Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Wants a breaking news story before we get to clips
Speaker 3: of the week. Sure, Washington Post sudden cancelation of army
Speaker 3: exercise fuel speculation about combat troop deployments in the Middle
Speaker 3: East at some point, if let's not use the term,
Speaker 3: if some point, combat troops on the ground are on
Speaker 3: the table, you gotta get them somewhere in the neighborhood. Yeah, right, okay,
Speaker 3: in case you need them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think a good example of the analysis you get
Speaker 3: here in few other places is what we've discussed the
Speaker 3: last couple of days. We have boots on the ground
Speaker 3: in how many different countries I've lost track, quite a few,
Speaker 3: several in Africa, handful in the Middle East, completely separate
Speaker 3: from the current conflict with Iran all over Europe. I mean,
Speaker 3: Europe's not at most of Europe's not at war at
Speaker 3: this point, but we have troops on the ground near
Speaker 3: trouble spots everywhere on Earth. But it's funny how it
Speaker 3: becomes a political football. Another follow up unless you have
Speaker 3: more on that. I was just going to say a
Speaker 3: follow up to our discussion of the polymarket Calci thing
Speaker 3: in college students. Didn't have time for this paragraph from
Speaker 3: the journal. It's going about as well as you might expect.
Speaker 3: Students are losing hundreds of dollars on false rumors. The
Speaker 3: NCAA is raising alarms about betting on college games. Student
Speaker 3: Athletic department employee fired for betting on Calshi. Meanwhile, student
Speaker 3: groups are hosting parties with polymarket branded beer, pong.
Speaker 2: Sets, good stuff.
Speaker 3: A lot to squeeze in this hour, just to follow
Speaker 3: up what it was just saying, since you asked the question.
Speaker 3: At least according to Grok, we have troops and combat zones.
Speaker 3: Fighting isis in Iraq Syria. For some reason, Grok just
Speaker 3: updated and took that away from me. I hate when
Speaker 3: it does that. It starts giving you information and then
Speaker 3: it takes it away. But anyway, there's like a half
Speaker 3: dozen countries where we're actually fighting isis. Yeah, fighting on
Speaker 3: the ground, Yeah, never mind, you know, just a presence there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So it's the bloove of Friday traditionalist, get to it.
Speaker 3: It's taking a fond look back at the week. There
Speaker 3: was It's cow clips of the Week.
Speaker 2: The Iranian regime shaken to its core.
Speaker 3: Irans formerly supreme leader Ayatola Hamene is dead.
Speaker 1: He won the corn toss and he elected to receive
Speaker 1: and more did he receive.
Speaker 2: May he rest in peace.
Speaker 4: If you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth, we will hunt
Speaker 4: you down without apology and without hesitation, and we will
Speaker 4: kill you.
Speaker 3: The Iranian government is vowing not to back down, not
Speaker 3: to negotiate with the United States.
Speaker 2: The President's urging regime change.
Speaker 3: I'm telling Oh John Carl that he should have a
Speaker 3: role in picking Around's next supreme leader.
Speaker 5: Their anti aircraft weapons are gone, so they have no
Speaker 5: air force, they have no air defense, missiles are gun
Speaker 5: launches are gone.
Speaker 2: Other than that, they're done quite well.
Speaker 5: Have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski.
Speaker 3: All Rand Security Secretary Christinome is out.
Speaker 2: I wasn't.
Speaker 3: I've got to be honest with I wasn't expecting the
Speaker 3: call today, but it's super excited and I'm more excited
Speaker 3: about just ready to get started.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm so psyched to be here for a new
Speaker 1: Subtucsi God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between.
Speaker 2: God is non binary. So long live the resistance and
Speaker 2: dest to America. There are they getting this well? Fox Arrangement.
Speaker 1: I mean it's twenty four to seven, the California Arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, holy cow, so much going on with this.
Speaker 2: I've done with this. If you guys are doing that,
Speaker 2: I am done. You can pull me a contempt from
Speaker 2: now till the cows come home. It's Clips of the week.
Speaker 3: Gosh, gosh, gosh, gosh, love it. handsOn, nice job with
Speaker 3: clips of the week. Yeah, truly, what a week. Wow,
Speaker 3: what a variety of stories. Speaking of which, I got
Speaker 3: a lot of silly stuff I'd like to squeeze in
Speaker 3: before the end of the week. US who will do
Speaker 3: that today? I like to get to the Van Jones
Speaker 3: stuff about the divides in politics as well.
Speaker 2: Honestly my serious notes. But we've got time. This is
Speaker 2: not silly. So here's what Grock tells me.
