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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 4: Families complained about Nevada's behavior on the field and his mom's behavior on the sidelines. So what did the youth soccer director do? He called 911.
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Speaker 5: There's a parent here just really... really disruptive.
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Speaker 3: Nevada's mom tells a different story.
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Speaker 5: They literally kicking him out of this way because he's good at soccer.
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Speaker 4: Nevada's mom told CBS News that coach told Nevada he could stay in if he passed the ball. But about halfway through the game, he got the cops involved. So the cops got.
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Speaker 6: Called on the three-year-old who was not passing the ball in soccer, who was really good and kept scoring goals.
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Speaker 3: And his mom is disruptive mom or something. Look, before you get into people are angry at us, and no, I didn't spend a lot of time doing your research, researching this stupid story.
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Speaker 6: I did no research other than these texts I got.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 6: There was an enormous leap there. How did we go from A to B? Why were the specifically the cops were called for what reason? What did the people say online? Why did the police show up? All that's left out of the story.
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Speaker 5: True.
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Speaker 6: The news coverage is horrible there. Well, you know why they did it that way. They wanted people to click on a story of outrage. If you put in all the details, sometimes the outrage gets less.
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Speaker 3: And race.
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Speaker 6: Which might be after I read the text. But here's a little audio of the actual mom and cop, I guess.
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Speaker 7: I guess one of the coaches advised that they don't want you guys here anymore, okay?
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Speaker 3: If you guys don't mind leaving. What is the real reason that he called the police?
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Speaker 7: So I guess he's just calling because I guess he believes that you guys were causing a disturbance that was interfering with the game play.
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Speaker 3: They're mad at my son because he actually plays soccer. So I'm a little confused and I'm a little, like, baffled because I signed my kid up for soccer.
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Speaker 5: So they're literally kicking him out of this place because he's.
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Speaker 4: Good at soccer.
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Speaker 6: So her three-year-old must be a really good soccer player because he's playing in the five-year-old league and dominating.
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Speaker 5: Three is really young.
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Speaker 6: You're practically a prodigy just for your ability to run up and down the field. Well, or like be able to tell a three year old, I want you to run to the end of the field and back and have them do it and not go like 10 feet and get distracted and walk off.
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Speaker 3: Start picking flowers. So am I allowed to guess at what I think happened or would you rather do what you have first?
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Speaker 5: Go ahead and guess.
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Speaker 6: And then I'm going to read this text that I don't know if it's accurate or not, because I've spent zero time looking into this and I'm not going to.
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Speaker 3: So I'm guessing the three year old who, again, miraculously was just dominating the game. I mean, he was just running up and down the field with the ball and kicking it in the goal over and over again. The coach was like, all right, we got to take him out because nobody else is playing. Nothing else is happening. And the mom was pissed off because her son was benched, quote unquote, for being better than everybody else at soccer. And she and the coach had what I suspected was a loud and animated disagreement during the game. And the coach said, you got to go. And she said, I won't go. I would guess having coached many, many games and dealt with many, many parents. It was something like that.
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Speaker 5: Probably. But here's a text we got.
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Speaker 6: I know I'm not the first person to respond to this because a number of people said our coverage was horrible yesterday. Regarding the three-year-old soccer prodigy, the kid was pushing other players in the league to ask him and his family to get him to stop. The kid's parents got upset and started making a scene, arguing with the league representatives and other parents.
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Speaker 5: Because of that, they were asked to leave. They refused. Then the cops were called.
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Speaker 6: Now the parents and the kid have a GoFundMe for their experience.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my.
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Speaker 6: And somehow strangers are giving this family money to make things all the better. Wow, because I am on your side in this now public online spat.
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Speaker 3: So I'm going to give you money.
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Speaker 5: Here's $ 20.
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Speaker 3: That'll show the other side, which I'm against in this online spat.
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Speaker 6: I know barely anything about this story other than a couple of things I saw on Twitter. Here's $ 20. The whole GoFundMe thing around these stories is just, I don't know what that is.
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Speaker 3: I can't remember, was it the New York Post that had that story? I mean, hell, they left, like, everything out of it. That's sucky.
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Speaker 6: Well, and then, arguing with the coach and league representatives is... A little closer to nail down. But the whole the kid was pushing other players. Soccer is a pretty physical game. You know, I don't know. You had to have been there.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 6: You'd absolutely have had to have been there to see if he's just a really good, aggressive soccer player or it was the sort of thing you'd think.
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Speaker 3: Well, that ain't cool. If he was pushing them enough that it affected play, there's no way you would let that go in a game at that age level. just having coached at that age level.
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Speaker 5: Well, and there'd be a whole bunch of kids on the field be like, why are you pushing me? I don't even know what we're doing out here.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: Exactly. I'm just standing here picking daisies. This ball rolls by me and you're pushing me all of a sudden.
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Speaker 6: I'm just, I'm just waiting for a bunch of people to say inexplicably we're done now. Cause I have no idea of time or the fact that this is being timed or what a halftime is.
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Speaker 3: I'm told there are juice boxes in like three minutes. So I'm just standing here. Right.
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Speaker 6: Again, that was always the most amazing thing to me about the youth sports thing is the kids that knew what they were supposed to be doing and did it. And the ones who just have no idea what is even the point of this.
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Speaker 3: You know, I've been sitting on this Wall Street Journal article about how baseball has changed so much. Now it's a rich person's sport because for reasons we can get into it another time. But it talks about these six-year-olds. with their own bat and their uniform and paying hundreds or a thousand dollars to play at an age they should not be playing organized baseball at all. And it's just, it's become this money grab.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, our executive producer, whose kid is a really good baseball player, has talked about how, yeah, oh yeah, everybody's got to have their own bat and the bats are really expensive and then changes every year and all that sort of stuff, the new technology.
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Speaker 5: You got eight-year-olds with hitting coaches?
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Speaker 3: Good lord.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to transition to another thing, but it feels awkward.
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Speaker 6: We'll explain what that is coming up a little bit later, because I think that's really interesting. We clearly are based on the definition of this author or woman.
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Speaker 3: Women are included. You know, I want to get to my favorite story of the day. It is brought delight to my soul. Wouldn't that be nice? I mean, generally, you follow the news, it brings vomit to your lips. This has brought delight to my soul.
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Speaker 5: And that's coming up next?
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Speaker 3: That's coming up. Well, it could be, sure.
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Speaker 6: Two quick texts I want to get on before we take a break, and then Joe delights us.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 6: Mentioned earlier that NPR was making a big deal out of the fact that 15% of Americans are using AI to search candidates for this election.
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Speaker 5: And then they got into hell.
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Speaker 6: Awful that is or the information could be wrong or whatever when people have been googling oh my god for decades now and there's all kinds of crap out of there or you get your information from ads.
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Speaker 3: Or maybe you get your information from npr in which case you're getting absolute crap or your union we got this text i've never used ai but i used to work a union job in every voting season they would send a card telling you how to vote on every issue i would do the opposite But so, hey, NPR, unions been telling people how to vote for decades. Do you do a story about how awful that might be? Or just, you know, if anybody's doing independent research on their own, you know, whatever. And then one more about the whole election. Kind of about the election. Jack and Joe won't talk about Epstein. Oh, shut up. Oh, you know what? Unless you have more on that topic.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: You remember yesterday we were posing the question, passing along the question posed by Eric Erickson on the right. and a different bloke uh on the left for whether a republican for instance should vote for an awful candidate like a ken paxton for instance Or send the message that, no, we're not going to vote for awful candidates. Do better, Republican Party. We need a better primary system. And on the left, they cited Al-Sayed. What a miserable, abhorrent vote that would be for Democrats in Michigan. Are you better off rejecting your party's abhorrent candidate and letting the other party hold power for a while as a message? And we asked for your thoughts, and we received quite a few thoughtful and thought-provoking emails.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I would like to get into that because my philosophy has always been that the whole not voting is like being a pacifist. It just maybe makes you feel good, but there is going to be a result. Would you like to play a role in it or not?
