Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: It's a really sad thing. But actually about eighty five
Speaker 3: to ninety percent of psychologists identify as.
Speaker 2: Left of center.
Speaker 3: And so when we pair that with knowledge that, for example,
Speaker 3: there's a study out of Rutgers showing that over half
Speaker 3: of people who identify as left of center felt it
Speaker 3: was somewhat justified potentially to murder President Trump. So I
Speaker 3: think that my own field psychology has a real blind
Speaker 3: spot to this assassination culture.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 1: We've talked about the polling that shows way too many
Speaker 1: people are comfortable with political violence now.
Speaker 2: As a way to get what you want.
Speaker 1: And you got the Luigiani story with murdering the United
Speaker 1: Healthcare guy and people that are okay with that. But
Speaker 1: but Luigiani, how you say his name? I forgot No,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're, that's a portmanteau. You're giving them a
Speaker 1: single name like benefit. Stop doing that, Luigi Menngioni. And
Speaker 1: actually I was going to vote for replaying some of
Speaker 1: those unhinged CNN clips with the Taylor Lorenz but we
Speaker 1: can get that in a minute. But he seems pretty crazy,
Speaker 1: Luigi seems pretty crazy. And and so we're about to
Speaker 1: tell you about the guy who set Governor Shapiro's governor
Speaker 1: mansion on fire in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: All these people are crazy. So I don't.
Speaker 1: Understand how that fits in with our acceptance of political viole.
Speaker 1: I mean, do crazy people pick up in the wind
Speaker 1: different differing attitudes towards political violence or what have I
Speaker 1: think the way they relate to their overton window, which
Speaker 1: is essentially just the list of things you could do,
Speaker 1: is different than a sane person. But crazy, obviously is
Speaker 1: a really imprecise term.
Speaker 2: You can have somebody that's profoundly psychotic.
Speaker 1: You can have somebody who's just stupid and alienated, alienated
Speaker 1: and neurotic.
Speaker 2: I mean, like the kid who took chunk of Trump's ear.
Speaker 1: I mean he wasn't like seriously mentally ill, he was
Speaker 1: just really odd.
Speaker 2: Okay, this guy.
Speaker 1: Balmer, he's the guy that if he didn't hear this
Speaker 1: over the weekend, it was Saturday night. He got onto
Speaker 1: the property where Governor Shapiro lives in Pennsylvania, to the
Speaker 1: Governor's mansion, got in there, got to the house, had
Speaker 1: a hammer, smashed the windows open, threw in Molotov cocktails,
Speaker 1: and started one.
Speaker 2: Heck of a fire.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen the damage that was done,
Speaker 1: but I mean it caught things on fire for real,
Speaker 1: and I mean Balmer, in an interview with the police
Speaker 1: have been caught afterwards, admitted to harboring hatred of Governor
Speaker 1: Shapiro and said that he would have beaten him with
Speaker 1: his hammer had he run into him that night at
Speaker 1: the mansion. According to an affidated file in the case,
Speaker 1: Balmer's social media suggested not a particular ideology so much
Speaker 1: as deep cynicism, in some posts espousing a libertarian bent
Speaker 1: bordering on anarchism, and others praising violence. His Facebook posts
Speaker 1: included rants about big pharma, women, and the government, while
Speaker 1: several posts slammed former President Biden. There was little sign
Speaker 1: of any loyalty to any party. Of course, they say
Speaker 1: that when he's you know, as we all know, the
Speaker 1: mainstream media adjusts their sales on these things depending on who.
Speaker 2: They're mad at.
Speaker 1: But sure, anyway, this guy didn't have a particular ideology.
Speaker 1: It seems pretty clear outside of sociomyture of him. Yes,
Speaker 1: his ideology is lunatic. Outside of social media, mister Balmer's
Speaker 1: life appeared to have been unraveling in recent days. A
Speaker 1: man who picked up the phone at Balmer's parents' home
Speaker 1: on Monday said that we tried.
Speaker 2: This is troubling.
Speaker 1: We tried to get him help and he wouldn't take
Speaker 1: his medicine, said probably dad, and refused to answer any
Speaker 1: more questions.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, I'm dying from an unknown ailment. So.
Speaker 1: Mister Balmer's mother told CBS News that her son was
Speaker 1: mentally ill and that she had reached out to local
Speaker 1: police departments last week to have him picked up, but
Speaker 1: couldn't get anybody to help. The district attorney said the
Speaker 1: police officers had gone to the parents home on Thursday,
Speaker 1: more than two days before the attack, but they'd left
Speaker 1: without taking any action. He didn't make any threats, he
Speaker 1: wasn't violent or expressing any violent intention, so there's nothing
Speaker 1: they could really do.
