That Was A Quick Hanging

0:00This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. I believe that whoever was in that room and did that was a murderer. A new podcast series, Fault Line Haditha, tells the story of a shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. If you've got five players and you offer immunity to four, you better be right about the fifth because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color. Listen to Fault Line Haditha on the I Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We have no idea what it was. It was a tremendous boom.

1:01A gigantic sonic boom. The air is filled with hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper that are just sort of floating like confetti. Stuff just started falling like bricks and paper and everything. When I looked over, there was this guy out with a fire. He was like screaming and I just told him to roll, roll, and he said he can't. He caught fire as a result of the falling debris. So Michael, I'm going to set up 36 here and on that morning with the blue sky and virtually every news camera available focused on the burning first tower while people wondered what the hell happened. This happened. Oh my God. Another plane has just hit. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. There's another one. There was another one. I'm running away very, very quickly. There are more explosions further down the building. Explosion. The building is exploding. There's people running up to three. Everybody's panicking. Clearly the thing is out of control.

2:01One of our producers said perhaps a second plane was involved. You saw a plane. Yes, I just saw a plane go in to the building. So a lot of people are telling there were, were you, what were you doing stories? And I don't find many of them terribly compelling. I'll just say that Jack and I were off. He was in Great Britain and I was dropping my kids off at school, which is something I almost never do can do because I've made my living in morning radio for years and years and years. And it was such a pleasure and I knew that one plane had hit the building and thought like so many of us, how could that happen? That seems too unlikely to be an accident, but what could it mean? And then as soon as we got to the elementary school, one of our kids' friends' moms came up and said, did you hear a second plane hit the tower? And I said to my wife, honey, I've got to go to work and ran home and took a lightning shower and was on the air for the next, however, long.

3:04And I think we all reacted that way on that day as did obviously the president and the administration. And here in Jack addressed this fairly forcefully earlier in the show, we're not in the sad, sad morning mode here. We're in the, let's appraise the current threat of Islamic extremism. Let's learn whatever lessons we can from the attacks and our response to it. The things we did right, the things we did wrong, those who are truly mourning, you have our sympathy and those who are comforting the mourning, you have our sympathy. And at nine at the ground zero, rather, during the reading of the names of the victims, Mayor Mimdani and AOC were yucking it up. I just saw the video. They're laughing and talking to each other as the names were being read by the families of the victims. I've not been comfortable with Mimdani being there, being the mayor of New York City for

4:04a long time. I'm pretty clear for reasons that we'll be talking about in a second, but I found that absolutely disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. And I hope everybody in America hears it. So on that topic or season, we, has anybody figured out precisely when 43 B happened, no, I'm sorry, 44 happened, Bush and kind of laser ice talking, it was fairly recently because they're both on in years. Go ahead and play that Michael. I want you to talk about a couple of those events. You talked about going to the Islamic Center and trying to make sure that our Muslim American citizens knew that we didn't blame them for what had happened. I also made it clear that Islam was a religion of peace, not a religion of war, and that these people subverted their religion. Yes. You know, I get trying to sell that to the Muslims of the world, but they don't care what

5:08you think, Mr. President, to suggest that Islam as a whole is a religion of peace is stupid almost to the point of being hilarious. It is utterly untrue. Here's my preface, my disclaimer. Christians of years ago, Christians would slaughter the hell out of each other over whether you're the right brand of Christian. Horrible. I just happen to be reading about an incident in England back in the 1600s. Just horrible and indefensible. I mean, as a Christian, especially, Christianity reformed. Thank God. No pun intended. And there are folks of the Muslim faith who are similarly attached to their religion as a personal expression of faith, belief in God, etc.

