June 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Netanyahu: "Iran behind assassination attempts on Trump."
- Boeing & other aviation stories
- Iran conflict & Jack's favorite song of all time
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Ketty, Armstrong and Getty
and He Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
President Donald Trump is currently meeting with the leaders of
the G seven all our allies about the Middle East
and where things are there. Benjamin Yet not meant, the
guy who is currently Prime Minister of Israel, said that
Trump is a Rand's number one enemy, which.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Might be true. Certainly if Trump gave.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
The go ahead or gives the go ahead, that could
destroy Iran, and if it had been a different president,
not so much.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Probably, what do you think there's strategy is in making
that statement. It's for somebody, I don't know that to
discredit any turn toward regime change. If the US even
winks in that direction, I mean, surely they're not trying.
Maybe the Mullas think if they can provoke Trump into
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actively joining the attack. Mike Lyons our friend suggested it
was almost an aside, but he said it will take
B two bombers and bunker busters to really take out
the four to huh nuclear enrichment site, and he expects
that to happen. Is it trying to provoke Trump into
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doing something so the Arab world rises up a good look,
it's Satan. Good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
That's a poor plan, Yeah, agreed Benjamin Netanyah, who is
the current Prime Minister of Israel. And he sat down
with Brett Bear of Fox on a Sunday yesterday afternoon,
and I said this, which I always raised both my
eyebrows high up on my forehead.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Do you have intel that the assassination attempts on present
Trump worked directly from.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Iran through proxies. Yes, through their intel. Yes, they want
to kill and look is enemy number one. He's a
decisive leader. He never took the path that others took
to try to bargain with him in a way that
is weak, giving them, giving them basically a pathway to
a rich uranium, which means a pathway to the bomb,
(02:21):
patting it with billions and billions of dollars. He took
up this fake agreement and basically tore it up. He
killed the cossom Suleimany he said, made it.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
There was the part before the beginning.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
There that was the important part there in that Brett
Behar asked BB nettan Yahoo about Iran's attitude toward the
United States and everything, and Benjamin Netanyahu listed off a
bunch of things, including saying, they tried to assassinate Donald
Trump twice. They've been firing, you know, aiding the hoho
(02:53):
thi's and then Brett Baer said, you have information that
Iran was behind the two assassination attempts, and then bb
kind of fudged on the next part where he says
they they announced that they wanted him dead. Yes, okay, no, no, no,
you just listed in the list of things that they've
done that they tried to kill Trump twice.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, and then yeah, speaking of fudging, I think I
hear what you're driving at, because Brett wasn't specific about
the two actual assassination attempts in his follow up question, right,
but there were Iranian plots to assassinate absolutely, and I
(03:37):
think Boebe was referring to those and didn't hate it
a bit. Man, We don't have the kind that sounded
like he also meant the geek on the roof and
the guy crouching in the bushes, We don't know fun.
I don't think he was just insinuating. I think he
flat out stated it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We don't have that part of the clip, but him
just saying they tried to kill Trump twice. I think
he absolutely wanted that to land with people thinking that
Iran was.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Behind those two assassination attempts, which is just not true.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So does would be another one of those examples of
I'm on your side. Don't exaggerate things because it allows
people on the other side to knock down everything else.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, don't gild the lily, as they say, don't try
to make something strong so perfect that you've ruined it. Yeah.
Just yeah, you can say there were plots behind the
scenes to kill Trump. They were absolutely involved in those.
The guy on the roof, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I thought this was very interesting to the whole We
talk about this all time, although obviously I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Sorry Phoebe is clearly trying any way he can to
whip Trump up against Iran if he can't.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Sure article in Politico, this guy Matthias Dupner, who I
don't know, called on the West to exercise moral clarity
amid the unfolding war between Israel and Iran, saying when
a society can no longer distinguish between good and evil,
between victim and perpetrator, it gives up. He wrote, this
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dynamic is one of the great constants of human history.
It's a lesson people in free societies and people intotalitarian
societies who yearn to be free should keep in mind
during the climatic showdown, climactic showdown between underway in the
Middle East right now, blah blah blah. It's also a
central front and a global contest in which the forces
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of tyranny and violence in recent years have been gaining
ground against the forces of freedom, which too often are
demoralized and divided. He's talking about the whole oppress or
oppressed thing, where people in free societies jump on the
side of the oppressed, no matter how evil they are,
and are critical of the side of freedom for no
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good reason other than this weird belief that whoever's got
the power must be bad and whoever's weaker must be good.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, he goes on, philosophy unspeakably idiotic.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
He goes on, and I thought this was good. Consider
the regime that Israel is fighting in Iran. Women are
systematically oppressed and abused, homosexuals are murdered, those who think
differently are imprisoned and tortured. If the perpetrator victim reversal
that has been repeatedly observed since October seventh applies even
in the most obvious case here with Iran. Then this
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can only be interpreted to mean that we are in
the process of losing the world culture war, which in
reality has long since become a war of civilizations. I
don't think that overstates it at all. This is a
worldwide culture war, therefore a world a war of civilizations.
And we're divided, and that we have, you know, college
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campuses full of people who think we're the bad guys,
and Iran's the you'll pressed.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Right, that's so nuts. Yeah, it is, It absolutely is.
That's why I'm so adamant about this stuff. A it's
utter stupidity and be how important it all is the
whole Now we're fine, or a superpower will always be fine.
Oh my god, that's how superpowers go away. There are
evil doers of all sorts of descriptions plotting our demise
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and actively pursuing it as we speak, always have been,
always will be the naive comfort of some of these
so called woke right thinking that that if we withdraw
from prosecuting the case for democracy, and I'm not talking
about some sort of you know, trying to install a
(07:34):
Jeffersonian democracy in Iraq. I'm talking about just defending the
Western world, the free world. If we stop that for
a minute, they think it'll lead to a peaceful, prosperous
you mind your business, will mind our business. Wow? Wow, Okay.
For the first time in human history.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
And Ran paul On I think it was Meet the
Press yesterday saying this was an this is an unjust war.
Preemptive or preventive wars are unjust wars, which is crazy.
You're gonna let your opponent who's been vowing to kill
you get the worst weapon men have ever developed.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
At which point you can't stop them short of a
nuclear holocaust. Right, that's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I can't believe anybody so smart can have that point
of view, but lots of you do.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That's nuts to me. It reminds me of the horrors
of in Afghanistan, are you know, marines and infantry men
special forces were told, hey, you can't like preemptively attack,
you gotta wait till the barrels of their guns are
pointing right at you. That's your new rules of engagement. Horrifying.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Before we take a break and move on to something else.
