June 16, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Israel is not stopping saying it's attacks have inflicted significant
damage to Ron's nuclear facilities, that they are just getting started.
We paved the way to Tehran.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
At are pilots over the skies of Tehran will deal
blows to the Iteonal regime that they cannot even imagine.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I'm hoping you can get Mike Lillions on the show today.
I think he'd be a great sounding board. And if
he is on, can you ask him or can the
guys ask him?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Please?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Who in Iran is helping the masade? What internal factions
are there that are helping to work against the mullas?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Excellent suggesting getting Mike Lions on to discuss this, if
you weren't following. Over the weekend, Israel and Iran exchanged
strikes now for four days in a row where Israel
hits Iran hard, Iran hits Israel attempts to hit them
really hard, but about fifteen percent of the drones and
everything missiles do get through and there have been deaths
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in Tehran for instance, I mean in Tel Aviv in
a way that we haven't seen in a long time.
True enough, I was going to say exchanging blows like
Mike Tyson and my daughter would exchange blows, though proportionately.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yes, we did not need to be prompted. We couldn't
wait to talk to Mike Lions military analyst about this. Mike, welcome,
always good to talk. What are your initial impressions.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Hey, guys, great to be on. Look, this conflict is
long time coming. This was something that should have been
anticipated for years at this point, and Israel and I
was just taken advantage complete and gotten the Iranians out
of this gray zone of having proxies fight their war
against them. They've all been wiped out. Israel was not
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going to stand by and watch anybody negotiate a deal
with the Iranians that would potentially take away their nuclear capability.
They were taking care of us. This starts back in
nineteen eighty one when they take out the Iraqi facility
in osuric in O seven, when they take out the
Syrian capability, and we had the stucksnet with the Americans
in the United States going after Scentifugiay. Israel's been at
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war with Iron since then, and this is a generational
moment and I think we've got to take advantage of
it in the United States right now. And I understand
about America First policy, but it clearly, as the President
has now said, this isn't our best interest to make
sure the Iranians have nowhere near any kind of nuclear capability.
And Israel's just not satisfied with just kicking the can
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down the road, which everything before this seemed to be
driving at.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What's your concerns with the forty thousand US Service people
we have in the area at like a dozen different bases.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Well, the limited capability that Iran has to strike would
be more lucky if they hit anything at this point.
I think they're you know, there's maybe some fiber attacks,
I guess, and you know, the sleeper cells and all
those kinds of things, but nothing from a strategic perspective.
(03:23):
Right now, you can see what they're launching at Israel
has has got tremendous circle era of probable airs. They're
not they're not even trying to you know, they can't
hit targets that they're like to hit their hitting civilian
built up areas and nothing the like. And right now
the focus that Israel is doing is going after their
capability to do that. So they're gonna They're gonna run
an animal pretty soon, run out of capability. And so
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I'm not concerned, and I'm sure those American forces are
on high alert. But if the Iranians were dumb enough
to go after the any American forces there, well, then
now the President's got an open lane to bring in
B two bombers and F sixteen's and everything else. That would,
you know, pretty much speed up what's going to be
the end of this Iranian regime?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Mike? To what extent has Israel controlled the air over Iran?
And how important is that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
One hundred percent of air of supremacy now at this point,
and look that some of these missiles are going to
get through. There's no such thing as one hundred percent
air defenses that can lock. And I want to be
glib and say commanders expect losses, but the amount of
damage that the Israeli militaries exist is exhibiting right now
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against deep targets in Iran, against their drone sites and
ammunition dumps. And now if you can see, they're kind
of almost going away from the nuclear facilities first because
they want to make sure they maintain this air superiority.
So they're hunting for those missile sites and missile platforms
that I think within the next few days or so
we'll really start to diminish, and then they go back
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towards hitting those the nuclear facilities there. It's going to
take a while though. They're very deep, that one in
Fertal for example, potentially up to two hundred and fifty
feet deep concrete reinforced bunkers. For that to go, they're
going to have to bring in the United States to
be too bomber, They're going to have to bring in
a different weapons systems, and I do believe that will
eventually happen.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So we're not directly involved right now, like like our
planes and pilots are that sort of thing. But from
what I understand, we've got a lot of assets in
the area. We've moved some assets to the area to
be ready for this. How how I don't want to
use bogged down as overstating, but how how much of
our attention is on this And for instance, if putin
decided to use a tactical nuke in Ukraine thinking that
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you know, NATO's busy with this, or China did something right.
I mean, how much of our attention is this Iran
Israel thing taken? Well, two different.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Combat commands, Sentcom is running this one here, so they're
you know, well leaning forward, making sure naval assets for example,
the Mediterranean, we've we've maintained assets. I think the concern
would be if the Ranians again do something dumb like
try to shut down the straits of our moots or
do something where it impact, you know, the world economy.
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I think that's where there are some risk there. They're
going to eventually get desperate, as this regime is going
to try to negotiate its way out of it eventually.
But I don't think the Israelis are going to let
them there, and this is war. They're not They're not
stopping until around says we surrender, and they're not. They're
no longer looking for diplomatic solutions. And from my perspective,
and you have the Israeli's kind of as the bad
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cop right now the United States, Donald Trump playing a
good cop who knew that this was going to happen.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But that that's.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Really you know, this administration has been handed too tremendous
gifts in the last six months. You've got the Ukrainian
military destroying what's left of the Russian military in play
still and then you have this situation where Israel is
about to almost you know, redo the entire Middle East.
The entire environment is completely going to be different. Now
there's opportunity for us to get Lebanon resettled, Syria to
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join the League of Nations and the like. You'll see
Saudi and Israeli deals that will make down. So this
this has been a long time coming, and getting this
problem resolved, it's been the number one foreign policy failure
in my lifetime. I know we've talked about this before
in a post World War two US foreign policy perspective,
and I'm just glad it's coming because this was just
a matter of time.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Talking to military analysts, Mike Lyons, Mike, speaking of alliances,
have you seen any signs that the I'm sorry for
the lighthearted characterization here, but the axes of a holes
in Russia, China, anybody rallying to her on support in
any material.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Way, not in the least and it speats. It's winners
and losers, right, I mean, there's side, there's no one
to come to their aid, and Russia has got no
capability to do anything. The Chinese are smart enough to
stay out of this, so no, there's no The entire
proxy defenses have been stripped away. In the past, Israel
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would be concerned about militia brigades organized in Syria attacking
on the Golden Heights or rockets coming in from Gaza
and Hesba. Those guys are gone and everyone's done, like
their entire force, their entire force. So again, gray zone over.
This is war on war between two countries. I'm watching
people talk about you know this is going to de escalate.
