Enemies with Benefits

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. Studio C! A dimly lit room, deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And hey, y'all, today we're under the tutelage of our title of our show. The Iran War is enemies with benefits. Hey, y'up. Want to bomb each other for a while? Or, if you prefer, don't look now, California. America's stupidest state, maybe New York. Wow. Well, to explain the enemies with benefits to me. That's a clever term. You don't bomb each other for a while. Then what do you call something and says, hey, you up? You mind if I take out a few of your ports? Sure. I'll hit your allies. And then a couple of days later, you don't see each other for a few weeks. So ran his hit. Is it seven ships in the last three days trying to go through the straight? Twelve sailors that are either injured dead or missing at sea, according to a report out today. That's enough to make a lot of insurance companies say, hey, how about you don't send that boat through there? If we're going to have somebody die and all the, imagine the paperwork. It does not take a lot to close the straight. Apparently not. It takes threat. And threat has been made manifest. Yeah, that's something. We will talk more about that later, and Trump did an interview and talked about bomb on their bridges and infrastructure again, which he has said several times. So either he means it or he doesn't, and I guess we'll find out. How about that, you know, I hate to start with a tragedy, but I was just looking at it, that ship that went down in the San Francisco Bay Area between Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. Oh, my God. I missed that. What happened? Oh, last night. It was actually a memorial service. Somebody had died and they wanted to do some sort of memorial service. Sprinkle the ashes out in the bay. And if, you know, we live in, we broadcast from Northern California. I was there just the other day. And it's just glorious there. I mean, that people take cruise ships underneath the Golden Gate Bridge out there by Alcatraz all the time. Anyway, big giant wave hits, boat flips over, people drown. It's ugly, very ugly story. Jeez, Louise. Yeah. That's terrible. Oh, my gosh. I don't remember, you know, it can get pretty windy out there. I don't remember it'll be in flip giant boats rough out there. No, I've never seen that myself. It's a bay, for goodness sakes. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Um, we have, getting back, getting back to the straight and the, the, you know, the threat and the closing of the straight and the rest of it. As you know, I would talk about that for four hours, but I know most people don't want to hear about it. Yeah. I'm struck by and I'm trying to come up with a metaphor or a historical perspective on a situation where it will take enormous effort.

to stop an opponent who only has to do a very little to render that enormous effort moot. Asymmetric. Yeah, I mean, the asymmetry of it is, again, I'm struggling to come up with an example, a suitable example. Of course, we are in one of the first eras, perhaps in human history, where the idea of total war was seen as terrible, undignified, savage, inhumane. Because in the past, if, you know, a superpower was faced with this situation, you would just pound somebody into compliance. Right, whether you were Genghis Khan or the Roman army or the French or the Germans or the English, depending on who had the upper hand at the time. Spain had the upper hand on France yesterday, apparently. Or the Persians or the Spartans, for that matter. Right. That's the way you would do it. And that's why it was we had that same asymmetry going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, which made it so difficult. We'd have troops out there. We had rules of engagement. They just had to make some sort of cheap, crappy bomb that you could set off with a cell phone to blow some people's legs off, which is horrifying. And what do you do about that unless you're willing to just lay waste like has happened throughout human history? The most powerful force just lays waste until you stop doing that. Right. But that's not what we're willing to do or the world will tolerate anymore. So, yeah, I don't know. There hasn't been a good way out of this situation yet. It'll tolerate it if we make them. On the other hand, does the American electorate have the stomach for that? The answer is probably no. I would just remind you all of Sherman's incredibly gentlemanly and eloquent letter to the leaders of Atlanta saying war is hell, war is misery, and the kindest thing we can do is to end it as quickly as possible, and that's what I intend to do. So, no, I'm not going to call off the dogs on the contrary. I'm going to be cruel to be kind. You also have the unique situation of fighting an opponent who doesn't mind dying. That's a fairly unique deal, too. True. They think it's a good thing. Right. And one could certainly, and I'm not sure this is relevant to the discussion we're having, but it's certainly relevant to the politics, point out that, you know, the whole war with Iran in this shape was not a war of necessity. Knocking the nuclear programs back way back was certainly necessary, but, you know, taking out their whole leadership and calling for the people to rise up in the streets and the rest of it was, oh, that was an interesting gamble. Yeah, I don't know. I was listening to the National Review podcast and Noah Rothman, who we had on the air a couple of weeks ago, was trying to spin it in such a way that this is actually a positive thing going forward. He could be right. I don't know. He could be right, but I don't know. We will see.

