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3:05may apply. Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, and Joe Getty. I'm Strong and Getty, and now, he is Armstrong and Getty. Watch a breaking news story before we get to clips of the week. Cheers! Washington Post's sudden cancellation of Army exercise fuel speculation about combat troop deployments in the Middle East. At some point, if, let's not use the term, if some point combat troops on the ground are on the table, you got to get them somewhere in the neighborhood, yeah, in case you need them.

4:07Yeah, I think a good example of the analysis you get here in a few other places is what we've discussed the last couple of days. We have boots on the ground in how many different countries I've lost track, quite a few, several in Africa, handful in the Middle East, completely separate from the current conflict with Iran all over Europe. I mean, Europe's not at most of Europe's not at war at this point, but we have troops on the ground near trouble spots everywhere on earth, but it's funny how it becomes a political football. Yeah, another follow-up, unless you have more on that? I was just going to say a follow-up to our discussion of the polymarket Calci thing in college students. I didn't have time for this paragraph from the journal. It's going about as well as you might expect. Students are losing hundreds of dollars on false rumors. The NCAA is raising alarms about betting on college games. Student athletic department employee fired for betting on Calci. Meanwhile, student groups are hosting parties with polymarket branded beer pong sets.

5:09Good stuff. A lot to squeeze in this hour. Just to follow-up, what I was just saying, since you asked the question, at least according to Groc, we have troops in combat zones fighting ISIS in Iraq, Syria. For some reason, Groc just updated and took that away from me. I hate when it does that. Starts giving you information and then it takes it away. But anyway, there's like a half dozen countries where we're actually fighting ISIS fighting on the ground. Yeah, never mind, you know, just a presence there. Yeah. So it's the beloved Friday traditionalist get to it. It's taking a fond look back at the week. There was. It's Cal, clips to the week. What's the week? The Iranian regime shaken to its core. Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatollah, Hamine is dead. He won the corn toss and he elected to receive and boarded, he received. May he rest in pieces. If he threatened Americans anywhere on earth, we will hunt you down without apology and

6:13without hesitation and we will kill you. The Iranian government is vowing not to back down, not to negotiate with the United States. The president's urging regime change and telling our junk Al that he should have a role in picking Iran's next supreme leader. Their anti-aircraft weapons are gone, so they have no air force, they have no air defense, missiles are gone, launches are gone, other than that they're doing quite well. Have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski? Well, our insecurity secretary, Kristi Nome, is out. I wasn't, I've got to be honest with you, there wasn't expecting the call today, but it's super excited. And I'm more excited about just ready to get started. I am so psyched to be here for a new sub-tucin. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary. So, long-loved resistance and death to America.

7:17Yeah, are they getting this? Well, Fox D'Arrangement, I mean it's 24-7 in the California D'Arrangement Syndrome. D'Arrangement, D'Arrangement, D'Arrangement, D'Arrangement! Oh, boy. Holy cow, so much going on with this. I've done with this. If you guys are doing that, I am done. You can hold me and contend from now until the cows come home. It's clips of the week. Gosh, gosh, gosh, gosh. Love it. Handsome, nice job with clips of the week. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah, truly. What a week. Wow. What a variety of stories. which I got a lot of silly stuff. I'd like to squeeze in before the end of the week. So we'll do that today. I'd like to get to the Van Jones stuff about the divides and politics as well on a semi-series nose, but we got time. This is not silly. So here's what Grock tells me. The United States currently has combat troops deployed on the ground in four primary locations worldwide. Iraq, we've got 2,500 troops engaging in counter-ISIS operations in Iraq.

8:17Syria, 2,000 troops supporting anti-ISIS efforts. Somalia, a smaller contingent of special operations forces conducting counter-terrorism missions against al-Shabab and Yemen limited special operations against al-Qaeda and Houthi targets. So a couple of thousand troops in Iraq, a couple of thousand troops in Syria, Syria. And if you announced today, he was going to put 800 in Iran, people would go A-pass over it. Correct. It doesn't make any sense. It'd be hundreds of miles away from the fighting merely aiding in logistics. People would go, as you so charmingly put it, A-pass. Yes, that is correct. Where does that expression come from? I think when an ape is really angry and starts hurling its feces around, people think, wow, this is really come on hints. Have I told this story for a while, Gladys? I don't know if I've told this story. For some reason, I think it was the Iowa State Fair. It was a fair. I don't know if it was the Iowa State Fair, which used to be the biggest fair in the world, but this was many, many years ago. This is like early 70s. So it's

