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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 he is strong and getty. On the battlefield, because of the latitude the president has given us, American firepower is only increasing. Iran's decreasing. We have more and more options and they have less. Just one month in, only one month, we set the terms. The upcoming days will be decisive. Iran knows that and there's almost nothing that's going to happen. Iran knows that and there's almost nothing they can militarily do about it. We were quoting a guy writing in the Wall Street Journal earlier today about how anybody who's proclaiming this, you know, a clear victory or a clear loss at this point is you're just, you just cheerleading for one side or the other because it's too early to tell. But there's plenty of positive stuff you could point out like sec, sec, deaf Pete is doing there. And the number of important things done in history that were no-brainers that clearly would go well from beginning to end or you can count them on the thumbs of one hand. So I would describe it at this point and I appreciate his piece saying this pretended certainty that's so fashionable now. It's so annoying. My belief is that Trump did something he and many people believe to be incredibly important, big and somewhat dangerous because you're never sure how these things are going to go. But the danger was worth it because our options were getting narrower and narrower, narrower, dealing with an evil regime held bent on getting nuclear weapons and in the interim exporting jihadism and death and hatred across the region and the world when they can. I'd been arguing this for going back a year or longer that after October 7th and Israel decimated their anti-aircraft stuff and then we hit him and get him blah blah blah all these different things. They were never going to be weaker than this ever. Right. So in now or never and they went with now. Is it possible that Pandora's box having been opened will unleash demons we can't deal with and we'll look back on this and say oh my gosh I wish we'd known. Yeah, absolutely. China takes Taiwan, Russia moves on another country and there's just not enough anybody left to try to stop them etc etc. Right or the the Molas decide they're going to go full armageddon and just you know I don't know send all sorts of missiles into Paris. I don't know. Yeah, of course it's possible. That's the way history unfolds but I'm still got my fingers crossed I'm still hoping for good outcomes. Secretary Pete was bringing it this morning as we speak these words. Let's roll on. The latest intel is clear out of Centcom. Our strikes are damaging the morale of the Iranian military leading to widespread desertions, key personnel shortages and causing frustrations amongst senior leaders. Fair enough. What else? If Iran is wise, they will cut a deal. President Trump doesn't bluff and he does not back down. You can ask Khomeini about that. The new Iranian regime should know that by now. This new regime because regime change has occurred should be wiser than the last. President Trump will make a deal he is willing. And the terms of the deal are known to them. If Iran is not willing then the United States War Department will continue with even more intensity. The narrative that some people still push that the Trump administration didn't even consider the closing of our straight-of-hormuz and had no plan for it is just dumb. Even if Trump hadn't thought about it, even though you can go back to tapes of him from decades ago, he had thought about it. But even if Trump hadn't thought about it, the Pentagon has been planning for this forever. So it's just there's not a chance that they didn't have meetings where he said, well, the first thing Iran is going to do is try to close the straight-of-hormuz. And this is how we're going to go about that. So that is just a dumb narrative. The Trump very well may have thought, and I can't blame him for thinking this, that after we hit him as hard as we did there in that first couple of days, that they would be, you know, who was left alive was going to make some sort of deal. I think he's probably surprised by that, that they- This calculation, yeah. That they didn't. It still is not an argument that it was not a good idea to do it. All right, so many negatives there. I lost myself. In my mind, it's still a positive that we did it. Right, okay. Oh, Secretary Pete, meanwhile, calling out the lazy fat euros, among others. There are countries around the world who ought be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. It's not just the United States Navy. Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well. He's pointing out- That was a tweak. This is an international waterway that we use less than most, in fact, dramatically less than most. So the world ought to pay attention to be prepared to stand up. President Trump's been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world to address this threat of Iran. It's not just our problem set going forward, even though we have done the lion's share of preparation to ensure that that straight will be open, which is an outcome the President's been very clear on. That was really a bit of a shot at our old buddies, the Brits there, the big bad Royal Navy, which at this point is a rainbow flag flying useless. I'm not sure they could stop the illegal fishing on the Thames at this point. Anyway, how about our enough with our useless friends? How about our nasty adversaries? It's Russia and China. We know exactly what they're doing, what they are or are not doing. We don't have to air publicly what all of that is, but where necessary, we're addressing it, we're mitigating it, and or we're confronting it head on. I don't know if you have anything you want to add. No, sir. I think you ever do. And then finally, how long is this all going to last? Because the markets are a little shaky and the gas is a little expensive and shipping has gotten crazy and I'm hearing whispers of a global depression. Not a question I'm going to answer or the President has said definitively. We have our own goals and guidance and things were military objectives that we're moving toward and things that we look at. And has he's articulated? You know, he said four to six weeks, six to eight weeks, three. It could be any particular number, but we would never reveal precisely what it is, because our goal is to finish those objectives. And we're well on our way. And the chairman and I look at this every single day. It will be the President's determination and the President's determination alone when those objectives are complete and when it serves the interests of the American people to cut that deal. And to me, it's a silly and artificial question. What's the timetable? Announcing a timetable in warfare? Isn't that just an excuse for the media to say you missed your timetable? Or to have your adversary prepare in a certain way. Here's some breaking news around Pete Hegzef. Pentagon weighs using anti-drone lasers in Washington airspace. Siding of drones around Fort McNair, the Army base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegzef and Secretary of State Mark O'Rubio live, has prompted consideration of deploying a new technology. A laser system to protect the homes of our Secretary of War and Secretary of State. They've been debating whether to deploy lasers there after recent reports of unusual drone activity. That's interesting. And I mentioned the 60 minutes piece, their second story on Sunday night all about drones and how the face of warfare is completely changed in the last couple years. And it's changing on a week by week basis. And then when you get to the whole, you know, sending in lots of drones at a time, swarms of drones, this is all new stuff and the ability to defend against it is all new stuff. So that's something I wonder why it's in the New York Times. Fans of geopolitics, I found this super interesting and you might too. I remember back when the Gulf states like the Saudis were a little wobbly and sometimes they'd make friendly with the Soviets or the Russians. They just signed the Gulf states. Three of them, I think it was just signed a $10 billion plus deal with Ukraine for Ukraine to export their drone and anti-drone technology and teach all the Gulf states how to use it to help them defend because everybody knows at this point the state of the art of drone warfare is Ukraine and Russia to some extent. But so the Saudi, well, the Gulf states are now squarely buddies with Ukraine and money and technology and help is going to be flowing in both directions. I wonder what that's going to look like going forward. Yeah. And then in case you didn't hear me say yesterday or didn't watch 60 minutes, their expert on there said, it's just a matter of time. Both sides, Ukraine and Russia, are close to having the ability to have AI command drone swarms. Currently, you can't have swarms of drones because an individual can't run them all at the same time or you can't get a bunch of individuals to run them without them running into each other or whatever. But AI technology could do that. And as soon as that happens, we're definitely into a different world. Ukraine said they're not planning to do it, but they think Russia will as soon as they can. And everybody's close. And I think as soon as Russia does it, then Ukraine will have to and then that might be the warfare for the next, who knows, however, many years. And then depending on the range of the drone swarm, all you have to do is, for instance, get a boat off the coast of New York. Some looks like a pleasure boat, a yacht, a fishing boat, whatever, unleash your drone swarm and it's on. Also, as we've been talking about for a couple of years now, we need a better term than drones because it's too all-encompassing. It's practically like saying the word weapon because it's so misleading. So they featured drones on 60 minutes that were in the water. They're big boats and they're drone boats that you could send out big Russian ships and they've sunk many Russian ships with these little boats. And then you've got land drones that have wheels and drive across and they're using those really cool, sending this cart out onto the