Speaker 2: He's an adult.
Speaker 1: This is a serious problem We've got everywhere in the
Speaker 1: country with these school shooters, political assassins.
Speaker 2: Whoever.
Speaker 1: You talked to their friends and parents, they say, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's crazy. We knew he was crazy. We've been trying
Speaker 1: to get somebody to block him up, but we can't
Speaker 1: get anybody to lock him up because they haven't done
Speaker 1: anything yet.
Speaker 2: This happens over and over and over again. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I would love to see our best and brightest get
Speaker 1: together and have a you know, a week long confab
Speaker 1: where they come up with, okay, the idea that you
Speaker 1: can just be loose until you murder somebody or come close.
Speaker 1: He had bets not acceptable. He had beaten his wife
Speaker 1: and kid, both kids, so he's violent. She went after him.
Speaker 1: But you know, you don't go to prison for the
Speaker 1: rest of your life for that sort of thing. But
Speaker 1: if I can finish my thought, we agree that waiting
Speaker 1: until somebody has been killed is not a very good standard.
Speaker 2: Can we come up with a standard short of.
Speaker 1: That, that somebody's so plainly fruit loops and clearly, according
Speaker 1: to any but a reasonable observer, dangerous, that we intercede
Speaker 1: before the.
Speaker 2: Blood is spilled? How can we not do that as
Speaker 2: a society? How awful is that? As a parent?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: It's heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: And they were calling the police last week, So I
Speaker 1: mean he went off the rails, like right, before Saturday
Speaker 1: night when he actually tried to kill the governor.
Speaker 2: There were twenty five people in that place. By the way,
Speaker 2: that could have been an awful situation. Obviously.
Speaker 1: How many children, Yeah, last week or several children, siblings
Speaker 1: and parents were calling the police saying.
Speaker 2: You gotta lock this guy up. He's nuts. Yeah, get
Speaker 2: him out. But there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 1: The police in, the police go there, they interview him.
Speaker 1: He didn't make any threats, So what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: And obviously, as civil libertarians, we all understand the downside
Speaker 1: of moving the line. The other direction is that if
Speaker 1: you're a vengeful ex husband, you can just call police saying,
Speaker 1: my wife's saying crazy things.
Speaker 2: Lock her up. She gets locked up, you say, because
Speaker 2: that needs to happened.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, Yeah, there was especially a presumption
Speaker 1: of nuttiness toward females.
Speaker 2: But make your own jokes at home if you like.
Speaker 2: But surely we.
Speaker 1: Can design a system that's got a fail safe for
Speaker 1: two so that can't happen.
Speaker 2: It's again, this is not insurmountable.
Speaker 1: So that's one aspect of this which I find interesting
Speaker 1: that almost all the time, the people that knew them
Speaker 1: best knew this was gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The other part is a person's crazy. So is the.
Speaker 1: You know, over the top rhetoric from our house members
Speaker 1: or the news channels or whatever.
Speaker 2: Is this causing this when the people are nuts? I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe again I don't I couldn't explain how Again, the
Speaker 1: overton window of a crazy person is different from that
Speaker 1: of a sane person or somebody who's just at their
Speaker 1: wits end and loses their temper and loses perspective temporarily.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it would seem there are ebbs
Speaker 1: and flows to political.
Speaker 2: Violence in US history. Definitely, that's undeniable.
Speaker 1: And the crazy and the saying seemed to take part
Speaker 1: in it during the periods of time when there's a
Speaker 1: lot of it, most notably, you know, in our lifetimes
Speaker 1: the early seventies when there were what something like two
Speaker 1: hundred bombings in the US by mostly far left groups
Speaker 1: in the early seventies, weather underground at all. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just I don't know exactly how it works, but
Speaker 1: it's undeniable.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: But like, was this guy if Marjorie Taylor Green and
Speaker 1: AOC tempered their rhetoric, would that have made any difference
Speaker 1: to this guy or the guy who shot Trumper. I
Speaker 1: just don't know, different answers for different people. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: run eighty two. This is embarrassment to journalism. Donnie O'Sullivan
Speaker 1: on embarrassment to journalism, CNN with embarrassment to journalism.
Speaker 2: Taylor Lorenz, who was the it girl.
Speaker 1: At the New York Times in Washington Post for quite
Speaker 1: some time eighty two.
Speaker 4: The women who got her outside coorsh in New York.
Speaker 5: So you're gonna see women especially that feel like, oh
Speaker 5: my god, right, Like, here's this man who who's revolutionary,
Speaker 5: who's famous, who's handsome, who's young, who's smart. He's a
Speaker 5: person that seems this like this morally good man, which
Speaker 5: is hard to find.