(08:11):
It's not going to de escalate for a second. This
is not stopping until Israel is completely satisfied that their
nuclear capability is done with the implied task that this
regime is out too. I know that we saw the
report that the President denied Israel going after the leader
of the committee there, which is fine. I think decapitation
is always an issue. I hope we're working on what
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takes over, because that's going to be the issue. If
hardline Republican Guard units take over the country. That's not
going to be very good at all, But Israel will
keep going until they find somebody that they can negotiate with.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So we played a collar asking the question, you know,
who's in Iran working with Masad? So the Masad was
in Israel, it would seem for a month and a
half getting that whole drawing set up going and everything
like that. Do you think there are people within Iranian
high levels of the military or whatever that are working
with Israel. Yeah, no question there are.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
And the level of infiltration that MESAD has in the
high levels of the Iranian government is just staggering, considering
the fact that when the war started they were able
to take out pinpoints specifically where some of those leaders were,
the head of the chief of staff, the head of
their rocket program, the nuclear scientists. You know, if you're
a college professor teaching a nuclear course in Tehran right now,
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what look up because you might want to find yourself
in a bunk or someplace because you're you're the next target.
So the level of intelligence that Israel has to this,
but it's been years in planning. This is again not
something that they decided to do very quickly. They waited
for this exact moment, and a lot of things went right.
The this administration being in place, I think is another
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thing that that's helped Israel at this point. But starting
on October seventh, when when not in YEAHO said this
is a time for peace and time for war. That's
where they're at. They've been on a war footing ever
since they stripped out, took Hamas out, they took Lebanon out.
You saw what happened in Uh in Syria, that that
those militias are done, A rock is quiet, So now
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is the time to go after the Iranians. They were
always going to do this, It's just a matter of time.
Uh and now that it's started, it's not going to
stop until the tennised.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, yeah, Mike, you've you've partially answered this question. But
what do you expect to see next in the last
in the next several days.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Well, I'm going to be concerned about civilians inside of
Iran as as information starts getting out about their lack
of services, as these Raelis are going after some critical
infrastructure there, and what what what a revolution would look
like and what it would take place and who takes over.
I'd like to see again more military targets uh be acquired,
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especially on the nuclear side. They they they have not
been as they've not gone after them as well as
much as I thought in Florida and Thomas and Istrahan.
It was another place where they're refining and doing things,
and I think they've ad on those in order to
ensure this air superiority. But I think it's going to
go on for for many days, possibly many weeks, and
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to see what the Ranians try to do. But there'll
be no deal. There'll be absolutely no The Iranians will
try to buy time, they'll try to like like they've
done with Hamas. They just want the Israeli military to
stop because they think if they can stop that the
rest of the world will come in on israel side.
Everyone's very quiet about that right now. Everyone is fairly happy.
In Saudi Arabia, for example, they put this memo out
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saying we're concerned about what Israel's doing. They're dancing inside
the palace there knowing full well at Israels kicking out
this nuclear capability.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And before we let you go, would you think of
the big army parade on Saturday. Yeah, I thought it
was great.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I thought it was too bad that a lot of
people through beer from the bleachers. I read Peggy Unions
op ed that, you know, tried to compare it to
you know, North Korea and Russia. It was never going
to be that way. I have faith in my army
that they were going to put on a great show
regardless of who was president. You saw the best of
our country there two hundred and fifty years and the
greatest fighting force that's ever been known to mankind. So
(12:04):
I'm proud of my army and I'm so glad.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It went off the way it was.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
There was no politics involved, and again all the people
with the cognitive dissidents that couldn't kind of figure out
that it's possible that we can have that and still
have a president like Donald Trump. Well, you know it,
Mayson be seeing you saw what I think was the
best of the best on display and Saturday.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Well, said military analyst Mike Lyons. Always a pleasure. Thanks
a million, Mike, Great guys, thanks for having me. Yeah,
on the parade. I just was looking up and they
had a little coverage on ABC News and they showed
the various old timing uniforms. They had people in Revolutionary
War uniforms in World War One and all this different
sort of stuff, and then all the way up to
the most modern guys decked out in the coolest modern
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stuff with the robot dogs marching along next to him.
Didn't you see that? No idea, Wow, the robot dogs.
That's terrifying. Yeah, I've got a good to find A
good highlight package was it was our wedding anniversary on Saturday,
and we had room. So when you're having your wedding anniversary,
you won't won't sit around watching cable news. Well, aren't
you precious? Pipe down, honey, I'm busy watching news. Yes,
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I didn't go with that strategy. I have many more
comments on what Mike Lyons said around a certain areas,
but I'm sure we'll get to it later because this
is a big topic for the day. A different story,
A man known as the Superminator has hung up his
gonads after many years of service. Friends and how you
look at it, among other stories, we have to stay here,
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armstrong and welcome to la where something is always on fire?
Why always? Guess we've had a little unrest, you know,
a little you know, let's not over do this Okay,
it's a few blocks downtown. It's downtown. We've in downtown.
The authorities told the people who live there in that
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area just to be on the safe side, remain in
your tent. Tru Dad. I walked around downtown on my
sixtieth birthday. Remember I was staying downtown, and I went
to that big church and walked around in Hey. It's
a lot of people living in tents, lots lots of
rundown hotels that occupied by homeless people. AnyWho, a camping
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weather in La. We have some developments in the war
in them at least. But we'll leave that alone for
a second and get back to it a little bit later.
But there are new things happening as the bombing goes on.
Happy Father's Day. It was Father's Day yesterday. In whatever
way you honor that, I got a number of really
nice texts from various people, which I appreciated. A guy
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named dubbed the Sperminator is decided to hang up his testicles,
and he announced it yesterday on Father's Day, after he's
turning fifty. Do you don't know this guy? You're wrinkling
your eyes there as Katie riddling in my eyes at
a lot of thanks at this story down. Yeah, I'm
I'm taking a wait and see a posture on this
(15:05):
last secon. He was dubbed the Sperminator by the New
York Post due to his prolific sperm donations. He uh,
after more than seventeen years of donating his swimmers to
complete strangers and generating one hundred and eighty one kids
across five continents, He's finally retiring. For some reason. He's
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a math professor from New York. I think that makes
you an incredible weirdo. But you know people need that.
So I suppose you being the guy who shows up
like every other day with a sample for some weird reason. Well, no,
there's demand for him. Is probably a tall, good looking
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math professor, right, Yeah, that's part of it. Yes, the
industry that says to him, you know, see you Monday.
You know we're going to need more for more moms
around the world, or are looking for tall, good looking
kids who are good at math, the whole things. But
then they and I know there is a need for
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that and all that sort of thing. But the idea
that I got one hundred and eighty one kids out
there that are not going to have any of my
parenting or any stories about my dad and mom, or
just none of the you know, and none of that.
I just I think that's I hate that. So are
you against sperm donation in general?
Speaker 6 (16:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I don't know that. I mean, because if I had
one kid out there answering the description you just gave,
that's a tragedy. Although I know people who do have
that information about the sperm donator. When it's you know,
a person who do you know pass along that information
or allow them to get in contact, you're not going
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to get in contact. Is he going to get in
contact with one hundred and eighty one different kids? No,
I don't know. That's not the nature that though, as
long as you have the medical information, I don't. I'm
just saying I wouldn't want that. No, I hear you,
I hear you. I hate Do you have a whole
bunch of little mees out there with me in no
role in whatsoever? We all hate that idea armstrong and
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getty authority.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Say, a suspected gunman impersonating a police officer targeted two
Democratic lawmakers and their spouses in their homes, killing former
Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. State
Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvett were critically wounded.
