Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jettie and he arms range from studio ce see ay
Speaker 1: dimly lit, room deep put in the bowels of the
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getting communications Compound on Little Friday, and today
Speaker 1: we are toiling under the title The Art of No
Speaker 1: Deal or from the Penthouse to the Big House. The
Speaker 1: Prince Andrew story. Uh Andrew the artist formerly known as
Speaker 1: Prince who is now Andrew windsor mount Batten or is
Speaker 1: it mount Batten whatever? What kind of name is that?
Speaker 1: Jolly well? Right, we got arrested and is in custody somewhere.
Speaker 1: They don't know where, nor nobody's to London obviously, yeah,
Speaker 1: off with his head, I say, yeah, let's not wait around.
Speaker 1: And the straw that broke the camel's back apparently is
Speaker 1: trading state secrets with billionaire Jeffrey Ebstein. So not only
Speaker 1: was he secting up underage women, denying having ever met
Speaker 1: people that then you see him within pictures he was
Speaker 1: given state secrets to Epstein and that was too much
Speaker 1: for his brother. What was that straw that broke the camels. Gotcha,
Speaker 1: that was a camel. Oh the camel groaning in pain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was too much for his brother, King Chuck the
Speaker 1: third apparently. Yeah. Plus that that's high ranking aid that
Speaker 1: the big wheel in British Paul Politics, who had to
Speaker 1: quit not long ago, as tied closely to Keir Starmer.
Speaker 1: He was involved in similar stuff a huge significance insider
Speaker 1: trading in effect with their pal Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: the actual government is going down. Everybody says that, right,
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister will fall here one of these days.
Speaker 1: So it's see, although he had a week ago anyway,
Speaker 1: a thirteen percent approval rating, and it's not just because
Speaker 1: Epstein's stuff, which is kind of the way it's being
Speaker 1: portrayed in the United States, but as listening to some
Speaker 1: British journalists, the government. People hate that government for all
Speaker 1: kinds of different reasons. They got economic problems that have
Speaker 1: landed while he's in office and all that sort of
Speaker 1: stuff that happens in the world. So the proval rating
Speaker 1: was going to be incredibly low anyway, and then you
Speaker 1: add this to it, thirteen percent. One more note on
Speaker 1: British politics, if I might, I think it's a measure
Speaker 1: of how miserable everybody is there that the other party,
Speaker 1: the Tories, the alleged Conservatives, who are about where the
Speaker 1: Democrats are in the United States. Honestly, they can't win
Speaker 1: an election. I mean they got tossed out on their ears.
Speaker 1: They suck so bad in favor of Keir Starmer and
Speaker 1: his gang. Good gracious, here's the most exciting thing to me,
Speaker 1: as I think the Royal family is stupid and always
Speaker 1: have and it's why we went to war with them
Speaker 1: over that whole idea, As listened to a British journalist
Speaker 1: right now saying, the reason Charles moved is at this
Speaker 1: point there we've got to protect the monarchy because the
Speaker 1: monarchy could fall. People could turn against this. You know what,
Speaker 1: this whole you get special privileges and we pay for
Speaker 1: it thing. It's got to come to an end. They're
Speaker 1: worried about that. It's still a minority of people that
Speaker 1: want to get it rid of the constitutional monarchy set
Speaker 1: up they've got. But apparently, according to this one Bridget journalist,
Speaker 1: inside Buckingham Palace or wherever they're deciding this sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: and they have many many different places. Depends on whether
Speaker 1: you're going on a fox hunt, or if you're having
Speaker 1: royal you know, duties with the Prime Minister or whatever.
Speaker 1: Don't do a fox hunt from a Buckingham palace. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna find a single fox. Too much traffic. They're
Speaker 1: really concerned with public opinion turning it against the monarchy
Speaker 1: as a whole. So well, they're afraid the boot of history.
Speaker 1: I'll get them right in the family jewels. That gotta
Speaker 1: laugh out at Katie. How are you this morning, kid?
Speaker 1: I'm just a lifeful I'm jolly good. Yeah, we should,
Speaker 1: we should do the British accents and support of something.