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: That's the way I've always felt about voting me. I just won't vote because I don't like my candidate. Okay, so you're going to let other people make the decision. A smaller number of people may be choosing.
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Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't quite get that, but I'll be interested to hear.
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Speaker 3: Okay, well, I'm not going to get into it now because we generally disagree about this somewhat.
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Speaker 6: Most of my favorite people disagree with me on this, but I just, I don't know. You're going to delight us coming up. That's what I'm excited about. Well, specifically your soul.
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Speaker 3: Not like momentary delight. This will make you happier than you were prior.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: It certainly did to me. Cool. At the risk of overselling it. Whoops, too late.
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Speaker 5: My soul needs delighted. That's next.
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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 6: I have a lot of friends and family in the little Kansas town where Trump is going to be doing a rally on Saturday. And everybody, I was just texted by a friend of mine there. Everybody's losing their mind. This is a pretty small town and Trump's actually going to come to town.
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Speaker 3: I'll bet.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I want to hear about that traffic and where are they going to park the plane at this tiny airport and all that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 3: All right. So if this was tagged, some of the tags would be the horrifying, uh, Lack of free speech in a lot of the Western world, including Britain. And the Streisand effect. You familiar with the Streisand effect? Barbara Streisand became aware.
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Speaker 5: Sang a duet with Neil Diamond in the Streisand effect.
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Speaker 3: It really has nothing to do with it.
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Speaker 8: No?
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Speaker 3: No, although that was a good song. I mean, come on. It makes me cry.
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Speaker 5: I can't even think about it.
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Speaker 7: I know.
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Speaker 3: So the Streisand effect, Barbara Streisand back in the day became aware that a picture of her house had emerged online, and she sued to get it taken offline, even though it had only been viewed like six times. I remember. All right, stop it.
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Speaker 6: So then that turned into a big deal, and it was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times because she'd drawn attention to it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so that's one of your tags. Your final tag is that a lot of my heroes, my intellectual heroes, are people who've tried to speak truth through humor. Not surprisingly. Mark Twain, Hunter Thompson, P.J. O'Rourke, H.L. Mencken. So many greats.
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Speaker 5: Carrot Top, who tried to kill himself a couple weeks ago.
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Speaker 3: All right. I just need you to stop. So, apparently... Some politicians across the pond in Britain are not aware of this effect. Take Britain's Simon Bennett, a politician with a seat in Wolverhampton, which is a not very big city near Birmingham. But so this 15-year-old boy, and this is the state of affairs in our freaking papa country. This kid's name is Fraser.
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Speaker 6: He'd used Facebook to post an AI-altered photo of Bennett, the politician, as a bunny rabbit. With whiskers and bunny ears and buck teeth. Like Bugs Bunny, okay?
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Speaker 3: An appointed caption jabbing him for nibbling at his conservative party's last remaining shreds of credibility. The counselor didn't laugh it off. He called the police. What's up, doc? And that one I will permit. The West Midlands police incredibly didn't just visit the young man, the teenager. They arrested him. They seized his devices and took him in for questioning. I could rant powerfully about our First Amendment and how incredibly powerful it is and how second I am by the state of British crackdowns on free speech, especially against government figures, but I won't. The Politico, what's his name, Bennett, apparently unaware of the Streisand effect. So when, before the police action, the original Facebook post was only seen by a very few people that follow this kid on Facebook. Now that the picture of Bunny Rabbit Bennett has been, the kid got busted for it, millions have seen the picture again. Of course. The image has been produced in news coverage, has gone viral on social media. One post on Polymarket's X account has had more than 6.8 million views.
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Speaker 8: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Free speech advocates like David Atherton posted the pic in solidarity in Britain, adding, come and get me, West Midlands police. And a memefied, I'm sorry, memefied variations of Fraser's manipulated photo now abound. It's everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. And the damage to Bennett's reputation could be permanent. Any Google search for Simon Bennett counselor produces endless pages about the rabbit.
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Speaker 5: Oh, you're right. I'll bet for the rest of his life. Any search includes the rabbit.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 3: Right. Meanwhile, over in Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has reportedly filed hundreds of police reports against online critics for calling him Pinocchio and other petty insults. The German police apparently took his report seriously. But then they also launched a criminal investigation against the citizen for calling another politician fat. Richard Lang. Lang complained, of course, which ensured that search engines will pair the words Richard Lang and fat for the rest of his life. And Andy Grote, another German politician, sent police after a Twitter user who called him a pimmel. which is street slang for a penis in Germany. The charges were dropped after a public outcry, but the incident undoubtedly led to a lot more Germans thinking of Groot as a pimmel for making such a fuss about it.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to start using the term pimmel.
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Speaker 3: I love this.
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Speaker 6: I wonder if this is going to fix the free speech problem and that people will eventually figure out, you know, I hate that he calls me fat, but if I complain, it's going to make it worse.
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Speaker 3: So I better just let him do it. Yeah, I wish I had the quotes in front of me. Both Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson said some really powerful things to the effect of the Constitution is nothing without the love of the people, the will of the people, the support of the people. It's just a piece of paper. And if the will of the people says something else, it doesn't really matter what the Constitution says. We have to love our system and understand why it's so good. The The trampling of the First Amendment in Great Britain and Germany, for instance, in the name of eliminating hate speech or insulting speech or offending Muslims or whatever the hell is that the sacred cow at the particular time we're talking about. If the will of the people is we will not accept that and we're going to mock it to death. I can die happy. I love this. Imagine a world where you call the police if someone calls you fat.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Or worse yet, a fat pimmel.
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Speaker 8: Ooh.
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Speaker 3: Fat rabbit-looking pimmel. Ooh. It's the worst fate.
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Speaker 5: Any thoughts on that?
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Speaker 6: Text line 415-295-KFTC.
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Speaker 5: Get the podcast.
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. The Wall Street.
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Speaker 9: Journal reports that the United States has warned Gulf allies about a potential wave of strikes against Iran just after the midterm elections. Now, the report points to internal communications that are both military.
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Speaker 3: And diplomatic in nature.
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Speaker 9: And indicate the United States and Israel are preparing a new round of heavy combat operations against Iran.
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Speaker 7: The U.S.
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Speaker 9: Is also sending an additional Patriot missile defense battery to Israel to prepare for incoming Iranian missile fire. This does come as the Qataris are proposing a seven-day timeline to address the negotiation concerns of the U.S. and Iran, a move that could avoid further escalation. Now, the Iranians are expected to respond by the end of the week.
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Speaker 8: This election is hugely consequential, and Prime Minister Netanyahu has promised that if he is reelected, he will ramp up the war with Iran and partner with President Trump to, quote, finish the job, meaning more fighting and continued high-gainerism.
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Speaker 5: Prices in the U.S. So what are all these stories? Why are we hearing all these stories about the timing of attacking Iran? Since when is this the sort of thing that It's announced like we now know who the Super Bowl halftime show is. We now know when we're going to attack a country.
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Speaker 6: It's scheduled for. I also don't get why there's not more conversation around. Isn't the scheduling an attack for after the election just as bad as having one before the election to influence? I mean, why the election shouldn't you announce it? Yeah, well, you shouldn't be timing attacks around elections, should you?
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Speaker 3: You either need to do it or you don't based on fighting a war. And when's the best time to attack them? Maybe it might be next week or this week is about the same. I don't I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I'm just trying to get to your original question. Why the leaks?
