June 27, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Jack's on vacation & Operation Narnia
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & Katie Green's Headlines!
- Mike Lyons talks to Joe Getty!
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong
and Jackie and he arms rang yet Why from Studio C.
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Sennor deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Giddy
Intornation Complex. This is The Armstrong Getty Show live on
this Friday, June the twenty seventh, the year of Our Lord,
twenty twenty five, the last show before vacation. In fact,
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Jack is already on vacation, winging his way towards sunny
flo with his voice for an Independence Day holiday. Speaking
of which, Speaking of which, we have a lot of
great guests today to talk about not only the events
of the day, but Independence Day, the United States, our history,
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our Constitution. The fabulous Tim Sandefer is going to join
us for an hour to talk about the Declaration of
Independence and more specifically, how the Declaration of Independence is,
as he put it in the title of his excellent
book that came out a few years ago, the conscience
of the Constitution, and how the balance of liberty versus
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democracy has gotten way off kilter in our country and
that we need to continue to pull it back towards
liberty as hard and as fast as we can, the
idea being that the whole intent to this country was
that the no matter what the majority wanted, you could
not vote away liberty. You could not vote government control
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in the wet blanket, the suffocating, wet blanket of government
over intervention into all of our lives and businesses. I
hear what you say, too late, Joe, too late. Yeah, well,
you're right. But I suppose the choice then becomes, do
we do whatever we can to make it better or
do we just let it become worse for our kids
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and our grandkids and posterity, etc. So anyway, I'm looking
forward to that conversation. I'm going to talk to Congressman
Kevin Kyley, one of our absolute faves from the House representatives,
about a couple of different things, including cal Unicornia being
busted by the Justice Department for violating Title nine, specifically
letting dudes into girls' locker rooms and letting dudes whoop
(02:55):
up on girls on the sports field, absolutely disgusting. And
we're also looking forward to a conversation with Senator Roger
Marshall of the Great State of Kansas about how the
Big beautiful bill is coming, among other things, and specifically
I want to talk to him about some of the
measures in the world of education that are contained in
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that bill. It's flown so far under the radar, mostly
because of the incredibly exciting and action packed international news
these days, specifically you know, Visa, Iran and Israel. But
there are some really interesting inroads being made, the battle
lines being moved forward in the war against number one
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woke education but number two, and I was going to
say maybe more importantly, but boy, they're both so important.
But also the war against completely ineffective, union choked, useless
government schools. What can we do to stim mulate competition
and education, which might be the most important thing we
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can do as a country. It speaking of posterity in
our kids and our grandkids. Boy, if we're serving them
as ill as we've been with our government education system
over the last couple of years, oh my goodness, may history,
you know, dig up our graves and kick our bones.
I mean, we've got to do better than that. So anyway,
looking forward to that, and that's not even all of
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what we're doing. I just didn't want to, you know,
make a list too long, so I hope you can
stay tuned, Hope you enjoy it. This morning, we're tootling
under the I'm sorry, we're laboring under the tutelage. I
always say that. I want to say, we're tootling under
the laborage, which is it rolls off the tongue. Katie, Yeah,
you should change doctor Susian. Yeah, yeah, to hell with it.
(04:47):
It's my, it's my, it's my Yogi beara esque signature phrase.
This morning, we're tootling under the laborage of General Manager,
Operation Narnia. You remember Operation Midnight Hammer, the very trumpy name,
very trumpy name for us successfully executing that incredible, mind
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boggling mission of the thirty seven hour round trip the
B two bombers and the bunker busters and the rest
of it. And it's one of those things you know.
None of us I'm well, actually some of your listening
probably do know what it takes. But none of us
here fully appreciated the complexity of the mission. I mean,
one hundred and fifty aircraft were involved, going thousands of
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miles back and forth. And the more you learn, the
more in awe you are of the capabilities of the
United States military. Appropriately so well, Operation Narnia was the
name of the Israeli mission, which included not only the
bombings of the facilities, but the super targeted knocking off
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of the various nuclear scientists and military leaders practically simultaneously.
Years in the planning. Just astounding sophistication, coordination, and daring.
And I can't wait to tell you more about that
a little bit later on the show, because it's it's
it's just absolutely awe inspiring. But first, why don't we,
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uh we hate to run a foul of FCC rules
and regulations right before vacation. I have to fill out
paperwork qulli vacation. So here we go according to the
FCC rules and REGs. Joke starts fishally at Mark, and.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
The President looks over at me, puts the foreign leader
on mute and says this is not going very well,
and he presses the red button and and my eyes
get really big, and I'm like, mister President, you know
what what just happened? And he's he looks at me
and he goes nuclear nuclear.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And two minutes later, a.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Guy walks in with a diet coke and he looks
back at me and he says it wasn't nuclear.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It's just the diet cook button. And that's.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
So that's the kind of guy, my fellow Republicans, that
we have as the President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
JD. Vance talking about his early days working with Trump
in the awful, the owful office, not the awful Opus
was not a fraud instant. I'm sorry. I'm reading and
talking at the same time. It's my worst habit. So anyway,
glad you're here, Thanks so much for tuning in. We
have an action pack show, including not only Katie's Headlines
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next segment, but clips of the week as well. Stay
with us, looking forward to talking to a military analyst,
Mike Lyons next segment about a variety of topics, including
Operation Narnia, the incredibly sophisticated Israeli plan to knock around's
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nuclear weapons program offline for a little while or a
very long while. I'll find that out together, I suppose,
among other things, to talk to Mike about. Katie's got
our headlines in just moments. But first, it's the Friday tradition.
Let's take a fun look back at the week that was.
It's cal Clips of the Week where we sold a
forty year bill of good.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I think that's a bunch of the biggest load that
we've seen.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
The whips of the week. It just wasn't in the
mood to hear P and T for some reason. Well,
you need to wake the hell up and see the penis.
That's what makes America great, right, what happened in the
keys honey? Or oh my god, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You want to come at me, go ahead, but you
better check with your bones first.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
La Hart was hurt right away when he fell. These
and page so emotional.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, shout out to AC for kind of teaching us
how to pop champagne. I guess the.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Dallas Mavericks select Cooper fag University. It's might using the
best place in the world to have herpies.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
The cops here are telling me that it's my fault
that I put my human body in the street to
be hit.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
By a motor vehicle.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Honestly, I think that's a bunch of crimes, and I'm very,
very upset.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
You're not working, you're not going to get a job,
you're not going to school, you're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
But ma, I'm saying, hample to be successful in life.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Mom legendary Zion zillion Zin and just seeing this where I, uh,
how many you're missing too?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I'm missing too.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And now that your hoods being invaded and the biggest
gang there is, there ain't a people out you.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Look, all the interruptions don't change the fact that this resolution.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Mister Demaia, I'm gonna have to interrupt you one more
time if you wouldn't mind waiting, mister reading clerk, can
you hold his time?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And a stunning upset Democratic socialist Zoran mom Donnie won
the Democratic mayor Farmer and it's.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Where the mayor will use their.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Power to reject Donald Trump's fascism.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Holy cats, what was that? Who was that? Is anybody hurt? Seriously?