Speaker 1: I don't know whether it would be. I don't like
Speaker 1: the royal family. I think the whole thing is dumb.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm more sympathetic than I used to be,
Speaker 1: having asked a bunch of Brits about it. But it's
Speaker 1: definitely a weirdly mutated monster. Yeah. I don't, I don't,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't have any respect for it whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I've heard British people explain why it matters to them
Speaker 1: historically and everything like that, but yeah, they're paying attention
Speaker 1: to their lives though that Come on, don't you have
Speaker 1: more to do with this small amount of time you
Speaker 1: get on planet Earth than pay attention to royals in
Speaker 1: their weddings and their offspring and the first pictures of
Speaker 1: their babies and that sort of crap. Give me a break. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know it's it's ridiculous. I just think I think
Speaker 1: it's unhealthy free humanity. No, well, of course it is. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely anyway, So Prince Andrew actually in Irons in the
Speaker 1: Tower of London, as Joe said, and likely to be beheaded.
Speaker 1: The headsman's got his black hood on, He's got his
Speaker 1: big old double sided axe ready. He's just kind of
Speaker 1: putting a little rosin on his palms. He's getting ready.
Speaker 1: So Axios, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and
Speaker 1: others reporting that, and sources are saying to these organizations
Speaker 1: that it's ninety percent likely we strike Iran. Now, it's
Speaker 1: quite possible that's being leaked by the administration to these
Speaker 1: news organizations to let Iran know we're serious, we ain't playing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, also might be true, which brings us back
Speaker 1: to my other title for the show, The Art of
Speaker 1: No Deal. There is not a deal taking shape with Iran,
Speaker 1: and indeed, what you do when it's your best alternative
Speaker 1: to a negotiated settlement. It's a long acronym, but what
Speaker 1: do you do when there is no deal? Meanwhile, the
Speaker 1: talks with Hamas are a joke. They're refusing to disarm,
Speaker 1: so that piece is soon to end. Ukraine and Russia
Speaker 1: don't get me started, at least with a Hamas thing. Though.
Speaker 1: If Iran falls, that's yet another blow to that organization
Speaker 1: having any half to whatsoever. Certainly, at least Axios's reporting
Speaker 1: is according to officials who are probably leaking this on purpose,
Speaker 1: such as the nature of war, this will be a
Speaker 1: week's long, sustained campaign, nothing like the strikes that we
Speaker 1: saw over the summer. This is going to look more
Speaker 1: like an actual war, not like the fabulously named Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 1: Weeks long sustained campaign. I wonder, and since most of
Speaker 1: America I don't think, is paying any attention to this story,
Speaker 1: I wonder. I wonder how that will land politically. I
Speaker 1: have no idea. I would be fascinated to see a
Speaker 1: poll of Americans to figure out how many people understand
Speaker 1: that we're at the brink of a significant armed conflict.
Speaker 1: In conflict with Iran, the biggest way it is very small,
Speaker 1: biggest warn a quarter century. What was you guess percentage?
Speaker 1: Maybe twenty, I don't know, ten, ten to fifteen. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's your perception, Katie, just out of curiosity,
Speaker 1: probably to guess, I'd think you're just trying to curry
Speaker 1: favorite with him. But if you watch, yeah, clearly twenty
Speaker 1: five if like Katie, me, anybody, if you're following the
Speaker 1: mainstream news, it's just not a story avalanches, missing women,
Speaker 1: a dog getting loose on the track at the very cute,
Speaker 1: very much watching.
Speaker 2: I think it was ABC because I go through all
Speaker 2: of the evening news. They treated it like, oh, side note,
Speaker 2: this is happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they really do. The dog running across the finish
Speaker 1: line at the Olympics was the Iran war, and the
Speaker 1: Iran War was the dog running across the finish line.
Speaker 1: In terms of emphasis, yes, that is a society that
Speaker 1: cannot last. I believe the legal ruling on whether a
Speaker 1: wing is a nugget or not a buffalo wing is
Speaker 1: a chicken nugget. That legal ruling, which we need to
Speaker 1: get to later, got more time than the possible war
Speaker 1: with Iran. Wow, I'm only barely aware of this controversy, Well,
Speaker 1: what are boneless wings? Is the question. If you're serving
Speaker 1: boneless wings and somebody sued, what is your deal. You
Speaker 1: can't call those wings, these are nuggets, and so there
Speaker 1: needed to be a legal ruling, and then it got
Speaker 1: into what if you call something a vegetarian buffalo wings
Speaker 1: made out of cauliflower or whatever. Clearly those are boneless
Speaker 1: and not We're never at any point the wing of
Speaker 1: any animal as they are Fevidently, what then you say, exactly?
