Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and
Speaker 1: Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: Hopes to cease fire in Ukraine are fading fast after
Speaker 2: days of deadly Russian air strikes. President Trump declaring Vladimir
Speaker 2: Putin has gone absolutely crazy in response, the Kremlin suggesting
Speaker 2: Trump maybe suffering an emotional overload.
Speaker 1: See, I'm hoping that sort of talk from Putin gets
Speaker 1: Trump all fired up, and he takes it personally, and
Speaker 1: that makes him want to arm Ukraine because I think
Speaker 1: that's the right thing to do. I know some of
Speaker 1: you don't, but him saying yeah, I think Putin's saying
Speaker 1: I think Trump's suffering from emotional overload. You know, hey,
Speaker 1: Trump get his angry Putin as you get at Rosie O'Donnell.
Speaker 3: I find it incredibly troubling that the President having to
Speaker 3: take it personally is what's required to motivate policy of
Speaker 3: American foreign policy.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is. I think you're right.
Speaker 1: So let's do this in chronological order. So last week,
Speaker 1: the news broke several days after it happened that Trump
Speaker 1: had told European journalists. While he was in the Middle East,
Speaker 1: he had said, this isn't my war. We got ourselves
Speaker 1: entangled in something we shouldn't have been involved with. Now
Speaker 1: that was in the for some reason made the news
Speaker 1: several days after he said it. But a lot a
Speaker 1: lot of people, including me, to believe that the direction
Speaker 1: he was headed was just staying out of it. We
Speaker 1: shouldn't be involved. We shouldn't have been involved in this. Ever,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be involved in it now. And without the
Speaker 1: US is a Ukraine is going to be in a
Speaker 1: tight spot. And Europe will step along up a lot,
Speaker 1: but they don't have a lot of the abilities that
Speaker 1: we have, even no matter how much they step up,
Speaker 1: especially around intelligence. Now, over the weekend, Trump having pushed
Speaker 1: this ceasefire. Remember Trump ran on I can solve this
Speaker 1: in twenty four hours. If you took that literally, then
Speaker 1: you have not been following Trump for the past ten years.
Speaker 1: I just I don't understand how people don't get this.
Speaker 1: He says things like that, that's not what he means. Okay,
Speaker 1: I get what you could say. Well, he said it,
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? But he believed he
Speaker 1: could solve this I believed he I suppose he thought,
Speaker 1: like with a lot of things, he thought, with his
Speaker 1: personality and everything like that he could just push these
Speaker 1: two people to come to an agreement. He's pushed Zelensky
Speaker 1: really hard. He hasn't really pushed Putin. But over the weekend,
Speaker 1: while Trump's talking about a ceasefire, Putin launched the biggest
Speaker 1: attack on Ukraine yet, which is like three times in
Speaker 1: the last week that he has set a new record
Speaker 1: for the number of drones set into well all kinds
Speaker 1: of civilian areas, killing lots of people.
Speaker 4: This.
Speaker 1: Trump was asked about this yesterday and this is what
Speaker 1: he said.
Speaker 5: Not happy with what Putin's doing. He's killing a lot
Speaker 5: of people. And I don't know what the hell happened
Speaker 5: to Putin. I've known him a long time, always gotten
Speaker 5: along with him. But he's sending rockets into cities and
Speaker 5: killing people, and I.
Speaker 1: Don't like it at all.
Speaker 5: Okay, we're in the middle of talking and he's tuning
Speaker 5: rockets into Kiev and other cities. I don't like it
Speaker 5: at all. Whether what do you want to do about
Speaker 5: I'm surprised. I'm very surprised. We'll see what we're gonna say,
Speaker 5: what am I gonna tell you? Well, you're the fake news,
Speaker 5: aren't you? You're totally fake? Any other questions. I don't
Speaker 5: like what Putin is doing, not even a little bit.
Speaker 5: He's killing people. And something happened to this guy, and
Speaker 5: I don't like it.
Speaker 3: Something happened to this guy. Well, I was tempted to respond,
Speaker 3: nothing happened to the guy. You never had a relationship
Speaker 3: with him. He was manipulating you. Grow up. He's just
Speaker 3: flattering you, and it worked. Although I will concede that
Speaker 3: it's it's pretty well documented that during COVID, Putin dug
Speaker 3: deep into a couple of radical Russian thinkers, historians who
Speaker 3: are convinced him that he really owes it to the
Speaker 3: soul of the Russian people to, you know, to conquer
Speaker 3: all of the territories that have ever been under Russian sway,
Speaker 3: blah blah blah. So he has changed in that way.
