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Tony Romo.

He's made tens of millions in his second career after the NFL.

Where are you coming from?

Go for it.

But this on-camera performance near downtown Milwaukee back in July put his future in TV

Unhole, a strong odor of alcohol.

Feet together?

A poor execution of field sobriety tests.

So what am I doing?

The father of three boys pleaded no contest to charges of driving while intoxicated.

This public apology followed.

Romo said, multiple back surgeries left me with constant debilitating pain.

A dependence on pain medications and my efforts to get off those medications led to an

overreliance on alcohol.

Mm.

It's interesting to drive drunk.

You just can't.

No, and you shouldn't, and it's bad.

And people get killed because of drunk driving.

But the way we treat these things, I don't get it.

I mean, if this is, you know, it's fifth time or whatever, it happens to lots of people.

And like, do you just, I'm sorry, we can no longer be friends, Jim, for the rest of our

lives, or you can't work here or whatever over that one he was golfing with friends and

had more to drink than he realized or whatever.

I don't want it to not be a crime or anything like that, but we don't cut off.

But for celebrities, we have this, there are found to be a child murderer standard.

Right.

We've, as a society, decided on a sanction for this crime.

And it does not include necessarily public, like humiliation.

You're going to be embarrassed, but not like it's not like an orchestrated campaign of

humiliation and loss of career.

Right.

Show me where that is in the statutes.

It isn't there.

It's interesting.

Yeah.

And I tell you what, and it's alcohol is underrated as a pain killer.

But I'm dealing with either chronic pain stuff or like injuries.

That's when I want to drink because a man, it just, it's the best pain killer on earth.

But it's a bad habit.

I don't know if you heard that.

So we didn't talk about this.

I don't think at all.

Couple of weeks ago, there was a big announcement that two Pennsylvanians had died of the measles.

And the portrayal of the story and the roundtable discussions on cable news were all about how,

and you know, the direction this is going to go.

RFK Jr.

Because his anti-vaccine has caused lots of people to not get vaccines.

And now a disease that we mostly had under control, like measles is making a comeback.

In fact, Josh Shapiro, the governor of the fifth-started largest state in America, held a press

conference to announce two measles deaths.

And that's one of the things the free press is on about today is, why is the governor of

a big state taking time to announce the death?

It's a relatively, it's rare.

It's both rare and common.

Well, what is the right term for that?

It happens.

It happens.

People get measles now and then and die from it and have all through the vaccinated period

of measles.

It doesn't happen very often, but it does happen sometimes.

It's not a shocking occurrence if it would happen.

It's not the sort of thing your governor goes and has a press conference about.

And then the added layer, and you know exactly what's going on here, but the added layer of

this is the CDC has not confirmed these as deaths from measles.

The media immediately went to all of the Trump administration trying to pretend, trying

to cover up the fact that their anti-vaxxer.

The free press says looking into this, there's no confirmation whatsoever that these are

measles deaths.

What it looks like to the free press is these are people who died of a, it's exactly the

COVID thing.

They died of other things and had measles.

It's like the did you die of COVID or from COVID thing with COVID, with COVID thing.

Yeah.

Did you die from COVID or with COVID?

Did people did they die of measles, the measles or die with the measles?

And it looks like one of them died with the measles.

And the other one may not have had measles at all.

And it's perfectly legitimate, according to the free press, who does not have either Trump

derangement syndrome or stand up for Trump syndrome at all at the free press.

It's just saying this is replaying the whole COVID era nonsense.

The media and the Democrats and the New York Times tried to make this exhibit A of the

anti-vaxx hysteria of JFK junior causing people to die from measles.

And then there's a cover up and it goes back and forth and everything like that.

But we haven't gotten any better than we were back during the COVID era on this story.

Let me give folks a hint.

Folks on the left, especially the New York Times.

Hey, when you try to prove your case with crappy evidence, Trumped up evidence, you're

weak in your case.

You don't strengthen it.