Speaker 2: They said that they're not the wings of a cauliflower.
Speaker 1: What the judge said, yes, correct. I am amused and
Speaker 1: fascinated by this legal question, the fact that it is
Speaker 1: a lawsuit. I want to find the plaintiff and beat
Speaker 1: him to death with a chicken wing, which would take
Speaker 1: a while. I mean, even to our story which we
Speaker 1: led with talking about Prince Andrew getting arrested is getting
Speaker 1: a hundred times more attention than the fact that we
Speaker 1: are on the brink of a sustained war with a
Speaker 1: major country. Well, you've got to admit, though, if a
Speaker 1: second tier member of the British royal family were to
Speaker 1: go to jail, that would change everything. Oh wait a minute, checking, no,
Speaker 1: it would have no effect on anything at all. So,
Speaker 1: getting back to your original question, how many people are
Speaker 1: paying any attention to it? So when the bombs start falling,
Speaker 1: I would suspect that the approval rating will be roughly
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty, like everything with Trump. But a week
Speaker 1: into it and maybe we've had a plane shot down
Speaker 1: and I don't know, fifteen soldiers die. What is the
Speaker 1: public opinion going to be on having no background of
Speaker 1: why we're doing this whatsoever? Correct? Yes, we're an unserious
Speaker 1: country where everybody votes and everybody gets their news from
Speaker 1: tickety talk or you know, the stupid celebrity news that
Speaker 1: is the network news these days. Yeah, it's unsustainable. I'm
Speaker 1: just glad we have lots of guns and planes. So
Speaker 1: you we go back tortum monarchy is what you're saying. Uh, yes, well, no,
Speaker 1: the sweet spot. The founding fathers had the balance, right,
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, don't say landed white males. That's
Speaker 1: not what I mean. No, that is the public, not
Speaker 1: a democracy. It is a democratic republic. Let's not quibble.
Speaker 1: But a pure democracy is an idiotic idea. You do
Speaker 1: have to tip your cat to the royal family that
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of levers to pull to try
Speaker 1: to help out a family member and keep him out
Speaker 1: of trouble. In there, they're they're letting him twist in
Speaker 1: the breeze. Oh no, King Chuck said, no, the justice
Speaker 1: system should proceed. It's fine. Apparently behind the scenes Andrew
Speaker 1: Andrew rings a bell. Apparently behind the scenes, Prince William
Speaker 1: is a real driving force in This guy's a scumbag
Speaker 1: and has got to go. He bringing us down Uncle Purvo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all that Wills, who seems to be a pretty straight
Speaker 1: laced guy, does not dig Uncle Purvo's lifestyle. What did
Speaker 1: they know behind this? All right, That's what I was
Speaker 1: gonna say. I'm sure William and Charles, Charles, especially being
Speaker 1: the older brother, has known for years. Right. Well, there
Speaker 1: was that story that I think I mentioned yesterday where
Speaker 1: Epstein and Andrew were bringing like multiple women of slatterly
Speaker 1: habits as they used to say way back in the
Speaker 1: day to Buckingham Palace for like lunches and cavorts. And
Speaker 1: if Queen Liz got wind of that, I'm sure she
Speaker 1: was really unhappy. I wasn't there some story if you
Speaker 1: had some bimbo sitting in the throne or something. Remember that,
Speaker 1: Remember that that sounds vaguely familiar. Here, there's a photo
Speaker 1: came out of some Harlot sitting on a throne. Harlot.
Speaker 1: That's another good one. Yeah. Anyway, of course, some of
Speaker 1: these people are not they're victims. They're just plain victims,
Speaker 1: a lot of these people. Yeah, it's interesting. One more
Speaker 1: thought on this, then I'll shut up. The Epstein case continues,
Speaker 1: in spite of it being unsavorty that all of these
Speaker 1: memos and stuff and emails have been put out to
Speaker 1: yield really interesting stories about the upper crust and the
Speaker 1: way they behave. In this modeling recruiter from France, super famous,
Speaker 1: like top of the industry, and how all the beautiful
Speaker 1: girls in the world wanted to be models and he
Speaker 1: would give them modeling contracts financed by Jeffrey Epstein. They
Speaker 1: would fly all over the world, they would eat, they
Speaker 1: would drink, they would be merry, they would sit on
Speaker 1: the throne at Buckingham Palace, and occasionally they had to
Speaker 1: give up a little sex. And there's probably a fair
Speaker 1: number of people that are perfectly willing to make that trade. Well, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: where hmm, what the hell? It'll be fun a little crazy,
Speaker 1: he's not so bad looking ends and trafficking begins as
Speaker 1: a line to drug Oh kidding, no kidding, We better
Speaker 1: start to show officially. We've been jabbering on for a
Speaker 1: long time. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this
Speaker 1: It is Thursday, February nineteenth, the year twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: We belne now, I'm quaint huge. Wait three and a
Speaker 1: half minutes and over time when your ships pistons dolls?
