That Is Reason Enough To Jail You

This is an I Heart Podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

Broadcasting Live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio,

the George Washington Broadcast Center,

Yakarm Strong, and Joe Getty.

I'm Strong and Getty.

And up, he is Armstrong and Getty.

He is risen and welcome to another live presentation of the

Armstrong and Getty program for a brand new week with so many

open questions out there.

But today we're toiling under the title of the show.

Open the flocking straight you crazy bastards or

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

Hmm.

How y'all doing?

Welcome.

How is Easter week?

Fantastic.

Man, five o'clock tomorrow.

Things don't uh...

Things don't get settled.

Five o'clock West Coast time tomorrow.

Gonna start blowing the crap out of everything going to the president of the United States.

Oh boy.

So here's something I'm confused at though.

I don't know maybe Katie and Joe have information I don't have.

So I go around all the news channels, stuff like that before you get to work.

Only news nation as far as I can tell.

Cable channel is reporting a looming peace deal or ceasefire deal between the

United States and Iran that's being brokered by Pakistan.

Fox ain't talking about it.

Emerson B.C ain't talking about it.

I can't find it in the Washington Post, New York Times or anywhere else.

Have you seen this story?

I saw vague reference to talks continuing but Katie.

That's their lead story every hour because I recorded three hours that I then watched

the beginnings of before I come to work.

Their lead story every hour was ceasefire deal between Iran and the United States.

But nobody else is talking about it.

What do you know about it, Katie?

Uh, at the top of CNN it says Iran rejects temporary ceasefire.

So CNN's got that but I don't know.

I don't know.

Yeah, so I don't I don't see that anywhere else.

So nobody else has taken that seriously.

Anyway, so I'll move off with that because I had a plan on what I wanted to say.

The, the old saying glasses half full glasses half empty sort of thing.

I don't think gets enough attention.

Okay.

Because the idea of it is here you have a fact.

You have a glass half full of water.

Two people look at it come away with completely different views of where things stand.

With the same facts.

Choosing to emphasize the positive or the negative.

Exactly.

I'm bouncing around the news today.

Taking in lots and lots of negative.

And there was this rear admiral former rear admiral that was on one of the cable news channels.

I think it was news nation actually.

And he said over the weekend.

We put human beings.

The United States put human beings farther from earth than has ever been done.

And we pulled off a rescue mission that no other country could possibly do.

That is quite a statement about this country and I thought, wow, you're here.

Same facts.

Glass, you know, is half full.

All this other information negative about the United States and how bad things are and how crappy we are and everything like that.

That guy pointed out two things that are clearly true.

And I've run into in my personal life and also scanning the media of course.

People just howling angrily bitterly about the glass being 15% empty.

Right.

Right.

Mostly full glass.

I mean, if it were half, I could understand the ambivalence.

But yeah, Andy Kessler and Wall Street Journal share some of this with you later.

But he absolutely brought the thunder.

He'd had enough about the defeatism.

He's like, what are we doing here?

Look at all the great stuff that's happening.

Look at the amazing country we have.

The amazing economy.

Are there challenges?

Of course there are challenges.

That's what life is.

Stop with the defeatism.

But how about those two things?

That rescue mission that was just unbelievable.

And I would also argue illustrates our our regard for life.

The morals with which we operate.

And then today we don't leave a man behind in a country that slaughtered 30, 40,000 of their own people.

Machine Gundam for begging for freedom.

And a day later we're going to see the other side of the moon for the first time because we got Americans out there.

In a way that no other country could even come close to doing.

The London Telegraph yesterday had a story from their analysts saying if we had a pilot stranded like that,

we would have to call the United States and ask if they could get them out.

That's true.

Be our only option.

That's what it is.

That's what it is.

A fisherman who blew an engine.

They'd have to call the United States to go out into the ocean and get them.

That is quite, I'm sure we're going to learn more over coming days, weeks and years.

Probably make a movie out of it.

The rescue of that dude gunner or whatever he was in the back of the plane.

It's spent two days on the run in Iran.

Can you imagine I'd be a long two days?

Completely.