6:11And they have no more intention or desire to harm me or America or anywhere else than the Lutherans down the street. They are, and I know a fair number, lovely, lovely people. They follow a different religion. But the vast majority of Islam around the world is not reformed. It is substantially fundamentalist. And if you know the Quran and know Muhammad, it is from the beginning a religion and a political system that are inextricable from each other. There is no notion of the secular in Islam. The Islamist Islam, reformed Islam, there is. But the reformed people aside from getting my sympathy because they're in a hell of a bad position. And I'll explain why in a second. They're almost irrelevant to the question because there are hundreds of millions of people who believe Islam is the way a society should be run period and that it is okay to torture

7:14to kill, to enslave, to marry children, etc. There are instances where rape is permissible, especially of non-believers. All of that stuff is still believed by hundreds of millions of people. And it's a relentlessly expansionist worldview as well and has been from the beginning of Islam back to the time of the Prophet. And what's truly unfortunate, and this is what I said I would get to, for folks who are of a reformed Muslim mindset, who again are my brothers and sisters, my fellow Americans, my neighbors, God bless you. However you see God. But the problem for them is just like we were talking about the Marxists, how they understand all right, what are the real levers in American society? What are the powerful words? What are the accusations you can make that make people shut up and say sorry, sorry, I didn't mean that, I'm sorry.

8:14Bullying them a bigot is like number one in America after a struggle with the civil rights era and our history, like which is not different from any other country on earth. By the way, don't let the Marxists tell you it is. I mean, it's different, but it's not like fundamentally different. If you call somebody an Islamophob, which is a word you should never, ever use, again, to quote Andrew Cummins the writer, it is Islamophobia is a word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. So never use that word. But if you accuse somebody of being a bigot or you point out not all Muslims are Islamists, Islamists, Islamophascists, whatever you want to call them, that's absolutely true. But the problem is that the Islamists understand that. And the absolutely terrible position that reformed Muslims are in is that strategy number one of the hardcore Islamists is to claim up and down and swear that they're not that,

9:19that they're reformed Muslims. And you, for instance, suggesting that it's inappropriate that they're chuckling at the 9-11 Memorial is bigotry. I'm not bigoted. I know that so I can say it with confidence. For the millionth time, I've been studying political movements since I was a teenager. But a mentalist Islam is one of the most widespread, powerful, and dangerous political movements on Earth, period. And to be afraid to say that because you're afraid of being called a bigot or an Islamophob or whatever is, it's, it's softheadedness, which I could excuse if it didn't result in what Gadsad calls suicidal empathy. It's like the young women that we've played a few weeks ago who say, you know, if I was

10:21raped, I don't know that I would report it because our judicial system, our, our, our carceral system, our prisons are a part of structural racism. And if the person was a person of color, I would feel bad, that, that's suicidal empathy. And that's the problem with being unwilling to call out Islamism for what it is because they're counting on that. They depend on that. They need that. And then you've got the unholy, and I mean that alliance between the Marxists and the Islamists because they both know that they're useful to each other. When the revolution comes and the West falls, then they will fight for control of it and who wins depends. Look at Iran. You know, anyone that one, you look at Soviet Union, they snuffed all the Islamists. At the dawn of the Soviet Union, you probably don't know this because they don't teach it to you. There was a significant Islamist movement. There is, there is, and practically every country on earth, but, and they snuffed the hell out of those people because they were a threat to the communist.

11:23Anyway, I, you know, I'd wanted to get to one column that I'd read that really made the point I'm trying to make eloquently. And I'd assembled a handful of stories to illustrate it. And I've got like five of them. It could have been 50 because there are so many. But here's in England, there's a new law that face coverings are going to be banned in major British cities within days to prevent masked protesters from committing acts of mayhem. Maybe you support that, maybe don't, but Berkis will be exempt. Traditional Islamic face coverings will be exempt. So as the writer John Edwards, not the slimy South Carolina politician, but a British writer puts it, we're rapidly moving towards a two seers, two tier society where Islam has a privileged place with special exemptions and protections spanning animal welfare, free speech, blasphemy