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Speaker 3: It seems my best guess is that the perception is pretty widespread that Iran is really squeezed. They are out of the oil that they had parked offshore and. and that they are definitely in a spot where they might have to give. And so we're reminding them on multiple fronts, including BB, that, all right, here comes another big fat whacking. I mean, we're really going to give it to you good this time, unless you want to come to the table. That's the best I got.
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Speaker 6: I don't know. 80% turnout in Israel for the election. Highest turnout in half a century. Could be a while before they know who the new prime minister is. But either Bibi or that other guy whose name escapes me off the top of my head are both hardcore. Hamas has to be finished. And so I think the other guy would be on board.
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Speaker 5: With a U.S. attack also.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Gadi Eisenkot. There you go. The headline out of Israel from an Israeli correspondent is it's noon in Israel. Bibi hasn't won, but the opposition has lost. So now it's the weeks long process of trying to cobble together a coalition government.
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Speaker 7: Wow.
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Speaker 6: So Netanyahu's been in prime minister for almost 20 years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Israel's only existed for 80, uh, 20 years, longest serving prime minister. He could continue to be prime minister.
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Speaker 8: Wow.
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Speaker 3: That'd be something. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's going to drive the college kids crazy.
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Speaker 3: You want to talk about something I know very little about, um, I read one piece of analysis where it's still up to the president to choose who gets the first shot at forming a government.
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Speaker 5: Why do you have a president? Is that what they do? Is that the only thing they do?
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Speaker 3: What else do they do? Ribbon cuttings and that sort of thing. And wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. So the party that got the second most might get his nod to see if they can form a goal. Why? Who's in charge? I don't know. If somebody knows, feel free to drop us a note. I like to learn.
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Speaker 5: Different topic, different conflagration, I guess.
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Speaker 6: Jennifer Griffin reporting on Fox about people prepping for war.
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Speaker 5: What's this all about? Clip 80, Michael.
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Speaker 1: The UK and Japan are urging households to prepare for at least three days without essential services. Germany is advising its citizens to stockpile 10 days of food and water due to potential Russian sabotage of critical infrastructure.
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Speaker 3: The shadow war, as it is being waged today, has an objective that goes far beyond anything we saw during the Cold War. Wow. I think this is a scary positive. Here's the positive part. Europe has been so soft and useless and dependent for so long, as Donald J. has made clear. It's one of the best things he's done. I think he's been unnecessarily Richard about it, but What a pimmel about it, as we learned in the last segment. But he's right. So now they're saying, hey, the world is dangerous. You know, we need to be prepared both nationally, our defenses and citizens that, hey, ugly stuff is going on in the world. We've got to be ready. I think that's a positive. The fact that the wolf is close enough to the door for them to be saying that, that's sobering.
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Speaker 5: I think I've become a Tampa Bay Rays fan. More on that later. Back to Jennifer Griffin.
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Speaker 1: And now the Pentagon is updating its doomsday plan, preparing for a new nightmare scenario, a global war that knocks out America's power grids, cripples supply chains, and leaves U.S. military bases cut off from essential services. It's more widespread than past Cold War preparations to move the top military command into Cheyenne Mountain in the event of a nuclear attack. Under this new initiative, dubbed Fortress, every major military installation in the U.S. should prepare to operate independently for at least 90 days.
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Speaker 3: Wow, so every, like, fort, what's its, in America, needs to be its own commander for at least 90 days. What if they declare war on Iowa or something? Um.
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Speaker 3: So....
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Speaker 6: Is this just like the sort of thing maybe we should have done several years ago? Finally getting around to it? Is this, holy crap, the S is about to hit the fan? How are you supposed to respond to this? Why are we announcing this?
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Speaker 3: The fact that these things are being reported together, I think, is not insignificant. On the other hand, the flip side, imagine the opposite. Sometimes this is a useful exercise. The Pentagon refuses to update its doomsday plan and won't.
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Speaker 5: Right, right, right, right.
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Speaker 3: Come on, of course. It's like the Pentagon has prepared a plan for invading Greenland. Well, yeah, they have a plan for everything. That's what planners do in the Pentagon. I happen to be related to one of them, or was. I'm still related. He's no longer a military planner. As long as plans don't include portable nuclear reactors.
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Speaker 5: Oh, wait, they do.
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Speaker 1: Documents obtained by Fox reveal plans for portable nuclear reactors, backup power grids, and massive reserves of ammunition, critical minerals, medical supplies, spare parts, and communications capable of functioning even if GPS and satellites are disrupted, including survivable satellites and jam-resistant communication networks. The Pentagon wants civilian factories ready to switch to wartime weapons production, with alternative supply chains in place if foreign suppliers are cut off.
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Speaker 3: I love this. That's how you prevent war. I love, love, love this. And the nuclear reactor thing got my attention, too. It is so clearly the future. Small nuclear reactors in the United States. We need to forge ahead as fast as we can, you stupid guitar players with your no nukes crap. Oh, I know what we'll do in the late 70s, early 80s. No nukes. Yay, fossil fuel.
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Speaker 6: Yay, we'll hold a giant demonstration to make sure you use fossil fuels and not nuclear power.
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Speaker 3: Okay, morons. Anyway, so I happen to be talking to a friend, a good friend who is an engineer, and one of his best friends has been in the nuclear power world as an engineer. And he has spent his life working on a project where... nuclear power plant one uses the fuel, it's depleted or whatever the terminology is, but that fuel is still useful for a different technology. And they're working on a design of step-by-step use of fuels in multiple sorts of nuclear reactors. That'll be incredibly efficient. And not too many years ago, this guy was telling my friend, I'm never going to live to see this. And now he's saying we're full speed ahead. This is great. And the idea that we don't have to worry about the damn electric grid because there's a data center opening. It'll have its own little nuclear reactor before too terribly long. Clearly the future. Anyway, back to war, mayhem and pestilence.
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Speaker 5: No, that's it. That's report. That's interesting. No, I would like to know what's driving that.
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Speaker 3: All the chaos in the world.
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Speaker 5: Any specific chaos, though? Anything China did or Russia did? Oh, there's so much chaos to choose from.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, this is a short clip. I want to hear this one, Michael83.
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Speaker 7: China particularly has been doing operational preparation of battlefield against our critical infrastructures.
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Speaker 3: What that means is they've been putting malware.
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Speaker 7: Malicious software, or determined flaws where they can penetrate our critical infrastructures.
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Speaker 3: Is that audio as bad for everybody else as it was for me or my headphones?
00:28:44
Speaker 5: I don't know what that guy said.
00:28:46
Speaker 3: So China's been building, you know, malware, et cetera, to screw our infrastructure. That's why the Pentagon is so intent on saying, hey, we've got to be independent. China is asshole!
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Speaker 6: I don't think you could overestimate the degree to which we would lose our ass, like, just if all the cell phones shut down. If only that happened. People would go crazy because we're just so used to being in contact with everybody all the time. If you couldn't text your wife or your kids or they couldn't text you or whatever, people would go nuts.
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Speaker 3: I would take out a large knife, remove my own heart, and stab it to death so I didn't have to live in that world. See, you said we couldn't overestimate how crazy people would go. Don't you challenge me.
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Speaker 6: Laughter pretty funny no you're so right though oh people would lose their oh oh my god we'd be in such a panic over the over the which is funny because if you're old enough people would be in a panic over the way we used to live like 30 years ago.
00:29:56
Speaker 5: And everything was fine.
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Speaker 6: My dad went off to work every single day with no ability to be in contact with me or me with him or him with my mom or vice versa.