Speaker 1: When use him overtime? Let's him other of the United States,
Speaker 1: Well on that face, sloop block here, Hey the Semis
Speaker 1: got chills? What said you suck Swayton? Oh wow, wow,
Speaker 1: you're like Trump? What these are our allies? You idiot?
Speaker 1: Three of the four semifinal games, I'm sorry, quarterfinal games
Speaker 1: went to overtime. Three of the four. Greatest day in
Speaker 1: Olympic Hockey history. Oh really, and we won? So that's cool. Uh,
Speaker 1: we've got Katie's headlines on the way and lots of
Speaker 1: stay here Armstrong and Getty. We used a whole lot
Speaker 1: of time with our silliness around Prince Andrews. Who we
Speaker 1: gotta get to it? Who's reporting what? It's the lead
Speaker 1: story with Katie Green Katie all right, Well, just because
Speaker 1: we have to if all of the alphabet networks are going,
Speaker 1: Prince Andrew at the very top, Yeah, because they love
Speaker 1: royal stuff. And this this is a big one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: New York Times.
Speaker 2: US military moves into place for possible strikes in Iran.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the biggest error of power that's ever been
Speaker 1: assembled in the Middle East.
Speaker 2: And so three from the Washington Post, Ilia malanin the
Speaker 2: quad God says the person who came to the Olympics
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago is now dust.
Speaker 1: Well that's interesting. It's the new Ilia. Science has explained
Speaker 1: his failure. It involves apes. Stay with us, and the
Speaker 1: Blade Babes ain't doing so well either. We're struggling with
Speaker 1: our ice skating.
Speaker 2: From NBC. You Too releases Renee Good tribute song called
Speaker 2: American Obituary.
Speaker 1: Oh My God Boy both timely and hotly desire Oh
Speaker 1: oh bono, Oh I'm such a fan of you two.
Speaker 1: But then old blan o'bono.
Speaker 2: Yeah, New York Post rich people are developing quote longevity
Speaker 2: fixtion syndrome and paying up to one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars a week to treat it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely need that story. Can't wait to hear about the
Speaker 1: rich draining the blood of the young.
Speaker 2: Study fines rotator cuff tears found in seventy three percent
Speaker 2: of adults over forty What.
Speaker 1: You know, I actually talked to an athletic trainer about
Speaker 1: this from what well, it's it takes a lot of beating.
Speaker 1: Your rod to your shoulder is an incredibly complicated joint,
Speaker 1: and your rotator cuff gets beat up through the years.
Speaker 1: It's super common.
Speaker 2: And finally the Babylon be amazing new study suggests you
Speaker 2: can just think thoughts without posting them online.
Speaker 1: Oh I love that. I know mine's from pat myself
Speaker 1: on the back. That's where I really do damage. That'll
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, it's awkward. We'll bring up to speed
Speaker 1: on some more stories. I'm it is going to be
Speaker 1: I think the biggest news story and the biggest surprise
Speaker 1: news story in America when we're all of a sudden
Speaker 1: at a full on war day after day after day
Speaker 1: after day for several weeks, which of course can always
Speaker 1: go sideways and other countries get involved or anything could happen.