A list of additional targets was found in the suspects vehicle,
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as well as no kings flyers. Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas
denounced the political violence and vowed to bring those responsible
to justice.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And that has happened. He got caught. Here's that report.
The shooter is now in custody.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
The Ramsey County Sheriff's office calling fifty seven year old
Vance Bolter the faith of evil after he was caught
last night crawling in a field near his home in
green Isle, Minnesota, southwest of Minneapolis, and this morning, police
documents reveal that inside the car that Bolter ditched near
his home, they found three AK forty seven assault rifles,
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a nine millimeter handgun, a list of other public officials,
and outside of the car they found another gun, a mask,
and a gold style police badge. Police say Bolter dressed
like a police officer. He wore a Halloween style mask
and drove what looked like a squad car.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So the guy seems completely nuts to me. He murdered
a couple of Minnesota state lawmakers tried to kill a
couple of others. His what we've heard so far, and
I'm not trusting of the media and that they're not,
you know, only giving this information that helps their narrative.
(18:54):
But because I'm not hearing enough about how crazy he is,
he's got to have all kinds of other indications of
his nuttiness. Well, yeah, I agree, although nuttiness can mean
like psychosis, he's got serious mental illness, or could just
mean an angry loser who wants to take his angry
loserdom out on others. I think it's more that one, right,
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But the only anger toward government we've heard is all national,
you know, with the no kings and not liking Trump,
and you see it kill a couple of state lawmakers
in Minnesota. I mean that's pretty freaking crazy. Yeah, he
had a well, he had a history of being hardcore
anti abortion. He believed abortion was murder, and the lawmakers
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in question were abortion rights advocates. According to people who
know this guy, his best friend said he'd done a
three year stint in Africa. He fancied himself the head
of a security company that never really got up and running,
(20:00):
and his friend and sometimes roommates said that the company
really never existed and he's had troubles since he got
back from Africa. He had a LinkedIn, uh you know,
page that had the Red Lion Group was a security company,
(20:21):
but it had no employees. Other nobody can find that
it really existed. He just he's an He seems to
be an angry loser, you know, underachiever par excellence. It
was a semi delusional I hired a couple of loser.
I hired a couple of news outlets over the weekend,
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national news outlets who did not mention the party affiliation
of the lawmakers that were killed. And I thought, you know,
I wish there was more of that because it shouldn't
make any difference. Political violence isn't whing and dollarate, right,
so breaking it down by party is doesn't make any difference.
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You can't do it. We can't even think it's possible.
You know, if you float around social media, you would
certainly get the idea that plenty of people think it's okay.
Uh yeah, that's sick. I was pleasantly surprised. Lisa Lehrer,
whose work I don't know, was writing for The New
York Times, and the headline is like school shootings, political
violence is becoming almost routine, and to my delight, she leads,
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after the shock and horror of the assassinations in Minnesota,
just one sentence, horrible news, said Representative Steve Scalise, who
was shot at a baseball game in twenty seventeen. Paul
and I are heartbroken, said former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband
was bludgeoned with a hammer. Gabby Gifford's comments, then Josh
Shapiro comments, Gretchen Whitmer President Trump. Two assassination attempts against
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Trump that she describes in some detail. Another man gun
down a pair of workers from the Israeli embassy outside
an event in Washington. Protesters calling for the release of
hostages set on fire by lunatic Republican Party headquarters in
New Mexico, and a Tesla dealership near Albuquerque fire bombed.
It was a remarkably even handed discussion of Yeah, it's
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the whole our side, your side, one of ours, one
of theirs. That's got to end, got to end. I
don't think it's going too soon, do you probably not.
I don't know, it's you know, I'm racking my memory
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for memories of the rise of mostly left wing political
violence in the early seventies and how it just kind
of petered out as the energy of more extreme politics
just kind of petered out. Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter
and Ronald Reagan and those times just didn't really, they
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didn't fertilize. Is angry, time to blow up the system,
kill somebody politics, and it just kind of petered out. Plus,
there are aggressive prosecutions from roughly Kennedy's assassination in sixty
three through a couple of attempts on Ford and seventy five.
There were quite a few, as we all know, and then,
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like you said, it went away. That's the way these
things go in it's a contagion and school shootings or whatever.
It's it's odd and hard to control. Yeah, I just
think there needs to be full throated condemnation of this
sort of thing from all sides, every single time, which
includes torching businesses and and and looting and beating down cops,
(23:43):
that sort of thing, because if you think they're they're
not tied together, you're wrong. We have some updates on
story in the Middle East. We'll get to a little
bit later there are there are the developments there, so
stay tuned for that. I'm glad they caught the guy
in the shooting that story for I suppose good reason
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led a lot of the Sunday talk shows yesterday when
we do have the biggest war in the Middle East
in decades going on, which is clearly the lead story
for the planet. So getting back to the theme though,
of the whole Red versus Blue thing and people being
so crazy fired up, I thought this was so interesting.
The Wall Street Journal Red versus Blue is dividing stock
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portfolios like never before. Gallup poll this spring showed the
Democrats who expected stocks to tumble over the next six
months exceeded Republicans who thought the market was going to
decline by sixty points. Wow. Republicans expecting stocks to climb
over that period top Democrats by forty seven points. That
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is by enormous, enormous ratios, the biggest such gap ever
observed by Wall Street. So that's not like specific I'm
gonna invest in Nike because they say black lives matter.
That's more of a I think the tariffs are going
to be so damaging I'm getting out as opposed to
(25:10):
I trust my sides thinking on this. That's right. Yeah,
Trump in general and tariffs and all the rest of it. Yes,
it's going to be so disastrous we need to sell everything.
Or no, I think it'll go fine. I'm going to
invest in the market. It could say, the more I
think about it, I mean, I'm just I'm talking off
the top of my head. You could say one side's
more emotional and reacts quickly to big headlines, and the
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other side is more steady as she goes, you know,
hold and wait. I think that's probably true as a personality. Yeah,
I think that's absolutely a factor in this. The party
affiliations of Americans have long shaped how they feel about
the economy or the price of eggs or milk at
the grocery stores. People give lower marks when their party
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is out of power, of course, but the forty seven
point gap in part is an optimism is the largest
divide ever. For instance, during they just started measuring this.
In one that year, during George W. Bush's presidency, the
optimism gap between Republicans and Democrats was thirteen percent. Yeah,
it's another thing that was now forty seven. It's another
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thing we've just started measuring. Because you had, Nobody would
think of it. Prior to that, things weren't so flip
and political that you would look at I wonder how
democrats invest in the stock market versus Republican We didn't
make everything about this back then, right, Well, yeah, every
time he got to the end of year study, it'd
be like, well, the difference is really subtle and insignificant. Again, sir,
(26:37):
are you sure you want me to do this again
next year? Right? Ah? Bah blah blah blah blah. Where's
the part I wanted to get to. They make the
point that is, it's utterly disastrous to invest and sell
off emotionally like this. No way, she told me that's
not a good idea. All right, I know, it's just
(27:00):
but like disastrously bad ideas in terms of your ultimate return.
Where's that? Well, I just paraphrased it this close enough.
