WEBVTT - I'm Trying To Make A Case For Public Hangings 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.720 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:17.240 and Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.799 The Los Angeles Police Department has launched an investigation after 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.960 an officer accidentally fired around from their personal rifle in 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.280 a parking garage. Well, that's one way to remember where 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:39.120 you parked. I thought it was G seven. No, it's 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.680 definitely the one with a bullet hole. How you doing? 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.960 So we just did a story on the news that 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.159 maybe you didn't hear, and Joe made a joke about. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.440 We asked the question, would we be better off bringing back 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.000 public hangings or not? 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:56.080 Yes? 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.600 And we all had an enthusiastic yes, but we're just hangings. 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:06.920 Were being snarky, although was I. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:11.680 Was I Pump pump pum. I think the cloaking the 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.560 hiding of executions is a bad idea. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.679 Well, so are you trying to make an argument against executions. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.240 Or are you trying to make an argument in favor 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:27.800 of public hangings? Michael, At some point he is going 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.360 to understand that I am serious. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:36.240 It could take a while, so at the very least, 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.440 though the reason I brought this back up. Is how 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.720 different and that there has to be a result from this. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:47.680 You can't have a cultural shift this huge without it 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.160 resulting in something either good or bad. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.880 But it wasn't that long ago. I mean, we. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.800 Broadcast from northern California and there's a town called Placerville 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.960 that it used to be called Hangtown. And they still 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.320 have a thing downtown where, whether that's kind of like 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.440 got a plaque on it or whatever, is a California 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.800 Historic something or other where they used to hang people. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.200 And I've talked to my kids about it before when 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.839 we look out it. Yeah, they used to. They'd bring 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.400 criminals out who deserved the death penalty and they'd hang them. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:17.800 They're never'd gather around and watch. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.280 And I don't know if you clapped or danced or 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.640 sang or cried or I don't know what people did dance. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.240 I'd rather not dance under any circumstances, particularly get a 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:30.400 hanging put me in the news. I ain't dancing. But 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:35.840 that's a major cultural shift from you watch a man 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.960 being hung with your child two. We can't even imagine it, 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.840 And of course it's gonna have a result. And what 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.360 do you think the result has been well, the deterrent 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.720 effect of execution is lost when I was as that's 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.880 what I was driving toward. If it is so cloaked 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.040 in secrecy and quiet, and you just see if you 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.760 happen to be a Who's junkie a reference that the 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.919 guy who you know raped and murdered three women has 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.919 been executed thirty seven years after his crime. I mean 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.320 that has zero to turn effect. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.480 I thought you were making the Paddi waste liberal argument 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.239 that if we saw executions then we would understand how 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.000 horrific they are and be against the death penalty. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.320 Need I show you my panti free waste, sir. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:28.440 This is our favorite sitcom from the seventies, hanging clip. 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.919 You see, in this country, we're very proud to have 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.040 a process known as the law, and under the law, 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.200 a man is presumed innocent until. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.960 He's proven guilty. Sure, Dad, right, Dad? 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.000 In other words, we don't hang anybody without a fair trial. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.520 Everybody knows that. 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.640 Sure, but sometimes we tend to forget. Well, I'm glad 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.160 you understand. I'll see you kids later. I have to 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:54.720 go shopping with you. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.920 And by the way, mom's a beard. And by the way, 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.480 shopping with your mother is a fate worse and hanging. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:06.360 Mike Brady knew that sometimes the hanging was justified. Maybe 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:12.520 it's odd that that conversation in a sitcom was seemed 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.000 normal in the seventies and now strikes us as ridiculous 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.480 than a sitcom. You'd have dad sit the kids down 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.640 and say, you know, we don't hang a man. And 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.640 let's say, sure, dad, right, Dad, I've got to go 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:28.080 shopping your mother after this quick hanging discussion, Right after 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.920 a quick reference to hanging a man by the neck 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.080 until death, my eight year old lad, Now you go 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:35.919 play in the backyard and I'm off to shop with 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.960 your mother in the town I live in, Most kids 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.080 that age would just sit there, wide eyed, crying, sobbing 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:47.120 themselves asleep. If you had that conversation, yeah, yeah, I 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:48.560 see you. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.000 I don't know if I see it as more of 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:57.640 the deterrent advantage as well. I guess it is ultimately 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.360 just a crime and punishment. Just like you do things, 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.600 bad things happened to you. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.560 There's a result to live in a life of crime. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.520 Here it is look at that guy dangling, still twitching. Yeah, 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.920 I have a lot of ambivalence about the death penalty. Honestly, 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.520 I just there are certain you remember we used to 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:20.360 have the Armstrong and what gold mine? What he was 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.520 that you wouldn't you jumpers, claim jumpers, horse thieves and 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.039 claim jumpers. Hang them all right, maybe hang them outside 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:28.680 the claim jumper then we can all go in for 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.039 lunch reasonably priced and delicious. I have a lot of 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.400 ambivalence about the death penalty in general, just the idea 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.839 of the government being able to take somebody's life. But 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.600 when you get oh that's right, I was going to 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.360 bring up the Armstrong and get a super guilty doctrine 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.080 where I mean, just somebody like the guy who set 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.640 fire to those people in Boulder. He's admitting it. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:52.640 He would he would be screaming, I'd like to kill 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.200 more Jews as the noose tightened around his neck. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.840 And his crimes were so completely horrific and the ear, 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:06.720 you know, irredeemable. He's suitable for a hand process. That's 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.600 what I say. We saw it on television, we've all 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.200 seen it. Well, maybe we can come to a middle 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.719 ground on that one. But yeah, I just here, here's 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.440 here's a serious point, and I mean thish straight from 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:26.679 a taker. The post w W two era of peace 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.440 and prosperity. Some of the Cold War stuff, notwithstanding, uh 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:36.520 lulled us into becoming a very gentle, very soft, tolerant 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:42.279 to the point of foolishness society. I mean tolerant to 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.400 the point of we didn't lock our doors and we 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:48.159 live in the most dangerous neighborhood in the city. Millions 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.880 of people flooding across the borders, you know, criminal gangs, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:57.400 crime rampant progressives who hold bizarre Marxist beliefs. Well, some 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.600 some understand what they're doing, but some have. The argument 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.080 from the marx is that we ought to turn all 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.400 the criminals loose because it's not their fault the criminals. Oh, 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.280 that reminds me. I've got a really interesting study of 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:15.400 criminality coming up. Anyway, the era of that softness is ending, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.920 and it's going to be ending in ways that are 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:23.920 a little tough to take, whether it is the growing 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.800 threat of homegrown or import Islamists who are willing to 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:34.440 murder Jews or anybody who sympathizes with them, Chinese agents, saboteurs, 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:40.320 you know, the threat from China our whole No, these 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.960 they're just Chinese students and researchers. There are hundreds of 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.320 thousands of them, and anybody who has any suspicion of 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.760 them is a racist. As we wake up to those realities, 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.160 and that's just two of them, it's it's going to 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:55.400 be unpleasant coming out, coming out of our softness. Yeah. 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.280 But like so I was just thinking about this. 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.640 So people used to go, and it wasn't that long ago, 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:04.160 you go watch somebody be executed. I've told this story 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.679 many times. I was in a relationship with a woman 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.880 who for their grade school field trip in a little 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.360 town in Nebraska, they walked down to the butcher shop. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.840 The guy walked a steer in, shot it in front 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.320 of the kids with a rifle, then cut it up 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.640 to show them about like where meat comes from. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:30.480 Right. That happens a million times after the guy who 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:35.240 just unleashed that screen ninety seconds ago. I'm saying, holy crap. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.800 So my thought was the people that went that was 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.320 not nineteen thirty two, No, that would have been I'm 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:46.760 guessing roughly late seventies. Okay, So. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:52.719 I'm thinking the people that in grade school saw a 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.439 steer shot in front of them or hanging damn whooping golf? 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.040 How many of those kids were suffering from anxiety or 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:05.040 we're having panic attacks or you know, couldn't couldn't go 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.960 outside today because just people were too scary. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.439 I'm not thinking very many. Yeah, so it didn't like 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:17.240 we feel like we're shielding ourselves from these troubling things 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.160 that would cause you nightmares, but we're getting the reverse 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:26.920 result people. I don't care that anxious correlation or causation honestly. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:28.560 Now, I'm going to figure it out today. I'm gonna 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.000 go down to the grade school and I go shoot a 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:31.560 number of animals right in front of the children. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.520 Let's start. Yeah, now that might be microplastics, that's calls 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.000 on all this. I don't know. I suspect it's environmental, 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.120 like you're talking. I'm sorry, like psychology. No, well you could, 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.760 obviously you could be right, But it's not a stretch 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:49.320 to think that everybody that is everybody being shielded from 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.560 all the difficulties of life or the reality of life 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.440 and death are all kinds of different. You know, you 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.320 can't play in the no monkey bars so you don't 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:02.040 get scared. You don't no hangs, shooting steers, none of them, 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:06.360 but everything in between vastly reduced employment among teenagers, so 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.199 of course, with that crowd, just like everyday life, is 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:14.040 horrifyingly scary. One of the smartest things I've ever heard 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:19.640 on this topic is you can't possibly become a confident 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:23.120 adult unless you've been lost and found your way back twice. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:28.720 And we don't let our kids do that anymore. Wow, 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.720 shot a steer in front of grade schoolers, son of 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.600 a Where do you think meat comes from? You? 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.160 Panty waste? What does panty waste mean? Means you you're 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.440 wearing panties. You're there for a girl. Therefore your week 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:42.360 not a very good term. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:47.800 Then it's fine? Uh, could we like work up to 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.680 the whole, you know, popping a cap and the steers dome? 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.000 Could we just maybe watch a butcher cut aside of 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.000 beef out already dead right exactly, and the kids who 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:03.280 have in particular interest in animal husbandry could perhaps go 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.880 to the advanced class. Yes, Michael, that reminds me of 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.080 the Napoleon Dynamite. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.360 I say no, exactly exactly. The bus comes to stop, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.640 that god old farmer shoots the cow. The kids in 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:21.599 the bus exactly. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:26.040 Oh what were we talking about? This one got into 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:26.800 the onion patch. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.000 I didn't get to my topic about men and friends 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:31.559 and a bunch of other stuff, so stay tuned. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.880 The FDA recalling potentially deadly tomatoes sold in three states. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:43.520 The tomatoes possibly contaminated with salmonella sold in Georgia, North Carolina, 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.679 and South Carolina. The FDA says the tomatoes were packaged 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.840 under the name H and C Farms label. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.240 No deaths or illnesses have been reported. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.400 I saw on the label or on the news that 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:58.319 it was a level one concern, So oh. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:04.760 No or oh right? Exactly what's the concern scale? Does 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.200 anybody know it? Oh? Speaking of which, we mentioned it 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:13.000 earlier today. But it seems infinitely clear now that University 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:19.559 of Michigan researcher, Chinese national and his wife smuggled in 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:25.400 deadly well not well deadly. I was incredibly injurious pathological 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:31.280 funguses into the US that appeared to be a known 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:35.240 agro terrorism agent that could decimate billions and billions of 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:36.400 dollars worth of crops. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:41.000 She's a known Communist Party member as a researcher here 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:41.920 in the United States. 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:46.719 Yeah, it's her boyfriend. I'm sorry, who was the researcher? Yeah, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.880 but he brought it in and was working with her. 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.680 He lied about bringing it in. They figured out he 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.280 was lying, She claimed she didn't know anything about it. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.440 Then they came up with emails and texts showing that 0:12:56.480 --> 0:13:01.360 they'd been discussing it. So yeah, in speaking of threats 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:05.120 to the homeland, it is now undeniable. And everybody's talking 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:10.360 about how the Ukrainian breakthrough attack on Russia with all 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.280 the drones and the trucks and the rest of it. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.240 Although it was not quite as devastating as Ukraine was 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:20.360 originally claiming, it was still quite quite notable, and everybody agrees. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.040 As the editorial board at the Wall Street Journal says, 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.200 Ukraine's drone strike is a warning for the US. The 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.600 American homeland is also vulnerable to drone and missile attacks, 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.920 as is everywhere on Earth. Another headline I thought was 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:39.880 at least worth touching on or referring to the incredibly 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:45.520 just dis shockingly hypocritical Democrats who are celebrating the fact 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.199 that Elon Musk is criticizing the Big Beautiful Bill. He 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.319 called it a slight misstep, Jack was that the phraser 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:57.560 What if he called it an incorrigible abomination? Disgusting abomination. Yes, 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.360 he called the big beautiful bill of discussing abomination. Speaking 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.640 of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, they make a 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:09.800 pretty good point. Who's pork do you mean? Elon? Elon, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.440 in criticizing the bill, says, quote, this massive, outrageous, pork 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.000 filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. He's right. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.480 Shame on those of you who voted for it. You 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:24.280 know you did wrong. You know it pork filled spending bill? 