Who was that? Christian Shinawiff? Yeah? Oh? The Broadway star? Right?
Is she the Frozen? The guy who's sang the leading Frozen?
I can't it doesn't matter. Why did I? I don't care?
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Wicked right of course?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Have I ever mentioned to you, Katie,
how great the novel is Wicked and how completely different
it is from like the musical and the movie and everything.
It's like, it's a really intense, complicated political allegory, believe
it or not, about the Land of Oz and the
political factions that form and the violence that occurs, and
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it's really interesting, could not be more different than what
it mutated into as a musical.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
I was just gonna say, I saw the musical and
that was not part of it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Right, right, So I'd imagine. And I can't remember the
author's name. I'm sure you can google it easily enough,
but I'm sure they paced back and forth in their
seventy million dollar mansion saying, mandad they screw up my book.
It was a really good book. But oh, what are
you gonna do? Gregory maguire, Yeah, it's it's a terrific
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book anyway. So Hanson, Mike Canson exact, a producer, actually
put two cows together, two beeves, as Jack would remind
us if you were here, the cow we just heard,
plus a midnight Hammer clips of the week completely separately,
which will squeeze in when we can today if we
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get to it. I don't know. It's an action packed
show right now. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
the weak story with Katie Green.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Katie did it starting with NBC White House to limit
intelligence sharing with Congress after leak of early Iran report.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Well, that certainly suggests that they think it was a
congressional source. M see an end.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Iran's defense minister thanks China for support on first foreign
trip since Israel conflict.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh, how desperate are they to find a friend summer anywhere?
For anything? They'll take it. Oh, speaking of that that
stupid super preliminary report leak thing, the Washington Post, which
is just shameless, referred to that leaked report with seriousness
even today, as if it's They were talking about the
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briefing that the senators got, and how the Democrats came
out with a completely different story than the Republicans walking
out of the briefing as if they'd heard different briefings.
And the Washington Post, with furrowed brow observes that what
the Republicans claimed was in real contrast to that leaked report,
which was discredited like an hour after it came out.
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But the WAPO is still leaning on it. Seriously, you people, please.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
From the Wall Street Journal, US futures rise, dollar recovers
slightly on trade optimism, as Commerce Secretary Lutnick said US
has reached a trade agreement with China.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, China just said, all right, we'll free up the
rarer stuff, your magnets and the rest of it. Here
it comes, we're gonna start shipping, so we'll see the
world's weirdest frenemy relationship chugs on toward what nobody knows.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
From Breitbart dot Com, Republicans subpoena Jill Biden's quote work
husband for alleged cover up of Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That'd be fun and interesting. I still maintain this will
go nowhere. You're in the business of proving a negative
that Biden was not cognizant enough to be president and
and wasn't actively running the show and the rest. And
then even if you were able to prove that, you
never will. Now what do you do. You're going to
impeach the guy. It's got one foot and four toes
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in the grave, flat batt capt care And I know
scandal's horrible, unbelievable. Historians ought to, you know, kick the
hell out of the Biden administration for that. But these
hearings are just kind of show for show.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
I think from the shameless Washington Post, get doj enters
atf with me to slash gun regulations, get some shame.
So yeah, dojire going in with ATF They're gonna cut
upwards of fifty gun regulations.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, it might get easier to buy a suppressor often
referred to as a silencer, although it doesn't silence or
a short barreled shotgun. I've got to admit I'm somewhat intrigued. Yeah,
the idea of people running around with soft off shotguns
in effect.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Did boy from Fox News Planned parent hurt hmm, Planned
Parenthood encourages men to get cervical cancer screening for men's
health months.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, see that that won't be necessary because men don't
have cervixes, you see.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Ah, that must be why men is in quotes for
this headline, because it's a woman who's pretending to be
a man.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Oh oh, that's weird because women do have cervixes right
pretty much always, and men never ever have them. So
it's weird that they would recommend that. Precisely from the
Creed twisting yourselves into Nazia lunatics, radical gender theory is
on its way out. It's crazy.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
From the Daily Mail Crisis warning as flesh eating insects
are found invading the United States through the Mexican.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Migrant route, oh oh, you gotta stop it, deport them?
Hey did we never got to the story? Was it yesterday?
We had the audio about some of the killer bees. Yeah,
horrendous killer bees of a different sort. I guess are
now moving into the US. Do you have that story here?
Failure later? I do, I'll grab it. It was in
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hotlinks yesterday. Obvious solution. We need to form an alliance
with the Murder Hornets.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
And finally, the Babylon Bee reports from CNN Hiroshima barely
set back by atomic bomb.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Oh geminy, that's that's dark, but a really good joke. Yeah, yeah,
those are my favorite kinds.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, yes, that is dark. The fabulous Mike Lions to
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on demand. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
The Supreme Leader has taken to the airways for the
first time since the fighting ended, and he also praised
Iran's military for what he calls a big victory.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
I would like to congratulate the Great Nation of Iran BYO.
With all those claims that the Zionis regime were making s,
they were almost crushed under the blows of the Islamic government.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
At the same time, the Supreme Leader also lashing out
at the United States and specifically President Trump, saying that
is it and Trump had called for Iran's unconditional surrender
and that that simply isn't going to happen.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Boy, everybody remember bag Dad Bob from the Iraq War,
the Ayahtola, the great leaders. They're claiming victory. How lovely
for him. We're joined by a military analyst, Mike Lyons,
to discuss a handful of topics. Mike, how are you, sir, Hey,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I thought the same thing bag Dad Bob. The level
of propaganda coming out of Iran right now, I guess
has to be what it is, as they're now probably
fighting to make sure other information is not getting into
the country. But that's exactly right. We've got a repeater
history from about twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Right you read in my mind, I was just going
to say, I can't even imagine what the conversations behind
the scenes are like there in the halls of power
in Tehran. It's got to be a combination of you know, frantic, terror,
stricken and angry.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yeah, and think about the levels of leadership that have
been taken out already by the Israelis. Who's giving him
advice if anything? At the eighty six years old, I
mean very much isolated. But we don't know or hasn't
been revealed, who's really, you know, kind of running that country.