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Speaker 3: And every night at 545, hey, look, he's home. Everything went great. Yeah, that is so true. A word from our friends at Incogni. Speaking of the modern world and the things we depend on, I've actually heard of this happening in real life. The phone rings, it's your bank. They know everything about you. I mean, clearly it's your bank. They got the last four of your social. They got your address and your name, your middle initial, blah, blah, blah. No, it's not your bank. It's a scammer. They bought everything from a damned data broker. What do you do? How do you get that stuff offline? You get with Incogni.
00:30:38
Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 5: That's why we are using Incogni.
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Speaker 6: I got an update from Incogni yesterday with their removal request to the 420 plus data brokers and people search sites and where they've gotten my info off the site. And then they keep watch so that the info doesn't get added back in because that can happen.
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Speaker 3: Yep, yep. If you tried to do this yourself, it would take you hundreds of hours. Why not go to Incogni.com slash Armstrong? You get 60% off. It's super affordable. Incogni.com slash Armstrong. One more time, get that data broker crap offline. Incogni.com slash Armstrong.
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Speaker 6: You would take out your own heart and stab it to death. That's right, so I didn't have to live in that world.
00:31:17
Speaker 3: Well.
00:31:18
Speaker 5: That is quite a reaction.
00:31:21
Speaker 3: In particularly. In particularly. Speaking of matters military, I thought this was so interesting, the New York Times writing about the new era of war, a nine-ton U.S. helicopter versus a cheap drone. And how you've got to train personnel and the systems and all for these giant attack helicopters to deal with this, you know, practically shelves of target adapted, although now they're being churned out of factories, drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles and how everything is changing in terms of, you know, warfare from the human to the operations on the battlefield to the manufacturing to everything based on drones. And who knows? What's the next thing around the corner? Is it going to be micro drones? What do we do then?
00:32:15
Speaker 5: Something AI related.
00:32:19
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
00:32:19
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. That's guaranteed. Yeah.
00:32:22
Speaker 6: Kamala Harris has come out and said that Democrats should not impeach Trump if they take the House. I'll have to look into that story. That's interesting. I think she might be right. And lots of other stuff on the way.
00:32:33
Speaker 3: Stay here.
00:32:35
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
00:32:48
Speaker 3: Common arrow off the hands to third. Long throw for Ortiz. Oh, it's in the dark. Grounds one left.
00:32:51
Speaker 5: Side and through.
00:32:52
Speaker 3: Grounds one through.
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Speaker 2: Johnny on the spot. He's tied game four.
00:32:54
Speaker 3: He's heads out.
00:32:55
Speaker 5: Center field.
00:32:56
Speaker 2: Forte stopped at third. Bouncing ball.
00:32:57
Speaker 3: We'll see you later tonight.
00:33:14
Speaker 6: Man, one advantage of living on the West Coast is late games, because I ended at 9.30 for me, and those of you on the East Coast, it was this morning.
00:33:21
Speaker 3: As the play-by-play guy said, see you later tonight for game five.
00:33:26
Speaker 6: Rays came back and beat the Brewers last night. That was very exciting. I picked it up in the eighth inning. Those last four innings were awesome. And as you mentioned yesterday, there are so many Milwaukee fans there. It's like when you have Super Bowls on. There's many fans from each team. So the crowd roars no matter which team is doing well.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Very exciting. Very exciting.
00:33:51
Speaker 3: It was all singles, too, in the 12th inning.
00:33:54
Speaker 5: That was a scrappy win. I think I'm going to root for the Rays at this point.
00:33:57
Speaker 3: Go right ahead. This is America.
00:34:04
Speaker 6: So I mentioned this earlier. Data Center's hot topic is. All around the country. Ohio has the most things to vote on.
00:34:15
Speaker 5: They have 21 local ballot measures related to data centers that are on the ballot in six days.
00:34:23
Speaker 6: Varying from communities voting on just outright bans. There's a whole bunch of towns that just ain't going to happen.
00:34:31
Speaker 5: You don't get it. Nobody's putting a data center in our town.
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Speaker 6: Then bans on especially large data centers that are over 25 megawatts. Then rules that we have to have a local vote on it before they get to build it, which that seems, man, that seems like a minimum. Zoning and development restrictions and where you can have it, all that different sorts of stuff.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's good governance right there, that last one. That's fine. There's zoning for everything. If you want to make a special provision for data centers, that's fine.
00:34:58
Speaker 4: Great.
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Speaker 3: Do it.
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Speaker 6: Um, the eyesore question is silly to me in that all kinds.
00:35:05
Speaker 5: Of eyesores pop up all over the place.
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Speaker 6: There's giant, giant warehouses with a hundred truck bays that show up and then they have the target symbol somewhere or Walmart or Costco or whatever the hell it is, or UPS or Amazon all over the place. And you didn't think twice about voting for it or what, but I was looking into the electricity differences. For instance, if a Costco opens up on the, um, edge of town a one large i ai center data center not the massive but the large version consumes hundreds of times as much electricity as a costco on the edge of town hundreds for a large for a for a for one of the massive ones which sometimes they build it's it's like a thousand times as much so the electricity thing is not even close And then for water, it's about 20 times. So like a large data center showing up would use 20 times the amount of water as a Costco would. But then you got the whole revenue, taxes, all that sort of thing. Well, yeah, and what would be my question to both of those statistics? If the reasonable nonpartisan studies show that electric rates will go up either inconsequentially or not at all, then why do I give a damn?
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Speaker 3: It's the industry of the future. The water thing depends entirely on where you are. Are you in Kentucky or in Nevada in this discussion? Because they got, you know, they got rivers and lakes full of the stuff in the eastern third of the U.S., not so much in the west where it's becoming more and more of a crisis.
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Speaker 5: Some of this, I wonder, well, some of what we know is the hatred of data centers just Exploding out of nowhere is Russian and Chinese bots. That is a known fact. Search on The New York Times. They've done bunches of articles.
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Speaker 3: China wants to rule the world of data centers and data and AI.
00:37:10
Speaker 6: Some of this is the hatred of AI in general, though. I was talking to my kids about this the other day. Man, the young people hate AI. Now, we saw in the spring all the college graduations. Anybody mentioned AI? It was just roundly booed just to mention of it. I brought this up to my kids the other day. We were watching some video or something like that.
00:37:26
Speaker 3: And I said, so what do people in your school think about?
00:37:29
Speaker 5: Before I even.
00:37:30
Speaker 3: Finished my sentence, oh, God, we hate it. We all hate it.
00:37:33
Speaker 5: They just like... Hate, hate, hate, hate it. The young people.
00:37:39
Speaker 6: And that's going to be a political problem for the AI companies. The fact that you've got a generation coming up that their initial thought is it's awful.
00:37:48
Speaker 3: Right, right. You are ushering in a world that we find terrifying and don't want.
00:37:54
Speaker 5: I don't know how that's going to play out.
00:37:56
Speaker 3: I don't either. That's a great question. Politically. Isn't that interesting though? Economically, socially.
00:38:01
Speaker 6: Internet, iPhones, all that sort of stuff. Young people loved it. Young people hate AI.
00:38:08
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 4: Families complained about Nevada's behavior on the field and his mom's behavior on the sidelines. So what did the youth soccer director do? He called 911.
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Speaker 5: There's a parent here just really... really disruptive.
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Speaker 3: Nevada's mom tells a different story.
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Speaker 5: They literally kicking him out of this way because he's good at soccer.
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Speaker 4: Nevada's mom told CBS News that coach told Nevada he could stay in if he passed the ball. But about halfway through the game, he got the cops involved. So the cops got.
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Speaker 6: Called on the three-year-old who was not passing the ball in soccer, who was really good and kept scoring goals.