Speaker 1: He murdered a young dad in gold Blood, but he's
Speaker 1: a morally good man. Agree and chuckle Taylor Lorenz and
Speaker 1: Donnio Sullivan on CNN. Now granted they're not, they don't
Speaker 1: have huge influence in America anymore. But their comfort expressing
Speaker 1: that point of view that somebody you committed a heinous
Speaker 1: act of political violence against somebody who had not wronged
Speaker 1: them directly at all, well, Taylor Lorenz and Donnie Sullivan
Speaker 1: not at all. But Luigi Mangioni, I mean, he didn't
Speaker 1: deal with United Healthcare at all, He had no relationship
Speaker 1: with him. He just thought, all right, healthcare insurance in
Speaker 1: general is evil. I'm gonna gun down a young dad
Speaker 1: on the streets of Manhattan, and they're chuckling about it
Speaker 1: and loving it and explaining how he's a revolutionary. He's young, smart,
Speaker 1: he's a morally good man, which is hard to find.
Speaker 1: That sort of tolerance of horrifying political violence seeps into
Speaker 1: brains both sane and insane. It has to, but it
Speaker 1: shouldn't have anything to do with your political view either.
Speaker 1: If somebody gunned down Randy Weingarten today, I would think
Speaker 1: that was awful. Yeah, she's the one that locked up
Speaker 1: your kids in school for two years because she's.
Speaker 2: An evil human being.
Speaker 1: But you can't be going around shooting people to solve things.
Speaker 1: You need to vote and organize, and you know, we
Speaker 1: have a system for this, right or it all falls
Speaker 1: It all falls apart immediately when we use violence to
Speaker 1: solve things. Yeah, absolutely true. God, that is horrifying. That
Speaker 1: aired on CNN. It did, and there's quite a bit
Speaker 1: to it, and good solid learned commentators have joined us
Speaker 1: in saying that is one of the most sickening spectacles
Speaker 1: they'd ever seen.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 1: Holding him up is not only like cool, but like
Speaker 1: you can't find guys like this again where you know,
Speaker 1: don't you wish all more guys were like this cute
Speaker 1: and morally brave mars to shoot a guy in the
Speaker 1: back who's walking to work. And let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: play clip number eighty, in which Taylor Lorenz expresses, just
Speaker 1: just open contempt for anybody who's concerned about this.
Speaker 5: Hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching
Speaker 5: their pearls about someone standing a murderer when this is
Speaker 5: this is the United States of America. As if we
Speaker 5: don't lionize criminals, as if we don't have you know,
Speaker 5: we don't stan murderers of all sorts, and we give
Speaker 5: them Netflix shows. There's a huge disconnect between the narratives
Speaker 5: and angles those are of mainstream media pushes and what
Speaker 5: the American public feels. And you see that in moments
Speaker 5: like this.
Speaker 1: Lots of men hold women down and forcibly rape them.
Speaker 1: The question isn't whether it happens or how much it happens, Taylor.
Speaker 1: The question is it morally repugnant or not? And the
Speaker 1: answer is, in both of these cases, it's horrific. It's
Speaker 1: repugnant millionaire pundits clutching their pearls.
Speaker 2: She's a despicable human where she is? Oh my god, man.
Speaker 1: It it one thing we've learned in the last couple
Speaker 1: of years that I never understood my whole life.
Speaker 2: I didn't understand how.
Speaker 1: The French Revolution could happen, how the Soviet Union could happen,
Speaker 1: how lots of things could.
Speaker 2: Happen over time. And I now understand.
Speaker 1: Because there are whotudes, slaughter institute, seasoned vice versa.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I never understood how those things could happen, and now
Speaker 1: I fully get it. People can justify anything. Uh troubling.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Text line four one, five,
Speaker 1: two nine five kftc.
Speaker 2: Arm Straw and.
Speaker 6: Getty Star studied all female Blue Origin flight grew, including
Speaker 6: Katie Perry and Gail King lasting off headed to the
Speaker 6: edge of space.
Speaker 2: Oh for crying at lift off? How would you describe it?
Speaker 2: It's very difficult because you're you're floating.
Speaker 7: But the best part was when we got back in
Speaker 7: our seats after zero G's Katie sang, what a wonderful world?
Speaker 2: She did that nice? She said, what a wonderful I
Speaker 2: see dreams? Oh, yes, yes, yes, oh. Because we've been
Speaker 2: asking her.
Speaker 7: To sing all the time and she wouldn't and she wouldn't.
Speaker 7: And then because everybody said sing roars, sing fire, and
Speaker 7: she said.
Speaker 2: It's not about me. I wanted to talk about the world. Wow,
Speaker 2: you know, is that nice? You got to ask her
Speaker 2: about that?
