The A&G Replay Friday Hour One

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3:06This is the traditional wrap-up of summer, as far as I'm concerned, before the wake or day we can. I got to get just a little more tanning in. I'm not quite dark enough and I've found a nude beach where I can take care of this. Wow. You don't want to go into fall winter with those tan on. Oh, no. Needless to say. Probably shouldn't have said. Anyway, hope you enjoy a little Armstrong and Gettie replay. And even today, she still thinks her husband would have made a good president if he had stayed in the race. Of course he would have made a good president. He made a good president. The four years he was there. I mean, to me, he was the best president. What a waste of freaking time. That's Dr. Jill Biden on her interview yesterday and she's going to do a bunch more. And I hope somebody at some point presses her on these issues. But, you know, I suppose in reality, what is she supposed to say? What is she going to say there as the wife of an old man in his final days of life, maybe?

4:08She's supposed to say, oh, clearly he would have sucked in the brain, didn't work. You know, come on. Well, that raises the question though. Then why are we going through this exercise at all? Well, I was going to say anybody who buys that old bad is going to lie to us. Why am I watching this? Anybody who buys or book and reads it never talked to me. Stay away from me. You're not the sort of person I ever want to engage with. I can't imagine anyone buying that book and reading it. Fine. Oh, Michael's halfway through a Jack. I should have said something. He's been loving it. You know, so I've been debating whether to bring this up or not. But it's pretty interesting. So I've been mentioning that journalist Mark Halpern, who does a TV show every afternoon on YouTube or a bunch of other platforms. He has a Democrat and a Republican on every day. And he has been incensed about this whole thing from the beginning, the media coverage. He calls it the biggest media cover up in our nation's history.

5:09The fact that they did not report on what everybody could see and acted like it wasn't happening. But the Democrat on there said, look, I fooled myself. He said, I look back on it and I think, how can I be so blind to that? I saw all this stuff on TV and I just convinced myself that it's not as bad as everybody's saying. Or this is a, you know, a truck people trying to make it worse than it actually is. Or he's got a stutter or everybody mispeaks every now and then he said, I myself don't know how I blinded myself to this. Yeah, I find it disturbing. And so the reason I bring that up, it's not a politics thing. I just, just for everybody, all human beings in their own lives. Are we apparently that capable of deluding ourselves if we want a specific thing to be true or not true?

6:11Apparently, some more than others. Yeah, it's disturbing that somebody who's at least arguably accomplished enough and articulate enough and bright enough to be on that sort of form would be self-delusional like that. That's, that's disturbing to me. Well, it depends how invested you are. Think about if you've ever known anybody talking about their husband or wife or kids and they're laying out the story and you think, whoa, I mean, they're a train wreck and how do you not recognize that this is like a serious problem? It's because you want an outcome so much. And maybe if you're in politics, you, you want an outcome like you want your husband to not be as bad as he seems or wife or kids or whatever. Yeah, yeah. I just think it varies from person to person. It's probably like, you know, the spectrum of virtually any human emotion or psychological function. You know, the logic to complete delusion. You have, you know, it's a self delusion and rationalization on a scale.

7:15Some people don't do it at all. Some do. I have that Orwell quote, Orwell saying that the hardest thing to do is to see something that's right in front of one's nose. So. All right. Right. Well, he famously is one of my intellectual heroes, obviously, and a brilliant, brilliant man. But he was a dedicated socialist and then, you know, realized, oh, yeah, this doesn't work among human beings. It's a prone to disaster and torture and a totalitarianism and the rest of it. So. And I don't think it's a discredit to somebody like Orwell, for instance, that they fell for something that could never work. What he did instead of as brilliance. It's not a discredit. It turns out we're all capable of deluding ourselves if we want a particular outcome bad enough of whatever it is. And that's a disturbing thing to think about. What do you really want to be true or not true? And you're just not dealing with the fact on.

8:15I don't know what where are you on a scale of one to ten. That's what I'm trying to tell you repeatedly. I think some people are not very prone to that at all. And some people are very, very prone to it. Well, you'd have to think that George Orwell wasn't very prone to it. Yet he. It happened to him to that. Why would you think that? I don't know. I think it's independent of intelligence. It's a tendency like height or being a warrior or being cheerful versus being kind of a door and an introvert. I also think it probably be something that it's impossible for you to diagnose yourself. Agreed. You agree? No idea yourself to where you would be on that scale. Well, I know I got to disagree with that too. And I certainly I've never thought about this in depth. So I stand ready to be corrected. I think if you're on the brutal realist end of things, your diagnosis is better because you tend not to self-delude. I don't know.