Do you think Iran gets the bomb?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, that's interesting. I was just reading Mark Alprin's piece
and he stated his reading of Trump and people who
know Trump and are reporting to him behind scenes conversations
is one thing Trump is adamant about. This isn't like
tariffs or something like that. He's adamant about. He is
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not going to allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon
right right, and won't budge on that. So at some
point maybe we are, like you were talking about Mike
Lions on our show Hour two, get the podcast Armstrong
and Getting on Demand, believes we will be helping with
our bunker busters take out fourdoh, that last, hopefully last nuclear.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Site buried under a mountain. My favorite detail is that
they have no long corridors. They're built at right angles
at least to contain a blast energy. That's how cautious
they are about being blasted out of existence.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I have a report on how far along that project
is gone from satellite imagery, but we can get.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
To that a little bit later. We've got other stuff
to talk about too. In the mood for a jarringly
idiotic transition, now, we're next right now.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Okay, let me get my feet at shoulder with Okay,
I'm on the ball. You'll get ready to go to
break mom the balls my feet, I'm bouncing. I'm ready
to go.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Good enough. Nuclear holocaust talk Jack coming up next. It's
getting pricier to fly with your pet. Oh my god,
oh my god.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Okay, that stupidity and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Welcome to La where something is always on fire. Yes,
we've had a little unrest. Here's how super dangerous this
situation is. Within the area where it's happening, a little
curfew area a few blocks the La Opera is located.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And they're still going on.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Rigoletto is still playing there. So little tip if you're
planning on lou where it took Seda. This is this
is such a minor crisis. Mayor Best didn't even leave town.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And the crowd, the LA crowd laughing at that. Uh yeah,
two breaking news things. Don't have to dwell on them
because Joe has other stuff. Uh Iran has just announced
they're they're about to launch the biggest attack against Israel. Ever,
I don't know why you'd announced that ahead of time,
so I doubt it makes me skeptical. But this everybody's
reporting this. Now Iran is pushing to halt the fighting
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and return to nuclear negotiations. They're saying, we want to
go back to negotiations.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's why you would announce you're about to launch the
biggest talk attack ever. Got gotcha? Yeah, yeah, we're serious.
Now let's have some meetings or something. We'll bring the food,
uh yeah Israel, to which Israel will say yeah, no,
and we're not going to dwelve. But as I said earlier,
October seventh, showed Israel the fruits of negotiating and living
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peacefully side by side with islamis suvado wipe them off
the map. Moving along, I thought this was interesting. A
plane crashed in it Oh, several stories about aviation back
to back to back. A plane crashed in India, and
everyone blamed the Boeing. But it's not so simple, writes
Joon O. Sarah for The Free Press. Essentially, he reached
out to a bunch of different aviation experts and said,
(12:24):
is this another Boeing screw up? And he could not
find a single one of them to say yes. They
all said, it's a great airplane and we need to
investigate because something weird happened. And they also made the
point that I tell you what, once you lose your reputation,
this is true for human beings too. Kids. Take it
from your old uncle Joe. Reputation takes lifetime to build
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in a minute to destroy. Once you've lost your reputation,
it is so hard to get it back. I certainly
hope for Boeing that's the case that it wasn't a
problem with the aircraft. It's an important American corporation. You
don't think of the company.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You can like clean house, get all new people, and
people you know will come back fairly quickly.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Not with airplanes. Just as the turnaround. It's not like,
you know, Judy and I had this sushi place so
you went to occasionally and just last couple of meals disappointed.
They went under new management, redecorated place is great now.
It's harder to turn around Boeing than a strip mall
sushi place. Anyway, moving along, this got almost no attention.
(13:28):
That happened last week Ukraine's F sixteen took down a
Russian fighter jet in a historic first. An F sixteen
fighter jet given a Ukraine reportedly shot down an advanced
Russian plane thanks to the assistance of a Swedish reconnaissance airplane,
probably down to Russian SU thirty five jet. These are
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the airplanes that Ukraine was begging for, and a number
of folks, including people we are close to, said, now,
there's no point in getting those to Ukraine. It would
take a year to train the pilots. Yeah. Well here
we are three and a half years later. Anyway, well done, Ukraine.
It's getting harder and priceier to fly with your pet.
(14:14):
Good make it impossible. You do not need to fly
with your pet. Wow, I was going to take a
much more conciliatory attitude about different people having different beliefs
and relationships. No, that sort of thing, No, says Jack.
Apparently it's much much more expensive. The rules are much
(14:35):
more strictly enforced, and sometimes you read the airplane on
the airplane, the airline rules online. You think okay, good
to go. Then you get to the airport and they say, yeah, no,
those rules are out of date. Here's what you need
to do, and you haven't done it. So you and
your dog get you can fly. Your dog can't turn
it loose in the terminal. Is there any facts we need. Yeah,
(14:59):
just it's more difficult and more expensive.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Well, it was more difficult. Apparently there was no barrier
whatsoever a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Right, yeah, yeah, bah blah blah bah. Let's see the
Transportation Department to banned emotional support animals in twenty twenty
one after a surge of incidents barking, biting, pooping. The
only animals allowed in the cabin how are service animals
with proper documentation, small pets and approof carriers that fit
under the seats, and they all have fine print. You
(15:29):
better read or they will turn you and your precious
pooch away and thank goodness for it. As a Lincoln file,
I was somewhat excited by this. A copy of the
thirteenth Amendment, like a copy at the time, A contemporary
copy is going on auction. They think it could fetch
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eight million dollars. The eighteen sixty three Proclamation originally signed
by Lincoln, issued during the Civil War and declared all
all enslaved people in the Confederate States would be set
free at the minimum is three million. They think he
could go for eight that's pretty cool. And then they
go into the history of this stuff. I wish I
(16:12):
had a little more time. But the copy of the
US Constitution sold a billionaire Ken Griffin for more than
forty three million dollars in twenty twenty one, and I
carry he bought it or the person who sold it.
Prior to that, it was like seven million or six million.
Interestingly enough, Lincoln stuff is crazy hot. Jefferson's stuff has
(16:36):
declined in value. Has its own market, Yeah, yeah, there
seems to be passion for it. Washington stuff is not
on the increase. It's just a stable market.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yesterday was the anniversary of two very very big deals.
We can tell you about that coming up. How much
damage has Israel done to fotoh, that big underground nuclear
facility that might be the thing that is going to
hold up this war ending You got the latest on
that also, so a bunch of stuff on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I hope you can stay here, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
As of this moment, there are no direct American strikes
against Iran, and that includes critically the deep underground nuclear
facilities they have under.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
A mountain at Ford, Oh.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
And you can't stop Aaron from going nuclear, which they
could do within a few months, unless you hit those.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Sides that's why Israel is so.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Set upon getting the Americans directly involved. As of right now,
President Trump has said.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I want no part of that. So i'd see in
Bremery is on CBS to news. Of course, the question
of the day is it do you pronounce it ford
oh or ford ou? I've noticed the problem. It's spelled differently.
