WEBVTT - Firm But Gentlemanly 0:00:12.060 --> 0:00:15.880 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:15.930 --> 0:00:17.910 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:17.970 --> 0:00:21.710 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:21.890 --> 0:00:35.769 And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:35.810 --> 0:00:39.420 It's bedroom day. November 11th is Veterans Day. 0:00:39.740 --> 0:00:42.000 I assume most of you know this because that was 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:44.919 originally called Armistice Day because it was the day that 0:00:45.830 --> 0:00:51.810 World War I ended, November 11th, 1918. Although they continued 0:00:51.850 --> 0:00:55.030 to kill people in a waste of lives sort of way, 0:00:55.070 --> 0:00:57.950 if you've seen All Quiet on the Western. 0:00:57.670 --> 0:00:59.070 Front or read anything about that. 0:00:59.110 --> 0:01:02.930 But anyway, World War I ended that day, the war 0:01:02.950 --> 0:01:05.110 to end all wars, and it turned out not so much. 0:01:06.100 --> 0:01:08.420 And I'm fascinated by World War. I kind of came 0:01:08.459 --> 0:01:11.060 to World War I late in life as a hobby 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.100 to get into, but it's just so damn interesting. And 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.620 obviously it set up everything for the Middle East and 0:01:17.700 --> 0:01:20.059 World War II and so many of the things that 0:01:20.100 --> 0:01:25.250 continue today. And all your postmodern literature and art and 0:01:25.270 --> 0:01:27.350 everything came out of that because it kind of broke 0:01:27.430 --> 0:01:30.950 Western civilization's view of what could happen in the world. Right. 0:01:31.010 --> 0:01:36.170 And made us all think, holy crap. Modern warfare. well, 0:01:36.190 --> 0:01:36.840 what are you going to do? 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:41.220 And, um, anyway, that's, that's why they, we celebrate it today. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.220 We turned it into Veterans Day when we realized, turns 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.280 out that's not the last war. Um, and now it's 0:01:46.340 --> 0:01:49.390 a day to honor all veterans and we, we do. 0:01:50.530 --> 0:01:53.070 Thank you for, uh, your service, anyone who has served, 0:01:53.130 --> 0:01:58.770 including my brother and my dad. Um, lots of parades 0:01:58.850 --> 0:02:01.710 and stuff around the country. My son and Boy Scouts 0:02:01.790 --> 0:02:05.230 participates in a thing where they put flags on all the, uh, 0:02:06.980 --> 0:02:08.530 What's the. 0:02:08.820 --> 0:02:12.889 Plots? Graves? Is there a better term? No, those are 0:02:12.950 --> 0:02:13.510 fine terms. 0:02:14.110 --> 0:02:17.910 At the cemetery for people who were veterans. There's little 0:02:18.889 --> 0:02:20.470 band plays, that sort of thing. 0:02:20.630 --> 0:02:23.270 Very nice. Well done, scouts. Well done. Yeah, very cool. 0:02:23.530 --> 0:02:24.870 Well, scouts get up early and go out and do 0:02:24.889 --> 0:02:26.630 that on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. I didn't know 0:02:26.669 --> 0:02:29.150 that until my son became a scout at your local cemetery. 0:02:29.270 --> 0:02:31.660 It's really awesome. Love that. So.... 0:02:36.430 --> 0:02:41.829 I have seen lots of people from different quarters, not 0:02:41.910 --> 0:02:46.950 the lefty left, but middle and right, really praising Ross 0:02:46.970 --> 0:02:52.100 Douthat's interview of Trump from Sunday night. Like a unique 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:53.139 look into the guy. 0:02:54.500 --> 0:02:58.880 Firm but gentlemanly. For all the gazillion interviews he's done. 0:02:58.900 --> 0:03:04.140 I'm often described that same way. Firm but gentlemanly? Yes. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:04.280 Yes. 0:03:05.260 --> 0:03:17.180 Particularly by the ladies. I'm more slack, but aggrieved. Very attractive. 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.760 Anyway, we didn't get into this not really important question 0:03:21.820 --> 0:03:25.000 about the whole UFO stuff that they brought up late 0:03:25.060 --> 0:03:29.760 in the conversation, which I just, God, if I had 0:03:29.810 --> 0:03:31.630 an hour to talk to Donald Trump, it wouldn't even 0:03:31.730 --> 0:03:34.570 cross my mind to get into the conversation about UFOs. 