9:16Because the self-delusional cannot diagnose themselves as delusional. Well, so. Or delusional is too strong in turn, but you know what I mean. So then the question would be how much of the median political class were in the self-delusion thing because they wanted a particular outcome so bad. And how many people knew exactly what they were doing, but they're just flat out lying. Yeah, I assumed it was 98% cynicism by the political class who just figured they could get the soft heads to go along with it. If that guy's being sincere, that is fascinating again and somewhat terrifying or at least a little scary. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. What he was like whispering and forgetful and would wander around and had to be guided in his speeches were either angry, sputtering or just slow-paced, you didn't notice that. Oh, the line of just articulate crazy, you know, making stuff up Joe Biden.

10:21And then Joe, you didn't notice that. So the Jill Biden interview, which you probably didn't watch was an embarrassment of journalism. It's one of those embarrassing things that's ever happened in the history of journalism. The fact that they did not bring receipts and drill down on various things that she was denying. I mean, I suppose on one level you could, it would seem a little cruel, but I mean, you are a journalist talking to somebody who's written a book about this about a very important topic. You could have shown clips and say, this happened, you know, three years before the debate, explain this on the whole you never saw him like that before or after. I just, I think your problem here is you're asking hockey night in America to talk about golf. That show is an old bat talking in gentle tones for the entertainment of old bats who are getting ready to go to church in the morning. It's not journalism. Okay, well, let's hope that in the coming days as Jill Biden continues to go out there and hawk this book that she runs into some journalists that are going to like really push her on that.

11:24Because the most ridiculous thing she says of all the ridiculous things is I never saw him like that before or after we did how come you didn't. Well, yeah, you're right. He'd have been a great president in his second term. That's pretty ridiculous too. I can't believe that they are so, I mean, this is Louis the 16th stuff. They're so tone deaf to the whole thing Jill Biden that she does the interview in front of their one of their homes because they have many homes. I had just recently watched Jerry Seinfeld comedians and cars with coffee with Eddie Murphy and he goes to Eddie Murphy's house and picks up Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy walks out of this house and it's like holy crap. That's a house. Yeah, Jill Biden has the same sort of houses Eddie Murphy. Why is that? And multiple times during the interview, I mean, it's like she walked out of an art museum or something at home.

12:25I mean, who has a house that looks like it and as just the front, I can't imagine what it looks like going back and then the yard behind it and the property and everything like that. And that's one of several houses. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's not their beach home. And several times during the interview, they talked about after a lifetime of public service and you know, Joe Biden spent in public services entire life. He's dedicated his life to how did he dedicate his life to public service and you're standing in front of Eddie Murphy's style house. Eddie Murphy made like a billion dollars as a movie star. Why does Joe Biden have the same houses Eddie Murphy? You're not a squasted well. He bought 100 shares Apple stock in 1991. Yeah, look at move. I just accept the fact that people we know what their salaries are. You can look them up. You have friends who make that much money and they don't have houses like that. And nobody questions it. It's so weird. Well, not only do they not question it, they parade it openly. I mean, Jill could have said, no, I tell you why.

13:26Why don't we meet at the University of Delaware library or something like that? Yes, exactly. Or his childhood home and talk about his beginnings or something like that. But not in front of this house to make it clear that we became ungodly wealthy as him being in the government since he was in his early 20s. Spent it all though apparently because they're widely known to be broke at this point. Yeah, well, they thought it was going to come in for quite some time. But that jig is up as I heard the dispatch right yesterday. History is not going to be tied into the Biden's and they as well. The Armstrong and getting. The Armstrong and getting show. Okay, I promised you some information about the brain that I learned from Mitt Romney. Yes, that was interesting. What have made a great president? I've probably heard yes, he absolutely would have.

14:27Well, you talk about it and then and then NACRONISM to today's politics Mitt Romney. He was the left's version of Hitler back in 2012. Give me a break. Every Republican is the left's version of Hitler. It goes with but you admit that you're wrong. I know. Are you serious? Anyway, so Mitt Romney didn't announce he wasn't running for president. He was now there talking about it. Somebody he was doing an interview and somebody asked him. And he said, I'm not running for president in 2028. He said, we need to do something about our move toward really, really old people being in government all the time. The human brain, according to Mitt Romney, the human brain shrinks by about 20% by the time you're 80. The size of your brain is a fifth smaller by 80.