Speaker 3: The United States currently has combat troops deployed on the
Speaker 3: ground in four primary locations worldwide.
Speaker 2: Iraq.
Speaker 3: We've got twenty five hundred troops engaging in counter ISIS
Speaker 3: operations in Iraq, Syria, two thousand troops supporting anti ISIS
Speaker 3: efforts Somalia, a smaller contingent of special operations forces conducting
Speaker 3: counter terrorism missions against al Shabab and Yemen limited special
Speaker 3: operations against al Qaeda and Huthi targets. Uh So, couple
Speaker 3: thousand troops in Iraq, couple thousand troops in Syrias Syria,
Speaker 3: and if you announced today he was going to put
Speaker 3: eight hundred in Iran, people would go aps over it.
Speaker 2: Correct, doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: It'd be hundreds of miles away from the fighting, merely
Speaker 3: eighting in logistics. People would go, as you so charmingly
Speaker 3: put it, aps, Yes, that is correct. Where does that
Speaker 3: expression come from? I think when an ape is really
Speaker 3: angry and starts hurling its feces around and people think, wow,
Speaker 3: this has really come unhints. Have I told this story
Speaker 3: for a wild gladys? I don't know if I've told
Speaker 3: this story for some reason. I think it was the
Speaker 3: Iowa State Fair. It was a fair. I don't know
Speaker 3: if it was the Iowa State Fair, which used to
Speaker 3: be the biggest fair in the world, but there was
Speaker 3: a This is many, many years ago. This is like
Speaker 3: early seventies, so it's quite possible that the conditions.
Speaker 2: For this.
Speaker 3: Beast were not the best. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 3: remember if it was a gorilla or a chimpanzee. It
Speaker 3: was a monkey ish sort of thing, quite large anyway,
Speaker 3: for whatever reason, it was throwing its feces. It's the
Speaker 3: only time I've seen it in person. And everybody was
Speaker 3: just so entertained by this, and it was a very
Speaker 3: large crowd and we were all like just outside of
Speaker 3: you know, he kind of gauged his arm and figured out,
Speaker 3: like how far can he throw that? And then right
Speaker 3: the circle was perfectly like just outside his range, and
Speaker 3: like just constant in my memory. I mean, this is
Speaker 3: a fifty year old memory, maybe fifty five year old memory.
Speaker 3: I don't think i'd forget that either, But I can
Speaker 3: still picture everybody back there watching this thing just screaming
Speaker 3: and yelling, throwing its crap at us.
Speaker 2: Exact John exactly right.
Speaker 3: Johnny, you know, I wish you hadn't led with the
Speaker 3: conditions animals were kept in stuff, because that really it
Speaker 3: hurts my enjoyment of the story because that's a funny,
Speaker 3: damn story.
Speaker 2: But you're probably right.
Speaker 3: I've told this before, and this is a downer Friday story.
Speaker 3: I saw there was a circus setting up in Mexico.
Speaker 2: One time.
Speaker 3: I was riding my motorcycle way down deep in Mexico,
Speaker 3: and uh, oh boy, there was a circus setting up
Speaker 3: in a small town. And there was the saddest looking
Speaker 3: freaking monkey tied to a post.
Speaker 2: To us, what you used?
Speaker 3: You just admitted to go off the air, he says,
Speaker 3: I don't know if I want to talk about politics, yeah.
Speaker 2: Talk about animal abuse.
Speaker 3: That'll lift people's spirits, send them into the weekend, clicking
Speaker 3: their heels, get you into a show business man. That's
Speaker 3: what this is all about. Good lord, you ever seen
Speaker 3: a dog run over in the street? Tell us about it?
Speaker 3: What's the matter with you? God, you're right, You're right,
Speaker 3: I am incorrect, You're right now. If I had had
Speaker 3: the good sense to jump in like ninety seconds ago,
Speaker 3: I would have said.
Speaker 2: Speaking of excrement with fabulous transition.
Speaker 3: A Long Island Grandpa is peeved after his novelty license
Speaker 3: plate was revoked by the DMV in New York.
Speaker 2: Always love.
Speaker 3: Personalized plates to get turned down in various states.
Speaker 2: Always good.
Speaker 3: Interestingly, this guy's had this plate for years, but for
Speaker 3: some reason, the New York DMV stopped in and told him,
Speaker 3: because of its quote rigorous screening processes, that it had
Speaker 3: determined that his plate was no longer in compliance.
Speaker 2: His plate said, it is p B four we go.
Speaker 3: Oh, I read about this the other day. H P
Speaker 3: before we go, which is good advice.
Speaker 2: You have kids.
