WEBVTT - Now or Next Wednesday? 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:06.480 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:10.680 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:18.320 Armstrong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.280 Wants a breaking news story before we get to clips 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:33.200 of the week. Sure, Washington Post sudden cancelation of army 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.120 exercise fuel speculation about combat troop deployments in the Middle 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:44.880 East at some point, if let's not use the term, 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:50.879 if some point, combat troops on the ground are on 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:58.600 the table, you gotta get them somewhere in the neighborhood. Yeah, right, okay, 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.200 in case you need them. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:01.480 Yeah. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.080 I think a good example of the analysis you get 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.640 here in few other places is what we've discussed the 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.040 last couple of days. We have boots on the ground 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.360 in how many different countries I've lost track, quite a few, 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.200 several in Africa, handful in the Middle East, completely separate 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:24.039 from the current conflict with Iran all over Europe. I mean, 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.640 Europe's not at most of Europe's not at war at 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.120 this point, but we have troops on the ground near 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.360 trouble spots everywhere on Earth. But it's funny how it 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.800 becomes a political football. Another follow up unless you have 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:37.640 more on that. I was just going to say a 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.200 follow up to our discussion of the polymarket Calci thing 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.440 in college students. Didn't have time for this paragraph from 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:45.720 the journal. It's going about as well as you might expect. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.840 Students are losing hundreds of dollars on false rumors. The 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:53.200 NCAA is raising alarms about betting on college games. Student 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.480 Athletic department employee fired for betting on Calshi. Meanwhile, student 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.960 groups are hosting parties with polymarket branded beer, pong. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.320 Sets, good stuff. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.880 A lot to squeeze in this hour, just to follow 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:07.960 up what it was just saying, since you asked the question. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.320 At least according to Grok, we have troops and combat zones. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:18.280 Fighting isis in Iraq Syria. For some reason, Grok just 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.320 updated and took that away from me. I hate when 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.440 it does that. It starts giving you information and then 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.280 it takes it away. But anyway, there's like a half 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:29.000 dozen countries where we're actually fighting isis. Yeah, fighting on 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:33.120 the ground, Yeah, never mind, you know, just a presence there. Yeah. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.560 So it's the bloove of Friday traditionalist, get to it. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.360 It's taking a fond look back at the week. There 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:38.920 was It's cow clips of the Week. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.560 The Iranian regime shaken to its core. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:51.720 Irans formerly supreme leader Ayatola Hamene is dead. 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.440 He won the corn toss and he elected to receive 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.080 and more did he receive. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:02:59.960 May he rest in peace. 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.640 If you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth, we will hunt 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:09.640 you down without apology and without hesitation, and we will 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:10.280 kill you. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.040 The Iranian government is vowing not to back down, not 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:15.800 to negotiate with the United States. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.600 The President's urging regime change. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.000 I'm telling Oh John Carl that he should have a 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.320 role in picking Around's next supreme leader. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:28.000 Their anti aircraft weapons are gone, so they have no 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.480 air force, they have no air defense, missiles are gun 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:32.840 launches are gone. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:34.880 Other than that, they're done quite well. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:41.200 Have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.800 All Rand Security Secretary Christinome is out. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:46.200 I wasn't. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:47.920 I've got to be honest with I wasn't expecting the 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.480 call today, but it's super excited and I'm more excited 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:52.840 about just ready to get started. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.040 Well, I'm so psyched to be here for a new 0:03:56.120 --> 0:04:04.160 Subtucsi God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:09.840 God is non binary. So long live the resistance and 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.040 dest to America. There are they getting this well? Fox Arrangement. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.800 I mean it's twenty four to seven, the California Arrangement syndrome. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.840 Oh boy, holy cow, so much going on with this. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:28.640 I've done with this. If you guys are doing that, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.800 I am done. You can pull me a contempt from 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.400 now till the cows come home. It's Clips of the week. 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:39.760 Gosh, gosh, gosh, gosh, love it. handsOn, nice job with 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:44.480 clips of the week. Yeah, truly, what a week. Wow, 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.000 what a variety of stories. Speaking of which, I got 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:48.600 a lot of silly stuff I'd like to squeeze in 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.599 before the end of the week. US who will do 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.800 that today? I like to get to the Van Jones 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.720 stuff about the divides in politics as well. 