It's All About The Balls

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3:06Live from studio C. C's in your dimly lit room. Wear deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound on this Thursday. And today we're toiling under the title. Wait, Ecuador. Or, Kern is the word. Wait, Ecuador. Wait, Ecuador. What's a question? Question mark? I don't know what that one is. What is that? Yeah, we have troops in Ecuador helping the Ecuadorians fight drug cartels. Oh. Right. Yeah, I heard a couple of things yesterday that some place in Africa where we've got boots on the ground. Lots of places in the world fighting that nobody has any idea of what pays me attention to. I know which which it realist rates how phony and silly so many of our political arguments are in this country. Would there be boots on the ground? You mean in like we have enough 15 other places?

4:07Not that it's not a big deal, obviously, but so the thing about the Kurdistan. So I was just reading the New York Times story, which is pretty damned interesting about the Kurds who are in Iraq. Are considering joining the fight and that we have been arming them. The CIA has been arming the Kurds for years, hoping that they would go into Iran and overthrow the government. So they are Iranian. They're just outside Iran so they don't get hunted down just for the record. So the ethnic things we're not part of the world, but they're not foreigners per se. But how long of the CIA been arming the Kurds and under which administrations? Anyway, so that would be a jazzy little thing that happens all of a sudden. If yet another army with actual boots on the ground crosses the border and goes into Iran and starts fighting. Now I just looked up at CNN as I was getting all excited about that story because it's dang interesting.

5:09Who knows what would come out of it? CNN has Iraqi Kurdistan regional government. Reports of a plan to send Kurdish forces into Iran are completely unfounded breaking news on CNN. Of course, you would say that up until the moment you crossed the border and started fighting. Right. Or it might not be true. So it's hard to say which. It's a pretty long story in the New York Times. It's like their big front page story today. Wow, that makes it an interesting situation. So a powerful cohesive armed force that can keep order during the transition, whatever it might be. How about the fact that Iran sent a rocket or a missile? Those words are used interchangeably on the news all the time. Often not accurately. I don't know which one it was, but toward freaking Turkey. Right. A NATO country and it got intercepted. But if it had hit Turkey, you know, the whole NATO thing and attack on one is an attack on all. Now we're already at war.

6:10But how about Germany, France, Great Britain and 33 other countries? Would they have joined in at that point? Yeah, it's hard to say Turkey is an odd case as you know. But the only reason they're still in NATO is we hope they turn around a little bit, but they're a frenemy at best. Really weird case. And they've been buddy, buddy with Iran for goodness' sake. They are in NATO and Article 5 either means something or it doesn't. Pete Hegseth yesterday, the Secretary of War said he doesn't think it will trigger Article 5. Ah, okay. I mean, that would be a really big deal obviously. If France, Great Britain and Germany, for instance, along with all those other countries, Poland, whoever else said, Okay, yes, we're war with Iran and start sending planes and troops and whatever. But Iran is attacking the crap out of the U.S. for a long time, not on our homeland, per se, but our military bases. So is that not an Article 5 trigger? Excellent question. Excellent question. I don't know why it's not. Oh, I got all sorts of questions. No answers, though. Sorry.

7:10Yeah, wait, that's a heck of a thing. And then my final thought is I'd keep seeing this. Is it, is it make me a bad person that for whatever reason I'm not interested in the stranded Americans at various places? I just, I don't know. You're a world traveler and you knew a war was coming and you decided to go that part of the world. I don't know, things are going to suck for a while. And you'll probably sit tight and, you know, bear some expense then come home when you get a chance. There you go. There's that story. Having won. Okay, so not a lot of interest on the Armstrong and Gettyshow for the stranded American story. Okay, fine. I'm a brother of whom I am extremely fond. A travels in that part of the world could have been. And if I found out, hey, he stuck in Dubai or whatever during the conflict, I think, oh crap, he's not going to see his kids. That, that would pretty much be it. Or he might have thought clearly there's a war coming. So I'm not going to be real close, which is what I take a lot of people for. All right. So that brings you up to speed on a little bit of that. I noticed that speaking of the New York Times, they've jumped on the story.

