# The Best Weekend Talk Show In America Hour Two

An episode of [Armstrong & Getty On Demand](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1259438987), 10 Oct 2026, 39 min.

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Hour Two of the Best Weekend Talk Show In America features... • The Cornell 7... • Pike Survives!... • Rubio in Greece... • Influencers Not Paying Hospital Bills +++Aired the Week of October 5-9, 2026 Stupid Should Hurt: https://www.armstrongandgetty.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:11] Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the
[0:15] Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
[0:19] Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. Hey,
[0:27] Speaker 2: thanks for tuning in to the best weekend talk show
[0:29] Speaker 2: in America. We are Armstrong and Getty. Have you found
[0:31] Speaker 2: yourself wondering, why is all that rioting going on in France?
[0:35] Speaker 3: Well, we dug deep into it and brought you all
[0:38] Speaker 3: of the forces from the Angry students to the Islamists?
[0:41] Speaker 2: Yeah, to the Marxists?
[0:44] Speaker 3: Leftist politicians are taking advantage of the unrest and Is
[0:47] Speaker 3: that a preview of what we can expect in America?
[0:50] Speaker 2: Get our podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand because we
[0:52] Speaker 2: do lots of this stuff. This is the best weekend
[0:55] Speaker 2: talk show in America.
[0:56] Speaker 4: Jane Doe testified before a Cornell panel. According to a
[0:59] Speaker 4: transcript of that testimony obtained by ABC News, Jane Doe
[1:03] Speaker 4: was unequivocal. I was prostituted and I was held up
[1:07] Speaker 4: like bait for a gaggle of men. She said I
[1:09] Speaker 4: remember a dark room with shadows of men in and
[1:12] Speaker 4: out constantly and I remember feeling like there was a
[1:14] Speaker 4: joke and I was not in on it. She ended
[1:17] Speaker 4: her All right.
[1:24] Speaker 3: So in my opinion, and forgive me if this is provocative,
[1:31] Speaker 3: the media and politicians are now doing to this story
[1:34] Speaker 3: what those boys did to that young woman. Went way
[1:39] Speaker 3: too far.
[1:40] Speaker 2: Exploited.
[1:41] Speaker 3: They're exploiting it. They're checking their morality at the door.
[1:46] Speaker 3: They're absolutely not interested in answering the questions that really matter.
[1:51] Speaker 2: And this has become ugly. Ooh, we have a breaking
[1:53] Speaker 2: news on this that I hadn't seen. Do you want that?
[1:56] Speaker 2: Or do you want to get through some of this?
[1:57] Speaker 2: Why not?
[1:58] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[2:01] Speaker 2: So we had the story yesterday that one of the
[2:03] Speaker 2: frat brothers has now said that he was victimized. Uh,
[2:07] Speaker 2: more details on that are out. Cause he was drunk. Um,
[2:12] Speaker 2: And he says he was taken advantage of. The frat
[2:14] Speaker 2: brother at the center of the Cornell 7 gang rape allegations,
[2:17] Speaker 2: this is the New York Post, claimed to campus officials
[2:20] Speaker 2: that the accuser sodomized him. I think we all know
[2:24] Speaker 2: what that probably was. And complained nobody cared, he was
[2:28] Speaker 2: a sex assault survivor, an explosive new report says.
[2:33] Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that actually is going down a road that
[2:36] Speaker 3: I was going to talk about in a couple of minutes, but.
[2:41] Speaker 2: You know, and then I'm going to get to maybe
[2:43] Speaker 2: eventually this piece in the free press by this woman
[2:47] Speaker 2: who's saying, yeah, the sexual revolution maybe has reached its
[2:51] Speaker 2: logical endpoint in this Cornell seven story. And we need
[2:54] Speaker 2: to rethink this whole thing. And she goes through her
[2:59] Speaker 2: history of it. She's roughly our age and how. You know,
[3:02] Speaker 2: the well, I'll read it a little bit later, but
[3:05] Speaker 2: basically the idea that like women and men are the
[3:07] Speaker 2: same and we can act exactly the same and blah, blah, blah, blah,
[3:10] Speaker 2: blah has not worked out. Yeah, there's a lot to this.
[3:13] Speaker 2: You want to do that next segment? I would love
[3:15] Speaker 2: to hear it.
[3:15] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[3:16] Speaker 2: So back to my exploiting thing.
[3:19] Speaker 3: I mean, like, for instance, last week, AOC used a
[3:22] Speaker 3: town hall appearance to pour kerosene on the flames of outrage.
[3:26] Speaker 3: Going well beyond Ms. Doe's civil complaint, AOC said, and
[3:30] Speaker 3: I quote, seven men drugged and gang raped a young
[3:34] Speaker 3: woman after they lured her into a frat house, drugged
[3:37] Speaker 3: her with ketamine and took turns gang raping her for
[3:41] Speaker 3: seven hours.
[3:42] Speaker 2: Yeah, that that was unfortunate because that is full of
[3:46] Speaker 2: stuff that's not true.
[3:47] Speaker 1: Right.
[3:48] Speaker 2: That that's unfortunate. Some of the stuff people are saying
[3:51] Speaker 2: you can at least. It's somewhat true or possibly true.
[3:57] Speaker 2: This is absolutely not true. What her saying she was
[4:01] Speaker 2: lured there and drugged is just not true.
[4:05] Speaker 3: And my point is that people are now using it
[4:06] Speaker 3: for their own purposes as opposed to while they pretend
[4:09] Speaker 3: to seek justice for this young woman. Surprisingly, the New
[4:12] Speaker 3: York Times delivered a pretty nuanced account describing that Doe
[4:15] Speaker 3: came to the came to describe the encounter as rape
[4:19] Speaker 3: only after people on campus began joking about it and
[4:21] Speaker 3: talking about a sophomore slut. And after she was disinvited
[4:25] Speaker 3: from the fraternity's Halloween party, according to the frat, for
[4:28] Speaker 3: her own good.
[4:31] Speaker 2: Right, exactly.
[4:32] Speaker 3: So the point that I wanted to get to is
[4:36] Speaker 3: actually coming.
[4:37] Speaker 2: Up right here.
[4:41] Speaker 3: So Cornell's president is... running for his life in front
[4:48] Speaker 3: of a mob of angry young student activists who, if
[4:52] Speaker 3: they're not yelling about this, are yelling about Palestine or
[4:56] Speaker 3: capitalism or something or other. The angry mob seems to
[5:01] Speaker 3: be a permanent fixture on college campuses. Oh, I'm sorry,
[5:04] Speaker 3: trans thing, transphobia, whatever.