Sometimes it's d o and sometimes it's DW. So if
it's d O, I'm going to pronounce it fodoh. Anyway,
Ian said fourd oh.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I'm going to go with him.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
So you got two big nuclear facilities, even though there
were others that were hit, but the two big ones.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And this is the whole deal, right, this is the
whole point of the war. Iran and the.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Rest of the free world, Israel and the rest of
the free world does not want the weird Beard Mullas
to have a freaking nuclear weapon, once again reiterating in
case you don't know, these are many, many, many, multiple
times more powerful than the stuff that we dropped on
Hiroshima or Nagasaki, like, not even close, not even in
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the same league, really, So it would be a very
big deal if Iran got one of those. And Israel
is vowed because it it's their survival to not let
them do it.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
But a couple of the centers they have like underground facilities.
So before we get to the Fordoh.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
The IAEA just came out and disputed Israel's claims that
they had destroyed the Natan's nuclear site ability to continue
to enricheranium. So Israel came out all over the weekend
and say we've we've done that one with so much
damage it's no longer functional.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
The I A e A says, no, that's not true.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We're monitoring all kinds of uh, you know, radiation and
all that sort of stuff, and from what we can
tell that there would be more radiation or be marred.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
All kinds of different stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I won't bog down in the many paragraphs, but there
would be more indication that you had destroyed it and
you haven't gotten to the underground. You got the top
part and there are electricities out and all kinds of stuff,
But their ability to enrich uranium underground still exists.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
So that's either true it's not. If it is true,
that's horrifying. I've got to admit I'm weirdly, darkly amused
by the IAEA, saying, in essence, now you need to
hit them some more.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Excellent point this from the dispatches reporting today. Israel attacks
on our ends nuclear sites have also have continued, but
there may be limits to the damage Jerusalem can inflict Israel.
Israeli forces reportedly struck Iran's four to doh nuclear side
overnight again, but satellite imagery showed only limited damage to
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the enrichment plant built into the side of a mountain.
The bad news is that there are still centrifuges enriching.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
As we speak. That is bad news.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
The bad news is that there's still a large highly
enriched uranium stockpile. The bad news is that Fodah, the
heavily fortified fuel enrichment plant under almost three hundred feet
of rock in central Ran, is still intact, says this
guy who's the senior director for the Foundation for the
Defensive Democracies about Iran's nuclear program. While the Israelis have
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been very militarily successful, there is still a lingerid question
mark over the counter proliferation operation that triggered this whole thing.
So if they're still actually spinning and enriching, and then
you got the whole stockpile that allowed them to build
weapons from anywhere from eight to fifty depending on who
you ask, would be plenty. That's a problem, I mean,
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the we're a long way from done.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
If that's the case, right, well, I wasn't sure how
to take out seriously, to take Netnyahu's statements that this
might take days or weeks, I thought, wow, weeks of
the stuff. But that speaks to that statement, right.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
So I have heard so many different experts with different ideas.
One expert's idea was, well, yeah, Israel hasn't gotten there yet,
but they're going to keep pounding that same site. They
don't have the one bunker buster bomb that you can
drop and get it done with one drop, but they
can continue to pound and pound and pound away and
eventually they will pound their way through. That makes sense
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just from a you know, if you've ever tried to
destroy anything standpoint, you could use one giant explosion ory
you can keep hitting it with a hammer like a
million times and maybe get through.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
But meanwhile, I'm sure the strategy involves we'll also destroy
the entrances and the roads leading up to it, and
the trucks that would carry the materials and the launch pads,
and the rocket factory, and the tire factory that supplies
the trucks, and you know, down the road, every possible
input they could identify.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So, uh, if Trump is committed to the idea that
Iran doesn't get a nuke, then at some point we're
gonna have to join in and help.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
And we'll see.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
As Trump we read this earlier, Trump told Atlantic Magazine, Hey,
America First, or whatever the MAGA movement is about. I
make those decisions. I'm the leader, so people can't scream
and yell that this isn't America First. I came up
with the term.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I'll define it, and my definition includes getting rid of
Iran's nuclear program, which I think was an interesting thing
for him to say. Yeah, I'm just thinking out loud here,
but in the same way that and we uh, Jack,
you described this beautifully. I think the first time Trump
was running that Trump isn't a racist, but he didn't
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want to run off what he perceived as kind of
the redneck, maybe racist Southern vote, and so he just
kind of soft pedaled any sort of criticism of that
sort of people, especially because the mainstream media was calling
absolutely everybody a racist. At that point for everything they did,
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and so I could absolutely picture Trump who's good at
building coalitions, convincing the restrictionist crowd, the isolationist crowd, whatever
you want to call. Yeah, I'm down with you. You
got a lot of good ideas over there is some
(23:52):
good points you're making. Mm hmmmm. Well, when you know
it comes time to uh, you know, the to get
down to brass tacks, he's down with the destruction of Florida,
for instance. Wouldn't surprise me a bit me ne either.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I'm sure we'll have more on that tomorrow and over
the next several weeks, maybe years. Anniversary of two very
important things yesterday, June fifteenth. First of all, my favorite
song of all time. It was the sixtieth anniversary of
Bob Dylan walking into a studio and recording Like the
Rolling Stones sixty years ago. That's my favorite song of
(24:30):
all time. Wow, excellent, good to have one. And if
you've seen the movie with a little Timothy Shallowy, they
spend a lot of time on that particular recording session
and it's.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Very cool, oh cool.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
More importantly, it was the anniversary yesterday the eight hundred
and ninth anniversary of the Magna carta. Its date of
birth is June fifteenth, twelve to fifteen, in which for
the first time for the least Kings of Inger said, Hey, King,
you're still king and everything, but we got to sign
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off on it first. He can't just do whatever the
hell you want, all right, right, so and he agreed.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The King agreed. Otherwise he'd have had his head cut
off or something. Go ahead. Once a pound of time,
the King WANs, and worth a dime. Congress s and
it's prime. They needed riots, didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
They look look at Joe combining like a rolling stone
with the birth poorly, very poorly, with the.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Birthday of the minda carta fantastic. That was art That
was really artistic.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
We've been playing Bill maher jokes throughout the morning, and
he his Friday night HBO show is what we're playing
the jokes from. He's got another show that I watched
regularly where he sits down in a basement and smokes
pot with various celebrities and has very very long conversations.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I love that show. It's very interesting. And he drinks
hard liquor too. He drinks whiskey and smokes spot and
I'm by the end.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Yeah, I must say I usually have to bail out
because he starts to get laughing at everything, and he
spaces out all the.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Time because he's I, well, were we just talking about?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I'll say anyway, But I've seen some really really good
conversations with comedians, actors, politicians, all kinds of different people.
He had Sean Penn on the other day, and I
haven't actually seen this, but he got angry at Sean
Penn because Sean ped came in and criticized the Bill
Maher for meeting with Trump, for sitting down with Trump,
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and Bill Martin said, I wish I could say the
word because it makes it better. You met with effing
Castro and Hugo Chavez. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, wow, I wonder where it went from there. I
know I might check it out. I might have to
tune in. Yeah, that crowd whatever, all right, good for you.