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.120 Asks the Journal, what else is new when they go 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.320 into you know the fact that it always is, there's 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.400 some good stuff. There could be some better stuff. They're 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.600 working on the bill, And yes it does overspend, but 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.680 it also ends most of the inflation reduction acts, green 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.720 energy subsidies. Ah, but mister Musk doesn't want to eliminate 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:46.360 that pork quote. There's no change to tax incentives for 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.720 oil and gas. Just ev andslar, he said on x 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:53.440 dot com last week, retweeting another user post that said 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.720 slashing solar energy credits is unjust. But what's more unjust 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.920 is the damage that has done to people's lives during 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.480 storms and blackouts, because ultimately, you can't replace a human life. Well, that. 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.240 But this is what's always so crazy about the Elon 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.000 Musk thing, and then people's views of him. He is 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:14.560 a big climate change is an existential threat guy, always 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.960 has been. That's why he started an electric car company. 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.520 And then lefties turns against him because he likes Trump 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:25.480 and right wingers embraced him. He's still climate change is 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.120 the biggest threat. Wants electric cars guy. I mean, just 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:32.400 you know, pick the things you believe in, but you 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.680 just can't keep switching around. You love him, you hate him, 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.520 you love him, you hate him, even though he still 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.840 agrees with you. A final note on this, mister Musk 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.360 is parroting the climate lobby's specious claim the tax breaks 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.320 like depreciation that are available to all manufacturers are really 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.320 a special benefit for the oil and gas industry. But 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.480 it's rich that he is denouncing the House bill for 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.960 not cutting spending enough. Well, he is also fuming that 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.560 it kills green energy tax credits. Is if they are 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.120 a matter of life and death for well, he believes 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:02.920 it's a matter of life and death for human beings. 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:04.960 Though that's why he started the company in the first place. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.960 So I mean, he's must to blast us to Mars 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.160 for when the planet melts. Yeah, exactly. He's an idea 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.680 log on climate change which everybody on the right conveniently 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.400 forgot or the left when they decided to. That's why 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.000 I got flipped off again yesterday in my cyber truck. 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.560 Almost daily do I get either flipped off, thumbs down, 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.160 or booed in my cyber truck. It's hilarious. I'm sure. Well, 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.160 it might happen anywhere. I was gonna say it might 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:31.000 be because of where I live. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.440 But if I lived in the Midwest, it'd just be 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.000 because it's an electric car. 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.280 You've got to have a line to yell at them 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.320 or say to them, roll down your window and say, 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.720 Elon Musk has done more for the environment than anyone 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.400 else in America with his electric car company. See what 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:50.960 they say, which is pretty accurate. 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.920 Arguably, Yeah, he's done more for electric cars than anybody 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:56.880 in the world probably. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:58.600 And then when they say, you know, you make an 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:03.320 interesting point first, right, Oh, that is illegal, folks, You 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.760 can't do that. Don't do that. That was merely a 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:07.359 joke from old uncle Joe. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.000 I can't tease the same story for the fiftieth time, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:11.560 can I. 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:12.919 I'll finally get to it. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.880 Is there a crisis with friendship and males in this country? 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.040 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.720 So I got this new talkback feature that we're gonna 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.480 try and we're we're we're in the we're in the 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.439 the what do they call it, the beta phase of 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.600 figuring out how we're gonna utilize this on the show 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.199 or whatever. And I threw out the first question to 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.560 try this out to somebody. This is somebody called in 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.280 and then we record them or whatever, because we stopped 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:42.399 taking calls years ago for a variety of reasons that 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.600 listeners would know. Uh, So I threw out the question 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.680 of what do you like about the Armstrong and Getty show. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:54.160 Hey, you could be the first call it, Hitler, Muslim extreamist. 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.080 That's good stuff. So hey, you can be the first 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:03.200 so solid. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.080 Okay, we don't need to hear twice. So so we're 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.639 off to a good start. And I again, do we 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:14.400 need to reiterate why we stopped taking calls? But apparently 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.800 this is some more on the question of what do 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:19.359 you like about the Armstrong and Giddy show. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.159 You are my favorite people. You make me laugh in 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.560 the morning when I'm taking the train to work. 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:27.360 I love it. 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.719 Thank you for being you. I do have to agree. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:35.439 Joe's looks are rough, but then again, he has beautiful hair. 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.720 Why do you lie? Is it your greed? The best 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:44.560 part of Armstrong and Giddy is Katie, And when she 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.840 was gone for a week, that was like a void. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:49.200 I couldn't believe. 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.680 You make me laugh, you make me cry, you make 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.959 me bad, But in the end you make the first 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.639 three or four hours of my day at least a 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:00.679 good informative. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:07.679 These guys have a good one. What do I like 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.800 about the Armstrong and Gutty show. I like the fact 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.760 that you don't take calls. We'll see how this little 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.920 experiment goes. But I'm not optimistic, neither of I. Now, 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.640 don't let your meat loaf, don't let your hot dogs stand, 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:28.000 don't let your wristwatch. Okay, that made me incredibly uncomfortable? 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.320 Me too? Why Why did that make me so? Did 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.879 you asked that question? All right, we have tomorrow you 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.800 come up with the question. We'll try it again. Better 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:38.080 than not. 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:42.720 So, I just wanted something I knew people to respond to, 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:43.720 to get the first one. 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:45.760 So this was in the New York Times the other day. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:47.520 It was an opinion piece, but a lot of fact 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.840 built into it. The question was American men are getting 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.080 worse at maintaining friendships. I think, have I actually heard 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:57.520 this before? Have I heard just heard people in real 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.000 life mention it to me? Anyway, American men are geting 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:02.600 worse at maintaining friendships. Is it a lack of time 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:07.120 or energy? Or is it something else? And then getting 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:11.399 into some of the details that this person writes, what 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.320 I didn't know is that American men are getting significantly 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.119 worse at friendship. A study in twenty twenty four by 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.280 the Survey Center on American Life found that only a 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.920 quarter of men reported having six or more close friends. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.199 That seems like a lot to me. Pulling a similar 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:30.480 question in nineteen ninety, Gallup had put this figure at 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.159 over half of men had six or more close friends. 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.120 The same Survey Center found that seventeen percent of men 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:41.719 had zero close friends. That was a fivefold increase from 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:46.280 nineteen ninety. The zero crowd went from well, it increased 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:51.600 five times. Yeah, probably roughly three to seventeen. It's awful. 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:54.240 I agree, six seems like a lot, but yeah, zero 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:55.359 is too few. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.520 The lack of intimacy among male friends may seem normal 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.359 because it's what we're accustomed to, but it isn't. Until 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.679 the twentieth century, it was not uncommon for men in 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:11.040 this country to openly hold hands, sit on each other's 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:13.680 laps in public party anyway. 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.280 Whoa, whoa, Wait a minute, Yeah, that happened all the time. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:20.240 Wait a minute. I don't know if I believe this. 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:23.560 Until the twentieth century, it was not uncommon for men 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:25.800 in this country to openly hold hands, sit on each 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:29.440 other laps in public parts, and write each other passionate 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:32.480 platonic love letters. You know, my desire to befriend you 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:36.440 is everlasting. Abraham Lincoln, I have wrote to his friend 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:41.640 Joshua Speed. Yeah, blah blah blah. Herman Melville, who wrote 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:43.639 Moby Dick, once wrote to yes, Katie, you already have 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:44.040 a comment. 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:44.480 I can tell. 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:46.360 I'm just gonna say, if this is true, you guys 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:47.000 should bring that. 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:53.400 Back each other's thing I've ever heard in my life 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:59.560 kill me? Oh my god, so is it. 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:06.679 Herman Melville once wrote Toathaniel Hawthorne, what's he famous for? 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:12.280 Red Badge of Courage? Not Stephen Crane? What Hawthorne? Anyway? 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:17.200 The Scarlet Letter might be crane. 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:22.159 Two famous authors from the eighteen hundreds. Melville wrote to 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:26.520 Hawthorn that Hawthorne's heart beat in my ribs and mine 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:29.679 and yours, and describe their friendship as an friendship as 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:32.160 an infinite fraternity of feeling. That is not the sort 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:33.960 of thing I would write to a friend of the 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:36.560 yo you see? That game last night would be closer 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:38.520 to it. Can I sit on your lap in the park? 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:41.760 Hey, when we played golf, that was an infinite what 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:47.840 did you say? Fraternity of feeling? Yeah? Today, dude, it 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:50.920 was fun. Thanks for writing. I gotta know this, Katie. 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:54.520 Who's Nathaniel Hawthorne? What did he write? Scarlet letter? Scarlet letter? 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:57.520 Joe's right congratulates got it? Yes, today we may see 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:00.000 these gestures as homo erotic, but men at the time, 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:04.360 I'm gay and straight talk to one another in this way. 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:07.720 I don't know that we have to go back to 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:09.960 holding hands as we walk down the street or sitting 0:23:09.960 --> 0:23:13.399 on each other's laps. But I don't, I don't, I 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:13.840 don't know. 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:17.920