This is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm strong and getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. Live from Studio C. See, say, Joe. Welcome to a brand new week. Pregnant with possibilities. We're deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. And today we're toiling under the title of the show. Trump calls for strike on the Vatican. It's Trump V the Pope. Oh, my. Or if you prefer, blockade the blockaders. Blockade the blockaders. OK, or ends the blockaders. We're going to blockade them. Exactly. The pope should shut up. Shut up. Oh, I watched 60 Minutes last night. I don't want to hear from you priests about international politics. I want to hear everything you have to say about personal salvation and Jesus. No, that sort of stuff. Very interested. I'd sit there and listen to you all day long. Don't give a frig what you have to say about international policy and politics and your moronic position on war. Sorry, Pope. That's a moronic position. It is the pacifist position that we're always talking about. It lets the grownups in the room handle the hard dirty work of keeping a nation or a people safe. We are against where for peace, always for peace. What if the other guy is trying to get a nuclear weapon to kill y'all? I am for peace. That doesn't make any sense. Be a grown up. I am for peace. OK, put on your fancy shoes and go over there. Talk about Jesus or something. Yeah, I appreciate you being fired up about it. I just I hear it. It's like, you know, a child's point of view on what she'd have for dinner. I mean, it's OK. You know, maybe we'll think about that. And I'm pro-Pope, pro-Catholic church, pro-all that stuff. I just don't I would. They were there. It was the feature story in 60 Minutes Last Night, and nor Donald actually asked these bishops, what do you say to people who don't want politics in their in their in their sermon on a Sunday morning? And they had some gobbledygook about why it's important to blah, blah, blah. But I thought, God, dang it, if I'm going on a Sunday morning and I have to listen to you rail against Trump and his policies, no freakin way I'm sitting there for that. No. Oh my God. Or ice on and on about ice, the evils of ice. Shut up. Read me a passage from the Bible and explain to me what it means. That's your job. Yes, just that old, you know, progressivism that you get to congratulate yourself for how enlightened you are and ignore the fact that your policies, if they were implemented, would be suicidal. But you do it smugly. And I don't think Trump needs to take shots online. No, no, no, no, no. But that's that's a problem we've been dealing with. I'm the old lack of a filter issue. That's baked into the cake. But yes, he should. He should ignore it. That'd be the smart thing to do just because who cares what the Pope says. But so blockade, the blockaders, what did the blockade already start or does it start here in a couple hours? Is it already started? Less than an hour, actually. Fans of blockades. This is very exciting. We're counting down till the 10 a.m. Eastern time blockade of all the Iranian ports. Which was a suggestion brought up last week. I mentioned this think tank person that said, why aren't we making sure no Iranian ships can come in and out? They're making more money than they made before the war started. Seems like somebody heated that advice and thought, yeah, why are we letting their ships go in and out? How about no ships go in and out? What they're doing is almost precisely what you described last week in the Wall Street Journal editorial board was talking about it as well. Yeah. All right. Ain't nobody making any money. Now what are you going to do? It's an escalation. Stick that in your turban and smoke it. Call that a blockade. You like that one, Katie? I thought that was good. Well, that was a good one. That was great. I don't know. It didn't make any sense. Taking shots at all the religions. That's not good. Yeah, what does the matter with that? I know. I want to control. I don't know. I'm into it. I'm into it. I like it. It's interesting information later on how many there are of whoever in whatever religion that I just dug up last night after I was listening to some of this stuff that I think you'll find fascinating. We'll get to that later. I'm dressed for whoever whatever. That's a little vague, like pool, queues and motor cars or what? Can you help us understand? We have on the topic of religions. Oh, like how many people are in? Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see. I am dressed for the Springsteen Concert. I dressed the way he's been dressing in the concerts. Black dress shirt, black jeans, red, Doc Martins. That's the way he's been dressing. So I'm dressed like Bruce Springsteen to go to the concert tonight. Well, why have you decided to do that? I'm old, but not near as old as him. I don't know. I just have always done that. I dress like David Lee Roth if I'm going to Van Halen, just whatever. Seriously? No, no. I just I saw him. I saw a video of him in LA and I thought, I have that same outfit. I'll just wear the same thing. Wow. A private meeting, Katie. Seems a little fanboyish to me. A little bit. And I'll tell you what, I've been watching some of the when he about third of the way through the concert, he comes out and he sits down on the end of the stage and he says, we're living through some hard times. Then he starts in on what's wrong with Trump and everything. And I think that's my bathroom break. That's that's when I go get in line to get a slice of pizza and use the restroom. I am not going to sit through that. Played fireside chat. Fireside chat on politics with Bruce. Oh, Lord, I don't want him or the rock stars and popes. Just shut up about the politics. Do you think he'll do that before the lead into his Minneapolis song? I think that's where he puts it. Yeah. OK. Oh, that's a rough 10 minute period there. The other three hours of all be I'll be OK with the music. Well, that part will be a little rough. My kids are going to be scrolling their phones. Everybody's going to be the other part will be barred. Is everybody around me in San Francisco be cheering like crazy? Yeah, I guess I don't know. It's just also tiring. It is. It is. Whether you're watching a baseball game or going to church or a rock concert, you have to hear about politics. That's just the world we live in. We're scrolling through really anything. I'd like to ask Bruce, what do you think he's accomplishing? Because I have a feeling I've heard the answer many times from like your Hollywood stars and they say something to the effect of, well, I have this platform and I just feel like I have to use it and I'd say, well, OK, that's your end of it. Do you think anybody's mind is changed by your screed? That's a good way to put it. That I think anybody learns anything. I understand your end of it. Now, the other is just an opportunity for you to connect with people who agree with you, essentially. And you just don't give a flying whatever about the many millions of people that don't agree with you. Just think you don't need their customers or I would guess that most people like him. They just can't even imagine there's more than like three people in any arena that wouldn't agree with what he's thinking. And they're angry, stupid bigots. Yeah, yeah. So screw that. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah. How about you're no communicating with them? They're the trolls hardly anybody and they're bad people anyway. So right, right. Bingo. Awesome. That's fantastic. Now, can we start to show officially? We should probably do that. Man, there's lots of news of the day and who knows how this blockade is going to go. England's against it. China is against it. Lots of people are against our blockade that we're starting today. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is a Monday, April 13th, the year 2026. We're Armstrong and getting we approve of this year program. Let's leap into action. Then officially, according to FCC rules, regulations, here we go at Mark. And you want to see a stock market go down, let a couple of nuclear bombs then be dropped on us or frankly, anyplace else. And then you'll see a stock market that goes down. So the stock market has not gone down very much at all. Got down a little bit, much less than I thought. And frankly, the gas hasn't gone up as much as I thought. This ongoing conversation about whether or not they were trying to get a nuke or how close they were to a nuke is driving me nuts. And I got into an argument with chat GPT yesterday afternoon over the JCPOA. That was the agreement the Obama administration put in place with the Iranians. I got into an argument with chat GPT because I thought it was wrong. And so I actually went to Claude and and Jim and I for more information and kept coming back at chat GPT until it basically agreed that I was right. And it was wrong. Wow. But it came out with a political position about how the Obama agreement was perfect. It would have been just fine if we'd left it in place only Trump. Completely wrong. They were going to talk about this later because everybody should remember they were cheating on this agreement. They were working to get a nuclear weapon. They were never going to stop until they got one. Yeah, the AI systems, large language, model, learning, model, things, garbage in, garbage out. It's a perfect example of it. They mind the mainstream media so they get mainstream opinions, which are inaccurate in this case. You know what you got to do? You got to like gossip about chat GPT with Claude. That's a good idea. I'm an eye. That's