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.910 So does Ross do that or do a lot of 0:03:39.070 --> 0:03:41.550 newsrooms get a lot of emails and texts from people? 0:03:41.650 --> 0:03:45.300 It's just that's one of their big issues. Spaceships and 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.460 the aliens and alien autopsies and Maybe it's being old 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.800 and bitter, which I certainly am. I just don't think 0:03:52.860 --> 0:03:54.119 it's cute anymore. 0:03:54.740 --> 0:03:56.430 What about Area 51? 0:03:56.430 --> 0:04:00.410 Are people doing it because they think it's cute or 0:04:00.430 --> 0:04:04.070 are they seriously interested? I get the sense they're actually interested, 0:04:04.130 --> 0:04:06.630 which is, again, why I'm a little confused because I'm 0:04:06.690 --> 0:04:09.560 not actually interested. And I'm interested in a lot of 0:04:09.620 --> 0:04:10.250 different things. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.360 Well, if I thought there was a shred of extraterrestrial ringers, 0:04:14.820 --> 0:04:16.720 I'd be as interested as a human can be, but 0:04:16.900 --> 0:04:20.839 I don't. Nothing would be more interesting. Okay, well, if 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.520 you accept the premise that... Or should we play the 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.700 clip first? Because I'm going to ruin it. Well, I'll 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.549 finish the sentence. Well, I think we should probably play 0:04:28.580 --> 0:04:31.210 the clip before you ruin it. I don't know. I've 0:04:31.230 --> 0:04:33.690 already got a head of steam. If you accept the 0:04:33.810 --> 0:04:36.890 premise that the. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:44.640 Unidentified aerial vehicles have something to do with extraterrestrial life. 0:04:45.339 --> 0:04:47.700 The idea that the president would reveal it to you 0:04:47.779 --> 0:04:52.040 simply because you ask is hilariously idiotic. You're right. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.320 That's always the underlying weird thing about it's the biggest 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.980 secret on planet Earth. But since you asked, I guess 0:04:59.020 --> 0:04:59.520 I'll tell you. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.789 It's like asking your spouse, are you going to murder 0:05:02.830 --> 0:05:05.990 me in my sleep? If they're going to, they won't 0:05:06.110 --> 0:05:06.490 tell you. 0:05:06.510 --> 0:05:06.909 Oh, crap. 0:05:06.950 --> 0:05:08.600 I wish you hadn't asked that because I was planning 0:05:08.630 --> 0:05:10.670 it for Thursday and now you've ruined it. 0:05:11.060 --> 0:05:15.120 Exactly. Dang it. You got me because you asked me. No, 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:16.000 it's anyway. 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.640 That's a good question. And Ross Douthat. So he must 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.169 be trying to satisfy an audience out there. He thinks 0:05:22.310 --> 0:05:28.219 doesn't get that because obviously if if. If it's something 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.479 they want, if it exists, and I don't think it exists, 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.599 but if the information exists and they wanted us to know, 0:05:34.140 --> 0:05:36.380 they would lay it out to us in some way. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.950 They're not waiting for the right interviewer to come along 0:05:39.990 --> 0:05:41.289 and ask them the question. 0:05:41.589 --> 0:05:44.350 Maybe Ross is slightly less old and slightly less bitter 0:05:44.370 --> 0:05:46.170 or something. I don't know. Again, I just don't think 0:05:46.210 --> 0:05:48.590 it's that cute. Anyway, here's how the conversation went. 0:05:49.190 --> 0:05:52.570 Alone among modern administrations has spent a lot of time 0:05:52.630 --> 0:05:59.719 releasing footage of of UFOs, unidentified flying objects. Is there 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.880 anything that you have seen or heard about or been 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.380 told about that would lead you to think that there's 0:06:05.460 --> 0:06:08.520 something more there than just we're having a good time 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:09.630 looking at things in the sky? 0:06:09.770 --> 0:06:12.469 It's so amazing that you asked this question because it 0:06:12.570 --> 0:06:16.990 is one of the Questions in private I get asked about. 