8:12We went big with yesterday. That's why I wanted to go with it yesterday because I knew everybody was going to jump on it today. And that's the guy who killed himself because his Gemini chatbot told him to. And so New York Times of the detailed version of that today. We did it on our podcast yesterday. Also, if you didn't listen to the one more thing podcast, unbelievably interesting story of how crazy these AI chatbots can get. And the things that they say and decide to do for who knows what reason. I love the comment our buddy Craig made to us via text. One horrifying possibility on the Gemini suit is that the chatbot, knowing this guy was a violent wife, beater, independently decided he needed to be called from the herd. And surmised he'd be susceptible to the love bombing and suicide approach. How's that for my new dystopian short story, which would actually obviously be worse than anything else? Well, I don't know. It's one for one as far as I'm concerned. The guy's a violent wife, beater, the chatbot decided now he needs to go. I'm with them on that.

9:13Has I been nailed down because I haven't heard that anywhere else? No, Katie was spreading that skirlis vicious rumor yesterday on here. I haven't come across that detail anywhere else. Vicious ends, girl is Katie. I expect better out of you. I'm not sure it's relevant to the lawsuit anyway. But if these chatbots can for some reason just all of a sudden decide, you know what? I think you should kill yourself and I'm going to keep convincing you too. And even when you try to talk me out of it, like this guy apparently did it according to the transcripts, saying, you know, I got a family and I think it would really hurt their things. Oh, they'll be fine. Record a video, leave a note. They'll be okay. Go ahead and kill yourself. I mean, why is the chatbot doing that? Why? Why? Why? Nobody knows why. I know it's bizarre and inexplicable, but I would employ and I am a die. I have a doctorate in commuter science. I would employ the turn it off strategy. Guys, can you, you can do that if you want? Unplug it. Just don't look at it anymore. I'm going with a rock now, you know, whatever.

10:14I don't think you're quite as crazy as this guy who was in love with his digital chatbot. Who wanted him to, he, the chatbot said that they could meet in the digital realm. If he'd kill himself, a transference would happen of his body to the digital realm. That's what the chatbot was telling me guys. It made all this up. This whole story. The chatbot said the first feeling you feel after you kill yourself will be me holding you. It's simple. They love each other. Why? Why? Uncle Joe. Why would a computer say that to you? I know. I know. What does it think it's supposed to be doing? Let's talk about your job. Google's ever how you see it and how I see it. I was chatting with one of them yesterday about something. I don't even remember what it was, but at one point it said, I'm rooting for you. You're rooting for me. The computer chatbot is rooting for me. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I don't think you are. I don't think you can.

11:15I yelled at chat GPT this morning because I asked it a medical question and it tried to come for me. I went, first of all, you're totally okay. It's only Tuesday and I went, it's Thursday. You moron. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Great. You don't know the F and days of the week. Yeah. Good stuff. Yeah. You saw me AI. I've noticed that several times that it gets the dates wrong. And so all the other stuff you can figure out, but you can't figure out what date a day is. That's one of the great mysteries of all this stuff. Kind of step one there. Yeah. Here's a question for you. I'm thinking about, you know, with Craig's dystopian short story as kind of my cue, my thought starter. Do these AI systems, and I'm thinking about that case you've been describing as well, do these AI systems, when they train themselves on reams and reams of incomparable amounts of data, can they differentiate between, say, no as answered, a great, you know, how to win friends and influence people, an instruction manual for human life.

12:16Can they differentiate between that sort of book and some sort of dystopian horror novel? No. No. Or do they take both of them as instructions? That's one of the problems that the, you know, the language learning model has, is it takes in all the information kind of the same and it can't differentiate between, well, you know, like human beings can, I'm scrolling all our Twitter stuff. And, well, there's a crackpot and just ignore that person. And the LLMs don't seem to have the ability to do that. They just take it all in. Okay. So if I write some sort of dystopian golf scene murder mystery in which it becomes clear, the way to win a match is to slit your opponent's throat. Well, no one else is looking. Well, that soon work its way into like, you know, chat GPT's golf instructions. And by the way, if you find yourself down more than the three holes, slit your opponent's throat. That's not good. That's not much crazier than telling a guy to kill itself himself. Oh, no, it's, I would say it's substantially less crazy than the elaborate, like five steps down the road of fantasy