We were banged up.

Yeah.

Climbed 7,000 feet from surface level in a mountain and hiding and hoping he could get rescued and all that sort of stuff.

And we'll talk more about that later.

But wow, that is quite the story.

Yeah.

He had the signalory was but intermittently so the Iranians couldn't track him down.

Just yeah.

Yeah.

A ultimate story of harrowing survival and military prowess in rescuing him.

So unless this peace deal that Pakistan is talking about is a bigger deal than it seems like.

Looks like we're going to blow the living crap out of Iran tomorrow starting at five o'clock.

West Coast.

Prime time.

Yeah.

And prime time exactly.

Oh, that's nice.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Everything's on the table, Jack.

There are discussions about what are and are not war crimes and attacking civilian infrastructure.

Blah, blah, blah.

Trump is clearly war criminal.

Electricity.

Can it be used for a nice Iranian mom's blender?

Yes, it can.

It can also be used to manufacture drones.

So where are we?

Well, something something international law.

I mean, speaking of glasses half full and half empty, that'll be a good one.

They'll be fouling about that on the lefty media.

You're out about being prime time, Michael.

So he waits until not tonight because he got the NCAA final tonight, right?

So then and then we got a little lull before the NBA playoffs start next week.

So he really, really handily put this you level in Iran tonight would be bad programming

you.

Yeah.

Just be terrible.

Bad planning.

That tournament starts tomorrow night and we'll be watching that on television.

I know.

I know who I'm betting on.

That's a one in a 16.

I'm afraid.

By the way, did you see that whole prop bet thing, you know, that's so controversial right

now?

What do they call that?

The something markets.

Oh, the prediction markets.

Prediction market on whether or not we would rescue the dude, oh boy, get him out alive.

That shouldn't be something people are betting on, is it?

That seems weird.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's troubling.

Obviously, you can't stop them from doing it.

Apparently, the number of times there have been a headline or a story about ethical legal

sports fixing problems with the prediction markets or sports betting in general.

I mean, it's a drum piece like every day.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's something.

Okay.

So we should start to show officially because that's worth talking about.

I'm Jack Armstrong.

He's Joe Getty on this.

It is Monday, April 6th, the year 2020.

Six.

I almost forgot what year it was.

I wanted to say four.

I wish it was four.

Now that happened to me the other day.

I wish it was like four.

I was so much younger than I couldn't decide if it was 26 or 27, honest to God.

Wow.

There are in too many years.

We are.

How do you say?

Elderly.

There's 2026.

We are strong and getting.

We approve of this program.

All right.

Be careful stretching.

Let's begin the show.

Officially according to FCC rules, the regs you would go at mark.

Open the expletive straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.

Open the f'ing straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.

Trump ended the post.

Praise be Allah.

For some reason, or for some reason, I really enjoyed the serious journalists reading

that.

I think it's a good idea for the president to do that probably not, am I really upset

about it?

No.

I think it's going to have any effect on anything.

Not really.

Did I, did I, here's the other one, did I throw back my head and laughter when I saw

it?

I'm so freaking lootly.

Is it entertaining?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes, it's very entertaining.

My eyes got wide and my jaw dropped.

I cannot claim laughter, but yes, I was entertained.

I laughed heartily.

Trump actually put out a post yesterday saying, open the f'ing straights, you crazy bastards,

which is probably what he's saying walking around the White House like we've been talking

about this for the last couple of weeks.

He assumes that everybody's going to do, you know, in their best interests, that they

aren't religious nut jobs willing to die for their cause.

Who would do that?

That's crazy.

Right.

Or a giant criminal organization that gets 25% of everything including the rebuilding

is have pointed out before as long as they can hold on to power.

Open the f'ing straight, you crazy bastards.

Or there'll be hell to pay.

I like the message.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So do you think that we actually start just completely blowing up all the bridges, power

plants, everything starting tomorrow afternoon?

I suspect there will be a significant but limited mission of knocking stuff out and then

a little, how'd you like that?

Would you like to talk now?

No.

Okay.

Here we go.

Then another round.

Would you think of that?

