WEBVTT - A Human Sized Bird Cage 0:00:09.020 --> 0:00:12.860 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:12.900 --> 0:00:14.880 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:14.940 --> 0:00:17.139 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:17.300 --> 0:00:18.660 Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:18.820 --> 0:00:24.520 And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:25.340 --> 0:00:34.750 You guys see this? France has accused Iran of being 0:00:34.790 --> 0:00:38.610 behind cyber attacks that affected supermarket fridges and freezers. 0:00:39.570 --> 0:00:42.390 Yeah, when they heard McDonald's was like, yeah, and Iran 0:00:42.470 --> 0:00:49.520 definitely broke our ice cream machines, too. Oh, the unreliable 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.479 ice cream machines of McDonald's. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.300 So this has been a mystery for the world for 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.410 a couple of weeks now. Who is hacking into refrigerators 0:00:58.450 --> 0:00:58.810 in Europe? 0:00:59.650 --> 0:01:03.070 There are more and more indications that the obvious answer 0:01:03.170 --> 0:01:07.660 is the correct one. It was Russia. Sending the message 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.750 that you keep backing Ukraine, we are going to hurt 0:01:10.810 --> 0:01:12.710 you and we can hurt you in all sorts of 0:01:12.770 --> 0:01:13.429 different ways. 0:01:13.450 --> 0:01:15.730 You want spoiled yogurt? You want spoiled yogurt? 0:01:16.630 --> 0:01:19.850 Turning freezers up to 120 degrees, which is, you know, 0:01:19.930 --> 0:01:22.500 halfway to an oven. Just keep going and we'll eat 0:01:22.530 --> 0:01:30.750 this stuff now. Yeah, and the whole... vulnerability of everything 0:01:30.770 --> 0:01:33.649 because it's all connected to the internet i for the 0:01:33.709 --> 0:01:36.770 convenience of i'm the grocery store manager i get an 0:01:36.830 --> 0:01:39.510 alert hey that freezer just went down i don't find 0:01:39.590 --> 0:01:40.950 out when i get in in the morning and all 0:01:40.970 --> 0:01:43.880 the zillion dollars of meat spoiled i find out immediately 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:45.800 i can deal with it i get it but man 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:47.400 is it vulnerable i'm so a. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.780 Little confused by the you don't take credit for it 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:55.340 but you clearly hope that people figure out it's you 0:01:55.530 --> 0:01:59.220 or assume it's you So you accomplish what you tried 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:00.940 to accomplish with basically terrorism. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.140 Yeah, I've got to admit, I'm still mystified by the 0:02:04.220 --> 0:02:08.690 whole everybody knows it, but you deny it. And that's 0:02:08.770 --> 0:02:11.570 good enough to not have. I don't know what the 0:02:11.669 --> 0:02:14.680 United Nations weigh in with sanctions or the US to 0:02:14.690 --> 0:02:16.990 go crazy or what I just. If you know it's them, 0:02:17.030 --> 0:02:19.790 you know it's them. I don't understand why plausible deny 0:02:19.850 --> 0:02:22.470 or implausible deniability still works at all. 0:02:22.830 --> 0:02:25.959 If Russia announced it, that would be– then you have 0:02:25.970 --> 0:02:29.880 to respond to it because they've committed an act of war. 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:30.419 Yeah. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:31.300 Okay. 0:02:31.660 --> 0:02:33.899 That's part of it. So as kind of a sidelight 0:02:33.940 --> 0:02:36.020 to this piece I was reading, I thought this was 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:41.380 super interesting. Then we can get to– Weak acts, children, 0:02:41.419 --> 0:02:44.840 and honyucks elected office in the recent blue tsunami. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.930 Did a dog get elected anywhere? I love it when 0:02:46.950 --> 0:02:47.750 dogs get elected. 