Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
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Speaker 2: See see, you're welcome to a brand new week. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, what's going to happen this week in your
Speaker 2: life and the ups and downs of your three score
Speaker 2: and ten that God gives you? What is going to
Speaker 2: happen this week? Good stuff, bad stuff, worse stuff, best stuff.
Speaker 1: You're just another stick it away answer to the man.
Speaker 2: That is an option a week much like every other
Speaker 2: week you've ever lived. Same job, same same spouse, same kidens,
Speaker 2: same route to work, same sore feet radio.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's this is not encouraging anyway.
Speaker 2: We're deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and getting
Speaker 2: communications compound, and today we are toiling under the title
Speaker 2: of the show.
Speaker 3: You know, the first one's just an expression of my mood.
Speaker 3: Anybody got any good news? Just so going through the
Speaker 3: damn headlines. But I like this one even better. Iran
Speaker 3: out of interest? What is going on with Trumpe and
Speaker 3: Iran that he just this is boring? Moving on what
Speaker 3: we need progress, The moving po or get off the pot.
Speaker 2: They're all meeting tomorrow, the big everybody's getting together tomorrow
Speaker 2: for a big meeting and reporting as just watching Tree
Speaker 2: Angst on Fox. Apparently among the plans being put on
Speaker 2: his desk or that'll be discussing tomorrow is taking out
Speaker 2: the IRGC leadership.
Speaker 1: So if I were those.
Speaker 2: Guys running the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, I would update my
Speaker 2: beneficiaries and my life insurance plans and and look.
Speaker 1: For look in the sky. Listen to Mohammed.
Speaker 3: You can get up to two million dollars in coverage
Speaker 3: without a medical exam. Yeah, he's gotta called that a
Speaker 3: one eight hundred number. Yeah, like on like so yeah
Speaker 3: by noon.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Well that's funny how that whole thing got
Speaker 2: put on the back burner during the trip to Iran. Hey,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't think a war could get bumped off the
Speaker 2: front page by anything, but it got. He got bumped
Speaker 2: off the front page by a lot, by a freaking
Speaker 2: Hanta virus. Yeah, so yeah, speaking of witch, speaking of viruses,
Speaker 2: you've been following the abolavirus there in the con a
Speaker 2: little bit. Yeh, I'm I'm really into the a Bola virus.
Speaker 2: What's old is new. Yeah, I got I got a
Speaker 2: full team coverage on the abolavirus. A little bit later,
Speaker 2: there's been an outbreak in people dying and what it
Speaker 2: is and what it isn't. But man, that so now
Speaker 2: that's a disease you don't want.
Speaker 3: Boy, if somebody offers you the Hanta or the abola, man,
Speaker 3: that's a coin for COVID or well die.
Speaker 2: Pretty much it's almost the opposite of COVID. The Thebola
Speaker 2: virus is the way some people treated.
Speaker 1: COVID, yes, which was very inaccurate. Speaking of war with Iran.
Speaker 2: So, the New York Times is out with their New
Speaker 2: York Times Siena poll, which I know, if you're just
Speaker 2: a regular run in the middle of person and you
Speaker 2: hear there's there's a gazillion polls that come out all
Speaker 2: the time, and another poll this and that and whatever,
Speaker 2: you ignore them. But the New York Times Ciena poll,
Speaker 2: they only do it, I think four times a year
Speaker 2: or something like that. They spend a ton of money.
Speaker 2: It's more researched deeper than like your average pole to
Speaker 2: gets a quickie poll that gets thrown up by CNN
Speaker 2: or whoever. Doesn't mean they you need to agree with it.
Speaker 2: But any who, they're one of theirs. Just came out
Speaker 2: this morning and right decision or wrong decision on Iran?
Speaker 1: Is that thirty percent? Thirty percent? And what right decision? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: good guess. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It wasn't popular at the beginning and it has gotten
Speaker 2: less popular. Thirty percent of people think that was the
Speaker 2: right decision to go to go into Iran. So of
Speaker 2: course the president made no effort to sell that at all,
Speaker 2: Like zero effort. Yeah, if you'll remember correctly, the State
Speaker 2: of the Union address was four days before the war started,
Speaker 2: never mentioned it, So I mean, there is no attempt
Speaker 2: to sell this thing to people. And then the price
Speaker 2: of gas goes up, and you got the compliant media
Speaker 2: acting like that's the only gauge of whether a war
Speaker 2: is worth it or not is the price of gas.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: But given the fact that what's.
Speaker 3: The failure's an orphan and success has a thousand fathers,
Speaker 3: the aimless strategy, in my opinion, has not helped a
Speaker 3: bit the stalemate, or so it would seem.
Speaker 1: The lack of good messaging.
Speaker 3: You know, you could change those poll results with a good,
Speaker 3: decisive victory. You know, settling is some of these problems
Speaker 3: and or just great messaging, and it hasn't been there.