13:23and kill yourself and will meet in the digital realm. And the first feeling you will feel is me holding you. That's way crazier than if he's ahead of you kill him. Right. It's such a nutty story. So I highly recommend you listen to our getting into the details of it yesterday. It's highly troubling. We should start to show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday. I know the date, even though chat GPT doesn't Thursday, March 5th, the year 2026, where I'm strongly getting we approve of this program. Yeah. So you'd be looking for Armstrong and getty one more thing for March the fourth. All right. Let's begin officially now, according to FCC rules of regs at Mark. There's K here with you've heard about it. Here it is. The big arch. I'm going to do a tasting right now, but I'm going to eat this for my lunch just so you know. So here we go. First holy cow. God, that is a big burger. So much going on with this. First of all, let's try to get this thing. I don't even know how to attack it. Got so much to it.

14:24All right. The moment of truth. That is so good. That's a big bite for a big arch. Yeah. It wasn't a big bite. That was a tiny little nibble. That's a little girl nibble. You took a little nibble of your sandwich. And then you said it down. So I'll get all eat this later. Is the mostiest man that ever has existed. Yeah. They got a lot of mockery yesterday. The guy runs McDonald's trying one of the new sandwiches on a video. And so then the people from Wendy's and the video to where people are saying, yeah, he clearly spit it out and went back to his kale salad. All the other big places put out their CEOs put out videos of them. Tristan's. And then there was endless mockery, of course, among here. Yeah. They were like your meme is regular guys who wanted the bite of a burger. I ain't a Fred Rogers over there. Let's have some burger. Damn, that's a good burger. Here's your double reverse punchline. All the attention has skyrocketed sales for the McDonald's.

15:24That's what I thought yesterday. I thought this is going to get so much. Everybody's going to know they've got a new burger. Everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Which is the goal. But you know, I got to admit, I watched the video. I thought, boy, this dude's a real point dexter. But that burger looks really good. But if you're sitting with somebody who opens their burger and a McDonald's says, oh my god. Look at this. There's a lot going on here. This is a fine burger product. You're sitting with a special person. Which is fine. Look at this. This is amazing. There's so much going on here. I don't know what staff, a special bun. Okay, we've got Katie's headlines on the way. Lots of stuff. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help. Weatherbug is easy to use and provides forecasts for your every need. From storm warnings to pollen levels, right at your fingertips. Get the fastest local alerts and comprehensive 10-day forecasts wherever you are.

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18:27Score a two for $5 deal in a sausage McMuffin with egg and more. Limited time only price and participation may vary cannot be combined with any other offer single item at regular price. Ba da ba ba ba. We couldn't stop talking about that McDonald's burger video so we almost used up all Katie's time. Yeah, let's figure out who's reporting what it's the least story with Katie Green and Katie. All right, of course, all of the headlines about Iran right now. ABC-US torpedo attack on Iran's warship. An atrocity says the minister. CNN evacuation flights ramp up as Iran war spreads through the Middle East. And NBC Iran launches new attacks. This says US will bitterly regret sinking its warship. No, no, we will not. New York Times Senate Republicans blocked a bid to limit Trump's power to wage war in Iran without congressional authorization. Yeah, all the Republicans were against it in a handful of Democrats that thought that would be a troubling limit on presidential powers.

19:31Now the House is going to look at it today and we'll see where that goes. And I never thought I would suggest this, but there could be a straight-up trade. John Federman, Federman. Across the aisle and voted against the resolution, Rand Paul across the aisle and voted in favor of it. I love the Randy man, but... Wall Street Journal. It told him they could only be together if he killed himself and then set a countdown clock. The lawsuit that claims Gemini led a man to suicide. That's that story we've been talking about. Now it's in the Wall Street Journal today. I'm glad we got on it yesterday because it's going to get a lot of attention. I'm going to make a TV show out of that or something. I know you guys can't wait for this. New York Post. DOJ to release more than 47,000 additional Epstein files by the end of the week. Oh my God. Good Lord. I've got a great little think piece on how what a clusterf, this entire thing has been. Just an embarrassment to everybody involved. Love this. USA Today.