Speaker 1: And what percentage of Americans will think Iran is Iraq
Speaker 1: where Saddam used to romp and play right, significant lots
Speaker 1: on the way if you missed a segment at the
Speaker 1: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty Prince
Speaker 1: Andrew's sixtieth birthday today, by the way, sixtieth birthday. That's
Speaker 1: a landmark birthday. Happy birthday, you're a worldwide pariah and
Speaker 1: a laughingstock. Happy birthday. You're in jail probably probably for
Speaker 1: the rest of your life in that country. The sort
Speaker 1: of things he's done is a life sentence. The second right,
Speaker 1: the sex stuff and the trading state secret stuff could
Speaker 1: easily put him in jail the rest of his life. Wow,
Speaker 1: and King Chuk has said heh let the justice proceed,
Speaker 1: the justice system do what it does, washing my royal
Speaker 1: hands of this. So an hour two we're going to
Speaker 1: have a reporter. We don't do this very often. We're
Speaker 1: actually gonna have a reporter on the social media trial
Speaker 1: that's been going on in Los Angeles. Zuckerberg was on
Speaker 1: the stand yesterday. Just a little tease for you. I
Speaker 1: was surprised by this. I thought the defense was going
Speaker 1: to be, you know, what's addictive, what's not. Nobody really
Speaker 1: knows the line on that sort of stuff. Is it
Speaker 1: against the law to make your product? Make a product
Speaker 1: people like so much they can't stop eating or using
Speaker 1: or watching or whatever. No, he went with He denied
Speaker 1: that Meta seeks to make Instagram addictives, saying, I'm focused
Speaker 1: on building a community that is sustainable. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to maximize the amount of time they spend every month
Speaker 1: on it. Oh so he lied, that's just obviously not true. Testillying. Yes,
Speaker 1: why did he say that. I mean, he's got I assume,
Speaker 1: some of the most expensive lawyers on the planet, and
Speaker 1: you decided to deny you're trying to make your product
Speaker 1: something we can't put down. Well, that's just false on
Speaker 1: its face. He's a very smart guy. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: speaking of royalty, he has kingly powers that most kings
Speaker 1: would envy, status and wealth and probably a lot of
Speaker 1: self regard. And you know, I don't blame him. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised because I thought so he thought he could. Just
Speaker 1: he's so used to people saying yes, mister Zuckerberg, yes sir,
Speaker 1: that he's lost his filter for what's clearly bull less
Speaker 1: and what's not. Because I thought I could. I was
Speaker 1: helping you along, Mark by saying, you can't make it
Speaker 1: against the law to make a product so good people
Speaker 1: can't stop using it. That's what I was trying to
Speaker 1: because I think that's true what I just said. Sure,
Speaker 1: but you can't claim that you weren't trying to make
Speaker 1: a product we can't stop using. That's hilarious. Yeah, Yeah, Anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll get a report on that testimony coming up an
Speaker 1: hour or two. Let's belied by like a thousand different
Speaker 1: internal documents and emails and that sort of thing. Just amazing, Okay,
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. Here's the story we should talk about,
Speaker 1: and the one I want to talk about, the one
Speaker 1: we should talk about. US gathers the most air power
Speaker 1: in the Mid East since the two thousand and three
Speaker 1: Iraq invasion. I would argue, I don't know this, but
Speaker 1: I'll bet it's true that because of technological advances, it's
Speaker 1: the strongest force that's ever been gathered anywhere on the planet,
Speaker 1: and I'm serious in saying this. It probably includes the
Speaker 1: discombobulator ray. Oh yeah, that was used to like shocking, astonishing.
Speaker 1: Nobody's talking about it, science fiction y effect in snatching
Speaker 1: up Maduro. So yeah, I would agree with you. Technological advances. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're probably right, well said the subhead is. US is
Speaker 1: ready to strike around, but President Trump hasn't yet decided
Speaker 1: to do so. First of all, some of the facts
Speaker 1: and then a little analysis. Over the past few days,
Speaker 1: the US has continued to move Cutting Edge thirty five
Speaker 1: and twenty two jet fighters toward the Middle East. Second
Speaker 1: aircraft carrier loaded with attack and electronic warfare planes is
Speaker 1: on the way. Command and control aircraft vital for orchestrating
Speaker 1: large air campaigns are inbound, and critical air defenses have
Speaker 1: been deployed to the region in recent weeks to our
Speaker 1: bases and other places. The firepower will give the US
Speaker 1: the option of carrying out a sustained, weeks long air
Speaker 1: war against Dran instead of the one and done midnight
Speaker 1: hammer strike we were discussing earlier, and the talks are
Speaker 1: going on. I suspect very strongly that Iran's thinking, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's string out these talks because it always works, always works,
Speaker 1: and Trump is thinking, yeah, we're still working on Saudi's
Speaker 1: in the UAE and using their airspace because that has
Speaker 1: saves a lot of fuel, and let's get our air
Speaker 1: defenses up and run. And then in about a week Kerbluwie, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Mark Alprin's newsletter today he wrote, this is going
Speaker 1: to be a big play for history, justice and one
Speaker 1: for all, once and for all dealing with Tran's theocracy.