You're weak in it.

Try to stop doing that.

Yeah, I know you won't.

I'm glad you mentioned that.

That's one point that this author I should figure out what their name is and mention.

But that's one of the points they make here in this article is all it does is discredit

the whole thing more to where people don't believe either the, you know, either side of

it because it becomes so political so fast.

Their main point is the governor having a press conference to announce to measles deaths

is ridiculous.

That's not a thing.

Yeah.

Well, much like when Gavin Newsom makes an ass of himself, some I regularly try to elevate

his national profile.

That's what Josh is doing.

He was just profiled in the Wall Street Journal today.

I think it was as an example of a persuader in politics who helps people who are undecided,

see the real story and he's the opposite of a like a rabble rouser that just fires people

up and gets them to the polls.

He's an ideas guy.

So ironic timing.

Did measles kill two Pennsylvanians or not and says it's perfectly okay that the CDC

is investigating this further before they declared these measles deaths because it's very

squishy as to whether that's true or not.

But all the news outlets, including the New York Times with splashy headlights jumped on

it immediately.

We are exactly in the same conversation as we were during COVID.

There are a handful of topics and this is clearly one of them where it takes so much work

to get past the dishonest brokers and the ideologues and the evidence twisters.

The whole vaccine thing and people who believe whatever wackadoodle website they favor.

It's one of those stories that I've, here's my talent Jack, my secret talent.

I look at a topic and I think, all right, I can guesstimate how much of my life is

going to be spent trying to get a handle on this thing.

On that topic, I've just decided, no, no.

I'll focus on 50 other things.

That's probably why it didn't come up on the show when everybody was talking about these

measles deaths as being a, you know, a harboredger of things to come in the RFK junior health

world.

Thanks to the free press for looking into it and saying, no, I don't even look like it

is the measles.

I got the world's worst memory and you're not a ton of help on stuff like this because

neither one of us have that encyclopedic.

Oh, yeah, that was Congressman Jones back in 84.

Anyway, Alex Barenson wasn't he the less famous half of the Jake Tapper book when that

came out?

No, no, different.

Yeah, he was, he was the co-writer is something big.

Yeah.

All right, never mind.

Doesn't matter.

Take your word for it.

The blind leading, the blind, the forgetful leading the senile.

The number's going on here.

Let me do this health note before we take a break and move on to something else.

People text me about it, ask me about it because lots of people are either on GLP ones

or thinking about getting on a GLP one.

I have been on Zeppbound for two and a half weeks.

I constantly either feel a little nauseous or a little full or something.

I haven't liked the way I felt the entire time.

Just oh, I anecdotal evidence.

Katie, you?

I feel fine, but good.

Jack, do we have a VM?

Oh, we did finally get there yet.

Okay.

I think like six days.

I think I've got national nightmaris over.

I think I've got that nailed down on what I got to take of this or whatever.

But I'm so tired.

I've been going to bed at like 730 at night.

Yeah, you need blood.

Seven days a day.

Yeah, I've been so tired from and I didn't know why.

So I as a GPT in can the GLP one make it tired and it says, yeah, that's for whatever

percentage of people, it makes you incredibly tired.

Possibly because you're not taking enough calories and I realize just that I took in like

a thousand calories.

If you take in only a thousand calories in a day as a guy who's six foot tall, you're

going to be tired at the end.

You're not you're not taking in enough calories and also your metabolism is working overload.

So that's going to exhaust your body from the inside out.

So the question if you're thinking about trying one of these is do you want to get into

the chemistry game of making sure you get the right amount of fiber so you can have your

BM or do you ever want to be and that you're not tired at the end of the day or whatever.

I don't know if I want to do you ever want to be and again.

Hmm.

Would be nice whenever I had to ever but I don't think that's an oh, I would miss it.

But you know, so we're not in a trade war with Canada according to Scott Besson, but

the words are flying back and forth with savagery across the border.

It's really too bad more on that to come.