Speaker 2: You know. One of the worst things or best things
Speaker 2: depending on how you look at it that ever happened
Speaker 2: to polling is when they started breaking down by party.
Speaker 1: They didn't do that until fairly.
Speaker 2: Recently in last I don't know how many years, but
Speaker 2: I think I think you had to start doing that
Speaker 2: because we're will polarize. Right, So back in the day
Speaker 2: you could look at the overall number and get a
Speaker 2: find it kind of a feel where like the bulk
Speaker 2: of people were. Then we got so polarized that if
Speaker 2: you see a fifty percent poll number, you realize one
Speaker 2: hundred percent of Republicans say yes and zero percent of
Speaker 2: Democrats say no. And that's how you get to fifty percent.
Speaker 2: And then what does that tell you? Does that even
Speaker 2: tell you anything?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: So, just as if it's two separate internal polls of
Speaker 2: each party answered my own question, I'm not sure it
Speaker 2: tells you anything. If you have a fifty percent approval
Speaker 2: of something that's one hundred percent for one party in
Speaker 2: zero for another.
Speaker 1: It's never that drastic, but it's close. For instance, on this.
Speaker 2: Rand number with thirty percent approval, five percent of Democrats
Speaker 2: seventy percent of Republicans.
Speaker 1: So what does that tell you about anything? Really? I'm
Speaker 1: not sure.
Speaker 3: The only thing I'd look at with any great interest
Speaker 3: as the Republican number, and the fact that it's seventy
Speaker 3: is strong, but not overwhelming. I'd say, behind the president,
Speaker 3: that's interesting. The fact that ninety whatever percent of Democrats
Speaker 3: hate it, that's the least not the least bit surprising.
Speaker 1: Of course they do.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure you learn anything from those numbers
Speaker 2: when you break them down my party. So I'd like
Speaker 2: to talk to a smart person about that. I'm polling.
Speaker 2: Speaking of witch polarization and where.
Speaker 1: We are now, we got a jam and ad in
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Speaker 2: Now here's my brief story, because then we got to
Speaker 2: start the show. Officially, I'm picking up my son downtown
Speaker 2: yesterday he helped at a rotary club barbecue because that's
Speaker 2: something he did with the Scouts. It's just one of
Speaker 2: the many great things I love about Scouts. So there
Speaker 2: he was involved in the community and helping this in
Speaker 2: that and sort of stuff. Pick up my son in
Speaker 2: the Scout uniform, and we're driving home and some little
Speaker 2: blonde chick college girl in a really cool little sports
Speaker 2: callar convertible. So she's going to a really expensive college,
Speaker 2: driving a nicer car than I had until I was
Speaker 2: in my mid fifties.
Speaker 1: She is, by.
Speaker 2: Definition, among the elite of the world. And she drives
Speaker 2: up next to me, flips me off and yelling I
Speaker 2: couldn't hear because my windows are up, and flips me
Speaker 2: off and rids in front of me and flips me
Speaker 2: off over her shoulder with their ponytail waving in the breeze,
Speaker 2: and are a little convertible so angry because I'm driving
Speaker 2: a Tesla cybertruck. I guess, uh, what the hell is that?
Speaker 2: That sort of thing did not happen not that many
Speaker 2: years ago, upper class twits selling revolution. She'd thinks she's
Speaker 2: a brave crusader of some sort.
Speaker 1: It's a conceit. It's entirely a conceit.
Speaker 2: You have by any definition world history, one of the
Speaker 2: greatest lives you could have. You're an attractive young blonde
Speaker 2: at a nice college, driving a really cool car your
Speaker 2: parents almost certainly bought you, which has.
Speaker 1: Precisely watched out socialist nouns, and.
Speaker 2: You're so angry right now on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2: That's how she soothes her own ego. Look at me,
Speaker 2: I'm not part of the bad people.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I'm white, I really really am, and I'm
Speaker 3: sorry I'm not poor.
Speaker 1: But let me scream I'm made a sinner.
Speaker 2: That then you'll like me, right, You'll accept me as
Speaker 2: a fellow crusader.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's so pathetic, makes you feel like you're done.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's like, how are you so angry about what I'm
Speaker 2: driving right now? This is crazy.
Speaker 1: I was just contemplating we need a new ang T shirt.
Speaker 3: I will support it proudly, but I can't decide should
Speaker 3: have say socialism sucks or socialism never works. I'd wear
Speaker 3: a socialism sucks T shirt all day every day and
Speaker 3: beat my only shirt. I get like five different colors,
Speaker 3: making my own my uniform right right wash around the
Speaker 3: weekend oh, like wash them and painted on your test
Speaker 3: to go shirtless on the weekend.