Speaker 3: But Trump thinking that they were buddies and something crazy
Speaker 3: has happened to him now, or that he a cag be,
Speaker 3: a crocodile he's always been, or he wasn't the kind
Speaker 3: of guy that was gonna bomb civilians indiscriminately, well, right,
Speaker 3: and That was the other part I objected to. He's
Speaker 3: killing people and civilians. Yeah, he knows. He feeds his
Speaker 3: men by the hundreds of thousands in front of the
Speaker 3: machine guns.
Speaker 1: He doesn't care. Here's Britt Hume's analysis. He's the senior
Speaker 1: political guy on Fox of what Trump just said.
Speaker 4: The President has always had a very odd conception of
Speaker 4: Vladimir Putin. I think he's thought that he and Putin
Speaker 4: could be kind of friends and partners and could make
Speaker 4: deals together and so on. But I don't think Putin
Speaker 4: has changed. I don't know what the president's talking about it.
Speaker 4: This is the way Putin has always been. He's always
Speaker 4: been a particularly brutal dictator, willing to take whatever measures
Speaker 4: he thought necessary to advance his interest, whatever he thought
Speaker 4: he could get away with. He thought he could get
Speaker 4: away with invading Ukraine. He thought he could. He thought
Speaker 4: he could could conquer Ukraine in no matter of days.
Speaker 4: He failed to do that, and he has been spending
Speaker 4: his own people's bloodshed, blood and treasure for as long
Speaker 4: as he's needed to. After that, and now he seems
Speaker 4: more intent than ever. He's the same old Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 4: So I hope the president has had a real moment
Speaker 4: of truth about him and will proceed accordingly.
Speaker 3: Is Trump surrounded by eighty vance types who are trying
Speaker 3: to convince him that, no, Putin's not a bad guy,
Speaker 3: He's just a NATO push too far and we just
Speaker 3: need to be nice to him and be buddies. And
Speaker 3: he's actually defending traditional Christianity and the just that whole
Speaker 3: kind of new right fantasy.
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal writing today, Trump is tiring of
Speaker 1: the peace negotiations and is considering abandoning them all together
Speaker 1: if a final push doesn't work. People familiar with his
Speaker 1: thinking said that would be a remarkable change for a
Speaker 1: leader who campaign on his ability to end the conflict
Speaker 1: on his first day in office. It is unclear what
Speaker 1: would happen if the US retreats from the peace process,
Speaker 1: and whether Trump would continue to provide military support to Ukraine.
Speaker 1: That last part is really important. I think us being
Speaker 1: in the peace process. I don't know if that's important
Speaker 1: or not. I'm not sure if it has any role.
Speaker 1: But we pull, particularly our intelligence. That's huge. Also this yesterday,
Speaker 1: German Chancellor Fridrick Mertz said that the US, Germany, France
Speaker 1: and the UK would no longer impose range restrictions on
Speaker 1: Ukraine's use of weapons supplied by Western allies, meaning it
Speaker 1: could target military positions deep into Russia, including Moscow. To date,
Speaker 1: Ukraine has only been able to use long range missiles
Speaker 1: supplied by those countries against Russian troops within a certain range.
Speaker 1: The Biden administration. The Wall Street General reminds US had
Speaker 1: opposed removing range limits foring it could escalate the war.
Speaker 1: The White House, when I ask about this, declined to comment.
Speaker 1: So Trump didn't say, I mean, because Germany doesn't get
Speaker 1: to say the United States is removing restrictions, right, And
Speaker 1: they and the Wall Street Journal asks the White House
Speaker 1: is Trump on board with this or not? And they
Speaker 1: didn't answer.
Speaker 3: And this is the most common ye White House in history.
Speaker 3: They comment on everything. It's incredibly transparent.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah. Two things.
Speaker 3: Number one that would indicate to me that that they
Speaker 3: agreed to it, but they didn't expect merits to come
Speaker 3: out and say anything about it.
Speaker 1: I hope you're right. I hope you're right. Germany has
Speaker 1: got the longest range missiles that they're supplying Ukraine, even
Speaker 1: more so than ours. Right, because Biden didn't want to
Speaker 1: give them missiles. They could shoot very far in case
Speaker 1: they ignored his rules. But Germany's given him missiles that
Speaker 1: go way into Russia, easily into Moscow, and they have
Speaker 1: said shoot, shoot wherever you gotta shoot. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Interesting, that is a huge thing going forward, if I
Speaker 3: might unleash this screed. Several times, whether in the audio
Speaker 3: or our discussions, we've used the term the phrase the
Speaker 3: peace process. There is no peace process. There has never
Speaker 3: been a peace process. There's been this charade which Putin
Speaker 3: and Lavrov barely even bothered to play their part. So
Speaker 3: I can call my dog a lion, but if I
Speaker 3: go around town talking about how I have a lion,
Speaker 3: that makes me a crank. There's been peace process.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to the only extent they participated it at all
Speaker 1: is when they were able to buy a little more
Speaker 1: time by pretending they were going along with it.