12:25laws and now civil liberties and freedom of assembly. And he's absolutely correct. We've got this Abdul Al-Saheed, the Michigan Democratic Senate candidate, spoke last weekend at an Islamic convention in Detroit. And he, a speech was sandwiched between a video montage featuring a firebrand imam declaring that America is going down. And a speech from another clerk who said members of Congress who voted for the anti-Semitism bill were guilty of treason. He was amongst Islamists, the hardcore people I'm talking about. Muhammad Al-Saheed, I'm sorry, Abdul Al-Saheed felt comfortable enough during the election season to consult with these people openly. That level of comfort alone should be a little disturbing to you. But again, I've got, you know, I've got a bunch more examples of that, but we're kind

13:27of out of time. You get the idea anyway. Where this goes from here is the most fascinating question to me when we're thinking about 9-11 because Al-Qaeda has gotten a hell be out of it. ISIS is mostly a non-factor as we understood it back when they had the caliphate in their rock slash Syria, that area. But you've got massive Islamist movements, incredibly well-armed in Africa right now. In the Middle East and obviously the Taliban is running Afghanistan again. So they remain an incredibly powerful and incredibly capable political movements that's utterly opposed to the West and everything we hold there. There's not a shred of the Bill of Rights that would survive. So more on 9-11, a bunch of different stories to come stay with us. Arrest strong and get it. A shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps.

14:28Someone opened the door and was the primary shooter. Is it possible you could do that and then suppress the number? A new podcast series, Fault-Line Haditha, tells the story the United States government wants to keep buried. How can you not know? There were women and children there. You're going to tell us here that you don't know what happened that day? Based on thousands of pages of previously classified documents and over 100 hours of secretly filmed video, the truth about one of the most infamous crimes in Marine Corps history can finally be told. If you've got five players and one of them is guilty of murder at least and you offer immunity to the other four, you better be right about the fifth because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color. Listen to Fault-Line Haditha on the Lie Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

15:42I'm going to tell you a story. Excellent. Excellent. Rick Springfield killed a guy. I want to be a bad jury. Wow. Yeah. Go ahead, Michael. Play 22 for us. Rocker Rick Springfield, singer of Jesse's Girl, revealing to Joe Rogan, he killed a man in Vietnam while he was there performing for troops. He said it happened during the war in 1968 before he was famous and adding he was staying at a US Navy encampment when it came under attack. He said he threw a mortar that hit a Viet Cong attacker. Springfield says that experience never left him. What? He threw a mortar? Why did he have a mortar? How old was he? Was that a thing? When he liked 12? How old was he? So many questions. Right. But he's like 72 or something and performs shirtless now.

16:43He's ripped. Yeah. Yeah. I saw him. I couldose. Yeah. But who could forget? I really liked his first two albums. I know that makes me gay. It was great. Pop music. Why not? That makes you happy. That's good music for you. Dar, what was I going to say? Oh. Yeah. The idea of you were there during an attack in Vietnam and in... Again, I ask is mortar throwing a thing. I don't know. But he doesn't strike me as the kind of guy that makes crap up like that. Although he is very hot tempered when I saw him in concert. Yes. Yeah. Plus he's envious of Jesse and his liaison as he made clear and song. I told we'll have the story coming up. Katie can fill it in, right? Or is that why you're looking like that, Katie? No, I was just going to tell you he was 17 when this happened. Okay. Wow. Wow. Yeah. What an amazing experience. I mean, to go and play for the troops in Vietnam, I would have... I was going to say I would have killed for that.

17:44He did. But as a teenage rock and roll guy, to go play for the troops would have been incredible. Yeah. He was on Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan wanted to talk to Rick Springfield. Yeah. I would talk to him, I guess. Anyway, that wasn't a show stopper, but it certainly slowed it down. I'm sorry, I'm just picturing a young musician there. Now, we've both ridden along with various police forces. And on a couple of occasions, the cops said, listen, this is highly unlikely. But if everything goes completely nuts, here's how you get the shotgun out. And I'm like, okay. I saw him in a tiny, tiny little venue with like a hundred other people and he wanted to kill his sound guy like he wanted to kill that guy in Vietnam. Wow, wow, he had properly invented all of his rage in Vietnam apparently. He was so angry. I want to tell you about my jury experience. Brushing up against the regular man. It's always interesting.