battlefield, that hellscape that is that 10 mile wide kill zone, they call it, where the drones are hunting everybody down. They send a cart out there and put their wounded in there and the cart comes back and brings them back to the hospital. Yeah, yeah, unmanned vehicles, you got to call them. Unmanned UAVs, aerial or ocean going or whatever they are. I don't know. Unmanned boats, unmanned ground stuff and then you get the stuff flying through the air. And then when you hear about that, is it the tiny little one that's coming after me? Or is it the thing, this thing the size of a giant plane? Which are you talking about there? Right, an unmanned fighter plane or something I can get for 400 bucks a target. That's, so we got lasers maybe that can shoot those drones down and for some reason we decided we needed to announce that in the New York Times, maybe it'll let people know. I don't know. Coming up, the No Kings protests may have been the all time coverage to significance champion of anything that's ever happened in human history. I got some pushback against that, I will be interested in hearing how they push back if you will, how they meet up. Also, we didn't talk about this last week, we should Jimmy Kimmel taking a shot at plumbers, because Senator Mark Wayne Mullen ran a plumbing company, is now our DHS secretary. Disparaging that is, no, a plumber can't do anything. It's just outrageous really. And we'll get to that later this hour too, so stick around. Aaron Clapton just announced a new Crossroads Music Festival thing that he's going to do in Austin, Texas with some of the greatest guitar players in the world. So if you want to hear some really tasty blues licks and lectures about the evils of vaccines, get your tickets now. Can't anybody just do one thing? Oh my God. So I actually haven't heard this, I've only read people's complaints about it. So we're about to hear it. So last week, Jimmy Kimmel, who has a late night talk show, I guess was making cracks about the fact that Senator, former Senator Mark Wayne Mullen is now the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and comes from a plumbing background, which I guess is mockable in Jimmy Kimmel's world. Here's what it sounded like. Don't worry, Trump's got a whole new generation of thinkers lined up, including his newly confirmed Secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne, Chuck Mike Bruce Dave Mullen. Not maybe Mellon's better, he is the now former Senator of Oklahoma. Before he was elected to the Senate, Mark Wayne Mullen was a low-level MMA fighter and a plumber. That's right, we have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now. It worked for Super Mario, why not Mark Wayne? But honestly, I mean, yeah, Mark Wayne Mullen took over his family plumbing business when his dad was sick and turned it into a business from, I think it was three employees, something like that to 200 or 300, managing changes in technology, personnel, regulation, growth, blah, blah, blah, blah. He's an idiot, Jimmy, you're way smarter. Well, this is the backlash that it received from certain quarters. Even if Mark Wayne Mullen was just a regular plumber, who I think on average they make like $200,000 a year, what? Your bachelor's degree in something or other that nobody's ever heard of and you've done nothing with would be better somehow. What does that come from? Well, in a clever entertainer, having contempt for a guy who ran a huge plumbing business, explain that one to me, Jimmy, go ahead, I have time. Well, the tittering of the crowd though also, that just, we, we, I know, we've talked about this for years, the, the contempt for regular jobs and the adoration of getting a degree and not even having a job. It's weird how not even having a job is held up above a lot of jobs. Well, in getting a useless degree at a grade-inflated university that doesn't teach you anything and then getting some sort of low-paying cubicle job as a result is admirable and lauded and the guy running a giant plumbing business is a fool. That's just, I just, I can't dislike these people enough. Yeah, that, a lot of things, it doesn't matter to me. I mean, you know, think that all you want, enjoy your life, you're good, you're wrong. But as a cultural attitude, it's really bad for the country. So that, that's where, that's where it bothers me. It needs to, needs to be changed. I think Mike, Mike wrote it a lot of good work on that over the last couple of decades. Just changing that attitude of how is preparing yourself for nothing than doing nothing better than going out and doing an actual job. Right, right. Yeah, I agree, obviously. Coming up, a little final dissection of the No Kings rallies, which I think were a ridiculous exercise and virtually nothing, but Jack tells me there is pushback. But first, inexplicable, are you kidding me, Trump slash Tiger Woods news? President Trump has told the New York Post that he spoke with Gulf or Tiger Woods following his latest DUI arrest in Florida, saying the legendary athlete lives a life of pain due to physical injuries, but is doing great. I've talked to him. I think he's doing