It's a horrible, horrible idea. Then, finally, on this note,
Beckett Adams with a really good piece of National Review
(27:20):
talking about how and we didn't talk much about this,
it's so Beltway self obsessed. But Trump showing up to
the Kennedy Center for the big opening night of the
season and Les miz and a bunch of cast members boycotted,
and there were cheers and booze as he walked into
the box with Milania. And according to the Peter Baker,
(27:44):
chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, for
those of us born and raised in Washington, the Kennedy
Center was always a place to escape politics. And Joy,
I can't let you get through the sentence. Give me
a freaking break. Do you want how many things I've
watched on PBS from the Kennedy Center where they give
some award to somebody as they give these lefty speeches
(28:05):
in the crowds fans and jeers in my lifetime, Give
me a freaking break. Continuing on, after my voluble partner
has done with his screed, Now I'm i gotta go
sell a bunch of stock. Now it's been turned on
bad idea. Oh idiot, that's a bad idea. Now it's
been turned into just one more venue for the polarization
(28:26):
of the current era, writes Peter Baker, with a tear
poised on the edge.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Of Oh it fell his dear fell down his.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Cheek Live team coverage, and Beckett makes the point many
of us on the right have been pleading, begging for
the politically obsessed to spare a few areas of modern life,
just one or two from the never ending politics.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So I guess in his mind he watched the Oscars
all those years and thought, it's nice to have a
non political awards show while we got lectured constantly. Right,
those of us who learned in early childhood how to
separate the art from the artists, that prayed for those
fixated on the life political to just once or maybe
twice take a break so the rest of us may
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enjoy our entertainment and edification and relative peace. The political
elite responded with a resounding gleeful no. Over the past
twenty years, everything from knitting to birding, and he gives
examples to the Bachelorourette, have been swallowed up by the
insatiable monster, birthed then nursed to maturity by partisan psychotics.
(29:34):
Lady Gaga was condemned in twenty seventeen for not incorporating
an overtly anti Trump message into her Super Bowl performance.
The actress Sidney sweety us you did a defensive statement
a couple of years ago, rallying to her family support
after critics attacked them for showing up to her mother's
birthday party in magas style hats that read make sixty
great Again. The phrase Taylor Swift silence is deafening, which
(29:57):
arose from the songwriter's previous for life tends to weigh
in a hot button isshes is now a trope because
the act of bullying artists into supporting political causes has
become so predictable, And now Trump just shows up to
the Kennedy Center and oh, the right is politicizing entertainment
and what's next sports? Oh my lord, that pretty gough,
(30:22):
said Peter Baker. Are you are delusional?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I'm going to explain to you why electric cars are
never going to catch on after my weekend, uh, at
least unless things change a lot with electric cars. Of course,
most of you knew that and don't buy an electric
car and hate the idea, so I don't need to
convince you. But among other things, we got to talk
about some developments. We've moved another giant aircraft carrier. It
(30:49):
looks like we're headed toward the Middle East to be ready,
and we're talking to Mike Glines about that earlier this hour.
How much of our attention is being taken by this
whole thing in the Middle East. Trump said a very
interesting thing to the Atlantic for the crowd in his
(31:09):
movement that Finks were supposed to be non interventionist, which
I really really liked. We'll get to that at some
point too. We do a lot of stuff. I hope
you can stick around.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
ARMSTRAWI, an Italian museum, is calling for visitors to respect
art after a jeweled chair reached its breaking point, the
crystal covered seat collapsing after a man sat on it
out of Verna gallery. He and a companion then walking out.
Police still searching for the pair. The chair thankfully has
been fixed.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, it was an art display in the I thought
it was just a regular chair. And he sat down
on his wife like grabs his armor a and it breaks,
and he's a man of larger carriage. Also, it's an
embarrassing video.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
You're making this seem like you're making it seem like
it was an accident, like he didn't know that the
chair was a piece of art.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You think, Oh, no, I think he was posing. I
watched the video. I thought he was posing for some
sort of funny Instagram pick, but lost his balance and
crushed it. Oh okay, yeah, okay, well that's not cool
neither people in their selfies. People in their selfies, Joe,
of course you're gonna build a bejeweled chair. Ought to
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be able to support your average fat tourist. So electric
cars are never going to catch on unless they haven't.
And it's going the other direction. And now that Trump
has done away with the various mandates and tax breaks,
I mean it's really without the tax breaks. How many
people would have not purchased an electric vehicle if you
(32:44):
hadn't gotten the big tax break. I mean, it would
be it's a tiny dentis that it would even being
a tinier dent. But I, stupidly, and I can't believe
I did this. Chose to drive my cyber truck to
drop off my son at boy Scout Camp in Long
Beach over the weekend, and by doing that turns a
six hour drive in a gas powered car. If I
(33:07):
had driven my Ford F two to fifty diesel with
a thirty gallon tank, I could have driven all the
way to Los Angeles, dropped him off, and driven one
hundred miles back before I ever needed to stop for fuel.
In the Tesla cyber truck. You got to stop every
one hundred and fifty miles to charge, which takes you
half hour to forty five minutes to an hour, depending
(33:28):
on the charger and how many people are there, because
if there's a whole bunch of people there, it charges
really really slow. And I turned a six hour drive
into an eight hour drive each way, so instead of
twelve hours of driving, I did sixteen hours of driving.
Because I care about the planet so much and drove
an electric vehicle. It is never going to work. And
(33:48):
if you're thinking about buy an electric vehicle, everyone should
know this. Those are such exaggerations, you know, how about
what you buy a vehicle and it says on the
window it gets thirty five miles per gallon, but you
never quite get that because they exagger With electric vehicles,
it's like double you have to cut everything in half.
So if it says you got three hundred miles of range,
you're gonna go one hundred and fifty miles before you
(34:08):
need to charge back up again. So it's completely misleading
to people and it just doesn't work. It's so amazingly
impractical that I can't believe Places like the state of
California have been pushing the idea that we're all going
to drive electric fields. Oh yeah, have you done it?
You know, I've sent myself for an article. I can't
(34:28):
find it. But the CEO of Toyota, I think it was,
just said, Hey, look throughout its lifetime, an electric vehicle
produces triple the pollution of a hybrid for instance. That's interesting.
Stop it with this and I'm sure I can dig
it up again. Pollution being mean what the energy it
takes to make the electricity or top to bottom soup
(34:51):
to nuts as they say. I don't like that term.
I don't know why. Yeah, not favor. Get your head
out of the gutter. That's just an old timey meal reference.
Hat to nuts. It's the whole thing, soup to nuts.
Oh okay, yeah, what was I gonna say? Oh no,
just from the beginning of the production process to the
end of the vehicle's useful life, it will produce triple
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the pollution is a hybrid, for instance, such a pain
in the ass. Every hour and a half you have
to find a station, pull in, sit there for an
hour before you get back on the road. People don't
want to do that. It sucks. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Israel is not stopping saying it's attacks have inflicted significant
damage to Ron's nuclear facilities, that they are just getting started.
We paved the way to Tehran.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
At are pilots over the skies of Tehran will deal
blows to the Iteonal regime that they cannot even imagine.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I'm hoping you can get Mike Lillions on the show today.
