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Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Iran war, the shut down & baseball
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week, robots, Iran & sophisticated drones
- Mailbag!
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The George Washington Broadcast Center.
Yakarm Strong and Joe Getty.
I'm Strong and Getty.
And up here.
I'm Strong and Getty.
It's Friday.
Live from Studio C, T.S. and York.
Deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
And today, to end the week, we're toiling under the title of the show.
First, you look like a military man.
Are you on war footing?
How are you not on a war footing?
Wearing an olive drab t-shirt and a beanie.
Looking ready to, you know, throw on the union and do what needs to be done.
We come part of the coalition of the willing.
Jack's ready.
I salute you, sir.
They did up the age to enlist to 42 yesterday.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Not up to 61, though, which I am so.
Not sure I can be of any help.
I'd be happy to help if I can, but I probably can't.
Our title today, titles.
Here's the deal.
You lose.
That should be the only deal being offered to Iran.
Or if you prefer, IOC says no fake chicks and gal sports.
Fake chicks.
Yeah.
IOC with a big announcement yesterday that we talked about.
We'll get to more of that later to your first headline.
It's funny.
I was just reading in Mark Halpern's newsletter of the day that between Trump and Israel,
it's come down to one of two outcomes.
Iran's surrenders or Iran is decimated.
That's basically what you just said.
I've got to admit, I was a little worried.
What was it yesterday of the day before where Trump said,
well, well, we're talking to the right people to give us a very nice gift,
a very, very valuable gift.
And his tone was soft.
And he's appreciated the flattery and everything.
I'm like, oh, my God, no, because they will do anything.
They will press all of his buttons.
They've been studying him since he came down the escalator.
I hope Marco, thank God Marco is in his ear.
We're right.
So now we're back to practically unconditional surrender, I guess.
Either you surrender or we're going to decimate you.
Maybe you'll foresee this surrender.
So those are your two choices.
I hope.
Yeah.
Cool.
And it looks like the whole TSA thing after 40 some days is over.
I didn't fly during that period of time.
So it had no effect on me.
I think that looked brutal.
It did look brutal, but does the media fly more than the rest of us?
As a whole, they must or something.
Yeah.
Because I saw the numbers on how many people, what percentage of Americans would have flown during that period of time?
Oh, really?
It's single digits.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, yeah, that makes sense.
Sure.
In a given, what, six weeks?
Yeah.
Interesting.
Nonetheless, that's just the non-function and the abusiveness of the people from Congress these days in the Senate.
It happens to be the Democrats right now.
It's just inexcusable.
All they do is they look at the polls.
Okay.
Let's see.
The Republicans have the House barely and the Senate barely and they have the White House.
So they'll be blamed if there's a shutdown.
So let's shut it down.
Well, we're going to hurt a hell of a lot of people and including government employees.
I mean, these TSA guys are not rich.
They live paycheck to paycheck.
Let's, let's screw them good and hard because polls show the Republicans will be blamed.
Says Chuck Schumer.
It's just disgusting.
Well, who, what normal sort of voter remembers any of these shutdowns with,
with any thoughts really of anything?
They just, they come in and go and they're annoying and then they go away and you just think what a mess that is.
That's kind of it.
The base, maybe.
They're just signaling to the base trying to hold onto his job that we're trying to abolish Aish.
We will not fund DHS unless Aish is reformed.
Okay.
People predisposed to already vote the certain direction.
They were going to go that way anyway.
I just don't think anything ever is accomplished with these shutdowns.
Shutdowns.
Nothing.
It's just there's no political gain.
I don't even know if there's any political loss really.
It's just, like, it's just inconvenient for the voters.
And that goes, it's going to be going along.
It's such a, such a, just a dumb, just dumb.
And a dumb and dysfunctional.
Yeah.
Oh, there's another powerful Republican has announced these are retiring from the House.
He's going off into private life.
Capping, I think, well, capping so far.
Dozens that have announced that.
Dozens of Congress people in a handful of senators are like, this is stupid.