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So the non war with Canada coming up in a couple of minutes.

Let's see what else do we have that's exciting.

Oh my God.

This might be my favorite story of the day.

A Ukrainian influencer infiltrated a Russian zoom meeting about drone production.

Oh, I love that.

And oh, did he dick with him?

Sorry for the Frank talk.

And oh, so good.

The war with Iran seems to be back on and we'll talk to Mike Lyons at some point about

that.

So stay here.

Armstrong and Getty.

We discussed AI.

We discussed global imbalances where the Canadians have been very strong and we discussed

how do we put the trade situation back together.

And I think that's going to have to be done at the leaders level.

Scott Besson there, the US Treasury secretary who's now like the de facto half a secretary

of state, half a secretary of war.

He seems to be the lead guy in a handful of things talking about the ongoing talks with

Canada over trade and tariffs and the rest of it.

I'm not a big fan of what's been happening so far and neither is the prime minister of

Canada who's only the prime minister and the liberal party is only in power because Trump

messed with them and they got the chance to show how tough they were.

They were about to get swept out and change Canada for the better.

But anyway, here's Mark Kerkney.

And when the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough

and start being serious about having those discussions.

We can have those discussions.

But it's not constructive.

But that's our democracy.

It's hard to pay attention to the guy unless there's music behind him.

And when the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough

and start being serious about having those discussions.

We can have those discussions.

But it's not constructive.

But that's our democracy.

I believe the humor there with Trump accompanying him on the recorder thing is.

So it's like that he's a winner.

Is Trump up in the corner of the video playing that instrument?

Something like that.

I don't know.

Hanson was trying to tell me what he was speaking in riddles.

Anyway.

So, uh, uh,

Bessent suggested that Prime Minister Karni was to blame for the current political shouting

match between the two countries because the keeping the fight alive was good for his

poll numbers.

Um, let's see, uh, he was asked if his country is in a trade war with Canada.

And Bessent said, well, I don't think you can be in a tit for tat with someone that's

13 times larger than you are.

I mean, we're not at war with Canada.

How are we going to be at war with Canada?

What are they going to take their two submarines from the Edmonton Mall and sick them on us?

Oh, that's not helping.

No, that's the throwing shade part.

Why are we do it?

Why are we picking fights with our closest allies?

Explain to me how that helps anything.

Yeah.

Lord.

Uh, I came across this, uh,

Trump said this yesterday.

I don't know if I can find it real quick, but it was about how much money,

how much money will save by winning this trade war?

And most economists don't seem to think that that is accurate.

Well, he's had like three different pretexts for why we need to hammer Canada.

First it was the laughable fentanyl claim and then it was, I don't even, there's something

else.

And now it's that we have a trade imbalance.

It's because we buy their oil because it's good oil for us to refine.

We don't need their products.

So if we cut off trade with that country, we just made $40 billion.

You do a few countries like that and we become a big money machine.

Um, a number of economists have reactive that saying that's not the way it works.

Yeah.

Can, Karnie pulled Canada's negotiating team in late August after the US team introduced

quote last minute changes that the government deemed unfair and un-economic.

He is a punk by the way.

Karnie's own to waste the skin.

He shouldn't be in office, but a waste of skin.

That's an inter-me.

You heard me.

Ontario's mere Doug Ford and Manitoba premiere, Wah Bikinu have both pushed back against

Trump with Ford inviting the US president to quote, kiss my ass.

We remember that one.

And Mr. Kino comparing Trump to an over the hill band playing out their last days in a

casino, which as shots go, it's a pretty good shot.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

All right.

All right.

Yeah.

And then a Bessent said, I think it's very unfortunate that the Prime Minister, minister

Karnie has turned this into a political shouting match.

He came to power on an anti-American anti-Trump agenda that's true.

He was 20 points behind in the polls and then he started this.

No, Trump started it.

All right.

All right.

I'm sick of this.