Speaker 2: Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe
Speaker 2: Getty on this it is Monday, May eighteenth. You're twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six, worm strung in getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's begin then officially, according to see rules riggs,
Speaker 3: here we go at mark.
Speaker 1: President Trump was greeted at the Great Hall of the.
Speaker 2: People by school children jumping up and down in excitement,
Speaker 2: shouting it's the man from the hats we make. That's
Speaker 2: a good feline, which also fits in with the Trump phones.
Speaker 1: You've even't followed the Trump phones story. Oh they were
Speaker 1: supposed to be a headline. That troubles me. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's a that's an that's a rough story.
Speaker 2: Anyway, We've got a lot of headlines around real important
Speaker 2: things coming up.
Speaker 1: I hope you can stay here. How about this headline.
Speaker 2: It looks like Pamela Anderson and Tom Cruise are a couple.
Speaker 2: Pam Anderson, you got to give me a minute. I
Speaker 2: know you're talking about two sex symbols still attractive, but
Speaker 2: you know both around about sixty.
Speaker 1: Uh, heyday was eighties. Really safety eighties calls, and once
Speaker 1: they're gossiped.
Speaker 2: Back, really they're well, they're still both big deals there,
Speaker 2: but we're both you know.
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise is still big deal.
Speaker 2: So she she's got a new show out that's supposed
Speaker 2: to be really good a series anyway, Tom Cruise, Hamla Anderson,
Speaker 2: So just weird. The idea that imagine how many times
Speaker 2: their paths have crossed is crossed as giant stars for
Speaker 2: forty five years or something.
Speaker 1: Like that, and now at this point in their lives,
Speaker 1: they come together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the autumn of their lives, exactly the autumn
Speaker 3: they finally opened their eyes.
Speaker 1: Are we in the autumn of our lives? I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm in a dead of winter. I define, shorts
Speaker 1: are put away and the heavy coats are out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's trees with no leaves on them. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So a couple of headlines the who it's the World
Speaker 3: Health Organization that guided us so valiantly and aid politically
Speaker 3: through COVID mother Blacker so oh Boy declared a global
Speaker 3: health emergency following an outbreak of a rare variant of
Speaker 3: ubola in Congo and Uganda because regular old ebola isn't
Speaker 3: scary enough.
Speaker 1: This one's an extra nasty one. I've got details on
Speaker 1: that coming up that are really excelling.
Speaker 3: How about Ukraine going nuts hammer in Russia with one
Speaker 3: of the largest attacks on Moscow since the invasion back
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two, over a thousand drone over thousand I.
Speaker 2: Don't get why they don't do this on a regular
Speaker 2: basis if they have the capacity. This was a reaction
Speaker 2: to Moscow hitting Kiev and killing two dozen people. Right,
Speaker 2: just blasted an apartment complex and then Kiev shot back
Speaker 2: at Moscow with the biggest attacks since the war happened.
Speaker 1: As you said, I don't understand why, if they have
Speaker 1: a capacity, they don't do it all the time.
Speaker 2: I don't feel like they need to justify it with
Speaker 2: getting attacked first. Yeah, I've been puzzling through that very
Speaker 2: question myself. Are they hoping for some sort of settlement
Speaker 2: soon and didn't want to.
Speaker 1: Or do they think?
Speaker 2: Do they think the world or maybe more importantly JD.
Speaker 2: Vans and Trump will turn on them if they If
Speaker 2: they are on the offense.
Speaker 3: Got to be something like that, right, almost has to
Speaker 3: be otherwise punish the crap out of right, I don't know.
Speaker 3: This is such a weird conflict. Is there a tendency
Speaker 3: of for Putin to go after more civilians if Ukraine's
Speaker 3: wore aggressive attacking in Russia and they don't want to
Speaker 3: court that sort of travel, I don't know. Speaking of
Speaker 3: wars and potential wars, we need to play this. Trump
Speaker 3: did an interview on Fox News Friday afternoon. This is
Speaker 3: after his trip to China in which he made a
Speaker 3: lot of news. In fact, I think it was the
Speaker 3: biggest thing that happened the entire week in his statement
Speaker 3: about Taiwan being a very good negotiating chip. That whole
Speaker 3: conversation is definitely worth listening to, and we'll get to
Speaker 3: that later.
Speaker 1: On the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: Sure sounds like he put letting Taiwan go on the
Speaker 2: table as a trade for something else.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 3: Speaking of our commie enemies, Cuba had been discussing plans
Speaker 3: to use drones to attack the US naval basic Guatanamo Bay.
Speaker 1: And maybe even the Florida Keys.
Speaker 3: Killing many of our drunk gay Americans would.
Speaker 1: Not be a appreciated it all.
Speaker 3: What, according to the Key West, well known hangout for
Speaker 3: our LGB friends I was there.