Speaker 3: And what's really notable and interesting, and this is getting
Speaker 3: into the weeds that we can get back to what's
Speaker 3: actually happening. But they weren't even pretending to care enough
Speaker 3: to convince anybody they cared. It was like the barest minimum,
Speaker 3: low level guys who couldn't didn't have the authority degree
Speaker 3: to anything, And it was obvious that they were snubbing
Speaker 3: the process, so they didn't even care enough to pay
Speaker 3: it fake respect. Don't talk to me about the peace process.
Speaker 3: I won't get sidetracked with this. I'll go with this first.
Speaker 1: David Ignatius to the Washington Post, who writes a lot
Speaker 1: about the wharn Ukraine knows a lot about this stuff,
Speaker 1: has really good sources, says, I think the obvious it's
Speaker 1: about to get ugly. I think this war is.
Speaker 6: About to get a lot dirtier. Ukraine has drones that
Speaker 6: are able to penetrate get to of Moscow and its environs,
Speaker 6: and they also have the capability to wage on the
Speaker 6: ground a dirty war of sabotage, of assassination. I've met
Speaker 6: with leaders of Ukrainian military intelligence. They are very, very
Speaker 6: tough at and they have networks inside Russia, as Russia
Speaker 6: has networks inside Ukraine that can do a lot of damage.
Speaker 6: So as bad as this war has been, it could
Speaker 6: tip into a much nastier phase of dirty war.
Speaker 1: And that's the main reason I want to spend this
Speaker 1: much time talking about it today. Even though it's not
Speaker 1: on the hasn't been on, you know, hasn't been hasn't
Speaker 1: been on the front burner for a while. It's about
Speaker 1: to get crazy ugly. Ukraine starts firing missiles into Moscow,
Speaker 1: regularly targeting Putin or his people or his house. Putin's
Speaker 1: going to respond right best he can. And it's who
Speaker 1: knows where this is headed? Mushroom clouds. We don't know. Trump,
Speaker 1: Are you serious about that? You think Putin would use
Speaker 1: a He wouldn't use a regular nuke, I don't think.
Speaker 3: But yeah, one of your smaller tactical ones. Yeah, just
Speaker 3: to make the point, Yeah, I could absolutely see that.
Speaker 3: I certainly hope not. I'm not, you know, taking taking
Speaker 3: it lightly, but you know, Ukraine and this, I was
Speaker 3: just going to say. You know, Trump was critical of
Speaker 3: Zelensky in his tweet, saying Zelensky is doing his country
Speaker 3: no favors by talking the way he does. That there
Speaker 3: at risk of being.
Speaker 1: Wiped off the map, right.
Speaker 3: His animosity towards Zelensky. And I don't want to theorize
Speaker 3: we've probably annoyed Trump fans enough already, but I don't
Speaker 3: get that when you're fighting for the very existence of
Speaker 3: your country, you're you're criticizing the guys, the guy for
Speaker 3: talking tough or being demanding or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't get it well. And Putin's absolutely going to
Speaker 1: try to kill Zelensky. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, Well do
Speaker 1: whatever damage he will.
Speaker 3: He will be the proverbial guy who will turn, who
Speaker 3: will destroy Ukraine so he can rule over the Ashes.
Speaker 1: We would absolutely do that, right Illinois, More people here then.
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson tweeted out over the weekend and did a
Speaker 1: long podcast about it. Do Americans have any idea that
Speaker 1: Zolensky has declared war on Christianity in Ukraine? It's ridiculous,
Speaker 1: It is absolutely ridiculous. The Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox
Speaker 1: the Russian Orthodox Church is an arm of Putin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Zolensky trying to get rid of them. He's trying to
Speaker 1: get rid of spies in his country or people that
Speaker 1: are working with Putin. It's not a war on Christianity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Russian Orthodox Church agreed with Putin. We will
Speaker 3: give you the cover of the moral authority of the church.
Speaker 1: We will be absolutely in bed with you.
Speaker 3: You protect the power and money of the church.
Speaker 1: Putin said a deal about to get a lot more ugly,
Speaker 1: it's been.
Speaker 3: War on Christianity. Tucker's lost his effing mind. Or he's
Speaker 3: intentionally lying.
Speaker 1: It's already been a pretty damn ugly warrant to get
Speaker 1: a lot ugly. We will cover it for you. Stay here,
Speaker 1: you're coming up. We now know why Miley Cyrus skanky, skanky,
Speaker 1: Miley Cyrus sounds the way she sounds. Stay tuned. She's
Speaker 1: a chainsmoker, isn't she. It's beyond that, Joe oh my.