9:23quite possible that the conditions for this beast were not the best. I don't know. I don't remember if it was a gorilla or a chimpanzee, it was a monkey-ish sort of thing. Quite large. Anyway, for whatever reason, it was throwing its feces. It's the only time I've seen it in person. Everybody was just so entertained by this, and it was a very large crowd, and we were all just out sort of, you know, you kind of gauged his arm and figured out how far can he throw that? And then the circle was perfectly just outside his range. And just constant, in my memory, I mean, this is a 50-year-old memory, maybe 55-year-old memory. I don't think I'd forget that either. But I can still picture everybody back there watching this thing just screaming and yelling, throwing its crap at us. Exactly. Exactly right, Johnny. You know, I wish you hadn't led with the conditions animals were kept in stuff, because it really hurts my enjoyment of

10:26the story, because it's a funny damn story, but you're probably right. I've told this before, and this is a Downer Friday story I saw there was a circus set in up in Mexico one time. I was riding my motorcycle way down deep in Mexico, and there was a circus set in up in a small town, and there was the saddest-looking freaking monkey tied to a post I've ever seen. What are you trying to do to us? What are you just a minute to go off the air? He says, I don't know if I want to talk about politics. Yeah, talk about animal abuse. That'll lift people's spirits. Send them into the weekend, click in their heels. Good to show business, man. That's what this is all about. Good lord. You ever seen a dog run over in the street? Tell us about it. What's the matter with you? You're right. You're right. I am incorrect. You're right. Now, if I'd had the good sense to jump in like 90 seconds ago, I would have said, speaking of excrement, it's fabulous transition. A Long Island grandpa is paved after his novelty license plate was revoked by the DMV in New York.

11:32Always love personalized plates to get turned down in various states. Always good. Interestingly, this guy's had this plate for years, but for some reason, the New York DMV stopped and told him because of its, quote, rigorous screening process is it had determined that his plate was no longer in compliance. His plate said is p b four we go. Oh, I read about this the other day. P before we go, which is good advice if you have kids, but maybe a wife readily seen and offensive why is p before we go offensive? I don't remember. It says you're in Jack, which is excrement. He says, I've driven it through conservatively 15 states, red states, blue states, everyone smiles. One time the officer pulled up next to me at a light and motion. He said, I just had to stop you. I got such a laugh out of your plate, but then government bureaucrats who just love their power

12:36over the citizens decide to take it away. P before we go, let me grok this. What percentage of human beings you urinate? Okay. Grok is thinking. Probably use a couple AI platforms just to make sure you're accurate. Yeah, it turns out the vast majority of us urinate. So it's a kind of a universal. That's the teacher in California who was urinating into a coffee canister in the classroom allegedly still on leave, I believe. That is still being investigated. Yes. The investigation if I was in charge would be, you got a video of your peanut coffee canister. What the hell? Now he's on leave. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Anyway, people are rallying to the case. He said, we have the support of the people of New Hampshire. Their state motto is live free or die. Well, in my case, it's live free or pee before we go. Anyway, good luck, sir. I feel like I see fewer personalized

13:37plates now that I used to. Did they get more expensive? Did people decide that it's not a good look? I don't know. I feel like I see fewer of them. All of the above maybe. I don't know. Tens to me in the universe. I know many, many fine people that I like a lot of personalized plates, but in general, I'd say personalized plates go with a certain personality. The cork that I do not enjoy. But not always. Definitely not always. I think you have several people right now. My favorite personalized plate of all time was my brother-in-law, John's, I believe, who's, who was a fellow, um, uh, loody tunes cartoon. And his license plate was, are you an idiot? I, J, I, T. That was good. Anyway, humans and neanderthals got it on more than scientists thought, according to a new study that long ago, uh, you know, proto-human update coming

14:39up. Stay with us. It's not a surprise to me as a man with a substantial amount of neanderthal DNA. Yeah. Yeah. We don't look like Brad Pitt, but, uh, you know, take us back to your cave and fight out. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. That's right. Go neanderthal. You'll never go back at all. That's pretty good. That's actually pretty good. Yeah. Okay. We actually had don't play. Yeah. We actually have some news to get to, uh, because things are constantly changing. We are a country at war more on the way. Are strong and get it. 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, write 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

