be an enormous challenge. But who knows.

[Jack Armstrong]

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth just gave a little presentation. We'll play clips of it later. But he said the operation against Iran is just getting started.

[Joe Getty]

So.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. If that's true, and this is big breaking news and luckily NATO shot down a missile. Iran Senate Turkey Trying to get Turkey involved somehow or pissing them off. I'm still not positive on their strategy. You know what, who's another big power around here we could turn against us? Maybe Turkey.

[Joe Getty]

It hasn't worked with the other 11 countries, but let's try it with Turkey.

[Jack Armstrong]

There are now 13 countries and I'm sure I couldn't name on a map where a lot of them are like I.

[Joe Getty]

Your booty, for instance.

[Jack Armstrong]

Your booty.

[Joe Getty]

The kingdom of your booty.

[Jack Armstrong]

Where's your booty?

[Joe Getty]

Shake your booty.

[Jack Armstrong]

13 countries that the United States is saying if you're, if you're an American, get out or don't go there in the first place, but get out.

[Joe Getty]

And don't be wearing your Olympic hockey T shirt either. Low profile.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm amazed by the, the thousands upon thousands of Americans there are in all these different countries. I never have been to any of these countries and just lots of people who do business in these places.

[Joe Getty]

I guess a lot of business being done. I would love to visit that part of the. Sure, absolutely. Takes a damn long and given our schedule, it's difficult to do. Hey, I want to get back very briefly to my other proposed title for the show, wwmd what Would Marxists Do? It's become extremely clear that having pivoted from the genocide in Gaza to ice out, now the Marxist organizations have all the placards printed and are taking the straits and now they're saying is down with the the war of colonial oppressor aggression against the poor Muslims of Iran. It's a genocide against Muslims. And the Red Green alliance is reborn. The alliance of fundamentalist Muslims and Marxists.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't think that one's going to work near as good as that. There is a fair amount of public support for their going after ice. There's not going to be a ton of public support for Iran, is there? There might be public support against this war since it's at least so far not polling well, but it's not. It's more of a. We don't want to get involved in wars in the Middle east, get sucked into an Iraq or Afghanistan. It's not up with their Iranians, is it? Where they're.

[Joe Getty]

No, no, no. I mean you'd have to be insane or just a liar with a bunch of soft headed fans. Adherence, you know, teammates in your idiotic Marxist organization that will just believe anything you tell them. That's the only people who could make that argument.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. So Congress is going to have some votes today on the War Powers act and then a bunch of discussion tomorrow. Be really interesting to see where that goes.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. What the state of congressional oversight of war is at this point is anybody's guess.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is there anything they can do about this one? That already started. There's some talk about them just passing some legislation about the future, future moves by this president or other presidents making it more, delineating more and which actions you need to come to talk to us about. I don't know if they can do about this one that's already started.

[Joe Getty]

Well, they could pass a resolution, you know, one of your symbolic resolutions reaffirming that the President has to come to them within 60 days for reauthorization, blah blah blah. It could be something like that. Kind of just an assertion of Congress is still here, we're over here and we want to roll in this. We'll have to say, of course, if

[Jack Armstrong]

you're a fan of history, you know that the Vietnam War really came to an end when Congress finally stopped funding any of it. Because they always have that power. We ain't giving you any more money to do any of this. So that's how it ends. That is the power. Congress is very, very powerful. If they'd ever decide they want to be and do all kinds of stuff. Let's start the show officially. Got a good clip for you. I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, May or March 4th already the year 2026 where Armstrong and getting. We approve of this program.

[Joe Getty]

Let's begin pelting the liars with truth bombs precisely according to FCC rules regulations. Here we go at mark.

[Jack Armstrong]

I will shed no tears for the Ayatollah Committee. He won the coin toss and he elected to receive and Boy, did he receive.

[Joe Getty]

May he rest in pieces. May he rest in pieces. Oh boy, oh boy.