Speaker 2: Last summer for vacation with the kids. It's there's plenty
Speaker 2: of straight people in Key West.
Speaker 1: Ok.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm having stand up for our minority communities.
Speaker 1: Jack, you know what you do? You all right?
Speaker 2: Although we did walk by a bar that had a
Speaker 2: number of appeared to be gentlemen, yes, dressed gentlemen's club,
Speaker 2: you say, dressed as women well outside of this bar,
Speaker 2: and very very high heels.
Speaker 1: Not to make up, but everything like that.
Speaker 2: We walked by them and Henry turned to me. I
Speaker 2: wish I could say the words on the air, but hopefully,
Speaker 2: he said. I got three questions, Dad, What the f.
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: That was funny. Those fellows are confused, Henry. We hope
Speaker 3: they'll figure themselves out eventually. Also worth noting the giant
Speaker 3: prayer gathering on the National Mall in DC yesterday, I
Speaker 3: was promoted as a rededication of our country is one
Speaker 3: nation under God, which of course the New York Times
Speaker 3: appraised very very critically, trying to re establish the incorrect
Speaker 3: narrative that the US was established as a Christian nation
Speaker 3: when indeed the separation of church and state blah blah blah. Okay,
Speaker 3: when was the telling you when was the last time
Speaker 3: he went after a big gathering of Muslims New York
Speaker 3: Times and reviewed how a fundamentalist Islam in any form
Speaker 3: squares with modernity.
Speaker 1: I missed that article. Send it to me, I'll read it.
Speaker 2: That's a very good point also on that big gathering
Speaker 2: them all. The only reason I knew it happened was
Speaker 2: Fox News Sunday shn bream broadcast from the mall talking
Speaker 2: to Mike Johnson about the gathering. I had no idea
Speaker 2: it was even happening because I watched all the other
Speaker 2: news shows and there was no mention about whatsoever.
Speaker 3: I appreciated Mike Johnson, this could even be our freedom
Speaker 3: av En quote of the day saying, our rights do
Speaker 3: not derive from the government. They come from you, our
Speaker 3: creator and heavenly Father. Whether you consider them God given
Speaker 3: or quote unquote natural rights, He's absolutely right. The government
Speaker 3: exists to protect your rights, not give them to you.
Speaker 1: Talked about that a.
Speaker 2: Little bit with Tim while you were gone in his
Speaker 2: book Proclaiming Liberty.
Speaker 1: Oh so good.
Speaker 2: Here's another headline from the Not Serious File, And I'd
Speaker 2: be fine with as much not serious as we can
Speaker 2: get to today. Is the secret to men's longevity a
Speaker 2: great butt. New studies coming out showing that if you
Speaker 2: have a really great butt, particularly as a man, it
Speaker 2: is a sign that you were going to live a long,
Speaker 2: healthy life. Yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could put a couple of beer cans on
Speaker 3: mine and rest them there. I've got very muscular, very muscular.
Speaker 3: It's got a shelf that you could put beer cans on.
Speaker 2: I'm that muscular. Yeah, it's an interesting look. You might
Speaker 2: have to post pictures. I'm sure what he wants that.
Speaker 2: I'm trouble figuring the angle on that.
Speaker 1: All right, buddy.
Speaker 2: A lot more on the way if you missed a
Speaker 2: segment of the podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: On demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: Should the people of Taiwan feel more or less secure
Speaker 5: after your meetings with presents?
Speaker 1: I'm neutral.
Speaker 2: That's just a little bit of the interview that Trump
Speaker 2: did with Brett Bear on Friday at the end of
Speaker 2: the week and his big meeting in China and everything
Speaker 2: like that, and it.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of attention, and it should.
Speaker 2: I mean, it really sounded like he put Taiwan on
Speaker 2: the table as a bargaining chip. It sounded like he's
Speaker 2: going to treat Taiwan, the way he treats Ukraine. You know, hey, sorry,
Speaker 2: you're the small guy. That's what happens when you're the
Speaker 2: small guy.
Speaker 1: Get used to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's troubling. It is so more on that later.
Speaker 2: Speaking of China, you weren't here on Thursday. You were
Speaker 2: playing golf, is that right correct?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, an exciting multi day tournament. And how did
Speaker 3: that gore results coming up? My partner and I came
Speaker 3: very close to being on the verge of one step
Speaker 3: away from winning it.
Speaker 1: In other words, kind of we were top of the pack,
Speaker 1: but out of the money. There you go. But it
Speaker 1: was fine. It was fun. It was great fun.
Speaker 3: My body held up more or less, although my left
Speaker 3: wing and my left knee has written me in angry
Speaker 3: note which called me several several nasty names.
Speaker 1: Very sore. You have wings, that's knee, nie, Nie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have any wings anymore.