Thank you sir.

May I have another round?

This is the next step though.

Bringing their economy to its knees truly because most of the other targets have been, you

know, military practical targets as opposed to, um, I don't know if you're on tire country.

I don't think I'm expecting a little thing like you just expressed and then a bad one

thing.

I think it's going to be overwhelming.

You think they're going to take out every bridge and power plant in a country or what

or to around the big cities?

Well just in the last hour, it was announced that the IDF has carried out a strike against

Iran's petrochemical facility that is that is now 85% of Iran's petrochemical exports

have been wiped out 85% with the plant we took out before and now with this one taken

out.

Wow.

Wow.

That is getting close to all of it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, that's what I'm saying.

Handful of heavy blows as opposed to hitting like 500 targets.

That's what I suspect.

Katie's headlines on the way and lots of hopefully we'll talk to Mike Lines a little

more about this later.

And of course, a bunch of a non Iran stuff taken effing break you crazy bastards.

Yeah.

We'll do that now.

See you in a few.

Open the excellent of straight you crazy bastards are strong and getting.

I go to the water dispenser to fill up my bottle.

I fill it up half with the ice cold, half with the boiling hot to get it to room temperature,

which is the temperature I want for my water.

And then that's what I drink.

I hope he is reason enough to jail you for maybe put you in a mental institution.

Yeah.

I will never understand.

Wow.

If you came in wearing like, I don't never mind.

We got to get to Katie.

Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with Katie Green.

All right.

The alphabet network.

NBC.

Iran war ceasefire for 45 days, quote, being discussed.

ABC.

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says straight of Hormuz will never revert to a free war state

and Fox News.

Iran war near completion as Trump is eyeing a deadline.

I listen to a great podcast about the Hormuz straight.

I'll talk about that a little bit later, which role in history and the options going forward.

It may never be what it was before.

That's a possibility.

Wow.

Wow.

Better pipe that oil across the land then.

From Forbes, US rescues missing seriously wounded officer from fighter jet shot down over

Iran.

Again, we'll fill in some of the details of some amazing daring, dangerous and thank

God it was successful.

And again, two days, that's a long time to sit up on that mountain knowing they're

closing it on you and if they find you, it ain't going to be pretty.

From the Wall Street Journal, more Americans are breaking into the upper middle class.

Oh, that's a good story.

Got all the percentages on that.

I'll talk about that later, too.

A lot of disappearing middle class stuff is because people have moved up.

Right.

Right.

And the poor numbers of the poor shrinking rapidly.

It's again, the glass is 83% full.

USA Today.

Savannah Guthrie returns to today's show as search for mom continues.

Yeah.

I didn't know if she'd ever come back.

I heard the most.

I have a feeling she's glad to be back at work.

That'd have to be weird after I'm sure focusing on that almost solely for the last

hover many weeks.

Start talking about.

And Katy Perry has a new album about today.

Right.

From the Washington Post.

To eat or not to eat.

The great Airbnb leftover food debate.

What?

What's the debate?

People will buy groceries to stay in an Airbnb and then when they don't use stuff, they leave

it in the refrigerator and the internet is arguing whether you should eat it or not.

Absolutely.

Well, it depends what it is.

I mean, if it's like a hamburger or something, probably not, but if it's the ketchup

in the fridge, it can't.

I'd eat the half-i-embergard.

Does it seem recent?

Of course you would.

Of course it would.

With some nice room temperature water.

You sicko!

With some hot water.

You sicko.

Hell.

From the New York Post.

Gavin's first partner is a new Sons.

What?

Jennifer Sebel nuisance.

Uh-huh.

I love that.

I'll be you stealing that one for the rest of my days.

I saw that headline and I did not get it.

Okay.

New Sons.

She's got a new progressive documentary coming out too that she will force California

schools to show to indoctrinate your children and make her charity many zillions of dollars.

Well, the reason she's in the news again, she put out an Instagram post over the weekend

about the patriarchy that is just fantastic, so we got to play that for you later.

From study finds, two and three Americans agree that engagement rings have gone from

a symbol of love to a financial burden.