I don't think there's a little tense at the big G20 finance ministers pre-meeting in

Nashville, North Carolina, I guess, by the way, pretty, pretty snipy among us and

our allies.

So I pay very little attention to the trade wars.

I'd pay a ton of attention to the actual war wars.

Russia, Ukraine, us and Iran, hopefully not China and anyone, anybody soon.

I don't think you were here last week when I was talking about this think tank guy.

I was listening to making the point at

people who talk about Iran, Russia and China is being kind of an axis.

And then some people say, oh, no, they're not really.

They're not.

They are working together more in these wars than Japan and Germany and Italy ever worked

together during World War II.

That's an interesting way to put it.

Especially with the news that came out yesterday.

Well, you saw the president of Russia sitting down with the president of Iran and Russia

saying, we'll do whatever we can to help you.

And then a new story broke that they're supplying them with some super fancy missile technology

and everything like that.

These countries are working together China, Russia and Iran in a way that's very troubling.

And Russia is lashing out at Europe for their military and financial support of Ukraine

with through these gray zone attacks, cyber attacks, mysterious bombings.

That sort of thing.

That's what they could easily spread.

And we're going to talk to Mike Lines a little bit about all this coming up in just a

moment.

Stay tuned.

Armstrong and Getty.

The United States unleashing a series of airstrikes against southwestern Iran overnight.

According to sent-com, a variety of IRGC targets were hit, including air defense sites,

radar systems, maritime assets, mind-laying capabilities and communication sites.

And Trump told Fox News overnight, if they do respond, they'll be hit much harder.

This is a very big hit today.

If it goes a third time, they're going to be totally wiped out as a country.

And then you got the president of Iran sitting down with the president of Russia Putin yesterday

sitting together doing a little news thing.

And Putin said we stand with Iran in support and specifically said that they're going to

work very closely with them and trying to beef up their air defense systems.

Lovely.

So we've both got a narrow focus serious questions for military analysts.

Mike Lines then will go a bit broader, but Mike, how are you sir?

Welcome.

Hey guys, good morning.

Thanks for having me back.

What are your first thoughts on the re-engagement with the kinetic action between us and Iran?

Well, it's still not to the level that is really going to matter.

It's still to me somewhat responding back and forth.

I think the attack that we made at that Lark Island was a target of opportunity.

So to speak, it's the main threat of them having this capability to use coastal batteries

and close in weapon systems to knock out some of those ships that are going through there.

They go back to Jordan.

We use air defense systems to go back.

So I still don't think we're at that point yet where it's a full on military adventure yet.

Well good.

What did you make of Putin sitting down with the president of Iran and vowing to help

them out with their air defense systems and stand by them through this war?

Through their difficult times.

That's to be expected.

And the Iran you don't need to ally.

They're not going to get anything from Russia at this point.

They've got their hands full, continued in Ukraine with that situation there.

I, the Shahid drone inventories that we're trying to, that the Iranians were sending to Iran

or sending to Russia now are no longer happening.

And in fact, the Ukrainians are hitting some of those supply ships going from Ukraine to

Russia.

So that's more theater.

Vladimir Putin's in big trouble there.

And he knows it as Ukraine continues to not only win by not losing, but really atrit

most of those Russian forces that are sitting there.

So you described the current exchange of fire as pretty limited and not terribly significant.

To what extent do you think that's the president's restraint is based on our lack of armaments

that much jawed about topic lately?

Yeah, you know, a lot of conversation about that.

And I think you have to look at the analytical framework and how you know, you checked that

down.

You know, there is a clear difference between offensive operations and defensive deterrence.

And in most cases that stockpile had been towards defensive deterrence here.

But now if we decide to go on some much greater offensive operation inside Iran, but I don't

think we're going to need to do this.

But we're going to need more patriot missiles, tad interceptors, more time of hawks, more,

the canisters that we claim they were running out of.

Now, so there's no question we're probably keeping a lot of that powder dry, which is why

you'll not see another epic fury.