a good idea. And I tell you who's not smart, no intelligence, artificial or otherwise, that idiot, chat GPT. Huh? Hey, could you give me this information about how they were trying to get around the inspections because over a chat GPT, you won't believe this. Is actually telling me and then get him into a battle. Yes. Like like Trump and the Pope, just get him. Hart, you know, sniping at each other. That'd be fantastic. Um, we got some interesting stuff, actually, AI wise about how Joe brought this up some last week, there's more over the weekend about how some of these AIs are going to go out into all our computers to harness our prosperous processing power and memory storage because they don't have enough secretly without us knowing it so they can build their, I don't know, their netherworld. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Exploit us while we sleep, bastards. Or turn us into zombies or I don't know what they're going to do. I had an email address, email account hacked over the weekend. My own stupidity. I should tell that story. I thought I was immune to falling for anything like that. What'd you fall for? Oh, it was a Prince. I figured you were above that. Well, no lottery. I won the lottery as it turns out. I just had to pay the taxes in advance. No, it was a fishing scam, a party invitation from a guy who I'm going to be very near when I've visited an old place I used to live. And I thought, oh, yeah, OK, he knows I'm going to be in town because a lot of people do and want to invite me to a party. And so I had to sign in by you could sign in via. And it was like a two step authentication thing, which in retrospect, I was half asleep when I did this. It was first thing in the morning in retrospect. No, you'd never you don't need to actually sign into your account to like register through an account. But I did and I used my password and then it did the thing. And so the interesting part of this is and I got it all fixed. And then when you came home from the story, you couldn't get in your house and your car is gone and your wife's with a different guy. No, no, that's why I don't believe in smart anything. Please dumb. I want a dumb thermostat, a dumb doorbell, whatever. Anyway, but the most interesting part of it was that when they hack your account, they automatically, you know, they have software that does this, put filters on your account so that all of your incoming email goes to trash or spam so that you won't see any of your friends asking, hey, Joe, is this legit? Because it harnessed my email address to send out a bunch more spam. And so it all went straight to trash. The filters were any email that contained the letter A or any email that contained the letter C. But thanks to an AI system, I was able to figure out what to do and how to do it and got my address back and and got rid of all those filters and stuff. That sucks. It was a stressful, wasteful hour and a quarter, hour and a half fixing it. Yeah. You spent an hour and a half on it. Yeah. And I had like good assistance and I'm reasonably competent technically. So yeah, I was actually, as I was stressed and pissed off and pissed off at myself, I was picturing some poor eight year old who's not particularly computer. You wouldn't even notice it happen. You just have to close the account, I guess. I don't know. Get your organs harvested is probably what would happen. So we've got Katie's headlines on the way. We've got more news of the day. The while we're on the air today, the American Israel is Israel hoping us on this blockade of the Strait of Hormose will begin. We'll see how the world reacts to that. Lots of stuff. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. Paying attention. I was making coffee in the Keurig machine and there's somebody slipped flavored coffee in there and I made some sort of. Oh, flavored coffee is disgusting. What is wrong with you people? Hazelnut strawberry vanilla. Coffee is the greatest flavor ever. Coffee flavored coffee. Then I poured out next break and get real coffee. I had a guest this weekend stay at my house and they were asking, do you have any, uh, any creamers by chance? I do put cream in my coffee. Well, I had like regular half and half, but that was from baking something. I was like, oh, I'm going to get some cream. Half, but that was from baking something. I was like, that's it. She's like, oh, I really like French vanilla. Oh, sorry. Bring it with you. All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green, Katie. All right, starting with the alphabet networks. ABC, US blockade of Iran, Strait of Hormose ports to begin today. NBC oil prices surge after Trump says United States will blockade the Strait of Hormose and CNN. Trump says Iran will give us quote everything we want. So the Iranians are vowing all kinds of retaliation