I know they just wear me out.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I do need to watch some highlights of the parade
if you if you haven't seen the on the military parade,
the Army Birthday parade, if you haven't seen the soldiers
marching with those robot dogs. I thought that was freaking
cool and frightening because we ain't the only people that
are gonna have robot dogs.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Wow wow, Yeah, yeah, I wish i'd seen it. I
actually it was a busy day Saturday, and I flipped
on the TV a couple of times when I had
a free moment to see if there was any coverage
of it, and I really didn't get any. I'm sure
they did on Fox.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I was talking to my dad last night for Father's
Danny said they watched the whole thing beginning to end,
and I found it very, very enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, yeah, I'll bet it's available somewhere to watch again.
But yeah, the more I hear about it, the more
I think it was everything we were hoping it would be,
and really nothing of what everybody on the left, particularly
said it would be an Unamerican North Korea style blah
blah blah. Actually some people on the right said that too,
(27:46):
Come to think of it, you only used to get
juiced in it. We we'll finish strong next. I have
not been invited.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
The only reason I would not accept an invitation is
because I see I see.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
So it's a long flight and I see no.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Really you meet with I don't castro into gushia Vez,
but not the president of the United States.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Yeah, I saw good results come out of some of
those things. In terms of generalize that I had, I
don't think that there's anything that that I would I
just personally wouldn't trust anything that was said in the room.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Personality. It's not a it's a it's not a matter
of matter of trusting it. It's a better of seeing it,
matter of experiencing, matter of knowing it.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
More.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
No, it's like saying I don't want this UH medical
test because.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You know I don't want to know. I want to know.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
That's Bill Maher talking to Sean Penn, high and drunk
in the basement of his UH shack that he has
behind his house.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Wow, these people are so.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Self reverential of themselves in a way that the rest
of the world doesn't get. Sean Penn, I, of course
I met with Hugo Chavez because I feel like I
accomplished a lot.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You didn't accomplish anything.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
He doesn't care what you think, Sean Penn, And I
don't know if i'd accomplish anything with Trump. You feel
like you could meet with a different present and accomplish
something because you're Shawn pen.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Man, what are you talking about? Yeah, that was reasonably
bright guy trying desperately to find an argument and being unsuccessful.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You think these communist leaders meet with you because they
want to hear your valuable input on things, and it
isn't just because it helps give them some legitimacy that
a giant movie star.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Is meeting with them I would have dropped everything and
paid all expenses to meet with Joe Biden. Of me too.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
If somebody said I could get you a dinner with
a bu you and three other people and the president
name a president, I'm going are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, that's a well, it's Trump de arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It's also over and over inflating the fact that he
thinks he has a hand in major policies around the
world because he's Shawn ben or something.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah. Yeah, how odd? Huh? So touched on this briefly.
Did you want to talk about this survivor of the
Air India crash because I'm reading more from aviation experts
and they are virtually all saying pilot error on the
plane crash.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, they said the good news though, right, isn't that
good news? It's better than mechanicalry. You can do something
about pilot error. Get better pilots.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Well, hang on now, My next sentence was going to
be the The consensus was that the majority of accidents
are either pilot error or maintenance error. According to airline
consultantslet's forums, which are not necessarily going to be correct
because sometimes, you know, people bark up the wrong tree.
(31:06):
But in pilot's forums they point out that the seven
thirty seven Max that was the Boeing plane that had
so many problems a number of years ago. Unlike that plane,
the Dreamliners tried and true, any tendency toward mechanical failure
would have emerged years and years ago. It is a
great trusted aircraft and pilots know it. So why do
(31:33):
most airline professionals believe it was pilot error? Mainly because
the videos showed a series of things that didn't make
sense to them. First, the flaps on the wings were up,
a huge mistake. The upposition pushes the plane down to
use during landings. Second, the landing gear was never attracted.
That's something pilot usually takes care of the moment the
plane leaves the ground. Anybody who's ever flown knows that.
(31:54):
I mean, you're barely off their ground and you hear
the clunk clunk on a form used by professional pilots.
I saw these two observations again and again, writes this
journalist in a thread, Gear down, flap up. And then
this retired pilot who flew for Delta for years and years,
found the flat mistake extremely puzzling, to say the least.
(32:15):
Quote At Delta, the rule is that you don't even
begin taxinging to the runway until both the pilot and
co pilot have physically looked at the flaps. They turn
and look out the window to make sure the flaps
are in the right position. It's almost fail proof, and
several people speculating that perhaps the pilot in Air India
veterans somehow hit the flap control instead of the landing
(32:36):
gear control and was he drunk or stupid or poorly trained,
or what's the deal or all of the above. I
don't know. The other factor was one hundred and seven
degrees that day, the flight was full passenger's luggage and fuel.
Another experts said if the crew didn't factor in the
high temperature to set the correct engine thrust to account
for the plane's weight, the engines might not have generated
(32:57):
enough power to keep the plane airborne after lift off.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I just I think that that guy who survived in
C eleven e he should already have an agent so
he can become a motivational speaker or a religious figure,
or get on dancing with the stars, or something all
of the above.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Are you kidding? Who watch final thoughts? Who watch final thoughts?
Go have some final thoughts. Hooray, here's your host final thoughts.
Joe Getty quick on here meeting Michael the opening clip
of the show. That's gonna be my final sock. Let's
get a final thought for everybody on the cow to
wrap up the show for the day. There he is, Michael.
(33:32):
Line is a little pressing the button switching final thought Michael, Oh.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Yeah, just I always get an amusement when movie stars
think they made a difference. That's like me writing to
Donald Trump and he's saying, I want you to close
the border, and then he does. You know, a couple
months later, I say he did it because of my letter.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
That's a good one, kidding. Katie Greener esteemed to us
woman as a final thought.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Katie, I like what you guys were saying earlier along
the lines of wow, so much has changed and I
feel so different today after the no Kings protests.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Right, yeah, what now? Who cares? Jack?
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Final thought for us fans of competitive eating like me
are rejoicing as Joey Chestnut, friend of the Armstrong in
Geddy Show, the World's Greatest Eater, will be returning to
Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest on fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
They worked out their differences. He didn't get to go
last year, he will be there this year. Fabulous, and
I'm giving my final thoughts to Douglas Murray.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
Every single country, including this one, will condemn Israel, and
they will go back to their homes and they will
say in private, thank God for Israel. The Saudis, the Barralis,
the Egyptians, the Libyans, the Lebanese, everybody will say thank
God they did it because nobody else would true that.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Armstrong and Geddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
So many people think so little time. Go to Armstrong
Geddy dot com all sorts, great clicks there. We'll see
you then. God bless America. I'm strong and getty. What
do we want to be? Losers? Or winners. I want winners.