It's always darkest before the dawn, Jack. It's always darkest before it's totally black. We get 2% of our oil coming through the street. It's a bigger deal for the rest of the world. Way bigger deal for the rest of the world than it is for us. That's one interesting part of this is we started the war. The strait was open before we started the war. The war closes. It doesn't really have much effect on us. It has a lot of effect on Japan and China and Europe and lots of other people, but not us. Well, I disagree. And I've never used this term before in my life. This is exciting. There are knock on effects, Jack. Oh, no. I didn't like it. It didn't feel good. Just. Because if it strangles the rest of the world, we're part of the world economy. And it may not impact us as quickly or severely, but it'll impact us for sure. Especially as oil reserves are running dangerously low, according to experts I have read. You would think the rest of the world would want the straight open, like really want it open. I think they are so flabby and unused to action. I know I am. They wouldn't know where to start. Says me. You're listening to an expert on the topic. Flabby and used to an action. Yeah. So, well, plus, you know, we've got a significant military force there. So, you know, if Japan decided, you know what, this is a righteous cause, I'm not sure exactly what that would look like anyway. But I think we may well find out because we, they, everybody, absolutely between Iraq and a hard place. The path out of this is, to say it's unclear, is to underestimate the murkiness of the situation. I still am surprised that Iran keeps firing on ships. I feel like they're going to. No, no, no. I haven't convinced you, but go ahead. Why weren't they better off just taking the money? dragging their feet on the nuclear stuff while they tried to make a bomb in that secret mountain hideaway that we saw pictures of in the New York Times over the weekend. Why didn't they do that? They have decided control of the Strait of Hormuz is their future. It's their nuclear bomb. It is their superpower. They must cement it. That is their only goal right now. We are in charge of the straight period. That's their only goal. What's the chances the world allows that to happen? I feel like that's zero. We're back to the asymmetry problem, though. I agree with you in principle, but does the quote-unquote rest of the world have the stomach to do? It's going to be necessary. Oh, my God. The asymmetry problem. If the world isn't willing to take on those nut jobs in Iran to keep a major waterway open, then forget about Taiwan and a bunch of other places. There's no way you're taking on China. If you're not willing to take on the rag-tag bunch that is whoever those nut jobs are in Iran. Right. I agree. Wow. I mean, we really are into a new era. Flabby and unused to action.

It's practically the whole world. Pox Americana has been wonderful, wonderful for like every human being on earth for the last 75 years, the great American-led international order, but it's made everybody soft. Yeah. What a bunch of Euro countries feel, convince them that you can retire at 50 and take eight weeks vacation and not produce anything. Right. Because you don't need to spend money on military. I just saw France's economic growth numbers. I think their economy is going to grow by like 0.4% this year or something like that, barely at all. As we're going to grow, you know, 3.6 or whatever. And it's just, yeah, the Euros are dying. They couldn't even beat Spain in soccer yesterday. They couldn't score a single goal. Yeah, no kidding. Nice job, France. Viva, you suck. Spain looked really good, though. Oh, I watched every minute. Yeah, and then England, Argentina today, which I'm actually excited about. Oh, I can't wait for that. When is that game? It's a weird time. I don't know. Middle of the night. No, no, it's like in the afternoon. Somebody figure that out. Check your local listings. So we've had a lot of security all around the country for these soccer matches going on because of any big event. There's always worry about terrorism or something like that. But in particular, they announced that by far they've got more security for Argentina, England today because of the animosity that has existed for so long that you told us about yesterday, which I had no idea of. If you had told me about rivals. I would have never thrown out England, Argentina. The hand of God, the goal of the century, the Falklands War, hatred. Yeah, so there's tremendous security around that thing, apparently. I should tell that story about when I went to a soccer match in, or I was near a soccer match in Sienna between Sienna and Florence. I mean, that's what soccer is like for the world. We don't care about soccer in the United States, so we don't have this sort of thing. Or maybe you go, you have a beer and a hot dog and say, that was fun, you go home again. Yeah. Let's start the show officially. Much to talk about today. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is how did it already get to be Wednesday, July 15th, the year 2026, where Armstrong and getting, we approve of this program. Here we go. Let's begin officially, according to FCC, rules, regs at Mark. One researcher said to me, they use the African fighters mostly as cannon fodder. They come over, they're often not well trained, and in any case, they then force them towards the front line because... They want to use them in an assault wave. They want to send this wave of bodies forward to try and exhaust Ukrainian troops and ammunition. A different horrifying conflict. Yeah, so Russia has been advertising to the rest of the world, the poorest people in the world that, hey, come to Russia and, you know, get a job or whatever. And you get there, and your job is you're in the military. And they send you to the front. And that's where those statistics came from from the New York Times a couple weeks ago, where the average lifespan of people who land, once you get to the front, 20 minutes. 20 minutes.

