Armstrong & Getty On Demand

I Couldn't Find My Pink Stretchy Shorts!!

36 min
Apr 1, 2026about 2 months ago
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Summary

Armstrong and Getty discuss escalating US-Iran military tensions, including a mysterious presidential address scheduled for the evening, international coalition responses, and a Supreme Court birthright citizenship case Trump plans to attend. The hosts also cover the viral 'Kid Rock helicopter gate' incident and debate the implications of ongoing military operations in the Middle East.

Insights
  • Presidential communication strategy appears deliberately vague, with no advance clarity on whether the address will announce escalation, de-escalation, or status quo—suggesting either strategic ambiguity or genuine uncertainty about next moves
  • International allies are fracturing on Iran policy: UAE preparing direct military involvement while European nations (France, Italy, Spain) are restricting US military access, indicating coalition cohesion challenges
  • Media and expert consensus on military success is completely polarized—ranging from 'catastrophic failure of air power' to 'greatest military campaign since the American Revolution'—making objective assessment of strategy effectiveness impossible
  • Authoritarian governance structures in the Middle East may be culturally entrenched, limiting realistic prospects for democratic transformation through military intervention alone
  • AI-powered drone swarm technology represents an emerging asymmetric threat that China is reportedly already developing, with potential to fundamentally change battlefield dynamics
Trends
Deliberate strategic ambiguity in military communication replacing traditional pre-address messaging to mediaArab nations (UAE, Saudi Arabia) increasingly willing to coordinate militarily with Israel against Iran, signaling regional realignmentEuropean NATO allies restricting US military infrastructure access, indicating transatlantic policy divergence on Middle East interventionAI-driven autonomous weapons systems (drone swarms) emerging as next-generation military technology with significant geopolitical implicationsPolarized expert analysis on military campaign effectiveness correlating with political ideology rather than objective metricsKleptocratic regimes using economic diversification attacks (targeting UAE/Saudi tech, tourism, aluminum sectors) as asymmetric strategyNarcissism in high-profile figures (Trump, Tiger Woods) creating blind spots regarding accountability and problem recognition
Companies
iHeartMedia
Podcast network distributing Armstrong & Getty On Demand episode
New York Times
Reported on Supreme Court birthright citizenship case coverage
Daily Mail
Covered story of Black Kansas City businessman pressured to abandon nightclub name
New York Post
Reported on Don Lemon's potential presidential run announcement
Wall Street Journal
Published Gerard Baker analysis on polarized interpretations of military campaign success
The Economist
Characterized month of bombing campaign as achieving nothing
Apollo Global Management
Chief economist dismissed alarming market fallout, predicted 50-year oil market stability
NPR
Referenced as progressive-owned media outlet with identity politics focus
CBS
Reported on presidential address announcement and content speculation
Tesla
Mentioned as potential solution for self-driving vehicle with dark tinted windows
People
Jack Armstrong
Co-host of Armstrong & Getty On Demand podcast discussing geopolitical and domestic policy
Joe Getty
Co-host of Armstrong & Getty On Demand podcast providing political and legal analysis
Donald Trump
Announced plans to attend Supreme Court oral arguments on birthright citizenship case
Pete Hegseth
Lifted pilot suspension in Apache helicopter incident near Kid Rock's residence
Marco Rubio
Defined military winning conditions as destroying Iran's missile capability without mentioning nukes
Kid Rock
Subject of viral incident involving Army Apache helicopter flyby near his Tennessee pool
Tiger Woods
Criticized for self-centered public statement and narcissistic behavior regarding legal incident
Don Lemon
Reported to be considering presidential run and claiming superiority to Donald Trump
Christine Ohm
Husband's photos in pink go-go shorts with balloons caused marriage controversy
Robert Pape
Characterized military campaign as most catastrophic failure of air power ever
Gerard Baker
Analyzed polarized expert opinions on military campaign success and failure
Mark Tessen
Characterized military campaign as possibly greatest since American Revolution
Winston Churchill
Quoted on unpredictability of war and dangers of war fever in statecraft
Keir Starmer
Characterized as weak lefty leader running noodle-armed labor government
Quotes
"Never never never believe any war will be smooth and easy or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter"
Winston ChurchillQuote of the day segment
"I'm sure they had a good time"
Donald TrumpRegarding Apache helicopter incident near Kid Rock's property
"Pilot suspension lifted no punishment. No investigation carry on patriots"
Pete HegsethSecretary of Defense response to helicopter incident
"The statesmen who yields to war fever is no longer the master of policy, but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events"