0:06:17.089 --> 0:06:20.140 More people ask me about UFOs than, I mean. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:20.780 I believe it. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.280 People, people that you wouldn't think. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.700 So what's the answer? So here's the story. 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.340 I'm not too much of a believer, but I sat 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.660 in the Oval Office, first term and a little bit 0:06:31.700 --> 0:06:36.570 second term, meeting with Air Force pilots that are really good, 0:06:36.730 --> 0:06:39.510 solid people. These are not people that you would say 0:06:39.589 --> 0:06:43.650 are conspiracy theorists, but they're great, great pilots. They're the 0:06:43.690 --> 0:06:48.409 real deal. And they've told me things that are very strange. 0:06:49.089 --> 0:06:54.180 They said that, in certain cases, they said, yes, there's 0:06:54.210 --> 0:06:57.340 something going on out there. Because they're flying an F-22, 0:06:57.380 --> 0:06:59.520 which is the best there is, the fastest, the best 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.719 plane that anyone's ever seen. And something goes by them 0:07:03.740 --> 0:07:05.619 at three times their speed. 0:07:05.740 --> 0:07:09.230 And it's round. It's not aerodynamic. It's round. So that's 0:07:09.260 --> 0:07:09.770 the mystery. 0:07:09.930 --> 0:07:12.010 But then along with those pilots, there's a set of 0:07:12.050 --> 0:07:15.590 people who have styled themselves as whistleblowers. who have come 0:07:15.670 --> 0:07:19.940 out and said, actually, there's also a secret program that 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:24.280 even presidents don't know about to study this stuff. Have 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.360 you seen any evidence that that is the case? 0:07:26.380 --> 0:07:27.940 No, and I haven't heard that, but if there is, 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.330 I'm going to find out about it right after this interview. 0:07:30.750 --> 0:07:34.590 So, like, Douthat's a smart guy, and so the way 0:07:34.630 --> 0:07:36.710 he phrased that question in the beginning where he says... 0:07:37.210 --> 0:07:41.570 Have you seen anything, heard anything, or been told anything? Like, 0:07:42.090 --> 0:07:44.650 if I cover all the different angles, then he'll have 0:07:44.670 --> 0:07:48.170 to tell me. Read anything. Right, because if I leave 0:07:48.210 --> 0:07:50.850 one of those out, Trump might think to himself, I 0:07:50.890 --> 0:07:53.250 wasn't told it, I read it. So I'll continue to 0:07:53.310 --> 0:07:55.750 keep the biggest secret on Earth. 0:07:56.130 --> 0:07:58.450 And you know what? And I like Ross. And I 0:07:58.490 --> 0:08:00.170 like Ross. I like what he writes. I like him 0:08:00.210 --> 0:08:01.910 on 60 Minutes. But I hated the way he asked 0:08:01.930 --> 0:08:04.930 that question. I would have asked it, all right, with 0:08:05.010 --> 0:08:10.150 everything you've seen, been briefed on, etc., Is there any 0:08:10.310 --> 0:08:16.440 part of you that thinks this is not foreign technology 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.800 or experimental technology or whatever? Is there any part of 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:25.760 you that thinks this may be extraterrestrial? What percentage of 0:08:25.820 --> 0:08:31.750 you thinks maybe some of it is? Because for me, 0:08:31.790 --> 0:08:32.829 the answer is zero. 0:08:34.210 --> 0:08:39.670 Well, I think the good question is if the federal 0:08:39.710 --> 0:08:45.309 government became aware of extraterrestrial life, would you share it 0:08:45.470 --> 0:08:47.929 with the American people? Or would the government think they 0:08:47.970 --> 0:08:49.310 need to keep it a secret from us? 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.240 And if so, why? I would think they would want 0:08:52.260 --> 0:08:53.820 to keep it a secret until they had a better 0:08:53.900 --> 0:08:57.400 handle on it. So that we don't panic? Well, right, yeah. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.420 Panic would be a big part of it. What would 0:09:00.020 --> 0:09:01.850 we do? In what way would we panic? Have you 0:09:01.870 --> 0:09:07.350 ever seen panic? Just run around in circles. I don't know. 0:09:07.650 --> 0:09:10.530 Give me a second. I could imagine various wild gyrations 0:09:10.570 --> 0:09:12.290 of the stock market. 0:09:12.330 --> 0:09:15.870 That's actually what my son did when Trump got shot. 0:09:16.170 --> 0:09:17.069 He was much younger then. 0:09:17.710 --> 0:09:22.990 He panicked. He actually ran in circles. Wow. How interesting. 0:09:24.350 --> 0:09:27.030 But no, I think if you knew that as a government, 0:09:27.130 --> 0:09:29.230 but you didn't have a handle on it at all, 0:09:29.309 --> 0:09:32.429 you would not bring it out. What's the positive effect 0:09:32.450 --> 0:09:35.100 of bringing it up? letting people know there isn't one. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:36.760 I feel like we ought to know. Katie, do you 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.339 have a comment on this? I definitely think the government 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:43.100 should tell us. I don't believe they're so much more 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.040 wise than we are that they should have the information 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:46.830 and not give it to us. 0:09:48.059 --> 0:09:51.250 Well, during the Armstrong administration, you'll behave that way. If 0:09:51.330 --> 0:09:55.250 I find out something that is highly classified and secret 0:09:55.309 --> 0:09:57.309 and we're not sure what to do with it, I'm 0:09:57.350 --> 0:10:00.620 keeping my mouth shut. I don't know about you, two schmucks, 0:10:00.700 --> 0:10:03.179 but if all hell breaks loose, I'm buying all of 0:10:03.220 --> 0:10:06.820 the toilet paper. Schmucks is a good word. It's not 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:12.559 a good word. I'm telling everybody immediately. We saw a spaceship. 0:10:12.620 --> 0:10:15.080 In fact, it crashed and we are dissecting the alien 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.380 right now. And we'll let you know how it goes. 0:10:19.830 --> 0:10:24.900 Oh, we could have alien zoos. Well, that's a beautiful dream. 0:10:26.059 --> 0:10:30.320 I do love zoos. And, you know, the panda as 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.000 an attraction. Please, Xi Jinping, take your pandas and shove 0:10:34.020 --> 0:10:37.120 them up your Winnie the Pooh hiney. We got space 0:10:37.179 --> 0:10:39.220 aliens in our zoos now. You don't need your damn 0:10:39.260 --> 0:10:40.850 panda bears. Seriously? 0:10:40.870 --> 0:10:42.770 And then we can move on from this. What to 0:10:42.809 --> 0:10:46.030 me is just a dumb topic for, like, fifth graders. 0:10:47.179 --> 0:10:50.320 But it keeps coming up. How about Trump saying, I 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.260 get this question more than practically anything when I'm going around? 0:10:53.450 --> 0:10:56.540 Well, from idiots. You know, Brett Baier did a similar 0:10:56.590 --> 0:11:01.510 interview with somebody, and he had that smiling, chuckling. Is 0:11:01.570 --> 0:11:06.790 it that everybody thinks everybody else takes this seriously? I 0:11:07.090 --> 0:11:07.449 don't know. 0:11:09.030 --> 0:11:13.209 I guess that's kind of the question I have. I 0:11:13.250 --> 0:11:14.850 think this is dumb, but I'm going to ask on 0:11:14.870 --> 0:11:17.550 behalf of all the people who are serious about this. 0:11:18.030 --> 0:11:20.300 Right, right. And just so you understand, I don't think 0:11:20.340 --> 0:11:25.119 it's inconceivable that some alien civilization would send forth probes 0:11:25.140 --> 0:11:27.920 like we do all the time. I just think it's 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:33.830 so spectacularly, indescribably unlikely that it's not happening. Well, and 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.130 only the, and somehow the federal government would know it, 0:11:36.150 --> 0:11:40.390 but nobody else. It would, nobody would leak it credibly. 