18:45Oh boy. Armstrong and Getty. A shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. Someone opened the door and was the primary shooter. Is it possible you could do that and then suppress the number? A new podcast series, fault-line Haditha, tells the story the United States government wants to keep buried. How can you not know? There were women and children there. And you're going to tell us here that you don't know what happened that day? Based on thousands of pages of previously classified documents and over a hundred hours of secretly filmed video, the truth about one of the most infamous crimes in Marine Corps history can finally be told. If you've got five players and one of them is guilty of murder at least and you offer immunity to the other four, you better be right about the fifth because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color. Listen to fault-line Haditha on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

19:50So I had jury duty. I was gone if you're just tuning in. I was gone for an hour, a little over an hour. I thought I'd be gone longer than that. I wish they'd communicated better what they were doing today or I wouldn't have gone in at all. You were allowed to zoom, which I didn't understand how that worked exactly. Plus, it's only a couple of miles from my house and I wanted the experience of being there. All it was was they went through everybody's name and said, do you have a hardship? And the answer, yes or no. And if your answer was no, you got up on the left. Well, I could have done that over zoom. Interesting the description of a hardship. He said he's going to be very strict. They're seating three juries for three, four day trials. I have to go in Monday at 10. And I was kind of doing the counting on the screen in the room and it looks like about, they're going to need like half of us to get three, three full juries for three trials

20:52for four days. We'll see if I make the cut next week. But a couple of things. So I park and I'm walking and I don't know where I'm going. I'd never been into this courthouse since I built it in courthouse. And I see guys with blue cards like I got and I run up next to them. I say, hey, you've got a blue card like me. I assume you know where you're going. He said, yeah, you haven't been here before I said no. He said, well, you're going to be here all day. He said the last three times I've done this, where it's all day. So it turned out, it wouldn't even hardly five minutes, depending on where your name was in the list. Wow, how interesting. Yeah, people really rearranged their schedule a lot to go in there to answer no. Okay, go home. All right. But he said that the judge said he is going to be really strict with hardships. And I understand why you need to be. He said, having to rearrange things for your life or hey, I'm going to miss work is not a hardship. And if you answered yes, you had to stay there until they went through everybody and then

21:53he was going to talk to everybody and get into the details about your supposed hardship and then make a ruling, whether that counted as a hardship or not. Yeah, I've seen that process and it's they don't take any of the challenges. Well, they shouldn't. I mean, it's going to be really annoying for me. I got to figure out a whole bunch of childcare stuff that is going to be a pain in the ass and I'm not even sure I got people to do it. But if everybody got out of jury duty because they have a job or childcare, nobody on a jury, first of all, running up there, it said on the card, business casual, you know, dress appropriately for the courtroom. This is an important civic duty and all that. And I dressed business casual. But there are plenty of dudes in shorts, flip flops, tank tops and backwards ballcaps. So they didn't care much about that particular order or don't know what it means. I often wonder stuff like that. Is that people's like, if you all do what I want or like they don't know what that means or they didn't read the card or what is that? Wow, probably some of from each category, I guess.

22:56And then the other the other part, they should be just the judge and manage them. I'm not a get dressed up sort of guy, but I feel like I might be sending somebody to prison for the rest of their life. I feel like I had a dress like it's kind of an important thing. Not like it's a day at the beach. Yes. I wore a shirt with a collar. Also on the zoom thing, so I think there were as many people on zoom as there were in the courtroom and maybe they knew what we were doing today. I should have been on zoom. But just hilarious. And this is like any business zoom call only worse because you're dealing with the masses. And when you do what the masses, you realize when you just do the random masses, you probably can't get a better cross section of random than you can in jury polls, can you? I don't know what it would be. And when you do that, you realize I really hang around with people like myself.