Winston ChurchillQuote of the day segment
"He would be admitting to himself he's got a problem that is the whole thing that is the whole ballgame"
Joe GettyDiscussing Tiger Woods' narcissism and lack of problem recognition
Full Transcript
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. Armstrong and Getty. And now, here is Armstrong and Getty. Why the From Studio C? Say, senior! A dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. I was a little late getting in. I couldn't find my paint stretchy shorts to do all my posts on my bimbofication fan page. Hang to dry. I gotta shrink up on you if you're not careful. They're already a little snug, but yeah, I noticed. Anyway, today we're under the... Nice. Sorry, a little left to the imagination. Today we're under the tullage of this title of the show. To the moon, Alice! To the moon! Or... Live updates on what's being called Kid Rock Helicopter Pull-O for God's sake gate. The scandal that has rocked the nation. Up and down the coast, yes. We got a rocket ship going off tonight to the moon for the first time in half a century, which is very exciting. That's today, and the president's gonna speak tonight and address the country, and nobody has any idea why. What he's gonna say with lots of speculation that he's gonna come out and kind of announce it's over-ish. That's what most of the cable news channels are saying. Who knows? I have no idea myself. Nobody actually knows. What do you suppose he's going to do? Oh, gosh, I would be making a wild guess. I don't have any idea. We're a month and a couple of days in. He's made no national address other than when he came out in the middle of the night in his white hat in a poorly lit room and announced it started, but then nothing else. So we'll see what goes on with that tonight. Yeah, the full range of options is out there, which is a pretty good place to be in if you're trying to keep your opponent guessing, too. I read a theory that, hey, the IRGC at this point realizes, hey, we can survive about anything without a nuclear weapon. So maybe we put that aside and all the headaches it causes, just hang on to our kleptocracy. Let's cut a deal right now. We'll clamp down on the population, torture, kill as we must, but we'll stay in power. Yeah, I don't know who's speaking for who or if they speak with one voice or whatever, but yesterday, late in the day, they made threats on all kinds of American companies. All the big name companies that you've heard of, we got installations around the Middle East and Iran said they're going to start hitting them if we don't lay off, which we're not. And UAE announced last night that they're willing to officially get involved in the war and help open the straight. We'll see. Yeah, they're yelling, go all the way. Let's not stop now. I just saw the list of European countries and what they've announced. I might not have all these perfectly right, but they're close. France said no Israeli planes can land on any of their air bases. Italy said US can't use any of their bases for refueling or whatever. And then Spain was like super hardcore. You can't use airspace. You can't use bases. You can't use Israel. What is that all about? Why? Why would you be that way? Boy, that's a complicated answer to that question. Spain's a special case. Their current leader is a socialist nut job, populist dip ass. But those other countries, it's troubling. Partly, let's see, Italy is surprising to me. I'd like to know more about that. Britain's under a lefty labor government run by the limp-risted Kierstamer. So they're just of that kind of weak, noodle-armed lefty stance right now. Where you don't ever do, you don't assert your national interests at all. You just have a giant welfare state and kind of whimper and cower in the corner. The other interesting thing happening today is Trump says he's going to attend the Supreme Court oral arguments over one of the big cases that he started with an executive order. That's never happened before where a sitting president goes and watches the Supreme Court do the arguing. So that'd be exciting. I guess I know. It's a bad idea. I hope he doesn't do it. It's a terrible idea. It's the birthright citizenship case, though. And I've got some really good perspectives on that to dive into. Should your kid be a citizen just because he's fluent LAX for an hour and squatted there on the tarmac? We can talk about the argument on that later. Why do you don't like the idea of Trump going and watching? Looks like intimidation. Yeah. I wondered if that is his point. Is it kind of like Godfather 1 or 2 where you have somebody walk in the back room and all the justices or whatever judges are like, uh-oh. But he can't threaten justices. He can't remove them or do anything to them or whatever. They're appointed for life. Yeah, that's true. Although, you know, he said some really stupid stuff last night about the justices. About the justices he appointed and the conservatives who have gone against him occasionally because they had principles saying that they were stupid people and bad people. And it was just childish and idiotic. It's one of his low moments, one of several. On the other hand, there's part of me that thinks