From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, the Armstrong and Getty Show.

So they got a running street battle going on in Beirut, Lebanon, and I saw at least one outlet reporting that the country is

tottering on the edge of collapse.

So I'm sorry, I just tuned in. Is this a rerun from 1983? Right.

I don't know what a collapse of Lebanon would look like or what that would do.

I will have to look into that further, but that's what's going on currently.

Well, it's a beautiful example of tribal politics and ethnic politics and that sort of thing for sure in that part of the world.

Shame too, because it's a beautiful place, Beirut, when it's not all shooty and bombing and such.

So this is going to be a multi-faceted, multi-stage extended report for you on the state of the supply chain, the economy, etc.

This is probably where we win our mark, Connie.

Oh, awesome. Be grateful that you're here as this unfold.

Obviously, grateful, but you're here. Well, you get to say it.

You're there for the Hindenburg. Well, that was a disaster.

So that was probably a bad example. Anyway, you could say you were here then.

It's like, okay, it was like the Beatles playing Ed Sullivan.

You could say you were there in the audience, wetting your pants while the fab four did their thing.

Anyway, so obviously this supply chain has screwed up inflation to skyrocketing goods, services, workers, all in short supply.

And the explanations for it range from the utterly disingenuous to the pretty reasonable and interesting.

And we're going to do some of each.

First of all, our ancient president attempts to address the situation in Clip 30.

Never again should our country and our economy be unable to make critical products we need because we don't have access to materials to make that product.

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