[5:06] Speaker 2: Well, you're not busy studying or learning anything, so you've
[5:09] Speaker 2: got plenty of free time. Right, um.
[5:14] Speaker 3: And there's some great, great analysis by Ira Stoll in
[5:18] Speaker 3: The Free Beacon. He's talking about the president and his
[5:20] Speaker 3: statement and his folksy video message to the kids because
[5:25] Speaker 3: in writing doesn't work anymore, I guess. But he talks
[5:28] Speaker 3: about how Kotlikoff, who's the president of the university, reached
[5:35] Speaker 3: for the libertarian toolkit, informed consent, body autonomy, etc., Yet
[5:41] Speaker 3: for the sordid details of this case, while those were issues,
[5:44] Speaker 3: it's not clear that they were the only ones, he writes.
[5:46] Speaker 3: You could make a case that one way American elite
[5:49] Speaker 3: higher education arrives at this juncture was that there was
[5:52] Speaker 3: too much emphasis on informed consent and body autonomy and
[5:55] Speaker 3: not enough emphasis on the other moral frameworks that might
[5:58] Speaker 3: constrain desire.
[6:00] Speaker 2: He here's his point.
[6:02] Speaker 3: If Jane Doe had offered informed, advanced consent to a
[6:06] Speaker 3: six hour long sexual encounter with seven different partners fueled
[6:10] Speaker 3: by ketamine, liquor and marijuana, would that render it virtuous
[6:14] Speaker 3: or totally unobjectionable? These are questions Western culture and traditional
[6:19] Speaker 3: religions offer answers to, or at least ways of thinking
[6:21] Speaker 3: rigorously about. A well-managed educational institution might plausibly seek to
[6:26] Speaker 3: challenge students by educating them on these topics, or at
[6:30] Speaker 3: least exposing them to the perspectives.
[6:33] Speaker 2: Which I thought was a good point. Yeah. I think
[6:35] Speaker 2: on this whole story, I feel like every comment needs
[6:39] Speaker 2: to be prefaced with, are we talking about the legal case,
[6:43] Speaker 2: or are we talking about... what's right or wrong or moral, right?
[6:48] Speaker 2: Cause they're very different things.
[6:49] Speaker 1: Right.
[6:50] Speaker 2: So keep, keep with that writer. I would not be happy.
[6:54] Speaker 2: Obviously I wouldn't be happy if one of my kids
[6:56] Speaker 2: turned out to be a rapist, but I also wouldn't
[6:58] Speaker 2: be happy if my son in college walks in on
[7:01] Speaker 2: a almost passed out chick who other guys are having
[7:04] Speaker 2: sex with and says, Hey, join us. And, and, and
[7:07] Speaker 2: joined in. I wouldn't be happy about that either. Right.
[7:10] Speaker 3: So how, So a story from the New York Post,
[7:15] Speaker 3: more than a thousand furious protesters. And I've seen the video.
[7:19] Speaker 3: I've seen the pictures. They were screeching angrily and holding
[7:21] Speaker 3: up impassioned placards. We stand with survivors. Prison sentences, not
[7:26] Speaker 3: topic sentences. Stop rape culture. Cornell will expel protesters, but
[7:31] Speaker 3: not rapists, etc. More than a thousand furious protesters marched
[7:35] Speaker 3: on Cornell University campus Monday in.
[7:37] Speaker 2: Support of the woman allegedly gang raped, etc.
[7:39] Speaker 4: etc.
[7:39] Speaker 3: demanded the resignation of the school's president. We are all
[7:42] Speaker 3: Jane Doe, whatever that means. Alcohol is not consent. Support survivors.
[7:47] Speaker 3: Listen to students. Some called for outright violence against the
[7:52] Speaker 3: accused Cornell seven frat brothers.
[7:56] Speaker 4: Wow.
[7:57] Speaker 3: Various speakers had demands that all of Cornell's fraternities be
[8:02] Speaker 3: kicked off campus. And there's a big movement in the
[8:06] Speaker 3: state house.
[8:06] Speaker 2: Now that makes sense.
[8:08] Speaker 4: I know.
[8:09] Speaker 3: The governor is insisting that the legislature change the consent
[8:15] Speaker 3: laws in New York specifically that if you willingly consume
[8:22] Speaker 3: alcohol and then you say, yeah, I was kind of drunk,
[8:26] Speaker 3: so I couldn't give consent. So this is rape that
[8:29] Speaker 3: people I'm guessing only men can be convicted on that basis.
[8:35] Speaker 2: Completely unworkable in real life. Exactly. It's a nightmare of injustice.
[8:39] Speaker 3: Can you imagine every regretful affair after a drink or
[8:45] Speaker 3: more or a hit on a pot pipe or whatever?
[8:49] Speaker 3: Vape is going to be rape, probably only in one direction.
[8:54] Speaker 3: It's it's it not only is it unworkable, you know,
[8:57] Speaker 3: legal and socially, it infantilizes women in a way that
[9:01] Speaker 3: is incredibly dangerous. You are doing the opposite. And I'm
[9:07] Speaker 3: not looking for a pat on the back here. I'm
[9:08] Speaker 3: just illustrating the point. You're doing the opposite of what
[9:12] Speaker 3: I tried to teach my daughters, which was these situations
[9:17] Speaker 3: are dangerous.
[9:18] Speaker 2: Bad things happen. If you are one step down the
[9:21] Speaker 2: road into this situation, you are heading for danger. Don't
[9:26] Speaker 2: take that second step. This says the opposite.
[9:29] Speaker 3: You are such an innocent babe subject to the whims
[9:33] Speaker 3: of the predator males. Even if you willingly have a
[9:36] Speaker 3: couple of beers in our laughing and singing along with
[9:38] Speaker 3: the country song, and then you regret banging some cowboy
[9:43] Speaker 3: you meet at the bar. He's a rapist. I mean,
[9:46] Speaker 3: that's horrible, horrible. And one more aspect of this.
[9:52] Speaker 2: I wanted to squeeze in.
[9:55] Speaker 3: Oh, well, two, Speaking of mob, you know, the angry mob,
[10:03] Speaker 3: once the mob gets angry and starts yelling, they have
[10:06] Speaker 3: no interest in fact. And here's just a sample of
[10:09] Speaker 3: what it's like in Cornell. This is an editorial that
[10:12] Speaker 3: was printed in the Wall Street Journal by a student,
[10:14] Speaker 3: Jared Lederman. It came out the same day, as I recall,
[10:19] Speaker 3: that this story broke. And I initially thought it was related.