Speaker 1: And now the stoned girl you wish you hadn't started
Speaker 1: talking to at a party.
Speaker 2: You are officially an astra or not? How do you feel?
Speaker 2: I still can't accept that word.
Speaker 6: I just feel a renewed connection to everything in life
Speaker 6: and where we are, and I can't wait to go
Speaker 6: back out there.
Speaker 1: It is the highest high, and it is surrender to
Speaker 1: the unknown.
Speaker 2: Trust God. We have played these that first clip about
Speaker 2: the Katy Perry saying what a wonderful world? Oh my god,
Speaker 2: she did.
Speaker 1: We've played this like fifteen times and we're all still
Speaker 1: rolling our eyes and shaking our heads.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, she did?
Speaker 4: Did you cry?
Speaker 2: Yes? It must be.
Speaker 1: Would it be more enjoyable to go through life like
Speaker 1: that or less? But you're you're you're more easily awe
Speaker 1: stricken than I am.
Speaker 4: I feel like more people would be funny, people would
Speaker 4: be put off by you, right if you're constantly awe stricken.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god, that's awesome. It's the
Speaker 2: highest tie.
Speaker 1: It's the rendered to the unknown. Susie Weiss writes for
Speaker 1: The Free Press.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 1: If you don't know what a bachelorette party is like,
Speaker 1: let me tell you. It's like being vacuum sealed in
Speaker 1: a tin can with a bunch of girls you don't
Speaker 1: know that well, that well, but with whom you have
Speaker 1: to pretend to have a life changing experience for the
Speaker 1: sake of the bride, who invited everyone and.
Speaker 2: Who has a vision.
Speaker 1: What happened on this this morning's historic American space flight.
Speaker 4: H Truer words have never been written.
Speaker 2: Really, Katie, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: I never thought about the bachelorette party where there's like
Speaker 1: it's got to be like a life changing experience, especially.
Speaker 4: When it's like a group of friends and you're not
Speaker 4: part of that group and you have to go in
Speaker 4: and it's all ah.
Speaker 2: Going.
Speaker 1: The tagline of the trip was taking up space, and
Speaker 1: the whole thing smelled of a hen party, down to
Speaker 1: the custom flight patch and matching outfits. The women all
Speaker 1: wore figure hugging blue bell bottom Flight who is custom
Speaker 1: made by the brand Moms and delivered on Perry's promise
Speaker 1: Katie Perry that the six lady crew would put.
Speaker 2: The ass in an astronaut. Well, I had no problem
Speaker 2: with that. That part I approved of. Let's see.
Speaker 1: A few days ago, Perry told the AP she was
Speaker 1: doing this to inspire the next generation. But watching all
Speaker 1: the coverage, it seems like this flight was more like
Speaker 1: the most publicized and most expensive bachelorette party ever, rather
Speaker 1: than a generational watershed.
Speaker 2: It's hard to know where to start.
Speaker 1: Sometime in the days before the flight, the women were
Speaker 1: recorded standing with their arms around each other, looking up
Speaker 1: at the dock rocket, telling it we love you and
Speaker 1: bring us back safe, as though they were talking to
Speaker 1: an uber driver charged with getting them to and from
Speaker 1: a club in Las Vegas. Harry also inexplicably told the rocket,
Speaker 1: thank you for helping us heal my God, and then
Speaker 1: she mentions she talks about some of them ringing the bell,
Speaker 1: which is a tradition. There are always two kinds of
Speaker 1: women at a bachelorette party one usually the having the
Speaker 1: absolute time of her life and the older girl, maybe
Speaker 1: a cousin or future sister in law, who is an
Speaker 1: abject hell, questioning why she even said yes in the
Speaker 1: first place.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and getty, complete and utter joy and gratefulness. You
Speaker 2: can hear no dream is too wild.
Speaker 5: The moon was so beautiful, and that was like, I
Speaker 5: felt like that was a special gift.
Speaker 1: Just for me.
Speaker 7: You can't go through what we went through to look
Speaker 7: out for each other, to help each other.
Speaker 2: And not be changed by that. I will never be
Speaker 2: the same. This experience is right second to being a mom.
Speaker 1: You can't go through what we went through together, the
Speaker 1: way we had to help each other and be there
Speaker 1: for each other without being.
Speaker 2: What did you do at all?
Speaker 1: You walked into a room, basically you sat down. They
Speaker 1: buckled your belts, They shot up, and he came back down.
Speaker 2: What the hell are you talking about? I've got to
Speaker 2: admit you're not we few?