Speaker 3: Also, perhaps the most amazing breakthrough in what your dog
Speaker 3: is actually thinking studies in the history of studying what
Speaker 3: your dog is thinking?
Speaker 1: Is this one of those things you buy that reads.
Speaker 3: Its bar No, no, no, I don't traffic in that
Speaker 3: sort of crap, sir, This is science, So stay tuned. First, though,
Speaker 3: here is the story of a thirteen year old girl
Speaker 3: in Carmel by the Sea, California, which is a very
Speaker 3: pretty part of California, but it's still cal Unicornia.
Speaker 1: So you got some scumbag.
Speaker 3: On drugs or drunk or crazy steps out from behind
Speaker 3: between a couple of park cars and is going to
Speaker 3: assault this thirteen year old girl. Luckily, though, she's been
Speaker 3: taking jiu jitsu classes with sense A Blackburn, And here's
Speaker 3: his description of what this thirteen year old girl did
Speaker 3: the junkie boy.
Speaker 7: Halfway home, a gentleman was standing in between two cars
Speaker 7: and he stepped out to punch her in the face.
Speaker 7: She punched him, she wrapped it, got him in the headlot,
Speaker 7: and need him a couple of times him around, threw
Speaker 7: him on the ground, and she had stepped on his
Speaker 7: foot doing all this, And when she threw him to
Speaker 7: the ground, she broke his ankle. I told her we
Speaker 7: were proud of her, and she did exactly what she
Speaker 7: was supposed to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great story and a great ending. But
Speaker 1: the kind of guy that's gonna punch a thirteen year
Speaker 1: old girl in the face to rob her freaking lock
Speaker 1: him up forever or whatever else, save his head in
Speaker 1: with a brick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no kidding, no kidding, just sickening. Oh my god, Yes,
Speaker 3: she went medieval on him. They're still looking for this guy,
Speaker 3: he says, limping wherever he is.
Speaker 1: But oh my god, that's horrifying. Yeah, I know it is.
Speaker 1: I've always referred to Miley Cyrus as skanky. I realize
Speaker 1: she's trying to present as sexy sexy. I feel like
Speaker 1: she presents a skanky, But anyways, she sounds like this
Speaker 1: and we've been talking about for years. Says, she's twenty
Speaker 1: one years old, and she's sounds like she's an eighty
Speaker 1: year old truck driver. Right. She announced yesterday that her
Speaker 1: signature voice, she called it, is because of a medical
Speaker 1: condition she's got called rankies an edema. She's got polyps
Speaker 1: on her vocal cords. It's she says, she did too
Speaker 1: much singing for too long in her life. The New
Speaker 1: York Post fills in that it's very common with people
Speaker 1: who have a long term history of smoking, starting at
Speaker 1: a young age. So it wasn't just your singing that
Speaker 1: caused it was your your smoking also. But she have
Speaker 1: on her vocal cords which gives me a lot of
Speaker 1: the tone and texture which has made me who I am,
Speaker 1: She says. So she doesn't want to get an operation
Speaker 1: because she's afraid she'd wake up and not sound like
Speaker 1: who she is.
Speaker 3: Ah, she probably would. Yeah, wow, she's so she's leaving
Speaker 3: the polyps.
Speaker 1: She did say that staying up and drinking and smoking
Speaker 1: and partying after every show, starting very young is probably
Speaker 1: didn't help any Yeah, probably didn't.
Speaker 3: Are they the sort of polyps that can turn into cancer?
Speaker 3: Or I would assume not or she'd get something done.
Speaker 3: I don't know you would think so. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One other popular woman note in celebrities, Caitlin Clark, who
Speaker 1: has played like one hundred and ninety straight games, four
Speaker 1: years of college and a year in the WNBA without
Speaker 1: ever being hurt, is hurt and going to be out
Speaker 1: for two weeks for a team that is uh well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how the team was going to do it.
Speaker 1: That's all the ratings on the wa NBA is hurt.
Speaker 1: The revenue, yeah, lots of revenue involved.
Speaker 3: Watch your dog wag's tail or her tail carefully. There's
Speaker 3: a hidden signal there. We'll tell you all about it
Speaker 3: next half hour.
Speaker 1: So body language dog body language segment, among other things
Speaker 1: armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 8: Excuse me, I have to ask who did you vote
Speaker 8: for it? I voted for Trump. Surprise, surprise.
Speaker 9: Another privileged white man who voted for the fashions Well,
Speaker 9: excuse me, I'm sorry man, whoa what.
Speaker 8: Are you talking about?