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18:50Iran is hoping that we cannot sustain this, which is a really bad miscalculation for the IRGC in Iran. Yeah, I guess we'll find out. Sirens blaring currently in Israel as Iran is retaliating again with more waves of rockets, drones, everything else. And it's all about... We talked to my clients a little bit earlier about. He says we've got the stockpile to continue this for a while. Does that include Israel? Do we know? Do we keep track? Make sure that they've got everything they need for their iron dome? Yeah, we'll see. Errors in archers. As we've been discussing with my clients, the number of missiles fired out of Iran is fewer every day. We'll see if that continues too. So the way the people of America have reacted to the conflict with Iran, politically speaking, is pretty interesting. Van Jones, as I always say a guy, I disagree with about many, many things. Some of them very, very strongly, but I think he's an honest guy. Yeah, I think

19:51he's sincere. He's talking about that very topic. We'll start with 15. Go from there, Michael. Bit by bit, post by post, nudge by nudge, people are getting separated into different camps that are not ultimately fighting for the good of the United States or the West or their own countries, but are actually functioning at a pawn layer, a pawn level being moved by different algorithms, by different information operations to cluster and be useful to people who ultimately mean you know good, ultimately not benefiting anybody in the United States. Wow, love that premise. Van, go on. Why is it that you see young people in America who give a free pass to Iran, which is butchering people, shooting down young protesters, won't give women their rights, won't give gay people their rights, and yet are incredibly critical of the United States itself,

20:52which at least doesn't kill thousands of protesters and has rights for people. Well, yeah, I hate to have to give a guy credit for saying something that's obviously true, but a lot of people on his side of politics don't say that. Right, but there are problems on the right as well. What is going on? Why are people who consider themselves to be American patriots on the right, suddenly willing to side with a country that has been an enemy of the United States for now generations? What is happening here? Well, it's easy. And what's the impact of having a country where different factions inside the country are actually aligning themselves with enemies outside the country without seeming to really know they're doing that. That's a great war. That's how you know you're in a great war. Well, at least for the people leading the crowd as Joe explained to us the other day, Tucker and Candace, for instance, are making so much freaking money. It's insane.

21:57They are ungodly wealthy out of doing this. So that's their motivation. I know about all the people that follow them. I think they could probably publish a simple like four sentence guide to how you grab an audience like that, offer them secret knowledge that's being hidden from them, convince them that they're going up against the powerful and the evil and they're on the right side of things, blah, blah, blah, and slowly release, you know, it's almost like a murder mystery clues and breadcrumbs and the rest in this style of QAnon, for instance. I've got a new theory on this based on some life experience. People going for these, some of these like really, really crazy conspiracy theories. The more troubled your reality is in your life, like your real circumstance, the more troubled your circumstances, the greater the conspiracy you need to focus on to drown that out. Yeah. So if you have kind of medium problems in your life, you can kind of get into a

23:01medium conspiracy to drown that out. But if you got really big problems going on, you have to come up with a really big conspiracy to the, oh, I don't have to worry about all of these situations around me that are really a problem. Because the lookout pad, this is, I got to focus on this. Yes. Right. I think that's it. Well, I've got a great little feature on how Marxists operate. I don't think we really have the time. But it's kind of watching them form the why we are queers for Palestine and against the war in Iran as Americans. It doesn't make any sense, but they're well aware of how nutty that is. So they've got to continually brainwash and brow beat people that do not asking that question. If you even asked that question, you're a counter revolutionary and you're with the capitalists. We got a lot more on the way of different stripes. So I hope you can stick around if you missed the segment of the podcast. I'm strong and getting on demand.

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27:07After months of denial, Congressman Tony Gonzalez finally acknowledged having an affair with Regina Santos Obvious, a staff member who took her own life last September for Gonzalez. You know, politically, that's a death penalty. House Speaker Mike Johnson reached out to Gonzalez Thursday. We first tend to drop out of race for reelection. Now, Gonzalez has done just that, adding that he does plan to serve out the rest of his current term. Politically, that's the death penalty used to be definitely not anymore. Getting caught having an affair is not mean that that used to be. Absolutely, you're done. Okay. No, you cannot run for whatever office. Not clearly not anymore for all kinds of different reasons, and maybe for good reason. I don't know. But what if your girlfriend sets herself on fire? That's a different thing. So let's hear a little more on that. Yes, she did kill herself, which adds another layer, obviously, to the affair. Was there a relationship with this young lady who was working in your office? You know, very, very direct pegs. I made a mistake, and I had a lapse in judgment,

