No Fun, Not Worth It
5/7/202638 min
Hour 2 of A&G features...
The newly released Epstein suicide note... The Enhanced Games... the big drug bust in LA's McArthur Park... LA Mayoral candidates face Spencer Pratt... Mar-A-Lago Face!
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First 90 secondsJack Armstrong· Host0:00
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Speaker 10:03
[upbeat music] Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio. The George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Jack Armstrong· Host0:14
Armstrong and Getty.
Joe Getty· Host0:16
And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 10:23
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3· Soundbite0:26
Has this war made the US stronger strategically or, or the opposite?
Speaker 40:33
I think it's pretty much made the US, uh, weaker. Ultimately, I don't think this has been, uh, exactly what the United States bargained for.
Jack Armstrong· Host0:40
And there you go. There's CBS Evening News coverage of the war in Iran. You ask one guy, did the war make the US stronger or weaker? He goes with weaker. And in other news, what the hell? I actually uttered an oath out loud when I saw that in the news last night. I like Eliot Ackerman, that was the, uh, analyst there. His book about war, one of the best things I've ever read in my life about war. Highly recommend it to anyone.
Joe Getty· Host1:03
The fifth chapter, right?
Jack Armstrong· Host1:04
You can listen to it. He reads the book- Yeah ... if you do the audiobook, but it, so good. But anyway, d- asking one guy who says, "This has been, it's been bad for the United States." [laughs] And then to like, "Well, that's the final word," is nuts. If you've been paying attention to the war at all, there are all kinds of different opinions by lots of people giving their straight analysis of it's been a, a success, it's been a failure, it's been this, it's that. You know, mixture of...