Speaker 9: Did you just assume my gender? So you're telling me
Speaker 9: you're a woman, I'm a trans bisexual paleontolligence PI.
Speaker 8: What wow, I'm speechless. I'm sorry. Is that too much
Speaker 8: for you? Is my existing too much for you to handle. No, really,
Speaker 8: that's not it at all.
Speaker 9: Okay, look, I just miss, I am so sorry for
Speaker 9: offending you, Like, I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: What's wrong? Did you just assume that I was offended?
Speaker 1: Offended?
Speaker 8: No? I didn't assume you did you totally did?
Speaker 9: You said I'm sorry for offending? You just assumed I
Speaker 9: was offended. You just assumed I didn't know that I'm
Speaker 9: a little bit.
Speaker 1: Is that it?
Speaker 8: I would never assume that I don't have thick skin?
Speaker 8: Is that what?
Speaker 9: You just know? I didn't.
Speaker 8: Let's just track this up so we can both go
Speaker 8: our separate ways.
Speaker 9: Okay, well, miss, I hope you have a wonderful afternoon.
Speaker 1: What's wrong?
Speaker 8: I'm sorry?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 8: No afternoon afternoon?
Speaker 9: Just assume you you just.
Speaker 8: Said I will give a good afternoon.
Speaker 9: Really, it's the afternoon I identify as it always being
Speaker 9: the morning.
Speaker 3: How tiring is that high speed comedy for people with
Speaker 3: attention deficit disorder?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I love that though, flip in the script? Yeah please?
Speaker 1: Did you just assume?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I can't believe soft heads fell.
Speaker 3: For that technique for so long. Oh well, more on
Speaker 3: that to come, et cetera. So oh, including your dog's
Speaker 3: tail wagging. There are different wags. You don't know about
Speaker 3: the wags.
Speaker 1: What if your dog has a stub because somebody took
Speaker 1: a pair of clippers and cut.
Speaker 3: It off, then you bought a weird, freaky dog anyway.
Speaker 3: But if your kids love it, that's the dog for them.
Speaker 3: So this story is crazy. You've probably heard part of it,
Speaker 3: but there are details that you have to have. This
Speaker 3: is the arrest of one crypto guy for allegedly kidnapping
Speaker 3: and torturing a different wealthy crypto guy.
Speaker 1: And held him for weeks.
Speaker 3: We had a really nice townhouse in Manhattan.
Speaker 1: Thank you. This is a very nice place you're holding me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's you know, if I'm going to be held
Speaker 3: in torture for my crypto passwords, at least it's in
Speaker 3: this lovely neighborhood. So here's here's one of the crazy
Speaker 3: aspects of it. The suspect, John Woltz, he's some sort
Speaker 3: of Kentucky crypto king. He's said to be worth at
Speaker 3: least one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: The perpetrator, Wow has a private jet and a chopper.
Speaker 1: You got one hundred million dollars and you're going to
Speaker 1: risk committing a crime why not just enjoy your life.
Speaker 1: Good lord, you won, you win. Yeah, I can't even imagine.
Speaker 3: But so he kidnapped this other guy who was I
Speaker 3: think Italian, who's said to be worth like thirty million
Speaker 3: dollars Michael Valentino, Teo Frosto Cartron. So one hundred million
Speaker 3: wasn't enough. He needed thirty million, maybe to for jet
Speaker 3: fuel or something like that. So he and his is,
Speaker 3: you know, cohort his henchmen, and there are going to
Speaker 3: be more arrests and questioning in this case. They lured
Speaker 3: this guy to this Soho townhouse and held him captive
Speaker 3: while they tortured him for his Bitcoin password. He was
Speaker 3: tied to a chair, tasered while his feet were in
Speaker 3: a bucket of water. I don't know if like that
Speaker 3: makes it worse or if you just have wet feet.
Speaker 3: He was urinated on. I feel like they were guessing
Speaker 3: on that one. I don't you'reinated on now, it's a
Speaker 3: freak off. Pistol pistol whipped, had his arms and legs
Speaker 3: cut with a chainsaw. He was also allegedly dangled from
Speaker 3: the top of a staircase.
Speaker 1: I feel like you need to do these in some
Speaker 1: sort of order like building up because I'm not really
Speaker 1: that worried about my wet feet. If you're gonna use
Speaker 1: a chainsaw on my arms and.
Speaker 3: Legs, I'm going to chainsaw your arms and legs and also.
Speaker 1: Pee on you. I'm like, well, let the pan begin
Speaker 1: exactly changing. I don't like it, but I mean race.
Speaker 1: Once they fired up that chain neighbors to pee on me,
Speaker 1: I don't care. Leave the chainsaw in the case. Once
Speaker 1: they fired up that chainsaw, man, you would be if
Speaker 1: you've ever seen scarface, you'd be having some bad thoughts.