Speaker 1: We happy few. I mean, come on, yeah, exactly. It
Speaker 1: did not go to the moon on top of a
Speaker 1: tin can. Nobody would. I was sure would work. So
Speaker 1: I've got to admit I so misread this. I was
Speaker 1: just rolling my eyes at this entire thing and paid
Speaker 1: no attention to it, not realizing the enormous comedic potential
Speaker 1: that it would you know, well, never mind potential, the
Speaker 1: yield from this mission, this ship of fools, if you will.
Speaker 1: So I was we were quoting Susie Weiss earlier, who
Speaker 1: writes for the Free Press, and it's just hilarious.
Speaker 2: I so want to hang out with her.
Speaker 1: But so she's relating it to like the bachelorette party
Speaker 1: from Hell, and how all the dynamics are exactly the same.
Speaker 1: If you missed last segment, I suggest strongly you get
Speaker 1: it via the podcast Armstrong, you Getty on demand, But
Speaker 1: she says, and I missed all of this. When the
Speaker 1: group got up to space and started floating, everyone's perfectly
Speaker 1: coft hair flying everywhere. The group huddled to chant take
Speaker 1: up space, and then like when your pregate, when you pregram,
Speaker 1: when you pregame too hard before hitting a bar, they
Speaker 1: all split up to do their own thing.
Speaker 2: This is so freaking good, Katy Perry, too hard.
Speaker 1: Katie Perry held a daisy her daughter is named Daisy,
Speaker 1: for the camera and teared up. She also revealed a
Speaker 1: set list for her upcoming Lifetime's tour on a cardboard
Speaker 1: butterfly before letting it float away. Oh my god, you
Speaker 1: did the thing with your daughter and then publicized your
Speaker 1: tour in the same breath.
Speaker 2: Whoa boy? You held a daisy for your daughter named Daisy.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm having trouble connecting dots here and then
Speaker 1: I taking the spaceship in your how does this fit together?
Speaker 1: Elsewhere in the pod, Lauren Sanchez held up a plushy
Speaker 1: of Flynn, the dyslexic fly character from her children's book
Speaker 1: The Fly Who Flew to Space, and like a drunk person,
Speaker 1: kissed it and said, proud of you, Flynn, look a droppers.
Speaker 1: Proud of you, Flynn, because you're on a space tourist
Speaker 1: flight that some of these people paid for. By the way,
Speaker 1: Katy Perry was a freebie, but anyway. Bo held up
Speaker 1: an embroidered patch that said Bahamas with the Bahamian flag,
Speaker 1: while nun Shot gave a shout out to Vietnam. Apparently
Speaker 1: at one point, Katy Perry sang, what a wonderful world,
Speaker 1: which isn't my choice for karaoki, but a solid one nonetheless,
Speaker 1: Like the Maid of Honor who takes her job very seriously.
Speaker 2: Perry never sat still.
Speaker 1: In another shot, she was upside down making a shape
Speaker 1: of a heart with her hands. Then, like any group
Speaker 1: of girls who knows their horoscopes, someone screams.
Speaker 2: Out look at the moon.
Speaker 1: These spacecraft's descent had the same audio footprint cackling, screaming,
Speaker 1: whooping as one of those eighteen person party bikes that
Speaker 1: you see bachelorettes drinking on all over Nashville when they
Speaker 1: got out of the When they got out of the
Speaker 1: vehicle back on Earth, like any exhausted bridal party member,
Speaker 1: landing at LaGuardia at two am Monday morning, it was
Speaker 1: as though they'd spent years up there. Perry and King
Speaker 1: each kissed the air at ground once they disembarked the pod,
Speaker 1: with King exclaiming thank you Jesus. Sanchez and Nuen both sobbed.
Speaker 1: And I must point out that Bezos, the eager groom,
Speaker 1: fell on his face as he maneuvered to free his bride.
Speaker 2: Yeah he fell down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole kissing the ground after you get back
Speaker 1: eight minutes later, what the hell is that?
Speaker 2: There's just a little more.
Speaker 1: In the postgame interview, Perry said the experience in space
Speaker 1: was up there with meditation or the Hoffman process, whatever
Speaker 1: that is. We're all looking around and saying, what that's
Speaker 1: the uber expensive retreat where celebrities go to meditate and
Speaker 1: exercise childhood traumas because quote, you're like really finding the
Speaker 1: love for yourself, because you got to trust in yourself.
Speaker 1: That's a quote from Katy Perry that she felt connected to,
Speaker 1: quote the divine feminine. The purpose of the trip wasn't
Speaker 1: to bring back any moon rocks or calculate the astronomical
Speaker 1: unit between stars. The point was just to be literally
Speaker 1: to take up space up near the edge of Earth.
Speaker 2: Much like The Bachelorette.
Speaker 1: The concept was to look good, have a great time,
Speaker 1: and do a lot of screaming and honestly, mission accomplished.