great. He's doing good, he said. He tested negative for alcohol, as you know, and he is under a tremendous physical pressure from his various ailments, you know, the back and the leg. He lives a life of pain. He has a lot of pain. He's an amazing guy. He's an amazing athlete. He does have pain. He doesn't have an alcohol problem, but he does have pain. Don't drive, dude. Do whatever you want. Anything you want. Just don't kill a little kid on her bike. All right. And you don't know it in advance when you're going to do that. So stay the F out from behind the wheel, Tiggy. Okay, we'll talk about the No Kings rallies among other things on the way next day. We have breaking political sex news, breaking political sex news. Breaking news is Christie Gnomes husband is a sex weirdo. Oh my gosh. Yes. Christie Gnomes husband is a weirdo and it all just broke now and why did it break down? How did it break now is its own interesting question. I have my own theory. My own theory would be she is tired of people making comments about her affair and all that sort of stuff. I want to say look, look, here's what I've been dealing with. Here's what I'm dealing with. I've been married for 34 years. I think it'd be nice to keep the family together, but I'm married to a complete freak. And a bunch of pictures just came out of him dressed in some costumes. Holy crap. He's it's I don't know what you call this. I do what it has a name. Yes, indeed. Brian. Brian with an O. There's your first sign. Yeah, that's an indicator. Y O N. Let's not get hung up, but that's a perverse spelling. Brian Gnome chatted up women from the so called bimbo vacation fetish scene in which adult performers augment their breasts with massive amounts of saline to achieve a Barbie doll like appearance. Citing hundreds of messages purportedly sent by three women from the scene, Gnomes husband enthusiastically praised their heavily augmented appearances claiming he coveted huge, huge, ridiculous boobs. One photo of the Daily Mail claims Brian. No, yes, thank you, Mr. Krauthammer, Dr. Krauthammer. One photo of Brian Gnome shared with the women featured him wearing hot pink pants and a flesh flesh, flesh colored skin tight suit. These pictures are unbelievable. We're looking at the pictures. They're incredible. They're posted at armstrongeghetti.com or will be in seconds. He appears to have put balloons in his shirt to mimic comically oversized lopsided breasts complete with fake protruding nipples and his hot tight little pink boy shorts. Oh, in the kissy face. Oh, boy. Yeah. Let's see. Christie put out a statement. Ms. Gnome is devastated. The family was blindsided by this and they asked for privacy and prayers at this time. I'm not sure what to pray for exactly. Those are like her workout shorts. Oh, so she's put your knees. Hey, if you're going to dress like a woman, put your knees together, sir. Totally. Yikes. So, man, I have said this many times and I've lived that I've seen other people you never have any idea what's going on in somebody else's marriage. You never have any idea and any conclusions you draw about who's right, wrong, good, bad, what, what, you have no idea. You never have any idea and well, and not only that, but you know, sexually speaking, he thought I got this kink. My wife has shown absolutely zero interest in any of it. So I'm just going to put it over here and you know, who knows? Maybe they had a good marriage for a while. I don't know, but that's some freaky stuff. So they got this picture here, at least in the Daily Mail of them from, I don't know how many years ago this is. They've been married for 34 years and she looks like a regular person. I mean, very attractive. You know, she's just genetically attractive, but she's got, she looks like an attractive mom. And then when did she go super duper glam, you know, when she wanted to work for Trump? Or I mean, it's kind of classic, you're married just falling apart, you get all hoted up because you're back on the market. And it seems to happen like not even consciously. It seems to happen subconsciously that people do that. Because, you know, she's kind of claiming with that that she had no idea her husband was doing that. She's blindsided by this right. Yeah. You know, her, her, her lifestyle with Corey Lewandowski makes more sense with this going on, I think. Yeah, who knows what the state of their marriage was. I don't know. That's a great question. Well, so bimplification, I was kind of aware of that just from being an r-crumb fan, Google it, of that. But I didn't know you addressed that way. These pictures are optional. These optional. I can't believe that in the modern world, people post pictures that could be this embarrassing to them anywhere. I'm just shocked by that anybody would ever do that because they're gonna, they're gonna come out. So looking at the messaging background, it appears he sent these on Snapchat, which those photos are supposed to disappear after you send them. Yeah. Obviously. So somebody screen captured them or how does that work? Well, it tells you if a screenshot is done. So I'm not really too sure. I guess somebody