Speaker 3: Here is my question. You assumed they fired up the chainsaw.
Speaker 3: Curds elon Musk there if you need him, because you
Speaker 3: can definitely cut somebody with a chainsaw that's not on.
Speaker 3: If the chainsaw had been on, I think that would
Speaker 3: be the headline, wouldn't it Unless they just barely.
Speaker 1: Nipped him with it. That seems odd.
Speaker 3: Yeah anyway, uh so there is a story to be
Speaker 3: told here as more details.
Speaker 1: Before you get some more details, I want to that
Speaker 1: is all. I have no more details, not a single one.
Speaker 1: Those are all the details. How many details did you need?
Speaker 1: I saw the video of the guy running down the
Speaker 1: street barefoot, So how did he get loose? How is
Speaker 1: he not dead?
Speaker 3: How was he The only account I heard was that
Speaker 3: he escaped when they were distracted.
Speaker 1: How do you get this chainsaw started? I keep pulling
Speaker 1: it and pulling it. Hey, where did he go? I
Speaker 1: thought you were supposed to watch him. His feet were
Speaker 1: in a bucket of water. He's covered in urine. Can
Speaker 1: you get me some lemonade? Because I just don't feel
Speaker 1: like I could go. Yeah, I don't know what distract
Speaker 1: I went before I got here, You went before you
Speaker 1: got here. We discussed this yesterday. We're gonna pee on him,
Speaker 1: I know, But I was leaving a house and I
Speaker 1: thought there might be traffic. So and some.
Speaker 3: Second the crypto big wig is uh is about to
Speaker 3: be arrested to or was going to turn themselves in
Speaker 3: today it was a half a freak.
Speaker 1: Off, though it really was. You added a little sex
Speaker 1: and it's a ditty party. Yeah. So thinking this over,
Speaker 1: I think I get any indication. I mean, I get
Speaker 1: tased once, and there's any indication of like chainsawing or
Speaker 1: any other Here's here's my password. I'll walk there with you,
Speaker 1: walk where wherever I gotta go to help you. I'll
Speaker 1: do whatever you gotta do. What do you want me
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 3: I'll do it. It's it's on the laptop right there. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: so you do it, But then you're broke.
Speaker 1: He's committed a crime. I hope that the authorities can
Speaker 1: catch them and figure it out. But I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: sit there and get chainsawed to death. Well the guy's alive.
Speaker 1: He just had a rough couple of weeks. Well he's
Speaker 1: alive because he escaped. I might think, I hear you
Speaker 1: absolutely wouldn't you just give it? I mean, well, it's
Speaker 1: like the thing, you know, somebody stops you on the
Speaker 1: street with a knife and says, give me your watch.
Speaker 1: I'm probably just gonna handle my watch, get into a
Speaker 1: knife fight for the best.
Speaker 3: It's possible. This guy just like didn't have the passwords
Speaker 3: handy or.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you could, you could torture me for a
Speaker 1: very long time to try to get into my bank account.
Speaker 1: I don't have the slightest idea what my password is.
Speaker 1: I had another question around this, what was it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Uh, I suppose there's a chance I would think, well,
Speaker 1: they're gonna kill me after I type in the password,
Speaker 1: because they're not gonna just let me go and finger
Speaker 1: them for this crime. Yes, so he might have decided
Speaker 1: that was the only thing keeping him alive. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: that could have been his calculation, which is probably a
Speaker 1: pretty good calculation. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I think the greater story here, and we hit
Speaker 3: on this last week, is that cryptocurrency is so easily
Speaker 3: transferred and then is gone forever, and there are so
Speaker 3: few I mean, if you if you were to, you know,
Speaker 3: put my feet in a pan of water and hold
Speaker 3: half a freak off and fire up the chainsaw whatever
Speaker 3: and say, all right, Joe, I want your entire net worth,
Speaker 3: I would tell you this is gonna take a while.
Speaker 3: I've got like six to eight different financial institutions I've
Speaker 3: got to get in touch with. They've got like three
Speaker 3: step verification crap to do. Then we're gonna have to
Speaker 3: email them, and this is gonna take quite some time.
Speaker 3: Whereas with crypto, you just click and you click in
Speaker 3: your password. There you go, have access to the account,
Speaker 3: it's transferred, and it's gone. I mean, it could be
Speaker 3: five minutes.