And I'm going to go do something else.
Well, yeah.
If you went to Washington, D.C. thinking you're going to do something then, you know, you
get there and realize, oh, okay.
That's not what the game is.
At least currently.
I want to get to this thing yesterday.
Willie Brown doing an interview.
Former mayor of San Francisco, former most powerful politician in California for many, many years.
And guests on the Armstrong and Getty show many, many, many times.
Didn't interview with Bill O'Reilly in which he explained why San Francisco got ruined in
Bill O'Reilly's special, the decline in fall of San Francisco.
And it's really interesting to hear from one of the most powerful Democrats of the last half
century.
Um, anywhere in the country, really, Willie Brown about how all this, putting a bunch of
social workers in charge of all this sort of stuff and everything like that was a disaster.
Right.
I'm glad to hear that from Willie.
A fascinating guy, brilliant, charismatic, crooked as a corkscrew.
I'm happy to hear that.
So I want to talk about that later.
Maybe, maybe, maybe we're going to get to a place where we realize that what we've been doing
is not working at least in blue cities and states.
Oh, the, um, the big breaking news later in the day yesterday that the Pentagon is weighing
sending an additional 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East.
I don't know what that brings to total to, do you know, of troops that have been talked
about over the last couple of weeks, it's given to be a pretty, pretty big chunk of people.
You were getting closer to 20,000, definitely very close to 20,000, I think.
One of the things I'm happy about with the TSA shutdown coming to an end is maybe newscasts
can focus on what might end up being the most consequential war since Vietnam instead
of making it like the third or fourth story every single day.
It's shocking to me.
I think this is a really big deal.
And like last night I was looking at my evening newscasts and one of them, it was 10 minutes
and the other one, it was 11 minutes into the newscast, uh, 30 minute newscasts before
they get around to the war.
As important as the Maduro thing in Venezuela could be in our hemisphere because we shouldn't
have hostile communists to fake kleptomaniac regimes right next door.
We just shouldn't wear a superpower.
It, that is a tiny fraction of the significance of the Iran deal and it's not being treated
that way.
No, it's not.
I mean, I phrased that kind of the opposite of what I meant.
But yeah, Iran's coverage should dwarf that, which was given to the whole Venezuela thing,
which I admit was surprising and interesting and present and breaking.
But yeah, this, this is history changing.
This is finally perhaps the reformation of the Middle East after all of these decades.
It's, it's enormous or there's a possibility.
I don't think this is what's going to happen.
It's possibility that we have 10,000 of troops taken fire on the ground in a, in a full
on war with a serious country, like within days.
That is absolutely possible.
Yeah.
You think that at the very, very least, uh, we're going to take Carg Island.
You would think that would rank above weather, but it doesn't know, particularly weather
in the New York Metro.
Yeah.
No kidding.
Uh, let's start to show officially.
We got a lot of good stuff today.
It's, it's Friday.
It's clips of the weekday.
It's the day we start drinking backries in the fourth hour and I'm Jack Armstrong.
He's Joe Getty on this.
It is Friday, March 27th, or about out of March, people that you're 20, 20, 26, where I'm
strong and getting, we approve of this program.
I feel bad.
Michael and I were talking about what flavor of batteries and he, uh, he insisted on
plantain, batteries.
Wow.
I said some things I probably shouldn't have said.
I got a little hot.
I'm sorry, Mike.
What is okay?
What an obscure fruit.
Yeah.
I know.
I know what was strong.
I'm sorry.
I've started again.
Alright, let's begin.
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Keith Williams, Jr. noted vocalist, he's sung the anthem many times at ballpark, but at
a bit of a night, apparently a rough night.
Man, I was watching some of the rollout that the Dodgers did for fans and everything and
an opening night.
It was quite the spectacle.
Of course, you got the one of the greatest teams ever assembled.
Everybody picking them to three feet, maybe changing all of pro sports forever and having
to come up with some sort of rules so billionaires don't come along and just buy every good player
in every sport.