as soon as the blockade begins today. No port in the region will be safe according to a statement from the revolutionary guards. So we'll see what happens. They have shown a willingness to escalate at every single step of this. And absolutely true. And willingness and ability. Oh, true. Yeah, asymmetrical warfare. It's interesting to watch how it ends. I have no idea. This one from Katie Grimes at the Cal Globe. Representative Swalwell Suspends campaign for California governor following sexual assault allegations. I like the New York Post's headlines. Swal's well that ends well. I don't know if that means anything, but that's trying hard. What, he's going to step down just because an entire cheerleading team of women came forward and said they raped them? What's clear is that Democrats all over California and Washington, DC knew he was this kind of guy forever. Yeah, yeah. From the New York Times, after criticizing the Pope, Trump posts an image of himself as a Jesus like figure. Yeah, a friend just sent that to me. It's a bit much. This one from the New York Post. That's a heck of a move. It really was. From the New York Post. Mom Donnie's first city owned grocery store that cost taxpayers $30 million is set to open. Oh my God. I'm glad they're doing the experiment, I guess. Again. But again? It's going to be a miserable failure like it always is. Again. This one made me smile from the Washington Post. Bebe the parrot goes on underwater adventure in his custom built submarine. Again, there's a lot there. They shoved a parrot basically into a plastic tube and had him go on a submarine trip and then said that he liked it. Wow. Wow. Study finds. A male birth control pill that works, quote, and wears off, moves closer to reality. Oh, that'd be something. And finally from the Babylon Bee. Kamala Harris, quote, thinking about losing again in 2028. So she says she's considering running for president? Seriously considering it, yeah. She's trying to get more people to show up to her book signings or she's serious. It would be so wonderful. So incredibly wonderful. What a blessing that would be. We need to check in on some of the news of the day. Some of the threats coming out of Iran and they might mean it. So stick around. The bad news is that we have not reached agreement. Talks between the U.S. and Iran collapse after 21 hours of high stakes negotiations. Where does the conflict go from here? Okay, let's start. And why so many violins? Let's start there, which is news that is now several days old. And then we'll get to news that is like as current as current can be as we record this. So they sent JD Vance to Islamabad, Pakistan, along with Jared and Woodcoff to meet with some Iranian leaders. First face to face meetings between the U.S. and Iran since the whole taking our hostages thing back in 79. Pretty big deal. Wow. And they met for whatever you heard there 24 hours. JD Vance walks up and says they didn't agree to anything. Not a thing. Didn't budge a bit. So we're going home. And they actually all got on the plane and left while the negotiators or the mediators there in Pakistan were claiming for a while that they're ongoing and there'll be another round of talks on Sunday and blah, blah, blah, blah. No, everybody got on the plane and left immediately sending the signal that, okay, you're not even serious about this. We're going home. I feel like maybe that was Trump taking the last ditch. Maybe so he'd feel good about himself. Effort to negotiate before he unleashes the holy hell that he has promised. I don't know. But then you move toward today and you've got the blockade of the straight that the United States is going to attempt to pull off so that Iran can't let some ships go through that some some ships have been paying the tolls. Plus there you got the stuff that benefits Iran going through that they've been letting in and out of course, which seems ridiculous. They've been making they've Iran has made more money since the war started off the straight of hormones than they did prior to the war starting, which is a stunning stat. So getting back to the negotiation just briefly, it strikes me that sending Jared and Whitcoff and JD, all of whom are pretty smart guys and pretty good negotiators. I'll bet they came away with the sense that the nuclear program arounds nuclear program, which it quote unquote refuses to give up. Is that something it actually just won't give up under any circumstances in which case we're through here? Or is it they won't give it up without getting a hell of a lot in return, which means maybe we can talk. And I think it was the former. They decided no, they're going to work toward a bomb come hell or high water. Well, I don't want to get sidetracked by this conversation because we got the current stuff to get to that's pretty pretty