Speaker 2: Now come the instagrams.
Speaker 1: If you have a face full of makeup, had your
Speaker 1: hair done, and schlept to West Texas for your friends
Speaker 1: to blast through the sound barrier, you might as well
Speaker 1: get some likes out of it and sounding for all
Speaker 1: the world like someone who narrowly survived Atlantic City and
Speaker 1: who has a rehearsal dinner to plan. Sanchez told the
Speaker 1: on site Blue Origin interviewer, quote, I had to come back.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're getting married. Oh wow, that was women
Speaker 1: really delicious. Hilarity in this is is well delicious. That
Speaker 1: is really brilliant to compare that to a bachelorette party,
Speaker 1: because it's it is spot on, it is it is
Speaker 1: absolutely the same vibe. I can't wait to send this
Speaker 1: to both my daughta from another mother, Katie, and my
Speaker 1: actual youngest daughter, who has been party to many of
Speaker 1: these exhausting spectacles and testaments to how much you love
Speaker 1: the bride.
Speaker 2: I'm glad some she truly does. Yeah, I'm glad that
Speaker 2: Katie's here.
Speaker 1: You know, so we got a woman who's mocking this
Speaker 1: and not just a couple of dudes, because.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you can. You can love the bride
Speaker 4: and the bachelorette party can still be hell on earth.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, well, the thing I used to
Speaker 1: I worked at a bar for many many years, a
Speaker 1: big country bar, like dance club sort of bar, really big,
Speaker 1: and I would see this every Friday and Saturday night.
Speaker 1: So there'd be the couple of chicks that got there
Speaker 1: at like nine and then they're one of their friends
Speaker 1: from work would walk in it like fifteen, and they
Speaker 1: would all go and run over and hug each other,
Speaker 1: and I would think, I mean a lot of times
Speaker 1: I knew these people and I thought, you just you just.
Speaker 2: Left work at five o'clock.
Speaker 1: I mean like four hours ago, you worked all day today,
Speaker 1: and you are you seeing each other a few hours
Speaker 1: later at the bar and you're acting like you haven't
Speaker 1: seen each other in two years?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what is that?
Speaker 1: And they would do it every Friday and Saturday night,
Speaker 1: and I've never quite understood.
Speaker 2: And they run them and they hug each other.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you're here, even though we said when
Speaker 1: we left work four hours ago, see at the bar later.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I don't so I don't understand
Speaker 1: that whole thing. And then you saw the womanhood, yes, right,
Speaker 1: you saw that whole thing on display kind of with
Speaker 1: the rocket yesterday.
Speaker 2: It was basically the same thing. Told me, God, I
Speaker 2: can't believe you're here. Yeah, we trained for this, for.
Speaker 4: What are you doing here?
Speaker 2: Exactly? Oh?
Speaker 1: And it has to be so magical important and oh
Speaker 1: you can't just say, hey, that was really fun, that's great,
Speaker 1: views amazing.
Speaker 2: No, it's got to be transcendent.
Speaker 4: Well, I have a couple of I have a couple
Speaker 4: of friends that do that every time they see friends,
Speaker 4: and nothing makes you want to turn around and just
Speaker 4: walk out.
Speaker 1: You're either that kind of person you're not, And I
Speaker 1: have no I personally have known preeople that do that,
Speaker 1: and they're very nice people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very sweet, but boy, I just don't get it.
Speaker 1: So I didn't realize this till you mentioned it, Joe.
Speaker 1: So the space tourism you can pay to do that
Speaker 1: thing has begun.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what does it cost currently? Do you know?
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I don't remember. I remember when it was
Speaker 2: like six figures.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Yeah, it's five six figures, fifty grand, one hundred
Speaker 1: grand something like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know what price.
Speaker 1: What would it have to get down to where you
Speaker 1: would even consider it, because I I wouldn't pay, And
Speaker 1: I don't even mean from a whether you can afford
Speaker 1: it or not.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's worth ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I think for ten thousand dollars, I could take a
Speaker 1: better vacation that ought to have better memories of them
Speaker 1: doing that personally. Uh yeah, yeah, I haven't really thought
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: It would be pretty amazing, I think, but pretty I
Speaker 2: don't think.
Speaker 1: It would like I would change my view of all
Speaker 1: humanity and what love means the way some of these
Speaker 1: people seem.
Speaker 2: To claim it.
Speaker 1: And I feel like I already have an appreciation for
Speaker 1: the fact that when you look at the planet, you think,
Speaker 1: all right, the disputes of the people in that tiny
Speaker 1: corner and those people right next to them are stupid,
Speaker 1: and they ought to drop it and figure out a
Speaker 1: way not to slaughter each other's children.
Speaker 2: I already think that. Actually.