0:11:40.410 --> 0:11:41.569 Yeah. 0:11:42.070 --> 0:11:42.290 Yeah. 0:11:43.830 --> 0:11:43.990 Yeah. 0:11:45.950 --> 0:11:47.450 You're going to have a whole bunch of people who 0:11:47.510 --> 0:11:50.270 know the biggest secret in the universe, that there's life 0:11:50.309 --> 0:11:51.969 somewhere else, and they're going to keep it. 0:11:51.970 --> 0:11:55.189 Well, not only somewhere else, but they've come here. Well, yeah. 0:11:55.670 --> 0:12:00.199 To our neighborhood. Right. To summarize my argument on the topic, 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:05.120 and I enjoy counter-arguments, so fire away, mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com, 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:09.479 is of all the possible explanations for that spherical-looking thing 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.690 that moved faster than a jet... You would have to 0:12:12.730 --> 0:12:16.969 work through roughly a thousand and six explanations before you 0:12:17.010 --> 0:12:20.589 got to. 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Use that code Armstrong at checkout. 0:13:53.900 --> 0:13:56.450 We're going to be asking the question, is this cancel 0:13:56.490 --> 0:13:59.830 culture or just the market reacting to something that's abhorrent? 0:14:00.309 --> 0:14:01.310 Are those different things? 0:14:01.770 --> 0:14:02.350 I think they are. 0:14:02.370 --> 0:14:07.069 Around the whole joking about Charlie Kirk's assassination. Among other 0:14:07.090 --> 0:14:07.750 things on the way. 0:14:07.770 --> 0:14:23.090 Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:14:27.030 --> 0:14:31.670 Happy birthday to Gordon Ramsay. He turned 60. He took 0:14:31.810 --> 0:14:33.970 one bite of cake, then hurled it against the wall 0:14:34.010 --> 0:14:39.000 because the frosting was *. 0:14:38.940 --> 0:14:38.980 * * *. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.320 That's one of my favorite Gutfeld jokes. I like that. 0:14:42.940 --> 0:14:45.060 I somehow missed it. I missed the beginning, I guess. 0:14:45.180 --> 0:14:47.100 What was the joke? It was his birthday and they 0:14:47.140 --> 0:14:47.750 made him a cake. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:48.110 Oh. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:54.400 He threw it against the wall and screeched obscenities. We 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.160 haven't gotten to this story yet of it's a growing 0:14:58.350 --> 0:15:03.270 thing of parents hiring lawyers to go after teachers who 0:15:03.310 --> 0:15:06.650 give their kids lower grades than they think they're supposed 0:15:06.690 --> 0:15:06.930 to get. 0:15:07.410 --> 0:15:10.350 I believe that is the end of the human of 0:15:10.410 --> 0:15:16.910 the American civilization. We have become something different. 0:15:17.420 --> 0:15:19.280 I was talking to a parent the other day who said, 0:15:19.420 --> 0:15:21.380 I always side with the teacher when my kid gets 0:15:21.420 --> 0:15:23.760 in trouble. I always side with the teacher, no matter what. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.260 I just feel like I've got to. But yeah, man, 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.080 there's a lot of parents who feel the other way around. 0:15:30.060 --> 0:15:31.260 Always side with your kid. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:37.020 With the unbelievable, unconscionable grade inflation going on and everything, 0:15:37.460 --> 0:15:41.260 a kid gets a C and his parents sue over it. 0:15:43.110 --> 0:15:44.850 Unless there's a hell of a lot more to the story. 0:15:46.850 --> 0:15:50.950 So Scott Besson is a treasury secretary. Gay man, but 0:15:51.090 --> 0:15:53.710 gets no credit for that because he's a Republican. If 0:15:53.750 --> 0:15:56.670 he was a Democrat, they would mention the first gay 0:15:57.250 --> 0:15:59.220 secretary of the treasury every single. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:00.240 Time his name is uttered. They mention him. 0:16:00.620 --> 0:16:07.940 But he he's the guy running the whole economic crackdown 0:16:08.140 --> 0:16:11.910 on Iran. And they hate that. And they have been 0:16:11.950 --> 0:16:14.880 wanting to kill him for quite some time. And so 0:16:14.900 --> 0:16:18.660 the New York Times is reporting today, Maggie Haberman and 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.370 Jonathan Swan. I mean, this is two of their biggest 0:16:21.450 --> 0:16:24.750 time reporters talking to people, speaking on a condition of 0:16:24.830 --> 0:16:29.150 anonymity that Scott Besson and his family moved out of 0:16:29.190 --> 0:16:32.010 his home in Washington, D.C., and onto a military base 0:16:32.110 --> 0:16:35.160 because of threats to his life that had reached a 0:16:35.220 --> 0:16:37.580 point that the threats have gotten more severe and they 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:41.950 believe more real threats. So we moved more of our 0:16:41.990 --> 0:16:45.290 planes from a different British base to Germany the other 0:16:45.310 --> 0:16:52.390 day because Iran's threats are credible. Besson is the latest 0:16:52.470 --> 0:16:55.810 senior Trump administration official to leave their home for a 0:16:55.850 --> 0:16:59.100 military base or other protected housing because of threats from Iran. 0:16:59.580 --> 0:17:03.780 A half dozen did last year, including Stephen Miller. Some 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.679 people call him the space cowboy and Pam Bondi and 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:13.010 a few others. So my question is this. If Iran 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:20.750 assassinated our Treasury Secretary, would that benefit them? Do they 0:17:20.790 --> 0:17:23.010 think we would back down at that point or that 0:17:23.030 --> 0:17:26.030 we wouldn't go apes nuts? Or what do they think 0:17:26.070 --> 0:17:28.290 would happen? What do you think would happen? What do 0:17:28.350 --> 0:17:29.109 I think would happen? 0:17:30.130 --> 0:17:34.969 I just think they well, they seen we've taken out 0:17:35.010 --> 0:17:36.350 a bunch of theirs. They're going to take out a 0:17:36.369 --> 0:17:36.810 bunch of ours. 0:17:38.090 --> 0:17:40.870 You don't think that we would respond like the next 0:17:40.950 --> 0:17:42.890 day by just obliterating? 0:17:42.910 --> 0:17:47.810 Well, we would do something for sure, but that's their 0:17:47.869 --> 0:17:49.860 thinking is they took out ours, we're going to take 0:17:49.910 --> 0:17:50.260 out theirs. 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.820 I feel like I've felt like the whole time where 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.199 they're just hanging on and kicking the can down the 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.480 road is to their benefit rather than making us so 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.310 mad that we just absolutely wipe them out. But, I mean, 0:18:03.330 --> 0:18:07.119 you do have the example of Going all the way 0:18:07.140 --> 0:18:10.040 back to Reagan when they blew up all those Marines 0:18:10.100 --> 0:18:12.580 at that base in Beirut. We pulled out is what 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:13.000 we did. 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.160 Look at the results of the election. Are you sure that, 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:16.680 you know? 0:18:16.900 --> 0:18:21.109 Yeah. I wonder how the public would react if Besset 0:18:21.130 --> 0:18:24.770 was assassinated. What would the polling be on that? 0:18:25.710 --> 0:18:27.650 Plus, I'm sticking my neck out here. It could be 0:18:28.670 --> 0:18:32.909 death cultist religious fanatics might be making a miscalculation. I 0:18:32.950 --> 0:18:33.290 don't know. 0:18:33.369 --> 0:18:33.830 It's possible. 0:18:33.850 --> 0:18:36.899 That's an excellent point. What is cancel culture and what 0:18:36.940 --> 0:18:39.239 is legitimate outrage? We will discuss next. 0:18:39.260 --> 0:18:40.359 The Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:42.340 --> 0:18:42.639 Show. 0:18:42.660 --> 0:18:44.320 Yo, yo, how you doing? 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:08.750 I'm actually great. Thank you for asking. I'm tired. Yeah, 0:19:08.790 --> 0:19:11.889 me too. You know what I was just thinking? This 0:19:12.030 --> 0:19:17.330 is a one-percenter problem, quote-unquote. Love what I do. Love 0:19:17.350 --> 0:19:19.050 what I do. And it's about this time in the 0:19:19.109 --> 0:19:21.389 show that I think about the things I can do afterward, 0:19:21.550 --> 0:19:24.369 and I'm really excited about it. I'm thinking, wow, I'm 0:19:24.390 --> 0:19:26.250 going to do this and that, and that'll be fun, 0:19:26.290 --> 0:19:28.310 and that I need to take care of. It's that 0:19:28.350 --> 0:19:29.930 last hour and a half of the show. I just 0:19:29.950 --> 0:19:31.869 get so tired. I remember when my. 0:19:31.770 --> 0:19:34.410 Life was like that before I had kids. Now I think, man, 0:19:34.450 --> 0:19:36.230 when I get off the show, I got so many 0:19:36.250 --> 0:19:36.970 things I got to do. 0:19:37.910 --> 0:19:38.190 Yeah. 0:19:38.690 --> 0:19:42.080 Yeah, you're being driven. Work, work, yes. Exactly. Yes, exactly. 