Speaker 1: So I asked chat GPT, Yes, if you tase someone
Speaker 1: while their feet are in a bucket of water, would
Speaker 1: it hurt more? I wondered, what you're dictating into your phone? Yes,
Speaker 1: while you're talking. The problem is the voice texting isn't
Speaker 1: very well. So the first time it said, would chasing
Speaker 1: someone while their feet are in a bucket of water
Speaker 1: hurt more? Yes, being chased while your feet are in
Speaker 1: a bucket of water would hurt because it would be
Speaker 1: hard to run. Okay, that's not what I asked for that,
Speaker 1: so I did it again and emphasized it more. Would
Speaker 1: tasing someone hurt more if their feet were in water?
Speaker 1: And it said teasing someone while their feet are in
Speaker 1: water wouldn't hurt more, but it could amplify the emotional discomfort.
Speaker 1: You're fat, You're fat. Stop it. My feet are went out,
Speaker 1: I'm fat. So I still don't have the answer. I
Speaker 1: still don't have the answer to that question. I will
Speaker 1: try to figure that out. For some reason, I feel
Speaker 1: like they were really just winging it on the whole
Speaker 1: torture thing, like they hadn't thought this through right. They
Speaker 1: didn't bring in a massad agent or something. This guy
Speaker 1: looks to be quite young too. I don't recall he's
Speaker 1: like barely thirty years old.
Speaker 3: The already one hundred millionaire who decided he really needed
Speaker 3: another thirty million dollars. Yeah, craziness, but you're gonna see
Speaker 3: more of this stuff. So the dog thing actually interesting,
Speaker 3: not crap. Really enjoyed it as a dog lover myself.
Speaker 1: And I will get the answer in case you ever
Speaker 1: need to do it. On whether they're tasing someone while
Speaker 1: their feet are in a bucket of water hurts more barbaric.
Speaker 1: We'll have that all for you coming up. Stay here.
Speaker 1: So a little tip, I guess if you're ever gonna
Speaker 1: try to torture the crypto codes out of someone who's
Speaker 1: got a bunch of money, tasing them while their feet
Speaker 1: are in a bucket of water, according to chat GPT,
Speaker 1: would likely hurt quite a bit more, causing the electrical
Speaker 1: current to spread more unpredictably or intensely through the body,
Speaker 1: especially if both feeders submerged, which they were in this case.
Speaker 1: We've all learned something handy these case's great. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sure chat GPT, which is owned by whoever is sending,
Speaker 1: is now monitoring all my stuff as they think I'm
Speaker 1: some sort of job, some sort of crypto stealing lunatic.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, So a much more life affirming note came
Speaker 3: across this piece and will post it under hot links
Speaker 3: at Armstrong eyetdy dot com.
Speaker 1: But it's about a couple.
Speaker 3: Of people, a professor and a grad student who were
Speaker 3: doing separately then together studies on dogs and dog behavior
Speaker 3: and dog emotional responses and stuff like that. And during COVID,
Speaker 3: the grad student Gal filmed her dog playing with her
Speaker 3: father in several different situations. And this is kind of
Speaker 3: a two part revelation here. Some were positive, like giving
Speaker 3: him a treat. Some were more negative, like showing him
Speaker 3: his nemesis, Saffron. The housecats. Oh, they did not get along.
Speaker 3: They got along like dogs and cats anyway. So then Holly,
Speaker 3: who's this grad student Gal edited the videos so they
Speaker 3: only showed Oliver the dog against a black backdrop. All
Speaker 3: you could see was the dog and how he reacted,
Speaker 3: not what.
Speaker 1: The stimulus was.
Speaker 3: And the videos were shown to hundreds of people who
Speaker 3: were asked how is Oliver feeling? And a key finding
Speaker 3: was that people could not say how the dog was
Speaker 3: feeling without context. They were absolutely terrible in saying, Oh,
Speaker 3: that dog is happy, that's interesting, or that dog is
Speaker 3: mad or sad or threatened or whatever. It was really
Speaker 3: kind of disturbing, and I took the little quiz that
Speaker 3: they have and I was pretty good at it.
Speaker 1: But so we're filling in the blanks on that when
Speaker 1: we look at a dog.
Speaker 3: Yeah, precisely, Yeah, we see the context and so interpreted.
Speaker 3: My buddy Greg, the professional dog trainer, taught me a
Speaker 3: long time ago that a wagging tail does not necessarily
Speaker 3: mean happy.
Speaker 1: It does not, so don't assume.