[10:22] Speaker 2: It was unrelated. It was submitted the night before and
[10:25] Speaker 2: they decided to print it.
[10:27] Speaker 3: He's talking about he'd published an essay. entitled Men and
[10:32] Speaker 3: Women Were Not Created Equal. It argued that while men
[10:35] Speaker 3: and women have equal worth, they're not identical, and that
[10:37] Speaker 3: Americans treat traditional sex roles with unreasonable disdain. And there's
[10:42] Speaker 3: some value in looking at traditional sex roles and examining
[10:45] Speaker 3: why they were a good idea for a very long time, blah, blah, blah.
[10:48] Speaker 2: Going to fit into the free press piece the woman
[10:50] Speaker 2: wrote very much so. Excellent.
[10:52] Speaker 3: So he thought he'd get maybe a few dozen readers. Instead,
[10:56] Speaker 3: within 48 hours, nearly 10,000 people had viewed the piece.
[10:58] Speaker 3: He writes, And I became the subject of a campus-wide controversy.
[11:02] Speaker 3: Hundreds of posts labeling me misogynistic and bigoted appeared on
[11:06] Speaker 3: Cornell's anonymous chat forums. Students publicized my campus affiliations and
[11:11] Speaker 3: demanded my removal. Others planned to contact potential employers and
[11:16] Speaker 3: damage my career. Then the consequences moved offline. At the time,
[11:21] Speaker 3: I led Pledge Education for Delta Sigma Pi, a co-ed
[11:24] Speaker 3: professional fraternity. My fellow leadership texted me that though I
[11:27] Speaker 3: was entitled to my personal views, the essay conflicted with
[11:30] Speaker 3: their values, and I was offered the choice to take
[11:32] Speaker 3: it down or resign from that professional fraternity. Hours later,
[11:36] Speaker 3: I was expelled from my social fraternity because its leaders
[11:40] Speaker 3: were concerned my beliefs would reflect poorly on my brothers.
[11:44] Speaker 2: On and on it goes. That is.
[11:48] Speaker 3: Cornell, that is college campuses. So the fact that you've
[11:53] Speaker 3: got the angry mob howling for what they call justice
[11:56] Speaker 3: and they don't have any interest in the opposing point
[11:59] Speaker 3: of view just illustrates a point we've been talking about for.
[12:01] Speaker 2: A long time about college campuses and monoculture.
[12:04] Speaker 3: And then the final, final point I wanted to get to,
[12:07] Speaker 3: and this was pointed out, in 2019, the university's official
[12:12] Speaker 3: health authority, Cornell Health, authored a guide for incoming students
[12:17] Speaker 3: and current students titled Sexual Pleasure, Finding the Sweet Spot.
[12:22] Speaker 3: It opens by declaring that sex can make for a
[12:24] Speaker 3: terrific study break. Students are encouraged to explore sexual fantasies,
[12:29] Speaker 3: experiment with sex toys, and and consider bondage and fetish gear.
[12:33] Speaker 3: Exposure to pornography, Cornell assured us, in their thing for
[12:37] Speaker 3: students is totally normal, though thankfully those interested in watching
[12:41] Speaker 3: it are directed toward ethical porn and feminist porn awards, etc.
[12:45] Speaker 2: etc.
[12:46] Speaker 3: But the same year, Cornell Health distributed self-exploration, which tells
[12:50] Speaker 3: students they're entitled to experience all the pleasures their bodies
[12:53] Speaker 3: can provide and instructs them to set aside private time
[12:56] Speaker 3: in pursuit of that goal, etc.
[12:57] Speaker 2: etc. Here's the gist of what I was getting to.
[13:00] Speaker 2: I'll do that today.
[13:02] Speaker 3: The aforementioned sexual pleasure guide directs students to a checklist
[13:06] Speaker 3: entitled Yes, No, Maybe So, a sexual inventory stock list,
[13:10] Speaker 3: a copy of which can be found on Cornell's health website.
[13:13] Speaker 3: The list includes sex with two people at once, sex
[13:16] Speaker 3: with three people at once. Sex with more than three
[13:19] Speaker 3: people at once, cyber sex, open sexual relationships, sex toys, blindfolding, bondage, biting, scratching,
[13:25] Speaker 3: spanking and slapping for sexual pleasure, sexual clamps and sexual
[13:29] Speaker 3: activity involved being.
[13:30] Speaker 2: Various bodily fluids.
[13:33] Speaker 3: Students are asked to classify these acts as yes, no,
[13:35] Speaker 3: maybe fantasy or unsure. There appears to be considerably more
[13:39] Speaker 3: enthusiasm for helping students identify their preferred form of restraint
[13:43] Speaker 3: than than for encouraging restraint itself. So what did this
[13:50] Speaker 3: sophomore do with that list, which your university encouraged her
[13:54] Speaker 3: to think about? How about bondage? How about sex toys?
[13:58] Speaker 3: How about multiple partners? What do you think of this stuff?
[14:01] Speaker 3: Why is the university doing this at all? That's the
[14:05] Speaker 3: sexual atmosphere at Cornell. And now this girl who allegedly
[14:11] Speaker 3: was willingly participating in this, regretted it afterward, it got
[14:14] Speaker 3: out of hand, etc., is now pretending that this came
[14:17] Speaker 3: out of nowhere.
[14:19] Speaker 2: Please.
[14:21] Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
[14:23] Speaker 2: We are Armstrong and Getty, and this is the best
[14:26] Speaker 2: weekend talk show in America. Grab our podcast. It's called
[14:29] Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty On Demand. Continues to be a pretty
[14:37] Speaker 2: damned interesting story that we can't execute people in this country,
[14:41] Speaker 2: even though we have the death penalty. And we got
[14:43] Speaker 2: that lady in Tennessee who we tried to kill, failed,
[14:48] Speaker 2: then rushed her to the hospital to get her back
[14:51] Speaker 2: to life and OK so that we can kill her now.
[14:55] Speaker 2: Is that what's going to happen? Here's the report from
[14:57] Speaker 2: CBS and where we are on that.