I think he'd be a great sounding board. And if
he is on, can you ask him or can the
guys ask him?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Please?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Who in Iran is helping the masade? What internal factions
are there that are helping to work against the mullas?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Excellent suggesting getting Mike Lions on to discuss this, if
you weren't following. Over the weekend, Israel and Iran exchanged
strikes now for four days in a row where Israel
hits Iran hard, Iran hits Israel attempts to hit them
really hard, but about fifteen percent of the drones and
everything missiles do get through and there have been deaths
(01:24):
in Tehran for instance, I mean in Tel Aviv in
a way that we haven't seen in a long time.
True enough, I was going to say exchanging blows like
Mike Tyson and my daughter would exchange blows, though proportionately.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yes, we did not need to be prompted. We couldn't
wait to talk to Mike Lions military analyst about this. Mike, welcome,
always good to talk. What are your initial impressions.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Hey, guys, great to be on. Look, this conflict is
long time coming. This was something that should have been
anticipated for years at this point, and Israel and I
was just taken advantage complete and gotten the Iranians out
of this gray zone of having proxies fight their war
against them. They've all been wiped out. Israel was not
(02:08):
going to stand by and watch anybody negotiate a deal
with the Iranians that would potentially take away their nuclear capability.
They were taking care of us. This starts back in
nineteen eighty one when they take out the Iraqi facility
in osuric in O seven, when they take out the
Syrian capability, and we had the stucksnet with the Americans
in the United States going after Scentifugiay. Israel's been at
(02:30):
war with Iron since then, and this is a generational
moment and I think we've got to take advantage of
it in the United States right now. And I understand
about America First policy, but it clearly, as the President
has now said, this isn't our best interest to make
sure the Iranians have nowhere near any kind of nuclear capability.
And Israel's just not satisfied with just kicking the can
(02:51):
down the road, which everything before this seemed to be
driving at.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What's your concerns with the forty thousand US Service people
we have in the area at like a dozen different bases.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Well, the limited capability that Iran has to strike would
be more lucky if they hit anything at this point.
I think they're you know, there's maybe some fiber attacks,
I guess, and you know, the sleeper cells and all
those kinds of things, but nothing from a strategic perspective.
(03:23):
Right now, you can see what they're launching at Israel
has has got tremendous circle era of probable airs. They're
not they're not even trying to you know, they can't
hit targets that they're like to hit their hitting civilian
built up areas and nothing the like. And right now
the focus that Israel is doing is going after their
capability to do that. So they're gonna They're gonna run
an animal pretty soon, run out of capability. And so
(03:43):
I'm not concerned, and I'm sure those American forces are
on high alert. But if the Iranians were dumb enough
to go after the any American forces there, well, then
now the President's got an open lane to bring in
B two bombers and F sixteen's and everything else. That would,
you know, pretty much speed up what's going to be
the end of this Iranian regime?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Mike? To what extent has Israel controlled the air over Iran?
And how important is that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
One hundred percent of air of supremacy now at this point,
and look that some of these missiles are going to
get through. There's no such thing as one hundred percent
air defenses that can lock. And I want to be
glib and say commanders expect losses, but the amount of
damage that the Israeli militaries exist is exhibiting right now
(04:29):
against deep targets in Iran, against their drone sites and
ammunition dumps. And now if you can see, they're kind
of almost going away from the nuclear facilities first because
they want to make sure they maintain this air superiority.
So they're hunting for those missile sites and missile platforms
that I think within the next few days or so
we'll really start to diminish, and then they go back
(04:50):
towards hitting those the nuclear facilities there. It's going to
take a while though. They're very deep, that one in
Fertal for example, potentially up to two hundred and fifty
feet deep concrete reinforced bunkers. For that to go, they're
going to have to bring in the United States to
be too bomber, They're going to have to bring in
a different weapons systems, and I do believe that will
eventually happen.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So we're not directly involved right now, like like our
planes and pilots are that sort of thing. But from
what I understand, we've got a lot of assets in
the area. We've moved some assets to the area to
be ready for this. How how I don't want to
use bogged down as overstating, but how how much of
our attention is on this And for instance, if putin
decided to use a tactical nuke in Ukraine thinking that
(05:33):
you know, NATO's busy with this, or China did something right.
I mean, how much of our attention is this Iran
Israel thing taken? Well, two different.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Combat commands, Sentcom is running this one here, so they're
you know, well leaning forward, making sure naval assets for example,
the Mediterranean, we've we've maintained assets. I think the concern
would be if the Ranians again do something dumb like
try to shut down the straits of our moots or
do something where it impact, you know, the world economy.
(06:01):
I think that's where there are some risk there. They're
going to eventually get desperate, as this regime is going
to try to negotiate its way out of it eventually.
But I don't think the Israelis are going to let
them there, and this is war. They're not They're not
stopping until around says we surrender, and they're not. They're
no longer looking for diplomatic solutions. And from my perspective,
and you have the Israeli's kind of as the bad
(06:23):
cop right now the United States, Donald Trump playing a
good cop who knew that this was going to happen.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But that that's.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Really you know, this administration has been handed too tremendous
gifts in the last six months. You've got the Ukrainian
military destroying what's left of the Russian military in play
still and then you have this situation where Israel is
about to almost you know, redo the entire Middle East.
The entire environment is completely going to be different. Now
there's opportunity for us to get Lebanon resettled, Syria to
(06:51):
join the League of Nations and the like. You'll see
Saudi and Israeli deals that will make down. So this
this has been a long time coming, and getting this
problem resolved, it's been the number one foreign policy failure
in my lifetime. I know we've talked about this before
in a post World War two US foreign policy perspective,
and I'm just glad it's coming because this was just
a matter of time.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Talking to military analysts, Mike Lyons, Mike, speaking of alliances,
have you seen any signs that the I'm sorry for
the lighthearted characterization here, but the axes of a holes
in Russia, China, anybody rallying to her on support in
any material.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Way, not in the least and it speats. It's winners
and losers, right, I mean, there's side, there's no one
to come to their aid, and Russia has got no
capability to do anything. The Chinese are smart enough to
stay out of this, so no, there's no The entire
proxy defenses have been stripped away. In the past, Israel
(07:49):
would be concerned about militia brigades organized in Syria attacking
on the Golden Heights or rockets coming in from Gaza
and Hesba. Those guys are gone and everyone's done, like
their entire force, their entire force. So again, gray zone over.
This is war on war between two countries. I'm watching
people talk about you know this is going to de escalate.
(08:11):
It's not going to de escalate for a second. This
is not stopping until Israel is completely satisfied that their
nuclear capability is done with the implied task that this
regime is out too. I know that we saw the
report that the President denied Israel going after the leader
of the committee there, which is fine. I think decapitation
is always an issue. I hope we're working on what
(08:33):
takes over, because that's going to be the issue. If
hardline Republican Guard units take over the country. That's not
going to be very good at all, But Israel will
keep going until they find somebody that they can negotiate with.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So we played a collar asking the question, you know,
who's in Iran working with Masad? So the Masad was
in Israel, it would seem for a month and a
half getting that whole drawing set up going and everything
like that. Do you think there are people within Iranian
high levels of the military or whatever that are working
with Israel. Yeah, no question there are.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
And the level of infiltration that MESAD has in the
high levels of the Iranian government is just staggering, considering
the fact that when the war started they were able
to take out pinpoints specifically where some of those leaders were,
the head of the chief of staff, the head of
their rocket program, the nuclear scientists. You know, if you're
a college professor teaching a nuclear course in Tehran right now,
(09:28):
what look up because you might want to find yourself
in a bunk or someplace because you're you're the next target.