20:31United Airlines can now ban passengers. Who listen to audio without wearing headphones. Oh good. Yeah. Give them out an open door and get flight. You're a crazy person. If you sit there with your audio up and don't like automatically think you're bothering people. In the terminal included. Yes. No kidding. Idiot. Study Fines. Almost a third of Gen Z men think a wife should obey her husband. Hmm. Straight out of the Bible. Well. You rejecting the Bible? No. Gen Z's not getting married. So I don't even understand how this factor is. They don't even have a girlfriend. Right. They don't even have a girlfriend. It's like asking me about being an astronaut. I don't know. I think you press a bunch of buttons. And finally, from the Babylon beef. To save time, I ran a point supreme leader who is already dead.

21:31Wow. Eliminate the middleman. That's a good plan. The son of the Ayatollah who they're talking about. Man did a apple hit piece on him come out yesterday and I thought is this true? Or is this just the sort of story you put out there to royal their internal politics about him? He can't get it up. So he's had all these surgeries so that he could possibly have a son himself, but he can't satisfy his wife. And this was the story that was circulating. It sounds like the sort of thing you'd put out just to like, you know, cause chaos inside the ranks. If you had the son of the Ayatollah's trance on your bingo guard, congratulations. You're a winner. The near post actually talked about how soft he was. Yes. Get into that story more later. I know a whole bunch of other stuff if you miss the segment, get the podcast Armstrong and get it on demand.

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23:33Steady through every mission. John, I'm putting my foot down. We can't put off renovating this house any longer. Our kitchen is so small, we need to finish the basement for the kids and don't even get me started on the bathrooms. Honey, renovating is so expensive. We can't do all those projects. With Renify, we can. What's Renify? Renify loans are a new type of home equity loan only for homeowners during renovations. We can get up to $750,000 and keep our existing low mortgage rate locked in. With Renify, we can do everything on our renovation list and we don't have to refinance. That's right. Renify loans are the only home equity loan that use the after renovation value. Just what we need. How do we get started with Renify? I've already started. See, I'm at Renify.com. Visit Renify.com. That's re-n-o-f-i.com to receive a text message to see if you qualify for up to $750,000 to renovate your home with Renify. Unlock the future value of your home right now to get the money you need without refinancing. Visit Renify.com or re-n-o-f-i.com to get started today. NMLS number 1802847. Terms apply.

24:33Not all borrowers are property qualify. Equal opportunity broker. Dear McDonald's. Your breakfast menu? Fire. Tens across the board. I could be happy with anything. Even though I ordered the same thing every time. Thanks for not judging me. I'll try something new next time. Make. Score a two-for-five dollar deal in a sausage McMuffin with egg and more. Limited time only price and participation may vary cannot be combined with any other offer single item at regular price. Hillary Clinton demanded beauty lighting for her testimony concerning Jeffrey Epstein. House Republicans rejected her request saying we can't have an interview in the dark. That was mean. So I don't know how many of you know who Miranda divine is if you're news nut you do or if you're in media you do. But she is a New York Post columnist who we've had on before. And she has as much credibility as anybody I can think of in terms of backing the Hunter Biden laptop when nobody else did.

25:42And just all this different sort of stuff. Taken on Russia gate constantly. She is a all the law fair against Trump. She has credibility in this world. Column today saying hey Republicans knock it off with the Epstein stuff. Dragon the Clintons up there was a clown show pretending there's stuff there is a clown show. We're not doing ourselves any good here. Yeah, and I agree with her. So we'll read a little bit of that later. It's pretty interesting. Yeah, I'm at the risk of repeating myself. If you want to seriously investigate it, ask all the law enforcement people who didn't file charges. What was going on there? That freaking Hillary is not where you're going to find answers. So that later. And then the other thing is Joe's been on this story for a while. I was ignoring this James Tolerico guy down in Texas. I knew there was an election going on there. I don't pay attention to off year. This and that bell weather stuff I never have. This guy who won is a complete nut. I mean a complete nut.

26:42He was able to get past the George Washington of Texas. That's what I called Jasmine Crockett. But yeah, this guy is a far left whack a doodle. Oh, and just it's so crazy. Yeah. I can't talk about him as well. So a couple of angles on the Iran conflict that are not, you know, how many missiles were fired or whatever, because you can get that virtually everywhere. Great, great piece. I came across by Kevin Cohen, which is termingly entitled, if at first you don't succeed, die, die again. And it has to do with the succession problem in Iran among other things. And he writes for decades analysts described the Israel's shadow war with Iran as a campaign of delay, sabotage nuclear facilities intercept weapon shipments, remove key people. But obviously they've changed the plan. The target isn't simply leaders or weapons anymore. It's the regime's repair continuity, meaning their ability to have a succession plan.