[14:59] Speaker 5: Tennessee death row inmate Krista Pike is conscious and speaking tonight,
[15:03] Speaker 5: days after the failed execution. Her lawyers revealed that despite
[15:06] Speaker 5: damage to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled
[15:09] Speaker 5: to the bed in her Nashville hospital. Last Wednesday night,
[15:12] Speaker 5: Pike survived two rounds of lethal injection. She was left
[15:16] Speaker 5: unconscious and on a ventilator. Her attorneys had warned authorities
[15:19] Speaker 5: that Pike had specific challenges with her vein.
[15:22] Speaker 6: The least that could happen now is that we at
[15:24] Speaker 6: least take death off the table and start looking for
[15:27] Speaker 6: what the future could be for her.
[15:30] Speaker 2: Dancing with the stars, I think, is her future. Oh, Lord.
[15:34] Speaker 2: That's funny. Yeah.
[15:35] Speaker 3: The only source for this story, because it's like if
[15:38] Speaker 3: somebody gets fired from the job and they can shoot
[15:40] Speaker 3: off their mouth all they want about how awful and
[15:42] Speaker 3: how they are a great employee and blah, blah, blah.
[15:44] Speaker 3: And the employer's constrained from saying anything.
[15:47] Speaker 2: Well, it's the same thing.
[15:48] Speaker 3: The only people talking are her lawyers. And so the
[15:50] Speaker 3: media slurps it up.
[15:52] Speaker 2: The media is mostly anti-death penalty.
[15:55] Speaker 1: Right.
[15:55] Speaker 2: To me, she's unconscious. She's in a hospital with an I.V.
[15:59] Speaker 4: In her arm.
[16:00] Speaker 2: Give me 10 minutes in the old medicine cabinet. I'll
[16:03] Speaker 2: take care of this. Yeah, I don't know if we
[16:05] Speaker 2: have time to get to all this that I have
[16:07] Speaker 2: prepared and want to talk about. But, for instance, the
[16:10] Speaker 2: year before last in Canada, where they have assisted suicide now,
[16:13] Speaker 2: which is the same thing as killing somebody like this.
[16:17] Speaker 2: Sixteen thousand five hundred Canadians successfully received assisted suicide. That's
[16:24] Speaker 2: small country. It's a country of only 35 million people.
[16:28] Speaker 2: 16,500 people. They put the death in the Netherlands. I
[16:33] Speaker 2: got to go back to Jonah Goldberg's column. I was
[16:35] Speaker 2: going to talk about in the Netherlands. Over 10,000 people
[16:39] Speaker 2: were killed last year. That's 6% of all Dutch deaths
[16:44] Speaker 2: or assisted suicide. How nuts is that? But anyway, they
[16:47] Speaker 2: have a way to do it easily. I listened to
[16:51] Speaker 2: the Dispatch podcast yesterday about this topic and learned a
[16:53] Speaker 2: lot I didn't know. For one thing, the Medical Association,
[16:56] Speaker 2: and I suppose this makes sense, doctors aren't allowed to
[16:59] Speaker 2: participate in this sort of thing for a variety of
[17:01] Speaker 2: reasons of first do no harm or all different sorts
[17:03] Speaker 2: of things. There's lots of people that are not allowed
[17:05] Speaker 2: to participate. participate in this. So that makes it harder.
[17:10] Speaker 2: Then you've got the pressure that is put on all
[17:13] Speaker 2: these drug companies where the activists come at them hard
[17:17] Speaker 2: and they get scared to allow their drugs to be used.
[17:21] Speaker 2: So the best stuff can't be used with the best
[17:23] Speaker 2: people using it. And Jonah Goldberg's column was how death
[17:27] Speaker 2: penalty opponents share the blame for botched executions. The idea
[17:31] Speaker 2: being that they make it impossible for Then when it
[17:35] Speaker 2: goes bad, they say, look, you can't even kill in
[17:38] Speaker 2: an inhumane way. It's exactly what I've been saying. So
[17:42] Speaker 2: as you may recall, it's so incredibly cynical, though. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[17:47] Speaker 3: Well, and so who do you have given the the needle?
[17:51] Speaker 3: Is it like a guy washed out of EMT school
[17:54] Speaker 3: or what? Somebody off the street. You know who they
[17:56] Speaker 3: ought to get is gender affirming care doctors because they
[17:59] Speaker 3: have no ethics and no soul.
[18:02] Speaker 2: And apparently there's a lot of people that don't want
[18:04] Speaker 2: to do it. So they opt out or whatever. I
[18:06] Speaker 2: don't I could I could do that. I could I
[18:09] Speaker 2: could execute 10 people today and not think twice about it.
[18:12] Speaker 2: If they've gone through all the different appeals and all
[18:15] Speaker 2: that sort of stuff in the Supreme Court in this case,
[18:17] Speaker 2: I think like six times or whatever. I mean, this
[18:19] Speaker 2: woman is thoroughly gone over her case. I'd be perfectly comfortable.
[18:23] Speaker 2: What would I flip the switch? Pull that lever. Press
[18:26] Speaker 2: this button. What do you want me to do? Fine.
[18:27] Speaker 2: It's over. I don't care. Wouldn't bother me any, but
[18:31] Speaker 2: you can't, you can't find people to do that with
[18:34] Speaker 2: these scumbags. Well, I'm anti-death penalty, but, um, if it's,
[18:39] Speaker 2: if it's the law of the land and you know,
[18:41] Speaker 2: I know what this person did, I have no problem
[18:43] Speaker 2: doing it. They also got into this idea from PJ O'Rourke,
[18:49] Speaker 2: which wrote this years ago on how insane you have
[18:52] Speaker 2: to be for a lot of lefties to be, uh,
[18:57] Speaker 2: For abortion, but anti-death penalty on how crazy it is
[19:01] Speaker 2: to be able to get to that place. Oh, that
[19:03] Speaker 2: makes no sense whatsoever.
[19:06] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[19:07] Speaker 2: Yeah. We cherish life. Innocent babies. Sure. Scumbag convicted criminals
[19:14] Speaker 2: have gone through all of the appeals. No way. Your
[19:16] Speaker 2: government can't take a life. Yeah, you're right. Insanity. That's
[19:21] Speaker 2: a nuts position to have. Mental disorder. Anyway, so I
[19:26] Speaker 2: guess we'll find out if we're going to snuff her again.
[19:27] Speaker 2: Do you think they will or what? No, they often
[19:30] Speaker 2: commute the sentence in botched executions. Because it'd be cruel
[19:35] Speaker 2: and unusual or what? She's suffered enough. Armstrong and Getty.