Speaker 2: You missed this nugget that I looked up. So they
Speaker 2: had the big meeting there in the Great Hall. They
Speaker 2: kept referring to the Great Hall. I talked a lot
Speaker 2: about how I just thought it was so weird that
Speaker 2: Trump and she meet there and all the kids are
Speaker 2: dancing and everything like that under the watchful gaze of
Speaker 2: a giant painting of Chairman Mao. And how the world
Speaker 2: just ignores that, the most deadly human in the history
Speaker 2: of the world. There's a giant, like fifty foot painting
Speaker 2: of Chairman mau there, and everybody just said, oh, you know,
Speaker 2: that's fine.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if you went.
Speaker 2: To Germany and there was a giant Hitler poster in
Speaker 2: Munich Berlin, and then nobody would ignore that. Anyway, the
Speaker 2: Great Hall there, how big is it? It's thirty acres big.
Speaker 2: That's how big that building is. Thirty acres.
Speaker 3: I wonder Trump felt like he had to build a
Speaker 3: new ballroom. It was built in the fifties by mile,
Speaker 3: but thirty acre building. That's absolutely stunning.
Speaker 2: We got more on that though, particularly the interview about Taiwan,
Speaker 2: because that's important. I think I had one more thing
Speaker 2: I wanted to say before I tease this. Oh, anyway,
Speaker 2: let me hit you with a little of the Abola stuff,
Speaker 2: because that is in the news.
Speaker 1: Joe brought it up.
Speaker 2: So the last big outbreak was in twenty eighteen of
Speaker 2: the Abola virus.
Speaker 1: It's pretty much.
Speaker 2: The worst virus on earth. I think, is there anybody
Speaker 2: that could beat that? Don't you have to eat a
Speaker 2: chimp or sex one up or something.
Speaker 1: Well, we're about to get to the how you speak
Speaker 1: the bowl of IRUs.
Speaker 2: It's named for the Abola River there in the Congo
Speaker 2: that's where it was first discovered, and it's a U
Speaker 2: you get it. And your chance of dying is depending
Speaker 2: on the situation, can be fifty to fifty which is
Speaker 2: pretty high, or it can be ninety percent. I mean
Speaker 2: if you're in if you're in bad health. But uh,
Speaker 2: In twenty eighteen, twenty three hundred people died. In between
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen, eleven thousand people died, which
Speaker 2: is and then every time there's an outbreak, it starts spreading,
Speaker 2: people start dying. Everybody's like, oh my god, and then
Speaker 2: it goes away and they're not exactly sure. That's one
Speaker 2: of the troubling aspects of it is they don't know
Speaker 2: why it recedes and doesn't just end up taking over
Speaker 2: the world. If you ever saw the movie Outbreak with
Speaker 2: Dustin Hoffman from the eighties nineties, whenever that movie came out,
Speaker 2: like an exaggerated version of the worst case scenario. If
Speaker 2: you had an a bowl of outbreak? How does the
Speaker 2: human humans spread happen? Once a human has infected, the
Speaker 2: virus speds through direct contact.
Speaker 1: It is not airborne. So that's very very good news.
Speaker 2: So I could, if there was an abola outbreak in
Speaker 2: my town pretty easily avoid getting it if I just
Speaker 2: stayed away from well blood or bodily fluids like urine, saliva, sweat, feces, vomit,
Speaker 2: breast milk, and seamen. I don't exchange those with only
Speaker 2: my closest friends. Really, you'd like that list again, you
Speaker 2: can go to the website. I don't know if I
Speaker 2: want to wait it again. Oh boy, a little sweat
Speaker 2: on you'd be. But you know, the feces of arm,
Speaker 2: with the breast milk, you got. You to have a
Speaker 2: certain relationship with somebody and for that to even happen, Well.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, though, you know, like at a golf tournament,
Speaker 3: if my partner had the ebola.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a warmish.
Speaker 3: Day and you get a little high five after making
Speaker 3: a birdie put all of.
Speaker 2: A sudden I got the evil e Well, don't high
Speaker 2: five a guy with a bola would be the well,
Speaker 2: he didn't know.
Speaker 1: We looked healthy. Damn you get sick pretty fast.
Speaker 2: The incubation period from the time of the infection to
Speaker 2: the onset of symptoms ranges from two to twenty one days,
Speaker 2: but usually toward the former, so within a couple of
Speaker 2: days of getting infected, you get pretty sick and.
Speaker 1: It goes fast.
Speaker 2: Symptoms usually start abruptly and progress through two main phases.
Speaker 2: This is for anybody listening right now who ends up
Speaker 2: with a bola. The early phase, the dry symptoms. I
Speaker 2: prefer the dry symptoms before I get to the wet symptoms.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Yes, sudden onset of fever, intense weakness
Speaker 2: and fatigue. I have that every day. Muscle and joint pain,
Speaker 2: headache and sore throat.