[Jack Armstrong]

He won the coin toss and elected to receive.

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[Jack Armstrong]

How much time does he spend thinking of these? His daily Senate job. He's in his office.

[Joe Getty]

I got a good one for you. He hits his staff with they roll their eyes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Mr. Kennedy, the secretary of Agriculture wants to be truth Tell him to hold on a minute. He's in there at the door closed

[Joe Getty]

trying to rubbing his chin. Yeah, he couldn't raise corn if you no Rest in pieces.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a good one.

[Joe Getty]

I like this from Andrew Stiles and the Free Beacon. His headline making fun of the rest of the media is Rest in Pieces. Ali Khamenei, demure, progressive, stalwart and Black Lives Matter ally who inspired Democrats and academics. Bombed to death at 86. He expired on his own terms mid resistance, surrounded by his closest friends and military aids.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. So did this actually happen or was this Somebody made this up online? Did Trump? I had came across this yesterday. A reporter asked Trump, now that you've killed the Supreme Leader, who's going to be the next head of Iran? And Trump responded, I don't know. I guess the position is open. I'm creating jobs in Iran too now.

[Joe Getty]

Did he actually say that? I don't know. I hope so. That would be perhaps his Alzheimer.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's pretty good. We've got Katie's headlines on the way. Stay here.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Crenshaw loss last night I liked him. Eye patch Dan Crenshaw.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. Former Navy Seal I was surprised to

[Jack Armstrong]

see that he wasn't always Trumpy. He wasn't always on board of Trump and got challenged by somebody Trumpy and lost. That's the way modern politics work. Most congressional seats are safe, but not from your own party. If you aren't woken up on the left or Trumpy enough on the right, you get defeated by your own party, which is a new thing.

[Joe Getty]

Surety test.

[Jack Armstrong]

That is a new thing that did not happen very many years ago.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

For better or worse, and I don't know which is which. The whole every seat safe thing hasn't been working for us. But it's interesting that you now you're most vulnerable by far to somebody in your own party who's more of whatever than you are.

[Joe Getty]

Although that the the sort of person who tends to be 100% likely to vote in a primary doesn't represent the the greater electorate. That's probably not that trend. That is the problem. All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green. Katie?

[Katie Green]

All right, top of the headlines, of course, what's going on in Iran, starting with ABC as Iran retaliates. Largest US Military base in the Middle east hit by ballistic missile. Cnn, Israel vows to kill Iran's next supreme leader as Tehran strikes back. And NBC, Iran strikes risk more voter frustration on the economy with rising gas prices.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

That one base that got hit in Kuwait. They released the names and pictures of four of the people killed.

[Joe Getty]

Just horrifying.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, you already know it's bad. But when you see the names, pictures, ages.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hear about their lives, it's brutal.

[Joe Getty]

One mom, one 20 year old. Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

Just sad.

[Joe Getty]

On a lighter note, my favorite headline of the day was from the New York Times. Iran has announced it has postponed the public displaying of the Ayatollah's body, which is a missed opportunity for us to kill him again.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, bomb him again. Blow up the funeral.

[Katie Green]

Rob Breitbart Zelensky worried the world could forget about Ukraine and stop donating missiles because of Iran operations.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I'll bet he is.

[Joe Getty]

He should be. Yeah.

[Katie Green]

From the Wall Street Journal, A record number of American workers are pulling money from their 401ks to cover financial emergencies.

[Jack Armstrong]

This is not good.

[Joe Getty]

No, it really is not. We need to talk about that.

[Katie Green]

More later from the New York Times, Crockett concedes Democratic primary in Texas.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, Jasmine Crockett got beat by that James Tallarico phony who believes God has many genders.

[Jack Armstrong]

So is that her Getting beat by someone more of her than she was.