[19:41] Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
[19:45] Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
[19:51] Speaker 2: Marco Rubio's getting an awful lot of looks like I'm
[19:55] Speaker 2: running for president speeches lately for a guy who says
[19:59] Speaker 2: he's not running for president. I, uh, I, wow. I'm
[20:03] Speaker 2: surprised to hear you characterize it like that. Uh, it's
[20:06] Speaker 2: not a crazy theory, but he is the secretary of
[20:08] Speaker 2: state and they tend to say things just as part
[20:11] Speaker 2: of their jobs.
[20:12] Speaker 3: But I mean, you're not wrong. Uh, so this is,
[20:15] Speaker 3: it's funny. I got all sorts of thoughts swirling around
[20:17] Speaker 3: my head. Oh, one of them is this. As we're
[20:22] Speaker 3: putting the show together and executing it and everything, and
[20:24] Speaker 3: then occasionally looking back on.
[20:26] Speaker 2: How it went, uh, Shaking our heads in sadness and disgust.
[20:30] Speaker 2: Maybe next time. Maybe next time, fellas, we say. Don't
[20:33] Speaker 2: leave out the shame.
[20:35] Speaker 3: You know, there's a balance between identifying things that are
[20:38] Speaker 3: wrong or need to be fixed, bringing people's attention to
[20:42] Speaker 3: whatever bad policies, bad activity, whatever. Bad indoctrination of our
[20:48] Speaker 3: kids in schools, for instance. And then there's the reminding
[20:51] Speaker 3: folks of good stuff. And not just, here's a man
[20:54] Speaker 3: in Green Bay, Wisconsin, who helped his neighbor shovel his driveway.
[20:57] Speaker 2: Not like that.
[20:59] Speaker 3: So I was reminded, yesterday we were talking about Shelby
[21:03] Speaker 3: Steele and his new White Guilt documentary. If you don't
[21:07] Speaker 3: know Shelby Steele's writing, he's a brilliant, brilliant man. Happens
[21:10] Speaker 3: to be a black man, but he writes a lot
[21:12] Speaker 3: about race in America.
[21:13] Speaker 2: Hell of a cool name. Oh, yeah. Why isn't my
[21:16] Speaker 2: name Shelby Steele? Really anything Steele. Joe Steele. Ed Steele
[21:22] Speaker 2: is less good.
[21:23] Speaker 3: Anyway, and I was going to make this the freedom
[21:26] Speaker 3: loving quote of the day today, but I forgot maybe tomorrow.
[21:29] Speaker 3: But he says, the one truth I've known my entire
[21:33] Speaker 3: life is the principles of Western civilization are not tribal.
[21:36] Speaker 2: They're universal.
[21:38] Speaker 3: People have always asked me, Shelby, what's the answer to
[21:40] Speaker 3: this evil of white guilt? My answer is always the same.
[21:43] Speaker 2: Courage.
[21:44] Speaker 3: Be an American. Believe in the founding principles of America.
[21:47] Speaker 3: Most of all, believe in freedom itself. It only finds
[21:50] Speaker 3: expression in the individual. Nobody gave me my freedom. No
[21:54] Speaker 3: one can. Freedom is within you. Seize it or don't.
[22:00] Speaker 3: And I remember that was also the answer to... Who
[22:04] Speaker 3: was the other great thinker who was talking about... You know,
[22:09] Speaker 3: several of the ideologies and their kids are getting off track.
[22:12] Speaker 3: And the answer is keep pitching what made this country great.
[22:16] Speaker 3: We thought it was self-evident to people. It's not anymore.
[22:19] Speaker 3: And as Orwell said, we quoted him earlier.
[22:22] Speaker 2: Sometimes our job is to state the obvious.
[22:25] Speaker 3: If the times get weird enough, just stating the obvious.
[22:27] Speaker 3: So anyway, in that spirit, Marco Rubio gave a speech
[22:33] Speaker 3: at the Acropolis, Greece, one of the seats of Western civilization, certainly.
[22:38] Speaker 3: The seat, perhaps, in which he talked about this sort
[22:41] Speaker 3: of thing.
[22:42] Speaker 2: Really looked like a green screen behind him or AI.
[22:45] Speaker 2: It was real, but it did a little bit. He's
[22:48] Speaker 2: standing on one side of Europe in front of one
[22:50] Speaker 2: year old Greek giant stone things that was built thousands
[22:53] Speaker 2: of years ago. Yeah. Yeah.
[22:55] Speaker 3: But the headline in The Wall Street Journal is Marco
[22:57] Speaker 3: Rubio gets to the heart of the matter at the Acropolis.
[23:00] Speaker 3: He says the West can revive itself by recalling its
[23:03] Speaker 3: historic virtues.
[23:04] Speaker 2: And ambitions.
[23:05] Speaker 3: And let's share a little of his speech with you.
[23:07] Speaker 3: We'll start with 90, Michael, and go from there.
[23:08] Speaker 6: The Thumos, as the ancient Greeks called it, the fire
[23:11] Speaker 6: of passion, strength, courage, pride, is the heart of great civilization.
[23:17] Speaker 6: And without it, without it, nations lose their will to fight,
[23:22] Speaker 6: the will to strive, the will to survive. Today, too
[23:28] Speaker 6: much of the West has forgotten this quality. Over time,
[23:33] Speaker 6: we in the West, came to feel ashamed of the
[23:36] Speaker 6: very things that made us exceptional. We felt embarrassed that
[23:39] Speaker 6: our achievements set us apart from the rest of the world.
[23:42] Speaker 6: Our prosperity somehow became a source of guilt. We no
[23:48] Speaker 6: longer believed we deserved and had earned our greatness.
[23:52] Speaker 2: Our fupa? Is that what he said?
[23:54] Speaker 3: No, the thumos. That's the Greek word for the fire.
[23:59] Speaker 2: We've lost it. Yeah, yeah.
[24:02] Speaker 3: Where'd you see it last? Yeah, I thought that was
[24:05] Speaker 3: absolutely brilliant.
[24:07] Speaker 2: Let him go on, Michael.
[24:08] Speaker 6: The word nationalism became a dirty word. And so we
[24:12] Speaker 6: tore down our monuments. We condemned our own history. And
[24:16] Speaker 6: in too many places, we taught our children to be
[24:18] Speaker 6: ashamed of the countries they would inherit. In the process,
[24:22] Speaker 6: we opened our borders and outsourced our industry and allowed
[24:26] Speaker 6: our militaries to wither and to decay. And with every
[24:30] Speaker 6: passing year, We seemed to outsource more of our sovereignty,
[24:35] Speaker 6: transferring our decisions to global bureaucracies far beyond the reach
[24:39] Speaker 6: of our control. But others were all too happy to
[24:43] Speaker 6: fill the vacuum that we left, the vacuum left behind
[24:47] Speaker 6: by our weakness. And as the West's confidence faltered, its
[24:52] Speaker 6: adversaries and its rivals only grew more assertive, building up
[24:56] Speaker 6: their own wealth and their own power.