0:02:48.250 --> 0:02:50.230 I'm sure one did. I'm not familiar with it. I 0:02:50.250 --> 0:02:52.329 don't have a dog for you. Well, I've got a 0:02:52.389 --> 0:02:55.730 different dog for you, the one that saved the baby, maybe. Anyway, 0:02:56.150 --> 0:02:58.470 so as part of this piece, and I thought this 0:02:58.490 --> 0:03:02.290 was so interesting, during the Cold War, European countries actively 0:03:02.350 --> 0:03:05.549 prepared for war with the Soviet Union. Not only by 0:03:05.610 --> 0:03:09.429 maintaining sizable militaries until they got fat, lazy and socialist 0:03:09.630 --> 0:03:12.020 in the, you know, especially in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:13.410 mostly 80s, 90s. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.160 But anyway, with us as their enabler. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.880 Yes, exactly. Yeah. But they also ensured that civil society 0:03:19.940 --> 0:03:23.910 could continue to function during the war. And they use 0:03:23.990 --> 0:03:26.790 Sweden as the example. And I found this really interesting. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:33.820 Sweden stored years worth of oil in massive secret rock caverns, 0:03:33.910 --> 0:03:37.150 for instance. They were so sure there would be war 0:03:37.190 --> 0:03:40.850 with the Soviets. Medicine, food, and other necessities were also stockpiled. 0:03:41.210 --> 0:03:45.890 Sweden had mandatory conscription for all men, a year of 0:03:45.970 --> 0:03:51.380 service for all 18-year-olds, which included extensive training in guerrilla 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.720 warfare to ensure that resistance could continue if and when 0:03:55.820 --> 0:04:02.220 Stockholm fell. I wouldn't be 100% comfortable at this point 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.540 in our nation's history giving hundreds of thousands of 18-year-olds 0:04:06.660 --> 0:04:11.590 guerrilla warfare training. Of course, it's worth pointing out Sweden 0:04:11.610 --> 0:04:19.289 at the time especially was incredibly homogenous in terms of ethnicity, language, religion, 0:04:19.550 --> 0:04:22.250 the rest of it. They were all one people. They 0:04:22.290 --> 0:04:25.730 were a nation state, as we say in political science. 0:04:25.750 --> 0:04:27.930 Your concern is if we gave our young people guerrilla 0:04:27.970 --> 0:04:32.650 warfare training, they would turn on Tesla or their college campus. 0:04:33.690 --> 0:04:36.560 Right, or God knows what else. Right, yeah, depending on 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:42.020 what wackadoodled philosophy they'd fallen under the sway of. Moreover, 0:04:42.420 --> 0:04:45.080 everyone between the ages of 16 and 70, male and female, 0:04:48.250 --> 0:04:52.200 had a total defense duty. I'm sure the Swedish phrase 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.000 is charming, but women and those who had not served 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.900 in the military were pre-assigned to other roles, which they 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:02.310 were to assume immediately if mobilization were declared. Report to 0:05:02.330 --> 0:05:05.230 the nearest hospital, if that was your job. Collect the 0:05:05.270 --> 0:05:07.450 keys to the local bomb shelter. Turn up at the 0:05:07.490 --> 0:05:11.480 munitions factory. the very moment jet fighters took off from 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.320 the other side of the Baltic Sea, every Swede would 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.850 know exactly where to go, what to do, and what 0:05:16.870 --> 0:05:19.110 their individual role in the defense of the country was. 0:05:19.250 --> 0:05:22.469 So part of that has got to be... How amazing 0:05:22.510 --> 0:05:25.890 is that? These are all people that have living memory 0:05:26.850 --> 0:05:29.910 of big countries going to war with each other. Yes. 0:05:30.610 --> 0:05:33.500 And so it seems like a reality. It was a 0:05:33.540 --> 0:05:35.040 reality for them as kids. 0:05:36.540 --> 0:05:36.600 Uh. 0:05:37.130 --> 0:05:41.550 war as an adult. And now, I think, for whatever reason, 0:05:41.570 --> 0:05:45.010 I feel this a little bit myself even. You can't 0:05:45.300 --> 0:05:48.840 imagine actually going to war with China or Russia. 