Speaker 1: The one that made the most sense to me was
Speaker 1: William Shatner when he went up last year sometime and
Speaker 1: he was talking about everything being dead in space. There's
Speaker 1: just life is here on Earth. This is where all
Speaker 1: the life is happening in love and everything like that.
Speaker 1: Everything outside of here is dead. It's just a barren rock,
Speaker 1: which is kind of interesting. Well, and I think it
Speaker 1: would be actually a transcendent experience if you got up
Speaker 1: high enough, and I'm not sure, I mean, they could
Speaker 1: absolutely see the curvature of the Earth and comprehend that
Speaker 1: it is indeed a sphere.
Speaker 2: Roughly. I think that.
Speaker 1: Would be really really cool and interesting. But again, I
Speaker 1: already know what I've seen the pictures. Yeah, I've seen
Speaker 1: really good pictures like in a I've seen them in
Speaker 1: the sphere in Las Vegas, surrounded by four k I mean, so.
Speaker 2: How much better would it be than that?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not trying to be too cynical, but no,
Speaker 1: I just find it hard to believe.
Speaker 2: I'd come back and say, I now understand what love means.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I would enjoy the feeling of weightlessness.
Speaker 1: I would love that that I would like to experience.
Speaker 1: How long do they get to do it? Like a minute?
Speaker 1: I've wanted to do that since I was little kid.
Speaker 1: Get to float around like an astronaut. I think that
Speaker 1: would be That'd be the most amazing.
Speaker 2: Part to me to ever get to do that. You
Speaker 2: know what the best part would be?
Speaker 1: You know that my little yellow pad that I have
Speaker 1: in the bathroom where I write down my weight every day.
Speaker 1: That day I would write down to zero, and the
Speaker 1: next day I'd go back to whatever happens to be. Yes,
Speaker 1: briefly today, I wait nothing. Then I had a bad day.
Speaker 1: I had more, but I knew I shouldn't have that
Speaker 1: last piece of pizza, and I gained one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety eight pounds of.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll finish strong.
Speaker 6: Next, in a new interview, Rosie O'Donnell revealed her friendship
Speaker 6: with Lyle Menendez, saying that he made her feel quote
Speaker 6: safe enough to trust and love a straight man. Upon
Speaker 6: hearing this, Menendez came out as gay and returned to
Speaker 6: his prison cell.
Speaker 1: It's tax day, and I have a feeling many of
Speaker 1: you have heard this before.
Speaker 2: I hadn't. Somehow, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's a letter Donald Rumsfeld sent to the IRS back
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen on tax Day. Donald Rumsfeld, who was
Speaker 1: the oldest Secretary of Defense we've ever had and the
Speaker 1: youngest Secretary of Defense we've ever had under Ford and Bush.
Speaker 2: You might remember him from the.
Speaker 1: Go for anyway, he and his wife sent this letter
Speaker 1: to the IRS in twenty fourteen. Dear Sir Madam, I
Speaker 1: have sent in our federal income tax as in prioris.
Speaker 1: Is important for you to know that I have absolutely
Speaker 1: no idea whether our tax returns and our tax payments
Speaker 1: are accurate. I say this despite the fact that I
Speaker 1: am a college graduate and I try hard to make
Speaker 1: sure our tax returns are accurate. The tax code is
Speaker 1: so complex and the forms are so complicated that I
Speaker 1: know I cannot have any confidence that I know what
Speaker 1: is being requested, and therefore I cannot and do not know.
Speaker 1: And I suspect a great many Americans cannot know whether
Speaker 1: or not their tax returns are accurate. As in past year,
Speaker 1: as I have spent more money than and I wanted
Speaker 1: to spend to hire an accounting firm to prepare our
Speaker 1: tax returns, and believe they are well qualified. This note
Speaker 1: is to alert you that I know that I do
Speaker 1: not know whether or not my tax returns are accurate.
Speaker 1: Which is a sad commentary on governance in our nation's capital,
Speaker 1: and it goes on. It's in other words, it is yes,
Speaker 1: how does the end? He says, I do hope that
Speaker 1: at some point in my lifetime, and I am now
Speaker 1: in my eighties, so there are not many years left,
Speaker 1: the US government will simplify the US tax code so
Speaker 1: that those citizens who sincerely want to pay what they
Speaker 1: should are able to do it right and know they
Speaker 1: have done it right. I should add that my wife
Speaker 1: of fifty nine years, also a college graduate, has signed
Speaker 1: our joint return, but she also knows that this does
Speaker 1: not have any idea whether or not our tax payments
Speaker 1: are accurate.
Speaker 2: Sincerely, Donald Rumsfeld, that's pretty funny. Wow, wow, yeah, no kidding. Well,
Speaker 2: I've been saying this for years. It's clearly true.