big. Oh, my. But nobody quite understands why Iran doesn't just do what they've always done, pretend to give up their nuclear program and delay and continue working on it best you can behind the scenes until Trump's out of office. Why are there whoever's in charge and still has their head and limbs is just saying that Trump's not going to fall for this one. They're studying. They they have an idea of he's no Obama. I was desperate to be the great diplomat and announce a deal. No matter. They're telling me, I think it was the journal somebody pointed out this morning that when the JCP away was falling apart and the Iranian negotiator got up and left the room. John Kerry ran after him. How do you like that for symbolism? Physically ran after. Yeah. Wow. After him. Wait, wait. That's a good feeling when the car, the car guy is chasing you. No, there's more. Yeah, exactly. And Trump is not going to pull a John Kerry. So then we decide we're going to do a blockade of the straight and nobody's exactly sure how that will work. For instance, the president chain claims it's a coalition, although there's no indication that there's anybody in this coalition but us. And President Kerstarmer or Prime Minister Kerstarmer of Britain said specifically they will not be part of US blockade of Iranian ports. The same has come out of France. So I don't know who this coalition is that the president claims. I think he's just saying that. So there's Denmark. Maybe no, we pissed them off. There's no coalition of any point. And the Wall Street Journal asks one of the most important questions about this. It remains unclear what would happen to the ships that the US military intercepts. So if a ship does come through the straight and we got all our battleships there and whatever you have in a blockade, we what? Shoot at it, board it and then take it confiscate it. What is happening there? Well, somebody thinks we'll board it because I was reading about who and how and you know what's going to happen with that and how dangerous it might be. But maybe they were just guessing. I bet that was your typical cable news sort of hypothetical. What would happen if then they explained for 15 minutes because according to all the officials, there's been no, well, there's been no announcement yet of what they're going to do if a ship actually comes through. Yeah. Nobody knows how China is going to react to this. They have kept their mouth closed and there's been some serious back and forth between Trump and China over the weekend. Us accusing China of helping out the the Iranians and China saying they're willing to continue helping the Iranians. And they also get 80% of their energy from abroad and a lot of it comes through that straight. So they've got a pretty good reason to want the straight to be open. Yeah, indeed. Indeed. Yeah, just as usual with this, just so many question marks. Here's another question mark for you. What in the world would make the Wall Street Journal online think I want ads for clothes for sexy young women and bras? It's like all I'm seeing right now. It's distracting. We all have our crosses to bear. Well, though, seriously, with computer science, the way it is these days, why are they not hitting me up for like golf clubs and cars and you know, I don't know. Booze. Anyway, Katie, you got a good golf. No, you just you had to have said something or clicked on something, Joe. You've got a bit of a Kristi Noem's husband thing going. Bimboism going on back there. You found me out. You got a little bimboism happening. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. Yeah, just on the weekends. It's my business. More on that to come as well. But back to the Persian Gulf. Yeah, so the Iranian parliament speaker, he was one of the main negotiators there who went to Islamabad did not budge on anything left the talks and said, if you fight, we will fight. And then Iran's Revolutionary Guard said the straight remained in Iran's full control and was open. Military vessels will get a forceful response, said the Revolutionary Guard. And they are going to fire on all ports in the area if we attempt to do this starting in like an hour. Wow. So the causes much pain to as many as you can strategy continues from the IRGC. I'm I'm well, I don't know if that's the best strategy. If I'm Iran, I don't know. I think maybe just wait because that's going to put a lot of pressure on China and Europe. If there are no boats of all going through, I think that I think he got some leverage there. But you just have to wait it out. Yeah, yeah. And in what direction does China throw its weight? It could well be to tell their loyal yet pesky and more trouble than the worth ally Iran to cut it out. You know, they'll pressure the U.S. obviously publicly, but they might tell the IRGC, look, no, now you're causing us