0:05:49.180 --> 0:05:53.400 It'll never happen. Please, we're all too satisfied and rich 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:57.500 and safe. Yeah, you're exactly right. One more note. Some 0:05:57.700 --> 0:06:01.390 civilians were even trained as special stay-behind forces tasked with 0:06:01.430 --> 0:06:06.289 carrying out sabotage missions behind enemy lines. So, look, you're 0:06:06.410 --> 0:06:09.960 going to go to the food warehouse and you're just 0:06:10.020 --> 0:06:12.440 a food distribution guy. Okay. Except we're giving you the 0:06:12.500 --> 0:06:16.580 special training and you're actually a demolition gorilla for when 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.880 the Soviets occupy us. Cause we will never stop fighting. 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:21.700 Oh, wow. 0:06:21.730 --> 0:06:25.170 Do you see the story over the weekend? So somebody 0:06:25.210 --> 0:06:30.550 was able to hack into Russia's government computers and get 0:06:31.089 --> 0:06:36.480 accurate statistics on, uh, all kinds of stuff around the war. 0:06:36.500 --> 0:06:39.020 So the worst, the worst coming up on five years 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.980 in February, five years, I am terrible at guessing how 0:06:43.020 --> 0:06:45.719 long a war will last. Whenever they start, I think 0:06:46.140 --> 0:06:48.400 the one with us and Iran, I always think, well, 0:06:48.550 --> 0:06:50.690 it can't last. When people talk about this could still 0:06:50.710 --> 0:06:52.390 be going on in the midterms. I thought there's no 0:06:52.510 --> 0:06:54.290 way this is still going on at the midterms. Well, 0:06:54.330 --> 0:06:56.190 now there's no reason to think it's going to be 0:06:56.250 --> 0:07:00.229 over a year from now. Um, And the Ukraine-Russia war, 0:07:00.250 --> 0:07:02.070 if you'd have told me five years, I thought, no 0:07:02.330 --> 0:07:08.630 flipping way. Anyway, Russia had their worst weekend, their worst 0:07:08.690 --> 0:07:14.900 day of the entire war Sunday. They lost 3,000 guys killed, wounded, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:21.250 or missing. 3,000 on a day! Man, there aren't many 0:07:21.310 --> 0:07:23.670 countries that have the appetite for that, but they are 0:07:23.730 --> 0:07:26.470 now at, and a lot of people think it's a 0:07:26.510 --> 0:07:29.050 higher number than this, but it's at least a half 0:07:29.090 --> 0:07:29.510 a million. 0:07:30.290 --> 0:07:30.570 Dead. 0:07:31.250 --> 0:07:31.530 Dead. 0:07:31.550 --> 0:07:33.390 A half a million dead. 0:07:34.070 --> 0:07:34.380 Yeah. 0:07:35.650 --> 0:07:38.780 Ten times, well, not quite ten times our losses in Vietnam. 0:07:39.340 --> 0:07:42.820 Approaching our losses in all of World War II. And 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:47.780 by next year, if this continues, they'll reach our deadliest war, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.540 which was the Civil War, because everybody that died was 0:07:50.580 --> 0:07:54.570 an American on both sides, which was about 600,000. They'll 0:07:54.590 --> 0:07:58.110 have lost as many men in this stupid project that's 0:07:58.130 --> 0:08:01.690 going to accomplish nothing for them that's of any use whatsoever. 0:08:01.710 --> 0:08:05.230 The same amount of men. It's just what a meat 0:08:05.330 --> 0:08:07.110 grinder is not an exaggeration. 0:08:07.590 --> 0:08:10.100 Right, right. And at the risk of getting off on 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:14.900 that tangent and getting back to the Swedes and their 0:08:15.060 --> 0:08:19.940 vow to fight forever, yeah, the Ukrainians are going to think, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.580 all right, you abducted our kids. You slaughtered us for 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.740 very little reason. You gained a little ground as a 0:08:26.780 --> 0:08:29.940 meat grinder. Well, you occupy this part of the Donbass. 0:08:29.980 --> 0:08:32.990 Let's live and let live for the next couple of generations. 0:08:33.210 --> 0:08:35.599 You're a fool if you think that. It's going to 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.420 be a drain on Russian finances until long after I'm 0:08:39.500 --> 0:08:43.679 in probably hell with Trump. But you see my point. 0:08:43.940 --> 0:08:45.600 I don't want to find out. I hope it doesn't 0:08:45.620 --> 0:08:49.370 happen in my lifetime. But I don't know what project 0:08:52.390 --> 0:08:58.929 in the world the U.S. public would accept 3,000 dead, wounded, 0:08:58.990 --> 0:09:03.790 or missing in one day. Defending Taiwan... pushing back against Russia. 