You know, that if we start that kind of operation that really starts the clock on whether or

not how long we can sustain it.

Maybe it's 18 months, maybe it's nine months, no one really knows.

Again, if you stand the defensive side, which is what he's trying to do with the blockade,

that just requires far less inventory than anything on the offense.

That's really the issue here.

So I don't necessarily concern about it, but it just depends.

It depends on what the mission is going to be.

Well, it surprised me.

And I'm a layman, so I don't have any idea what I'm talking about.

But I would have thought we were stockpiled to the point that we could get into a big

long war with China if we had to.

And it turns out we get into a pretty small war with Iran and hit them for a little bit.

And we're already dangerously low.

Were you surprised by that?

Well, you know, the thing about it is these weapons systems that we had been inventorying

for the past, let's say, 30 years since the end of the global war in terror there.

Since I, they expire and they come, they come dangerous to the shoot.

And we, for example, we took a lot of old artillery rounds and we sent them to Ukraine.

Those DPI, CM artillery rounds were something that were 13, 35 years old.

Was I surprised?

At some point, I had some information knew that the Navy probably wasn't ready to fight

this conflict in China, which is what the expectation was to be by 2028.

And then we did send Patriot missiles to Ukraine and it helped them out there.

But when you put it on paper, when you look down at it and you think about what's happening

and how the war has gone in Iran, it probably took a little bit more out than we thought it

was going to take.

Now, again, from a context perspective, I still don't think it's enough that we should

be completely worried about it.

We're ramping up production lines to what is the $22 billion worth of Tomahawk contracts.

It's a long-term answer and the 21-day emergency production orders are in.

So the production lines are ramping up on this.

But from a wholesale perspective, I think we're still going to be okay.

Talking to military analysts and Mike Lyons, Mike, we've talked a little bit about the

overlapping of the parties involved in the war in Ukraine and the battle against Iran

and China's involvement.

Number one, how do you perceive Russia?

What shape is Russia in the war in Ukraine?

And two, to what extent do you worry about this metastasizing at some point, as, for instance,

Putin is taking pot shots at various factories and such in Europe.

It's under the cloak of, you know, hired goons or mysterious cyberattacks.

But what do you think of that whole topic?

Well, a couple things.

Well, Russia still remains a vassal state of China.

And you saw China come out and say that they're not going to allow Russia to use nuclear

weapons.

And so Russia has to be very careful what it's going to do in the Chinese or have somewhat

passive-aggressive oversight of what they're doing.

And I said that.

They operate very well.

The Russians operate in the gray area.

They operate in that cyber space and they operate in that little green men with what

that's started this whole thing back in 2014 and to Crimea from the very beginning.

That's a place where they're comfortable in.

And because they're so attritted on the front lines and the amount of casualties they

take, they're just incredible.

They're just not able to do all these things at once.

And it's been their problem from the very beginning.

They've not been able to combine arms from a military perspective.

But they can't seem to get anything really going.

So anything that would happen, I think, would be a short-term operation that might do

something, but their capability to sustain anything right now is just not realistic.

So can you, you know, you spoke pretty optimistically about Ukraine's chances just a few minutes

ago.

Can you see Ukraine actually winning this thing, actually driving Russia out of the territory

they've taken?

I'm not sure I see that.

I see them again winning by not losing, not losing their original border when you think

about, you know, from a military perspective, it's all about that land there.

That air in the Dombas is just so destroyed.

And it's so, you know, it's not someplace for people that are going to be moving back

to anytime soon.

So winning means stopping means potentially like a North Korea, South Korea border.

And that's all that Ukraine needs to get right now.

What Dennis sure and says, I was not for Ukraine being in NATO prior to this for many times

or I'm not into it.

I don't, you would talk about that.

I don't think NATO should expand.

But in this case, clearly Ukraine deserves that opportunity to have the US nuclear umbrella

and the NATO countries inside of it right now.