[24:58] Speaker 2: In our stead. Right.
[25:01] Speaker 1: Islamists.
[25:02] Speaker 2: A little Marco. I've never seen anybody so thirsty. He
[25:06] Speaker 2: is saying we've been saying this for years. I've been
[25:08] Speaker 2: asking for years. Has there ever been another society in
[25:12] Speaker 2: world history that decided to teach its young people to
[25:15] Speaker 2: hate their own society? Is that a thing? It's a
[25:18] Speaker 2: thing here.
[25:20] Speaker 3: It's it's ridiculous and suicidal. And it is because Marxists,
[25:25] Speaker 3: that was their plan. which we've discussed in detail in
[25:30] Speaker 3: the past talking about Antonio Gramsci.
[25:32] Speaker 2: This was his idea.
[25:33] Speaker 3: We've got to get the educational system and start to
[25:35] Speaker 3: twist the minds of the children.
[25:37] Speaker 2: It was deliberate. He wrote a book about it. His
[25:38] Speaker 2: name is on the spine. You know, this is an
[25:42] Speaker 2: idiotic comment, but I'll make it. Then it won't be
[25:45] Speaker 2: in my head anymore.
[25:47] Speaker 3: If Marco Rubio had like a more manly. lower pitched
[25:53] Speaker 3: more powerful voice he'd already be the president probably yes
[25:58] Speaker 3: yeah which is again stupid oh it's incredibly stupid yeah
[26:02] Speaker 3: yeah anyway uh more please mr secretary more.
[26:07] Speaker 2: And now today.
[26:10] Speaker 6: We find ourselves at a crossroads because the next decade
[26:14] Speaker 6: and the decisions we make will write the story of
[26:17] Speaker 6: the next century The course we take will determine whether
[26:21] Speaker 6: the West maintains its place at the head of the
[26:23] Speaker 6: world or resigns itself to a future of atrophy and
[26:28] Speaker 6: servitude and decline. We will either choose to act now
[26:35] Speaker 6: or lose the choice to act at all.
[26:38] Speaker 2: Well, God, I like to be more optimistic, but if
[26:41] Speaker 2: you're saying the West is opposed to the United States,
[26:44] Speaker 2: so we're including Europe, I don't like our chances. What
[26:49] Speaker 2: was the title of the great book by Mark Stein?
[26:51] Speaker 3: America Alone. That's what he was talking about. Hey, if
[26:54] Speaker 3: we don't turn this around, it's just going to be America.
[26:57] Speaker 3: The Wall Street Journal editorial board said it's the speech
[26:59] Speaker 3: of the year by our lights.
[27:01] Speaker 2: And here's my favorite quote from it.
[27:03] Speaker 3: Here in Athens, we found the first full realization of
[27:06] Speaker 3: all the essential traits that would come to define the West.
[27:09] Speaker 3: Fierce individuality and relentless ambition, daring exploration and invention, a
[27:14] Speaker 3: yearning for discovery, for adventure, risk and glory. an insatiable
[27:19] Speaker 3: curiosity about the world and the principles by which it operates,
[27:22] Speaker 3: a hunger to know the mysteries of nature and grasp
[27:25] Speaker 3: the secrets of the cosmos. This was the foundation of
[27:28] Speaker 3: the Western mind, our math, our science, our medicine, our philosophy, ethics,
[27:31] Speaker 3: and religion. It was the foundation of the riches of
[27:34] Speaker 3: Christian theology, of Augustine Aquinas, and the whole tradition of
[27:38] Speaker 3: natural law.
[27:42] Speaker 2: That exists cheap.
[27:44] Speaker 3: But jowl with what i was just reading about great
[27:46] Speaker 3: britain and their politics which they're doubling down on socialism
[27:51] Speaker 3: they are all of those things he said fierce individuality
[27:55] Speaker 3: dying relentless ambition gone daring exploration and invention that's hilarious
[28:01] Speaker 3: uh yearning for discovery adventure risk and glory goodbye hey
[28:06] Speaker 3: france i'm looking at you too well that's to to
[28:11] Speaker 3: keep this positive We have the answer. We've had the answer.
[28:18] Speaker 3: Here's a hint for just over 250 years.
[28:23] Speaker 2: That's the answer.
[28:24] Speaker 3: Our principles as a country hammer them, teach them, believe them.
[28:29] Speaker 2: It'd be cool to have a president who believes that
[28:32] Speaker 2: stuff and could say it. Well, we haven't had one
[28:35] Speaker 2: in a very, very long time. I don't know if
[28:37] Speaker 2: Trump thinks about this stuff at all. I don't think
[28:39] Speaker 2: he does. And he wouldn't be able to get that
[28:41] Speaker 2: sort of speech out of his mouth. Biden maybe believed
[28:44] Speaker 2: it at some point in his life, but he certainly
[28:46] Speaker 2: wasn't going to say it out loud to his crowd.
[28:47] Speaker 2: And I don't think Obama believes it. I don't think
[28:50] Speaker 2: he believes that the West is superior in any way.
[28:53] Speaker 2: So he was.
[28:54] Speaker 3: Savvy enough to echo some of those sentiments when it
[28:56] Speaker 3: served him.
[28:56] Speaker 2: But no, he didn't believe that. It's been a while
[28:58] Speaker 2: since we've had a president. One believed it and two
[29:00] Speaker 2: could say it, you know, in a way that you'd
[29:02] Speaker 2: understand it. So that'd be something if Marco ever ends
[29:04] Speaker 2: up president. Yeah. A different Marco thing that I just
[29:08] Speaker 2: came across. This is just he was being asked by
[29:10] Speaker 2: reporters about various stuff and the world hating on us
[29:14] Speaker 2: for what's happening with Israel and Palestine and all that
[29:17] Speaker 2: sort of stuff, and Iran. Here's Marco today, I think,
[29:21] Speaker 2: in Lisbon.