So you're some African guy. You answer an ad saying, hey, honey, if I'm away for six months, I can work as a, like, mowing parks in Russia. And your family is starving. And earn enough to support us for years. Right. Right. I'm going to go and they put a gun in your hand and a gun to your head and say, yeah, attack that village. I'm not sure they even put a gun in your hand. You might be just be running at the Ukrainians. Why would you waste a gun on somebody who's going to last 20 minutes? God dang it. It takes a certain sort of person to be able to do that. I mean, to force people to do that, to be in charge and know you're doing that. Vladimir Putin is an evil, evil bastard. And those of you have been... Right on down to the squad level. Evil, corrupt, murderous bastards. And those of you've been convinced that Vladimir Putin's standing up for Christianity or something? I do not know what's going on there. You're fools. That's what's going on. We've got some more headlines and a bunch of other stuff to talk about. I see more stuff about the Odyssey on TV every time I look up that movie. It better be good. It better be good. I'm going this weekend. He better make it back home and see his wife or I'm going to be very unhappy. Reviewer Richard Roper said it was one of the best movies he's ever seen. I don't doubt it. Christopher Nolan does good stuff. Oh, yeah. He's amazing. I just can't picture Matt Damon in this role, but maybe I'm wrong. He's a gifted actor. Give him a chance. Should it let Russell Crow shave his beard, lose a few pounds? He didn't have been perfect. Different movie. Okay, we'll get to that stuff next. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty.

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industry like that right exactly can you can you have a moratorium on a sector of society i haven't read the law i mean it might be of above you know 50,000 square feet or something like that but wouldn't it be like saying uh we are not going to have a dairy business in this state. We will not be involved in the dairy business. No airplane hangers. Why? Exactly. Yeah. No hardware stores. Where does the government get off in banning a private enterprise that breaks no other laws? Yeah. Everybody's just accepted this headline. I haven't heard any analysis on this. Maybe we'll have to ask Tim. Armstrong and Getty. Hey, I'm Chris Van Fleet. Go behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the biggest names in pro wrestling and beyond. Mr. Sandman. All I ever wanted to be was a pro wrestler. So I got to live my life and make people really happy. The heartbreak kid himself, Sean Michaels. Do you think there's anybody better than you were? I think I was great at what I did. And I think other people were great at what they did as well. Greatness is more of mindset, I think, than anything else. Mindset, motivation, insight with Chris Van Fleet. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. platform. The Armstrong and Getty show. A Chinese woman in Las Vegas pled guilty to marrying at least 14 men at the same time. When asked if she knew what she did was wrong, she responded, I do.