[Joe Getty]

He really connected with Hispanic voters is the analysis I saw in a way that she never did because she's super woke. He actually was. We have a Timu Hitler in the

[Bethenny Frankel]

White House right now.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, the Hispanics are like, you're a little nutty for our taste. And so it was not getting out woke. Exactly. Although she's Jasmine Crockett's about Jasmine Crockett. She's an Instagram influencer.

[Bethenny Frankel]

Bleach blonde, bad built, butch body.

[Joe Getty]

Says you.

[Katie Green]

From cbs. A jury finds father of accused high school shooter guilty of murder and all other charges.

[Joe Getty]

Interesting case. Troubled kid, cops that had to come to the house had a shrine to school shooters on his wall and dad buys him an AR15.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I want to talk about that more later.

[Bethenny Frankel]

Wow.

[Katie Green]

From the New York Post Lawsuit claims Google Gemini quote AI wife pushed lovesick man to plot catastrophic airplane report truck bombing and kill himself.

[Joe Getty]

There's a lot there.

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[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay. A lot more details on that one.

[Katie Green]

I don't get this one, but I find it funny. Study finds chimpanzees share humans fascination with crystals. It could hint at the roots of symbolic thought.

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[Joe Getty]

The picture, they're like shiny objects.

[Katie Green]

Yeah, but the picture is a chimp holding a giant like quartz crystal and she's just like looking at it and kind of banging it on the ground.

[Joe Getty]

I can feel the energy reaching my chakra.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Katie Green]

And finally, from the Babylon Bee, Obama very confused to see bombs falling on Iran instead of pallets of cash.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh boy. Well, as you heard, there's a bunch of stories there we need to follow up on all different sorts of angles of the world. All very exciting. And again, we have some clips of Pete Hegseth Secretary award just gave us an update on where things are in a colorful way that he does so lots today. If you miss a segment or an hour, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Gettysburg.

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[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth]

I stand before you today with one unmistakable message about Operation Epic Fury. America is winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. And we got more clips of him. First, let me mention that I just read the story Katie Green mentioned in her headlines about the guy who was gonna bomb an airport because his AI girlfriend told him to. Holy crap. What an interesting story about the.

[Joe Getty]

What.

[Jack Armstrong]

How the AI treated this dude.

[Joe Getty]

Highly true. This was Google Gemini in this case.

[Jack Armstrong]

It was Gemini in this case.

[Katie Green]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wait till we get to that. Okay, back to Pete Hegseth. So I personally have been in favor of what we did in Iran over the weekend and have been kind of ignoring the he doesn't know what's the day to plan, all that sort of stuff, and been kind of not susceptible to that argument. Yesterday, for some reason, I started to become susceptible to the where's this going? How do you know when you're done argument on this?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, well, that's. It's a great question.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I'd say so.

[Joe Getty]

It doesn't. Even if the answer is, you know, the. The remnants of the regime remain in charge and it's still an autocracy, blah, blah, blah. It's. That doesn't counter the. The argument that we needed to bring them down.

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[Joe Getty]

Their capacity to wreak horror.

[Jack Armstrong]

But I'm definitely not at the this was a bad idea stage or even close. But I am at the. I don't see what. How this is going to end.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's a giant mystery. I agree completely. You want to hear a little more of Secretary Pete? Here he is in 51.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth]

We need to remember two things. First, we are only four days into this. Metrics are shifting, dust is settling, and more forces are arriving. It's very early, and as President Trump has said, we will take all the time we need to make sure that we succeed. Second, we are only four days into this, and the results have been incredible. Historic, really. Only the United States of America could lead this. Only us. But when you add the Israeli Defense Forces, a devastatingly capable force, the combination is sheer destruction for our radical Islamist Iranian adversaries. They are toast and they know it. Or at least soon enough, they will know it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, man. What we in Israel pulled off in that opening hour really is extraordinary. I was going to ask Mike Lyons about this. We should probably have him on, you know, today or tomorrow, because this is every day there's big news to ask about somebody with a military mind for this, but how much advantage does this