You got a budget fairly roughly similar to the federal government, about the same number.
We're going to spend $780 trillion on the Dodgers payroll this year.
Well, they had the best player in baseball, Shohei Otoni, you know, playing with the best
pitcher in baseball MVP of last year's world series and then a whole bunch of all stars
and MVP's and they've added people since their repeat last year.
It might win 150 games, quite the experiment in pro sports to see if people dig that or
not.
We'll see.
The Dodgers fans certainly dig it anyway, we've got to get on and I'm sorry, every park
around the country, when the Dodgers in town, you got to go.
Your team's going to lose, but you know, my, my, I'll start to my take as a casual fan
of all sports is people kind of like dynasties, whether rooting for them or against them.
It seems to be over the top though.
This could be over the top, yeah, they could, well, all dynasties wear out their welcome
door.
People get sick of it.
Patriots, chiefs, Yankees, Dodgers, Cowboys, Warriors, Lakers, whoever, they wear out
their welcome people like, ah, on something different, but we'll see how that works out.
We got lots of stuff to talk about today, Katie's headlines on the way to get clips of
the week.
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But last night I went down the rabbit hole of Erica Kirk-Hate.
That is one of the strangest phenomenon of my lifetime and I don't know if that's
just going to be the future of the world.
Could you come up with a more compelling figure, a more sympathetic figure than Erica Kirk
and what happened in her life and the way she's been turned into this villain by so
many people, it's just crazy.
And as always, an agent of the Jews, I sent Jack this video of this woman who claimed
to be a CIA veteran or something and it was just the classic, you know, describing an
interaction then with the raised eyebrow and that's not a coincidence.
That's the way an asset behaves, an intelligence asset, take it from me and then another and
then they were at the same party.
Do you think that was a coincidence?
That's exactly how an asset behaves.
And I just saw the people who were prone to believing that sort of thing just being pulled
along like a bass with the hook through.
Well, even Joe Rogan the other day, you know, I heard Erica Kirk, she's got a penis.
Joe Rogan said, it sounded completely serious and he said, is she a crazy bee or what?
Use the word and then they showed videos where look at her eyes, who does that with their
eyes?
I don't know what this whole thing is and then trying to make a giant conspiracy, we should
all be afraid of out of it.
I just, it might be no country for old men.
I might just not fit into the modern world.
I don't even understand what's happening.
It's mental illness.
It's as if humanity is a single brain and we're all nodes in that brain, we're all neurons
in that brain and something's been introduced into our body chemistry that our brain can't
handle.
And that's the media and social internet and conspiracy theorists and that sort of thing.
It's possible if you draw in that poison, it will ruin you as an individual node and
maybe the whole brain.
I don't know.
It hasn't ruined me.
I just think you're all nuts.
Anyway, let's figure out who's supporting what?
It's the lead story of Katie Green.
Katie.
All right, the big headlines associated press Trump said he will sign an emergency order
to pay TSA agents ABC Senate bill pass Senate passes bill to fund all parts of DHS except
for ICE and parts of CBP and NBC.
Trump says he will order DHS to immediately pay TSA officers as partial shutdown drags
on.
So is that what got the Senate moving when Trump said he would sign an executive order
because it was going to look like Trump came to the rescue?
I don't know.
I don't know either.
From the Washington Post, US uses hundreds of Tomahawk missiles on Iran alarming some
at the Pentagon.
How does Iran continue to have so many missiles and rockets and everything like that?
I hope we get to talk to Mike Lyons today if not today on Monday.
Man, oh man, we have beaten the S out of them as Trump said yesterday and they still have
the ability to fire off so much stuff.
Yeah, I understand the concern that we've got to have stockpiles, but it's funny.
That's often presented in the media as we can't use the weapons because we have to have
weapons.
Why do we want to have weapons?
Well, to use them, but that's what we're doing.
Yeah.
Well, then we won't have them.
All right.
They're exhausting.
Yes.
From Reuters, transgender athletes banned from female category at Olympic events.