Speaker 3: Incredibly scene an offensive and blah, why is P before
Speaker 3: we go offensive? Out of the reverences urine jack, which
Speaker 3: is extreman lah blah blah blah. He says, I've driven
Speaker 3: it through conservatively fifteen states, Red states, Blue states. Everyone smiles.
Speaker 3: One time the officer pulled up next to me at
Speaker 3: a light and motioned. He said, I just had to
Speaker 3: stop you. I got such a laugh out of your plate.
Speaker 3: But then government bureaucrats who just love their power over
Speaker 3: the citizens decide to take it away. Pee before we go.
Speaker 3: Let me grock this. What percentage of human beings urinate?
Speaker 2: Okays?
Speaker 3: Thinking, probably use a couple of AI platforms just to
Speaker 3: make sure you're accurate. Yeah, it turns out the vast
Speaker 3: majority of us urinate, So it's a kind of a universal.
Speaker 3: That's that's the teacher in California who is urinating into
Speaker 3: a coffee canister in the classroom.
Speaker 2: It's still on leave.
Speaker 3: I believe that is still being investigated. Yes, the investigation,
Speaker 3: if I was in charge, would be got a video
Speaker 3: of you peean a coffee canister. What the hell it'd
Speaker 3: be the investigation Now he's on leave. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 3: people are rallying to the case. He said, we have
Speaker 3: the support of the people of New Hampshire. Their state
Speaker 3: motto is live free or die. Well, in my case,
Speaker 3: it's live free or pee before we go. Anyway, Good luck, sir.
Speaker 3: I feel like I see fewer personalized plates now than
Speaker 3: I used to. Did they get more expensive? Did people
Speaker 3: decide that it's not a good look. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like I see fewer of them. All of
Speaker 2: the above, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3: Tends to be not universal. I know many, many fine
Speaker 3: people that I like a lot to have personalized plates.
Speaker 3: But in general, I'd say personalized plates go with a
Speaker 3: certain personality quirk that I do not enjoy. But not always,
Speaker 3: definitely not always. Thinking of several people right now, my
Speaker 3: favorite personalized plate of all time was my brother in
Speaker 3: law John's. I believe Who's Who was a fellow uh
Speaker 3: Lootie Tunes cartoon thinge and his license plate was are.
Speaker 2: U n idgit I j D.
Speaker 3: That was good anyway, Humans and Neanderthals got it on
Speaker 3: more than scientists thought, according to a new study that
Speaker 3: long ago.
Speaker 2: You know, proto human update coming up. Stay with us.
Speaker 2: That's not a surprise to me as.
Speaker 3: A man with a substantial amount of Neanderthal DNA. We
Speaker 3: don't look like Brad Pitt. But you know, take us
Speaker 3: back to your cave and find out. Uh uh huh
Speaker 3: do go Neanderthal You'll never go back it all.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. That's actually prettyad. Okay, we actually had
Speaker 2: don't play. We actually have some news to get to
Speaker 2: because things are constantly changing.
Speaker 3: We are a country at war more on the way.
Speaker 6: Iran is hoping that we cannot sustain this, which is
Speaker 6: a really bad miscalculation for the IRGC in Iran.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess we'll find out. Sirens blaring currently in
Speaker 3: Israel as Iran is retaliating again with more waves of rockets, drones,
Speaker 3: everything else, and it's all about We talked to Mike
Speaker 3: Lions a little bit earlier about He says, we've got
Speaker 3: the stockpile to continue this for a while. Does that
Speaker 3: include Israel. Do we know we keep track to make
Speaker 3: sure that they've got everything they need for their iron dome. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll see arrows and Darcher's. As we've been discussing with
Speaker 3: Mike Lyons, the number of missiles fired out of Iran
Speaker 3: is fewer every day. We'll see if that continues to so.
Speaker 3: The way the people of America have reacted to the
Speaker 3: conflict with Iran politically speaking, is pretty interesting. Van Jones,
Speaker 3: As I always say, a guy I disagree with about
Speaker 3: many many things, some of them very very strongly. But
Speaker 3: I think he's an honest guy. I think he's sincere.
Speaker 3: He was talking about that very topic. We'll start with fifteen.
Speaker 3: Go from there, Michael.
Speaker 7: Bit by bit, post by post, nudge by nudge, people
Speaker 7: are getting separated into different camps that are not ultimately
Speaker 7: fighting for the good of the United States or the
Speaker 7: West or their own countries, but are actually functioning at
Speaker 7: a pawn layer, a pawn level, being moved by different algorithms,
Speaker 7: by different information operations to cluster and be useful to
Speaker 7: people who ultimately mean, you know, good, ultimately not benefiting
Speaker 7: anybody in the United States.