if he goes there and listens, his eyes will glaze over instantly as the justices get deep into, you know, strict scrutiny versus, you know, another legal doctrine and blah, blah, blah. And you know, maybe it'll snap his eyes open. I doubt it. But maybe it will snap his eyes open that it's not, I'm against Trump because I don't like him. Well, I like Trump. And that's not the arguments. You know, that's the way he sees it. Do you know what celebrities a big Supreme Court fan and goes and watches oral arguments whenever he can get in and his friends with some of the top lawyers and everything like that? He and John Mulaney saw him on Colbert the other night and he was talking about he attended the tariff arguments. He's a super Supreme Court nerd. He drives around listening to old oral arguments cases in his car when he's, when he's commuting and stuff like that. And he's, and he goes and watches when he wants. He's just super into SCOTUS blog and all that different sort of stuff. Wow. The long detailed arguments. And that's a funny thing for a comedian to be into. Yeah. And if you've listened to these oral arguments as I do occasionally, they're often not about the parts of the case that you and me, you and I can understand. They're about, you know, legal doctrines and then precedents established, blah, blah, blah. It's pretty technical in other words. Yeah. Aren't they going to, isn't this going to be deciding whether or not what the Constitution says? I mean, because whether it's right or wrong doesn't come down. It's whether or not it's constitutional or not. And if, isn't there a decent chance you're just saying, no, the Constitution says if you're born here, you're, you're a citizen. It's stupid. I think it's a stupid idea, but that's what the Constitution says. There's plenty of ambiguity. It's almost as if the writers of the 14th amendment intentionally said, hey, hey, I got an idea. Let's screw with the future and let's, let's vague this or word this really vaguely. So since the oral arguments today, do you have a handle on why some people on my side of politics, the way I see it, I shouldn't say politics because it's not the politics on my side of, I don't know, vision of the way you ought to run things. Sure. Philosophy of governance. Say no, that, that the 14th amendment is a good idea because I don't quite understand it. Interpreting it the way it's currently interpreted is a good idea with anybody who, for instance, according to one broadcast report, squats on the tarmac at LAX and produces a child. I don't understand why we think that's a good idea. I don't either honestly. I've read the arguments. I think they're weak. Yeah. And as often at the end of this discussion, I can, I could point out Congress could clarify it. Right. If we had a Congress that was worth, you know, a bucket of warm spit. Right. And the argument, as you pointed out, is going to be all day and for the next several days. And their decision won't come out till June. It's just the arguments today. It'll be if Trump, if they go against Trump, it's a setback for Trump. And if Trump wins, it'll be a for Trump as opposed to how about we discuss, does it make sense that if you're here and you have a baby and you got no other attachment to United States, your baby's a U.S. citizen for life? I think it makes no sense whatsoever. But talk me out. Hanson, I didn't ask for this and I should have. I'm an idiot. I'm talking, I think it was yesterday, maybe the day before about these Chinese oligarchs who have 57 kids in the United States. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's absolutely not what the 14th Amendment was about. It was about the children of slaves. Period. Now, how we want to interpret that to me is wide open. Again, we'll get into that. You will be the smartest person in whatever room you are after you hear that segment. Okay. We need to start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is, oh, it's April 1st. This is what you do. Find a trusted loved one. For years, you've developed a trust with them. Lie to them and then laugh at them when they take you seriously because you developed all that trust over the years. Right. It's hilarious. Yes. It's called April Fool's Day. It's April 1st. You fool! The year 2026, where I'm strong and getting, we approve of this program. Let's begin then officially. Here comes the show at, according to FCC, Rules and Regs at Mark. Taller than the Statue of Liberty from the base to the tip of the torch, well over 300 feet. It's around 6 million pounds, but that's okay because it can produce about 8 million pounds of thrust. Starting with those two big solid fuel boosters on the side there. They will both burn straight through at the beginning, giving it that extra boost as it gets off the ground and then they will fall away. They will have the help of that big orange core in the middle. It's orange because that is insulation to keep what's inside very, very cold, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. All together, sending this well up into space with a tremendous amount of power. Go to the moon, people! 8,000 tons of thrust. Reminds me of my 70s and my 20s. Oh, that was a good joke, but I was looking at a page and I just suck. I suck. You suck! You're right! You fool! You fool! 