[29:22] Speaker 6: Amnesty International is a fraud. If you're asking me what
[29:24] Speaker 6: I think what Amnesty International thinks, you know what I
[29:26] Speaker 6: think Amnesty International should be focused on? An Iranian regime
[29:29] Speaker 6: that murdered, in cold blood, tens of thousands of people
[29:33] Speaker 6: on the streets of Tehran and other parts of the country.
[29:35] Speaker 6: What Amnesty International should focus on is how the Iranian
[29:38] Speaker 6: regime goes into hospitals. when protesters are injured and murders
[29:42] Speaker 6: the people in their hospital bed and by the way
[29:44] Speaker 6: sometimes murders the doctors or the nurses who treated them.
[29:47] Speaker 6: So they should focus on them. Those are war crimes.
[29:49] Speaker 6: Those are crimes against humanity. And those are crimes they're
[29:51] Speaker 6: committing against their own people.
[29:53] Speaker 2: It was put to Marco. Amnesty International says what the
[29:56] Speaker 2: United States is doing and contemplating doing in Iran is
[29:58] Speaker 2: a war crime. You know it's a war crime, Amnesty International? Again,
[30:02] Speaker 2: the same with the UN, who had nothing to say
[30:05] Speaker 2: with murdering 40,000 college kids in the streets. Nothing.
[30:09] Speaker 5: Right.
[30:10] Speaker 2: It's unbelievable that that's true. Yeah, you just... Cynical is
[30:14] Speaker 2: the wrong word. You've just got to understand how it works.
[30:16] Speaker 3: First of all, as you've pointed out, every organization, unless
[30:19] Speaker 3: it is expressly dedicated to conservative causes, becomes more progressive
[30:24] Speaker 3: over time.
[30:24] Speaker 2: It just happens because of bureaucracy reasons.
[30:27] Speaker 3: And then the great philosopher, Eric Hoffer, every great cause
[30:32] Speaker 3: begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates
[30:35] Speaker 3: into a racket. I was a big supporter of Amnesty
[30:38] Speaker 3: International in the 80s, but no more.
[30:41] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[30:43] Speaker 3: My son refers to me as the world's most conservative hippie,
[30:45] Speaker 3: so guilty, I guess. Yeah, they've just become another Marxist organization,
[30:51] Speaker 3: and they can F all the way off, as they.
[30:55] Speaker 2: Say these days. Whoever came up with that expression, I
[30:58] Speaker 2: want to shake their hand or buy them a drink
[31:01] Speaker 2: or something. That's a good one.
[31:02] Speaker 3: Since they're young, they probably don't drink.
[31:05] Speaker 2: It's such an odd expression, but it's really, really good.
[31:08] Speaker 2: All the way, not partially. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. That's the key.
[31:17] Speaker 3: It's the understatement that's so delicious. The implication that you
[31:23] Speaker 3: could F partially off.
[31:27] Speaker 4: Right.
[31:27] Speaker 2: Never mind. Right. That there was a continuum ever. Exactly. Yes.
[31:31] Speaker 2: And this is, I would like you to F all
[31:33] Speaker 2: the way off. I just love that.
[31:38] Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
[31:41] Speaker 2: We've decided to call this the best weekend talk show
[31:43] Speaker 2: in America. And if you like it, download Armstrong and
[31:46] Speaker 2: Getty on demand. We didn't play any of this, but
[31:50] Speaker 2: did you follow the flap over the weekend where Tucker
[31:54] Speaker 2: Carlson had that journalist on when Tucker was making the
[31:57] Speaker 2: claim that Russia has more people in Russia have more
[32:01] Speaker 2: freedom than people in Great Britain? I did not follow
[32:04] Speaker 2: that flap.
[32:05] Speaker 3: I followed the flap where he was idiotically claiming that
[32:08] Speaker 3: britain shouldn't have fought world war ii and it wouldn't
[32:11] Speaker 3: have made any difference if the nazis won i mean.
[32:13] Speaker 2: It was the same interview same guy but i mean
[32:15] Speaker 2: he is he's gone he just keeps going further and
[32:17] Speaker 2: further and then the question is is he just flat
[32:21] Speaker 2: on the payroll for somebody or has he lost his mind.
[32:26] Speaker 3: Or is it just the appealing to young men by
[32:28] Speaker 3: saying transgressive things Wow.
[32:32] Speaker 2: He's cool. I mean, he'll actually say to an English guy,
[32:35] Speaker 2: he wishes Hitler had won. He doesn't care what people think.
[32:39] Speaker 2: I don't know.
[32:39] Speaker 3: I'm not that headspace. I haven't been for a very
[32:41] Speaker 3: long time. Oh, yeah, he's completely lost his frigging mind.
[32:44] Speaker 3: He's saying stuff that's so patently stupid, it's unimaginable. It's
[32:49] Speaker 3: like seeing your mom in a ho house. I'm so
[32:53] Speaker 3: disappointed with Tucker Carlson's turn.
[32:56] Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think that would be really disturbing.
[33:01] Speaker 3: More profoundly disturbing than a pundit going to the dark side.
[33:04] Speaker 2: Who disagrees with me on politics. Yeah, I see your point.
[33:08] Speaker 2: Your mother turning out to be a sex worker. Or
[33:11] Speaker 2: becoming one, having been a perfectly just regular mom your
[33:15] Speaker 2: entire life. Late in life especially. What a strange turn
[33:18] Speaker 2: of events. I'll tell you what, I did not see
[33:20] Speaker 2: this coming. You know, I retract my comparison. It was
[33:24] Speaker 2: in apropos. I underplayed the devastation of finding out Your
[33:31] Speaker 2: own mom has decided to sell her body for money. Right. Right.
[33:35] Speaker 2: Of all people. Right. Be a shocker. You're right. That's
[33:39] Speaker 2: the point, Michael. Michael, to say the least. Good job
[33:41] Speaker 2: of distilling it to his chest. It would be shocking. Again,
[33:44] Speaker 2: I have misspoken here.
[33:48] Speaker 3: On a totally, totally different topic.
[33:51] Speaker 2: I was just struck.
[33:52] Speaker 3: I just was sent a video of a good friend
[33:54] Speaker 3: of mine who is struggling with a sudden onset autoimmune disorder.
[34:00] Speaker 3: He's fighting his way back. This guy's like a gifted.
[34:03] Speaker 3: He was a college athlete, a scratch golfer, and he's
[34:05] Speaker 3: struggling to walk at this point. The good news is there.
[34:09] Speaker 3: The road back should be a successful one. But, you know,
[34:12] Speaker 3: talking to him and his wife about his stays in
[34:16] Speaker 3: various hospitals, our hospital system is broken.