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.080 Honestly my serious notes. But we've got time. This is 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:58.719 not silly. So here's what Grock tells me. 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.200 The United States currently has combat troops deployed on the 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.800 ground in four primary locations worldwide. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:04.400 Iraq. 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:09.159 We've got twenty five hundred troops engaging in counter ISIS 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:14.320 operations in Iraq, Syria, two thousand troops supporting anti ISIS 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:19.000 efforts Somalia, a smaller contingent of special operations forces conducting 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.720 counter terrorism missions against al Shabab and Yemen limited special 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:30.560 operations against al Qaeda and Huthi targets. Uh So, couple 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:35.680 thousand troops in Iraq, couple thousand troops in Syrias Syria, 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.040 and if you announced today he was going to put 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.560 eight hundred in Iran, people would go aps over it. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:44.919 Correct, doesn't make any sense. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.640 It'd be hundreds of miles away from the fighting, merely 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.000 eighting in logistics. People would go, as you so charmingly 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.599 put it, aps, Yes, that is correct. Where does that 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:57.960 expression come from? I think when an ape is really 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.359 angry and starts hurling its feces around and people think, wow, 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.960 this has really come unhints. Have I told this story 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:05.440 for a wild gladys? I don't know if I've told 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.159 this story for some reason. I think it was the 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.520 Iowa State Fair. It was a fair. I don't know 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:10.960 if it was the Iowa State Fair, which used to 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.000 be the biggest fair in the world, but there was 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.640 a This is many, many years ago. This is like 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.599 early seventies, so it's quite possible that the conditions. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:19.480 For this. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.080 Beast were not the best. I don't know, I don't 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.280 remember if it was a gorilla or a chimpanzee. It 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.920 was a monkey ish sort of thing, quite large anyway, 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.880 for whatever reason, it was throwing its feces. It's the 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.520 only time I've seen it in person. And everybody was 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.280 just so entertained by this, and it was a very 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.200 large crowd and we were all like just outside of 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.440 you know, he kind of gauged his arm and figured out, 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.680 like how far can he throw that? And then right 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.200 the circle was perfectly like just outside his range, and 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.880 like just constant in my memory. I mean, this is 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.479 a fifty year old memory, maybe fifty five year old memory. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.440 I don't think i'd forget that either, But I can 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.479 still picture everybody back there watching this thing just screaming 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:09.040 and yelling, throwing its crap at us. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:10.640 Exact John exactly right. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:15.280 Johnny, you know, I wish you hadn't led with the 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.760 conditions animals were kept in stuff, because that really it 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.559 hurts my enjoyment of the story because that's a funny, 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:22.280 damn story. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:23.800 But you're probably right. 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.960 I've told this before, and this is a downer Friday story. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.520 I saw there was a circus setting up in Mexico. 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:29.840 One time. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.080 I was riding my motorcycle way down deep in Mexico, 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.560 and uh, oh boy, there was a circus setting up 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.800 in a small town. And there was the saddest looking 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.440 freaking monkey tied to a post. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.600 To us, what you used? 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.440 You just admitted to go off the air, he says, 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.760 I don't know if I want to talk about politics, yeah. 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:48.840 Talk about animal abuse. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.960 That'll lift people's spirits, send them into the weekend, clicking 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.280 their heels, get you into a show business man. That's 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.000 what this is all about. Good lord, you ever seen 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.520 a dog run over in the street? Tell us about it? 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:06.520 What's the matter with you? God, you're right, You're right, 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.680 I am incorrect, You're right now. If I had had 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.120 the good sense to jump in like ninety seconds ago, 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:12.920 I would have said. 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.720 Speaking of excrement with fabulous transition. 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:22.240 A Long Island Grandpa is peeved after his novelty license 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.560 plate was revoked by the DMV in New York. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:26.800 Always love. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.920 Personalized plates to get turned down in various states. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:31.520 Always good. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.600 Interestingly, this guy's had this plate for years, but for 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.920 some reason, the New York DMV stopped in and told him, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.440 because of its quote rigorous screening processes, that it had 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.480 determined that his plate was no longer in compliance. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:53.920 His plate said, it is p B four we go. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.480 Oh, I read about this the other day. H P 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.680 before we go, which is good advice. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.079 You have kids. 