We smell like winning around here. I think your star
spangled Washington.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
They are the true hero, greatest dynasty ever and everyone
knows it.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
So let's go out with a bang Selma Hayak for
the win. There, that would be Friedrich Hayek hm wrong,
hyak right, very different
Speaker 7 (35:24):
And on that possibly nightmare inducing Why Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Ketty, Armstrong and Getty
and He Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
President Donald Trump is currently meeting with the leaders of
the G seven all our allies about the Middle East
and where things are there. Benjamin Yet not meant, the
guy who is currently Prime Minister of Israel, said that
Trump is a Rand's number one enemy, which.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Might be true. Certainly if Trump gave.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
The go ahead or gives the go ahead, that could
destroy Iran, and if it had been a different president,
not so much.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Probably, what do you think there's strategy is in making
that statement. It's for somebody, I don't know that to
discredit any turn toward regime change. If the US even
winks in that direction, I mean, surely they're not trying.
Maybe the Mullas think if they can provoke Trump into
(01:17):
actively joining the attack. Mike Lyons our friend suggested it
was almost an aside, but he said it will take
B two bombers and bunker busters to really take out
the four to huh nuclear enrichment site, and he expects
that to happen. Is it trying to provoke Trump into
(01:38):
doing something so the Arab world rises up a good look,
it's Satan. Good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
That's a poor plan, Yeah, agreed Benjamin Netanyah, who is
the current Prime Minister of Israel. And he sat down
with Brett Bear of Fox on a Sunday yesterday afternoon,
and I said this, which I always raised both my
eyebrows high up on my forehead.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Do you have intel that the assassination attempts on present
Trump worked directly from.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Iran through proxies. Yes, through their intel. Yes, they want
to kill and look is enemy number one. He's a
decisive leader. He never took the path that others took
to try to bargain with him in a way that
is weak, giving them, giving them basically a pathway to
a rich uranium, which means a pathway to the bomb,
(02:21):
patting it with billions and billions of dollars. He took
up this fake agreement and basically tore it up. He
killed the cossom Suleimany he said, made it.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
There was the part before the beginning.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
There that was the important part there in that Brett
Behar asked BB nettan Yahoo about Iran's attitude toward the
United States and everything, and Benjamin Netanyahu listed off a
bunch of things, including saying, they tried to assassinate Donald
Trump twice. They've been firing, you know, aiding the hoho
(02:53):
thi's and then Brett Baer said, you have information that
Iran was behind the two assassination attempts, and then bb
kind of fudged on the next part where he says
they they announced that they wanted him dead. Yes, okay, no, no, no,
you just listed in the list of things that they've
done that they tried to kill Trump twice.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, and then yeah, speaking of fudging, I think I
hear what you're driving at, because Brett wasn't specific about
the two actual assassination attempts in his follow up question, right,
but there were Iranian plots to assassinate absolutely, and I
(03:37):
think Boebe was referring to those and didn't hate it
a bit. Man, We don't have the kind that sounded
like he also meant the geek on the roof and
the guy crouching in the bushes, We don't know fun.
I don't think he was just insinuating. I think he
flat out stated it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We don't have that part of the clip, but him
just saying they tried to kill Trump twice. I think
he absolutely wanted that to land with people thinking that
Iran was.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Behind those two assassination attempts, which is just not true.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So does would be another one of those examples of
I'm on your side. Don't exaggerate things because it allows
people on the other side to knock down everything else.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, don't gild the lily, as they say, don't try
to make something strong so perfect that you've ruined it. Yeah.
Just yeah, you can say there were plots behind the
scenes to kill Trump. They were absolutely involved in those.
The guy on the roof, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I thought this was very interesting to the whole We
talk about this all time, although obviously I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Sorry Phoebe is clearly trying any way he can to
whip Trump up against Iran if he can't.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Sure article in Politico, this guy Matthias Dupner, who I
don't know, called on the West to exercise moral clarity
amid the unfolding war between Israel and Iran, saying when
a society can no longer distinguish between good and evil,
between victim and perpetrator, it gives up. He wrote, this
(05:04):
dynamic is one of the great constants of human history.
It's a lesson people in free societies and people intotalitarian
societies who yearn to be free should keep in mind
during the climatic showdown, climactic showdown between underway in the
Middle East right now, blah blah blah. It's also a
central front and a global contest in which the forces
(05:26):
of tyranny and violence in recent years have been gaining
ground against the forces of freedom, which too often are
demoralized and divided. He's talking about the whole oppress or
oppressed thing, where people in free societies jump on the
side of the oppressed, no matter how evil they are,
and are critical of the side of freedom for no
(05:48):
good reason other than this weird belief that whoever's got
the power must be bad and whoever's weaker must be good.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, he goes on, philosophy unspeakably idiotic.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
He goes on, and I thought this was good. Consider
the regime that Israel is fighting in Iran. Women are
systematically oppressed and abused, homosexuals are murdered, those who think
differently are imprisoned and tortured. If the perpetrator victim reversal
that has been repeatedly observed since October seventh applies even
in the most obvious case here with Iran. Then this
(06:24):
can only be interpreted to mean that we are in
the process of losing the world culture war, which in
reality has long since become a war of civilizations. I
don't think that overstates it at all. This is a
worldwide culture war, therefore a world a war of civilizations.
And we're divided, and that we have, you know, college
(06:45):
campuses full of people who think we're the bad guys,
and Iran's the you'll pressed.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Right, that's so nuts. Yeah, it is, It absolutely is.
That's why I'm so adamant about this stuff. A it's
utter stupidity and be how important it all is the
whole Now we're fine, or a superpower will always be fine.
Oh my god, that's how superpowers go away. There are
evil doers of all sorts of descriptions plotting our demise
(07:14):
and actively pursuing it as we speak, always have been,
always will be the naive comfort of some of these
so called woke right thinking that that if we withdraw
from prosecuting the case for democracy, and I'm not talking
about some sort of you know, trying to install a
(07:34):
Jeffersonian democracy in Iraq. I'm talking about just defending the
Western world, the free world. If we stop that for
a minute, they think it'll lead to a peaceful, prosperous
you mind your business, will mind our business. Wow? Wow, Okay.
For the first time in human history.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
And Ran paul On I think it was Meet the
Press yesterday saying this was an this is an unjust war.
Preemptive or preventive wars are unjust wars, which is crazy.
You're gonna let your opponent who's been vowing to kill
you get the worst weapon men have ever developed.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
At which point you can't stop them short of a
nuclear holocaust. Right, that's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I can't believe anybody so smart can have that point
of view, but lots of you do.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That's nuts to me. It reminds me of the horrors
of in Afghanistan, are you know, marines and infantry men
special forces were told, hey, you can't like preemptively attack,
you gotta wait till the barrels of their guns are
pointing right at you. That's your new rules of engagement. Horrifying.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Before we take a break and move on to something else.