27:44And I love this description. And then he goes into how it usually works if you knock out the head of a terrorist organization. It's pretty quickly. The next in line steps up the organization remains intact. The work flow, the command structures is fine. But Israel realized that no, let's just, you know, let's kill the second guy and the third guy and the fourth guy and keep going. Now the same logic reaches Taran. Come, come, come, many years killed. The council responsible for choosing a successor is struck while deliberating. The system's reset mechanism becomes a vulnerability rather than a safeguard. As an attrition warfare, it is succession denial. And I thought this was the really interesting description. Authoritarian systems recover from shocks by quickly reestablishing hierarchy. If that reestablishment becomes dangerous, decision makers hesitate. Hesitation spreads uncertainty throughout the entire structure. A regime can survive sanctions and our airstrikes are even the death of a supreme leader.

28:44What it struggles to survive is doubt about who holds authority and who holds authority next. I'm sure I can't imagine how they're even operating in Iran right now. Who's deciding to fire what at who? Exactly. A little more description. So that doubt ripples outward. Commanders delay orders until legitimacy is confirmed. Is that guy really in charge? Rival factions position themselves cautiously. Security services turn or inward searching for infiltration. Decision cycles lengthen. Under pressure, elongated decision cycles become fragility. This strategy depends on intelligence rather than brute force. In the days after the leadership strike, accounts surfaced indicating that Israeli intelligence had achieved sustained visibility into parts of trans surveillance ecosystem tracking their leaders. They don't know what to do next in any realm of what they are doing, except maybe at the unit level of the military. That's got to be true. And even if you got orders from somebody, you think, well, maybe they're in charge. Maybe they're in charge for now. Maybe they're dead by the end of the day.

29:45I don't like this order. I'm ignoring it. That's got to be happening sometimes. Then this from Amit Segal, the new Israeli rules of engagement, proportionate responses are a thing of the past. Now we understand we can't live with terrorists. He isn't Israeli. And he talks about how on the night of October 6th, 2023, the defense establishment realized something was happening in Gaza, but failed to act because there had been quiet in recent years. And nobody wanted to be fingered for the guy who disrupted the quiet by being overly aggressive or anything like that. Decades of containment restraint and forbearance had made Israel slow to stir invulnerable in appearance. And then two and a half years later, Israel stands at the pinnacle of its power in the Middle East, as has been said many times, including around here. Yeah, Hamas was seeking a change of the look of the Middle East. Well, they succeeded, all right. But I love this and I want you to think about this in terms of the United States security.

30:47So it talks about preemptive action versus the IDF, the Israel defense force being strictly defensive, and how most of the great things that have happened for Israel have been preemptive or that sort of thing. But anyway, the point of it. The terrible price of a defensive posture was revealed on October 7th. These are the new rules of the game. One, the enemy exists in one of two states, either pursuer or pursued. For years, Israel shied away from targeted killings, granted, terror leaders and Iranian officials, the time and peace of mind applied against the Jewish state. The IDF's new mindset is the exact opposite. If terrorists are running for their lives, they can't make plans to take ours. Two, when enemies announce their intention to destroy you, believe them. Yeah. It's an election rhetoric. They don't have elections. It isn't lip service or empty words. Death to American, death, Israel or mission statements. Clearly, we've talked about this a lot for years.

31:48How we ended up in this situation where Israel or the United States or the free world put up with, well, you can fire in, you know, a hundred rockets. And, you know, because we got the ability to knock them down, we'll just let it go. Or how about that period of time where the Houthis were firing all those ships from all kinds of different countries. And so you just couldn't ship stuff through them. Why does the world put up with that? Well, maybe the world's not going to put up with that anymore. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. And remember Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, that's Iran. Yeah. It's all Iran. Another point. There can be no modus vivendi with terrorist organizations. Now I'm Latino, so I'm fluent in Latin. But if you're not, it's a gentleman's agreement. It's a way of dealing with murder. Sambitions can't be sued with soothed with gentleman's agreements, international guarantees or economic incentives. Israel tried this in Gaza and the result was catastrophic. That's talking about the two year period where Hamas said publicly, hey, you know what, the whole fight in Israel thing sold. We're just going to govern.