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:07.680 Incredibly scene an offensive and blah, why is P before 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.240 we go offensive? Out of the reverences urine jack, which 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.440 is extreman lah blah blah blah. He says, I've driven 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:19.360 it through conservatively fifteen states, Red states, Blue states. Everyone smiles. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.400 One time the officer pulled up next to me at 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.120 a light and motioned. He said, I just had to 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:25.280 stop you. I got such a laugh out of your plate. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:30.200 But then government bureaucrats who just love their power over 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.560 the citizens decide to take it away. Pee before we go. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.600 Let me grock this. What percentage of human beings urinate? 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:37.840 Okays? 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.599 Thinking, probably use a couple of AI platforms just to 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.000 make sure you're accurate. Yeah, it turns out the vast 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.559 majority of us urinate, So it's a kind of a universal. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.240 That's that's the teacher in California who is urinating into 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.280 a coffee canister in the classroom. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:01.360 It's still on leave. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:05.240 I believe that is still being investigated. Yes, the investigation, 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.240 if I was in charge, would be got a video 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.439 of you peean a coffee canister. What the hell it'd 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:16.439 be the investigation Now he's on leave. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Anyway, 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.560 people are rallying to the case. He said, we have 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.200 the support of the people of New Hampshire. Their state 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.240 motto is live free or die. Well, in my case, 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:28.520 it's live free or pee before we go. Anyway, Good luck, sir. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.640 I feel like I see fewer personalized plates now than 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.480 I used to. Did they get more expensive? Did people 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.200 decide that it's not a good look. I don't know. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.160 I feel like I see fewer of them. All of 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.560 the above, maybe I don't know. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.480 Tends to be not universal. I know many, many fine 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.280 people that I like a lot to have personalized plates. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.160 But in general, I'd say personalized plates go with a 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:57.760 certain personality quirk that I do not enjoy. But not always, 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.360 definitely not always. Thinking of several people right now, my 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.839 favorite personalized plate of all time was my brother in 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:11.000 law John's. I believe Who's Who was a fellow uh 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:15.480 Lootie Tunes cartoon thinge and his license plate was are. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:20.559 U n idgit I j D. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.679 That was good anyway, Humans and Neanderthals got it on 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.440 more than scientists thought, according to a new study that 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:31.160 long ago. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.160 You know, proto human update coming up. Stay with us. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.120 That's not a surprise to me as. 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:43.520 A man with a substantial amount of Neanderthal DNA. We 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.560 don't look like Brad Pitt. But you know, take us 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.200 back to your cave and find out. Uh uh huh 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.760 do go Neanderthal You'll never go back it all. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.760 That's pretty good. That's actually prettyad. Okay, we actually had 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.480 don't play. We actually have some news to get to 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:05.560 because things are constantly changing. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:10.600 We are a country at war more on the way. 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:20.240 Iran is hoping that we cannot sustain this, which is 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:24.240 a really bad miscalculation for the IRGC in Iran. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.360 Yeah, I guess we'll find out. Sirens blaring currently in 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.959 Israel as Iran is retaliating again with more waves of rockets, drones, 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.160 everything else, and it's all about We talked to Mike 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.000 Lions a little bit earlier about He says, we've got 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.040 the stockpile to continue this for a while. Does that 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.520 include Israel. Do we know we keep track to make 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.880 sure that they've got everything they need for their iron dome. Yeah, 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.280 we'll see arrows and Darcher's. As we've been discussing with 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.839 Mike Lyons, the number of missiles fired out of Iran 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.679 is fewer every day. We'll see if that continues to so. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.440 The way the people of America have reacted to the 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.680 conflict with Iran politically speaking, is pretty interesting. Van Jones, 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.800 As I always say, a guy I disagree with about 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.480 many many things, some of them very very strongly. But 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:13.120 I think he's an honest guy. I think he's sincere. 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.240 He was talking about that very topic. We'll start with fifteen. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:17.120 Go from there, Michael. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:22.280 Bit by bit, post by post, nudge by nudge, people 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:26.840 are getting separated into different camps that are not ultimately 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.040 fighting for the good of the United States or the 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.840 West or their own countries, but are actually functioning at 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:40.680 a pawn layer, a pawn level, being moved by different algorithms, 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:47.000 by different information operations to cluster and be useful to 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:51.439 people who ultimately mean, you know, good, ultimately not benefiting 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.520 anybody in the United States. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.560 Wow, love that premise. You got me, Van, Go on. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.600 Why is it that you see young people in a 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.600 mayor who give a free pass to Iran, which is 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:08.520 butchering people, shooting down young protesters, won't give women their rights, 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.400 won't give gay people their rights, and yet are incredibly 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.959 critical of the United States itself, which at least doesn't 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.480 kill thousands of protesters and has rights for people. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:21.920 Well, you hate to have to give a guy credit 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.640 for saying something that's obviously true, but a lot of 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.520 people on inside of politics don't say that, right. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.720 But there are problems on the right as well. What 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:31.560 is going on? 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.800 Why are people who consider themselves to be American patriots 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:40.320 on the right suddenly willing to side with a country 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.080 that has been an enemy of the United States for 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:44.440 now generations? 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:45.720 What is happening here? 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:50.480 And what's the impact of having a country where different 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:55.640 factions inside the country are actually aligning themselves with enemies 0:14:55.720 --> 0:15:00.400 outside the country without seeming to really know they're doing that. 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.280 That's a gray war. That's how you know you're in 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:03.960 a gray war. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.280 Well, at least for the people leading the crowd. As 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.800 Joe explained to us the other day, Tucker and Candas, 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:17.760 for instance, are making so much freaking money. It's insane. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:24.040 They are ungodly wealthy out of doing this, So that's 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:25.800 their motivation. I don't know about all the people that 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.600 follow them. I think they could probably publish a simple, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:34.040 like four sentence guide to how you grab an audience 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:38.120 like that, offer them secret knowledge that's being hidden from them, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.160 Convince them that they're going up against the powerful and 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.120 the evil and they're on the right side of things, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.440 blah blah blah, and slowly release you know. It's almost 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.280 like a murder mystery clues and breadcrumbs and the rest. 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.480 In the style of QAnon. For instance, We've. 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.640 Got a new theory on this based on some life 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.200 experience people going for these some of these like really 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:06.920 really crazy conspiracy theories. The more troubled your reality is 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.600 in your life, like your real circumstance, the more troubled 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:15.040 your circumstances is, the greater the conspiracy you need to 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:19.960 focus on to drown that out. Yeah, so if you 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:21.880 have kind of medium problems in your life, you can 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.440 kind of get into a medium conspiracy to drown that out. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.080 But if you got really big problems going on, you 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.000 have to come up with a really big conspiracy to 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.400 Oh I don't have to worry about all of these 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:35.120 situations around me that are really a problem, because look 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:35.960 how bad this is. 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.080 I got to focus on this. Yes, right, I think 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.440 that's it. Well, I've got a great little feature ut 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.800 on how Marxists operate. I don't think we really. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:49.040 Have the time, but it it's kind of watching them 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:55.600 form the why we are queers for Palestine and against 0:16:55.600 --> 0:17:00.400 the war in Iran as Americans, it doesn't make any sense. 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.680 They're well aware of how nutty that is. So they've 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.560 got to continually brainwash and browbeat people that do not 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:08.240 asking that question. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:09.720 If you even asked that. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:13.520 Question, you're a counter revolutionary and you're with the capitalists. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.919 We had a lot more on the way of different stripes, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:19.120 So I hope you can stick around. If you miss 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.600 a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:24.960 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.440 After months of denials, Congressman Tony Gonzalez finally acknowledged having 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.840 an affair with Regina santos Ovulis, a staff member who 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.399 took her own life last September. For Gonzalez, you know, politically, 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.360 that's a death penalty. House speaker Mike Johnson reached out 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:41.480 to Gonzalez Thursday. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.440 We first tend to drop rivalries for re election. 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.200 Now Gonzalez has done just that, adding that he does 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.359 plan to serve out the rest of his current term. 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.919 Politically, that's the death penalty used to be. Definitely not 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.280 anymore getting caught having an affair, isn't that? I mean 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:00.560 that used to be absolutely you're done. Okay, you cannot 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:04.000 run for whatever office, clearly not anymore for all kinds 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.200 of different reasons, and maybe for good reason. 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:11.240 I don't know. But what if your girlfriend sets herself 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:11.879 on fire. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.040 That's a different thing. So let's hear a little more 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.440 on that. Yeah, she did kill herself, which adds another layer, 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.040 obviously to the affair. 