Do you think Iran gets the bomb?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, that's interesting. I was just reading Mark Alprin's piece
and he stated his reading of Trump and people who
know Trump and are reporting to him behind scenes conversations
is one thing Trump is adamant about. This isn't like
tariffs or something like that. He's adamant about. He is
(09:19):
not going to allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon
right right, and won't budge on that. So at some
point maybe we are, like you were talking about Mike
Lions on our show Hour two, get the podcast Armstrong
and Getting on Demand, believes we will be helping with
our bunker busters take out fourdoh, that last, hopefully last nuclear.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Site buried under a mountain. My favorite detail is that
they have no long corridors. They're built at right angles
at least to contain a blast energy. That's how cautious
they are about being blasted out of existence.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I have a report on how far along that project
is gone from satellite imagery, but we can get.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
To that a little bit later. We've got other stuff
to talk about too. In the mood for a jarringly
idiotic transition, now, we're next right now.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Okay, let me get my feet at shoulder with Okay,
I'm on the ball. You'll get ready to go to
break mom the balls my feet, I'm bouncing. I'm ready
to go.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Good enough. Nuclear holocaust talk Jack coming up next. It's
getting pricier to fly with your pet. Oh my god,
oh my god.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Okay, that stupidity and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Welcome to La where something is always on fire. Yes,
we've had a little unrest. Here's how super dangerous this
situation is. Within the area where it's happening, a little
curfew area a few blocks the La Opera is located.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And they're still going on.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Rigoletto is still playing there. So little tip if you're
planning on lou where it took Seda. This is this
is such a minor crisis. Mayor Best didn't even leave town.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And the crowd, the LA crowd laughing at that. Uh yeah,
two breaking news things. Don't have to dwell on them
because Joe has other stuff. Uh Iran has just announced
they're they're about to launch the biggest attack against Israel. Ever,
I don't know why you'd announced that ahead of time,
so I doubt it makes me skeptical. But this everybody's
reporting this. Now Iran is pushing to halt the fighting
(11:33):
and return to nuclear negotiations. They're saying, we want to
go back to negotiations.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's why you would announce you're about to launch the
biggest talk attack ever. Got gotcha? Yeah, yeah, we're serious.
Now let's have some meetings or something. We'll bring the food,
uh yeah Israel, to which Israel will say yeah, no,
and we're not going to dwelve. But as I said earlier,
October seventh, showed Israel the fruits of negotiating and living
(12:00):
peacefully side by side with islamis suvado wipe them off
the map. Moving along, I thought this was interesting. A
plane crashed in it Oh, several stories about aviation back
to back to back. A plane crashed in India, and
everyone blamed the Boeing. But it's not so simple, writes
Joon O. Sarah for The Free Press. Essentially, he reached
out to a bunch of different aviation experts and said,
(12:24):
is this another Boeing screw up? And he could not
find a single one of them to say yes. They
all said, it's a great airplane and we need to
investigate because something weird happened. And they also made the
point that I tell you what, once you lose your reputation,
this is true for human beings too. Kids. Take it
from your old uncle Joe. Reputation takes lifetime to build
(12:45):
in a minute to destroy. Once you've lost your reputation,
it is so hard to get it back. I certainly
hope for Boeing that's the case that it wasn't a
problem with the aircraft. It's an important American corporation. You
don't think of the company.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You can like clean house, get all new people, and
people you know will come back fairly quickly.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Not with airplanes. Just as the turnaround. It's not like,
you know, Judy and I had this sushi place so
you went to occasionally and just last couple of meals disappointed.
They went under new management, redecorated place is great now.
It's harder to turn around Boeing than a strip mall
sushi place. Anyway, moving along, this got almost no attention.
(13:28):
That happened last week Ukraine's F sixteen took down a
Russian fighter jet in a historic first. An F sixteen
fighter jet given a Ukraine reportedly shot down an advanced
Russian plane thanks to the assistance of a Swedish reconnaissance airplane,
probably down to Russian SU thirty five jet. These are
(13:53):
the airplanes that Ukraine was begging for, and a number
of folks, including people we are close to, said, now,
there's no point in getting those to Ukraine. It would
take a year to train the pilots. Yeah. Well here
we are three and a half years later. Anyway, well done, Ukraine.
It's getting harder and priceier to fly with your pet.
(14:14):
Good make it impossible. You do not need to fly
with your pet. Wow, I was going to take a
much more conciliatory attitude about different people having different beliefs
and relationships. No, that sort of thing, No, says Jack.
Apparently it's much much more expensive. The rules are much
(14:35):
more strictly enforced, and sometimes you read the airplane on
the airplane, the airline rules online. You think okay, good
to go. Then you get to the airport and they say, yeah, no,
those rules are out of date. Here's what you need
to do, and you haven't done it. So you and
your dog get you can fly. Your dog can't turn
it loose in the terminal. Is there any facts we need. Yeah,
(14:59):
just it's more difficult and more expensive.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Well, it was more difficult. Apparently there was no barrier
whatsoever a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Right, yeah, yeah, bah blah blah bah. Let's see the
Transportation Department to banned emotional support animals in twenty twenty
one after a surge of incidents barking, biting, pooping. The
only animals allowed in the cabin how are service animals
with proper documentation, small pets and approof carriers that fit
under the seats, and they all have fine print. You
(15:29):
better read or they will turn you and your precious
pooch away and thank goodness for it. As a Lincoln file,
I was somewhat excited by this. A copy of the
thirteenth Amendment, like a copy at the time, A contemporary
copy is going on auction. They think it could fetch
(15:50):
eight million dollars. The eighteen sixty three Proclamation originally signed
by Lincoln, issued during the Civil War and declared all
all enslaved people in the Confederate States would be set
free at the minimum is three million. They think he
could go for eight that's pretty cool. And then they
go into the history of this stuff. I wish I
(16:12):
had a little more time. But the copy of the
US Constitution sold a billionaire Ken Griffin for more than
forty three million dollars in twenty twenty one, and I
carry he bought it or the person who sold it.
Prior to that, it was like seven million or six million.
Interestingly enough, Lincoln stuff is crazy hot. Jefferson's stuff has
(16:36):
declined in value. Has its own market, Yeah, yeah, there
seems to be passion for it. Washington stuff is not
on the increase. It's just a stable market.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yesterday was the anniversary of two very very big deals.
We can tell you about that coming up. How much
damage has Israel done to fotoh, that big underground nuclear
facility that might be the thing that is going to
hold up this war ending You got the latest on
that also, so a bunch of stuff on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I hope you can stay here, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
As of this moment, there are no direct American strikes
against Iran, and that includes critically the deep underground nuclear
facilities they have under.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
A mountain at Ford, Oh.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
And you can't stop Aaron from going nuclear, which they
could do within a few months, unless you hit those.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Sides that's why Israel is so.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Set upon getting the Americans directly involved. As of right now,
President Trump has said.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I want no part of that. So i'd see in
Bremery is on CBS to news. Of course, the question
of the day is it do you pronounce it ford
oh or ford ou? I've noticed the problem. It's spelled differently.