We would have thought but of in the head of
some of the Republican Guard organizations, but they've been all
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killed off. So I'm we're still watching to see specifically
what's going to evolve from this. And I know they're
focusing on the military and the equipment and things, because
if there's a revolution that that's going to cause a
lot of problems. But there's so many unknowns right now
going on. I think it's the beginning of this. If
there's going to be a revolution there, we're at the
very beginning stage of that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, the Israelis evidently had some idea of who might
be in charge, because they had a very carefully targeted list.
And I was just reading Dove liber has written a
fantastic account in the Wall Street Journal today about Operation Narnia,
which within it had Operation red Wetting. Anybody familiar with
Game of Thrones knows what that refers to, and it
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is the choice of paint and the sophistication mike of
that mission, those missions within a greater umbrella mission is
almost mind boggling. How they simultaneously and in a very
targetive way, took out a handful of very very important
military leaders, very very important nuclear scientists, while right they
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were bombing the hell out of various critical facilities. It
boggles the mind.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
And it's because they had planned for this eventually. You know,
I still believe this was always coming. At some point,
Israel was going after the Iranian nuclear threat, whether or
not the Housis and has Balah and all those proxy
organizations were at full strength or not. So this is
in the minne of the works for a very long time.
They're just more creative they you know, they just are.
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They Decapitation has always been part of their strategy. You
go back to their DNA, go back to wars in
sixty seven seventy three. They clearly go after the leaders
and they believe that that's the way that they have
to win these wars from a country that was what
nine million people versus a country that's got ninety million people.
That's part of the issue. This is the only way
that they could do that.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It really is quite amazing. And meanwhile, as we've discussed,
our military performed very, very admirably as well. The missions
that have been pretty well described at this point just
absolutely terrific. What did you make of the and I
shouldn't prejudice this by using the word idiotic, but what
do you make of the idiotic go around with CNN
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and elked report and various people leaping on that was
it yesterday in the day before?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yeah, no, I know. I when I had been on CNN,
I had said that it was likely that it was
very much destroyed. I mean, we're caveling over months and
you know how long it's been put back. We just
don't know until you get the battle damage assessment. I
think that CNN unfortunately got out a little bit in
front of themselves as well, and then now they're trying
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to dig out of it unfortunately in a lot of ways.
But let's the fact that it was Leakes is not good.
Still shows that there are enemies of this administration inside.
You've been inside the wire basically, and someone Let's hope
that they could figure out who that person is. But again,
a preliminary report two and a half days after the bombing,
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saying it's only been set back two months or it
just doesn't make any sense from the beginning. And that
should have been what CNN concluded when they got that.
They should have said, this is just too crazy and
it's just not something they should go with.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
But unfortunately they were far from alone too. I mean,
the Washington Post even this morning is taking that report
seriously in the midst of a report which is just insane.
But because I mean, from your perspective as somebody who's
actually been involved in at least somewhat similar missions, right,
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you don't expect to have immediate feedback, especially something that
happened on hundred of feet underground. I mean, it's going
to take a long time to figure out what is
what at this point.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah, exactly, And until someone actually goes there and figures
out what, you know, brings equipment, you know, not shovels,
as the second sary of event said, but seismic grafts.
They're gonna have to figure out what's going on underneath
and try to create images of what the situation looks like.
And it's an enemy territory, so it's still literally months
I think, no question. We can speculate that if those
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bombs made it down, and they were designed, like we
talked about, that bomb was designed to do that one
mission fifteen years ago. Again, I just love the creativity
we have now on our side that I'm sure we've
got other things in the inventory that are specific to
targets that are out there, But that's exactly right. We
won't know until we're out there seeing it, looking on
the ground, looking for seismic equipment to find out specifically
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what's going on underneath the earth.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
We're talking to military analyst Mike Lyons, and Mike, we're
taken next week off, so I wanted to wish you
a happy Independence Day and just chat a little bit
about And you can take this any direction you want.
It's pract practically a cliche, but well worth discussing always
how those who've served and fought and died for this
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country have ensured our freedom. And I'm ambivalent about Trump.
I have some serious complaints about about him. I think
there are some wonderful things going on, but it is
absolutely undeniable that the spirit of not only the military,
but the families that are so critical in supporting our
military folks, their spirits are lifted.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah, no question. What he's done, from my perspective as
someone whose son serves in the military, is that he's
restored to terrence to the United States. It's a very
nineteen eighties moment. I think, just like Lenald Reagan did.
I mean, frankly, we had presidents in our past, the
Republicans and Democrats, that did nothing over the Iranian nuclear issue,
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the number one foreign policy failure in my lifetime. And
finally we've now restored that to terrence, that that capability
has gone. So from that alone, I just hope the
rest of the country can kind of catch on a
little bit. I know that, you know, the politics still
what they are, The rhetoric still is very overheated. And
I saw Democratic senators come out of their d and
I brief yesterday and this one guy Murphy said, still,
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you know, it still only been set back a couple
of months. I'm just shaking my head that we really
want to go there. So so again, these are the
kind of holidays where we celebrate our country, we celebrate
our freedoms separate aside from being in the military or
not and what you do. But you know, we've got
two hundred and forty nine years. Next year will be
will be two fifty, and I think that's going to
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be a great big birthday for us as well.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, it's astounding to me that. I mean, for instance,
you've got this zoron Mumdani crack Pot, who may well
be the next mayor of New York, trying to run
such ideas as rent control of the flag pole. I mean,
there could be no more discredited idea in the world
of than that. I mean, it's it's absurd anybody would
suggest it with a straight face. And on the military
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national security side of things, it's a little frustrating to
me anyway that at this point you still have to
make the argument that the stronger we are, the more
likely there is peace and a deterrent establishing deterrence, like
you say, that's the way to protect our men and
women in uniform right.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
And the argument the counter argument where some will say, well,
you know, mike does not equal right, and I'm like, no, yeah,
maybe it doesn't, but it equals to terrence. If no
one will do something because they are afraid that we
actually will respond, I think that's what that's what makes
it all about. And that's why we have the military
we have. Again, nobody could have done that mission in
the world. That that mission sent signals to the Chinese,
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to the Russians, to everybody out there. And that level
of deterrence now I think has been restored. And that's
what this president has done. And there's no everything's about
recruiting's up. I think people should should be feeling the
way we felt again back in the ages. I keep
bringing back to the wax nostalgia for those times because
I thought that was the time when America was at
a low point and then we had a president that
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brought us right back.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Let's hope those lessons stay learned. My client's always a pleasure.