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The rents are due. The rents are due. The rents are due. The rents are due. The rents are due. The rents are due. The rents are due. The rents are due. NASA in the first place, I think they made it all about the identity politics the first this or that in space and everything They're so obsessed. I know Who looks at the world that way? Well on an individual basis and and the progressives who own NPR would disagree with this But on an individual basis somebody walks into the room that I'm gonna do business with I'm not thinking who Hispanic guy Hispanic that's interesting. No, I'm thinking alright. We're gonna do business here. What kind of guy is that? This a good image of blah blah blah. I think people are sick From the New York Times Supreme Court to hear landmark challenge to birthright citizenship Can't wait to get into that. I actually I expect to be highly annoyed by this. I don't know could be pretty interesting though I'm highly annoyed by this Daily Mail black Kansas City businessmen bullied into dumping plans for a new what a new nightclub after White liberal women told him the name he chose was racist and what was the name? Sundown hi-fi for a for a nightclub and there the term sundown just really set them off what upset the white ladies Yeah, sundown town black people got to be off the streets by sundown. It's not safe So they went after a black business owner. That sounds like a great way to go white ladies Sounds like a great name for a nightclub. Yeah, that's perfect. Yeah, plus it's his nightclub shut up. Yeah And he's a black guy He is a black guy. Oh what? from the New York post Don Lemon Teases possible run for president and claims he'd be a lot better than Donald Trump. Yeah, right From study finds Just six weeks of boxing Outperformed running and weightlifting for lowering your blood pressure So just plain better cardiovascular exercise. I assume that's what that means. Yeah Well, yeah, have you ever tried to box? It's incredibly tiring I've never boxed but I wrestled and Similar sort of thing leaning up against somebody and using all your limbs forcefully is Exhausting like in a minute. You're exhausted Sure. Well, the boxing is jumping rope while doing curls and presses and if it's real occasionally getting punched in the nose Which doesn't help your concentration And finally from the Babylon bee Tiger Woods awarded honorary California CDL I Like that one. Oh commercial drivers license. Yeah, okay, great. I didn't like his statement. He put out yesterday from his standpoint Still is all about him nothing in there about thank God. I didn't hurt anybody or anything on nothing like that No, still all about him No, he is one of the most astoundingly self-centered people ever in the world of sports and that's saying something We'll have that for you a little bit later what he said when his plans are also we got to get into a Christine Ohm's husband because we did that late in the show yesterday when the news broke if you haven't seen the pictures good Lord The balloons that rocked a nation stay with us Well, it certainly rock your marriage You would certainly throw a wrench into your marriage if you were unaware of that and you saw the pictures for the first time You'd have to sit down Yeah, oh, yeah, that's my husband. Yes, that's definitely my husband and why is he dressed like that? Why does he have balloons under his tight top and why is he sitting spread legged in pink? Go-go shorts, right? Oh, oh boy, and you expect to be annoyed by the birthright citizenship. I'm just question I maybe I've listened to too much MS now. I'm afraid it's gonna go the direction of keeping it going the way it is Which I've always found to be nuts You gotta stop torturing yourself with that garbage stare With that garbage as you heard we've got so many different topics to get to today If you miss the segment get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand more on the way And now there are new threats coming down starting today They say 18 American companies that have operations in the Middle East will become as they say Legitimate targets they say that this is in retribution for all the assassinations of their top leadership in Iran You see the companies on that list big tech names big companies in the aerospace defense sectors Well all being added to this legitimate target list according to the Revolutionary Guard so That might happen which obviously would up the ante for ran started to attack Our our business interests in a whole bunch of different countries and just a few minutes Joe is going to get the latest on kid rock gate, which has rocked the nation mmm That's such a scandal Schools have closed meetings cancelled guess we'd wrestle oh Shocking stuff so the president's gonna address the nation tonight. What is going on? I? Have felt like I've been less confused than the mainstream media claims to be since this war started I'm getting closer to confused though based on a lot of the statements yesterday So Trump said yesterday and this is the first time and he'd ever said this that he was ready to live with the status quo and Leave it to one of his successors to deal with he said in quoting and a fairly fairly