Sometimes it's d o and sometimes it's DW. So if
it's d O, I'm going to pronounce it fodoh. Anyway,
Ian said fourd oh.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I'm going to go with him.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
So you got two big nuclear facilities, even though there
were others that were hit, but the two big ones.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And this is the whole deal, right, this is the
whole point of the war. Iran and the.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Rest of the free world, Israel and the rest of
the free world does not want the weird Beard Mullas
to have a freaking nuclear weapon, once again reiterating in
case you don't know, these are many, many, many, multiple
times more powerful than the stuff that we dropped on
Hiroshima or Nagasaki, like, not even close, not even in
(18:30):
the same league, really, So it would be a very
big deal if Iran got one of those. And Israel
is vowed because it it's their survival to not let
them do it.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
But a couple of the centers they have like underground facilities.
So before we get to the Fordoh.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
The IAEA just came out and disputed Israel's claims that
they had destroyed the Natan's nuclear site ability to continue
to enricheranium. So Israel came out all over the weekend
and say we've we've done that one with so much
damage it's no longer functional.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
The I A e A says, no, that's not true.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We're monitoring all kinds of uh, you know, radiation and
all that sort of stuff, and from what we can
tell that there would be more radiation or be marred.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
All kinds of different stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I won't bog down in the many paragraphs, but there
would be more indication that you had destroyed it and
you haven't gotten to the underground. You got the top
part and there are electricities out and all kinds of stuff,
But their ability to enrich uranium underground still exists.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
So that's either true it's not. If it is true,
that's horrifying. I've got to admit I'm weirdly, darkly amused
by the IAEA, saying, in essence, now you need to
hit them some more.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Excellent point this from the dispatches reporting today. Israel attacks
on our ends nuclear sites have also have continued, but
there may be limits to the damage Jerusalem can inflict Israel.
Israeli forces reportedly struck Iran's four to doh nuclear side
overnight again, but satellite imagery showed only limited damage to
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the enrichment plant built into the side of a mountain.
The bad news is that there are still centrifuges enriching.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
As we speak. That is bad news.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
The bad news is that there's still a large highly
enriched uranium stockpile. The bad news is that Fodah, the
heavily fortified fuel enrichment plant under almost three hundred feet
of rock in central Ran, is still intact, says this
guy who's the senior director for the Foundation for the
Defensive Democracies about Iran's nuclear program. While the Israelis have
(20:39):
been very militarily successful, there is still a lingerid question
mark over the counter proliferation operation that triggered this whole thing.
So if they're still actually spinning and enriching, and then
you got the whole stockpile that allowed them to build
weapons from anywhere from eight to fifty depending on who
you ask, would be plenty. That's a problem, I mean,
(21:02):
the we're a long way from done.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
If that's the case, right, well, I wasn't sure how
to take out seriously, to take Netnyahu's statements that this
might take days or weeks, I thought, wow, weeks of
the stuff. But that speaks to that statement, right.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
So I have heard so many different experts with different ideas.
One expert's idea was, well, yeah, Israel hasn't gotten there yet,
but they're going to keep pounding that same site. They
don't have the one bunker buster bomb that you can
drop and get it done with one drop, but they
can continue to pound and pound and pound away and
eventually they will pound their way through. That makes sense
(21:45):
just from a you know, if you've ever tried to
destroy anything standpoint, you could use one giant explosion ory
you can keep hitting it with a hammer like a
million times and maybe get through.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
But meanwhile, I'm sure the strategy involves we'll also destroy
the entrances and the roads leading up to it, and
the trucks that would carry the materials and the launch pads,
and the rocket factory, and the tire factory that supplies
the trucks, and you know, down the road, every possible
input they could identify.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So, uh, if Trump is committed to the idea that
Iran doesn't get a nuke, then at some point we're
gonna have to join in and help.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
And we'll see.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
As Trump we read this earlier, Trump told Atlantic Magazine, Hey,
America First, or whatever the MAGA movement is about. I
make those decisions. I'm the leader, so people can't scream
and yell that this isn't America First. I came up
with the term.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I'll define it, and my definition includes getting rid of
Iran's nuclear program, which I think was an interesting thing
for him to say. Yeah, I'm just thinking out loud here,
but in the same way that and we uh, Jack,
you described this beautifully. I think the first time Trump
was running that Trump isn't a racist, but he didn't
(23:09):
want to run off what he perceived as kind of
the redneck, maybe racist Southern vote, and so he just
kind of soft pedaled any sort of criticism of that
sort of people, especially because the mainstream media was calling
absolutely everybody a racist. At that point for everything they did,
(23:30):
and so I could absolutely picture Trump who's good at
building coalitions, convincing the restrictionist crowd, the isolationist crowd, whatever
you want to call. Yeah, I'm down with you. You
got a lot of good ideas over there is some
(23:52):
good points you're making. Mm hmmmm. Well, when you know
it comes time to uh, you know, the to get
down to brass tacks, he's down with the destruction of Florida,
for instance. Wouldn't surprise me a bit me ne either.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I'm sure we'll have more on that tomorrow and over
the next several weeks, maybe years. Anniversary of two very
important things yesterday, June fifteenth. First of all, my favorite
song of all time. It was the sixtieth anniversary of
Bob Dylan walking into a studio and recording Like the
Rolling Stones sixty years ago. That's my favorite song of
(24:30):
all time. Wow, excellent, good to have one. And if
you've seen the movie with a little Timothy Shallowy, they
spend a lot of time on that particular recording session
and it's.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Very cool, oh cool.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
More importantly, it was the anniversary yesterday the eight hundred
and ninth anniversary of the Magna carta. Its date of
birth is June fifteenth, twelve to fifteen, in which for
the first time for the least Kings of Inger said, Hey, King,
you're still king and everything, but we got to sign
(25:05):
off on it first. He can't just do whatever the
hell you want, all right, right, so and he agreed.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The King agreed. Otherwise he'd have had his head cut
off or something. Go ahead. Once a pound of time,
the King WANs, and worth a dime. Congress s and
it's prime. They needed riots, didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
They look look at Joe combining like a rolling stone
with the birth poorly, very poorly, with the.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Birthday of the minda carta fantastic. That was art That
was really artistic.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
We've been playing Bill maher jokes throughout the morning, and
he his Friday night HBO show is what we're playing
the jokes from. He's got another show that I watched
regularly where he sits down in a basement and smokes
pot with various celebrities and has very very long conversations.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I love that show. It's very interesting. And he drinks
hard liquor too. He drinks whiskey and smokes spot and
I'm by the end.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Yeah, I must say I usually have to bail out
because he starts to get laughing at everything, and he
spaces out all the.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Time because he's I, well, were we just talking about?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I'll say anyway, But I've seen some really really good
conversations with comedians, actors, politicians, all kinds of different people.
He had Sean Penn on the other day, and I
haven't actually seen this, but he got angry at Sean
Penn because Sean ped came in and criticized the Bill
Maher for meeting with Trump, for sitting down with Trump,
(26:21):
and Bill Martin said, I wish I could say the
word because it makes it better. You met with effing
Castro and Hugo Chavez. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, wow, I wonder where it went from there. I
know I might check it out. I might have to
tune in. Yeah, that crowd whatever, all right, good for you.