Oh, that's great.

That is great news.

If you decide that that whole two months year salary thing is designed by the jewelry company.

And there is a certain requirement among some females, I believe, that they're ring the

visible from outer space.

They did show something.

They show something.

Show that you did well.

And finally, from the Babylon B, after second toilet break, NASA starting to think that

stocking the ship with Chipotle might have been a mistake.

Well, Chipotle was the official sponsor of the moon trip.

I didn't realize that.

I was more shocked that the toilet broke again.

Yeah.

That's a crappy situation.

Got a jiggle to handle, like I said, less.

That's not funny at all.

Uh, yeah, I've actually got more on the technical difficulties of introducing liquids into

a vacuum.

Jack, if you'd like to know more, I'm going to get some great other side of the moon picks

today too.

It was a herculean effort to bring the colonel to safety and an extraordinary effort for

him to evade capture for nearly two days prior to locating the whizzo and the Department

of Wars daring rescue, the CIA first launched a deception campaign, spreading word inside

Iran that U.S. forces had already found him and were moving him on the ground for exfiltration

out of the country.

President Trump said the rescued colonel had been injured, but said he would be fine.

It is likely the injury came from the initial ejection.

Well, that's a really good idea.

The whole.

Oh, we got him and getting the word out on that.

Interestingly, though the Iranians kind of didn't believe it because they put out an

official announcement saying, Hey, you find either of these guys are one or both of them.

Don't kill them.

Bring them to us.

We want us.

We want them at the same time, though.

The CIA says there were clear signs that they had to devote some resources to see in

if it was true.

So is at least partially successful?

Well, I didn't realize so this morning we went through a full, like we actually got

him.

I mean, we had all the all kinds of people moving around and boats and everything like

that.

Like we were moving a person out of there, it wasn't just, it wasn't just siops like

with words.

They actually did the operation as if they were getting the guy out of there.

So they could observe it from, you know, all the different ways you would observe from

space or whatever else.

Martha Raditz goes on on ABC about the rescue.

Two C 130 aircraft, according to officials got stuck in Iran, American troops forced

to intentionally destroy both to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands.

The US then sending in replacement aircraft to bring the American teams back to safety.

Yeah.

That's an interesting point of conversation all weekend long of the whole.

We dominate the air space.

They don't have the ability to do anything anymore, yet they shot down quite a few of

our planes.

So I guess there's something called air dominance versus air supremacy.

And we have the first one, not the second one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The fact that they got that fighter is troubling.

The C 130's I think were damaged on landing because it's like a dirt airfield, but nonetheless,

there's still a risk, obviously.

And what do you think the Iranians would have done if they'd captured the dude?

Oh, at the very least beaten him down very badly and then paraded him around and then used

him as a hostage for negotiating purposes.

Yeah, that would have been bad.

Yeah, terrible.

Trump would not have responded well to that though.

I would agree.

And look, this is not some sort of carte blanche, mag, everything he does is right statement.

But we for the very first time in a very long time have a president will say, oh, you

want escalate?

Let's escalate, which is how you de-escalate against bad actors.

What is that?

He used to talk about it with Nixon, the madman theory of diplomacy.

That's how I always got out of sports parking lots.

I'm crazier than you are and I would make people believe it and they would let me in.

This was back in the wild days of the like the early 80s when sports parking lots were

not nearly as expensive and be professionalized as they are now back to Iran.

So playing gets shot down pilot ejects, he's rescued very quickly, the gunner in the back

ejects.

He is not rescued.

And as you just heard there, he spent two, two days on the run.

What's it like to eject from a fighter jet?

Here's an explanation ejection from a fighter jet is a very violent maneuver.

You've got to land on the ground and that may cause other injuries.

Then you'll hit the ground and really then have to assess a whole lot of things about

yourself, about where you are.

And then the first thing you'll survive, evade, resist, and escape.

I don't know if you saw those pictures of the looks like a chair sitting in the dirt

of the ejection seat when you land.

Can you imagine what that would be like psychologically though?