Thanks a million for the time, Mike, good to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Thanks ye Joe, have great holiday.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Thank you you too. So on the way, We've got
a fabulous freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing on
our series with Clarence Thomas, also mail Bag among other fairs.
Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
So that the Trump administration wants to allow home buyers
to get a mortgage using crypto. Yeah, be fun to
see the Zillow's estimates say that your house is worth
one billion iguana coins.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
That's kind of funny. Oh boy. Coming up, Congressman Kevin
kyleie to talk about, among other things, California being busted
by the Justice Deportment for violating Title nine and specifically
letting men and boys ooch around in women's private spaces,
including locker rooms and bathrooms and compete on sports fields
(28:08):
with them just because they pretend they're a girl. Which
can you imagine would I be in a time machine
in this scenario or as somebody else anyway? Can you
imagine me speaking those sentences? Say, just like ten years ago,
fifteen years ago, people would be like, what are you
talking about? Men pretending to be women are allowed to
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compete in women's sports just because they're pretending. Do people
understand that they're pretending or have they gotten away with it?
Oh no, no, no, everybody knows that they are, but
they're letting them compete anyway because they say they're girls. Now,
people would be like, what the hell are you talking about?
I'm turning this off. This is nonsense. How much acid
has this guy dropped today? Yeah? No kidding, good lord,
here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Wrapping up,
(28:55):
I think a series from from the Great Clarence Thomas
on his I want to check seventy seventh birthday, Yeah,
which was on Monday. Racialism simply cannot be undone by
different or more racialism. Instead, the solution announced in the
Second Founding is incorporated in our constitution that we are
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all equal and should be treated equally before the law,
without regard to our race. Only that promise can allow
us to look past our differing skin colors and identities
and see each other for what we truly are, individuals
with unique thoughts, perspectives, and goals, but with equal dignity
and equal rights under the law. People on the left
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we like very much as a new one. Globalize the
empanadas instead of Intofada. You like it. Globalize it with
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a picture of an empanada. Yeah, the delicious, delicious treat
all right, Darren, I like it. Let's see this from Paul,
the topic of NATO, what does NATO do with the
money they get? I never hear anything about it. That's
actually kind of a misconception, Paul. I mean, they certainly
do have a budget to run operations at NATO headquarters
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and that sort of thing. But what Trump is pressuring
the NATO members to do is to bring something to
the party, specifically to bring two percent, then four percent,
now maybe five percent I hope of their GDP to
the party in military spending and military preparedness. For a
very long time, and this is what chapped Trump sars
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so much. For a very long time, the United States
would show up to the party and say, hey, here's
a dozen ribbi and half a case of really expensive
Napa wine for our party. And Britain would say I
got half a bag of chips, and France would say
I got a water bottle, and you know the rest
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of the countries would say, yeah, I'll help clean up after.
And that's no good. That's still good. It might have
been fine in nineteen forty seven. I get that. And
there's a parallel with our trade relationship too. National Review
with a great piece today griping about our trade relationship
with Europe, which is still I mean, it's evolved somewhat,
(31:37):
but it still has shades of you're devastated by the war.
You're pretty much helpless, so you can treat the United
States like crap in terms of trade, and will be
super nice to you because you're kind of our little brother.
You're our tiny, tim little brother leaning on a crutch.
But it's not true anymore. And Trump's right, we have
been getting ripped off. But anyway, all those things are changing.
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Paul with a theory about the low number of heart
attacks these days. Could there be a direct relationship to
processed and fast foods with laughing emojis? Yeah, wouldn't that
be something? Turns out, Yeah, preservatives and culture process foods
prevent heart attacks. No, I think it's probably Statin's and
blood pressure medication, that sort of thing. Honestly, But with
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the shocking rise in obesity in the country, the fact
that the heart attack rate is down ninety percent, is
that what Jack brought us yesterday, Katie, ninety percent? I mean,
that's miraculous. Crazy note from Rebecca here Gay Here she
writes the T does not belong with the L or
(32:45):
the G. They no pronoun respect intended. Need to get
to their end of the alphabet and leave us alone.
Love you guys in a totally platonic way, because that's
how same sex attraction works. It's biological. Follow the science,
like the left oldest during COVID. Uh. That's a good point.
Happy Friday to you two. Rebecca, totally down with teamh
(33:06):
G and Team AL Team B. You asked too much
out of life. But yeah, that's totally that's for great
And I want to get back if we were It's
an action packed show today if we have time. I
want to get back to the Andrew Sullivan piece that
The New York Times published. He's a conservative gay man
and and his point is the gay rights movement turned
(33:30):
totally radical and went after children, and and that's when
it turned awful and unsupportable. And andrews one hundred percent right. Uh.
Speaking of which, Tom and Norcale writes, Hey, guys, let's
make a deal with the lgbt Q, l M n
O P community. We'll give the thumbs up to trans
women being allowed in female only spaces, locker rooms, restrooms,
(33:51):
et cetera. If they're okay with trans men who are
women who break the law. Being locked up in male
only prisons. If they're true adherence to the ideology, they
would be four. Otherwise their hypocrites. Sounds fair. Keep up
the good work. Here's the problem, Tom, in a lot
of you probably miss this. You really ought to listen
to every show. But there was an unbelievably interesting study
done about you know, men and women and how they
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offend and what crimes they offend and they break in
or what crimes they do and that sort of thing.
I mean, that's pretty well traveled ground. But they looked
at transgender folks as well, and dudes pretending to be
women the whole trans women, it's too confusing. Dudes pretending
to be women offended just like men, same crimes in
(34:38):
the same ways, but worse because there was a hell
of a lot of sexual assault because you've got somebody
who is and this is undeniable, sexually confused. And the
women claiming to be dudes offended just like women. They
did women's stuff in women ways they're not. They didn't,
(34:58):
you know, get a few hormone shows and grow wispy mustache,
then start doing strong arm robberies and knocking over liquor
stores with machetes. No, they kept acting like women anyway.
Note from Seawan here. Oh you know what, this is
really interesting. How much time do we have, Michael, Yeah,
we don't have time for this. We'll get to Shawn's
(35:18):
fascinating email next hour. Talking to Kevin Kyleie, congressman from California,
next hour about actually some similar stuff to what we
discussed in mail bag. Hope you can stay around Tim
Sander for an hour three talking about the Declaration of Independence.