15:27That seems like a lot. That's horrifying. Yes, I'd say so. That's one of his reasons why he didn't think people his age because he's 80 should be president. Trump's 80, Mitch McConnell's 206. Lindsey Graham was a mere, yeah, Biden. Lindsey Graham was a mere 71. Does so does everybody's brain shrink? But some people just deal with it better or is that like an average and some people's brains don't shrink to explain Henry Kissinger's or whoever of the world that they get to a really old age and still their brains seem to work fine. I would guess it's some shrink a little, some shrink a lot. But I don't mind like the size of a golf ball right now, like 50% of one at once was I can tell it's just like I can shake my head and it's like, I can take a big number of them out of the way. Like a golf ball in a bathtub.

16:28That's unfortunate. That's chilling. Absolutely. It is. So this story is gross. Oh, but it's true. And it's interesting. I'm concerned because I work with people who are easily baited into low brow humor. But wow, how unfortunate for you. Anyway, so I'm downtown my little bird in California where California decriminalized crime and all kinds of behavior. And so there's all kinds of gross and you know, everything's locked up in every store because they don't prosecute you for stealing. So if you want deodorant at the CVS, you have to have somebody bring a K. We've talked about that street people various places. That sort of thing. So I'm walking down the sidewalk and I'm actually walking to a place to get a slice of pizza, which this did not help my appetite.

17:28I'm walking to a place to get a slice of pizza last night after dropping my son in his friends off downtown. And the fact that you have a pizza by the slice place college town makes me so jealous. I love the pizza by the. Oh, yes. Although again, America baby, it was not as appetizing after this. So I'm walking down the sidewalk and there are a handful of firefighters standing on the sidewalk. And there's a fire truck like the small one, like the fire chief red pickup truck parked in front of this coffee shop. And I thought, because we've written with the fire department before, I thought somebody had a heart attack or choked or something like that. You know, any sort of health problem the people that show up are the fire department right off the bat. And then, but I'm getting closer and I'm walking down the sidewalk. You step. No, look out and I look down and oh boy. And they've been eating too much Taco Bell lettuce or it was used food. I mean, it was the it was the byproduct of a human after they have taken all the nutrients out of their meal. I see.

18:28And and passed it apparently onto the sidewalk right there, like right downtown in front of all the stores. Big pile on the pizza full size. Oh lord. Chipotle burrito size pile right there boy. Oh god. And the fire. What I thought was interesting about it is they're like four firefighters when I walked up by the end of it. There were maybe eight and then the full fire truck like the full ladder truck. So you had the full giant half block long ladder truck. The pickup truck maybe eight to 10 firefighters stand around the truck. What in case the guy pooped at a tree as well. What's going on here? Dan and around looking at this pile of poo and what I got to kick out of it. This is what I did because I just thought this was fantastic in an awful sort of way. I stood because everybody's walking by. Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd. Everybody's wondering what that's going on around. I stood on the corner. I said, I'll bet you wonder what's going on.

19:28I did this for like a half an hour. You know what's going on over here? Yep. Somebody pooped on the sidewalk right over there. That's what happened there. And everybody's like, oh my god. I said, yep, yep. Human poo right there. All these firefighters fire trucks, everything like that. Human poo because right there on the sidewalk. I'll bet I told 50 people this story. I just decided to be the town barker for what was happening there on the corner. It's a fire department. I know. I guess because you're worried about hepatitis or something. Eventually a bunch of people showed up with chemicals and squirt bottles and. It was quite the deal. It's more than stayed in to. Art of draw and get it. This message is brought to you by Ralph's. If you're listening for a laugh or a fresh take on everyday life, you know it's often the little things that make everything more enjoyable and easier. And with Ralph's, you can plan ahead by stocking your kitchen with fresh groceries and everyday essentials.

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23:29It's about rule of law. It's about respect for minorities. It's about democracy. It's about scientific inquiry. These are all good things that came from the Western world. I wish the schools would teach that again. My God. He's an old man and I don't know how many people are left on the left side of politics who are willing to understand that and are willing to say that. That's Bill Mar from his HBO show on Friday. But that's really troubling. This is not a minor thing. I say it's the biggest problem facing America. And certainly could be our all of Western civilization. Yeah. It's wild. The radicals gave up on the factories, the Marxists and concentrated on the schools. Brilliant, insidious and brilliant. No, these people utterly reject our values. We must teach their children our values. He's right too. AOC, this hasn't gotten near as much of attention. I just saw it last night as her Taiwan answer. But when she is at that Munich conference last week, she did this thing about whiteness.