0:09:03.809 --> 0:09:04.750 I don't think there is one. 0:09:05.130 --> 0:09:06.290 Just to repel an invasion. 0:09:07.670 --> 0:09:10.329 It would have to be actually invading our country before 0:09:10.370 --> 0:09:14.220 we would accept those kind of losses and not say no. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.540 Which is why you never turn your back on a Canadian. 0:09:17.860 --> 0:09:20.420 That's what I say. Oh, so the point of this 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.760 article was that it's a compare and contrast back in 0:09:24.780 --> 0:09:27.460 the day how tough and ready a lot of Europe was, 0:09:27.500 --> 0:09:31.190 including Sweden most notably, and how they're all now like, what? 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.630 What do we do? 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But what is that saying you always have? 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.150 Because it's so good and it's what's going on clearly 0:11:14.190 --> 0:11:18.350 in Sweden and lots of places. The good times lead 0:11:18.410 --> 0:11:22.870 to weak people. Well, tough times make for tough men. 0:11:23.030 --> 0:11:26.020 Tough men make for prosperous times. Prosperous times make for 0:11:26.059 --> 0:11:29.040 soft people. And then soft people make for tough times. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.420 And you start the cycle again. I don't think there's 0:11:32.780 --> 0:11:36.910 any avoiding it. I think it can be delayed, and 0:11:36.950 --> 0:11:39.929 I think you owe it to your children and yourself 0:11:39.990 --> 0:11:42.510 and your grandchildren to delay it if you can. But 0:11:44.370 --> 0:11:47.829 human nature is unchanging, and that's been true over and 0:11:47.890 --> 0:11:49.750 over and over again. Look at some of the great 0:11:50.650 --> 0:11:51.740 civilizations of old. 0:11:52.179 --> 0:11:53.140 There are a bunch of them. 0:11:53.300 --> 0:11:53.620 Oh, sure. 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.920 They lasted for way longer than the American Empire. That's 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.380 the whole plot of Finnegan's Wake, which I've been trying 0:11:59.420 --> 0:12:02.220 to read. And that's why the last sentence cuts off 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:06.620 and the book begins with the picking up of the 0:12:06.660 --> 0:12:08.699 last sentence of the book. It's just a cycle that 0:12:08.780 --> 0:12:11.020 this cycle that you just described just keeps going over 0:12:11.070 --> 0:12:13.890 and over and over with every civilization throughout history. And 0:12:13.910 --> 0:12:14.689 there's no breaking it. 0:12:14.730 --> 0:12:17.230 It's just the way it is. That's art, dude. Oh, 0:12:17.270 --> 0:12:20.210 that reminds me. I teased this yesterday and we never 0:12:20.270 --> 0:12:27.240 got to it. A 2,400-year-old explanation for why character matters. Okay. 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.340 In politics right now. 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:30.160 There you go. 0:12:30.460 --> 0:12:31.100 That's good stuff. 0:12:31.460 --> 0:12:31.940 On the way. 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:32.280 Stay here. 0:12:33.870 --> 0:12:43.390 Armstrong and Getty. 0:12:44.390 --> 0:12:46.030 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:12:50.100 --> 0:12:51.600 Listen to this headline from the L.A. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:51.960 Times. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:56.380 Stanford scientist after decades of study concludes we don't have 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:03.020 free will. Maybe we'll talk about that later. 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.360 All right. We'll be back in L.A. in just a second. 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.940 So a lot of interesting results from the elections, obviously, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.920 including the number of DSA candidates that were elected mayors 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.329 of various cities. More than most people are talking about. 0:13:20.380 --> 0:13:22.620 Keeping in mind, and I've got the DSA's platform right 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.500 in front of me, they want to empty the prisons, 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:27.780 open the borders. 