So the level of intelligence that Israel has to this,
but it's been years in planning. This is again not
something that they decided to do very quickly. They waited
for this exact moment, and a lot of things went right.
The this administration being in place, I think is another
(09:48):
thing that that's helped Israel at this point. But starting
on October seventh, when when not in YEAHO said this
is a time for peace and time for war. That's
where they're at. They've been on a war footing ever
since they stripped out, took Hamas out, they took Lebanon out.
You saw what happened in Uh in Syria, that that
those militias are done, A rock is quiet, So now
(10:08):
is the time to go after the Iranians. They were
always going to do this, It's just a matter of time.
Uh and now that it's started, it's not going to
stop until the tennised.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, yeah, Mike, you've you've partially answered this question. But
what do you expect to see next in the last
in the next several days.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Well, I'm going to be concerned about civilians inside of
Iran as as information starts getting out about their lack
of services, as these Raelis are going after some critical
infrastructure there, and what what what a revolution would look
like and what it would take place and who takes over.
I'd like to see again more military targets uh be acquired,
(10:46):
especially on the nuclear side. They they they have not
been as they've not gone after them as well as
much as I thought in Florida and Thomas and Istrahan.
It was another place where they're refining and doing things,
and I think they've ad on those in order to
ensure this air superiority. But I think it's going to
go on for for many days, possibly many weeks, and
(11:07):
to see what the Ranians try to do. But there'll
be no deal. There'll be absolutely no The Iranians will
try to buy time, they'll try to like like they've
done with Hamas. They just want the Israeli military to
stop because they think if they can stop that the
rest of the world will come in on israel side.
Everyone's very quiet about that right now. Everyone is fairly happy.
In Saudi Arabia, for example, they put this memo out
(11:28):
saying we're concerned about what Israel's doing. They're dancing inside
the palace there knowing full well at Israels kicking out
this nuclear capability.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And before we let you go, would you think of
the big army parade on Saturday. Yeah, I thought it
was great.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I thought it was too bad that a lot of
people through beer from the bleachers. I read Peggy Unions
op ed that, you know, tried to compare it to
you know, North Korea and Russia. It was never going
to be that way. I have faith in my army
that they were going to put on a great show
regardless of who was president. You saw the best of
our country there two hundred and fifty years and the
greatest fighting force that's ever been known to mankind. So
(12:04):
I'm proud of my army and I'm so glad.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It went off the way it was.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
There was no politics involved, and again all the people
with the cognitive dissidents that couldn't kind of figure out
that it's possible that we can have that and still
have a president like Donald Trump. Well, you know it,
Mayson be seeing you saw what I think was the
best of the best on display and Saturday.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Well, said military analyst Mike Lyons. Always a pleasure. Thanks
a million, Mike, Great guys, thanks for having me. Yeah,
on the parade. I just was looking up and they
had a little coverage on ABC News and they showed
the various old timing uniforms. They had people in Revolutionary
War uniforms in World War One and all this different
sort of stuff, and then all the way up to
the most modern guys decked out in the coolest modern
(12:46):
stuff with the robot dogs marching along next to him.
Didn't you see that? No idea, Wow, the robot dogs.
That's terrifying. Yeah, I've got a good to find A
good highlight package was it was our wedding anniversary on Saturday,
and we had room. So when you're having your wedding anniversary,
you won't won't sit around watching cable news. Well, aren't
you precious? Pipe down, honey, I'm busy watching news. Yes,
(13:10):
I didn't go with that strategy. I have many more
comments on what Mike Lyons said around a certain areas,
but I'm sure we'll get to it later because this
is a big topic for the day. A different story,
A man known as the Superminator has hung up his
gonads after many years of service. Friends and how you
look at it, among other stories, we have to stay here,
(13:35):
armstrong and welcome to la where something is always on fire?
Why always? Guess we've had a little unrest, you know,
a little you know, let's not over do this Okay,
it's a few blocks downtown. It's downtown. We've in downtown.
The authorities told the people who live there in that
(13:56):
area just to be on the safe side, remain in
your tent. Tru Dad. I walked around downtown on my
sixtieth birthday. Remember I was staying downtown, and I went
to that big church and walked around in Hey. It's
a lot of people living in tents, lots lots of
rundown hotels that occupied by homeless people. AnyWho, a camping
(14:20):
weather in La. We have some developments in the war
in them at least. But we'll leave that alone for
a second and get back to it a little bit later.
But there are new things happening as the bombing goes on.
Happy Father's Day. It was Father's Day yesterday. In whatever
way you honor that, I got a number of really
nice texts from various people, which I appreciated. A guy
(14:42):
named dubbed the Sperminator is decided to hang up his testicles,
and he announced it yesterday on Father's Day, after he's
turning fifty. Do you don't know this guy? You're wrinkling
your eyes there as Katie riddling in my eyes at
a lot of thanks at this story down. Yeah, I'm
I'm taking a wait and see a posture on this
(15:05):
last secon. He was dubbed the Sperminator by the New
York Post due to his prolific sperm donations. He uh,
after more than seventeen years of donating his swimmers to
complete strangers and generating one hundred and eighty one kids
across five continents, He's finally retiring. For some reason. He's
(15:29):
a math professor from New York. I think that makes
you an incredible weirdo. But you know people need that.
So I suppose you being the guy who shows up
like every other day with a sample for some weird reason. Well, no,
there's demand for him. Is probably a tall, good looking
(15:50):
math professor, right, Yeah, that's part of it. Yes, the
industry that says to him, you know, see you Monday.
You know we're going to need more for more moms
around the world, or are looking for tall, good looking
kids who are good at math, the whole things. But
then they and I know there is a need for
(16:11):
that and all that sort of thing. But the idea
that I got one hundred and eighty one kids out
there that are not going to have any of my
parenting or any stories about my dad and mom, or
just none of the you know, and none of that.
I just I think that's I hate that. So are
you against sperm donation in general?
Speaker 6 (16:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I don't know that. I mean, because if I had
one kid out there answering the description you just gave,
that's a tragedy. Although I know people who do have
that information about the sperm donator. When it's you know,
a person who do you know pass along that information
or allow them to get in contact, you're not going
(16:52):
to get in contact. Is he going to get in
contact with one hundred and eighty one different kids? No,
I don't know. That's not the nature that though, as
long as you have the medical information, I don't. I'm
just saying I wouldn't want that. No, I hear you,
I hear you. I hate Do you have a whole
bunch of little mees out there with me in no
role in whatsoever? We all hate that idea armstrong and
(17:16):
getty authority.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Say, a suspected gunman impersonating a police officer targeted two
Democratic lawmakers and their spouses in their homes, killing former
Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. State
Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvett were critically wounded.