short period of time will be finished They will not be able to do a nuclear weapon for years and when they are ready Maybe in a long time for now able to do nuclear weapons. You'll have a president that will be like me and go in there and knock the hell out of them so That seems like a slightly different position than we've been in previously or is that a faint so they feel Let their guard down and we're about to the Marines are about to land on the coast of Iran I have no idea I wish I had a firm idea But it is possible as I referred to earlier that the current leadership in the IRGC has said look You know through back channels. We're a little we're willing to completely abandon the nuclear program I mean completely abandon it if you say we're in charge and you call off the dogs in In charge of the straight-o-hormuz Oh, no of Iran, okay, and then we negotiate a Ratchet and down attentions in the straight of hormones in the IRGC keeps their kleptocracy Would they reopen the straight-o-hormuz with that deal? I don't know So Marco Rubio said yesterday continuing along with the I'm not exactly sure what's going on Explicitly defined winning as destroying Iran's missile capability with no mention of the nukes regime change or the straight Hmm was that an oversight was that on purpose? So once again is this uh, they both know That a ground invasion is set to start this afternoon And so they're answering these questions and very you know what the hell differences to make what I say at this point Sort of way. Yeah intentional, you know, the vagueness. Yeah, I really don't know It's gonna be so usually when a president addresses the nation, you know exactly what they're gonna talk about right? They may justify what they're doing or help you understand the reasoning, but you know what they're gonna say Yeah, often to the point of like really really know what they're gonna say The whole thing is laid out and CBS is reporting the president is about to let us know that blah blah blah blah blah blah All the points because it's a way to help make the argument for people who don't catch the address to here here are the arguments We're trying to make them we're trying to win an argument That's the point of these things and so you get the information just dispersed as you can do as many people as you can and That's the way it's always happened and Unless you know, maybe this afternoon information will come out I don't know but right now nobody has any idea if he's gonna come out and say it's over We accomplished our goals or if he's gonna come out and say the ground operation has begun Or like I said or anything in between so I don't know buckle up How do you like these two headlines about three inches apart on my computer screen same publication? Iran is focused on defending its territory and believes the US is not serious about diplomacy So the spokesman for the foreign ministry down there a few inches Trump claims Iran's new regime president has asked for a ceasefire Hopefully you know what I think often. I don't know if Joe does we had an agent Currently we have an amazing agent, but we had an agent before that was so perplexing to us But he was he was a Trump guy He was like roughly the same age from roughly the same part of New York any any negotiated in roughly the same style Which was always so difficult for us because it was just he would just be like bewilderingly difficult and Confusing and never respond or say different things and everybody was just like what is happening And they're gonna keep them on their heels, so they're gonna wonder what the hell hit them and we're like wait a minute We like these people whatever Deal and I think about that often when I hear this stuff with Trump that that's just the way our old agent used to negotiate It's just like confuse everybody up into the moment of and piss them off and piss them off sometimes. Yeah, yeah Yeah, and I just wonder if that's what's happening Here's another angle on the conflict that I found interesting Iran is Doubling tripling quadrupling down on their strategy of let's just bomb all of our neighbors Let's just terrorize the region until they cry uncle and beg us to call off our dogs And so what they've done is take a look at your UAE and your Saudi Arabian What they've done to expand and diversify their economies So they're no longer just oil and gas now their tech now their tourism now their Aluminum in the case of the UAE blah blah blah and Iran is like okay. All right, that's your hot new prospect That's what we're bombing and they're deliberately going after the green shoots of Diversified economics in the in the region yeah further angering their neighbors. There's also the possibility and this might unfortunately end up being true that Putin's advising the Iranians maybe even President Xi Advising the Iranian saying look the United States particularly this president all they care about is their 401ks in the stock market We keep making it difficult it with gas expensive and the stock market rocky people will turn on this so fast They have a very short attention span We can weather the storm and they might be right about that Americans are soft and have a short attention span. Yeah true and And and and it's easier for especially the mainstream