Good on the eye because they're men probably.
Yes.
I hope this should give cover to every state or high school in the country or the world.
Well, we're just going to follow the Olympic rules.
It does give them cover when the activists lunatics try to hurt them because that's what
activists lunatics do.
They try to hurt you if you disagree with them.
Good for the IOC.
We've got more on that to come.
ESPN.
NLB is 2026 opener highlights growing shift to streaming, which is costing fans more.
Well, what does that mean?
Why does it cost me more?
Well, for example, like Netflix's prices just, I think they're either going up today or
went up yesterday because they got this deal with the major league baseball.
Yeah.
More and more games are on subscription services.
A lot of places.
A lot of places.
Yeah.
I think I saw yesterday there was a game on peacock or something that I would take a golden
goose of the first boards and then just keep beating it with a bat since the baseball
beat it with a bat.
To give more goals.
Yeah.
To make more money.
Yes.
Yes.
Speaking of streaming from the financial times, Netflix earns 45.2 billion dollars in revenue
during 2025 and projects 51 billion in 2026.
Wow.
I almost never watch anything on Netflix.
I think we do weekly.
Yeah.
From the New York Post, cocaine-fueled sharks are on the prowl.
And the Caribbean and scientists blame partying tourists.
Wow.
Throwing cocaine in the water?
Yeah.
I guess dropping it.
I don't know.
Is that right?
It stays here.
No, a little too expensive to throw to sharks.
I can't believe you're worried about the economics of it when we have cocaine-fueled sharks
swimming in our waters.
Good lord.
Missing the big point, Jack.
It's good.
It's good.
Fighting you.
It'll just talk you to death.
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One and three women say being female has held them back and Gen Z says they feel at
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Yeah.
And finally, the Babylon B.
Mysterious investor, Panty Nalosi, makes millions on oil trade minutes before Trump's
Iran announcement.
Yeah, there's a lot of talk about trying to crack down on this.
This prop betting, particularly around legislation and events around the world that various
politicians could vote on or make decisions on.
I don't know how they're going to try to get it out of our system, but I have to talk
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Lots of people are introducing rules to try to stop them.
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Trump is not going wobbly on his original plan to wipe out Iran's capability
to continue to be the number one terror state and get nuclear weapons.
That is all the reporting I'm reading.
Okay.
From honest brokers, we got to get into a more of that coming up.
Excellent.
Just since I'm thinking about it, we just got a great idea from listener,
who suggested we look up Mike Rowe and chat with him about the coming of AI.
Oh, that's a good one.
And the nature of work in college and blue collar work and that sort of thing.
Yeah, we ought to see if we can connect with Mike.
Love to do that. Good idea.
It's the Friday tradition, beloved by all.
Let's take a look back at the week that was its cow clips of the week.
What's the week?
We're now three weeks into the Iran wall,
which started with the death of one Ayatollah Khomini
and the appointment of another Ayatollah Khomini.
Khomini, two but one's dead now.
This thing's going to be settled very soon.
We did a good, Jema.
We can do this.
The Marines.
My money's always on the Marines.
It makes you stressful.
I don't trust anybody. I don't trust you.
I would not believe that Iranian regime.
And never.
I never, in all the work I've ever done with the Iranian regime,
they do nothing but life of their teeth.
We're going to end up with settling this.
Otherwise, we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out.
Sometimes you have to escalate, to de-escalate.
But I really hope the American people will be with him
because he is doing this to make the whole world safer.
We are an idea that threatens Iran,
that threatens this regime.
Because we are open, we are progressive,
we are tolerant, we're a vibrant economy.
And you know, they're affected.
The amazing thing is we don't need the hormone strain.
We don't need it at all.
We have so much oil.
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You must be happy.
I'm very happy.
The Ayatollah is dead.
What? Who?
What?
Who is that?
Who the f*** is Ayatollah?
It's lesbian.
It's had plenty of girlfriends with penises.
I can't explain that.
You know, a person living like a rat?
It pisses me off.
That's what I was like.