23:57I do not hang out with the just the random people as much as I think I do. And none of us do really. Right. Unless you deal with the public routinely. Even then. But in your personal life, you certainly self-select. I think that's the term. Like you are at a restaurant. You're still selective on a certain level of a kind of people. Because you'd have people that are too good for the restaurant that you work at. And people that are beneath the restaurant you work at. You're here and you got everybody. Sir, you are beneath this denys. Yes. But it's funny. So they got that. So they got all these people. There's like 30 people up on this Zoom screen. And we all know the mute, unmute problem in business settings. But those are people that are like capable of, you know, working wherever you work. And they still struggle a little bit with this group. It was just hilarious. So you got some sort of guy in a cop outfit, whatever his job is, telling everybody to mute

25:02before the judge even comes out. And everybody mute. And it's just a co-coffee of noise coming off of this screen. I mean, there's music, there's phone conversations, there's dogs barking, there's cars because some people are driving while they're doing this. Oh boy. And they just keep repeating, please mute if you could all mute. And it just keeps going and going and going. All these different noises. So obviously tens of people aren't muted, even though they've been instructed 15 times to mute. Again, I ask, what is that? Do they not hear it? Do they not know what that means? Do they not care what they think they are muted already? Maybe I don't know. I don't know either. And so it's the cop guy. Then it's whatever the lady is who does the microphoneing. And she's like the MC, hey, everybody welcome to court. And then she goes through the please mute and you can hear people singing and kids and

26:03dogs and all that stuff. And then the judge comes out and I hate to make any critique of the judge because it'll get back to him and he'll think, because he seemed like a really nice guy and I like the way he handled everything. He moved it along really fast. But he did one of my least favorite things that I've hated since I was a little kid, whether it's a high school teacher or somebody trying to sell me something to seminar or what it is. He comes out and he says, good morning everybody. And there's kind of a mump up. Let's try that again. Good morning everybody. And I'm like, whatever. I mean, come on. I'm doing my civic duty. I'm here at the seminar. I'm at my high school class. I don't owe you a certain level of enthusiasm with my good morning. I showed up. I'm paying attention. I'll do what I'm supposed to. I will render a verdict free of prejudice or malice, but not a big good morning guys. So yeah, I'll run. Anyway, other than that, I liked everything about the cut of this guy's gym.

27:04So if I end up in the courtroom, that'll be cool. And he moved really fast. But he starts. So they have, they have the ability to mute everybody. So he says, okay, I'm judge so and so. And this is what it's like and explain. Now I'm going to take the mute off for everyone. Now I'd like you to please mute on your own computer. And then we'll go through the names and ask about the hardships. As Sui says, he tells the MC to come on down the MC of the courtroom to unmute everybody. Second, she clicks unmute. It's just, sing, sing, sing. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. I wish I didn't hurt it. And you could tell by the look on the judges face that this is what always happens. Yes. I can't believe what you meant. Yeah. That's the thing. And we got to talk to Judge Larry about this someday. But they do this over and over again. They see it, you know, you know, at least once every month or something when they're assembling

28:05juries. And it's always the same problems. And it's always the same lame excuses. And it's always the same not muting and dog barking and singing and all. And they, I think you have two choices. You can either get like the judges do, which is business like but cherry or it would make you completely insane. And you would die of homicidal rage. It was like a Saturday night life bit though when they unmuted that and like the selection of noises was like it for a comedy effect. I had chosen a little kid, someone singing in their car dogs cars. There's a horn playing somewhere. I mean, it was just hilarious. Were they any of that? And everybody, the looks on half the people's faces is like they're just completely clueless as to what muting even means or. Oh, oh my God. How is this possible?

29:05As I've said before, being on juries has been one of the most fascinating sets of experiences of my life. But I can't remember which one it was. I think it was the first jury I was on. You were talking about self-selecting who we hang out with and all, but you brush up against people of very sorts in your life, but you don't spend a lot of time with them unless like you're working at a very entry level job. But that was my first time having to be in the same room for hours with a couple of people who lacked the capacity for rational thought. Right. That's going to be couldn't. That's going to be my line in the jury deliberation room if I make it that far. Look, dude, you don't even know how to mute or unmoot on a Zoom call. So how about you just pipe down? Yeah, I'll never forget. There were a couple of people, one girl in particular. She was very sweet. She was doing her best. Good kid, but dumb as a dog.