media who hates the current president to Keep hitting you with what the gap price of gas is over whether the overall strategy long term is a good one One more angle and then we'll get to the controversy that is roiling America kid rock gate So at least you can send your children off to school and not be worried about I almost don't want to talk about it I get so emotional around it sure sure everybody does The UAE is preparing to help the US and other allies open the Strait of Hormuz by force Arab official set a move that would make it the First Persian Gulf country to become a combatant after being hit by Iranian attacks over and over and over again They have absolutely taken the brunt of the IRGC's anger UAE yeah, I feel like because Iran hit a tanker off the coast of Qatar and Kuwait International Airport yesterday and Terrain has been Unrelenting in its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors according to the associated presses you were just saying I feel like UAE Officially gets in and then Saudi Arabia is like okay. We got it. We got it also I think a couple more join right away. I would agree Yeah, the UAE is lobbying for the UN Security Council useless resolution that would authorize such ashken not gonna happen Emirati diplomats have urged the US and military powers in Europe in Asia to form a coalition Open the straight by force you can't emphasize what a big deal it would be for Arab countries to be flying alongside Israeli planes and Attacking one of their neighbors right right. It's amazing. Oh and as long as we're talking about this Jack and I both referred yesterday to this piece by the fabulous Gerard Baker in the Wall Street Journal about how Depending on which side of this you are you're already pronouncing that it was a disaster This is a miserable failure or this is the greatest success ever and everything's gone perfectly according to plan Both perspectives of which are not but he gets into some of the specifics and it's it's almost hilarious The Economist which is just terrible saying a month of bombing has achieved nothing There's this famous professor of political science in the University of Chicago Say that with a straight face. I know it's insane This Robert Pape who's a super heavyweight among political scientists insist the war is a long-time disaster and the most catastrophic failure of air power we have ever seen Unbelievable and then you've got on the other side this guy who's the chief economist at the private equity firm Apollo Who's super well-known on Wall Street? Dismissed the alarming fallout in commodity equity and bond market saying it would ultimately result in 50 years of stability in oil market supply chains and geopolitics and Mark Tessen who I generally like who's a commentator as a feature writer for George W Said the war would go down as possibly the greatest military campaign since the American Revolution Okay, that seems a little over the top. Oh, which side of my on signaling. Yeah, brother. All right, Michael Do you have scary music or anything? We really I mean this is This is the scandals shocked America to the core apparently in a video summer describing is really blank and cool An Apache an army Apache helicopter was hovering right off the deck of Kid Rocks awesome hillside Tennessee pool And they gave him a little nod of the helicopter and flew off again How badass would you feel if the army flew Apache helicopters over to your pool just say hey Thanks for all the help Kid Rock is the American badass, but yes in a video described by every male on the planet with any testosterone is really often cool But way to the army said The army is aware of a video circulating online that appears to show an age 64 Apache Helicopter operating in the vicinity of a private residence in the Nashville area Army aviators must adhere to strict safety standards professionalism and established flight regulations Asked about the incident on Tuesday President Trump who is the commander-in-chief said quote. I'm sure they had a good time When told the army was investigating Trump said yeah, they probably shouldn't have been doing that on the other hand Pete Hegzeff secretary of war Declared yesterday Pilot suspension. Oh because the pilots were suspended pending the outcome of the investigation Uh secretary Pete Posted on social media last night Pilot suspension lifted no punishment. No investigation carry on patriots Secretary Pete Rocking the coast up and down the coast with a flag that says what chill in the most So how far are you willing to go with these out of control? Right wing Apache Hill it's so like a Sortie strikes on Ellen DeGeneres's house would that be too much for you? I was gonna make a lemon, but let's not argue Sidewinder missiles launched into Don Lemon's house is probably a little too far For instance bunker buster on Rosie O'Donnell's house You know, here's here's what needs to happen. This is way the way adults handle this sort of stuff You put out word all your flyers dudes You got to be really careful not to attract too much attention Remember the rules and regs. This is not a big deal, but this could get out of hand Everybody ratcheted back a little bit. Then you trust your professionals to be professional. We're serious people at war No