Good Show today, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
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this Friday, June the twenty seventh, the year of Our Lord,
twenty twenty five, the last show before vacation. In fact,
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Jack is already on vacation, winging his way towards sunny
flo with his voice for an Independence Day holiday. Speaking
of which, Speaking of which, we have a lot of
great guests today to talk about not only the events
of the day, but Independence Day, the United States, our history,
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our Constitution. The fabulous Tim Sandefer is going to join
us for an hour to talk about the Declaration of
Independence and more specifically, how the Declaration of Independence is,
as he put it in the title of his excellent
book that came out a few years ago, the conscience
of the Constitution, and how the balance of liberty versus
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democracy has gotten way off kilter in our country and
that we need to continue to pull it back towards
liberty as hard and as fast as we can, the
idea being that the whole intent to this country was
that the no matter what the majority wanted, you could
not vote away liberty. You could not vote government control
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in the wet blanket, the suffocating, wet blanket of government
over intervention into all of our lives and businesses. I
hear what you say, too late, Joe, too late. Yeah, well,
you're right. But I suppose the choice then becomes, do
we do whatever we can to make it better or
do we just let it become worse for our kids
(02:32):
and our grandkids and posterity, etc. So anyway, I'm looking
forward to that conversation. I'm going to talk to Congressman
Kevin Kyley, one of our absolute faves from the House representatives,
about a couple of different things, including cal Unicornia being
busted by the Justice Department for violating Title nine, specifically
letting dudes into girls' locker rooms and letting dudes whoop
(02:55):
up on girls on the sports field, absolutely disgusting. And
we're also looking forward to a conversation with Senator Roger
Marshall of the Great State of Kansas about how the
Big beautiful bill is coming, among other things, and specifically
I want to talk to him about some of the
measures in the world of education that are contained in
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that bill. It's flown so far under the radar, mostly
because of the incredibly exciting and action packed international news
these days, specifically you know, Visa, Iran and Israel. But
there are some really interesting inroads being made, the battle
lines being moved forward in the war against number one
(03:42):
woke education but number two, and I was going to
say maybe more importantly, but boy, they're both so important.
But also the war against completely ineffective, union choked, useless
government schools. What can we do to stim mulate competition
and education, which might be the most important thing we
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can do as a country. It speaking of posterity in
our kids and our grandkids. Boy, if we're serving them
as ill as we've been with our government education system
over the last couple of years, oh my goodness, may history,
you know, dig up our graves and kick our bones.
I mean, we've got to do better than that. So anyway,
looking forward to that, and that's not even all of
(04:26):
what we're doing. I just didn't want to, you know,
make a list too long, so I hope you can
stay tuned, Hope you enjoy it. This morning, we're tootling
under the I'm sorry, we're laboring under the tutelage. I
always say that. I want to say, we're tootling under
the laborage, which is it rolls off the tongue. Katie, Yeah,
you should change doctor Susian. Yeah, yeah, to hell with it.
(04:47):
It's my, it's my, it's my Yogi beara esque signature phrase.
This morning, we're tootling under the laborage of General Manager,
Operation Narnia. You remember Operation Midnight Hammer, the very trumpy name,
very trumpy name for us successfully executing that incredible, mind
(05:12):
boggling mission of the thirty seven hour round trip the
B two bombers and the bunker busters and the rest
of it. And it's one of those things you know.
None of us I'm well, actually some of your listening
probably do know what it takes. But none of us
here fully appreciated the complexity of the mission. I mean,
one hundred and fifty aircraft were involved, going thousands of
(05:35):
miles back and forth. And the more you learn, the
more in awe you are of the capabilities of the
United States military. Appropriately so well, Operation Narnia was the
name of the Israeli mission, which included not only the
bombings of the facilities, but the super targeted knocking off
(05:59):
of the various nuclear scientists and military leaders practically simultaneously.
Years in the planning. Just astounding sophistication, coordination, and daring.
And I can't wait to tell you more about that
a little bit later on the show, because it's it's
it's just absolutely awe inspiring. But first, why don't we,
(06:19):
uh we hate to run a foul of FCC rules
and regulations right before vacation. I have to fill out
paperwork qulli vacation. So here we go according to the
FCC rules and REGs. Joke starts fishally at Mark, and.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
The President looks over at me, puts the foreign leader
on mute and says this is not going very well,
and he presses the red button and and my eyes
get really big, and I'm like, mister President, you know
what what just happened? And he's he looks at me
and he goes nuclear nuclear.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And two minutes later, a.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Guy walks in with a diet coke and he looks
back at me and he says it wasn't nuclear.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It's just the diet cook button. And that's.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
So that's the kind of guy, my fellow Republicans, that
we have as the President of the United States.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
JD. Vance talking about his early days working with Trump
in the awful, the owful office, not the awful Opus
was not a fraud instant. I'm sorry. I'm reading and
talking at the same time. It's my worst habit. So anyway,
glad you're here, Thanks so much for tuning in. We
have an action pack show, including not only Katie's Headlines
(07:33):
next segment, but clips of the week as well. Stay
with us, looking forward to talking to a military analyst,
Mike Lyons next segment about a variety of topics, including
Operation Narnia, the incredibly sophisticated Israeli plan to knock around's
(07:55):
nuclear weapons program offline for a little while or a
very long while. I'll find that out together, I suppose,
among other things, to talk to Mike about. Katie's got
our headlines in just moments. But first, it's the Friday tradition.
Let's take a fun look back at the week that was.
It's cal Clips of the Week where we sold a
forty year bill of good.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I think that's a bunch of the biggest load that
we've seen.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
The whips of the week. It just wasn't in the
mood to hear P and T for some reason. Well,
you need to wake the hell up and see the penis.
That's what makes America great, right, what happened in the
keys honey? Or oh my god, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You want to come at me, go ahead, but you
better check with your bones first.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
La Hart was hurt right away when he fell. These
and page so emotional.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, shout out to AC for kind of teaching us
how to pop champagne. I guess the.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Dallas Mavericks select Cooper fag University. It's might using the
best place in the world to have herpies.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
The cops here are telling me that it's my fault
that I put my human body in the street to
be hit.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
By a motor vehicle.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Honestly, I think that's a bunch of crimes, and I'm very,
very upset.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
You're not working, you're not going to get a job,
you're not going to school, you're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
But ma, I'm saying, hample to be successful in life.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Mom legendary Zion zillion Zin and just seeing this where I, uh,
how many you're missing too?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I'm missing too.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And now that your hoods being invaded and the biggest
gang there is, there ain't a people out you.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Look, all the interruptions don't change the fact that this resolution.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Mister Demaia, I'm gonna have to interrupt you one more
time if you wouldn't mind waiting, mister reading clerk, can
you hold his time?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And a stunning upset Democratic socialist Zoran mom Donnie won
the Democratic mayor Farmer and it's.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Where the mayor will use their.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Power to reject Donald Trump's fascism.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Holy cats, what was that? Who was that? Is anybody hurt? Seriously?