Speaker 1: The government, at the point of a prison sentence makes
Speaker 1: you pay taxes. Okay, fine, but then you make it
Speaker 1: so complicated that you have to hire somebody to figure
Speaker 1: out how much you have to pay your own expense
Speaker 1: to the government, and even then you can't be certain
Speaker 1: that you haven't violated any law. That's a ridiculous system. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's abusive, it's absurd. It's the product of lobbyists and
Speaker 1: social engineering and legitimate desires to shape society and the
Speaker 1: rest of it. But you know, I just if someone
Speaker 1: proposed this system, they would probably be fifty one fifty
Speaker 1: and held for their own safety and that of others, right,
Speaker 1: because you'd have.
Speaker 2: To be insane to propose our current system.
Speaker 1: And always keep in mind, while the Democratic Party winds
Speaker 1: and moans about taxes all the time, and they would
Speaker 1: like taxes to be higher in general, they don't attack
Speaker 1: a lot of these regulations that help out them and
Speaker 1: their friends and all kinds of different people that want
Speaker 1: them to stay the same way.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: Right, when Hillary Clinton was running for president and going
Speaker 1: on or whoever democratic president's going around running around complaining
Speaker 1: about the Richard. They don't point out specific things that
Speaker 1: they want change in the textago.
Speaker 2: They don't.
Speaker 1: Well, if there were any reason for this conversation to
Speaker 1: take place, and I don't think there was, it would
Speaker 1: have Hillary would have spouted about taxing the billionaires and
Speaker 1: their assets and blah blah blah. Jamie Diamond, some Wall
Speaker 1: Street giant would call her and say you don't really
Speaker 1: mean that stuff, and she's say, no, no, of course not.
Speaker 1: And he said, okay, fine, I get it right here.
Speaker 1: You're it's populism. Admit me quotus to this history. Who
Speaker 1: prologue like your humble patients, prey gently to hear, kindly
Speaker 1: to judge the final thoughts of Armstrong and Ditty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'd rather have people talk like that than say, Finna,
Speaker 1: get a sandwich.
Speaker 2: Finn to do final thoughts with our host Joe Geddy.
Speaker 2: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 1: Say how about our technical director Michael Angelo leading us off, Michael, Yeah,
Speaker 1: next time I fly Southwest Airlines, I'm gonna kiss the
Speaker 1: ground when we land.
Speaker 6: And hold up a daisy and tell everybody I now
Speaker 6: know what love is.
Speaker 1: I think you should Katie Green or Esteemed to use
Speaker 1: women as a final thought, Katie, Well, for.
Speaker 2: The rest of the week.
Speaker 4: Every time I see you guys, I'm gonna go show
Speaker 4: my excitement and.
Speaker 2: I'll yell it back.
Speaker 1: Jack. A final thought for us, Yeah, next time I
Speaker 1: do the fifty minute flight to Burbank and get off
Speaker 1: the plane, which by the way, is five times longer
Speaker 1: than their flight, I will talk about how what love
Speaker 1: means to me, and how we all pulled together and
Speaker 1: had each other's backs and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: and how it was just trust and the highest high sir,
Speaker 1: get off the flight.
Speaker 2: There are people beyond you.
Speaker 1: My final thought is I've often said I would love
Speaker 1: the federal government to show me the bridge I have
Speaker 1: paid for or the battleship. But honestly, if that were
Speaker 1: to happen, it would probably be a bunch of lazy
Speaker 1: bastards with the pot addictions who don't work and I've
Speaker 1: been paying for their Medicaid all along, or something like that.
Speaker 2: How disappointing would that be?
Speaker 1: Armstrong In and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1: So many people think so little time good to Armstrong
Speaker 1: in getdy dot com. Many pleasures await you there, including
Speaker 1: the hot links, Katie's Corner, the swag shop, get an a,
Speaker 1: andng lighthood. It's the perfect way drops an omail bag
Speaker 1: at Armstrong You getdy dot com so something we ought
Speaker 1: to be talking about.
Speaker 2: You see, send it along.
Speaker 1: So many pleasures await you there. Oh we will see
Speaker 1: you tomorrow. God bless America for here.
Speaker 3: Because an extreme concentration of Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Getty, it became a parent that what we have
Speaker 2: here is I feel like that was a special gift
Speaker 2: just for me.
Speaker 7: I still can't accept that word.
Speaker 2: I will never be the same, are you sure? Oh
Speaker 2: dead show one final message. You can't go through.
Speaker 7: What we went through to look out for each other,
Speaker 7: to help each other and not be changed by that moron.
Speaker 2: Get the hell out of here. Bye bye, Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Getty