24:35She said people act like whiteness isn't a thing. I mean, we have there are black people and they have their own culture and there are Hispanics who have their own culture. But whiteness is an... None of it made any sense. But it was some sort of weird white people are evil. To the extent that there is white culture is entirely evil. Yeah. It is really strange. Yes, black people have music and dancing and Hispanic people have food and family. White people have hatred. That's white culture. Right. There weren't black African tribes abducting people, holding them as slaves and selling them for profit. Or all the things, you know, the Spaniards did or whatever. No, that every time it's white, it's sad. I don't even know what to say about that. And quite literally claiming the offspring of... Well, the ancestors, not ancestors, what's the opposite ancestor?

25:37Progyny, the many generations after the conquistadors. Descendants? Descendants. That's the word I was looking for. The descendants of conquistadors are actually the victims of colonial oppression. What? Well, it's incoherent. But it's just you're repeating the pledges of your sect, you're called, honestly. Well, she mocked... I don't know if you're following this, but she mocked Marco Rubio's speech, which got hailed by all quarters as being quite amazing. She marked Marco's Rubio's speech because he mentioned that the Spanish brought horses to the Americas, which they did. Yeah. And she mocked that. It's like so stupid. She said, I think African Americans are like a word about that. And so would Hispanics? Well, yeah, Hispanics have horses because the Spaniards brought them over. Anyway, but I saw one pundits say her last name is literally Cortez.

26:45This is going to take a minute. So we need to launch into it. This is Louisville Kentucky judge Tracy Davis sentencing a 24 year old man trying desperately to let him off. Before we even get appearances, Mr. Thompson, I'm going to need you to be respectful. This is less than 30 seconds into Christopher Thompson's final sentencing. I need to do nothing with my D. He responded. This is unbelievable obscenity. Wow. I'll keep it clean. Well, it's fine. Okay. She said what he asked, it's fine. That's how the hearing began. He was convicted in December of robbery, kidnapping, sawdemy, sexual abuse for an attack on a woman he did not know. Wow. The details are almost too chilling to repeat. He wore a ski mask, abducted the woman her own car, drove her to school, parking lot, forced sex acts at gunpoint, drove her to an ATM, robbed her, drove back to school, sexual more sexual assault rape at gunpoint.

27:50As the assistant district attorney said, this was every woman's worst nightmare. And she asked the judge to uphold the jury's recommendation. I'm sorry, were you going to say something? That Thompson received 65 years for the crimes reading into the record, the Kentucky statutes, that dictate when a judge should consider a reduction in jury recommendations. So a jury of his peers had recommended that the major factor is a defendant's behavior, the defendant's behavior. In Thompson's case, that behavior exactly what the prosecutor wanted, judge Davis to keep in mind. It was conducted that had already been read into the record by judge Davis herself off the record, the defendant was speaking to the prosecutor lady and stated, quote, I will see you in 20 years, bitch. Judge Davis read aloud on the record in front of the entire court. He stated, D S F y all kids and F y all's dead loved ones. In addition to that, speaking directly to the court, he said to eat my, me, me, me, I'm going to see your blank and S, like you blank you.

28:56This is an example. This is an example and I realize why this can't happen. But this is an example where I think just a little bit of a vigilante justice would be okay. Just because in the old days, that guy gets the mother blank and crap beat out of him by some cops in the hallway. And when they put him and it's what happened to that guy? I know I must have stripped and fell. Oh, it gets worse. And that sort of thing happens. You don't get away with saying this stuff. So the judge emphasized how long 65 years is and Mr. Thompson is not mentally matured yet and had never really had a real shot at getting help. She read aloud his record, which included juvenile crime staff, robbery, truancy, failure to pay for a institution, felony, gun possession, fleeing, invading police probation violation. But I did take too long. Uh, blah, blah, blah. Judge Davis went on to explain her thoughts for the record while Thompson repeatedly stated he did not care. Below is the exchange that preceded the judge's decision to forgo the jury's recommended sentence in favor of a sentence of less than half of that.