Because I assume it would be just, you know, you'd be all of a sudden you'd just be

sitting in the desert and it would be perfectly quiet and still and you'd be sitting there.

Who knows what level of injured?

Rattled beyond rattled.

Sure.

Trying to figure out, okay, how close are they?

What are they going to do when they catch me?

What do I do now?

What was my training?

Blah, blah, blah.

But oh my god, that'd be a crazy situation.

Starting with the fact that, you know, it's funny, they portray ejection from fighters in

movies is like, you know, kind of a amusement park ride type experience, but no, you're exploded

out.

Your seat is blown out as the cockpit or the canopy is lifted and you're ejected into

space and you hope the parachute opens.

But yes, it's an incredibly violent experience.

And then as you said, then it's training, training.

They, each of the fellows armed only with a pistol.

I'd seen some stuff online about this incredible, like M16, like, you know, array of weapons

they each had.

And I'm like, wait a minute, that's not even possible.

And sure enough, it was just complete bunk.

But it's the days we live in.

If we get the chance to talk to my clients, I want, I'd like to ask them.

So if you were, if they were closing in on you, would you want to try to fight them off

or you better off surrendering, being captured, I wonder what you're supposed to do?

Hmm, that's a good question.

Yeah.

And you also wouldn't know what they're going to do.

You don't know exactly who's getting you.

Is this just some random Hill people or is this the IRGC with official orders from above

and a concrete plan to use you for propaganda purposes?

Is this just some mountain people are going to be crap out of you and kill you?

Take your stuff.

Although interestingly enough, these mountain people and it's funny, I'm picturing like

guys playing bluegrass with long beard probably not, probably no bluegrass, long beard's

probably, but anyway, in this region of around they hate the regime.

And so they thought that was really to the advantage of our guys because the locals

were not particularly inclined to help the, the regime guys at all.

Interesting.

Thank God for that.

Yeah.

That is an absolutely amazing story, but they make a movie out of that someday.

We got more on that and just a second one, I tell you about simply safe drove away from

my house today.

I always deans do and see the simply safe sign in front of the door, which makes me feel

very comfortable about leaving my house all the comprehensive protection with the video

and the sensors on the doors and all that different sort of stuff and of five million

other people that are using simply safe every day because you'll want to, not because

you're locked into a contract, but because you think it's the best security system out

there.

But unlike a lot of other systems, all of that technology is combined with simply

safe, live monitoring agents who deal with the threat.

They don't like to send you an alert.

Hey, there's somebody breaking in your house, oh, hum, like the other systems do.

They can call the cops.

They can turn on spotlights.

They can speak to the intruders.

It's really amazing.

Name to America's best customer service by Newsweek, even more reason for you to go right

now to get 50% off your new simply safe system at simplysafe.com slash Armstrong.

Remember, there's no safe like simply safe before I restate how the Brits would handle

if they were in this situation with a pilot down.

This is what we did, according to Griff Jenkins of Fox.

This was by far the most complex search and rescue mission that has ever occurred in

US history at Annapolis at the Naval Academy at West Point.

They will be studying this for years and here's the real remarkable part of it is that

in all of it, even as they came under fire for that airstrip, they'd set up and it was

a tough fight.

I'm told from my sources, they got out without a single US casualty.

And when you look, I was more than 100 guys involved and a full on firefight with whoever

it was, bad guys, Iranians with guns, to get out of there.

This was what they said in the London telegraph over the weekend, an opinion piece.

Britain couldn't have done this.

We did not have the platforms, the satellites, the reach or the mass.

Our rescue plan, if the airmen were British, would be to call the US.

Correct.

That's an embarrassing situation to be in.

So a couple of more details, uh, Iran, Atlanta launched several search parties to find

the guy and got to God knows what, um, the meanwhile, battered by the force of the ejection,

off weapons officer waited, he'd wedged himself into a crevice, 7,000 feet up into a mountain,

because he knew both forces were looking for him and racing to find him, uh,

quoting from the New York Times now, military official described the weapons officer signaling

is intermittent.

The first task for the military was to make sure that the person signaling was the weapons officer

and not someone in Iran who had found his equipment.