0:19:42.130 --> 0:19:45.159 I remember the driven years. Good times. Anyway, actually, they 0:19:45.180 --> 0:19:45.680 were good times. 0:19:45.700 --> 0:19:48.419 They were wonderful fantastic they're the most fulfilling times but 0:19:48.460 --> 0:19:51.919 they're not uh relaxing yeah i don't think would be 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:52.440 the right. 0:19:52.260 --> 0:19:55.090 Term and i have never been nor will ever be 0:19:55.150 --> 0:19:57.649 again as disciplined as i was back in the day 0:19:57.690 --> 0:20:00.480 and i wasn't a single dad like yourself so Anyway, 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.240 God bless you for the work you do. That sounded insincere, 0:20:04.260 --> 0:20:06.080 and I apologize. God bless you for the work you do. 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:06.480 I have that problem. 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:10.240 Everything I say, I can mean it sincerely as hell, 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:12.510 but it just sounds like I'm trying to. 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.450 Be a smartass. I was thinking, okay, now I need 0:20:15.470 --> 0:20:18.250 to do this next thing, and that came off poorly. Michael, 0:20:18.410 --> 0:20:23.590 I'm ashamed. I love you, and I think you're fantastic. Wow, wow, wow. 0:20:23.630 --> 0:20:24.570 Do we need to talk? 0:20:24.730 --> 0:20:25.109 Oh, yeah. 0:20:25.130 --> 0:20:32.610 I'd love to spend the rest of my life with you. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, my. 0:20:32.630 --> 0:20:37.429 I'm not sure I got that tone right. 0:20:38.190 --> 0:20:42.700 All right. So here's here's here's the story, friends. There 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:48.000 is a podcast that is quite popular on the left. Well, 0:20:48.020 --> 0:20:49.560 let me let me put it. Let me start here. 0:20:51.420 --> 0:20:55.669 It is sincerely shocked and sickened me some of the 0:20:55.770 --> 0:20:59.330 gleefulness on the young left over the assassination of Charlie Kirk. 0:20:59.990 --> 0:21:04.600 And how they sell T-shirts with blood spatters similar to 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.460 that of Mr. Kirk, the young father who bled out 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.960 after being shot through the throat by a confused young 0:21:11.980 --> 0:21:16.639 man who had recently latched on to trans rights as 0:21:16.700 --> 0:21:22.419 his cause. um it's horrifying to me it's as if 0:21:22.500 --> 0:21:25.780 you know well there are a thousand examples conservatives had 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:29.020 just big fun with mlk taking a bullet to the 0:21:29.060 --> 0:21:32.260 head i mean just with t-shirts for sale and the 0:21:32.300 --> 0:21:36.859 rest of it i can't imagine the horror and disgust 0:21:36.940 --> 0:21:40.119 that would be greeted with on every side or every 0:21:40.619 --> 0:21:42.940 you know point of the political spectrum and yet we 0:21:42.980 --> 0:21:49.139 live in the had it that is popular on the 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:53.550 left it is hosted by two youngish middle-aged white women 0:21:53.630 --> 0:21:58.110 jennifer welch and angie sullivan who traffic in what you're 0:21:58.150 --> 0:22:01.090 about to hear this sort of thing a fair amount 0:22:01.690 --> 0:22:04.540 but they crossed a bit of a line here 95 0:22:04.540 --> 0:22:05.399 please michael. 0:22:05.140 --> 0:22:10.139 Uh dad morose says we're digging up charlie kirk and doing. 0:22:09.900 --> 0:22:23.440 It again I'm zooming into the fox. It's on video. 0:22:23.530 --> 0:22:25.730 They're cracking. 0:22:27.410 --> 0:22:27.470 Up. 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:31.820 No comment. 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:33.419