Speaker 1: This will be for history. Yeah. Yeah, I am seeing
Speaker 1: just as kind of an aside, more and more folks
Speaker 1: joining us in saying out loud, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of this is the Western world, the enlightened world against Islamism.
Speaker 1: For a while, it was kind of taboo, it was
Speaker 1: out of fashion even say that. It's it's always been
Speaker 1: clear to me. I don't I don't know. It's it's
Speaker 1: my great gift that I couldn't give a crap what
Speaker 1: people think. It's funny, it's gonna accuse me of being
Speaker 1: an islamophobe, whatever that is. I'm not. It's funny that
Speaker 1: we have enough distance after nine to eleven that this
Speaker 1: story is not being run through that lens. Really, but
Speaker 1: it is. It's a theocracy. It's fundamental Muslim theocracy. Right,
Speaker 1: That's not the only challenge, and that's not the only
Speaker 1: kind of totalitarian you know, evil that we've got a
Speaker 1: face in the world. But it's a big one, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it exists all around the world. You know. They're
Speaker 1: terrorist attacks in the name of ISIS or al Qaeda
Speaker 1: or various offshoot groups all over the place in Africa
Speaker 1: and France and wherever as we know. So yeah, one
Speaker 1: more note about the armaments the administration is assembling. Not
Speaker 1: all of the weapons the US could use to strike
Speaker 1: Iran are currently in the Middle East, nor even need
Speaker 1: to be. This is worth remembering. The two stealth bombers
Speaker 1: have long trained to carry out Middle East missions directly
Speaker 1: from the US, as they did in June against the
Speaker 1: fordoh plant there, or from joint US UK based Diego
Speaker 1: Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Other long range US bombers
Speaker 1: can do the same, and in fact, trumpa wrote in
Speaker 1: a social media post Wednesday, which is a curious way
Speaker 1: to communicate, but that's what he does, that quote, it
Speaker 1: may be necessary for the US to use Diego Garcia.
Speaker 1: So on a completely different topic, I can't believe we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about this yet. Oh coming up, science explains
Speaker 1: the quad god's choke. I want to hear about that.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm as a guy who choked always in every
Speaker 1: athletic endeavor. I'm fascinated by that that it reached a
Speaker 1: guy at that level, well right, a guy who had
Speaker 1: every bit of the confidence you lacked. He's still freaked out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it has to do with apes, apes apes. It's a factor,
Speaker 1: end of the science anyway, nervous apes who are terrible
Speaker 1: figure skaters. That's the experience. I'm giving it away. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he can't land a single quad an experiment. They strapped
Speaker 1: skates on apes. They showed him a bunch of videos
Speaker 1: and oh it went so poorly. They put him in
Speaker 1: the sequence and write nothing. They just sat there right,
Speaker 1: complete waste of time. So here's here's the one that
Speaker 1: I kind of sort of cringingly want to talk about.
Speaker 1: Have you heard about Congressman Tony Gonzales, a Republican of Texas,
Speaker 1: part of the report Splicans incredibly slim majority in the House.
Speaker 1: He had an affair with his super hot young mom,
Speaker 1: aid married mom, broke up with her and he's married. Yes,
Speaker 1: they're both married. Okay, I'm ninety percent here. I think
Speaker 1: he's married. It's bad either way, but yeah, right, I
Speaker 1: can't swear he is married. But anyway, and she went
Speaker 1: from keyaid rising star to yeah, why don't you empty
Speaker 1: the trash cans and do the toilets? At work and
Speaker 1: at home? Her husband and father of her beautiful young
Speaker 1: child found out of all about all this that sucks.
Speaker 1: Family fell apart, as you might expect, and she poured
Speaker 1: gasoline all over herself and set herself on fire in
Speaker 1: the backyard of her home in Uvalde, Texas, of all places.