[Joe Getty]

give us if we ever end up

[Jack Armstrong]

go to war with China? That they have not really engaged in any actual military stuff in many, many, many years. And we have, for better or worse, got a lot of people that have done, you know, I assume I'm, I've never been in the military, but I assume there's a big difference, no matter how much you train, between training and doing it for real. And we've got a lot of people that have done all this stuff for

[Joe Getty]

real, both individually and as an institution. You know, the institutional learning of, oh, this is what happens. Okay. And you put that into your, your training and, and your options and the rest of it. It's incredibly important. Yeah. So Secretary Pete, who is an absolute quote machine and is an incredibly capable spokesperson. I know he's on TV and so it's obvious, but man, is he good bringing it. We'll do 52, then pause briefly.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth]

Michael, Starting last night and to be completed in a few days, in under a week, the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace.

[Joe Getty]

I just wanted to pause to note, and we'll get back to this in a little bit, that virtually the entire Israeli air force was in on the strike against Iran in the early days. Virtually every fighter they had headed for Iran to bring down the Ayatollah regime.

[Jack Armstrong]

Is that accurate? That's interesting. I didn't know that the two most powerful air forces in the world are us in Israel.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know that that's accurate. You wouldn't.

[Jack Armstrong]

We are number one. I don't doubt that, but I didn't know Israel was number two.

[Joe Getty]

Maybe in terms of capability and experience. Getting back to your previous point, but. So Pete claims the secretary that will have complete control of their airspace and he expands on that thought.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth]

I hope all the folks watching understand what uncontested airspace and complete control means. It means we will fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military. Finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders. Flying over Tehran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the irgc, Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only US and Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's over.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow, that's a good one.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that is. Let's go ahead.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yesterday there was an actual dog fight, like old school dogfight between an Israeli jet and an Iranian jet. The Israeli jet provision prevailed. First dog fight Israel has been in, or maybe anybody since the 80s. It's not a very common thing in the modern world.

[Joe Getty]

I was surprised that the Kuwaitis could bring down three of our jets. Right. Using our gear and our training. So I guess that was pretty good gear and training. We'll talk more about that, how that unfolded.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I'd like to know. That's super interesting.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. The key fact really is just that the airspace over Iran and the region is incredibly complicated right now with missiles and planes and drones flying around and our base had just gotten hit and the Kuwaitis were on their toes to prevent that from happening again and misread our planes as some sort of Iranian.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, so was that right after the strike that killed six soldiers?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Okay.

[Joe Getty]

So, you know, God bless the Kuwaitis. They kind of screwed up, but they were, as I said, on their toes trying to, you know, really defend their airspace in our base along with us. So anyway, let's see. I wanted to do just a little more. Pete here is 57.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth]

Iran's senior leaders are dead. The so called governing council that might have selected a successor. Dead, missing, or cowering in bunkers too terrified to even occupy the same room. Senior generals, mid level officers, enlisted ranks, they can't talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated and sustained offensive. That's not great for morale.

[Joe Getty]

But wait, there's more bad news.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth]

The Iranian Air force is no more. Built for 1996, destroyed in 2026. The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated. Pick your adjective. In fact, last night we sunk their prize ship, the Soleimani. Looks like POTUS got him twice.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Oof.

[Jack Armstrong]

Killed the guy and the ship named after him. That one was a US submarine. Used a torpedo in the Indian Ocean. It's the first time we've torpedoed and sunk a ship since World War II.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Now that's some naval trivia for you. Untrivial trivia. Yeah. If the true fury and might of our Navy ever had to get unlocked, I think the world would be surprised how capable we are because. Yeah, right, yeah. That you have such an awesome force so that you never have to use it.