30:06I mean, this poor kid. That's a phrase. Oh, she could not think her way out of a three-walled room. I mean, she would just keep walking into one of the walls. Yeah, I'm pretty ambivalent or of two minds about wanting to get on jury. I would love to have the experience. I think it'd be so good for talking about all kinds of legal stuff in civics going forward on the show and just for the life experience. But man, he said all three trials are expected to be four days. So that'd be four days in the courtroom plus at least a day of deliberation. So count on 10 to 430 Monday through Friday next week. And that's kind of here. A really difficult for me to pull off. So this is what I'm going to do. Listeners? I need random listeners who can pick up my kids at my house, take them to school. Then I got various drop, pick them up from school and then various activities during the week. You got a dental appointment, got boy scouts, got band, got a DMV appointment. So I just need random listeners who can drive my kids around.

31:08Just go ahead and send me, I don't know, a picture in a name and I'll get back. Or failing that, just give each one of them a vehicle. It's, you know, we all figured out how to drive. They can do the other bright kids. Just turn them loose. Oh boy. Here. I thought, oh my God. And then the job of this judge who's, you know, by definition, you know, law school, smart guy, all kinds of stuff. You got to sit there all day long and argue with 30 people about whether or not they have a hardship. Oh, kill me. Oh yeah. Having heard every single excuse 876 times. Oh, and I don't know how many people said this, but I was like the 10th name on the list or something. I got lucky. I thought, I'm going to be here for an hour and a half just to get to my name so I can say, no. And then you'll see, have a good day. But luckily I come up pretty fast, but seven of the nine people in front of me all said they had a hardship. So I don't know if those, if those odds kept up, almost everybody was going to claim a

32:09hardship and argue that they couldn't do jury duty. Oh, and if they couldn't figure out how to mute the idea of them rocking the fact that I have a job or I usually do this is not a hardship. Forget it. There's zero chance of them compranding that. And saying to them, oh, okay, I do not meet the standard dang it because I've seen that. You know, if I've been on several juries, I've been through even more than that jury selections. And it happens all the damn time. You got person X say, you know, I'm really important at work. I'm the head cashier and blah, blah, blah. The judge says, no, I'm sorry. You can figure that out. We need you for jury duty. No. And the next person will practically literally say, I'm very important at work. You see, I'm the head cashier and I have to, the judge will be like, oh, kill me, kill me. And, uh, yeah, it just goes on all day. Oh, bet. I thought after he laid that look, I'm going to be really strict on this.

33:09All right. And then he gave those examples you just mentioned, don't count. And still almost everybody that went ahead of me said, I have a hardship. Fun day, fun day in the courtroom. So Monday will be exciting. I got to go in at 10 and we'll see if I make the cut for any of those trials. I do my civic duty. Come on. I need a better good morning. Let's try it again. Oh boy. A C A. He knows how to run a courtroom. I know. You're an amateur. All right. All right. Speaking of having a good time, if you've seen the video yet of Mamdani and AOC yucking it up as the names of the victims at 9.11. No. Oh yeah, that one might get a couple of views around the country. Wow. I would have thought since they're pretty savvy political operators that they wouldn't have allowed that visual to occur. Well, and Mamdani's been practicing his sad face for a long time for this ceremony. So...

34:09Well, that's something. That is. Um, we'll finish strong next year. Art is strong and getting. A shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. Someone opened the door and was the primary shooter. Is it possible you could do that and then suppress the memory? A new podcast series, fault-line Haditha, tells the story the United States government wants to keep buried. How can you not know? There were women and children in there. Can you tell us here that you don't know what happened that day? Based on thousands of pages of previously classified documents and over a hundred hours of secretly filmed video, the truth about one of the most infamous crimes in Marine Corps history can finally be told. If you've got five players and one of them is guilty of murder at least and you offer immunity to the other four, you better be right about the fifth because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color.