Military analysts, Mike Lyons, always enlightening Mike.

Thanks so much for the time.

Good stuff.

Great guys.

Thanks for having me.

That's really interesting.

Yeah.

You think Ukraine should be part of NATO now?

That's a good point.

Why would you expend any soldiers to try to get back completely destroyed land?

That's going to be a no-go zone for many years, as long as Putin's alive, as sort of a barrier.

So yeah, you win by end of the damn thing.

Yeah, you read my mind.

I think Zelensky and his entire leadership are thinking, look, Putin is intransigent.

If we can stop the slaughter for now and agree to an uneasy situation where they have ownership

of that now completely decimated earth, we'll keep working on it.

Keep working on it through means both military and diplomatic in the days ahead.

That's probably something like the bargain I would strike.

It's just too many people dying for practically nothing at this point.

I mean, Putin is clearly just trying to terrorize Ukraine in this submission, which will never,

ever work.

There's zero chance that'll work.

Whether you look at the history of this sort of thing or Sebastian Younger just wrote

a great piece.

He'd just spent a bunch of time in Ukraine talking about the will of the people.

And oh my God, that there's zero chance they would capitulate to Russian say, all right,

we'll be a vassal state.

You can have our country zero.

Well, they've got generations going back, fighting these kind of wars to try to have a

homeland.

It's their national identity, really.

And Russians will be villains for the next 50 generations in Ukraine.

Um, yeah, they already were.

I know some Ukrainians.

I had another point that was going to make friends in Ukraine for Russia.

Oh, I've been thinking this for quite a few years now.

Surely this happens someday, doesn't it?

Where news breaks that Vladimir Putin was just in a car wreck.

Oh, the reports are he's dead.

You know, or some of the shoots went back to the head or whatever.

How has somebody not taken him out yet in a cleptocracy oligarchy like that?

How are some of the gazillionaires not thinking this is doing me no good?

Why are we?

Why is this happening?

It's the world's most dangerous idea in a system like Putin's because he's acutely aware

of what you just said.

Yeah.

Got to imagine what his day-to-day life is like, probably never sleeps in the same bed twice

like Saddam Hussein used to do.

Oh, so now's the perfect time to tell you about this.

So there are 14 Russian officials on this Zoom call talking their representatives of

Russia's Federation's Ministry of Industry and Trade specifically making drones for

drone warfare.

Okay.

They're having this 14-man Zoom call.

And this guy, ironically named Potemkin, is the chair of the proceedings.

And he says we can say that we have room to improve.

And then in the language of diplomacy took a bit of a shot about Chinese production

of drones, which now is public too.

And I hope that does them some damage.

Anyway, but then a guy pipes up.

And he says, yes, colleagues, there is this question.

How is it that Ukrainian engineers assemble effective combat capable on mandereal vehicles

in the space of three weeks in primitive conditions yet Russian aviation with everyone

here sitting at this meeting.

Billions of rubles spent and all we have is a little packet of certification documents

to show to our bosses.

And everybody's just like looked at each other.

Those that didn't have their cameras off.

And he went on.

How is it that the, on the one hand, the enemy Ukraine is fighting a war.

And meanwhile, at the same time, you're just siphoning off money from the state budget.

The video shows a tandy sitting silently in response to the question after a brief cause

the chairman, Potemkin demanded that Mr. Volnov identify himself.

And he said, I am drone tech.

But can you explain yourself?

I mean, I'm sitting here.

And all I hear is blah, blah, blah, blah.

He was a Ukrainian prankster and influencer and media personality.

I just love that.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now all of it's problem is work.

And so I mean, yeah, that should make a lot of your Russian higher ups wonder about that.

Let's see, we're the big tough military with all the money and they are a bunch of guys

building drones and garages and they're beating it.

So this what's going on?

Yeah.

And then he said, well, that that would take him much explaining.

But at least three conference room of 10 full of attendees were shown picking up papers

and walking off camera rather than staying and answering this Volnov guy's questions.