[Jack Armstrong]

So when we have full control of the sky, which I assume could be very soon, then we're just gonna just keep hitting every, every, every thing that

[Joe Getty]

they have a target for anybody who so much as points a rifle. I guess. I, I don't, I don't know. Again, the next chapter is the one that's really uncertain because of, you know, as long as there have been airplanes and air wars, the next thing is you bring the guys in the troops.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm not, I'm not as bothered as some people are, and it doesn't mean I'm right. I could be wrong about this, but I'm not as bothered as some people are about the, the, the, the plan. Again. I think you had the best opportunity you're ever going to get to take out the evil, evil enemy of the United States, and you did. And that's got to be better than, than what happens next. So I hear all this stuff about. It's jazz. He's just improvising.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

After he had. Took out the guy. Because there was no other choice. I, I believe that. So it doesn't have to be. You had a concrete laid out plan of how it was going to play out, and it exactly follows it to me. Right.

[Joe Getty]

And anybody who's into this sort of stuff or have studied it realizes that your plans get blown up the minute you engage with the enemy. And so I suspect that they've got four or five or six plans, depending on what happens, which is exactly the way war goes.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's the classic Mike Tyson quote of everybody's got a plan till they get punched in the face.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, exactly. So that's not to guarantee this is going to end in some sort of rosy conclusion, but I think it's a false criticism. I also want to dig into the whole. The divide between Marco Rubio and then the president, who contradicted him about Israel forcing the United States hand, blah, blah, blah. That is a, a red herring. That is a false narrative and one that is very, very popular in the media today. I will do my best to explode it perhaps at the top of next hour.

[Jack Armstrong]

Are most herrings white?

[Joe Getty]

Exactly. That's why the red ones are. You can't resist. Well, there's a red herring and you chase it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, okay. Is that where that comes from?

[Joe Getty]

I have no idea.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, my God, a red herring.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, why is that herring red?

[Jack Armstrong]

Good Lord, let's follow it.

[Joe Getty]

No, I have no idea where that expression comes from.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've been thinking about this. I wish somebody would put out a video about this or something to explain it. Can you imagine what the logistics of Saturday were with thousand airstrikes within like a half an hour with Israeli jets and US Jets? I can't even imagine. Because they all had to have a target and that had to be mapped in and locked in, and they all got to be Flying and they can't be running into each other. So it's got to be timed in such a way that like, you know, I drop my bomb and get out of the way before you drop your bomb like a mile away and you gotta land somewhere, take off from somewhere, fuel somewhere, all that stuff, I can't even imagine.

[Joe Getty]

It's even hairier than that because while you're in the air, especially executing the mission, you've got to defend yourselves and keep an eye out for the other guy and figure out who's who in an incredibly crowded and kinetic airspace.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I'm sure all kinds of contingency plans for what if they shoot down this guy or these two jets and then do you come in and take out the target or whatever? It's gotta be just mind bogglingly complicated. And the people who do that work, who. I mean, you talk about unsung heroes that might be sitting at a desk who knows where in the United States that work all this stuff out on a, you know, an Excel sheet or something.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

God, I can't imagine the amount of planning that's got to go into that.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's one of the reasons we enjoy talking to Mike Lyons so much is he has a pretty good grasp of that sort of thing and how logistics and, and planning and infrastructure is just so critical to war fighting.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, coordination.

[Joe Getty]

In short, we got.

[Jack Armstrong]

We have so many good things to talk about today and really do want to get to that AI story. Gemini convincing a craz crazy dude to do a crazy thing. And why did Gemini go down that road? This part of AI I do not understand. But anyway, we've got Mailbag on the way. Stay here.

[Joe Getty]

Armstrong and Getty.

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[Jack Armstrong]

the One More thing to be worried about category that I've never thought of in my entire life. The World Shipping Insurance Market is crumbling. Britain, their biggest thing is them ensuring pretty much the entire world. I didn't know this. That's why London, etc. Yeah. So. And they didn't expect the war to be as big as it's going to be. And it's a really, a really big problem. I have to talk about that coming up. I mean, I knew nothing about this. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Okay. Shipping, insurance, Fascinating. I know. Boy. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing our series about war. This from Norman Schwarzkopf, remember him? Back in the day, the more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's a good one.