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Speaker 3: And his mom is disruptive mom or something. Look, before you get into people are angry at us, and no, I didn't spend a lot of time doing your research, researching this stupid story.
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Speaker 6: I did no research other than these texts I got.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 6: There was an enormous leap there. How did we go from A to B? Why were the specifically the cops were called for what reason? What did the people say online? Why did the police show up? All that's left out of the story.
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Speaker 5: True.
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Speaker 6: The news coverage is horrible there. Well, you know why they did it that way. They wanted people to click on a story of outrage. If you put in all the details, sometimes the outrage gets less.
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Speaker 3: And race.
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Speaker 6: Which might be after I read the text. But here's a little audio of the actual mom and cop, I guess.
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Speaker 7: I guess one of the coaches advised that they don't want you guys here anymore, okay?
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Speaker 3: If you guys don't mind leaving. What is the real reason that he called the police?
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Speaker 7: So I guess he's just calling because I guess he believes that you guys were causing a disturbance that was interfering with the game play.
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Speaker 3: They're mad at my son because he actually plays soccer. So I'm a little confused and I'm a little, like, baffled because I signed my kid up for soccer.
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Speaker 5: So they're literally kicking him out of this place because he's.
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Speaker 4: Good at soccer.
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Speaker 6: So her three-year-old must be a really good soccer player because he's playing in the five-year-old league and dominating.
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Speaker 5: Three is really young.
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Speaker 6: You're practically a prodigy just for your ability to run up and down the field. Well, or like be able to tell a three year old, I want you to run to the end of the field and back and have them do it and not go like 10 feet and get distracted and walk off.
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Speaker 3: Start picking flowers. So am I allowed to guess at what I think happened or would you rather do what you have first?
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Speaker 5: Go ahead and guess.
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Speaker 6: And then I'm going to read this text that I don't know if it's accurate or not, because I've spent zero time looking into this and I'm not going to.
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Speaker 3: So I'm guessing the three year old who, again, miraculously was just dominating the game. I mean, he was just running up and down the field with the ball and kicking it in the goal over and over again. The coach was like, all right, we got to take him out because nobody else is playing. Nothing else is happening. And the mom was pissed off because her son was benched, quote unquote, for being better than everybody else at soccer. And she and the coach had what I suspected was a loud and animated disagreement during the game. And the coach said, you got to go. And she said, I won't go. I would guess having coached many, many games and dealt with many, many parents. It was something like that.
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Speaker 5: Probably. But here's a text we got.
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Speaker 6: I know I'm not the first person to respond to this because a number of people said our coverage was horrible yesterday. Regarding the three-year-old soccer prodigy, the kid was pushing other players in the league to ask him and his family to get him to stop. The kid's parents got upset and started making a scene, arguing with the league representatives and other parents.
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Speaker 5: Because of that, they were asked to leave. They refused. Then the cops were called.
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Speaker 6: Now the parents and the kid have a GoFundMe for their experience.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my.
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Speaker 6: And somehow strangers are giving this family money to make things all the better. Wow, because I am on your side in this now public online spat.
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Speaker 3: So I'm going to give you money.
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Speaker 5: Here's $ 20.
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Speaker 3: That'll show the other side, which I'm against in this online spat.
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Speaker 6: I know barely anything about this story other than a couple of things I saw on Twitter. Here's $ 20. The whole GoFundMe thing around these stories is just, I don't know what that is.
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Speaker 3: I can't remember, was it the New York Post that had that story? I mean, hell, they left, like, everything out of it. That's sucky.
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Speaker 6: Well, and then, arguing with the coach and league representatives is... A little closer to nail down. But the whole the kid was pushing other players. Soccer is a pretty physical game. You know, I don't know. You had to have been there.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 6: You'd absolutely have had to have been there to see if he's just a really good, aggressive soccer player or it was the sort of thing you'd think.
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Speaker 3: Well, that ain't cool. If he was pushing them enough that it affected play, there's no way you would let that go in a game at that age level. just having coached at that age level.
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Speaker 5: Well, and there'd be a whole bunch of kids on the field be like, why are you pushing me? I don't even know what we're doing out here.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: Exactly. I'm just standing here picking daisies. This ball rolls by me and you're pushing me all of a sudden.
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Speaker 6: I'm just, I'm just waiting for a bunch of people to say inexplicably we're done now. Cause I have no idea of time or the fact that this is being timed or what a halftime is.
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Speaker 3: I'm told there are juice boxes in like three minutes. So I'm just standing here. Right.
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Speaker 6: Again, that was always the most amazing thing to me about the youth sports thing is the kids that knew what they were supposed to be doing and did it. And the ones who just have no idea what is even the point of this.
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Speaker 3: You know, I've been sitting on this Wall Street Journal article about how baseball has changed so much. Now it's a rich person's sport because for reasons we can get into it another time. But it talks about these six-year-olds. with their own bat and their uniform and paying hundreds or a thousand dollars to play at an age they should not be playing organized baseball at all. And it's just, it's become this money grab.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, our executive producer, whose kid is a really good baseball player, has talked about how, yeah, oh yeah, everybody's got to have their own bat and the bats are really expensive and then changes every year and all that sort of stuff, the new technology.
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Speaker 5: You got eight-year-olds with hitting coaches?
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Speaker 3: Good lord.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to transition to another thing, but it feels awkward.
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Speaker 6: We'll explain what that is coming up a little bit later, because I think that's really interesting. We clearly are based on the definition of this author or woman.
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Speaker 3: Women are included. You know, I want to get to my favorite story of the day. It is brought delight to my soul. Wouldn't that be nice? I mean, generally, you follow the news, it brings vomit to your lips. This has brought delight to my soul.
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Speaker 5: And that's coming up next?
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Speaker 3: That's coming up. Well, it could be, sure.
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Speaker 6: Two quick texts I want to get on before we take a break, and then Joe delights us.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 6: Mentioned earlier that NPR was making a big deal out of the fact that 15% of Americans are using AI to search candidates for this election.
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Speaker 5: And then they got into hell.
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Speaker 6: Awful that is or the information could be wrong or whatever when people have been googling oh my god for decades now and there's all kinds of crap out of there or you get your information from ads.
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Speaker 3: Or maybe you get your information from npr in which case you're getting absolute crap or your union we got this text i've never used ai but i used to work a union job in every voting season they would send a card telling you how to vote on every issue i would do the opposite But so, hey, NPR, unions been telling people how to vote for decades. Do you do a story about how awful that might be? Or just, you know, if anybody's doing independent research on their own, you know, whatever. And then one more about the whole election. Kind of about the election. Jack and Joe won't talk about Epstein. Oh, shut up. Oh, you know what? Unless you have more on that topic.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: You remember yesterday we were posing the question, passing along the question posed by Eric Erickson on the right. and a different bloke uh on the left for whether a republican for instance should vote for an awful candidate like a ken paxton for instance Or send the message that, no, we're not going to vote for awful candidates. Do better, Republican Party. We need a better primary system. And on the left, they cited Al-Sayed. What a miserable, abhorrent vote that would be for Democrats in Michigan. Are you better off rejecting your party's abhorrent candidate and letting the other party hold power for a while as a message? And we asked for your thoughts, and we received quite a few thoughtful and thought-provoking emails.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I would like to get into that because my philosophy has always been that the whole not voting is like being a pacifist. It just maybe makes you feel good, but there is going to be a result. Would you like to play a role in it or not?
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: That's the way I've always felt about voting me. I just won't vote because I don't like my candidate. Okay, so you're going to let other people make the decision. A smaller number of people may be choosing.
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Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't quite get that, but I'll be interested to hear.