What should I do?
I'm going to f*** it up.
We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence.
We've already tried that.
It is racist.
It is immoral.
It is unholy.
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It's clips of the week.
Lot there.
I've forgotten all about the subterranean sewer junkies of Los Angeles.
People living in the sewers.
Yeah.
So, Malani is speech about the robots.
How do I understand the tech companies?
They're for profit businesses, for profit businesses, trying to convince everybody that
this new world is going to be great.
But I understand all the other people that are willing to present the new robot world,
the new AI robot world and everything like that.
And glowing terms all the time because I don't know.
I personally don't know a single person who doesn't seem to be mostly worried or scared about it.
So, I'm just surprised that so many people like Malani, Trump, a lot of other people,
and then teachers will be able to come into your home, the robot teachers.
Every single person I know, if I have every conversation I've ever had about this sort of stuff,
talks about it in horrific terms.
So, what pushes the, this is going to be fantastic from some corners.
Do you have any idea?
Are they just, is it because the government's betting on the financial windfall?
I don't know.
But the real people are not reacting to all this robot stuff with,
oh, this is going to be great when robots are doing everything.
Maybe somebody is, some folks, because Malani is very bright.
Maybe she just lacks that whole, I don't know, bitter pessimism or ability to see the,
oh, wait a minute, what will that cause?
I feel like I can have the kids be so anxious to learn if they can't have a job.
With like, chuckling news anchors, it's just always, and then soon the robots will be able to teach us
and, you know, wash our cars and work in the kitchen's restaurant.
That's fantastic in weather.
I mean, I just, that's not the way people are reacting.
That's what I'm saying to Malani and news anchors and other people,
normal people are not reacting to this with overwhelming positivity based on my anecdote evidence.
Yeah, yeah, I liked the spirit of her speech,
and because she's really into education in kids, all kids,
poor kids, kids of all, you know, cues of skin color,
getting access to serious education,
which I think is a wonderful thing to aspire to.
But if the economy is fundamentally,
not just restructured, just reinvented by AI and computers and robots,
what are the kids learning in for what purpose?
I suppose, you know, you might as well say, well, we don't know,
but let's default toward developing this stuff because it can't, it can't hurt.
I don't know. Well, that's fine, but I don't need to default toward it.
It's going to be awesome without any skeptical questions.
Right. I just don't get that.
And I got to believe the teacher's unions of America are not going to welcome
with open arms robots that can be knowledgeable in every subject
and adjust to every child and everyone can have one in their home.
They're not going to think that's awesome.
Oh, no, because they have no interest in the children's interests.
They exist to extract dues from their membership
and then to use those dues to influence politicians
so they get more dues from their membership.
It's all money and it's only money.
So maybe I'll get to this in more detail a little bit later,
but I was reading Mark Halperin's news roundup today
and he's going on about how a lot of mainstream media is just defying
what the president says and facts on the ground
about the whole Iran thing and presenting it as a clear disaster
from the get go were more mired in a swamp of a disastrous war
and Trump's looking for an off ramp.
When Mark Halperin says everything Trump says
and all is reporting about people close to Trump say
it's the exact opposite.
He's his committed as ever to his goals
and it's going really, really well.
So I thought that was interesting.
All this is a misreading of Trump's intentions
and the facts on the ground to say he can't achieve these goals
which he uses a specific article from the New York Times to say
what are they talking about?
But here's Mark Feeson in the Washington Post who has sources also.
Speculation is flying that President Donald Trump buffeted
by rising gas prices and domestic political concerns
as desperate for an off ramp and looking for a deal with Iran
to end the war.
These leaks whispers and rumors are wrong.
While others may be panicking, I know from well placed sources
that Trump has never been more determined
to see this military campaign through to completion.
The message to Iran, and this is Mark Halperin's reporting
from other sources, Mark Feeson's got his own sources,
the message to Iran is clear and this is what he's going to stay with.
Either the regime gives Trump what he demands in total
or the United States will unleash hell and take it from them.