more of that end of speech. Yeah, exactly. That's fine That's fine That is there are any further violations look the hammer's gonna have to come down I don't think kid rock was lacking self-confidence before this incident It's probably juiced him up pretty good Kid rock real name Robert Richie. It's appeared to be enjoying the flyby By his pool aircraft on planet Earth come over to just give him a you know, hey, what's up? Are you doing kid good to see you, bro? That's not at all cool. I'm shocked and alright, okay, we got mailbag next to here Threatened might not be the right word to go to sit in Supreme Court oral arguments in the past and didn't go He's on his way according to reports to the Supreme Court where he will sit there and watch oral arguments around this whole Birthright citizenship case which Joe who almost went to law school explained to us to kick off hour two Yeah, really interesting questions and and you again will be the smartest person in any room you happen to be in After listening to this segment, so stay tuned. Would you? Be a crass ignoramus. It's up to you. Here's your freedom. Let me quote of the day From the great Winston Churchill With all due respect to those who claim Churchill was the villain in World War two and you know How much respect is due to those people none? Absolutely none. They're morons Here's Churchill's quote never never never believe any war will be smooth and easy or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage Can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter the statesmen who yields to war fever is no longer No longer the master of policy, but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Whoa That's a good thing to remember boy when he would know yeah a mailbag Feel free to correspond mailbag at Armstrong and get it outcome is the email address first this from cascade John I heard you guys talking about the crazy ass uproar over military helicopters flying near kid rocks property I just had two massive Chinook choppers Fly over my house. I went on the deck raised a glass of rye whiskey to toast them best cascade John will cascade John will be Investigating that under Google word native live. I And yeah, if during the Biden administration some helicopters have tipped their captain Katy Perry. No, I wouldn't have given a single pope Let's see Stan writes Trump and I suppose others hope that military action Iran would somehow result in Iran becoming democracy with protected individual liberties for the citizens But it's sadly impossible love the idea hate to be negative But I just don't see it the IRGC won't let it happen then he describes meeting people from all over the Middle East And really nice people whatever their heritage from my perspective Israel's great. So is Iran you name the country Nice people there hard work and blah blah blah They just in that region they have nothing but a tradition of Kings and and oligarchs Kings and dictators. That's just culturally. That's what they know Russia is a great example of that. No time to talk about that now, but we have Self-rule in our DNA going back hundreds of years Way prior to the birth of our country Cuba is similar to those other countries you mentioned as I've been reading this book about Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, but yeah, they they've always had strong men leaders Yeah, it's all they can relate to Paul in the C ranch writes my view and experience of Tiger Woods and President Trump are extremely similar Always appreciate their accomplishments, but have always cringed when listening to their narcissism Guess we can't always have both accomplished to end humble And this from rich I'm surprised it never came up But how about Tiger getting one of those self-driving Teslas with really dark tinted windows so he could sit martinis on the way to the gym to Work out then to the pharmacist to get his doctor prescribed medications seems like a pretty simple solution to me. Yeah, I'm surprised What a blind spot no kidding well, it's it's Again as I know a lot of addicts and alcoholics. It's a he would be admitting to himself He's got a problem that is the whole thing that is the whole ballgame And so he's not gonna make adjustments to his problem because he in his mind. He doesn't have a problem Wow. Yeah, that's this sort of thing. I don't think most people would think of including me Jared in Missouri with our chilling and terrifying email of the day on the topic of armed drone swarms China already has these They've already developed tactics with AI driven drones different sizes and arm and armaments Timing them to coordinate with AI efficiency and no fear of losses. I guarantee it, you know, I was reminded of The Olympics and this was quite a few years ago when they had that mind bogglingly complex Drone lights was part of the opening ceremonies, right? I'll bet they're way ahead That's troubling thought Err, if you saw 60 minutes piece Sunday night about drone swarms and about how that's about that were powered by AI It's about to come to the battlefield and we'll change the world Okay, we're gonna get into the Supreme Court case which Trump is attending in our two among other things If you missed the segment get the podcast armstrong you get he on demand You