Speaker 1: I feel cold. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel kind of crappy at least, I don't know
Speaker 3: any wet symptoms.
Speaker 1: We did we did eat that monkey we found by
Speaker 1: the side of the road. I can't be it.
Speaker 2: The advance phase, the wet symptoms, vomiting and diarrhea, a rash,
Speaker 2: your kidney and liver stop working, and then internal and
Speaker 2: externing external bleeding. This can manifest and oozing from the gums, nipples,
Speaker 2: and both men and women.
Speaker 1: That would get my attention.
Speaker 3: Sometimes your ears, honey, you should really go to the doctor.
Speaker 3: You're bleeding from your nipples pretty much, wow, pretty much
Speaker 3: any of my own trust pretty much.
Speaker 2: Any orifice or orifice adjacent part of your body. Oh
Speaker 2: that starts to bleed, that could be like.
Speaker 1: Some of my favorite parts. Yeah, I don't know. Let's
Speaker 1: wait tomorrow and see if it goes well. It'll probably
Speaker 1: go away on its own. You're bleeding out of your eyeball.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, money you laughed to keep from me,
Speaker 2: and I'm passing out.
Speaker 1: It sounds horrible.
Speaker 2: Massive bruising under the skin from all the internal bleeding.
Speaker 2: Death is usually called caused by multi organ failure and
Speaker 2: severe dehydration. The average fatality rate for a bowl is
Speaker 2: fifty percent, though it has varied from twenty five percent
Speaker 2: to ninety percent and pasted outbreaks. It's hit villages and
Speaker 2: ninety percent of the people got it died, depending on.
Speaker 1: The strain and then the quality of care that you
Speaker 1: can get.
Speaker 2: But it u you, like you know, like we mentioned,
Speaker 2: you kind of got to really really come in contact
Speaker 2: with somebody to get it. So if it were airborne,
Speaker 2: obviously that would be a huge problem.
Speaker 1: But it is not. Oh goodness, six, Yeah, what was
Speaker 1: the what was the book? That movie was? Was that
Speaker 1: The Hot Zone? Is that writer? Was it out?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: I think the book was called the Hot Zone. Maybe
Speaker 1: the movie was called Hot Zone. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I read the book Hot Zone. If you've never read that,
Speaker 2: holy crap.
Speaker 1: Is that a good book? Oh boy, oh boy, you
Speaker 1: don't want that?
Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, before we take a break, we got this
Speaker 2: for you. We have this now, Michael, I will set
Speaker 2: it up, but we have the joke.
Speaker 1: Michael.
Speaker 2: Okay, I will set up a joke from Saturday Night
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Speaker 1: Any the way, I was watching the news this morning,
Speaker 1: TV News, and it said, if you haven't seen the
Speaker 1: accident that happened at an air show, we've got that
Speaker 1: video for you. And I thought I've seen it five
Speaker 1: hundred times, so has everyone else who watches any news.
Speaker 2: If you follow any news, I don't know how we
Speaker 2: break out of this hottest YouTube video of the day.
Speaker 2: News coverage that we have going on television.
Speaker 1: But you won't. It won't happen. You don't think God,
Speaker 1: I dang it.
Speaker 2: Even when we're at war, the lead story is, what's
Speaker 2: the coolest video that we've got today? Did a train
Speaker 2: hit a truck crossing the track somewhere, or a plane
Speaker 2: crash or something, Even though nobody has heard anything, any
Speaker 2: exciting video.
Speaker 3: We can lead them, As I've said many times and
Speaker 3: I will continue to say it, if you assembled all
Speaker 3: the greatest philosophers in the history of mankind, from Ben
Speaker 3: Franklin to Jesus of Nazareth and you know, all sages
Speaker 3: in between, and said, all right, what do you think
Speaker 3: would happen if we put never ending entertainment in people's
Speaker 3: hands so they could entertain themselves at any moment all
Speaker 3: day long. Good for their souls, are bad for them?
Speaker 3: And now you know the news is trying to compete
Speaker 3: with that.
Speaker 2: I never did get to it on Thursday. Maybe I
Speaker 2: will today, but I teased it a couple of times.
Speaker 2: They did a study. Did you have to do a study?
Speaker 2: You need to quote the study. They did a study
Speaker 2: where adults put away their smartphones for two weeks, and
Speaker 2: every single one of them said they enjoyed their life more,
Speaker 2: they were happier.
Speaker 3: Is that a shock to a single human being? It's
Speaker 3: worth repeating, though, It's like this. Studies at the schools
Speaker 3: where the kids. I saw an interview with the teacher
Speaker 3: the other day over this some school district that finally
Speaker 3: adopted the no cell phones. The kids are happier, according
Speaker 3: to studies. No freaking kidding, they're learning better, they're happier.