28:11and there was a lack of faith. And I take full responsibility for those actions. Since then, I've reconciled with my wife, Angel. I've asked God to forgive me, which he has. And my faith is as strong as ever. When you make mistakes like this, you know, it's never easy. It humbles you, but it's important to, to kind of work through it all. Well, I'm glad he and his wife could get past it. That's fantastic. I guess you guess what? I don't know what's going on in the relationship. Maybe you shouldn't put her off without him. Sure. Well, too, of course, we don't know what's going on. But for some people, that's a 100% deal breaker. And I've known other people that survived it. And the things were better afterwards, like better, actually better. So I can, I can believe that. Sure. Yeah. Here's a little more. Any and every headline that we see about this story makes the assertion. And I don't not say it, but they make the assertion that she committed suicide because of you. You don't think

29:14you had anything whatsoever to do with it? Absolutely nothing to do with it. And you know what? They do this intentionally. Pags. I mean, you cannot hate the media enough. Well, that's true. Well, I'm going to get on that one. Absolutely nothing to do with it. Oh, I mean, to blame him for it is ridiculous. But nothing to do with it. You don't think that they lost her lover and her job. She was, she was, she thought she was going to be the forever with a congressman and the love of her life, perhaps. And then that fill apart. That's, well, if you've ever had a relationship, you really didn't want to end end. It's about as bad as things get. Therefore, she might have had problems with her marriage or husband blah, blah, blah. But yeah, that's, well, it's sorted. It's, she set herself on fire. Yes. I'd forgotten that. Yes. That's a bad way to go. You forgot that. That's kind of a big detail. It is a big detail. Yeah. Nobody does that. Well, that doesn't that.

30:18That's a rough blanket way to go. I'll tell you that. Well, that's, isn't that indicate a clear, not stable person? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. You can be pretty stable and decide to kill yourself. It's like normal McDonald's joke about that. But you're surprised when somebody kills himself. Well, you don't know about life. I would always ends in disappointment, the never ending, you know, blah, blah, blah. But so you do want me to talk about assisted suicide in Canada. But send yourself on fire. I mean, that's a hell of a choice. You know, this is neither here nor there. But listening to some stuff, reading some stuff about the Spanish conquistadors and their utter brutality. And they like to burn people at the stake. If you like, did everything right and converted to Christianity and admitted all your sins, they would grot you. That was their merciful way to end your days. Anyway, um, wow. Anybody who is quote unquote Hispanic,

31:20who talks about quote unquote white people, right? As settler colonial monsters is out of their ethnic minds. So have you been listening to the rest of history podcast about the Aztecs? There are no other podcasts just stars. Yeah. The Spanish came in what they did to the native peoples of Mexico and Central America and South America. It's just absolutely brutal. How that gets left out of the story when you talk about European settlers and what they did to the Native Americans in North America. There's no comparison. Right. Well, in the horrifying brutality of the native peoples. Yeah. To themselves and their enemies and the rest of it. They were all about sacrificing children to the gods. Which reminds me, haven't had time to get to this. I'd like to at some point. Most of the history of human beings is just beyond anything you can imagine

32:21in terms of stuff to take. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, came across this great, great piece. Um, the slavery lesson you're never going to learn in school. It was about the, uh, Islamic slave trade slave trade and how they exploited Africa, the other Islamic people and traded slaves for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Slavery was ubiquitous in the ancient world. It was everywhere until the Enlightenment when the Brits and the US and in particular said and, well, don't give me started. They said, you know what? We actually believe all men are created equal. Uh, but these, uh, dark skin men were keeping them as slaves. This can't last. This is hypocrisy. Said George Washington said Thomas Jefferson. They just had a hell of a hard time unwinding it. Perhaps they're discredit, but anyway, that's enough of that. Uh, I had something kind of amusing I wanted to do and I've lost it. So I was going to ask you, and I know we risk being the darkest