Speaker 1: I saw the story, but I didn't know that this
Speaker 1: was the background on it. Woweah, Why did she go
Speaker 1: self immolation on this as a show of pain, anger,
Speaker 1: self hatred? I don't know. Possibly kind of crazy, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's rough. The explaining that to the kids, Oh my lord,
Speaker 1: can you imagine? So anyway, the headline I think in
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal is quite appropriately Texas Republican Gonzales
Speaker 1: faces of fair allegations ahead of GOP primary and scrutiny
Speaker 1: for everything he's up to. He's done, isn't he? You
Speaker 1: can't have your your girlfriend who's married with a child,
Speaker 1: set herself on fire because you broke up with her
Speaker 1: and say I'm here for the people of Texas. My
Speaker 1: opponent's last girlfriend set herself on fire. Is that one
Speaker 1: we want? It's too easy, no kidding. Top couple Republican
Speaker 1: challenger called for him to drop out of the primary race. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it might be a good idea. Jeez, Louise, your last
Speaker 1: girlfriend dropped out of the human race. Yeah, if you've
Speaker 1: ever even thought of uttering, you know, if we break up,
Speaker 1: I'll do blank to myself. You really, you really have
Speaker 1: mental health problems. Oh my god, but this gal and
Speaker 1: you know, they're both really good looking people and all
Speaker 1: I just yeah, the the high flying, super hot I
Speaker 1: can get sex when I want it set, which is
Speaker 1: not a set I belong to. Oddly enough, there there
Speaker 1: are real hazards there, these two maroons. She's hot, I'm hot,
Speaker 1: let's get together. She's got a little kid. I'm a
Speaker 1: congress and let's not worry about it. Yeah. Wealth and look,
Speaker 1: so most people have those lines drawn for them by life,
Speaker 1: right of how many options you have out there, If
Speaker 1: you don't have those lines drawn for you, like a
Speaker 1: small percentage of people through looks and wealth. You gotta
Speaker 1: have a lot more discipline. I guess yeah. The husband,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. The lawyer who represents the husband said in
Speaker 1: an interview he wants to see Congressman Gonzalez quote stand
Speaker 1: before a microphone and say, I, Tony Gonzalez admit that
Speaker 1: my conduct with this young lady is the reason of
Speaker 1: her demise. Oof, that's a lawyer talk. And you know,
Speaker 1: Tony Gonzalez wasn't married to the husband she was. And
Speaker 1: it's possible. We're not on in uve all Da, Texas
Speaker 1: right now. We're on a lot of places. They might
Speaker 1: be able to hear us anyway. They can get the
Speaker 1: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. They probably follow us
Speaker 1: wherever podcasters are distributed. It's possible. He finds out she
Speaker 1: sets herself on fire, and like, yeah, I'm not surprised,
Speaker 1: I mean, was about right, Yeah, that she was kinda
Speaker 1: kind of emotional and on the edge of saying possible,
Speaker 1: I don't know. All listen, it's a tragedy. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of suffering here, and I don't want to make
Speaker 1: light of it, but yeah, it's entirely possible. They started to,
Speaker 1: you know, getting it on as it were, and he realized,
Speaker 1: holy cow, she is completely nuts and thought, I got
Speaker 1: to get out of this somehow. Oof oof is right, man,
Speaker 1: that'd be a tough one to carry around. Fidelity folks
Speaker 1: makes life so much easier. Who has its rewards too? Oo?
Speaker 1: Wow that phone call, nipes? Yeah, bad news about your
Speaker 1: ex girlfriend. Hey, we've got mailbag coming up. Everybody on
Speaker 1: a cheer ear no uh yeah? And then more news today,
Speaker 1: and we are going to talk to a reporter about
Speaker 1: the social media trial, which I think is super interesting.
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Speaker 1: figure skaters men and women suck. Oh, but our hockey
Speaker 1: skaters men and women might win the gold medal. So
Speaker 1: can any of our hockey skaters do quads? Could we
Speaker 1: have it like our goalie go out there and win
Speaker 1: the figure skating or something, because our hockey skaters are good,
Speaker 1: really good, like best in the world. Yeah yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. We're better at beating people up than twirling
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Speaker 1: From the great Ludwig von Nises and his classic Human Action,
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Speaker 1: as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water. Ah, I
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Speaker 1: Which we'll get to it. It's big, big city, too
Speaker 1: big town. But Darren writes hello jents. Joe often says
Speaker 1: that we are at the beginning of the end of
Speaker 1: the madness. No, Darren, no, no, no. I have no
Speaker 1: skills but wordsmith three. I cannot build a decent table.