In Las Vegas, so I was there just a couple of weeks ago, and we were dragging the strip in the classic Mustang that I rented me and my son, and we're going by all those little wedding chapels that they have. And I was trying to explain to my son about the, like, quickie Vegas marriage, but don't have a good explanation as a while. Why was that ever a thing? How was it still a thing? There are, we probably passed eight different, tiny little, some of them are drive-through wedding chapels. I would assume they're only open because they get enough business to make it profitable. Why are there still so many people doing the quickie Vegas wedding? Do you know anything about that? No, I really don't. I'd be guessing. I mean, my guess is that a certain number of people. Why was it ever a thing? A certain number of people don't want a big wedding, but they want to have fun. They want the wedding to be something, just not the conventional, and Vegas will do it for you with a dozen different varieties. I guess. As opposed to go down to the Justice of the Peace and sign in papers and walking home. And enough people do it to keep those places open. They're all really small. They like the size of a Dutch brother's coffee. And there's lots of them. How many folks are still getting the Elvis-themed wedding? Like an Elvis imitator, impersonator, because that was big for a minute. Yeah, I drove by that place. Yep. Yeah. It still exists. There's just one. Do they have some sort of license from the estate of the king or something? I do not know. You'd think the First Amendment would protect faux Elvi from prosecution. So every six months or so, we change the clock in this country. And every six months or so, we have a national conversation about why do we do this? And Congress voted overwhelmingly yesterday. It wasn't even close. It was 300 some to 100 some to make daylight saving time permanent. But the bill faces an uncertain fate in the Senate. Why? I don't understand the resistance to this. I wish I were a congressperson, so I could have suggested an amendment. A sunset clause, which is actually kind of funny if you think about it. A sunset clause. How about we try it for two years and if we decide we don't like it? We'll go back. It's not going to be a disaster. We might just decide we like the other one better. This isn't a big deal. First of all, I don't understand Arizona and Hawaii don't do it. There aren't stacks of dead bodies. People don't just run around screaming because the time didn't change. They don't know how to act. This things seem to be fine. Right. Give it a go. Even do it for a year. And then everybody will get together and say, I thought it was okay. Two thirds of the world does not do it at all. A third of the world does. Let's try it and see what happens. We'll either like it or not. Putting aside your trademark mirth. Uh...

What is, is this uniquely American or 21st century or yet another example of a very comfortable wealthy people? We fear change. We've talked about this with the tax code a million times. Anybody who would design the federal tax code as it is right now should be permanently held in a mental institution. Okay, our tax system is completely insane and bizarre. It's Kafkaesque. And yet whenever a perfectly coherent, reasonable proposal comes along to say, hey, how about we totally reform our tax system and do this and said, people go crazy about the small inconveniences. And I've heard that we should probably stick with their current system, the sphere of change. That's got to be. and evolutionary thing where it's we're alive and our kids are alive let's not mess with things which is kind of the essence of conservatism really it's got to be that at the same time though the pace of change in the modern world is is dizzying but if we all get together to vote for some everybody really hesitates well maybe you've seen it in your own life your own household but sometimes i have to point out to myself or my kids like you're going to change some minor thing Yeah. And then there's the, there's the, but what of this? What if that? Okay, if we don't decide we don't like you sitting there and me sitting there at the dinner table, we'll go back to the old way. Nobody's going to die. It's absolutely anthropological. You're right. It's got to be, yeah. Anyway, the vote was not even close in the House. I don't know why they're going to be stumbling blocks in the Senate to this major, major thing that they do in Arizona and tons of old people seem to be perfectly fine with it. Oh, that reminds me. Speaking of change, this will never happen. But next door in New Mexico, they would go, they'll all set themselves on fire if for some reason we didn't change the clocks twice a year. Dogs lying down with cats, families turning on each other. This will not happen, but I love the idea. Did you know? I should come up with a better form of the question. When did Americans start voting for their senators? Individual voters. When did they start voting for senator? I'm going to go 1830. 1913. Really? Yeah. The Senate was elected by state legislators until 1913, from 1789 to 1913, not a single American cast a ballot for the U.S. Senate. Then the 17th Amendment. One of our worst. Changed senatorial elections to the direct popular vote following state level reforms in the years prior. In June, a representative of Texas proposed legislation to repeal the 17th Amendment. ending the direct election of senators that's starting in 1913, as I've mentioned repeatedly. I would love to see this happen. You would? I was just trying to noodle it through since I haven't thought about it at all. So in your one-party states like California, it would end the chance of any Republican being a senator? Yeah, certainly would in the current, you know.