pain. That's not the way this relationship works. Don't be surprised if you see a headline today or in the near future where Trump has slapped a 50% tariff on everything coming on at China because he threatened that over the weekend. If China helps Iran in any way, Maria Bartiromo interviewing the president over the weekend said, I've heard reports claiming that China was giving shoulder fired anti aircraft missiles to the Iranians. Trump said, I doubt they would do that. Maybe they did that a little bit at the beginning. But if we catch any country, including China, providing military equipment to Iran at this point, they will face a 50% tariff. Maybe they did that a little bit at the beginning. China was giving the Iranian's shoulder fired anti aircraft missiles to shoot down our planes. Holy crap. Yeah, wow, wow, wow. And what does he actually know? Maybe a little bit at the beginning. Can you ask somebody? Does the CIA know? I know what I was thinking of this morning is just how, because I am really into reading a lot of history, a lot of different kinds of things. A lot of the big events in world history, there's a prelim to that event that gets lost to history. Days, weeks, months, sometimes years of things that happened before the big event happened. And we might be in that situation now where this past month we've been getting a lot of chatter around everything around this and that and blah, blah, blah. And the big event is to come. Like the big event starts tomorrow or something. And all that pre stuff from the past month will be forgotten by history when the real essence of the fan. China deciding to send a ship to force the straight over. Who knows what's going to happen. But there are a lot of possibilities of things that could happen this week. It's a great point. History, or at least the way we take it in, tends to yada, yada, yada, all the circumstances that led up to the big event. I mean like the Pearl Harbor was the result of many, many, many, monsterizing tensions between the western world and Japan. And I won't go into it, but yeah, absolutely true. I wish you hadn't said that though. I was in a pretty good mood. Now I'm worried. Something truly history changing is about to occur. I was just in the Midwest where they're unhappy with their gas prices, but they're like 350 a gallon where I was in Kansas. You know, and if you're used to, before the war started, they were getting, my dad said the gas was 198. Oh my God. They're paying 198 for gas. Wow. Wow, wow. I had another point about the cataclysmic event thing, but it can wait till after a word from our friends at Rough Greens. 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So don't change your dog's food. Just add Rough Greens. Watch the health benefits come alive. The point that flitted out of my head is flitted back in and that is the one thing, and feel free to disagree with us. But the one thing we must always remember is that the status quo prior to the current conflict was absolutely not going to last. Iran was going to get a nuke and be a terrible, terrible threat. So couldn't we have just kept going like we were doing? Really wasn't a choice. That's what I think. So the whole it's a war of choice. You're really getting into slicing it thin semantics game to me. Or you need to make a good strong case for why you say that. Why it's right. Because technically, if my neighbor isn't attacking me, I get to, it's a choice when I attack him. But he's been vowing to kill me and my family and he keeps getting more and more guns and I see him getting prepared to do it. Putting out his tactical gear, yeah. I want to hear. This is from Martha Raditz on ABC This Week. President Trump announcing that the US will now blockade any and all ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz and posting a warning to Iran. Any Iranian who fires at us or at peaceful vessels will be blown to hell. So it seems, according to Trump, that the whole just hit them like we've hardly ever hit any country in our nation's history is still on the table. Oh yeah, they're weighing a limited set of strikes in addition to the blockade right now. Just amp up the pressure a little bit. Yeah, so it's, you know, if for some reason your feeling was well, it's been going on for a month. They had some talks, blah, blah, blah. It's settled down. Sees fire, blah, blah. This could be a hot, hot week. Like a really big deal. I'd be surprised if it wasn't. Yeah, me too. We got more on that later. We've got mailbag next day here. Excellent point on the text line about a missing piece of the Trump versus the Pope battle. We'll get into that in an hour or two. Excellent. Right now it's your freedom-loving quote of the day. This one from Teddy Roosevelt sent along by honorary producer Jeff. Heck, we could spend all of our time on this if we