Meanwhile, the CIA and Langley was developing a deception plan to buy the US military more time.

That's what we were talking about spreading the word and conducting actions as if we're

whisking them out via road already, um, blah, blah, blah, uh, the, uh, US military officials

to Jack's point were in the final stages at that point as Trump was online, uh, making threats.

They were in the final stages of preparing a vast and complex rescue mission that involved

about a hundred special operations forces led by elements of seal team six with Delta Force

Commandos and Army Rangers on standby if needed.

A far larger conventional force made up of helicopters, surveillance planes,

fighters and aerial tankers was ready to provide support if necessary.

So hundreds of troops were ready to spring into action if it became necessary.

Wow.

Yeah, that is absolutely something.

And then Trump yesterday did an interview with Axios in which he said again, the negotiations

are going well.

It's an open question as to what extent there are actually any negotiations going on.

And I don't have any idea.

But Trump said the negotiations are going well, but you'll never get to the finish line with the

Iranians. There is a good chance.

But if they don't make a deal, I'm blowing up everything over there.

That's what he told Axios.

That's our day yesterday.

I'm blowing up everything over there.

Wow.

And then his truth social post, which we, you know, got the world's attention.

Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one in Iran.

There will be nothing like it.

Three exclamation points.

Open the Epping Strait, you crazy bastards.

Or you'll be living in hell.

Just watch.

Praise be to a law.

President Donald J. Trump.

The president.

What was the praise be to a law?

What was that?

I think that was just a little touch of sarcasm there.

Open the exiled of straight, you crazy bastards.

I thought it was interesting that he went with, I'll say,

trucking to keep our ourselves on the air.

Trucking as opposed to trucking straight.

He went open the expletive straight.

You crazy bastards.

He went with I.N.

apostrophe.

So Jake Tapper on CNN apparently read it fully.

He didn't use expletive or whatever.

He just said the word, which I stand behind.

And we should too, if we were maybe earlier in our career,

maybe we would or less lazy.

Because if you can't defend to the FCC,

this is what the president of the United States said about a war.

I mean, if that's not something people should be able to hear,

I don't know what is.

Why would you dance around the words from the commander-in-chief

in a threat to another country about a war?

Which can be read on virtually every new site that exists.

Verbatim right now, as we speak.

Yeah, actually, I think we could get away with it,

but we would have to follow a careful strategy.

Yeah.

Open the f***ing straight, you crazy bastards.

But he actually said it.

Yes, he did, clearly.

But you should, Jake, because I mean,

I mean, part of the story is the fact that the president said that.

I would agree.

One more detail from the rescue, which I found intriguing.

So it took hours to determine the exact location

of the weapons officer, determined it was him.

Military officials, listen to this, were assisted by the CIA,

which used a special piece of technology,

unique to the agency, to locate the airman, hiding in the mountain,

crevice, and confirm his identity.

So all we get is, we got a device.

What kind of device?

Ah, he's pulling.

So a new piece of technology we didn't know about.

No, no, and we're not breathing a word about what it is,

how it works, or how we use it.

Which is good, fine, super.

If it finds our guys, you do keep that as secret as can be,

effing bastards.

Are we going to start blowing up bridges and power plants

and everything like that infrastructure tomorrow?

At five o'clock PM, uh, Eastern time, right?

Right, yeah, well, be darned.

All right, we got mailbag coming up next.

Open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards.

Open the expletive straight, you crazy bastards.

Open the effing straight, you crazy bastards.

Armstrong and Getty.

The Wall Street Journal writes,

the war with Iran is making the American economy more dominant compared to

other economies in the world.

So you get a look at it that way.

I want to talk about the saddest Easter of my life, which,

I'm actually not sad about because it was just circumstances beyond my control,

but it still was the sad Easter.

Supposed to be a joyful day, I'm sorry.

Well, did you have your Easter dinner alone at IOP?

Probably not.

Oh boy, that's a hell of a tease.

Oh boy, boy.

And I got some interesting AI stuff for you today too.

Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.

Continuing our series on war, for obvious reasons,

going to Ernie Hemingway.