state of things or the reverse in your red states i'm not trying to make this a partisan thing so you you wouldn't have the chance to like cast a blow against the party in charge by getting one senator from the other party in your state or something. Right, right. The upside of it would be, I've lost my faith in voters. That would be like the upside. Right, right. The original constitutional provision that the state legislatures choose the senators was not only not an accident. It was one of the least controversial questions at the Constitutional Convention. There's no serious dissent to it. You want to hear the reasoning? The framers built a bicameral Congress in which the House would represent the people directly, and the Senate would represent states as states with their own institutional interest in resisting federal encroachment. A senator chosen by and answerable to a state legislator had every incentive to defend that state's prerogatives against Washington, not be a populist nut or a Instagram fame seeker or whatever. A senator who needs a national fundraising operation, a national media profile, and a national donor base to win re-election often has little incentive to be just a fierce representative of their state. Right. So this sort of fits into the argument that I brought up yesterday, which was floating around online over the weekend. There was a movement. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might have brought it up or somebody about how, why does New York State, which has New York City, have two senators when the population of New York City alone is bigger than, I think it was Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Alaska added together. And that's 10 senators. So, and the argument would be what you just said there, because then it's going to become, uh, the federal government or big cities making decisions for the entire country. Now people who live in big cities think that that makes sense. for the rural areas, but it doesn't being a person who's spent most of my life in rural areas. Right, exactly. And the differing interests of the differing parts of the country, just, you know, in general, it's an ingenious design that the founders came up with. And we've made the Senate more populist and more to quote James Madison. uh to something or other from the people's momentary passions uh the uh the design is as it was originally uh said a body removed from the immediate popular passion would provide a defense to the people against their own temporary errors and delusions preserving public opinions true interest until reason justice and truth can regain their authority meaning you know the the oft heard phrase that the senate is the saucer that cools the milk um

It would be a very, very careful, very slow-moving deliberative body. It would be essentially a committee of all 50 states getting together and saying, hey, let's be fair to everybody here. I don't have to run for re-election in a couple of years. In fact, as long as I represent Montana faithfully, I really don't have to worry about re-election at all. But in the interest of the people of Montana, I've got to tell you, this scheme to drain all of our water and send it to Los Angeles ain't good. So that's what the Senate was supposed to be. I like it. Populism, especially in the age of the Internet, I think is a dangerous force. Absolutely. Yeah. And then the Senate being staggered so you can't have a wave that really upsets the Senate. as opposed to the House where you can, where if all of a sudden there's a passion about a war we're in or a tax policy or whatever, you can have a giant wave happen within two years. Right. Which is just, you know, like you said, it's really an ingenious system. As to the national- Well, we're accidentally building a case here. Let me throw in one more thing real quickly. Because the president now is the party, which can cause wild, wild swings in policy. And then you have senators who right now, for populist reasons, are kind of afraid of opposing the sitting president. I'll admit it. It's true. You see it all the time. This would fix that to a large extent. Ah, you're right. In terms of the national elections thing, though, I was reading some piece about how much more we have that now than we used to. You run on whether you're with Donald Trump or Joe Biden. It used to be all my whole life, what you heard on the like Tim Russert style meet the press or whatever it was. All politics are local. And that's just not true anymore. All politics is national. Right. Right. It's all about what everybody's watching in the news and whatever hot YouTube video or whatever. Including politics, which is. bitterly needs to be local becomes national. Yeah. It's funny. I got into a conversation sort of with a guy last night about the, it was a crazy drug addict homeless person screaming their head off violently near a group of people last night. And I, uh, I went out and dialed 911 and the cops talked to him. And then the cops called me back and said, uh, yeah, we, uh, we know this guy. We talked to him all the time. And I mentioned to a friend of mine. He said, yeah, because they talk to him every day. Somebody calls 911 every day because he's dangerous and scary and they come and talk to him every day and he's still on the street. Right. And kind of got into the whole idea because of our whole nationalized politics, you've got this crowd that, well, to do anything? about the crime or homelessness or this or that would be make you a Trump person or not a Trump person, which is a ridiculous way to look at your local school, your local taxes, your local water, your local whatever, you know, just like through the pandemic with masks and schools and everything else is Trump order against it. That's the way we're on everything now.