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.159 Was there a relationship with this young lady who was 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:23.199 working in your office? 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.800 You know, very very direct, PAGs. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.280 I made a mistake and I had a lapse in judgment, 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.880 and there was a lack of faith, and I take 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:38.479 full responsibility for those actions. Since then, I've reconciled with 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.800 my wife, Angel, I've asked God to forgive me, which 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.800 he has, and my faith is as strong as ever. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.440 When you make mistakes like this, you know, it's never easy. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:52.120 It humbles you but it's important to kind of work 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:52.680 through it all. 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.600 Well, I'm glad he and his wife could get past it. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:19:03.199 That's fantastic. I guess you guess what. I don't know 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.560 what's going on in their relationship. Maybe you just better 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.320 off without him? True, well, true, of course we don't 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.760 know what's going on. But for some people that's a 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.960 one deal breaker. And I've known other people that survived 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.760 it and the things were better afterwards, like better, actually better, 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:21.560 So I can believe that. Sure, yeah, here's painful. Ow Oh, definitely, 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:22.600 here's a little more. 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.960 Any and every headline that we see about this story 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.679 makes the assertion, and not out not saying it, but 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:32.200 they make the assertion that she committed suicide because of you. 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.200 You don't think you had anything whatsoever to. 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.840 Do with it, Absolutely nothing to do with it. And 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.880 you know what, they do this intentionally pegs. I mean, 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:41.560 you cannot hate the media enough. 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:46.439 Well, that's true with you on that one. Absolutely nothing 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:51.439 to do with it. I mean to blame him for 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:55.400 it is ridiculous, but nothing to do with it. 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:57.680 You don't think that. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:02.399 You've lost her lover and her job she was she 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.520 thought she was going to be the forever with a 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:10.400 congressman and the love of her life perhaps, and then 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.600 that fell apart. That's well, if you've ever had a 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.680 relationship you really didn't want to end end, it's about 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.399 as bad as things get. Therefore, all she might have 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:20.760 had problems with her marriage or husband. 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.679 Blah blah blah. But yeah, that's well, it's sorted. She 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.960 set herself on fire. Yes, I'd forgotten that. Yeah, that's 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:30.520 a bad way to get Okay, you forgot that. That's 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:34.040 kind of a big detail. It is a big detail. Yeah, 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.840 nobody does that. Well doesn't that That's a rough blanket 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:38.920 way to go. I'll tell you that. 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:43.000 Well, that doesn't that indicate a clear not stable person. 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.520 Yes, yeah, yeah, definitely. 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.560 You can be pretty stable and decide to kill yourself. 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.160 It's like Norm McDonald's joke about that. What you're surprised 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.919 when somebody kills himself, Well, you don't know about life. 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.080 I it always end some disappointment, never ending, you know, 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.919 blah blah blah. But so you do want me to 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.200 talk about assistant suicide in Canada, But. 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:08.040 Send yourself on fire. I mean that's a hell of 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:10.960 a choice. You know, this is neither here nor there. 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:14.720 But I've been listening to some stuff, reading some stuff 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:20.640 about the Spanish conquistadors and their utter brutality, and they 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:24.520 like to burn people at the stake. If you like, 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:27.600 did everything right and converted to Christianity and admitted all 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.880 your sins, they would garrot you. That was their merciful 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.560 way to end your days. Anyway. 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:39.959 Wow, anybody who is quote unquote Hispanic who talks about 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:45.760 quote unquote white people right as settler colonial monsters is 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:47.879 out of their effing minds. 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.320 So have you been listening to the Rest is History 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:51.640 podcast about the Aztecs. 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:55.120 There are no other pitive podcasts, just ours. 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.639 Yeah, the Spanish came and what they did to the 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:03.480 Native peoples of Mexico and Central America and South America. 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:06.560 Just absolutely brutal. 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:09.720 How that gets left out of the story when you 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:13.320 talk about European settlers and what they did to the 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:19.880 Native Americans in North America, there's no comparison right well 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:24.399 in the horrifying brutality of the Native peoples. Yeah, to 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.439 themselves and their enemies and the rest of it. They 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:31.359 were all about sacrificing children to the gods, which reminds 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:33.280 me haven't had time to get to this. I'd like 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:36.119 to at some point most of the history of human 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:40.560