Speaker 2: Wow, love that premise. You got me, Van, Go on.
Speaker 7: Why is it that you see young people in a
Speaker 7: mayor who give a free pass to Iran, which is
Speaker 7: butchering people, shooting down young protesters, won't give women their rights,
Speaker 7: won't give gay people their rights, and yet are incredibly
Speaker 7: critical of the United States itself, which at least doesn't
Speaker 7: kill thousands of protesters and has rights for people.
Speaker 3: Well, you hate to have to give a guy credit
Speaker 3: for saying something that's obviously true, but a lot of
Speaker 3: people on inside of politics don't say that, right.
Speaker 2: But there are problems on the right as well. What
Speaker 2: is going on?
Speaker 7: Why are people who consider themselves to be American patriots
Speaker 7: on the right suddenly willing to side with a country
Speaker 7: that has been an enemy of the United States for
Speaker 7: now generations?
Speaker 2: What is happening here?
Speaker 7: And what's the impact of having a country where different
Speaker 7: factions inside the country are actually aligning themselves with enemies
Speaker 7: outside the country without seeming to really know they're doing that.
Speaker 7: That's a gray war. That's how you know you're in
Speaker 7: a gray war.
Speaker 3: Well, at least for the people leading the crowd. As
Speaker 3: Joe explained to us the other day, Tucker and Candas,
Speaker 3: for instance, are making so much freaking money. It's insane.
Speaker 3: They are ungodly wealthy out of doing this, So that's
Speaker 3: their motivation. I don't know about all the people that
Speaker 3: follow them. I think they could probably publish a simple,
Speaker 3: like four sentence guide to how you grab an audience
Speaker 3: like that, offer them secret knowledge that's being hidden from them,
Speaker 3: Convince them that they're going up against the powerful and
Speaker 3: the evil and they're on the right side of things,
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, and slowly release you know. It's almost
Speaker 3: like a murder mystery clues and breadcrumbs and the rest.
Speaker 2: In the style of QAnon. For instance, We've.
Speaker 3: Got a new theory on this based on some life
Speaker 3: experience people going for these some of these like really
Speaker 3: really crazy conspiracy theories. The more troubled your reality is
Speaker 3: in your life, like your real circumstance, the more troubled
Speaker 3: your circumstances is, the greater the conspiracy you need to
Speaker 3: focus on to drown that out. Yeah, so if you
Speaker 3: have kind of medium problems in your life, you can
Speaker 3: kind of get into a medium conspiracy to drown that out.
Speaker 3: But if you got really big problems going on, you
Speaker 3: have to come up with a really big conspiracy to
Speaker 3: Oh I don't have to worry about all of these
Speaker 3: situations around me that are really a problem, because look
Speaker 3: how bad this is.
Speaker 2: I got to focus on this. Yes, right, I think
Speaker 2: that's it. Well, I've got a great little feature ut
Speaker 2: on how Marxists operate. I don't think we really.
Speaker 3: Have the time, but it it's kind of watching them
Speaker 3: form the why we are queers for Palestine and against
Speaker 3: the war in Iran as Americans, it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: They're well aware of how nutty that is. So they've
Speaker 3: got to continually brainwash and browbeat people that do not
Speaker 3: asking that question.
Speaker 2: If you even asked that.
Speaker 3: Question, you're a counter revolutionary and you're with the capitalists.
Speaker 3: We had a lot more on the way of different stripes,
Speaker 3: So I hope you can stick around. If you miss
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Speaker 1: After months of denials, Congressman Tony Gonzalez finally acknowledged having
Speaker 1: an affair with Regina santos Ovulis, a staff member who
Speaker 1: took her own life last September. For Gonzalez, you know, politically,
Speaker 1: that's a death penalty. House speaker Mike Johnson reached out
Speaker 1: to Gonzalez Thursday.
Speaker 2: We first tend to drop rivalries for re election.
Speaker 1: Now Gonzalez has done just that, adding that he does
Speaker 1: plan to serve out the rest of his current term.
Speaker 3: Politically, that's the death penalty used to be. Definitely not
Speaker 3: anymore getting caught having an affair, isn't that? I mean
Speaker 3: that used to be absolutely you're done. Okay, you cannot
Speaker 3: run for whatever office, clearly not anymore for all kinds
Speaker 3: of different reasons, and maybe for good reason.
Speaker 2: I don't know. But what if your girlfriend sets herself
Speaker 2: on fire.
Speaker 3: That's a different thing. So let's hear a little more
Speaker 3: on that. Yeah, she did kill herself, which adds another layer,
Speaker 3: obviously to the affair.