Who was that? Christian Shinawiff? Yeah? Oh? The Broadway star? Right?
Is she the Frozen? The guy who's sang the leading Frozen?
I can't it doesn't matter. Why did I? I don't care?
(10:59):
Wicked right of course?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Have I ever mentioned to you, Katie,
how great the novel is Wicked and how completely different
it is from like the musical and the movie and everything.
It's like, it's a really intense, complicated political allegory, believe
it or not, about the Land of Oz and the
political factions that form and the violence that occurs, and
(11:22):
it's really interesting, could not be more different than what
it mutated into as a musical.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
I was just gonna say, I saw the musical and
that was not part of it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Right, right, So I'd imagine. And I can't remember the
author's name. I'm sure you can google it easily enough,
but I'm sure they paced back and forth in their
seventy million dollar mansion saying, mandad they screw up my book.
It was a really good book. But oh, what are
you gonna do? Gregory maguire, Yeah, it's it's a terrific
(11:56):
book anyway. So Hanson, Mike Canson exact, a producer, actually
put two cows together, two beeves, as Jack would remind
us if you were here, the cow we just heard,
plus a midnight Hammer clips of the week completely separately,
which will squeeze in when we can today if we
(12:19):
get to it. I don't know. It's an action packed
show right now. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
the weak story with Katie Green.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Katie did it starting with NBC White House to limit
intelligence sharing with Congress after leak of early Iran report.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Well, that certainly suggests that they think it was a
congressional source. M see an end.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Iran's defense minister thanks China for support on first foreign
trip since Israel conflict.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh, how desperate are they to find a friend summer anywhere?
For anything? They'll take it. Oh, speaking of that that
stupid super preliminary report leak thing, the Washington Post, which
is just shameless, referred to that leaked report with seriousness
even today, as if it's They were talking about the
(13:13):
briefing that the senators got, and how the Democrats came
out with a completely different story than the Republicans walking
out of the briefing as if they'd heard different briefings.
And the Washington Post, with furrowed brow observes that what
the Republicans claimed was in real contrast to that leaked report,
which was discredited like an hour after it came out.
(13:35):
But the WAPO is still leaning on it. Seriously, you people, please.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
From the Wall Street Journal, US futures rise, dollar recovers
slightly on trade optimism, as Commerce Secretary Lutnick said US
has reached a trade agreement with China.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, China just said, all right, we'll free up the
rarer stuff, your magnets and the rest of it. Here
it comes, we're gonna start shipping, so we'll see the
world's weirdest frenemy relationship chugs on toward what nobody knows.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
From Breitbart dot Com, Republicans subpoena Jill Biden's quote work
husband for alleged cover up of Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That'd be fun and interesting. I still maintain this will
go nowhere. You're in the business of proving a negative
that Biden was not cognizant enough to be president and
and wasn't actively running the show and the rest. And
then even if you were able to prove that, you
never will. Now what do you do. You're going to
impeach the guy. It's got one foot and four toes
(14:42):
in the grave, flat batt capt care And I know
scandal's horrible, unbelievable. Historians ought to, you know, kick the
hell out of the Biden administration for that. But these
hearings are just kind of show for show.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
I think from the shameless Washington Post, get doj enters
atf with me to slash gun regulations, get some shame.
So yeah, dojire going in with ATF They're gonna cut
upwards of fifty gun regulations.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, it might get easier to buy a suppressor often
referred to as a silencer, although it doesn't silence or
a short barreled shotgun. I've got to admit I'm somewhat intrigued. Yeah,
the idea of people running around with soft off shotguns
in effect.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Did boy from Fox News Planned parent hurt hmm, Planned
Parenthood encourages men to get cervical cancer screening for men's
health months.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, see that that won't be necessary because men don't
have cervixes, you see.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Ah, that must be why men is in quotes for
this headline, because it's a woman who's pretending to be
a man.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Oh oh, that's weird because women do have cervixes right
pretty much always, and men never ever have them. So
it's weird that they would recommend that. Precisely from the
Creed twisting yourselves into Nazia lunatics, radical gender theory is
on its way out. It's crazy.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
From the Daily Mail Crisis warning as flesh eating insects
are found invading the United States through the Mexican.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Migrant route, oh oh, you gotta stop it, deport them?
Hey did we never got to the story? Was it yesterday?
We had the audio about some of the killer bees. Yeah,
horrendous killer bees of a different sort. I guess are
now moving into the US. Do you have that story here?
Failure later? I do, I'll grab it. It was in
(16:47):
hotlinks yesterday. Obvious solution. We need to form an alliance
with the Murder Hornets.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
And finally, the Babylon Bee reports from CNN Hiroshima barely
set back by atomic bomb.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Oh geminy, that's that's dark, but a really good joke. Yeah, yeah,
those are my favorite kinds.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, yes, that is dark. The fabulous Mike Lions to
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Speaker 6 (17:27):
The Supreme Leader has taken to the airways for the
first time since the fighting ended, and he also praised
Iran's military for what he calls a big victory.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
I would like to congratulate the Great Nation of Iran BYO.
With all those claims that the Zionis regime were making s,
they were almost crushed under the blows of the Islamic government.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
At the same time, the Supreme Leader also lashing out
at the United States and specifically President Trump, saying that
is it and Trump had called for Iran's unconditional surrender
and that that simply isn't going to happen.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Boy, everybody remember bag Dad Bob from the Iraq War,
the Ayahtola, the great leaders. They're claiming victory. How lovely
for him. We're joined by a military analyst, Mike Lyons,
to discuss a handful of topics. Mike, how are you, sir, Hey,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I thought the same thing bag Dad Bob. The level
of propaganda coming out of Iran right now, I guess
has to be what it is, as they're now probably
fighting to make sure other information is not getting into
the country. But that's exactly right. We've got a repeater
history from about twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Right you read in my mind, I was just going
to say, I can't even imagine what the conversations behind
the scenes are like there in the halls of power
in Tehran. It's got to be a combination of you know, frantic, terror,
stricken and angry.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yeah, and think about the levels of leadership that have
been taken out already by the Israelis. Who's giving him
advice if anything? At the eighty six years old, I
mean very much isolated. But we don't know or hasn't
been revealed, who's really, you know, kind of running that country.