30:03Thompson, I don't have sympathy for nobody judge Davis. Well, if you come in here and show the court, I don't have sympathy for you, the victim, the victim's family. We don't need your sympathy. I don't care. That's fine. Boo, who judge says if you were to come in here and instead of being hurt and angry, which is what this court hears, right? As a 20 year old African American male that has been, you know, experienced this society, et cetera. And you would show that yes, okay, this is the situation. This is who I am. I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to be in jail forever. That's what y'all trying to make me as. I didn't say that. Yes, you did. I didn't find you guilty. I'm not trying to argue. Well, then don't just sit back. You don't even have to actively listen. You just sit back and be quiet and let me make a record and talk to the right noise. You don't want to hear anything. You're going to. So with that being said, it is just a shame that you can't look at all of this. All of these things and say as of today, you can't tell me how to look at anything.

31:04Just say February 22nd or second of 26. I want to be a different person. I want a better outcome. I want to be an asset to society. And on it goes. So in spite of his refusing, defiantly and angrily to even hint at regret. Well, he didn't need to actually regret anything. He just needed to say the words out loud for the judge to say I'm trying to make the record here. Yes. But no, he said F you and threatened to rape her and everybody else in the courtroom. And for that, she cut a sentence at half. Man, these people are crazy. They are actually nuts. They are. Yeah. You can't believe that somebody of a, a minority race could also be just an evil loser who would be better off with locked up forever. You just can't imagine it. Nobody who's of whichever downtrodden group you want to pick could ever just be a bad person for all the reasons other white people are bad people.

32:15Right. This system caused you to be. It's exactly Lenin's thinking of the island and to start the Soviet Union that just the only reason we have crime is because of the oppression in the system and everything. But we're going to have to kill a lot of people to get this all straightened out. But once we get it all straight now, everything will be fantastic. Right. And some people, including this judge can't even deal with the notion that it maybe maybe I can see everything she said that this guy never had a chance. He's not mentally developed. He had a bad upbringing, whatever he grew up in a bad place. But anybody capable of that is irredeemable put him in prison for decades, bring it up at the parole hearing. He finds God. He matures. He, you know, whatever. Let's talk about it. But not at the outset. No, you don't cut a sentence in half because of some vague guilt that a black fellow is going to go to prison for a long time. God, that judge ought to be a keave doubt on her ass. No kidding. You should not be a judge. That is so horrifying. Screamin' all kinds of horrible things at the judge and the judge continues to say all I'm seeing is someone who is hurt.

33:21I'm just seeing someone who's acting out because they're hurt. You're a nut job. You know, I don't even have it in me to, I had a companion story with this about North Carolina that Roy Cooper, when he was governor there, he's runnin' for senate house of this gettin' attention. But in the wake of the George Floyd crap North Carolina under the Democrats was one of those states that just went crazy releasing people from prison. Just anybody, anybody who is more at darker skin than me was released from prison, including this guy who committed a crime so unspeakable against an elderly North Carolina woman. I can't even, I won't even describe it to you. Convicted in 1995 sentence to life in prison, a monster, a subhuman monster. But in March of 21, he walked out in North Carolina prison of free man to the horror of the victim's family after Roy Cooper and his administration agreed to fast track the release of 3,500 inmates as part of a legal settlement with the end double ACP.

34:24What was the, what did we decide the whole COVID George Floyd period ought to be called? The Wilco-Pockelips or whatever that is? The Wilco-Pockelips, yeah, the time of insanity. Great Scott. You know, and we were discussing this earlier, I can't even remember the context, but oh, it was the Mexican drug cartels that are now engaged in open warfare with the government. If you give away law and order civilization, the rule of law, you will have to fight a war to get it back. Yikes. Jack Armstrong and Joe Freddy, the Armstrong and Getty Show. This message is brought to you by Ralph's. If you're listening to this podcast, chances are you like to make the most of your time. That kind of thinking can go a long way at home too. And Sundays are a chance to reset, filling your kitchen with everything you need. So you've got one less thing to worry about throughout the week ahead. Order online and pick up groceries at your local Ralph's.

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37:29I said along by Chuck in Vancouver, Washington. From James Baldwin who once said not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. Yeah, clearly true. So true. Stopping our series on war for a moment. Mailbag. Drop us a note. Mailbag at ArmstrongEgeti.com. We're going to get back to the war situation in mailbag in a minute, but first other things. Amon Vegas writes referring to the discussion of Gen Z kids in the workplace, Joe very well illustrated the days of play that up until the Gen Z years were filled with peer interactions, conflicts and resolutions, and resolutions. Teamwork and communication with minimal to no parental intervention. That is now the days of the past. These days, however, were the days that prepared us for life and survival. Those days taught us the workplace social and life social skills to successfully navigate this society.