Right. Or, you know, to put the shoe on the other foot, if some senator had been willing to stand up to Joe Biden and say, hey, this is a gigantic multi-trillion dollar COVID bailout is going to cause spiraling inflation. I won't do it. You couldn't threaten to primary him. Because the people of his state, the legislature of his state, it say, no, I don't care. I'm glad he stood up to you. That's fine. We'll decide who our senator is, not you pouring a bunch of money into our elections and trying to whip up the populist base, blah, blah, blah. I like it. Probably won't happen, but I like it. I had a physical yesterday. Apparently you have to have one every so often, according to your insurance or something. I hadn't had one a long time. Did you go to Trump's doctor so he would declare you the most physically fit talk show host in history? Here's the worst thing, and I'm not, I'm going to lie about this for the rest of my life. Uh-oh. My height. Oh, you'd say, yeah, yeah. Freaking gravity, man. Newton! You bastard. Mind your own business. Yeah, it's your dangled discs between your vertebrae. They get squashed. That's maddening. I know, I know. My doctor actually said, he said, call yourself what you used to be. It doesn't cost anything. Jack's gone from 6 foot 2 to 411. I mean, it's really, really shocking. Right. Had to get rid of all his clothes. Or the pants I keep, I got to, like, buckle them around my neck. It's really kind of a jumpsuit now. You can't go on those amusement rides anymore. Most rights. I'm too short for it. It's terrible. Damn it. We've got mailbag next. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty.

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Yeah, Judy has her stuff. I have my stuff. We have our stuff. And it works great. It's quite possible that if you two listed your interests, the algorithm wouldn't put you together. Well, right. Yeah. You know, in describing what makes relationships work, there's obviously a biochemical reaction that nobody can fully explain. And then her crazy and my crazy match up. There's that too. Yeah. Absolutely that's a thing. No doubt about it. My worst qualities match up with her highest levels of patients and vice versa. Right. Well, you and I have talked about how like in dealing with corporate stuff in the business, we've never both been too mad to deal with it at the same time. We've never both lost our ass at the same time. One of us storms out and the other is certainly willing to discuss this for whatever reason. Why? I don't know. There's a lot more mailbag. We'll sprinkle it. We'll get to that. We got more stuff on the way. If you missed the segment to the podcast, Armstrong and Getty on demand. Subscribe. Armstrong and Getty. Do you owe back taxes or have unfiled tax returns? The IRS won't quit until they get your money. Here's great news, fresh from those in the no. Major changes have happened at the IRS. If you owe more than $10,000, you may be eligible for a 99% reduction of what you owe. Haven't filed a return for a while? Their happy clients are talking. The IRS was going to levy my bank account, but Guardian was able to prevent that and fix all my IRS issues. Thanks again, Guardian tax. Need relief from crushing tax death? IRS now has special programs. Guardian Tax knows all about them. Personal or business, this is the fresh new brick you've been hoping for. We aren't the company you call when you need a hug because you're scared of the IRS. Guardian Tax is the company that wins when you need it most. Guardian Tax Service is really great to work with. They really help me out. I'd recommend them highly. Call now for a free confidential consultation. 800 505-1608. 800-505-608. 800-505-606. Talk Radio 8.10am KSFO San Francisco and KSAN HD2 San Mateo, a cumulus media station. Hey, I'm Chris Van Fleet. Go behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the biggest names in pro wrestling and beyond. Mr. Sandman. All I ever wanted to be was a pro wrestler. So I got to live my life. And make people really happy. The heartbreak kid himself, Sean Michaels. Do you think there's anybody better than you were? I think I was great at what I did. And I think other people were great at what they did as well. Greatness is more of mindset, I think, than anything else. Mindset, motivation, insight with Chris Van Fleet. Follow and listen on your favorite.

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