A list of additional targets was found in the suspects vehicle,
(17:39):
as well as no kings flyers. Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas
denounced the political violence and vowed to bring those responsible
to justice.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And that has happened. He got caught. Here's that report.
The shooter is now in custody.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
The Ramsey County Sheriff's office calling fifty seven year old
Vance Bolter the faith of evil after he was caught
last night crawling in a field near his home in
green Isle, Minnesota, southwest of Minneapolis, and this morning, police
documents reveal that inside the car that Bolter ditched near
his home, they found three AK forty seven assault rifles,
(18:16):
a nine millimeter handgun, a list of other public officials,
and outside of the car they found another gun, a mask,
and a gold style police badge. Police say Bolter dressed
like a police officer. He wore a Halloween style mask
and drove what looked like a squad car.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So the guy seems completely nuts to me. He murdered
a couple of Minnesota state lawmakers tried to kill a
couple of others. His what we've heard so far, and
I'm not trusting of the media and that they're not,
you know, only giving this information that helps their narrative.
(18:54):
But because I'm not hearing enough about how crazy he is,
he's got to have all kinds of other indications of
his nuttiness. Well, yeah, I agree, although nuttiness can mean
like psychosis, he's got serious mental illness, or could just
mean an angry loser who wants to take his angry
loserdom out on others. I think it's more that one, right,
(19:17):
But the only anger toward government we've heard is all national,
you know, with the no kings and not liking Trump,
and you see it kill a couple of state lawmakers
in Minnesota. I mean that's pretty freaking crazy. Yeah, he
had a well, he had a history of being hardcore
anti abortion. He believed abortion was murder, and the lawmakers
(19:38):
in question were abortion rights advocates. According to people who
know this guy, his best friend said he'd done a
three year stint in Africa. He fancied himself the head
of a security company that never really got up and running,
(20:00):
and his friend and sometimes roommates said that the company
really never existed and he's had troubles since he got
back from Africa. He had a LinkedIn, uh you know,
page that had the Red Lion Group was a security company,
(20:21):
but it had no employees. Other nobody can find that
it really existed. He just he's an He seems to
be an angry loser, you know, underachiever par excellence. It
was a semi delusional I hired a couple of loser.
I hired a couple of news outlets over the weekend,
(20:44):
national news outlets who did not mention the party affiliation
of the lawmakers that were killed. And I thought, you know,
I wish there was more of that because it shouldn't
make any difference. Political violence isn't whing and dollarate, right,
so breaking it down by party is doesn't make any difference.
(21:05):
You can't do it. We can't even think it's possible.
You know, if you float around social media, you would
certainly get the idea that plenty of people think it's okay.
Uh yeah, that's sick. I was pleasantly surprised. Lisa Lehrer,
whose work I don't know, was writing for The New
York Times, and the headline is like school shootings, political
violence is becoming almost routine, and to my delight, she leads,
(21:31):
after the shock and horror of the assassinations in Minnesota,
just one sentence, horrible news, said Representative Steve Scalise, who
was shot at a baseball game in twenty seventeen. Paul
and I are heartbroken, said former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband
was bludgeoned with a hammer. Gabby Gifford's comments, then Josh
Shapiro comments, Gretchen Whitmer President Trump. Two assassination attempts against
(21:54):
Trump that she describes in some detail. Another man gun
down a pair of workers from the Israeli embassy outside
an event in Washington. Protesters calling for the release of
hostages set on fire by lunatic Republican Party headquarters in
New Mexico, and a Tesla dealership near Albuquerque fire bombed.
It was a remarkably even handed discussion of Yeah, it's
(22:17):
the whole our side, your side, one of ours, one
of theirs. That's got to end, got to end. I
don't think it's going too soon, do you probably not.
I don't know, it's you know, I'm racking my memory
(22:37):
for memories of the rise of mostly left wing political
violence in the early seventies and how it just kind
of petered out as the energy of more extreme politics
just kind of petered out. Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter
and Ronald Reagan and those times just didn't really, they
(22:59):
didn't fertilize. Is angry, time to blow up the system,
kill somebody politics, and it just kind of petered out. Plus,
there are aggressive prosecutions from roughly Kennedy's assassination in sixty
three through a couple of attempts on Ford and seventy five.
There were quite a few, as we all know, and then,
(23:19):
like you said, it went away. That's the way these
things go in it's a contagion and school shootings or whatever.
It's it's odd and hard to control. Yeah, I just
think there needs to be full throated condemnation of this
sort of thing from all sides, every single time, which
includes torching businesses and and and looting and beating down cops,
(23:43):
that sort of thing, because if you think they're they're
not tied together, you're wrong. We have some updates on
story in the Middle East. We'll get to a little
bit later there are there are the developments there, so
stay tuned for that. I'm glad they caught the guy
in the shooting that story for I suppose good reason
(24:05):
led a lot of the Sunday talk shows yesterday when
we do have the biggest war in the Middle East
in decades going on, which is clearly the lead story
for the planet. So getting back to the theme though,
of the whole Red versus Blue thing and people being
so crazy fired up, I thought this was so interesting.
The Wall Street Journal Red versus Blue is dividing stock
(24:26):
portfolios like never before. Gallup poll this spring showed the
Democrats who expected stocks to tumble over the next six
months exceeded Republicans who thought the market was going to
decline by sixty points. Wow. Republicans expecting stocks to climb
over that period top Democrats by forty seven points. That
(24:48):
is by enormous, enormous ratios, the biggest such gap ever
observed by Wall Street. So that's not like specific I'm
gonna invest in Nike because they say black lives matter.
That's more of a I think the tariffs are going
to be so damaging I'm getting out as opposed to
(25:10):
I trust my sides thinking on this. That's right. Yeah,
Trump in general and tariffs and all the rest of it. Yes,
it's going to be so disastrous we need to sell everything.
Or no, I think it'll go fine. I'm going to
invest in the market. It could say, the more I
think about it, I mean, I'm just I'm talking off
the top of my head. You could say one side's
more emotional and reacts quickly to big headlines, and the
(25:34):
other side is more steady as she goes, you know,
hold and wait. I think that's probably true as a personality. Yeah,
I think that's absolutely a factor in this. The party
affiliations of Americans have long shaped how they feel about
the economy or the price of eggs or milk at
the grocery stores. People give lower marks when their party
(25:54):
is out of power, of course, but the forty seven
point gap in part is an optimism is the largest
divide ever. For instance, during they just started measuring this.
In one that year, during George W. Bush's presidency, the
optimism gap between Republicans and Democrats was thirteen percent. Yeah,
it's another thing that was now forty seven. It's another
(26:15):
thing we've just started measuring. Because you had, Nobody would
think of it. Prior to that, things weren't so flip
and political that you would look at I wonder how
democrats invest in the stock market versus Republican We didn't
make everything about this back then, right, Well, yeah, every
time he got to the end of year study, it'd
be like, well, the difference is really subtle and insignificant. Again, sir,
(26:37):
are you sure you want me to do this again
next year? Right? Ah? Bah blah blah blah blah. Where's
the part I wanted to get to. They make the
point that is, it's utterly disastrous to invest and sell
off emotionally like this. No way, she told me that's
not a good idea. All right, I know, it's just
(27:00):
but like disastrously bad ideas in terms of your ultimate return.