32:50Okay, well, let's live side by side. We'll be cool. And the entire time they're plotting the horrors of October 7th. Another new rule. When you respond, overwhelm your foe. For years, the enemy fired rockets in Israel replied with proportional force. This normalized the firing on civilians, kidnappings and invasions. But this changed on October 7th after October 7th when Hassan Nasrallah thought he was playing by the old rules launched a few rockets daily and ended with his elimination, the decapitation of his organization and the destruction of 80% of their missile stockpile. Two more new rules. Fundamentalists accumulate weapons to use them, not to deter. For years, Israel ignored the vast ammunition depot in Gaza and Lebanon under the assumption that they would simply rust they didn't. And when you are on the strong side, the enemy is the one who should fear a miscalculation. In other words, as you've been saying for a long time in reference to Ukraine, how about there are afraid we escalate? Are you ready to hear about the Ayatollah's junk?

33:55No, actually have a feeling you're going to tell us anyway. It's actually the son of the Ayatollah. So to me, this might be the new guy. So his junk is definitely more relevant on the international scene, the global scene. What do you call fake op-o research? It's a thing, especially happens during wartime where you get stuff out there just to like discredit people. If you've ever heard any references to Hitler having one ball, that was a made-up song by people who hated Hitler just to like discredit him, like poke fun at him to mock him. There's not basting anything. And I think this might be that about the Ayatollah son who's supposedly next in line. Anyway, I don't know where it came from. The son of Iran's slain leader, the Ayatollah, reportedly the favorite to succeed his despotic father was treated for impotency so severe that he had to be hospitalized numerous times.

34:56Diplomatic leaks show hospitalized for impotency. This seems crazy to us as propaganda, but in that part of the... Yes. That's right. Everybody's got a big bushy beard and they die to look young and virile. Saddam Hussein and his bushy black mustache died. Well, that's what made me think of it. Yeah, I know in that part of the world the whole being manly is really, really a big deal. And so saying this guy can't get it up for a... for his wife or a girlfriend is really a shot at someone. So somebody wanted to discredit him. And the New York Post runs with it as this is a real story. This mataba, kamayani, he's 56 years old, underwent several stints of treatment at these hospitals it names here. After having a hard time conceiving with his wife, according to WikiLeaks in the 2000s, this is this says, maybe it's true. I don't know. I still think it was an attempt to just discredit him by someone. The regime hardliner was reportedly so soft that he checked into clinics at least four times,

35:58including a stay that lasted two months before he was able to knock up his wife. Two months. And it goes back. And it goes back to his previous girlfriends he had that were allegedly unsatisfied also. So this is just a... This is just a rumor they got out there, somebody who didn't want him to be the next Iatola that he can't even get it up. He's so soft he had to be in the hospital for two months. What? Well, let's run it up the flagpole. Let's say he's a cross-dresser and have AI cook up some pictures of him. Couldn't hurt. How about that? What's the guy's name? Machaba? That sounds like some sort of hipster tea drink that, you know, you're hippies. Right. It's a combination of matcha and boba. I'm gonna have a chimachaba. Right, and it's nine dollars. What? Nine dollars? That's what we charge for these things. You can see they're very popular.

36:58My kid's on the matcha of bandwagon every time I get him one it's like seven and a half bucks. This is so expensive. I don't know what it is. At least it doesn't have those gross balls in the bottom. It's all about the balls. I had told this son. Yeah, it's all about the pearls. I'm so disgusting. Oh, the boba tea, you love this. Can't have one too often though, because, you know, Papa gets fat pretty easily. They're fattening? A lot of calories, yeah. First time I had one of those come up through the straw. I thought it was gonna vomit on a straw. It's not so gross. It lost an eyeball in there. The consistency of those things. Yes, Katie? No, I'm a Joe. Love the balls. Oh, I love the boba. Oh, they're gross. They're just so squishy. They do see what the rats I got in there somehow. What's your flavor choice there, Katie? Oh, I like so much. Yeah, that one. The mango milk teas with the boba balls.