33:26radio show in America all the time. Do we have that that liner? I mean, because it fits in pretty, pretty well with, uh, with our vibe oftentimes, especially on a Friday, but arms strong and getty. Oh, here he comes again. The most depressing radio show ever. I came across a stat just the other day. And maybe that's what you're going to talk about is the, uh, the leading, there are more people dying from assisted suicide in our certain age group in Canada than are dying from diseases or whatever. I mean, it's one out of 20 deaths is assisted suicide. Now that's gone from a handful to six figures a year. So they, so you legalize assisted suicide and it turns out there's just a lot of people who are going to check out. I mean, because, uh, why weren't, why wouldn't you do it before? Because you don't want to have to pay the ticket from a great beyond. I mean, well, or you don't want to put a gun in your mouth or the other methods, they're uncertain. They can leave you in horrifying pain or crippled or whatever. You know, your family's

34:29sorry. You just think it was, you just think it's the ease and comfort of doing it. So there's lots of people that want to do that. So that's only the beginning. Oh, that is just the, the peeking through the cracked open door. The rest of it is people who feel financial pressured off themselves. There are hospitals, insurance companies, greedy relatives, activists, just like pushing people to off themselves. They originally had a 10 day waiting period. You had to be sure and 10 days later say I'm still sure. Now people are getting same day service. Well, that's efficient. You got to get, you got to tip your head to their efficiency. And the connox. You're right. We're just, we're just tickling the mousse antlers of this whole topic. So I, even myself, I got to think that, you know, I'm at the end of my life, which we're all, it's going to happen all of us. All right. I'm at the end of my life and I'm costing many, many thousands of dollars a day, even if no family member brought it up to me. I think my conscience

35:35would feel the pressure of what differences it make if it's an hour next Wednesday and that could save $40,000. Right. Right. That's a pretty good solid clear case. The problem is it leaches out in spreads and you get more and more marginal cases. And the progressive activists who got this past believe so strongly that people should be allowed to live to end their own lives if they want to. And it's a reasonably compelling argument, but it's, it reminds me of socialism. Well, right. It reminds me of socialism. Look, everybody will work hard, contribute the best they can, then we'll divide up the money and everybody will share in a way that is equal and people who need a little more, get a little more and will all cooperate. Yeah, not for an effing minute is that going to work. It's one of those ideas that sounds good on the surface. Let's see. I didn't, I really was just kidding about bringing this up, but

36:35hmm. Oh, that's fascinating topic. It really is. We're having this experiment, you know, right there in America's hat. Well, the Netherlands is doing a two. It had 90, about 10,000 youth in Asia, youth in Asia deaths in 2024. That's not easy to say in 2024 and over 100,000 since assisted suicide was legalized in 2002. Canada's gone from 76,000 medically assisted deaths in 2024 to 93,000 in 2025 and probably 110,000 by the end of 2026. But at the same time in a lot of circumstances, the idea that I'm not allowed to do that is nuts. I know, I know. So you're going to give me all these drugs at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars for the next week as I lay here in misery to try to keep me alive for another

37:38day. Why? One of those drugs you could give me might be a much cheaper would end it and everybody's happier, including me. And that's against the law, right? It's hard to make sense of that. I know, I know it is. But boy, you make death too easy and attractive and money saving in the rest of it. And then I don't know. I just think it leads you to a bad place. On the other hand, I would like to not have the even in my own mind pressure on me in the end days of, you know, because if it's illegal, it's off the table. I don't have to worry about this. If it's legal, then I got to be thinking every single day, what am I doing to my kids here, spending all this money laying here and bed watching TV? Yeah, this is the ultimate paradox. I think unless you just have a religion based, you know, kind of,

38:40I don't want to use a pejorative term here, a maximal maximalist position that we need to protect life, period, because that's what we're commanded to do. I completely see your point. And it's difficult to form an argument against it. I'm a libertarian. I believe people can live their lives in whatever way they want. And I have actually told Judy that if I'm in a situation God forbid, the worst sort of situation, I consider it my right to make that decision. You wanted to smother you with a pillow? Yes. I'm not sure she has the arm strength. Although she's working out a lot and she's doing great. Is that why she's working out? It's entirely possible. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, what are you doing at the gym? You got to come up with the arm strength. This is a smothered jewel if I need to. They call it pillow push-ups. Yeah. You just learned to press down really, huh? Oh, my God. Really long time. You're taking this way too far. You started it.