We would have thought but of in the head of
some of the Republican Guard organizations, but they've been all
(19:15):
killed off. So I'm we're still watching to see specifically
what's going to evolve from this. And I know they're
focusing on the military and the equipment and things, because
if there's a revolution that that's going to cause a
lot of problems. But there's so many unknowns right now
going on. I think it's the beginning of this. If
there's going to be a revolution there, we're at the
very beginning stage of that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, the Israelis evidently had some idea of who might
be in charge, because they had a very carefully targeted list.
And I was just reading Dove liber has written a
fantastic account in the Wall Street Journal today about Operation Narnia,
which within it had Operation red Wetting. Anybody familiar with
Game of Thrones knows what that refers to, and it
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is the choice of paint and the sophistication mike of
that mission, those missions within a greater umbrella mission is
almost mind boggling. How they simultaneously and in a very
targetive way, took out a handful of very very important
military leaders, very very important nuclear scientists, while right they
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were bombing the hell out of various critical facilities. It
boggles the mind.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
And it's because they had planned for this eventually. You know,
I still believe this was always coming. At some point,
Israel was going after the Iranian nuclear threat, whether or
not the Housis and has Balah and all those proxy
organizations were at full strength or not. So this is
in the minne of the works for a very long time.
They're just more creative they you know, they just are.
(20:52):
They Decapitation has always been part of their strategy. You
go back to their DNA, go back to wars in
sixty seven seventy three. They clearly go after the leaders
and they believe that that's the way that they have
to win these wars from a country that was what
nine million people versus a country that's got ninety million people.
That's part of the issue. This is the only way
that they could do that.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It really is quite amazing. And meanwhile, as we've discussed,
our military performed very, very admirably as well. The missions
that have been pretty well described at this point just
absolutely terrific. What did you make of the and I
shouldn't prejudice this by using the word idiotic, but what
do you make of the idiotic go around with CNN
(21:32):
and elked report and various people leaping on that was
it yesterday in the day before?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yeah, no, I know. I when I had been on CNN,
I had said that it was likely that it was
very much destroyed. I mean, we're caveling over months and
you know how long it's been put back. We just
don't know until you get the battle damage assessment. I
think that CNN unfortunately got out a little bit in
front of themselves as well, and then now they're trying
(22:00):
to dig out of it unfortunately in a lot of ways.
But let's the fact that it was Leakes is not good.
Still shows that there are enemies of this administration inside.
You've been inside the wire basically, and someone Let's hope
that they could figure out who that person is. But again,
a preliminary report two and a half days after the bombing,
(22:22):
saying it's only been set back two months or it
just doesn't make any sense from the beginning. And that
should have been what CNN concluded when they got that.
They should have said, this is just too crazy and
it's just not something they should go with.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
But unfortunately they were far from alone too. I mean,
the Washington Post even this morning is taking that report
seriously in the midst of a report which is just insane.
But because I mean, from your perspective as somebody who's
actually been involved in at least somewhat similar missions, right,
(22:55):
you don't expect to have immediate feedback, especially something that
happened on hundred of feet underground. I mean, it's going
to take a long time to figure out what is
what at this point.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah, exactly, And until someone actually goes there and figures
out what, you know, brings equipment, you know, not shovels,
as the second sary of event said, but seismic grafts.
They're gonna have to figure out what's going on underneath
and try to create images of what the situation looks like.
And it's an enemy territory, so it's still literally months
I think, no question. We can speculate that if those
(23:29):
bombs made it down, and they were designed, like we
talked about, that bomb was designed to do that one
mission fifteen years ago. Again, I just love the creativity
we have now on our side that I'm sure we've
got other things in the inventory that are specific to
targets that are out there, But that's exactly right. We
won't know until we're out there seeing it, looking on
the ground, looking for seismic equipment to find out specifically
(23:50):
what's going on underneath the earth.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
We're talking to military analyst Mike Lyons, and Mike, we're
taken next week off, so I wanted to wish you
a happy Independence Day and just chat a little bit
about And you can take this any direction you want.
It's pract practically a cliche, but well worth discussing always
how those who've served and fought and died for this
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country have ensured our freedom. And I'm ambivalent about Trump.
I have some serious complaints about about him. I think
there are some wonderful things going on, but it is
absolutely undeniable that the spirit of not only the military,
but the families that are so critical in supporting our
military folks, their spirits are lifted.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah, no question. What he's done, from my perspective as
someone whose son serves in the military, is that he's
restored to terrence to the United States. It's a very
nineteen eighties moment. I think, just like Lenald Reagan did.
I mean, frankly, we had presidents in our past, the
Republicans and Democrats, that did nothing over the Iranian nuclear issue,
(24:59):
the number one foreign policy failure in my lifetime. And
finally we've now restored that to terrence, that that capability
has gone. So from that alone, I just hope the
rest of the country can kind of catch on a
little bit. I know that, you know, the politics still
what they are, The rhetoric still is very overheated. And
I saw Democratic senators come out of their d and
I brief yesterday and this one guy Murphy said, still,
(25:20):
you know, it still only been set back a couple
of months. I'm just shaking my head that we really
want to go there. So so again, these are the
kind of holidays where we celebrate our country, we celebrate
our freedoms separate aside from being in the military or
not and what you do. But you know, we've got
two hundred and forty nine years. Next year will be
will be two fifty, and I think that's going to
(25:41):
be a great big birthday for us as well.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, it's astounding to me that. I mean, for instance,
you've got this zoron Mumdani crack Pot, who may well
be the next mayor of New York, trying to run
such ideas as rent control of the flag pole. I mean,
there could be no more discredited idea in the world
of than that. I mean, it's it's absurd anybody would
suggest it with a straight face. And on the military
(26:05):
national security side of things, it's a little frustrating to
me anyway that at this point you still have to
make the argument that the stronger we are, the more
likely there is peace and a deterrent establishing deterrence, like
you say, that's the way to protect our men and
women in uniform right.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
And the argument the counter argument where some will say, well,
you know, mike does not equal right, and I'm like, no, yeah,
maybe it doesn't, but it equals to terrence. If no
one will do something because they are afraid that we
actually will respond, I think that's what that's what makes
it all about. And that's why we have the military
we have. Again, nobody could have done that mission in
the world. That that mission sent signals to the Chinese,
(26:49):
to the Russians, to everybody out there. And that level
of deterrence now I think has been restored. And that's
what this president has done. And there's no everything's about
recruiting's up. I think people should should be feeling the
way we felt again back in the ages. I keep
bringing back to the wax nostalgia for those times because
I thought that was the time when America was at
a low point and then we had a president that
(27:09):
brought us right back.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Let's hope those lessons stay learned. My client's always a pleasure.