These are the only two options that are being discussed.
I've got to admit, I, I of all people,
somewhat naively had assumed, I'm examining my own feelings now, Jack.
I had naively assumed that when it came to war and life and death,
the funhouse mirror of the American media would at least get flattened out a little bit
because it's so enormously important and impactful
and again, people are being hurt and dying and our country's military is involved.
But no, no, they kept calling plays from the same playbook.
I hate him.
Yeah, it's interesting though.
So this guy writing in sub-stack,
I'm going to have to do a little research on who he is.
I don't know his name. He's got a Middle Eastern sounding name.
This was recommended as the most important thing to read today, his opinion piece.
Anyway, he said the reading by the mainstream media is wrong on this.
The war is not absence of, absent of strategy.
It is course of diplomacy.
Terms first, pressure second, pause third, then renewed pressure from a stronger position,
continuing until they're either decimated or they surrender.
Well described.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Speaking of this is the biggest or best or whatever friend of the Armstrong and Gettyshow
sent this my way, this should be the biggest story in the country right now.
Barkstale Air Force Base is the headquarters for our B-52 nuclear bombers.
It's where Bush sheltered on 9-11.
And sophisticated drones, far more sophisticated than anything seen in Ukraine.
And well beyond Iranian capabilities attacked Louisiana's Barkstale bomber base.
It was the first time a US air base was temporarily put out of operation in wartime,
something that has never happened to even in World War II.
Did not know that story.
This is not, I hate that.
Oh, here it is.
Here's the link.
It's from Asia Times, which I think is a fairly substantial news organization.
Yeah, I hadn't heard this at all.
It was attacked by drone swarms during the week of March 9th.
Okay, so it was a couple of weeks ago.
I do remember hearing about that.
It disrupted B-52H aircraft launches in support of Operation Epic Fury against Iran.
First time US air base out of operation, even World War II.
Each wave forced the Air Force to halt operations and send its personnel to shelters.
Let's see.
What do we...
Well, we drones, we...
Drone wave lasted around four hours each day.
That's really interesting.
I'd like to know more about that.
And of course, we certainly wouldn't be amplifying that story as our military wouldn't be anyway.
For your obvious reasons.
A little more description of the drones and why they were so sophisticated after a word from our friends.
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So a description of these drones.
The drones themselves may have been autonomous or semi-autonomous and operated in ways suggesting the drones were equipped with multiple sensors
that directed the behavior of each drone over the base and in response to attempts at jamming.
And a nutshell, the drones that operated over Barksdale or far more sophisticated than anything seen in Ukraine where drones are used heavily and well beyond Iranian capabilities.
China, maybe nobody's sure.
We'll have to keep an eye on that.
Are we going to keep an eye on the major controversy that is Trump's name is going to end up on our currency?
Oh my god.
He's just like Hitler or something.
According to MS now.
I saw this morning.
I don't know.
I didn't listen to the whole story.
MSHI.
Am I allowed to spell swear words on the air?
What's the FCC say about that?
That's a good question.
I don't know.
You think after being in broadcasting my entire life, I would know that.
Can I spell a swear word?
I mean, I don't think the FCC does anything at this point.
Honestly.
So either it should be a disbanded.
We should get our money back.
Yes.
Indeed.
I don't know.
Do you think we probably can or probably can't?
Well, because I would like to from now till the end of our careers spell MS now is MSHI.
You know what?
I can pause a second then say T.
But having paused, it's okay to use those letters out there.
There's having and seriously folks.
This is so interesting looking at the history of swearing and how it changes according to societies and language and stuff like that.
The idea that if I were to utter those letters of the alphabet in order,
it was some sort of magic incantation out of Harry Potter and people's air would fall out
or people would go blind in their left eye or whatever.
People would faint.
Exactly.
Like it has some sort of magical powers.
It's really very silly.
Do you know something about this, Katie?
According to the interwebs, spelling a swear word on the radio is forbidden.
Oh, according to the good old FCC.