0:13:27.900 --> 0:13:29.790 You don't even need to go past the first one. 0:13:29.809 --> 0:13:32.510 The first one is insane. I'm working up to it. 0:13:32.750 --> 0:13:33.950 The one you just said. Oh, that first one. 0:13:34.130 --> 0:13:37.729 Empty the prisons. That's insanity. You can't support a party 0:13:38.050 --> 0:13:39.810 that believes that. That's nuts. 0:13:40.610 --> 0:13:42.350 I was working up to the really good ones. So 0:13:42.610 --> 0:13:43.329 that and to. 0:13:46.270 --> 0:13:50.469 Dramatically cut defense spending, enclose all overseas U.S. military bases, 0:13:50.870 --> 0:13:54.950 and discard the Constitution. They want to get rid of 0:13:55.030 --> 0:13:59.709 the bicameral Congress and replace the presidency and Supreme Court 0:14:00.330 --> 0:14:05.829 with just tools of Congress. Teach dogs to ride bicycles 0:14:05.910 --> 0:14:09.130 and fish to read. Go ahead. So they want to 0:14:09.150 --> 0:14:12.410 get rid of the Constitution. Here's what to know. Nithya 0:14:12.450 --> 0:14:16.360 Raman won the mayoral race in L.A. last Thursday. Joining 0:14:16.380 --> 0:14:19.520 the ranks, Democratic Socialists. New York City got Zoran Mamdani. 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.560 In L.A., Seattle, Mayor Katie Wilson, the woman child who's 0:14:22.580 --> 0:14:25.540 never really held a job and has gotten slapped in 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.110 the face by reality. In Washington, D.C., Janice Lewis George, 0:14:29.490 --> 0:14:32.790 District Council member who was a member of the DSA, 0:14:32.830 --> 0:14:35.230 was elected mayor on Tuesday. You probably didn't hear that. 0:14:35.670 --> 0:14:40.100 Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island. David Morales, state lawmaker and 0:14:40.220 --> 0:14:43.650 former professional wrestler. who's also a DSA member, was elected 0:14:43.690 --> 0:14:48.250 mayor on Tuesday, easily defeated his Republican opponent after running 0:14:48.290 --> 0:14:52.890 on a campaign focusing on capping rent hikes, et cetera, 0:14:52.910 --> 0:14:58.320 et cetera. So there you go, America. So on to 0:14:58.420 --> 0:15:04.380 the question of these various districts and races where the 0:15:04.420 --> 0:15:10.430 Democratic Party just they hadn't won in so long. Somebody 0:15:10.450 --> 0:15:16.640 would come along like Sebastian Matta, 19 years old, and say, hey, 0:15:17.500 --> 0:15:20.420 county clerk for Maricopa County. That's Phoenix. That's the biggest 0:15:20.460 --> 0:15:23.020 county in Arizona. I want to run for that. And 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:27.570 the Democratic Party is like, go ahead. Knock yourself out. 0:15:27.910 --> 0:15:31.780 We haven't won that race since your granny was skipping 0:15:31.820 --> 0:15:34.500 rope on the playground. All right. Do whatever you want. Well, 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:39.210 this child has won. He's 19. He's got a 3.25 0:15:39.210 --> 0:15:44.830 grade point average, which given grade inflation lately is not great. 0:15:46.430 --> 0:15:51.340 But so he now has. I think 600, more than 0:15:51.340 --> 0:15:52.820 600 employees. 0:15:53.020 --> 0:15:53.300 Wow. 0:15:53.340 --> 0:15:57.260 He'll oversee an office with a $ 65 million budget that 0:15:57.350 --> 0:16:03.990 processes nearly 15,000 documents and half a million dollars every day. 0:16:04.210 --> 0:16:07.570 And I'm guessing he's got not the slightest idea where 0:16:07.590 --> 0:16:08.190 to even start. 0:16:09.190 --> 0:16:11.890 No, he's an odd kid. He wears a suit to 0:16:11.930 --> 0:16:14.100 class most days. He has a background in high school 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.840 theater and debate, speaks with a political polish beyond his years, 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.920 often wears a suit to class. Theater kid. 0:16:20.220 --> 0:16:20.600 Oh, God. 0:16:20.660 --> 0:16:23.760 Run for your lives. Anyway, so that's him. Then I 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:29.140 like this one. This is my favorite. North Carolina's 14th district. 0:16:29.180 --> 0:16:31.210 You got to focus in here. You see that green triangle? 