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Speaker 3: Okay, well, I'm not going to get into it now because we generally disagree about this somewhat.
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Speaker 6: Most of my favorite people disagree with me on this, but I just, I don't know. You're going to delight us coming up. That's what I'm excited about. Well, specifically your soul.
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Speaker 3: Not like momentary delight. This will make you happier than you were prior.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: It certainly did to me. Cool. At the risk of overselling it. Whoops, too late.
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Speaker 5: My soul needs delighted. That's next.
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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 6: I have a lot of friends and family in the little Kansas town where Trump is going to be doing a rally on Saturday. And everybody, I was just texted by a friend of mine there. Everybody's losing their mind. This is a pretty small town and Trump's actually going to come to town.
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Speaker 3: I'll bet.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I want to hear about that traffic and where are they going to park the plane at this tiny airport and all that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 3: All right. So if this was tagged, some of the tags would be the horrifying, uh, Lack of free speech in a lot of the Western world, including Britain. And the Streisand effect. You familiar with the Streisand effect? Barbara Streisand became aware.
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Speaker 5: Sang a duet with Neil Diamond in the Streisand effect.
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Speaker 3: It really has nothing to do with it.
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Speaker 8: No?
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Speaker 3: No, although that was a good song. I mean, come on. It makes me cry.
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Speaker 5: I can't even think about it.
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Speaker 7: I know.
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Speaker 3: So the Streisand effect, Barbara Streisand back in the day became aware that a picture of her house had emerged online, and she sued to get it taken offline, even though it had only been viewed like six times. I remember. All right, stop it.
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Speaker 6: So then that turned into a big deal, and it was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times because she'd drawn attention to it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so that's one of your tags. Your final tag is that a lot of my heroes, my intellectual heroes, are people who've tried to speak truth through humor. Not surprisingly. Mark Twain, Hunter Thompson, P.J. O'Rourke, H.L. Mencken. So many greats.
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Speaker 5: Carrot Top, who tried to kill himself a couple weeks ago.
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Speaker 3: All right. I just need you to stop. So, apparently... Some politicians across the pond in Britain are not aware of this effect. Take Britain's Simon Bennett, a politician with a seat in Wolverhampton, which is a not very big city near Birmingham. But so this 15-year-old boy, and this is the state of affairs in our freaking papa country. This kid's name is Fraser.
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Speaker 6: He'd used Facebook to post an AI-altered photo of Bennett, the politician, as a bunny rabbit. With whiskers and bunny ears and buck teeth. Like Bugs Bunny, okay?
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Speaker 3: An appointed caption jabbing him for nibbling at his conservative party's last remaining shreds of credibility. The counselor didn't laugh it off. He called the police. What's up, doc? And that one I will permit. The West Midlands police incredibly didn't just visit the young man, the teenager. They arrested him. They seized his devices and took him in for questioning. I could rant powerfully about our First Amendment and how incredibly powerful it is and how second I am by the state of British crackdowns on free speech, especially against government figures, but I won't. The Politico, what's his name, Bennett, apparently unaware of the Streisand effect. So when, before the police action, the original Facebook post was only seen by a very few people that follow this kid on Facebook. Now that the picture of Bunny Rabbit Bennett has been, the kid got busted for it, millions have seen the picture again. Of course. The image has been produced in news coverage, has gone viral on social media. One post on Polymarket's X account has had more than 6.8 million views.
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Speaker 8: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Free speech advocates like David Atherton posted the pic in solidarity in Britain, adding, come and get me, West Midlands police. And a memefied, I'm sorry, memefied variations of Fraser's manipulated photo now abound. It's everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. And the damage to Bennett's reputation could be permanent. Any Google search for Simon Bennett counselor produces endless pages about the rabbit.
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Speaker 5: Oh, you're right. I'll bet for the rest of his life. Any search includes the rabbit.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 3: Right. Meanwhile, over in Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has reportedly filed hundreds of police reports against online critics for calling him Pinocchio and other petty insults. The German police apparently took his report seriously. But then they also launched a criminal investigation against the citizen for calling another politician fat. Richard Lang. Lang complained, of course, which ensured that search engines will pair the words Richard Lang and fat for the rest of his life. And Andy Grote, another German politician, sent police after a Twitter user who called him a pimmel. which is street slang for a penis in Germany. The charges were dropped after a public outcry, but the incident undoubtedly led to a lot more Germans thinking of Groot as a pimmel for making such a fuss about it.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to start using the term pimmel.
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Speaker 3: I love this.
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Speaker 6: I wonder if this is going to fix the free speech problem and that people will eventually figure out, you know, I hate that he calls me fat, but if I complain, it's going to make it worse.
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Speaker 3: So I better just let him do it. Yeah, I wish I had the quotes in front of me. Both Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson said some really powerful things to the effect of the Constitution is nothing without the love of the people, the will of the people, the support of the people. It's just a piece of paper. And if the will of the people says something else, it doesn't really matter what the Constitution says. We have to love our system and understand why it's so good. The The trampling of the First Amendment in Great Britain and Germany, for instance, in the name of eliminating hate speech or insulting speech or offending Muslims or whatever the hell is that the sacred cow at the particular time we're talking about. If the will of the people is we will not accept that and we're going to mock it to death. I can die happy. I love this. Imagine a world where you call the police if someone calls you fat.
00:18:19
Speaker 5: Wow.
00:18:21
Speaker 3: Or worse yet, a fat pimmel.
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Speaker 8: Ooh.
00:18:24
Speaker 3: Fat rabbit-looking pimmel. Ooh. It's the worst fate.
00:18:27
Speaker 5: Any thoughts on that?
00:18:28
Speaker 6: Text line 415-295-KFTC.
00:18:31
Speaker 5: Get the podcast.
00:18:32
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. The Wall Street.
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Speaker 9: Journal reports that the United States has warned Gulf allies about a potential wave of strikes against Iran just after the midterm elections. Now, the report points to internal communications that are both military.
00:19:05
Speaker 3: And diplomatic in nature.
00:19:07
Speaker 9: And indicate the United States and Israel are preparing a new round of heavy combat operations against Iran.
00:19:13
Speaker 7: The U.S.
00:19:14
Speaker 9: Is also sending an additional Patriot missile defense battery to Israel to prepare for incoming Iranian missile fire. This does come as the Qataris are proposing a seven-day timeline to address the negotiation concerns of the U.S. and Iran, a move that could avoid further escalation. Now, the Iranians are expected to respond by the end of the week.
00:19:32
Speaker 8: This election is hugely consequential, and Prime Minister Netanyahu has promised that if he is reelected, he will ramp up the war with Iran and partner with President Trump to, quote, finish the job, meaning more fighting and continued high-gainerism.
00:19:50
Speaker 5: Prices in the U.S. So what are all these stories? Why are we hearing all these stories about the timing of attacking Iran? Since when is this the sort of thing that It's announced like we now know who the Super Bowl halftime show is. We now know when we're going to attack a country.
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Speaker 6: It's scheduled for. I also don't get why there's not more conversation around. Isn't the scheduling an attack for after the election just as bad as having one before the election to influence? I mean, why the election shouldn't you announce it? Yeah, well, you shouldn't be timing attacks around elections, should you?
00:20:29
Speaker 3: You either need to do it or you don't based on fighting a war. And when's the best time to attack them? Maybe it might be next week or this week is about the same. I don't I don't know.
00:20:39
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to get to your original question. Why the leaks?
00:20:44
Speaker 3: It seems my best guess is that the perception is pretty widespread that Iran is really squeezed. They are out of the oil that they had parked offshore and. and that they are definitely in a spot where they might have to give. And so we're reminding them on multiple fronts, including BB, that, all right, here comes another big fat whacking. I mean, we're really going to give it to you good this time, unless you want to come to the table. That's the best I got.