38:32Depriving Gen Z of this was like into depriving the child of all some food. And Jack, you said, you know, food, they'd start to death. Then M and wandered further explore that metaphor. These Gen Z years without help from the previous generation will indeed starve. We have essentially as a society stop teaching the man to fish. Set them up for failure to thrive in quite literal starvation or worse. Communism, the only system that those who never learned to fish are attracted to embrace. Wow. Interesting, him. Thanks. And then to just overcomplicate things, I'm not sure how you teach a man to fish with AI coming down the pike. Well, very picturing fisherman robots out there catching our fish for us. Supporting themself. Yeah. Well, let's see, speaking of alarm clocks, which we were on the fascinating. I'm strongly getting one more thing podcast, just right? Sounds like a fascinating topic. Steve in Plumas Lake, California writes, enjoyed your segment. Wanted to share what I've come up with.

39:32I'm a single father of a 16 year old boy who often stays up late playing video games on school nights. Tisk, Tisk. I started a new job last summer that requires me to leave for work before it's time for my son to wake up for school. We implement an alarm clock that's been effective every day. So far in the school year, blah, blah. We have an extra cell phone. We keep around the houses a backup. It's basically a dedicated alarm clock for my son with a twist. The twist is that it's kept outside his bedroom on a desk in the hallway and is always connected to a Bluetooth speaker, which we leave plugged in and powered on all the time. It is an old block rocker speaker from Costco that's very similar to a guitar amplifier. The thing is loud, too loud according to my son, but he hasn't missed the bus yet. Yeah, that's the sort of thing you come up with when you're single parenting, because you got lots of balls in there. Indeed. But like this on the topic of asking for more money, Jack, you talked about your college calling you to ask for more money long after you graduated. There's another entity that does this hospitals and medical clinics rights.

40:35My wife had cancer. We spent many thousands, including thousands out of pocket for our deductibles and patient share after they sent us requests asking us to donate money to them. So if the money I give them for my treatment was not enough and I should give more. Yeah, that's crazy. And then putting an exclamation point on this one, Kevin, the Texas Marine with an observation about jacket and contacted by his old college, all the moder is a fancy term. Us Marines can't even spell. Anyway, he says there's an alumnus of the core. I don't get random phone calls for cash. They just take it out of my paycheck in the form of taxes. Ouch. That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of medical bills. So I had a family member that needed to ride in an ambulance back in December. I won't explain what was going on there, but it was your ambulance ride. And I've been talking about this for a couple of years now. Well, apparently inflation has hit the ambulance ride thing. Oh, I was expecting a $3,000 bill that insurance doesn't cover $4,600.

41:41To ride the ambulance insurance doesn't cover it. What the hell is that? What is that? I got to start walking on bloody knees or carrying people or whatever. Who can afford that? Yeah, Uber has to come up with like plastic sheets Uber. If you're bleeding, go ahead and call us. You said a hell of a lot of money. That's a lot of money. Let's see. A frequent correspondent, Palo on the topic of assisted suicide. Guys, I don't want anybody interfering with my right to do whatever I want with my body would, whenever I want to do it. My agency is the most precious thing I have. I don't want to take it from me because others might exercise that same agency to do something stupid. Don't take my freedom because someone else might use it stupidly. Can't disagree with you. It's a tough one. Let's see. What's wrong with California in a few sentences? The LA marathon announced this year that if you're struggling at my late teen, you can take a shortcut to finish the finish line and still get a medal as a finisher.

42:41What? Yes. What? Yes. And Henry, who's run several marathons, including one at 75 years old, is calling a bullspit. That's crazy. Oh, no, no, I like it. I like it. In fact, I tell you what, if you hit the 72 after 14 holes a golf, you just walk off the course and we'll call you a scratch golfer. It's ridiculous. Unbelievable. The whole point of running a marathon is, can I run a marathon? Well, they tried real hard, Jackson. We're going to give him a trophy or a medal or whatever. Ha! It's Armstrong and Gettyshaw. The Armstrong and Gettyshaw. Armstrong and Gettyshaw. What if your soda actually did something for you? Introducing Skypop Protein Soda. Skypop Protein Soda has 10 grams of complete protein, zero sugar and real delicious soda taste.

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