Speaker 1: No kidding, really, Laura, I haven't been watching TikTok shorts.
Speaker 1: You'd already know that, right.
Speaker 2: Okay, jam this in before we take a break and
Speaker 2: get to mail bag. Saturday Night Live had its finale
Speaker 2: on Saturday Night. A couple of things that became apparent.
Speaker 2: One Will Ferrell is still one of the humans funniest
Speaker 2: human beings who ever lived.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 2: Paul McCartney is stealing from people at this point if
Speaker 2: he's charging tickets for his concerts, which is unfortunate because
Speaker 2: the last time he was on Saturday Night Live a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, he did four songs and it
Speaker 2: was flip and awesome, two Beatles songs to Wing songs
Speaker 2: and it was so cool. This time, Oh, he can't
Speaker 2: sing anymore. He's a very old man. Did you watch
Speaker 2: any of that, Michael I did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's eighty three years old, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: fine and good for you. Paul. You seem like an
Speaker 1: nice guy, but you can't sing anymore, so don't charge people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if great granddad wants to warble a couple of
Speaker 3: tunes around the piano in the parlor, that's fine, that's charming.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyhow, they also did as they always do on the
Speaker 2: season finale, where Colin Jost and Michael ja the two
Speaker 2: people that do the news.
Speaker 1: One is a white guy, when is a black guy.
Speaker 2: They write jokes for each other, and I had to
Speaker 2: mention the races because they write jokes for each other
Speaker 2: that will make the other one look bad or be
Speaker 2: uncomfortable saying the joke, and they tend to be racial,
Speaker 2: especially from Michael Chase. So he writes jokes as a
Speaker 2: black guy for the white guy Colin jos that would
Speaker 2: make him really uncomfortable telling them.
Speaker 1: And here was one of them. Michael B.
Speaker 4: Jordan one Best Actor for his role in the vampire
Speaker 4: movie Sinners. A black vampire is just like a white vampire,
Speaker 4: except the only thing it sucks dry is the welfare scene.
Speaker 1: God admit I laughed really hard at that one.
Speaker 3: Well, I love that it, Oh, I really do. The
Speaker 3: only thing he sucked dry was the welfare stateeotype.
Speaker 5: We have got mailbag on the way stay here. You
Speaker 5: know in le fat the conversation that we usually have
Speaker 5: around that thing they do on Saturday Night Live where
Speaker 5: they write each other in appropriate jokes.
Speaker 2: It's so weird as a psychological twist. So he makes
Speaker 2: that joke. The crowd laughs like crazy at it. But
Speaker 2: you can't say it unless you present it as this
Speaker 2: is a joke. You shouldn't say what.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any that. That's what lots of jokes are.
Speaker 2: As Ricky Gervais has pointed out, and we've talked about
Speaker 2: many many times. The joke is I just said something inappropriate,
Speaker 2: and we're all laughing because we agree it's inappropriate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. They've just had in another.
Speaker 3: Because humor has long been it's okay to say things
Speaker 3: people aren't uncomfortable with because it's phrased as humor, and
Speaker 3: that's the way a lot of truth gets out. That's
Speaker 3: why every dictator can take anything but being laughed at.
Speaker 3: Humor has incredible power politically speaking, but so anyway, but
Speaker 3: so instead of that's been the reality forever. But now
Speaker 3: you've got to put one more layer to be politically correct.
Speaker 3: All right, now we're going to do jokes that you
Speaker 3: shouldn't do. And here it is, and then everybody give
Speaker 3: you permission to laugh.
Speaker 1: People didn't cry or march or nobody was hurt. It's
Speaker 1: so stupid, stupid.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, here's your freedom. Long quote of the day.
Speaker 1: Comes from.
Speaker 3: The Great Russian Asker Act. You know, I'm reading and
Speaker 3: I'm talking. Author Gostayevski h talked about this before I left,
Speaker 3: But I just absolutely love this. Uh, when violent becomes fashionable,
Speaker 3: anything literally anything can be justified and more than likely
Speaker 3: will eventually be done. And therein lies the real horror
Speaker 3: that one can commit the foulest and most villainous act
Speaker 3: without being in the least a villain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, radical, chic, revolutionary sheep. Well that's what I was
Speaker 1: thinking yesterday.
Speaker 2: After that, a little chick was flipping me off and
Speaker 2: mouthing whatever she was mouthing at me. Because I'm driving
Speaker 2: a Tesla. Some guy punches me in the head. Would
Speaker 2: she approve of that or not? Approve of that. Guarantee
Speaker 2: is she should approve of that? Yeah, and we're just
Speaker 2: like that far away from that sort of thing happening
Speaker 2: a lot, right, Yeah, yeah, mail Bag.
Speaker 3: Drops the note would your mail bag at Armstrong and
Speaker 3: getting dot com.