Speaker 6: Was there a relationship with this young lady who was
Speaker 6: working in your office?
Speaker 2: You know, very very direct, PAGs.
Speaker 5: I made a mistake and I had a lapse in judgment,
Speaker 5: and there was a lack of faith, and I take
Speaker 5: full responsibility for those actions. Since then, I've reconciled with
Speaker 5: my wife, Angel, I've asked God to forgive me, which
Speaker 5: he has, and my faith is as strong as ever.
Speaker 5: When you make mistakes like this, you know, it's never easy.
Speaker 5: It humbles you but it's important to kind of work
Speaker 5: through it all.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad he and his wife could get past it.
Speaker 3: That's fantastic. I guess you guess what. I don't know
Speaker 3: what's going on in their relationship. Maybe you just better
Speaker 3: off without him? True, well, true, of course we don't
Speaker 3: know what's going on. But for some people that's a
Speaker 3: one deal breaker. And I've known other people that survived
Speaker 3: it and the things were better afterwards, like better, actually better,
Speaker 3: So I can believe that. Sure, yeah, here's painful. Ow Oh, definitely,
Speaker 3: here's a little more.
Speaker 6: Any and every headline that we see about this story
Speaker 6: makes the assertion, and not out not saying it, but
Speaker 6: they make the assertion that she committed suicide because of you.
Speaker 6: You don't think you had anything whatsoever to.
Speaker 5: Do with it, Absolutely nothing to do with it. And
Speaker 5: you know what, they do this intentionally pegs. I mean,
Speaker 5: you cannot hate the media enough.
Speaker 3: Well, that's true with you on that one. Absolutely nothing
Speaker 3: to do with it. I mean to blame him for
Speaker 3: it is ridiculous, but nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2: You don't think that.
Speaker 3: You've lost her lover and her job she was she
Speaker 3: thought she was going to be the forever with a
Speaker 3: congressman and the love of her life perhaps, and then
Speaker 3: that fell apart. That's well, if you've ever had a
Speaker 3: relationship you really didn't want to end end, it's about
Speaker 3: as bad as things get. Therefore, all she might have
Speaker 3: had problems with her marriage or husband.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. But yeah, that's well, it's sorted. She
Speaker 2: set herself on fire. Yes, I'd forgotten that. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a bad way to get Okay, you forgot that. That's
Speaker 2: kind of a big detail. It is a big detail. Yeah,
Speaker 2: nobody does that. Well doesn't that That's a rough blanket
Speaker 2: way to go. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3: Well, that doesn't that indicate a clear not stable person.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3: You can be pretty stable and decide to kill yourself.
Speaker 3: It's like Norm McDonald's joke about that. What you're surprised
Speaker 3: when somebody kills himself, Well, you don't know about life.
Speaker 3: I it always end some disappointment, never ending, you know,
Speaker 3: blah blah blah. But so you do want me to
Speaker 3: talk about assistant suicide in Canada, But.
Speaker 2: Send yourself on fire. I mean that's a hell of
Speaker 2: a choice. You know, this is neither here nor there.
Speaker 3: But I've been listening to some stuff, reading some stuff
Speaker 3: about the Spanish conquistadors and their utter brutality, and they
Speaker 3: like to burn people at the stake. If you like,
Speaker 3: did everything right and converted to Christianity and admitted all
Speaker 3: your sins, they would garrot you. That was their merciful
Speaker 3: way to end your days. Anyway.
Speaker 8: Wow, anybody who is quote unquote Hispanic who talks about
Speaker 8: quote unquote white people right as settler colonial monsters is
Speaker 8: out of their effing minds.
Speaker 3: So have you been listening to the Rest is History
Speaker 3: podcast about the Aztecs.
Speaker 2: There are no other pitive podcasts, just ours.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Spanish came and what they did to the
Speaker 3: Native peoples of Mexico and Central America and South America.
Speaker 2: Just absolutely brutal.
Speaker 3: How that gets left out of the story when you
Speaker 3: talk about European settlers and what they did to the
Speaker 3: Native Americans in North America, there's no comparison right well
Speaker 3: in the horrifying brutality of the Native peoples. Yeah, to
Speaker 3: themselves and their enemies and the rest of it. They
Speaker 3: were all about sacrificing children to the gods, which reminds
Speaker 3: me haven't had time to get to this. I'd like
Speaker 3: to at some point most of the history of human
Speaker 3: beings is just beyond any thing you can imagine in
Speaker 3: terms of what to take.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I came across this great, great piece, the Slavery
Speaker 3: lesson You're never going to learn in school. It was
Speaker 3: about the Islamic slave trade, slave trade, and how they
Speaker 3: exploited Africa for other Islamic people and traded slaves for
Speaker 3: hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Slavery was ubiquitous
Speaker 3: in the ancient world. It was everywhere until the Enlightenment,
Speaker 3: when the Brits in the US in particular said, and well,
Speaker 3: don't get me started. They said, you know what, we
Speaker 3: actually believe all men are created equal. But these dark
Speaker 3: skinned men were keeping them as slaves. This can't last.