For whatever reason they didn't disconnect him.

And so he went on, you all are co conspirators with the regime and you'll be held responsible

for its crimes.

It doesn't matter what your job is.

You know what you're doing and you know that your hand is in the blood of innocent people,

children and women.

He blasted them as they left the conference.

Yeah.

Love that.

Well done, sir.

Well, here's an important question for you coming up.

Have you ever hit your head so far?

You thought it was going to be good if I get to the words out.

Have you ever hit your head so hard you couldn't have sex?

That's what one woman is climbing about her husband who got hit in the head with a hockey

puck.

Now she can't get any and she's suing for lots and lots of money.

Wow.

It's known as a loss of consortium.

We'll get into that.

The headline suggests itself.

It's a rhyme with puck, but not for the air.

It's kind of an interesting story coming up among other things, staying tuned.

Armstrong and Getty.

A lightning strike was caught on home security cameras last week showing a man walking along

a sidewalk in New York City, Staten Island when there was the bolt hit him and he fell

to the ground.

He got up, looked for help and then as he told the local newspaper, he bought a lottery

ticket.

I did.

That's an interesting theory.

Let's see, I got struck by lightning.

I'll bet I'm more likely to win the lottery.

I'm not sure that that makes sense.

I'm lucky today as the wisdom goes.

I guess.

Speaking of getting struck by things out of nowhere, you've got a woman and her husband suing

for millions because this guy got hit in the head with a hockey puck so hard that he can't

have sex anymore and his wife is not happy about it.

Oh boy.

This is a Los Angeles hockey star.

He's actually from Russia, I think.

Anyway, lives in the United States.

He's playing the hockey at LA Kings Valley ice center when a puck pierced his helmet.

I saw a little video and turned it off because it's gruesome.

He gets hit in the helmet.

The puck actually goes through the helmet somehow and then like lodges in his head and he

falls to the ground and blood goes all over the ice and it's a pretty gruesome thing.

I'm reminded of something you said to me when I bought my first motorcycle many, many

years ago.

If you have a $10 head by a $10 helmet, he needs to buy better helmets.

Well, it's the helmet manufacturer that's being sued by his wife who says she has suffered

loss of conjugal fellowship, sexual relations and companionship.

Honey, would you like to have conjugal fellowship tonight?

Hit by a puck, he can no longer constantly fellow ship himself.

Today he cannot regularly function.

The legal paperwork says there are intimacy problems.

They don't have the same sex life.

And she's not happy about it.

Me neither.

Um, different reasons.

The lawyer went on to say it's a recognized matter in California that if you lose a sexual

partner, that is a loss and you have a right to sue for that.

That's interesting.

I would agree.

I've known so many couples where there ain't sex happening.

But if it, and you know, it's just a, I don't know, loss of interest or not getting along

or whatever, nobody's suing anybody.

But if you can blame it on something, then somebody's responsible to the point of millions

of dollars because it's so impossible for you to go on with your life of not having

sex, even though like I said, I've no blame people for having much sex just for other

reasons.

No, I would never make a light of this poor fellow's fate, but I know when you're contemplating

damages for somebody who can no longer work, you look at their potential earnings across

a lifetime.

If you are, you know, a rocket scientist for SpaceX and you're making millions of dollars,

it's different than a common labor.

Sorry, it just is how much sex were they having and how good was it?

You have to know that, right?

To assign a number.

He's got to testify, hey, my hockey player husband was putting in that like he is a hat

trick every week.

As the judges say, do you have any home videos?

Evidence.

Like a, like you got any pairs, Hilton style memorabilia, as it were.

Seems like a little, I mean, the helmet, maybe the helmet man, the helmet was defective

in the manufacturers on the hook for the injury or whatever.

It seems like a bit of a stretch, but anyway, we'll see how it turns out.

Well, speaking of conjugal joy, the 5,000 sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln have docked

in Thailand.

I'd hide your daughters.

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