could have been doing a video recording when they rolled in. I mean, these, these aren't, I suppose that could be him. No, I mean, it's a hundred percent him. These are very clear close up Kristi Noem's husband in a super skin tight crop top with gigantic boobs and tiny little pink shorts. It's a weird look. And with his legs, Brian, Brian, you need more support. Okay. You need an underwire bra, Brian, particularly that large. Oh, and the pink shorts with the crotch shot too much. She's got his hand in front of his eyes trying to shield himself from having to see it. I'd like to know when she found out. If she was dealing with this in her marriage through the whole Minneapolis thing, it might explain something. Yeah. Or maybe she was actually blindsided. I don't know. I don't know. Kind of something that he's into the Barbie look and then she gets the nickname Ice Barbie. Oh, thanks for dipping your phone down and giving me a butt selfie too, Brian. I didn't see that one. Seriously thinking these are her, her leggings. I'm glad that never leggings. I'm glad the dog never saw this. Oh my God, Michael took me a minute. That was completely inappropriate. Oh my God. What? That family all the way around. They got some interesting stuff going on. Dog shooting balloon boob sporting pink shorts. Where? Spell and Brian with an O. Brian was using the name. Fillers. Jason Jackson. Jason Jackson. That's good. That's good. So the New York post version of the story also says that she was, you know, the news that she was blindsided. Yeah. I think the post is just a summary of the daily mail coverage. Hundreds of messages purportedly sent by three women from that scene that he had been interacting with hundreds. Yeah. So that was his thing. This is hobby. It's good to have a hobby. You know, relieve the stress of the day. You birdwatch. Yeah. You can't think about work all the time. You gotta have a hobby. You birdwatch. He stuffs giant balloons in a crop top, puts on tiny little shorts and makes kissy faces for women online. And corresponds with women who've grotesquely, you know, altered their bodies to please weirdos like himself. So I would like to know if this did just come out to her. She's becoming aware of this the same time we all are. I'd like to hear what Corey Lewandowski is saying. He's a pretty sharp-tongued individual. Oh boy. I'm speaking of praying. I gotta give thanks three times a day for how simple my life is in a lot of ways. So now he's saying to his married girlfriend, how's Brian doing? Have you heard from Brian? Have you helped him try on bras lately or anything? Do your Lulu lemons seem a little stretched out when you try to put them on? I think I know what's happened to him. Are you straight and you put on skin tight little pink shorts? Yeah, I don't know. Is it like an autogynophilia thing or I have no idea. I don't know what that word means. That means you secretly fantasize about having a vagine as a man. What? Some transsexual cases or that. Yeah, I've talked about this. You gotta start taking notes. Yeah, you fantasize about having a vagine and so eventually you get one. You go through the sex change because you're fixated on that idea. Him sitting there in the little pink skin tight shirts with his legs splayed open. I can't imagine. It's not a straight look. It doesn't mean he's not. No, I don't know how that thing works. That twist works. No idea. We need somebody in the community that knows more about this. You're straight and you like women with like cartoonishly large breasts and you get turned on by pretending to be one. I think that's like way beyond straight, v-gay or whatever. I don't know. I wonder if he, that'd be interesting if he, how long that's been going on and if he was completely hiding it from her. Like you just said, thank God my life's so simple. Oh my God, I would hate to have a giant part of my life that I have to hide from everybody. Can you imagine how stressful that would be? It just would be awful. Well, people are like openly furries these days. So what's got to be kept behind the curtain is getting less and less. Well, a lot more in South Dakota than in California. Yeah, fair enough. She's a governor of South Dakota. Clem, that was the furry convention. All is good is good. When I got back to the ranch though, I realized, oh my God, we got to inoculate the cattle so I've been playing catch-up ever since. But it was nice. It was nice. I got to get my fox suit dry clean. Thanks for the reminder. Well, they're gonna have fun with this story all day long. Probably make all sorts of inappropriate comments. I hope not. Oh my God. All right. If you've seen the pictures, they can't be unseen. No, they cannot be unseen. I think we just need to take a break. They are something. Like I said, I'm just surprised at people with that willingness to have your face in a picture like that you send to strangers. Well, he was getting his kink on. He got caught up in it. Everybody was having a good time. Right. He didn't think about the repercussions, Jack. And that's the lesson, really. That's the lesson everybody should take from that. If you have any