Speaker 3: This is hipocrisy, said George Washington, said Thomas Jefferson. They
Speaker 3: just had a hell of a hard time unwinding it,
Speaker 3: perhaps to their discredit. But anyway, that's enough of that.
Speaker 3: I had something kind of amusing I wanted to do,
Speaker 3: and I've lost it. So I was going to ask you,
Speaker 3: and I know, we risk being the darkest radio show
Speaker 3: in America all the time. Do we have that liner,
Speaker 3: I mean, because it fits in pretty pretty well with
Speaker 3: our vibe oftentimes, especially on a Friday.
Speaker 2: But Armstrong and Getty, Oh here he comes again. The
Speaker 2: most depressing radio show ever.
Speaker 3: I came across a stat just the other day, and
Speaker 3: maybe that's what you're going to talk about, is the uh,
Speaker 3: the leading There are more people dying from assisted suicide
Speaker 3: in a certain age group in Canada than are dying
Speaker 3: from diseases or whatever. I mean, it's one out of
Speaker 3: twenty deaths is assisted suicide.
Speaker 2: Now it's gone from a handful to six figures a year.
Speaker 3: So they so you legalize assisted suicide, and it turns
Speaker 3: out there's just a lot of people who are gonna
Speaker 3: check out. I mean, because why wouldn't you do it before?
Speaker 3: Because you're you don't want to have to pay the
Speaker 3: ticket from great Beyond I mean, well, or you don't
Speaker 3: want to put a gun in your mouth or the
Speaker 3: other methods they're uncertain. They can leave you in horrifying
Speaker 3: pain or crippled or whatever. You know your family's coming,
Speaker 3: so you just think it was You just think it's
Speaker 3: the ease and comfort of doing it. So there's lots
Speaker 3: of people that want to do that.
Speaker 2: So that's only the beginning.
Speaker 3: Oh, that is just the peeking through the cracked open door.
Speaker 2: The the rest of it is people who feel financial
Speaker 2: pressure to off themselves.
Speaker 3: There are hospitals, insurance companies, greedy relatives, activists just like
Speaker 3: pushing people to off themselves. They originally had a ten
Speaker 3: day waiting period you had to be sure, and ten
Speaker 3: days later say I'm still sure. Now people are getting
Speaker 3: same day service. Well that's efficient. You got to get
Speaker 3: You got to tip your hat to their efficiency. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Canucks, you're right, we're just see if you want.
Speaker 3: We're just tickling the moose antlers of this whole topic.
Speaker 3: So I, even myself, I got to think that, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm at the end of my life, which we're all's
Speaker 3: gonna happen, all of us. All right, I'm at the
Speaker 3: end of my life and I'm costing many, many thousands
Speaker 3: of dollars a day. Even if no family member brought
Speaker 3: it up to me, I think my conscience would feel
Speaker 3: the pressure of what difference does it make if it's
Speaker 3: now our next Wednesday and that could save forty fous
Speaker 3: dollars right right, that's a pretty good, solid, clear case.
Speaker 3: The problem is it leeches out and spreads and you
Speaker 3: get more and more marginal cases. And the progressive activists
Speaker 3: who got this past to believe so strongly that people
Speaker 3: should be allowed to live, to end their own lives
Speaker 3: if they want to, and it's a reasonably compelling argument,
Speaker 3: but it reminds me of socialism. Well right, it reminds
Speaker 3: me of socialism. Look, everybody will work hard, contribute the
Speaker 3: best they can. Then we'll divide up the money and
Speaker 3: everybody will share in a way that is equal, and
Speaker 3: people who need a little more get a little more,
Speaker 3: and will all cooperate. Yeah, not for an effing minute
Speaker 3: is that going to work. It's one of those ideas
Speaker 3: that sounds good on the surface. Let's see, I didn't.
Speaker 3: I really was just kidding about bringing this up.
Speaker 2: But oh, that's fascinating topic. It really is.