[34:19] Speaker 2: It is so screwed up.
[34:21] Speaker 3: And it's mostly screwed up because of crony capitalism and socialism.
[34:25] Speaker 2: It's terrible.
[34:27] Speaker 3: But I say that to lead to this. This is
[34:29] Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal. There are now a pretty good
[34:32] Speaker 3: handful of influencers online who are getting many, many, many
[34:38] Speaker 3: thousands of hits explaining that, you know what? I got
[34:41] Speaker 3: this giant hotel bill. I'm not paying it.
[34:43] Speaker 4: F them.
[34:44] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[34:45] Speaker 3: And it's spreading, and more and more people are comparing
[34:48] Speaker 3: notes and talking about how insanely impenetrable their bills are
[34:52] Speaker 3: and how high they are. Here's a guy who showed
[34:55] Speaker 3: up at the ER for an ankle. Turns out they
[34:58] Speaker 3: took a quick look at it and said, no, it's
[34:59] Speaker 3: just sprained. And he got a $ 1, 000 bill, and he says,
[35:03] Speaker 3: I'm not paying it. And that's becoming more and more popular. Allegedly,
[35:09] Speaker 3: unpaid bills are a real pain point for hospitals. Patient
[35:11] Speaker 3: debt and the cost of charity rose 16. Charity cases,
[35:15] Speaker 3: as they call them, rose 16 percent in the first
[35:19] Speaker 3: half of this year compared to last year.
[35:21] Speaker 2: Well, what happens, though? Doesn't it just end up going
[35:23] Speaker 2: to a collection agency and then it shows up in
[35:25] Speaker 2: your credit and then all the repercussions of your actions
[35:28] Speaker 2: come true?
[35:30] Speaker 3: Here are some interesting facts on that topic.
[35:34] Speaker 2: I want to. I understand the emotion behind it, but
[35:36] Speaker 2: I think the reality ain't going to be that cool. Oh,
[35:39] Speaker 2: let me let me go in order because then that'll
[35:40] Speaker 2: help me find it.
[35:41] Speaker 3: But and there's also like a subgenre of that of
[35:44] Speaker 3: women who have given birth in and gotten these enormous
[35:47] Speaker 3: impenetrable bills.
[35:49] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[35:50] Speaker 3: And this one gal who's much more responsible says, call
[35:53] Speaker 3: a hospital, ask for discounts, get a detailed itemized bill,
[35:58] Speaker 3: dispute every charge, anything that looks duplicative.
[36:01] Speaker 2: Sure, you're a new mom. It shouldn't take much of
[36:05] Speaker 2: your time to dispute every charge on your bill. It
[36:08] Speaker 2: sounds like a nightmare. I understand why you want to
[36:10] Speaker 2: do it, but it sounds awful.
[36:12] Speaker 3: And she saved $ 400, which if your paycheck to paycheck
[36:15] Speaker 3: is a serious amount of money, especially as a new family.
[36:20] Speaker 3: So this is the fact that I came across that
[36:21] Speaker 3: I really had no idea of. Medical debt below $ 500
[36:26] Speaker 3: no longer affects credit scores under voluntary policies adopted by
[36:32] Speaker 3: major credit report agencies. And some states are seeking to
[36:37] Speaker 3: enact laws to ban or restrict medical debt affecting credit
[36:41] Speaker 3: scores at all. So the hospitals are going to be
[36:46] Speaker 3: left holding the empty bag, which.
[36:48] Speaker 2: Maybe they deserve. We can argue about that another day.
[36:51] Speaker 3: And that will be remedied, I have a feeling, through
[36:54] Speaker 3: the government because they have enormously powerful lobbyists with more
[37:00] Speaker 3: draining of the taxpayers. I don't mean to make everybody
[37:02] Speaker 3: insanely depressed or anything like.
[37:04] Speaker 2: That, but.
[37:05] Speaker 3: There needs to be serious fundamental reform of our hospital
[37:09] Speaker 3: system and quick reform.
[37:11] Speaker 2: Or we're heading towards some sort of yuck. Government takeover
[37:14] Speaker 2: is what it's going to be. People will fall for
[37:16] Speaker 2: the belief that it will be easier then. Then it'll
[37:19] Speaker 2: just all be taken care of. No, the paperwork will
[37:21] Speaker 2: grow in a way you can't even imagine. And, you know,
[37:24] Speaker 2: your appointments will be nine months out for all of them,
[37:28] Speaker 2: and it'll be horrible. Yeah, I was just looking at
[37:30] Speaker 2: a study.
[37:30] Speaker 3: I don't have it in front of me, unfortunately, of
[37:32] Speaker 3: Canadian hospital beds per capita. and the waiting times for
[37:36] Speaker 3: treatments and stuff like that in Canada. So many Canadians,
[37:39] Speaker 3: if they have, you know, two Canadian dollars or drachma
[37:42] Speaker 3: or whatever they spend up there, um, if they got
[37:45] Speaker 3: two dollars, uh, the loons, loonies, uh, moose, moose heads,
[37:50] Speaker 3: they got two moose heads to rub together. They come
[37:52] Speaker 3: to the U S for the cancer treatment because they
[37:54] Speaker 3: were literally tell you, all right, you need treatment immediately.
[37:57] Speaker 2: We can see you in nine weeks.
[37:59] Speaker 3: Um, But anyway, the study was about hospital beds and
[38:02] Speaker 3: how the number of hospital beds per capita has declined
[38:05] Speaker 3: unbelievably since the government instituted the government health care. And
[38:09] Speaker 3: it's just it's a road to misery. But, you know,
[38:12] Speaker 3: like the socialism we were talking about earlier, it's inevitable,
[38:16] Speaker 3: absolutely inevitable. You end up like Britain and France, just miserable,
[38:21] Speaker 3: wracked by violence, unproductive. You got a dead economy. But
[38:24] Speaker 3: it's so easy to sell that to people for some reason.
[38:28] Speaker 3: It horrifies me.
[38:29] Speaker 5: But.
[38:29] Speaker 3: You've got to recognize it's true. The siren song of socialism,
[38:33] Speaker 3: you know, rings sweet in people's ears.
[38:37] Speaker 2: It rings sweet in people's ears. Yes. Right. I'd say
[38:43] Speaker 2: sweeter than something or other, but I might have another
[38:46] Speaker 2: misstep like the whole mom and a whorehouse. Right. I've
[38:50] Speaker 2: done enough damage this segment. Armstrong and Getty.

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