[Joe Getty]

That is a good one. And he's echoing in a way. George Washington will throw in a bonus for no extra charge. To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. Amen to that, Mr. President, sir. Mailbag. Please feel free to drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongegetti.com is the email address. Mailbagarmstrongandgetty.com Interesting crop of email. I wish we could do more of it. A lot of good, you know, thought provoking thoughts. Jim in San Jose writes, might have been a war of choice today, but in a couple of years it would have been a war of necessity. Should we have waited to fight a more well armed, possibly nuclear Iran? Just stopping their drone production will save lives. Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

I don't get that that argument. I like the term preemptive better. I think that gets closer to the middle ground and makes more sense.

[Joe Getty]

Yes.

[Jack Armstrong]

I like.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, well said Garrick in the People's Republic of Davis, California. Yeah, I think this is a war of choice. However, after looking at the choice, I like it so I choose to be behind it. But I still believe it is a war of choice. And that's after listening to you guys and others, I think you can be behind the move and that's going on with it being a choice. Thoughts? Yeah, whole war of choice, war of necessity, that's a rhetorical flourish that has no specific definition.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I think to use the term war of choice like John Stewart was on the Daily show, that's what brought it up to me. As if that's by definition a bad thing is where you're getting into childlike views of international situations.

[Joe Getty]

Right. It's preaching to the choir stuff. You say war of choice and everybody's you. Yeah. Yeah. More on that and the idea of necessity coming up later. JT and Livermore points out Hillary has zero room to be whining about pizzagate It's a little too much for her to complain about the made up scandal known as Pizzagate, given that she created an even bigger hoax that still negatively affects our country today, AKA the Russian collusion hoax. I don't know how many people believe in the Pizzagate story, but it has to be a fraction of the people who still believe in the Russian collusion hoax, given that a majority of Democratic voters still believe it was legitimate and he has a link to an article I didn't really have time to look at. But yeah, it's a majority.

[Jack Armstrong]

Getting back to the war of choice thing isn't old. What's his name? Whoever was the Prime Minister at the time, his name escapes me. Back World War II, the appeasement guy, Neville Chamberlain? Isn't Neville Chamberlain still getting beaten up for trying to negotiate the whole situation rather than, you know, recognizing that was an enemy and doing something about it? That would have been a war of choice to take on Hitler before he moved, Right?

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah, good point. JT says P.S. our country will never be united until the Democratic Party learns to love the country more than they hate Trump or the gop. And then, Excuse me, once again, I want to get into the whole imminent threat question, but let's see. Oh, I like this note from Ryan. Your recent talk about pacifists and people not factoring in the cost of inaction has really put the trolley problem to the front of my mind. There are a lot of variations, but I think the west has been dealing with this on multiple dimensions. Iran, national debt, deportations, et cetera. The train is careening down the rails, there's something in the distance that's a little fuzzy, or people pretend not to see it, but it's certainly a bunch of people tied to the track.

[Jack Armstrong]

A bunch.

[Joe Getty]

The train can be diverted by flipping a relay switch, but doing so will definitely send it in this other direction and kill a single person we can clearly see right in front of us. Do you proactively intervene to kill the one person, even though you're quite likely saving many more? Trump is willing to flip that trolley switch. If it were up to Congress for most presidents, that train would continue on to hit whatever it is in the distance, and he gives the examples of interest bomb, Orion, getting a nuke, et cetera, but not through any direct action of Congress. Safer to not flip the switch and assume the explicit blame for a likely smaller direct outcome. Bold leaders know that flipping the switch is sometimes the right thing to do. KKYHCC Keeping your hands clean? Coward.

[Jack Armstrong]

We'll see what Congress does today and tomorrow in terms of keeping their hands clean. I think that that's going to be their goal, not have their fingerprints on anything in case anything goes bad. If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. Good stuff on the way.

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