Where's that? Well, I just paraphrased it this close enough.
It's a horrible, horrible idea. Then, finally, on this note,
Beckett Adams with a really good piece of National Review
(27:20):
talking about how and we didn't talk much about this,
it's so Beltway self obsessed. But Trump showing up to
the Kennedy Center for the big opening night of the
season and Les miz and a bunch of cast members boycotted,
and there were cheers and booze as he walked into
the box with Milania. And according to the Peter Baker,
(27:44):
chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, for
those of us born and raised in Washington, the Kennedy
Center was always a place to escape politics. And Joy,
I can't let you get through the sentence. Give me
a freaking break. Do you want how many things I've
watched on PBS from the Kennedy Center where they give
some award to somebody as they give these lefty speeches
(28:05):
in the crowds fans and jeers in my lifetime, Give
me a freaking break. Continuing on, after my voluble partner
has done with his screed, Now I'm i gotta go
sell a bunch of stock. Now it's been turned on
bad idea. Oh idiot, that's a bad idea. Now it's
been turned into just one more venue for the polarization
(28:26):
of the current era, writes Peter Baker, with a tear
poised on the edge.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Of Oh it fell his dear fell down his.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Cheek Live team coverage, and Beckett makes the point many
of us on the right have been pleading, begging for
the politically obsessed to spare a few areas of modern life,
just one or two from the never ending politics.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So I guess in his mind he watched the Oscars
all those years and thought, it's nice to have a
non political awards show while we got lectured constantly. Right,
those of us who learned in early childhood how to
separate the art from the artists, that prayed for those
fixated on the life political to just once or maybe
twice take a break so the rest of us may
(29:13):
enjoy our entertainment and edification and relative peace. The political
elite responded with a resounding gleeful no. Over the past
twenty years, everything from knitting to birding, and he gives
examples to the Bachelorourette, have been swallowed up by the
insatiable monster, birthed then nursed to maturity by partisan psychotics.
(29:34):
Lady Gaga was condemned in twenty seventeen for not incorporating
an overtly anti Trump message into her Super Bowl performance.
The actress Sidney sweety us you did a defensive statement
a couple of years ago, rallying to her family support
after critics attacked them for showing up to her mother's
birthday party in magas style hats that read make sixty
great Again. The phrase Taylor Swift silence is deafening, which
(29:57):
arose from the songwriter's previous for life tends to weigh
in a hot button isshes is now a trope because
the act of bullying artists into supporting political causes has
become so predictable, And now Trump just shows up to
the Kennedy Center and oh, the right is politicizing entertainment
and what's next sports? Oh my lord, that pretty gough,
(30:22):
said Peter Baker. Are you are delusional?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I'm going to explain to you why electric cars are
never going to catch on after my weekend, uh, at
least unless things change a lot with electric cars. Of course,
most of you knew that and don't buy an electric
car and hate the idea, so I don't need to
convince you. But among other things, we got to talk
about some developments. We've moved another giant aircraft carrier. It
(30:49):
looks like we're headed toward the Middle East to be ready,
and we're talking to Mike Glines about that earlier this hour.
How much of our attention is being taken by this
whole thing in the Middle East. Trump said a very
interesting thing to the Atlantic for the crowd in his
(31:09):
movement that Finks were supposed to be non interventionist, which
I really really liked. We'll get to that at some
point too. We do a lot of stuff. I hope
you can stick around.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
ARMSTRAWI, an Italian museum, is calling for visitors to respect
art after a jeweled chair reached its breaking point, the
crystal covered seat collapsing after a man sat on it
out of Verna gallery. He and a companion then walking out.
Police still searching for the pair. The chair thankfully has
been fixed.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, it was an art display in the I thought
it was just a regular chair. And he sat down
on his wife like grabs his armor a and it breaks,
and he's a man of larger carriage. Also, it's an
embarrassing video.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
You're making this seem like you're making it seem like
it was an accident, like he didn't know that the
chair was a piece of art.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You think, Oh, no, I think he was posing. I
watched the video. I thought he was posing for some
sort of funny Instagram pick, but lost his balance and
crushed it. Oh okay, yeah, okay, well that's not cool
neither people in their selfies. People in their selfies, Joe,
of course you're gonna build a bejeweled chair. Ought to
(32:21):
be able to support your average fat tourist. So electric
cars are never going to catch on unless they haven't.
And it's going the other direction. And now that Trump
has done away with the various mandates and tax breaks,
I mean it's really without the tax breaks. How many
people would have not purchased an electric vehicle if you
(32:44):
hadn't gotten the big tax break. I mean, it would
be it's a tiny dentis that it would even being
a tinier dent. But I, stupidly, and I can't believe
I did this. Chose to drive my cyber truck to
drop off my son at boy Scout Camp in Long
Beach over the weekend, and by doing that turns a
six hour drive in a gas powered car. If I
(33:07):
had driven my Ford F two to fifty diesel with
a thirty gallon tank, I could have driven all the
way to Los Angeles, dropped him off, and driven one
hundred miles back before I ever needed to stop for fuel.
In the Tesla cyber truck. You got to stop every
one hundred and fifty miles to charge, which takes you
half hour to forty five minutes to an hour, depending
(33:28):
on the charger and how many people are there, because
if there's a whole bunch of people there, it charges
really really slow. And I turned a six hour drive
into an eight hour drive each way, so instead of
twelve hours of driving, I did sixteen hours of driving.
Because I care about the planet so much and drove
an electric vehicle. It is never going to work. And
(33:48):
if you're thinking about buy an electric vehicle, everyone should
know this. Those are such exaggerations, you know, how about
what you buy a vehicle and it says on the
window it gets thirty five miles per gallon, but you
never quite get that because they exagger With electric vehicles,
it's like double you have to cut everything in half.
So if it says you got three hundred miles of range,
you're gonna go one hundred and fifty miles before you
(34:08):
need to charge back up again. So it's completely misleading
to people and it just doesn't work. It's so amazingly
impractical that I can't believe Places like the state of
California have been pushing the idea that we're all going
to drive electric fields. Oh yeah, have you done it?
You know, I've sent myself for an article. I can't
(34:28):
find it. But the CEO of Toyota, I think it was,
just said, Hey, look throughout its lifetime, an electric vehicle
produces triple the pollution of a hybrid for instance. That's interesting.
Stop it with this and I'm sure I can dig
it up again. Pollution being mean what the energy it
takes to make the electricity or top to bottom soup
(34:51):
to nuts as they say. I don't like that term.
I don't know why. Yeah, not favor. Get your head
out of the gutter. That's just an old timey meal reference.
Hat to nuts. It's the whole thing, soup to nuts.
Oh okay, yeah, what was I gonna say? Oh no,
just from the beginning of the production process to the
end of the vehicle's useful life, it will produce triple
(35:13):
the pollution is a hybrid, for instance, such a pain
in the ass. Every hour and a half you have
to find a station, pull in, sit there for an
hour before you get back on the road. People don't
want to do that. It sucks. Armstrong and Getty
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