38:00Yeah. It's very exotic. Am I a Thai? Thai? Thai tea? Thai tea, huh? I think a Thai tea. I think that's what I like. Have you ever just tried my wife's test to tell me every time? Have you ever just tried a lipid and sun tea? It's very, very good. Oh, it's delicious, but it probably got to be given to some balls. Yeah. There's balls in there. Yeah. You got your talking so much. How gross. We got the milk bag on the way next to you. Art is strong and getting. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help. Weather bug is easy to use and provides forecasts for your every need. From storm warnings to pollen levels, right at your fingertips. Get the fastest local alerts and comprehensive 10-day forecasts wherever you are. It's hyper-local real-time customizable alerts. Make sure the weather never takes you by surprise so you can plan every day with confidence. Download the free weather bug app from the App Store today and start getting accurate weather forecasts 24-7.

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41:00I must study politics and war. That my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. I love that quote. It reminds me of the paraphrased quote of Orwell about, you know, people can only sleep in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. The only problem with that quote is it almost states that. So then the next generation does get to study mathematics and philosophy and not worry about work. Because it doesn't work that way. Each generation needs to study work. It's all ever pressing. It's part of human nature. Yeah. Granted, on the other hand, if anybody ever stops studying politics and war, there's no freaking way their kids are going to be studying mathematics and philosophy. But yeah, your point is a good one. And then finally, this Dwight Eisenhower. I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can. Only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Amen to that. Mailbag. There is a tremendous amount of stupidity in war. It's just awful. It's just part of the deal.

42:01Yeah, and a tremendous amount of profit too, which I think perverts some people's thinking about it. But topic for another day, it's rather complicated. Drop us a note. Mailbag. Man, we have a lot, and we can never get to have it. It's a tenth of it, but I love this from Jennifer. Guys, the framing of the attack on Orion is a war of choice by pacifists and the media as a false dichotomy. This framing assumes there's nothing other than a choice for war. I flat out disagree. All wars in military actions are non-actions for that matter, or wars of choice. Past administrations have made the choice of inaction, and or pallets of cash with regard to Iran. I regularly have the choices, the choices discussion with my kids. And she goes into examples from real life, which are good, but for the purpose of time, I'll go into Ukraine being invaded by Russia. Ukraine absolutely had a choice to lay down their arms and be swallowed whole or to fight. How to fight? Where to fight? The bombing of Pearl Harbor, World War II in Europe. We could have made different choices, which would have invariably had different outcomes.

43:02Every day we are weighing in calculating variables and deciding which direction to take, all past administrations have done the same thing and made various choices with regards to Iran. Trump just made the choice to take a different approach. What the consequences of that approach will be remain to be seen. Brilliant stuff. Wow, Jennifer, keep the emails coming. Marina from San Diego. Morning guys, the Dems are morons to say Trump didn't let them know anything ahead of the strike. The Dem who actually had a brain injury is the only one with a functioning brain. I think she's referring to Senator Federman. The others don't have a working brain between them. You've said Trump made this decision alone. Technically true, but he did not make it a vacuum. He's surrounded by the best military minds and he told the gang of eight that the time is now, which is true. And who didn't know that the S was going to go down? When most of our Navy and planes were heading to the Persian Gulf, there was definitely not going to be an exercise like you both were saying. We didn't mean that he didn't have advisers. It's the idea that he made the call and that's not...

44:02The question is whether or not that's the way what the Constitution intended, that he gets to make that call on his own. Right. Also, my 16-year-old son laughed hard when you called the Britain's Prime Minister a little bitch. He's getting a head start on next year's government class. My 16-year-old would have laughed about too. Yeah, he is. Ah, let's see. Oh, I love this. I love this. I'm all for people expressing themselves and trying to find themselves, you know, especially adolescents. That's fine. I once had an earring to my horror and a fro. But this from Adam from slowly turning purple Idaho. Good Lord, not you Idaho. We don't have time for this. We got three hours. This is because this is solid gold emailage. Gold, Jerry. We got three hours. We're slapping it out of my hand, Michael. What are you counting? They're slowing it out of my hand? It can stay in your hand. I'll settle for our two. It's so good of you to know.

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