Once we have a war, there is only one thing to do.

It must be one.

For defeat brings worse things than anything that can take to,

for defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Once the war has begun, it must be one.

That's a decent point for all the awful things happening during the war.

If you lose it, even worse things are going to happen.

Yeah, absolutely true.

Mailbag.

Mailbag isn't the worst thing that's going to happen.

You understand that it was just kind of,

but there was a comma there.

Drop us a note.

Mailbag and I'm strung at getty.com.

Guys, don't turn off the internet just yet.

Right, David?

Listen to you guys live from Diego Garcia versus I via I Heart Radio.

So that's the British air base there on a little island in the middle of the,

whatever ocean is there.

The local ocean.

We have it on good authority.

The Tom Cruise and Owen Wilson were a consultant

on the extraction of the airmen from behind enemy lines.

That's surprising.

Keep up the great work.

Hopefully not stuck out here too long here, right?

Well, thank you for doing what you're doing, David.

And thanks for listening.

Let's see, uh,

anonymous.

The least known or least publicized special ops guys

are sometimes called the PJs.

Talking about the Air Force officer rescue.

Among the special ops like Navy Seals and Green Bray,

they are the highest trained in advanced skills

in physical training.

An Air Force vet friend told me they,

they would hardly be mentioned after these rescues

because the Air Force wants it that way.

But it's an amazing group of heroes.

Uh, let's see.

He's met them at the gym near,

near a certain big Air Force base that we're familiar with.

A summer in training, the gym had a big pool

and they would swim for hours.

Amazing heroes.

Thanks for that note.

Super interesting.

The PJs.

That's all you get to hear about them.

Let's see.

Freak and Correspondent Paulo.

Guys, we're on our way back to the moon.

I'll take that as a license to go

captain pedantic on a common misconception

that there is a permanently dark side of the moon.

There isn't.

There is a far side of the moon

that permanently faces away from the earth.

But the sun shines on every part of its surface

over the course of a month.

Yeah, that's interesting.

It's especially interesting

that the moon apparently won't turn its back on us.

That's the way I take it.

I blame Pink Floyd for the confusion,

though the phrase dark side of the moon

predates the album.

But no human eyes had seen the far side of the moon.

Correct.

For obvious reasons.

Every bit is amazing and thought-provoking.

Yeah, he says, I've seen speculation

that older uses of the dark side of the moon

were more metaphorical,

connoting that it was hidden from view or mysterious.

Gotcha.

Thank you.

I enjoy etymology.

Thank you for that note.

This is that proposed.

Nothing except a good friend doing well.

Guys, Dennis writes,

Dennis and Lincoln,

like you are watching the women's NCAA basketball championship

and heard your old colleague, Jamie coffee,

doing the P.A.

shoes, the announcer at the stadium in Phoenix.

Oh, wow.

Is she left you guys in the dust?

So true.

Great game, by the way,

UCLA demolished South Carolina

and their racist coach Dawn Staley.

It was like a 30 point blowout.

That was a great game.

Dawn Staley's racist.

I didn't, I don't really know her thing.

Let's see, I have,

I've spent all my time on idiotic controversies

that don't affect me in the world of men's sports.

So I'm a bit busy with that.

Oh, how about this?

Michael on the topic of GLP ones,

the weight loss drugs?

Well, you guys have helped convince me

to try the Wigovie pill and I guess it's working.

It's only been a week and I feel less hungry.

But the thing I like is this line I read while researching.

GLP one drugs may reduce various types of compulsive

and reward seeking behaviors beyond eating.

I've nearly lost all interest in any social media use.

The reward seeking desire part completely removes

wanting to scroll, post or troll.

Wow, I've gotten so much other stuff done this past week.

Wow, now that's the most interesting thing I've heard

about those drugs yet.

I've heard it in terms of alcohol

that you still might get drunk but you don't have the

hey, I've got a little buzz and this is great feeling at all.

You lost interest in social media.

Wow, that's interesting.

Mm-hmm.

Okay, we got a lot more on the way

if you missed a second.

We get the podcast.

Armstrong and Getty.