Speaker 3: That, especially if it's in a situation where there could
Speaker 3: be aggression. But anyway, then when people were given the context,
Speaker 3: they nailed it, of course. But but they're terrible at decoding
Speaker 3: you know, how dogs, what dogs were thinking, what they
Speaker 3: were feeling. And they go into a little bit more
Speaker 3: of the study. But the most interesting revelation to me
Speaker 3: was they used what they learned with a study from
Speaker 3: Italy from a little earlier. They put dogs in a
Speaker 3: box just so they could film their tails, with a
Speaker 3: camera in front of them and a window in front,
Speaker 3: and the cameras were trained on the dog's wagging tails. Well,
Speaker 3: the researchers presented things to look at through the window,
Speaker 3: like they would show the dogs an owner. It's uh
Speaker 3: old Joe, come to see Baxter with a predictable reaction,
Speaker 3: or they'd show them an unfamiliar person who would come
Speaker 3: up right in front of them, or an unfamiliar dog,
Speaker 3: and the dogs showed a strong, consistent bias to wag
Speaker 3: their tails to the right when shown their owner or
Speaker 3: an unfamiliar human, but a left bias toward an unfamiliar dog.
Speaker 3: So if it was, and they traced it to the
Speaker 3: centers of the brain, which, just like in a human being,
Speaker 3: if something happens on the left side of the brain,
Speaker 3: it manifests on the right side of the body. Well,
Speaker 3: the left side of a dog's brain is more specialized
Speaker 3: for approach and I'm happy, let's meet each other and so,
Speaker 3: and the right side for withdrawal and fear responses and
Speaker 3: that sort of thing. So there is a bias in
Speaker 3: dogtail wagging if it's toward the right. And being politically conservative,
Speaker 3: this is easy for me to remember. To the right
Speaker 3: is good, to the left is not good.
Speaker 1: What if the dog is sitting in the passenger seat
Speaker 1: while you drive with its arms crossed looking out the
Speaker 1: window and refuses to respond to anything you say, even
Speaker 1: if you ask it what's wrong. Your dog is angry
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 3: Trust me, you should apologize to your dog, whether you're
Speaker 3: in the wrong or not.
Speaker 1: What if you don't know what you're apologizing for.
Speaker 3: And here's a pro tip, don't give the dog a bone.
Speaker 3: The dog doesn't want it, maybe not for a couple
Speaker 3: of days. Dog is not looking for a bone at
Speaker 3: this point. Yes, yes, don't even bring it up. I
Speaker 3: thought that was super interesting. So in a follow up study,
Speaker 3: the researchers connected dogs to heart monitors heart rate monitors
Speaker 3: and show them videos of other dogs wagging their tails.
Speaker 3: If the dog saw a left wagging tail, that's the
Speaker 3: more hostile one, their heart rate revealed that they were
Speaker 3: more anxious than when they watched a right wag tail.
Speaker 1: So the dog knows.
Speaker 3: The dog's like, ooh, left tail wag All right, hey brother,
Speaker 3: no thread here, that's not I'm not looking for trouble
Speaker 3: because the dog sensed it. And then they point out
Speaker 3: that people and dogs have been living together for more
Speaker 3: than fifteen thousand years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really quite amazing, but we're still not.
Speaker 3: Great at recognizing the emotional state of dogs.
Speaker 1: I like to think for most of that period, we
Speaker 1: probably didn't care. We were just happy with the relationship
Speaker 1: that we built, where you lightly sleep and bark. If
Speaker 1: anybody approaches, I will continue to feed you and give you.
Speaker 3: Water when when yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, there you go. Right,
Speaker 3: tail wag, good, left tail wag beware.
Speaker 1: Right and that whole double untondra thing earlier we can
Speaker 1: just ignore.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed it. Also from the world of science for this,
Speaker 3: that's right science. Oh you know what this deserves more
Speaker 3: time came across this one is choosing your passion over
Speaker 3: a paycheck worth it.
Speaker 1: Do what you love and the money will follow. Micro's
Speaker 1: big on. Nah, that's dumb. Yeah, find a way to
Speaker 1: make a living and make that your hobby. Learn to
Speaker 1: love it or tolerate it. Yeah, and then do what
Speaker 1: you love at home when you get home, yeah, or
Speaker 1: on the weekend. Yeah, not even close. Depends.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you happen to really enjoy what you do,
Speaker 3: or you're one of those people. And see that's the problem.
Speaker 3: There's an exceptionality bias. It happens in the news if
Speaker 3: something is rare that makes it interesting. That means they
Speaker 3: will show it to you. That convinces people. It happens
Speaker 3: all the time. But it's the opposite. It's the paradox
Speaker 3: of exceptionality for us because we have done that.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be in radio long before I ever
Speaker 1: thought I'd make any money at it to a large extent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does help you with the like the ten thousand
Speaker 1: hours problem of takes you that long to be really
Speaker 1: good at something if you really like doing it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Some days, do I want to throw myself off a
Speaker 3: cliff and beaten by sharks instead of doing this one?
Speaker 1: Working?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, but most days no. Are you hoping the dog
Speaker 1: is using the left side of its brain to elite
Speaker 1: your face off so you don't have to go to work? Yeah?
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