Speaker 1: I want to recognize, first.
Speaker 3: Of all, the many people who wrote lovely notes congratulating
Speaker 3: Katie and her hubby on the birth of their little
Speaker 3: baby Donovan. I'm so sorry I wasn't part of the
Speaker 3: official unveiling slash announcement on Thursday, but it sounds absolutely lovely.
Speaker 1: I've got to go back and listen to it.
Speaker 2: We had some great conversations that were charming and cute,
Speaker 2: and then also got to hear about all of her
Speaker 2: guts being taken out of her and laid onto the
Speaker 2: side and how our husband dealt with that.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oliver Organs, I've.
Speaker 3: Witnessed a C section and it is something else you
Speaker 3: won't forget it.
Speaker 2: I don't think I would watch, but her husband was
Speaker 2: happy to see her liver looked okay based on their lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing mine.
Speaker 3: So everybody, thank you so much for the notes, and
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Speaker 3: dot Com got this from just Steve enjoyed Friday's Best
Speaker 3: of episode hearing the Ben SaaS piece again, but it
Speaker 3: made me wonder. We lament that good people do not
Speaker 3: run for Congress. But when someone good quote unquote does
Speaker 3: run and wins, like SaaS, he resigns before he finishes
Speaker 3: his term.
Speaker 1: We'll never know if he would have been primary.
Speaker 3: But what does it say about Sas that he cannot
Speaker 3: finish his term as senator, or what does it say
Speaker 3: about us politics. Being a politician in the United States
Speaker 3: since its founding means getting in the dirt and fighting
Speaker 3: hand to hand, and perhaps good people are not cut
Speaker 3: up out for that role. True to that, There may
Speaker 3: be some truth to that, Steve, But I think what
Speaker 3: Ben Sass would tell you is I'm supposed to get
Speaker 3: into the dirt and fight hand to hand for what
Speaker 3: to just raise money for the Republican Party to stay
Speaker 3: in power. There was nobody on I'm speaking for Ben
Speaker 3: Sass here, there was nobody on my team fighting for
Speaker 3: good legislation to ensure the long term stability of the country.
Speaker 1: So I got out it was useless.
Speaker 2: I think that's why a lot of decent people are
Speaker 2: leaving Congress is they don't try to legislate the big
Speaker 2: problems of the world anymore.
Speaker 1: So what am I doing? You know?
Speaker 3: And Steve, it's an interesting question somebody in a position
Speaker 3: like that saying there's no constituency here for that. I
Speaker 3: can find no co sponsors, no teammates. I'm wasting the
Speaker 3: precious years of my life tilting against windmills. Or should
Speaker 3: he keep tilting and trying to get attention and change
Speaker 3: the tide.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: And then the flip side is people who are like
Speaker 2: perfectly okay with I'm fine with my career being I'm
Speaker 2: a star on Twitter and go to rallies and people
Speaker 2: cheer me, and I stay in office.
Speaker 3: I don't need to accomplish anything. This is a cool life.
Speaker 3: I'm an influencer. I happen to be a congress person. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I'm an influencer with a pension in healthcare. On
Speaker 3: speaking of healthcare, on the escape of the Wuhan virus,
Speaker 3: ferg and Chattanooga. Nice to hear the folks in chat
Speaker 3: Nuchola isn't reminding us, guys. It's been known that lab
Speaker 3: texts in China would take no longer needed lab test
Speaker 3: animals and sell them to the local wet.
Speaker 1: Markets for a little cash. Wow.
Speaker 3: The main test animal for the COVID virus was the
Speaker 3: tree shrew that has a very similar physiology to Americans.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry to humans. That might explain how the virus
Speaker 3: escaped the Wuhan labs and originally.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: I wonder And yes, he reminds us about how bad
Speaker 3: the lab security was there. We hammered that for years,
Speaker 3: and yet the US and news outlets are still massaging
Speaker 3: that part of the story of COVID.
Speaker 2: And you weren't for that, were you the CIA whistleblower
Speaker 2: that we played.
Speaker 1: I don't think you were here for that. I don't
Speaker 1: think so.
Speaker 2: But so he gave all that testimony about the CIA
Speaker 2: believed it came out of the lab immediately, and then
Speaker 2: Fauci got involved, and somehow it all got squashed and
Speaker 2: turned to a different story. Really interesting testimony the day
Speaker 2: Trump lands in China. So who's behind orchestrating that, because
Speaker 2: obviously that story's gonna get obliterated in news coverage. I mean,
Speaker 2: that couldn't have been an accident. I mean, I was
Speaker 2: like one of the few days you could have guaranteed
Speaker 2: it gets no coverage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is odd, very suspicious. I got another good
Speaker 3: one here, but no time will squeeze it in later.
Speaker 2: Cool, I'm gonna bring you up to speeding a whole
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