wanted. Here's the quote from Teddy. But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fiber of each civilized race and turn. Each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden underfoot by some rudor people that had kept that virile fighting power, the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful. Talking about how you just get like we're always talking about softer and more self-indulgent, less fighting spirit, and then somebody who's tough and mean comes along and just bulldozes you. Fantastic. Who said that? Teddy Roosevelt. TR. It comes from his essay, The Dawn and Sunrise of History. Mailbag. Woo-woo. Drop us a note, Mailbag at ArmstrongEGT.com. This is the meme of the day sent along by alert listener Mike. Comparing the Artemis II mission with the California bullet train, Artemis II cost $4 billion, bullet train $126 billion. Artemis, planning began in 2017, bullet train planning began in 1996. Passengers carried to Artemis II for bullet train zero. Miles traveled Artemis, 695,000 bullet train zero. Well done. That's pretty good. You laugh. I laugh. Nice note here from Randy. I don't listen to the news, but I spent the day off yesterday going from one news source to another and realized you two deserve a medal. I did it for one day and got hives, the flu, probably an STD, lost my hair and two teeth, and you two do it every day. Bringing us selflessly all the headlines with your special flair so we don't have to suffer through torture and the media's truly heroic and high for one and unendingly grateful. That's a bit much, but you're welcome. It's getting harder to do. It's a lot harder than it used to be to do, to follow the news. You have to put a lot of effort into trying to weed through tons of crap. And dare I use the word misinformation to try to figure out what the hell's going on. Agreed. Then he comes to his main point. My description of the whole around thing is being a hall of mirrors shrouded in fog. He says, but as you say, no one knows what's going on. There are many who do teams of CIA spooks, intelligence officers, political operatives, defense personnel from the U.S. talking with Israel, Saudi, Qatar, a brain and the other world powers have a say in diplomacy. If you don't think China and Russia haven't chimed in with what they'd like to see, you're not paying attention. There's not one person making a deal with another. This is an incredibly complex deal making between many participants. You can't see it and will never hear about it, but it's happening. Yeah, that's the whole point, right? That's the fears of influence thing that might be going on. Yeah, yeah. And it's also the super heavyweights trying to reach a deal and saying to like Iran, we'll get back to you. You're not entirely making this decision. The twist being Iran is a religious, fanatical, dead end cult. Nobody's quite sure how to deal with that. Speaking of the war, Kevin says, I want to point out that this brief conflict, wherever the actual end may be, is likely highly beneficial to our military. We've gotten real world, modern experience in the type of drone warfare that will shape future conflicts. We've identified logistical shortcomings and have gotten invaluable experience on ballistic missile defense in theater. Whatever else anyone could say about the war, it never hurts to clean out the cobwebs. Another excellent point. How much time do we have, Michael? You know, that's true. That's very true. I mean, there is the... It's still rather not have to ever actually fight. I mean, my fighting skills would get better if I got in a fight today, but still much rather not. All right. No, I'm not calling for attacking Denmark or anything. Kevin's just pointing out that there are advantages to getting in the ring and actually going a few rounds. Alvin is talking about mnemonic devices. He's making fun of the insane Canadian MBLGBTQIAQQR thing we were talking about. And he said it reminds him of mnemonic devices, like, for instance, I learned the guitar strings every... or eating apples daily gives big ears. The names of the strings. Well, he says... The mnemonic that electrical engineers use for the power of 10 on resistors, those are for the colored markers on resistors. What color, what order they're in? It's a BBRYGWVGW. This is a little rough. Bad boys rape our young girls while Violet gives willingly. He says there are other nicer versions. What? That's not a good mnemonic. There's got to be a better way. I'm sure I could come up with a better way. Did Eric Swalwell used to work in electricity? It's terrible. Good lord. Come on, traditions. Check yourself. This is horrible. Speaking of Eric Swalwell, we'll bring you up to speed on that mess. Among other things in an hour or two, if you missed a segment, get the podcast, Armstrong and Getty on demand.