35:09Listen to fault-line Haditha on the Lie Heart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Did you work with any third parties as far as this whistle-blowing and coming out? Not at all. This is entirely my own personal concerns about safety and things that I've seen personally in conversations I've had. There's a reason Brett Barrett asked that question. Yeah, indeed. And then he asked David Saxos, one of Trump's headguys about that answer the next day. Place 73 B, Michael, this is last night. And the clincher of this is that the Wall Street Journal ran a story about his resignation tweet. And they posted that story 18 minutes before the tweet itself got posted. So obviously he was working with the Wall Street Journal on this story. So he's trying to portray himself as just this organic viral phenomenon. But the truth is that this was a well orchestrated media op.

36:12And it's designed to scare the public about AI so that these NGOs can implement their preferred approach, which is a government takeovers, to have very heavy-handed government regulation AI. Yeah, I might have edited that a little bit differently because right before where we picked it up, he mentioned that this guy's Twitter account had no interaction. I mean, it didn't exist. And nobody would, nobody's followed him or anything. But then as soon as he put that out, several big NGOs that are into the regulate AI thing immediately broadcasted out, retweeted it, quote, tweeted it, spread it around to the media. That's still doesn't prove anything. I mean, is that the, why is he claiming? No, this is just me or I don't know what. I don't know why he would say that. That's a good question. I don't know why I would say that. But that last part, you could take that last part out of it and replace it with, yeah, he orchestrated this with lots of different people because he thinks it's going to destroy mankind. So he's working out with the Wall Street Journal and other experts and anybody he can get

37:15on board. Right. So if you're tech savvy or very online, you got to understand the primary question for all of us is will AI kill us all? So you got to specifically answer that one. Right. Hey kids, it's that time again. Forever! With Armstrong and Gidey. Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Gidey. Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day in the week. Michael Angelo, our technical director will lead the way. Michael, final thought. Yeah, I'm driving my wife crazy with chat GPT. I've found a way to put hats and different outfits on my cats and I keep sending her these pictures and just driving her nuts. I put a behind a car, you know, action shots. Only driving. Yeah. Katie Greener, a steamed newswoman as a final thought. Katie? Tomorrow's my mom is birthday. So happy birthday to my mom. Awesome. Happy be day, Mrs. Katie's mom. Jack, do you have a final thought for us? I hope I explained myself the way I meant to at the beginning of the show if you haven't

38:18heard it get the podcast. I am unhappy with the amount of grief and sorrow on this 25th anniversary. I would like more anger and resolve less grief and sorrow. Yeah, yeah. I guess my final thought is what I was talking about a lot when Jack was gone. Fundamentals to Islam is as important and vital and dangerous today as it was 25 years ago today. And we need to be every bit as aware of it. It doesn't make you a big hit. It makes you smart. I'm strungy, getty wrapping up another grueling four hour work day. So many people of thanks a little time. Go to ArmstrongEgady.com. Pick up a socialism sucks and it never works. T-shirt. I'm wearing one right now. It's got Karl Marx on there. Fabulous. Oh, I want five of the hands on. I'm going to wear them every day of the week. Drop a note. Mailbag at ArmstrongEgady.com. Could I wear that to court? Probably can't wear political messages to court. They'd prefer you didn't. No, I prefer you don't wear tank top flip-flops. But they let them.

39:19I guess. We'll see you on Monday. God bless America. I'm strong in getty. I can hear you. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you and the people. And the people who are not these buildings down. I hear all of this. I'm strong in getty. I believe that whoever was in that room and did that was a murderer. A new podcast series, Fault Line Haditha, tells the story of a shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. If you've got five players and you offer immunity to four, you better be right about the fifth, because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color. Listen to Fault Line Haditha on the I Heart Radio app, Apple

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