39:42My baby. Oh, but you got dementia patients. You got people with mental illness problems. You got people with like temporary mental illness problems. They're grief-stricken. My, just, my current plan is to take it to the absolute end no matter what. Easier, easy to say, sitting here in a comfortable radio studio with no pain, but that's my current plan is to just to completely natural take it to the end as much as possible. Okay. All right. I like it. Michael, if you happen to come visit me and you see a pillow laying there, my plan is an extra pillow. It looks pretty airtight. I don't know. I get to study. Here's the news we need to get to. Then we're out of time. I like the fact that my life plan includes Michelangelo in the hospital or with me in my end days. I'm going to produce you being dead. You a whole playing sound effects for

40:44me, producer to the end. That's right. Humans and Neanderthals co-seed up from time to time whenever they're in the same area. We know that, right? Right. I just, as a guy with a lot of Neanderthal DNA, I've been very into this. I've been working this beat. Who initiated the cross species love and fascinating and we'll have that information for you? Who swiped right? The Neanderthals are the, yeah. Once you've had Neanderthal, you're never going to go back at all. Interesting. Okay. We'll finish strong next. 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, write 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

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45:01Donald Trump is hosting a college sports roundtable at the White House today with a bunch of thinkers and movers and shakers in order of college sports to try to take a look at some different things it might need to be done. How in the world do you have the bandwidth as a president of the United States to deal with all the things coming fire the DHS secretary, run a war, which would be constant, I would think 24 hours a day, and then you know, do this sort of thing. He really is an extraordinary human in many, many ways. Yeah. So humans and Neanderthals got together from time to time when they were in the same area, reproducing, etc. I am especially interested in this because when I did 23 and me, I found out at the time I was in the 99th percentile of amount of Deanderthal, Neanderthal DNA. Now, what not until just a few years ago, that it was a big open question of whether or not homo sapiens and Neanderthals ever bred or could ride right now. It's utterly decided and how exactly this happened though remains a huge question. But the one thing they know is the pairings were much more often female homo sapiens

46:10with male Neanderthals. That's not surprising. I don't think is it? Yeah. I mean, because you know, the homo sapiens females would say, man, he's got kind of a big head and a broad nose. He's kind of hairy, but strong as a bull and like super intelligent too, which scientists now believe Neanderthals were at least as intelligent as homo sapiens and maybe more. Where's the homo sapiens? Neanderthal gals. Look at the skinny little Brad Pitt looking homo sapiens. Think, please, that boy or girl, no way, I'm staying home. And I promise I'm not just trying to turn this conversation dark again, but I think it's. Oh, Michael, he's about to, isn't he? Yeah. What percentage of matings were the least bit consensual? You know, it's an excellent point. Virtually the next sentence in this article is, did human women venture into Neanderthal populations where Neanderthal males drawn to human compound or enclaves were these interactions peaceful, confusing, secretive, violent, consensual, was it rape? We don't know and we'll never know.

47:18Hey kids, it's that time again. With Armstrong and Gidey. As the resident Neanderthal, I find any violence against women absolutely abhorrent, especially sexual violence. So, I'm guessing no, the babes just saw us and thought, give me some of that. Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Gidey. Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew, grab things up for the day, Michael Angelo, present the buttons, Michael, lead us off. All right, I've been thinking about this all morning. How to find an Iranian president? How about an Iranian reality TV show? Yes. Where viewers nominate a friend of good character, they're punctual and they got a good beard. They have some sort of athletic and talent show. It's like American Idol for who wants to be Ayatollah. It's the worst idea I've ever heard. Katie Green is off today. Jack, do you have a final thought you'd like to share? So, I told my story about being at his, I think it was a state fair and seeing a monkey throwing

48:19its feces in the number of texts we got from people who have had similar experiences at zoos or fares or carnivals, apparently it's a pretty common experience, so that's where the whole saying comes from, I guess. I'm asking this to your inner child. Have you ever been as delighted as you were as a child watching animals peepee and poo poo at the zoo? I mean, kids go wild for that. They do. It's like, you know, seeing, you know, John Malaney in this prime is not nearly as amusing as that to a kid. My son who turned 16 tomorrow, I remember when he was like four, thinking now is highly entertained. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour work day. So many people, the thanks a little time. If you see something over the weekend, you think we ought to be talking about, send it along, send us a link, mail bag at armstrongandgetty.com, or just share your thoughts. I'll be following the war closely over the weekend. We'll have all the latest on Monday. God bless America.

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