comment on that, text us 415-295-KFTC. So the No Kings protests were very, very large. The biggest drawback to them to me was there wasn't a clear message. It was like a whole bunch of different causes. But it was, I forget how many million people they said over how many different cities, but it was one out of 10 Americans were out on the street on Saturday. That's pretty amazing. According to organizers. Yeah, okay. There were a lot of people. There were a lot. I mean, some of the aerial shots at some of the bigger ones like Minneapolis, New York, whatever. They were huge crowds. Jeff Blair writes for the national review. He's a funny guy. He's snarky. He's not a trump fan at all. But he talks about he's a chicagoan. There he was in the west loop. He says, uh, I ignored all the warning signs, the regular public service announcements on npr that encouraged my attendance. Sudden disappearance of lunch and dinner reservations at pricey restaurants, blah, blah, blah, blah. The chittering den of septigenarian trotskyets and blue-haired grandmothers as they scuttled from their hidey holes in the north shore to gather agitatedly in Grant Park. Yes, brood boomer reassembled downtown for a reprise of last october's similarly senior heavy affair. The no kings protest against well, what? Deportation of illegals, the potential quagmire of the iran war, our cynically mercantilist adventure in Venezuela, that tacky white house ballroom. They are opposed to all of these things and more. They're opposed to the simple existence of the trump administration in all its unanswerable egregiousness. And why not? Then he goes into the fact that he's no big trump fan. Um, Everybody has a right to great but All of the observations I made about the demography of the no kings rally yours back last year Applied in redoubled measure to this year's attending class. These people were overwhelmingly old white deeply elite progressives and vastly fewer in number this second time around. I haven't seen so many senior citizens and embarrassingly tight fitting union t-shirts worn over top long sleeves Since I attended the d and c in 2024. I had difficulty spotting anyone my age or younger and i'm 45 It is kind of interesting that it seemed to be so old skewing Yeah, yeah, it is intensely boomer coded and is now done with grim duty to the commands of political organizers rather than as a spontaneous expression Of discontent. I don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing The younger generation is many more discontents than their parents do right now And it's not as if they lack the appetite for political change themselves I fear that in their disillusionment and in patients with the gestural politics of boomers. They prefer more destructive methods Yeah, that's true. I mean a lot of young people particularly young women are crazy politically active right now But like in a destructive america hating up with anybody who's against western civilization way Yeah, I didn't I didn't really pay that much attention to the no kings rallies. They just seemed silly to me But it's it's a let's all get together and think the same thing and feel good Bad group therapy like that writer. Uh, we quoted last night yeah, trumps got the lowest approval writing he's ever had and uh It's just being reflected in the street. I guess I don't know I Yeah, I guess Anybody brings up the no kings rally to you in a week call me anytime or night or day. Yeah. Yeah, I agree Hey kids, it's molesto the crown so creepy Here's your host for final thoughts. Joe Getty. I mean people are talking about the civil rights protests half a century later I gotta talk about no kings tomorrow. All right, let's get a final thought from everybody. Michael. Lead us off I gotta check my phone. Make sure I don't have any embarrassing photos. They're gonna get out You know, it's been a while since I've checked my phone. So I better look over my my photos Katie greener steamed news woman has a final thought katie I know someone who spells her name b r y o n and I will forever call them bryon now Or brian brian Yeah, jack a final thought for us. I was looking through some of the online snark about the christy gnomon her husband's story So he sticks by her through an affair but He gets caught one time Dressing like of whatever the hell he was dressed like and she uh, you know shoots him in the in the Rock quarry like a disobedient dog Hangs about to dry Doesn't mean anything anymore. Wow, my final thought is seriously the modern world is too much Retreat to nature with me to uncle joe's holiday camp for those worn out by the modern world And then room rates will be confiscatory, but the service will be excellent And then we put on tight fitting shirts with big giant fake boobs underneath them or not at all Totally optional. That's dress up night. That's Tuesday nights armstrong and getty wrapping up another grueling four hour work day They're squeezed into these pink shorts So many people to thank so little time go to armstrong and getty dot com for the pictures once they are seen They can't be unseen. 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