I know they just wear me out.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I do need to watch some highlights of the parade
if you if you haven't seen the on the military parade,
the Army Birthday parade, if you haven't seen the soldiers
marching with those robot dogs. I thought that was freaking
cool and frightening because we ain't the only people that
are gonna have robot dogs.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Wow wow, Yeah, yeah, I wish i'd seen it. I
actually it was a busy day Saturday, and I flipped
on the TV a couple of times when I had
a free moment to see if there was any coverage
of it, and I really didn't get any. I'm sure
they did on Fox.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I was talking to my dad last night for Father's
Danny said they watched the whole thing beginning to end,
and I found it very, very enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, yeah, I'll bet it's available somewhere to watch again.
But yeah, the more I hear about it, the more
I think it was everything we were hoping it would be,
and really nothing of what everybody on the left, particularly
said it would be an Unamerican North Korea style blah
blah blah. Actually some people on the right said that too,
(27:46):
Come to think of it, you only used to get
juiced in it. We we'll finish strong next. I have
not been invited.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
The only reason I would not accept an invitation is
because I see I see.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
So it's a long flight and I see no.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Really you meet with I don't castro into gushia Vez,
but not the president of the United States.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Yeah, I saw good results come out of some of
those things. In terms of generalize that I had, I
don't think that there's anything that that I would I
just personally wouldn't trust anything that was said in the room.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Personality. It's not a it's a it's not a matter
of matter of trusting it. It's a better of seeing it,
matter of experiencing, matter of knowing it.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
More.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
No, it's like saying I don't want this UH medical
test because.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You know I don't want to know. I want to know.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
That's Bill Maher talking to Sean Penn, high and drunk
in the basement of his UH shack that he has
behind his house.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Wow, these people are so.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Self reverential of themselves in a way that the rest
of the world doesn't get. Sean Penn, I, of course
I met with Hugo Chavez because I feel like I
accomplished a lot.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You didn't accomplish anything.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
He doesn't care what you think, Sean Penn, And I
don't know if i'd accomplish anything with Trump. You feel
like you could meet with a different present and accomplish
something because you're Shawn pen.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Man, what are you talking about? Yeah, that was reasonably
bright guy trying desperately to find an argument and being unsuccessful.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You think these communist leaders meet with you because they
want to hear your valuable input on things, and it
isn't just because it helps give them some legitimacy that
a giant movie star.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Is meeting with them I would have dropped everything and
paid all expenses to meet with Joe Biden. Of me too.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
If somebody said I could get you a dinner with
a bu you and three other people and the president
name a president, I'm going are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, that's a well, it's Trump de arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It's also over and over inflating the fact that he
thinks he has a hand in major policies around the
world because he's Shawn ben or something.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah. Yeah, how odd? Huh? So touched on this briefly.
Did you want to talk about this survivor of the
Air India crash because I'm reading more from aviation experts
and they are virtually all saying pilot error on the
plane crash.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, they said the good news though, right, isn't that
good news? It's better than mechanicalry. You can do something
about pilot error. Get better pilots.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Well, hang on now, My next sentence was going to
be the The consensus was that the majority of accidents
are either pilot error or maintenance error. According to airline
consultantslet's forums, which are not necessarily going to be correct
because sometimes, you know, people bark up the wrong tree.
(31:06):
But in pilot's forums they point out that the seven
thirty seven Max that was the Boeing plane that had
so many problems a number of years ago. Unlike that plane,
the Dreamliners tried and true, any tendency toward mechanical failure
would have emerged years and years ago. It is a
great trusted aircraft and pilots know it. So why do
(31:33):
most airline professionals believe it was pilot error? Mainly because
the videos showed a series of things that didn't make
sense to them. First, the flaps on the wings were up,
a huge mistake. The upposition pushes the plane down to
use during landings. Second, the landing gear was never attracted.
That's something pilot usually takes care of the moment the
plane leaves the ground. Anybody who's ever flown knows that.
(31:54):
I mean, you're barely off their ground and you hear
the clunk clunk on a form used by professional pilots.
I saw these two observations again and again, writes this
journalist in a thread, Gear down, flap up. And then
this retired pilot who flew for Delta for years and years,
found the flat mistake extremely puzzling, to say the least.
(32:15):
Quote At Delta, the rule is that you don't even
begin taxinging to the runway until both the pilot and
co pilot have physically looked at the flaps. They turn
and look out the window to make sure the flaps
are in the right position. It's almost fail proof, and
several people speculating that perhaps the pilot in Air India
veterans somehow hit the flap control instead of the landing
(32:36):
gear control and was he drunk or stupid or poorly trained,
or what's the deal or all of the above. I
don't know. The other factor was one hundred and seven
degrees that day, the flight was full passenger's luggage and fuel.
Another experts said if the crew didn't factor in the
high temperature to set the correct engine thrust to account
for the plane's weight, the engines might not have generated
(32:57):
enough power to keep the plane airborne after lift off.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I just I think that that guy who survived in
C eleven e he should already have an agent so
he can become a motivational speaker or a religious figure,
or get on dancing with the stars, or something all
of the above.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Are you kidding? Who watch final thoughts? Who watch final thoughts?
Go have some final thoughts. Hooray, here's your host final thoughts.
Joe Getty quick on here meeting Michael the opening clip
of the show. That's gonna be my final sock. Let's
get a final thought for everybody on the cow to
wrap up the show for the day. There he is, Michael.
(33:32):
Line is a little pressing the button switching final thought Michael, Oh.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Yeah, just I always get an amusement when movie stars
think they made a difference. That's like me writing to
Donald Trump and he's saying, I want you to close
the border, and then he does. You know, a couple
months later, I say he did it because of my letter.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
That's a good one, kidding. Katie Greener esteemed to us
woman as a final thought.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Katie, I like what you guys were saying earlier along
the lines of wow, so much has changed and I
feel so different today after the no Kings protests.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Right, yeah, what now? Who cares? Jack?
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Final thought for us fans of competitive eating like me
are rejoicing as Joey Chestnut, friend of the Armstrong in
Geddy Show, the World's Greatest Eater, will be returning to
Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest on fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
They worked out their differences. He didn't get to go
last year, he will be there this year. Fabulous, and
I'm giving my final thoughts to Douglas Murray.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
Every single country, including this one, will condemn Israel, and
they will go back to their homes and they will
say in private, thank God for Israel. The Saudis, the Barralis,
the Egyptians, the Libyans, the Lebanese, everybody will say thank
God they did it because nobody else would true that.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Armstrong and Geddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
So many people think so little time. Go to Armstrong
Geddy dot com all sorts, great clicks there. We'll see
you then. God bless America. I'm strong and getty. What
do we want to be? Losers? Or winners. I want winners.
We smell like winning around here. I think your star
spangled Washington.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
They are the true hero, greatest dynasty ever and everyone
knows it.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
So let's go out with a bang Selma Hayak for
the win. There, that would be Friedrich Hayek hm wrong,
hyak right, very different
Speaker 7 (35:24):
And on that possibly nightmare inducing Why Armstrong and Getty
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