Speaker 1: I suck it golf, but I string words together pretty
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Speaker 1: the headline. I can't even believe it. On the topic
Speaker 1: of why Redhead's disproportionate convert to Islam. According to one
Speaker 1: of our other listeners, Yeah, not sure that's statistically true.
Speaker 1: Joshawn writes, I know what's going on with the redheaded Muslims.
Speaker 1: They're just looking for a soul and a reference to
Speaker 1: the nineties South Park narrative or twenty ten have no soul,
Speaker 1: gingers have no soul. I didn't realize south Park started
Speaker 1: the Wow wow jeshan wow. Moving along to Michael's three
Speaker 1: sounds in nature that you should pay he do. They
Speaker 1: are dangerous? Man? Can you play the yes? If you
Speaker 1: didn't catch that segment yesterday, that was an epic, epic,
Speaker 1: armstrong and giddy segment. It was, indeed, Yeah, can you
Speaker 1: play just the first one? Michael? That of course clearly
Speaker 1: as it turns out a branch breaking well. Monty from
Speaker 1: Montana rights guys. I've been a tree area firefighter, sometimes
Speaker 1: known as a wild Lend firefighter for many years. I
Speaker 1: actually had a visceral reaction to hearing the crackling falling
Speaker 1: tree sound today in the Dangerous Outdoor Sound segment five Weekend.
Speaker 1: Dead trees called snags are constant. I'm sorry, fire weakened
Speaker 1: and dead trees called snags are constant threat in our office,
Speaker 1: and almost every one of us has had multiple close calls.
Speaker 1: That free tree falling crackling sound from your soundtrack is
Speaker 1: familiar to all wildline firefighters and makes most of us shudder. Look,
Speaker 1: who's laughing now? Michael may have saved lives. That was
Speaker 1: the point with that, right radio theater of the mind anyway,
Speaker 1: Give a shout out to the Tree area firefighters for
Speaker 1: the difficult and dangerous job they do. Thanks for doing
Speaker 1: what you do. He looks forward to every show. Thanks Moni,
Speaker 1: and thanks for the note. That would all makes sense
Speaker 1: to you if you go back and listen to that
Speaker 1: segment Armstrong and getting on demand the podcast yesterday's show,
Speaker 1: Adam writes the dangerous sounds brought to attention by Michael
Speaker 1: or no laughing matter. I was in a tree area once.
Speaker 1: Michael couldn't come up with a word for a forest.
Speaker 1: He's a tree, Yeah, forest anyway, and witnessed an elderly
Speaker 1: man get hammered into the ground like a nail when
Speaker 1: a giant branch snapped off during augusta wind. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: and it was dir It was at the end of
Speaker 1: a fishing derby. It was horrible, he says, obviously, but
Speaker 1: the show must Why does that make it worse? Why
Speaker 1: does the fishing derby make it worse? Well, everybody was
Speaker 1: gathered to have a good time and compete and pull
Speaker 1: fish out of there, so that I've had been gathered
Speaker 1: for a funeral a bad time. It would have been
Speaker 1: better to get driven into the ground like a nail.
Speaker 1: I see your point, but there's more to the story.
Speaker 1: It was horrible, obviously, but the show must go on,
Speaker 1: or the raffle in that case, And it was really
Speaker 1: awkward because they kept calling ticket numbers that would go
Speaker 1: and claimed, and everybody was muttering about whether or not
Speaker 1: they checked the old guy's pockets. Oh my godd anyway,
Speaker 1: be safe out there, y'all, and thanks for bringing our
Speaker 1: attention to the thing Old Jim gets driven into the
Speaker 1: ground like a railroad spike. Well with the raffle must
Speaker 1: go on? Six seven eight two. Has anybody got that
Speaker 1: we have a fruit basket? Six seven eight two? Hey,
Speaker 1: I got an idea where number I saw Jim buy
Speaker 1: like ten tickets adam him. I salute you, my friend,
Speaker 1: for that email. God, you gotta cancel the raffle after that,
Speaker 1: I don't know people paid money in what are you
Speaker 1: going to keep it? Well? You raffle e the low's
Speaker 1: the lawn man. What are you, Prince Andrew? You gotta
Speaker 1: fulfill your obligation. What are you, Prince Andrew? You know
Speaker 1: I've got a lot more great emails. We'll squeeze him
Speaker 1: in next hour. That's funny. Yes, we have much more
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