Yeah, well, they can F you.
Hmm.
Oh.
Oh,
I heard that you could do it, but you have to allow 30 seconds between each letter.
So it's very slow.
Well, that'd be entertaining.
Well, look into these.
Another important questions to all of you coming up on the show ahead.
We're going to talk to my clients a little bit later about all those soldiers we got sent
and were sending to the Middle East and what they might be doing and what sort of resistance they could face.
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Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
From the great Mark Twain, sent along by David, alert listener David.
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The truth has no defense against a full determined to believe a lie.
See the internet, mailbag.
The truth has no defense against a full determined to believe a lie.
Or kind of in a similar vein, it's easy to believe a lie if you'd want it to be true.
Oh, which is really, really hard to fight in your own head.
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We'll start with Aaron, who includes a link that would take too long to explain,
but it has to do with gender bending madness.
He says, have resolved to correcting people when they use gendered language.
Example, someone refers to a surgery woman on hormones as he,
I say, it's she, it's 2026.
This does two things.
Highlight, not only that it's over in the jig is up,
but also how short lived the scene actually was.
When we got Bob Costas later coming out and saying the IOC was correct,
if Bob Costas is now on that side of it,
then you know the jig is up.
Yeah.
On the topic of the social media trial and addiction,
that sort of thing, William, from beautiful Clovis rights, Clovis, California,
I love to go fishing, but the thing is every time I go, I catch a fish or two.
The fact that there are more fish in the lake is making it addictive.
Who do I go to to sue God for maliciously placing more fish in the lake?
Why this is a press is so much fraud.
Why does God keep making these delicious fish reproduce?
As a Californian, I believe it's my duty to sue.
Anyway, love your show.
Keep up the good work.
Keep up the good emails.
Thank you.
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JT and Livermore with a great thought about robot umpires.
Baseball is the last sport that needs robot umpires.
Unlike most all major sports baseball season,
even its playoffs are built around the notion that on any given day,
the worst team in baseball can beat the best team in baseball.
So why the season is 162 games long.
So why the playoffs feature best of seven and best of five and best of seven series.
In other words, the structure of baseball already counts for the randomness of the occasional bad call.
It does.
Well, he's absolutely right.
A dominant great basketball team will beat a terrible basketball team almost every single game.
And baseball, not so much.
No, there's much more randomness to the game.
Uh, and this wonderful email from Katie and LA.
Um, you have to hand it to the Israelis.
Our media doesn't cover the extent of the damage and death in Israel with the recent bombings by Iran.
The Iranians are now sending cluster bombs which are getting through the iron dome causing tremendous damage.
Scores of people have been killed even inside shelters.
They're constantly running back and forth into shelters and safe rooms.
Soldiers and reservists are exhausted.
Most people aren't working.
Level of stress and psychological damage to the country is yet to be fully realized yet.
With all this, they're keeping their creativity and sense of humor.
Some apps that have been recently developed and are very popular in Israel.
Do I have time to shower?
You enter your location.
The app calculates the probability of getting a siren within the next half hour.
So you don't have to worry about running a shelter with shampoo in your hair.
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Shelter leaderboard calculates the number of hours spent in shelters and creates leaderboards based on location and sirens data.
This one's been around since October 7th, but it's still genius.
Before any siren is sounded, you get a text message to let you know it's coming.
This helps reduce jumpiness when you hear sirens like police and ambulance and that sort of thing.
And you know, okay, there's the air raid.
I knew it was going to come.
It gives you a chance to head for the shelter and Katie's favorite hooked.
Scan a QR code as you enter the bomb shelter and you'll get matched with other singles in the bomb shelter with you.
God, she says, go ahead.
Did you see the video the rocket hitting in some town and the car flipping up in the area yesterday?
Yeah, I can't imagine living like that.
She says, I wonder if this attitude is another reason people hate to choose the resiliency and creativity that allows them to get through all the horrible times.
She signs off addicted to your show, even though it's the most depressing show on the radio.
Thank you Katie and LA.
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