00:21:12
Speaker 6: I don't know. 80% turnout in Israel for the election. Highest turnout in half a century. Could be a while before they know who the new prime minister is. But either Bibi or that other guy whose name escapes me off the top of my head are both hardcore. Hamas has to be finished. And so I think the other guy would be on board.
00:21:33
Speaker 5: With a U.S. attack also.
00:21:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, Gadi Eisenkot. There you go. The headline out of Israel from an Israeli correspondent is it's noon in Israel. Bibi hasn't won, but the opposition has lost. So now it's the weeks long process of trying to cobble together a coalition government.
00:21:52
Speaker 7: Wow.
00:21:52
Speaker 6: So Netanyahu's been in prime minister for almost 20 years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:21:58
Speaker 5: Israel's only existed for 80, uh, 20 years, longest serving prime minister. He could continue to be prime minister.
00:22:07
Speaker 8: Wow.
00:22:07
Speaker 3: That'd be something. Yeah.
00:22:09
Speaker 5: Well, that's going to drive the college kids crazy.
00:22:12
Speaker 3: You want to talk about something I know very little about, um, I read one piece of analysis where it's still up to the president to choose who gets the first shot at forming a government.
00:22:26
Speaker 5: Why do you have a president? Is that what they do? Is that the only thing they do?
00:22:30
Speaker 3: What else do they do? Ribbon cuttings and that sort of thing. And wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. So the party that got the second most might get his nod to see if they can form a goal. Why? Who's in charge? I don't know. If somebody knows, feel free to drop us a note. I like to learn.
00:22:44
Speaker 5: Different topic, different conflagration, I guess.
00:22:51
Speaker 6: Jennifer Griffin reporting on Fox about people prepping for war.
00:22:56
Speaker 5: What's this all about? Clip 80, Michael.
00:22:58
Speaker 1: The UK and Japan are urging households to prepare for at least three days without essential services. Germany is advising its citizens to stockpile 10 days of food and water due to potential Russian sabotage of critical infrastructure.
00:23:13
Speaker 3: The shadow war, as it is being waged today, has an objective that goes far beyond anything we saw during the Cold War. Wow. I think this is a scary positive. Here's the positive part. Europe has been so soft and useless and dependent for so long, as Donald J. has made clear. It's one of the best things he's done. I think he's been unnecessarily Richard about it, but What a pimmel about it, as we learned in the last segment. But he's right. So now they're saying, hey, the world is dangerous. You know, we need to be prepared both nationally, our defenses and citizens that, hey, ugly stuff is going on in the world. We've got to be ready. I think that's a positive. The fact that the wolf is close enough to the door for them to be saying that, that's sobering.
00:24:09
Speaker 5: I think I've become a Tampa Bay Rays fan. More on that later. Back to Jennifer Griffin.
00:24:14
Speaker 1: And now the Pentagon is updating its doomsday plan, preparing for a new nightmare scenario, a global war that knocks out America's power grids, cripples supply chains, and leaves U.S. military bases cut off from essential services. It's more widespread than past Cold War preparations to move the top military command into Cheyenne Mountain in the event of a nuclear attack. Under this new initiative, dubbed Fortress, every major military installation in the U.S. should prepare to operate independently for at least 90 days.
00:24:50
Speaker 3: Wow, so every, like, fort, what's its, in America, needs to be its own commander for at least 90 days. What if they declare war on Iowa or something? Um.
00:25:06
Speaker 3: So....
00:25:08
Speaker 6: Is this just like the sort of thing maybe we should have done several years ago? Finally getting around to it? Is this, holy crap, the S is about to hit the fan? How are you supposed to respond to this? Why are we announcing this?
00:25:22
Speaker 3: The fact that these things are being reported together, I think, is not insignificant. On the other hand, the flip side, imagine the opposite. Sometimes this is a useful exercise. The Pentagon refuses to update its doomsday plan and won't.
00:25:36
Speaker 5: Right, right, right, right.
00:25:37
Speaker 3: Come on, of course. It's like the Pentagon has prepared a plan for invading Greenland. Well, yeah, they have a plan for everything. That's what planners do in the Pentagon. I happen to be related to one of them, or was. I'm still related. He's no longer a military planner. As long as plans don't include portable nuclear reactors.
00:25:54
Speaker 5: Oh, wait, they do.
00:25:56
Speaker 1: Documents obtained by Fox reveal plans for portable nuclear reactors, backup power grids, and massive reserves of ammunition, critical minerals, medical supplies, spare parts, and communications capable of functioning even if GPS and satellites are disrupted, including survivable satellites and jam-resistant communication networks. The Pentagon wants civilian factories ready to switch to wartime weapons production, with alternative supply chains in place if foreign suppliers are cut off.
00:26:27
Speaker 3: I love this. That's how you prevent war. I love, love, love this. And the nuclear reactor thing got my attention, too. It is so clearly the future. Small nuclear reactors in the United States. We need to forge ahead as fast as we can, you stupid guitar players with your no nukes crap. Oh, I know what we'll do in the late 70s, early 80s. No nukes. Yay, fossil fuel.
00:26:53
Speaker 6: Yay, we'll hold a giant demonstration to make sure you use fossil fuels and not nuclear power.
00:26:58
Speaker 3: Okay, morons. Anyway, so I happen to be talking to a friend, a good friend who is an engineer, and one of his best friends has been in the nuclear power world as an engineer. And he has spent his life working on a project where... nuclear power plant one uses the fuel, it's depleted or whatever the terminology is, but that fuel is still useful for a different technology. And they're working on a design of step-by-step use of fuels in multiple sorts of nuclear reactors. That'll be incredibly efficient. And not too many years ago, this guy was telling my friend, I'm never going to live to see this. And now he's saying we're full speed ahead. This is great. And the idea that we don't have to worry about the damn electric grid because there's a data center opening. It'll have its own little nuclear reactor before too terribly long. Clearly the future. Anyway, back to war, mayhem and pestilence.
00:28:03
Speaker 5: No, that's it. That's report. That's interesting. No, I would like to know what's driving that.
00:28:12
Speaker 3: All the chaos in the world.
00:28:14
Speaker 5: Any specific chaos, though? Anything China did or Russia did? Oh, there's so much chaos to choose from.
00:28:19
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, this is a short clip. I want to hear this one, Michael83.
00:28:24
Speaker 7: China particularly has been doing operational preparation of battlefield against our critical infrastructures.
00:28:29
Speaker 3: What that means is they've been putting malware.
00:28:32
Speaker 7: Malicious software, or determined flaws where they can penetrate our critical infrastructures.
00:28:41
Speaker 3: Is that audio as bad for everybody else as it was for me or my headphones?
00:28:44
Speaker 5: I don't know what that guy said.
00:28:46
Speaker 3: So China's been building, you know, malware, et cetera, to screw our infrastructure. That's why the Pentagon is so intent on saying, hey, we've got to be independent. China is asshole!
00:28:57
Speaker 6: I don't think you could overestimate the degree to which we would lose our ass, like, just if all the cell phones shut down. If only that happened. People would go crazy because we're just so used to being in contact with everybody all the time. If you couldn't text your wife or your kids or they couldn't text you or whatever, people would go nuts.
00:29:24
Speaker 3: I would take out a large knife, remove my own heart, and stab it to death so I didn't have to live in that world. See, you said we couldn't overestimate how crazy people would go. Don't you challenge me.
00:29:37
Speaker 6: Laughter pretty funny no you're so right though oh people would lose their oh oh my god we'd be in such a panic over the over the which is funny because if you're old enough people would be in a panic over the way we used to live like 30 years ago.