Thanks a million for the time, Mike, good to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Thanks ye Joe, have great holiday.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Thank you you too. So on the way, We've got
a fabulous freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing on
our series with Clarence Thomas, also mail Bag among other fairs.
Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
So that the Trump administration wants to allow home buyers
to get a mortgage using crypto. Yeah, be fun to
see the Zillow's estimates say that your house is worth
one billion iguana coins.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
That's kind of funny. Oh boy. Coming up, Congressman Kevin
kyleie to talk about, among other things, California being busted
by the Justice Deportment for violating Title nine and specifically
letting men and boys ooch around in women's private spaces,
including locker rooms and bathrooms and compete on sports fields
(28:08):
with them just because they pretend they're a girl. Which
can you imagine would I be in a time machine
in this scenario or as somebody else anyway? Can you
imagine me speaking those sentences? Say, just like ten years ago,
fifteen years ago, people would be like, what are you
talking about? Men pretending to be women are allowed to
(28:32):
compete in women's sports just because they're pretending. Do people
understand that they're pretending or have they gotten away with it?
Oh no, no, no, everybody knows that they are, but
they're letting them compete anyway because they say they're girls. Now,
people would be like, what the hell are you talking about?
I'm turning this off. This is nonsense. How much acid
has this guy dropped today? Yeah? No kidding, good lord,
here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Wrapping up,
(28:55):
I think a series from from the Great Clarence Thomas
on his I want to check seventy seventh birthday, Yeah,
which was on Monday. Racialism simply cannot be undone by
different or more racialism. Instead, the solution announced in the
Second Founding is incorporated in our constitution that we are
(29:17):
all equal and should be treated equally before the law,
without regard to our race. Only that promise can allow
us to look past our differing skin colors and identities
and see each other for what we truly are, individuals
with unique thoughts, perspectives, and goals, but with equal dignity
and equal rights under the law. People on the left
call him an Uncle Tom and worse dizgusting mail bag.
(29:44):
Feel free to drop us a note mail bag at
Armstrongandgetty dot com. Mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Darren who the other day suggested a new a g
T shirt idea lock up Criminals, not my toothpaste, which
we like very much as a new one. Globalize the
empanadas instead of Intofada. You like it. Globalize it with
(30:08):
a picture of an empanada. Yeah, the delicious, delicious treat
all right, Darren, I like it. Let's see this from Paul,
the topic of NATO, what does NATO do with the
money they get? I never hear anything about it. That's
actually kind of a misconception, Paul. I mean, they certainly
do have a budget to run operations at NATO headquarters
(30:30):
and that sort of thing. But what Trump is pressuring
the NATO members to do is to bring something to
the party, specifically to bring two percent, then four percent,
now maybe five percent I hope of their GDP to
the party in military spending and military preparedness. For a
very long time, and this is what chapped Trump sars
(30:54):
so much. For a very long time, the United States
would show up to the party and say, hey, here's
a dozen ribbi and half a case of really expensive
Napa wine for our party. And Britain would say I
got half a bag of chips, and France would say
I got a water bottle, and you know the rest
(31:15):
of the countries would say, yeah, I'll help clean up after.
And that's no good. That's still good. It might have
been fine in nineteen forty seven. I get that. And
there's a parallel with our trade relationship too. National Review
with a great piece today griping about our trade relationship
with Europe, which is still I mean, it's evolved somewhat,
(31:37):
but it still has shades of you're devastated by the war.
You're pretty much helpless, so you can treat the United
States like crap in terms of trade, and will be
super nice to you because you're kind of our little brother.
You're our tiny, tim little brother leaning on a crutch.
But it's not true anymore. And Trump's right, we have
been getting ripped off. But anyway, all those things are changing.
(32:00):
Paul with a theory about the low number of heart
attacks these days. Could there be a direct relationship to
processed and fast foods with laughing emojis? Yeah, wouldn't that
be something? Turns out, Yeah, preservatives and culture process foods
prevent heart attacks. No, I think it's probably Statin's and
blood pressure medication, that sort of thing. Honestly, But with
(32:23):
the shocking rise in obesity in the country, the fact
that the heart attack rate is down ninety percent, is
that what Jack brought us yesterday, Katie, ninety percent? I mean,
that's miraculous. Crazy note from Rebecca here Gay Here she
writes the T does not belong with the L or
(32:45):
the G. They no pronoun respect intended. Need to get
to their end of the alphabet and leave us alone.
Love you guys in a totally platonic way, because that's
how same sex attraction works. It's biological. Follow the science,
like the left oldest during COVID. Uh. That's a good point.
Happy Friday to you two. Rebecca, totally down with teamh
(33:06):
G and Team AL Team B. You asked too much
out of life. But yeah, that's totally that's for great
And I want to get back if we were It's
an action packed show today if we have time. I
want to get back to the Andrew Sullivan piece that
The New York Times published. He's a conservative gay man
and and his point is the gay rights movement turned
(33:30):
totally radical and went after children, and and that's when
it turned awful and unsupportable. And andrews one hundred percent right. Uh.
Speaking of which, Tom and Norcale writes, Hey, guys, let's
make a deal with the lgbt Q, l M n
O P community. We'll give the thumbs up to trans
women being allowed in female only spaces, locker rooms, restrooms,
(33:51):
et cetera. If they're okay with trans men who are
women who break the law. Being locked up in male
only prisons. If they're true adherence to the ideology, they
would be four. Otherwise their hypocrites. Sounds fair. Keep up
the good work. Here's the problem, Tom, in a lot
of you probably miss this. You really ought to listen
to every show. But there was an unbelievably interesting study
done about you know, men and women and how they
(34:14):
offend and what crimes they offend and they break in
or what crimes they do and that sort of thing.
I mean, that's pretty well traveled ground. But they looked
at transgender folks as well, and dudes pretending to be
women the whole trans women, it's too confusing. Dudes pretending
to be women offended just like men, same crimes in
(34:38):
the same ways, but worse because there was a hell
of a lot of sexual assault because you've got somebody
who is and this is undeniable, sexually confused. And the
women claiming to be dudes offended just like women. They
did women's stuff in women ways they're not. They didn't,
(34:58):
you know, get a few hormone shows and grow wispy mustache,
then start doing strong arm robberies and knocking over liquor
stores with machetes. No, they kept acting like women anyway.
Note from Seawan here. Oh you know what, this is
really interesting. How much time do we have, Michael, Yeah,
we don't have time for this. We'll get to Shawn's
(35:18):
fascinating email next hour. Talking to Kevin Kyleie, congressman from California,
next hour about actually some similar stuff to what we
discussed in mail bag. Hope you can stay around Tim
Sander for an hour three talking about the Declaration of Independence.
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