0:16:31.230 --> 0:16:36.190 That's the triangle of greenness. It's super red-leaning. It's sent 0:16:36.290 --> 0:16:39.390 Republicans time after time. But in the whatever the hell 0:16:39.430 --> 0:16:44.390 happened last week. It went Democrat and the Democratic Party's like, 0:16:44.710 --> 0:16:47.790 did we run somebody in the 14th? Who was it? Well, 0:16:47.850 --> 0:16:52.330 it was Lakeisha Womack who headed not to Congress, but 0:16:52.390 --> 0:16:55.780 to court first. She's set to appear on felony charges 0:16:55.820 --> 0:17:02.460 for failing to return a rental car. She was served 0:17:02.500 --> 0:17:05.619 a felony summons three weeks before Election Day, according to 0:17:05.660 --> 0:17:08.640 court records reviewed by the Free Beacon, which blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.580 You held on to your rental car so long you 0:17:11.619 --> 0:17:12.459 might go to prison. 0:17:13.140 --> 0:17:17.200 Yeah, exactly. And the budget rental car location in Charlotte said, 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.050 we've been calling her and calling her. Attempts to locate 0:17:20.090 --> 0:17:25.370 the suspect have been unsuccessful. It's a felony in North Carolina. Blah, blah, blah. 0:17:25.390 --> 0:17:26.629 This happened a little while back. 0:17:26.650 --> 0:17:29.109 Because at some point you've stolen a car. 0:17:30.490 --> 0:17:32.310 Well, right. Yeah. Yeah. 0:17:35.090 --> 0:17:35.710 That's pretty funny. 0:17:36.030 --> 0:17:38.350 Of course, Axios noted two days before the election that 0:17:38.390 --> 0:17:41.270 she was poised to defeat her opponent. Didn't mention the 0:17:41.310 --> 0:17:43.790 felony charges against her. Rather, the news outlet indicated that 0:17:43.830 --> 0:17:52.210 Womack is a minister and consultant who has experienced home insecurity. Finally, 0:17:52.290 --> 0:17:54.869 one more real quick. A guy in Iowa suspended his 0:17:55.690 --> 0:17:59.129 campaign because he had terrible health problems months ago. He 0:17:59.210 --> 0:18:00.950 quit the race and he got elected. 0:18:02.420 --> 0:18:05.270 This happens in these wave elections. It happened with Republicans 0:18:05.330 --> 0:18:07.430 during the Tea Party thing. I need to, next time 0:18:07.470 --> 0:18:09.710 it looks like there might be a wave election, go 0:18:09.750 --> 0:18:14.520 ahead and register for some various posts in case there's 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:15.680 a wave, and then get in there. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:17.820 And then do fun stuff. 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.000 And then do what? I don't know. Enjoy the benefits. 0:18:21.350 --> 0:18:23.409 Bilk the taxpayers out of whatever you can get and 0:18:23.430 --> 0:18:26.359 then head for the hills. Certainly what I would do. Yeah. 0:18:26.940 --> 0:18:30.440 Thousands of years of wisdom on why character matters in politics. 0:18:30.460 --> 0:18:32.280 You've got that and a lot more coming up. Stay 0:18:32.300 --> 0:18:34.540 with us. Grab the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:35.520 Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:38.550 --> 0:18:40.250 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:18:42.700 --> 0:18:45.399 We've got a red alert. We go to halftime in Charlotte, 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:50.360 North Carolina. Halftime entertainment, a corgi race, and a corgi. 0:18:50.180 --> 0:18:52.480 Is loose, and the handlers can't handle him. 0:18:52.790 --> 0:18:55.350 The second half is supposed to be kicking off. They 0:18:55.369 --> 0:18:57.409 can't get him at the 40. They can't get him 0:18:57.430 --> 0:19:00.770 at the 45. He's at midfield. The corgi is loose. 0:19:00.810 --> 0:19:03.150 He's checking to his left, to his right. He's looking 0:19:03.170 --> 0:19:06.640 at himself on the big video board, and finally they 0:19:06.740 --> 0:19:11.220 tackle him, but not until about a 100-yard gain. And 0:19:11.260 --> 0:19:13.880 the crowd really enjoyed that. And we've been saying for years, 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:18.810 rather than have a big halftime show that pleases practically 0:19:18.990 --> 0:19:21.600 nobody with some musical guest or whatever, why don't you 0:19:21.619 --> 0:19:25.620 have dogs catching Frisbees or wiener dogs racing or something 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:26.740 like that? Everybody would love that. 