Speaker 3: We're having this experiment and you know right there in
Speaker 3: America's hat, well, the Netherlands is doing it too. It
Speaker 3: had ninety about ten thousand euthanasia euthanasia deaths in.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: That's not easy to say in twenty twenty four, and
Speaker 3: over one hundred thousand since assisted suicide was legalized in
Speaker 3: twenty oh two. Canada's gone from seventy six thousand medically
Speaker 3: assisted deaths in twenty twenty four to ninety three thousand
Speaker 3: and twenty twenty five, and probably one hundred and ten
Speaker 3: thousand by the end of twenty twenty six. But at
Speaker 3: the same time, in a lot of circumstances, the idea
Speaker 3: that I'm not allowed to do that.
Speaker 2: Is not I know, I know.
Speaker 3: So you're gonna give me all these drugs at the
Speaker 3: cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars for the next
Speaker 3: week as I lay here in misery to try to
Speaker 3: keep me alive for another day, why one of those
Speaker 3: drugs you could give me might be how much cheaper
Speaker 3: would end it? And everybody's happier, including me, And that's
Speaker 3: against the law, right It's hard to make sense of that,
Speaker 3: I know, I know it is. Boy, you make death
Speaker 3: too easy and attractive and money saving and the rest
Speaker 3: of it, And I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just think it leads you to a bad place,
Speaker 2: is there.
Speaker 3: The other hand, I would like to not have the
Speaker 3: even in my own mind, pressure on me in the
Speaker 3: end days of you know, because if it's illegal, it's
Speaker 3: off the table.
Speaker 2: I don't have to worry about this.
Speaker 3: If it's legal, then I got to be thinking every
Speaker 3: single day what am I doing to my kids? Here
Speaker 3: spending all this money, laying here in bed watching TV?
Speaker 2: What am I doing? Yeah? This is the ultimate paradox.
Speaker 3: I think, unless you just have a religion based you know,
Speaker 3: kind of I don't want to is a pejorative term here,
Speaker 3: a maximum maximalist position that we need to protect life,
Speaker 3: period because that's what we're commanded to do.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I completely see your point, and it's it's difficult to
Speaker 3: form an argument against it. I'm a libertarian. I believe
Speaker 3: people can live their lives in whatever way they want.
Speaker 3: And I have actually told Judy that if I'm in
Speaker 3: a situation, god forbid, the worst sort of situation, I
Speaker 3: consider it my right to make that decision.
Speaker 2: You want her to smother you with a pillow?
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm not sure she has the arm strength, although
Speaker 3: she's working out a lot and it's doing great.
Speaker 2: Is that why she's working out? It's entirely possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh what are you doing at the gym?
Speaker 3: You got to come up with the arm strength. This
Speaker 3: is smothered Joe. If I need to, they call it
Speaker 3: pillow push ups.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just learned to press down really hard. I've
Speaker 2: got a really long time. You're taking this way too.
Speaker 2: You started it.
Speaker 3: Oh, but you got dementia, patience, you got people with
Speaker 3: mental illness problems. You got people with like temporary mental
Speaker 3: illness problems. They're grief stricken. Just my current plan is
Speaker 3: to take it to the absolute end, no matter what.
Speaker 3: Easier easy to say sitting here in a comfortable radio
Speaker 3: studio with no pain, but that's my current plan, is
Speaker 3: to just completely natural take it to the end as
Speaker 3: much as possible.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I like it. Michael. If you happen
Speaker 2: to come visit me and you see a pillow laying there,
Speaker 2: my plan is an extra pillow. It looks pretty air tight.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Just studies the news we need to
Speaker 2: get to. Then we're out of time.
Speaker 3: I like the fact that my life plan includes Michaelangelo
Speaker 3: in the hospital room with me. In my end days,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna produce you being.
Speaker 2: Dead, you a whole playing sound effects for me, producer
Speaker 2: to the end. That's right.
Speaker 3: Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time whenever
Speaker 3: they are in the same area. We know that, right, right,
Speaker 3: I have for very long right right, Yeah, I just
Speaker 3: as a guy with a lot of Neanderthal DNA. I've
Speaker 3: been very into this. I've been working this beat. Who
Speaker 3: initiated the cross species lovin? Fascinating And we'll have that
Speaker 3: information for you. Nah who swiped right? The Neanderthals are
Speaker 3: the uh huh. Once you've had Neanderthal you're never gonna
Speaker 3: go back at all.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll finish strong next time. Donald Trump is hosting
Speaker 3: a college sports round table at the White House today
Speaker 3: with a bunch of thinkers and movers and shakers in
Speaker 3: ord of college spot to try to take a look
Speaker 3: at some different things that might need to be done.