00:29:56
Speaker 5: And everything was fine.
00:29:58
Speaker 6: My dad went off to work every single day with no ability to be in contact with me or me with him or him with my mom or vice versa.
00:30:05
Speaker 3: And every night at 545, hey, look, he's home. Everything went great. Yeah, that is so true. A word from our friends at Incogni. Speaking of the modern world and the things we depend on, I've actually heard of this happening in real life. The phone rings, it's your bank. They know everything about you. I mean, clearly it's your bank. They got the last four of your social. They got your address and your name, your middle initial, blah, blah, blah. No, it's not your bank. It's a scammer. They bought everything from a damned data broker. What do you do? How do you get that stuff offline? You get with Incogni.
00:30:38
Speaker 2: Yep.
00:30:38
Speaker 5: That's why we are using Incogni.
00:30:40
Speaker 6: I got an update from Incogni yesterday with their removal request to the 420 plus data brokers and people search sites and where they've gotten my info off the site. And then they keep watch so that the info doesn't get added back in because that can happen.
00:30:54
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. If you tried to do this yourself, it would take you hundreds of hours. Why not go to Incogni.com slash Armstrong? You get 60% off. It's super affordable. Incogni.com slash Armstrong. One more time, get that data broker crap offline. Incogni.com slash Armstrong.
00:31:11
Speaker 6: You would take out your own heart and stab it to death. That's right, so I didn't have to live in that world.
00:31:17
Speaker 3: Well.
00:31:18
Speaker 5: That is quite a reaction.
00:31:21
Speaker 3: In particularly. In particularly. Speaking of matters military, I thought this was so interesting, the New York Times writing about the new era of war, a nine-ton U.S. helicopter versus a cheap drone. And how you've got to train personnel and the systems and all for these giant attack helicopters to deal with this, you know, practically shelves of target adapted, although now they're being churned out of factories, drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles and how everything is changing in terms of, you know, warfare from the human to the operations on the battlefield to the manufacturing to everything based on drones. And who knows? What's the next thing around the corner? Is it going to be micro drones? What do we do then?
00:32:15
Speaker 5: Something AI related.
00:32:19
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
00:32:19
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. That's guaranteed. Yeah.
00:32:22
Speaker 6: Kamala Harris has come out and said that Democrats should not impeach Trump if they take the House. I'll have to look into that story. That's interesting. I think she might be right. And lots of other stuff on the way.
00:32:33
Speaker 3: Stay here.
00:32:35
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
00:32:48
Speaker 3: Common arrow off the hands to third. Long throw for Ortiz. Oh, it's in the dark. Grounds one left.
00:32:51
Speaker 5: Side and through.
00:32:52
Speaker 3: Grounds one through.
00:32:53
Speaker 2: Johnny on the spot. He's tied game four.
00:32:54
Speaker 3: He's heads out.
00:32:55
Speaker 5: Center field.
00:32:56
Speaker 2: Forte stopped at third. Bouncing ball.
00:32:57
Speaker 3: We'll see you later tonight.
00:33:14
Speaker 6: Man, one advantage of living on the West Coast is late games, because I ended at 9.30 for me, and those of you on the East Coast, it was this morning.
00:33:21
Speaker 3: As the play-by-play guy said, see you later tonight for game five.
00:33:26
Speaker 6: Rays came back and beat the Brewers last night. That was very exciting. I picked it up in the eighth inning. Those last four innings were awesome. And as you mentioned yesterday, there are so many Milwaukee fans there. It's like when you have Super Bowls on. There's many fans from each team. So the crowd roars no matter which team is doing well.
00:33:49
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:33:50
Speaker 5: Very exciting. Very exciting.
00:33:51
Speaker 3: It was all singles, too, in the 12th inning.
00:33:54
Speaker 5: That was a scrappy win. I think I'm going to root for the Rays at this point.
00:33:57
Speaker 3: Go right ahead. This is America.
00:34:04
Speaker 6: So I mentioned this earlier. Data Center's hot topic is. All around the country. Ohio has the most things to vote on.
00:34:15
Speaker 5: They have 21 local ballot measures related to data centers that are on the ballot in six days.
00:34:23
Speaker 6: Varying from communities voting on just outright bans. There's a whole bunch of towns that just ain't going to happen.
00:34:31
Speaker 5: You don't get it. Nobody's putting a data center in our town.
00:34:34
Speaker 6: Then bans on especially large data centers that are over 25 megawatts. Then rules that we have to have a local vote on it before they get to build it, which that seems, man, that seems like a minimum. Zoning and development restrictions and where you can have it, all that different sorts of stuff.
00:34:51
Speaker 3: Well, that's good governance right there, that last one. That's fine. There's zoning for everything. If you want to make a special provision for data centers, that's fine.
00:34:58
Speaker 4: Great.
00:34:58
Speaker 3: Do it.
00:35:00
Speaker 6: Um, the eyesore question is silly to me in that all kinds.
00:35:05
Speaker 5: Of eyesores pop up all over the place.
00:35:07
Speaker 6: There's giant, giant warehouses with a hundred truck bays that show up and then they have the target symbol somewhere or Walmart or Costco or whatever the hell it is, or UPS or Amazon all over the place. And you didn't think twice about voting for it or what, but I was looking into the electricity differences. For instance, if a Costco opens up on the, um, edge of town a one large i ai center data center not the massive but the large version consumes hundreds of times as much electricity as a costco on the edge of town hundreds for a large for a for a for one of the massive ones which sometimes they build it's it's like a thousand times as much so the electricity thing is not even close And then for water, it's about 20 times. So like a large data center showing up would use 20 times the amount of water as a Costco would. But then you got the whole revenue, taxes, all that sort of thing. Well, yeah, and what would be my question to both of those statistics? If the reasonable nonpartisan studies show that electric rates will go up either inconsequentially or not at all, then why do I give a damn?
00:36:32
Speaker 3: It's the industry of the future. The water thing depends entirely on where you are. Are you in Kentucky or in Nevada in this discussion? Because they got, you know, they got rivers and lakes full of the stuff in the eastern third of the U.S., not so much in the west where it's becoming more and more of a crisis.
00:36:49
Speaker 5: Some of this, I wonder, well, some of what we know is the hatred of data centers just Exploding out of nowhere is Russian and Chinese bots. That is a known fact. Search on The New York Times. They've done bunches of articles.
00:37:06
Speaker 3: China wants to rule the world of data centers and data and AI.
00:37:10
Speaker 6: Some of this is the hatred of AI in general, though. I was talking to my kids about this the other day. Man, the young people hate AI. Now, we saw in the spring all the college graduations. Anybody mentioned AI? It was just roundly booed just to mention of it. I brought this up to my kids the other day. We were watching some video or something like that.
00:37:26
Speaker 3: And I said, so what do people in your school think about?
00:37:29
Speaker 5: Before I even.
00:37:30
Speaker 3: Finished my sentence, oh, God, we hate it. We all hate it.
00:37:33
Speaker 5: They just like... Hate, hate, hate, hate it. The young people.
00:37:39
Speaker 6: And that's going to be a political problem for the AI companies. The fact that you've got a generation coming up that their initial thought is it's awful.
00:37:48
Speaker 3: Right, right. You are ushering in a world that we find terrifying and don't want.
00:37:54
Speaker 5: I don't know how that's going to play out.
00:37:56
Speaker 3: I don't either. That's a great question. Politically. Isn't that interesting though? Economically, socially.
00:38:01
Speaker 6: Internet, iPhones, all that sort of stuff. Young people loved it. Young people hate AI.
00:38:08
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