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.240 Have a couple of people in the inflatable sumo outfits 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:32.620 going at each other. Something like that. 0:19:32.660 --> 0:19:35.080 Do the thing where you put a bunch of two-year-olds 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:36.939 in a starting line and see which one happens to 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.960 crawl the right direction the furthest to win a prize. 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.850 I would watch that. Heck yeah! 0:19:42.850 --> 0:19:43.609 Jay-Z? No. 0:19:43.609 --> 0:19:45.990 But whoever, I don't know. 0:19:45.990 --> 0:19:49.190 Yeah, I know. When I was at an NBA game recently, 0:19:50.630 --> 0:19:54.060 you know, the dancing girls come out, and I just, 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:57.160 I don't, is there anybody that really enjoys that? 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:57.820 I don't. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:19:59.119 But when they would have some. 0:20:01.650 --> 0:20:04.270 Doughy Dope come out there and try to make, you know, 0:20:04.290 --> 0:20:07.909 a half-court shot for a car or something. Yeah, everybody's 0:20:07.930 --> 0:20:08.270 into it. 0:20:09.310 --> 0:20:12.470 Yeah, that is funny, the preconceptions. Anyway, I want that 0:20:12.570 --> 0:20:16.530 Corgi checked for steroids. That was clear Corgi rage. Oh, 0:20:16.570 --> 0:20:18.389 that reminds me, I've mentioned this a couple of times, 0:20:18.470 --> 0:20:21.189 and Katie, I don't know if you're available, you'll find 0:20:21.210 --> 0:20:26.609 this interesting. Here's this gal who's got a five-month-old and 0:20:26.730 --> 0:20:32.860 her dog is was whining and pacing nervously around the kid, 0:20:33.340 --> 0:20:36.550 licking the baby's face and just becoming more and more distressed. 0:20:37.220 --> 0:20:39.950 And mom and grandma are like, what's up with the dog? 0:20:39.970 --> 0:20:43.810 And just thought it was odd. And then later that day, 0:20:43.869 --> 0:20:47.630 the child started screaming and crying, and they finally brought 0:20:47.650 --> 0:20:51.109 him into the emergency care. Turns out the baby's heart 0:20:51.150 --> 0:20:54.149 rate was dangerously high, well over 200 beats per minute. 0:20:54.609 --> 0:20:54.909 Whoa. 0:20:54.930 --> 0:21:00.820 Whoa. And the dog could sense something was wrong. Nobody's 0:21:00.900 --> 0:21:03.320 quite sure what the mechanism. Oh, I know. I love 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:05.340 dogs so much. No, honey, I'm not going to get 0:21:05.380 --> 0:21:09.100 another one. Don't worry if you're listening. But yeah, it's 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:11.740 quite amazing. These stories, I mean, whether it's cancer or 0:21:11.820 --> 0:21:14.900 diabetes or. Now that's nailed down, right? That they can 0:21:14.940 --> 0:21:19.600 smell cancer in a way that. Yeah. Impending seizures, low 0:21:19.660 --> 0:21:21.879 blood sugar, heart arrhythmias. 0:21:21.900 --> 0:21:22.840 Wow. 0:21:22.859 --> 0:21:22.929 Wow. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:29.780 Maybe it's the adrenaline. They believe that the dogs pick 0:21:29.820 --> 0:21:32.780 up on the odors emanating from our breath and our sweat, 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:35.970 as far as they can tell. And after thousands of 0:21:36.030 --> 0:21:41.350 years of dogs becoming acclimated to humans and their closeness 0:21:41.410 --> 0:21:46.150 to humans being their survival mechanism, they've become incredibly adept 0:21:46.210 --> 0:21:48.840 at being in tune with us, which is so cool. 0:21:49.490 --> 0:21:51.460 It is so cool. God, I love dogs. 0:21:51.540 --> 0:21:55.380 On the other hand, If you, like, get drunk, fall 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:58.080 down the stairs, crack your head and die, after a 0:21:58.100 --> 0:21:59.199 couple days, they will eat you. 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:01.810 Well, what are you going to do? Let you go 0:22:01.830 --> 0:22:02.790 to waste? I'll let meat? 0:22:02.970 --> 0:22:05.630 They'll eat your face off. Oh, yeah, I don't mind that. 0:22:05.670 --> 0:22:07.649 I think, you know, what are they supposed to do exactly? 0:22:07.690 --> 0:22:09.189 You can't. You're not feeding them. 0:22:09.810 --> 0:22:11.669 Right. You got a couple of dogs. Back when I 0:22:11.690 --> 0:22:13.330