Speaker 3: How in the world do you have the bandwidth as
Speaker 3: a present in the United States to deal with all
Speaker 3: the things come and fire? The DHS secretary run a
Speaker 3: war which would be constant. I would think twenty four
Speaker 3: hours a day, and then you know, do this.
Speaker 2: Sort of thing.
Speaker 3: He really is an extraordinary human in many many ways. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so humans and Neanderthals got together from time to time
Speaker 3: when they were in the same area, reproducing, etc. I
Speaker 3: am especially interested in this because when I did twenty
Speaker 3: three and me I found out at the time, I
Speaker 3: was in the ninety ninth percentile of amount of Neanderthal DNA.
Speaker 3: Now whatn't up until just a few years ago. There
Speaker 3: it was a big open question of whether or not
Speaker 3: Homo sapiens and neanderthals ever bred or could ride. Right now,
Speaker 3: it's utterly decided, and how exactly this happened, though, remains
Speaker 3: a huge question. But the one thing they know is
Speaker 3: the pairings were much more often female Homo sapiens with
Speaker 3: male Neanderthals.
Speaker 2: That's not surprised, I don't think, is it. Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean because you know, the the uh, the Homo
Speaker 3: sapien females would say, man, he's got kind of a
Speaker 3: big head and a broad nose. He's kind of hairy,
Speaker 3: but strong as a bull, and like super intelligent too,
Speaker 3: which scientists now believe Neanderthals were at least as intelligent
Speaker 3: as Homo sapiens and maybe more. Whereas the Anderthal gals
Speaker 3: look at the skinny, little brad pitt looking Homo sapiens
Speaker 3: think please, is that a boy or a girl?
Speaker 2: No way, I'm.
Speaker 3: Staying home, and I'm promise I'm not just trying to
Speaker 3: turn this conversation dark again.
Speaker 2: But I think it's all about Michael. He's about two,
Speaker 2: isn't he?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what percentage of matings were the least bit consensual?
Speaker 2: You know, it's an excellent point. Virtually.
Speaker 3: The next sentence in this article is did human women
Speaker 3: venture into Neanderthal populations where Neanderthal males drawn to human
Speaker 3: compound or enclaves? Were these interactions peaceful, confusing, secretive, violent, consensual?
Speaker 9: Was it rape? We don't know and we'll never know. Hey, kids,
Speaker 9: it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: As the resident Neanderthal.
Speaker 3: I find any violence against women absolutely abhorrent, especially sexual violence.
Speaker 3: So I'm guessing no, the babes just saw us and thought.
Speaker 2: Give me some of that. Here's your host for final thoughts,
Speaker 2: Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 3: Wrap things up for the day. Michaelangelo, President the Buttons.
Speaker 3: Michael lead us off.
Speaker 4: All right, I've been thinking about this all morning. How
Speaker 4: to find an Iranian president? How about an Iranian reality
Speaker 4: TV show?
Speaker 2: Yes, we're viewers.
Speaker 4: Nominative friend of good character. They're punctual, and they got
Speaker 4: a good beard, and they have some sort of athletic
Speaker 4: and talent show.
Speaker 3: It's like American Idol for who wants to be Ayatola.
Speaker 3: That's the worst idea I've ever heard. Katie Green is
Speaker 3: off today, Jack. Do you have a final thought you'd.
Speaker 2: Like to share?
Speaker 3: So I told my about being at as I think
Speaker 3: it was a state fair and seeing a monkey throwing
Speaker 3: its species, and the number of texts we got from
Speaker 3: people who have had similar experiences at zoos or fairs
Speaker 3: or carnivals. Apparently it's a pretty common experience. So that's
Speaker 3: where the whole saying comes from.
Speaker 2: My guess I'm asking this to your inner child.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been as delighted as you were as
Speaker 3: a child watching animals peepee.
Speaker 2: And poo poo at the zoo? I mean, kids go
Speaker 2: wild for that they do.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, seeing you know, John Mullaney in
Speaker 3: this prime is not nearly as amusing as that.
Speaker 2: To a kid.
Speaker 3: My son who turned sixteen tomorrow, I remember when he
Speaker 3: was like four. Thinking now is highly entertained, armstrong and
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Speaker 3: many people to thanks a little time you see something
Speaker 3: over the weekend you think we ought to be talking about,
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Speaker 3: be following the war closely over the weekend. We'll have
Speaker 3: all the latest on Monday. God bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and Getty. We got war in Iran.
Speaker 8: All rights.
Speaker 2: Barbie is sent away in shame, Bill and Hill. No
Speaker 2: time to chill. Let's see who it takes a tiny bite.
Speaker 2: What a fright, God, God, God love it. The Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Getty Shut the Armstrong and Getty