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Every single one of them had a different lead theme. So there is no dominating story right now other than the freaking terrorist attack that happened in Boulder, Colorado yesterday. Yes, just so ugly. I was thinking co general managers. Chaos and ugliness. There'll be job sharing. Who wants to get chaos has to pick up her children in the afternoon, whereas ugliness is free most afternoons. So it's a great relationship. But new week, new month, you don't want to start with chaos. How about summer vacation? A lot of school, kids getting done the college or my son, but my kids. It's the last week of school. Very exciting. Sure. I mean, what's more optimistic and uplifting than that? I'm happy for them. Their optimism, their excitement rubs off on me. Even though listening grow up. Their. Their excitement rubs off on me. Except for my life gets harder while theirs gets easier, which is kind of a funny thing. There you go. There you go. You feeling that bitterness seep back in? There you go. There's it. Love it. How comforting. Yeah. I'm telling you. Nutty times, folks. Nutty times. Perhaps you've noticed, but you know what? Just remember this. A kiss is still a kiss. Sunrise is still a beautiful, life affirming thing. Sip of cold Pepsi with a hot. Hot dog. Hot hot dog is probably poor bit of writing there, but anyway, a sip of Pepsi with a hot dog. No, I said a. No, no, no. Michael, did you hear what he did there? He took all of the art out of my sentence. He sure did. And he sure did is right. And he reduced it to this pedestrian JC Jane run crap. He sure did. He sure did. Oh, geez. I know. So somebody that shouldn't have been in the country in the first place. They're in Boulder, Colorado, throwing Molotov cocktails of people, setting people on fire. Shouldn't have been here anyway. Was that an illegal. I hadn't heard that update. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, overstayed something and then kept getting re upped on his paperwork even though he didn't qualify in any way whatsoever. Let's just say somebody came in and got to stay thing once again, we, we ought to be more careful about that. I would say so. Well, it's only a 8020 issue, like so many issues these days and you have two in a week and three and two months with people killed or nearly killed with somebody shouting free Palestine. Which seems to me ought to raise it to the level of a terrorist slogan that you can't scream on college campuses. People lost their jobs by saying black lives matter. I think all lives matter. That became a phrase. You cannot say people lost. Nobody got killed saying that people are being killed by people yelling free Palestine. Yet you can still scream it on college campuses, I guess. Or globalize the intifado, which means murder Jews all over the world. Right, Right, exactly. This guy seemed pretty nutty and. Oh, I'm sorry. Before we move on, you remember the greatest threat to homeland security is right wingers, Right? Yeah. Not Islamism, which continues to encircle and try to take it over. I personally know someone quite well who just bought a gun, who is a lefty and is a super progressive who bought the first gun of their lives. Can't believe they bought a gun. But they thought they had to because of the rise of angry white right wingers who are upset about being replaced. You're crazy. You're crazy. That is not the threat to introduce me to them. I'm an angry white right winger and I'm not going to shoot anybody unless they got it coming. So they had an up with Israel parade there in Boulder, Colorado and this nut job illegal showed up. He's Middle Eastern of some sort and he was Muhammad something or other. Yeah. And. And just to be specific, it was a please free the hostages Right March. Yeah. I mean it wasn't Israel whoop ass on Hamas. It was just turn the innocence loose. Yeah. It could not be more morally defensible and gentle a sentiment. Yeah. How would you not agree with that? That's a good point. This year's lamist scumbag. That's why. Well, if you want to look at the headline hanged at the county square there in Boulder, Although Boulder so woke. It won't happen. CBS's headline at least last night was attack at Boulder's Pearl Street Mall in Colorado burned several people with an attack that burned people. Yeah, yeah. Nothing about the politics of it there whatsoever. If it were scary, scary right wingers targeting black or trans people, it would be the country would come to a stop. The president would address us. Yeah. And you, NBC News was a little more descriptive, but still did not get at the anti Semitism and the hate that seems to be rampant and is consistently like every weekend now. Multiple Gaza hostage awareness marchers injured in attack in Bolter Man. That is an antiseptic headline for a terrorist attack. The FBI is calling it a terrorist attack. Now the Boulder police, they came out and said, we don't think it's a terrorist attack yet, so we're not willing to join on. Of course, Boulder is like Berkeley. Yeah. In terms of their. Boulder, you're covering yourself in shame. Enjoy. So this, the coverage of it is interesting. It. You know, it was the early hours of this last night and we'll get into it a little more later, but guy was pretty nutty, would seem. He. He did set himself on fire, if you've seen the videos. That's why he was shirtless. His first attempt, he set himself on fire and had to take his shirt off and stomp it out before he started burning other people. But there are people clinging to life. There is a murder charge in the FBI indictment. Nobody's exactly sure what that's all about yet though, because nobody's been announced to have died. But there are people with nearby death injuries. Can you imagine anything worse than that? Small town parade and you're. And people are on fire, rolling on the ground and there's no water nearby. So everybody was running over to the town fountain, trying to fill up whatever receptacle they have and running back to the people and trying to pour water on them as they rolled around screaming in agony. Oh my God. It's horrific. It's about as horrible as anything you could imagine. Oh my God. Which makes you wonder why you would end up with a headline, you know, given that scene and the guy screaming Free Palestine the entire, entire time, how would you. In a Middle Eastern accent, which, you know, kind of helps you understand a little bit about what's going on. How you, how you end up with a headline, attack at Boulders, Pearl Street Mall in Colorado burns several people. Yeah. The depths of dishonesty and self delusion in the media is pretty well documented. But in a case like this, it astounds me anew. It's amazing. As Charles C.W. cook of the National Review retweeted, a headline purposely written to convey the absolute minimum of information so as to smother the story. Right is exactly right. We shall. You've got to take heart. If you're looking for an optimistic note, friends, it's that we are 8020 strong on this stuff. All of this stuff, including, you know, boys and girls, sports and you know, I was just reading that's a 66, like 27 issue among Democrats. Right? Right. They have nothing but the academy, academia and the media. So keep fighting. Take heart, friends. Take heart. Plus, Jack points out summer vacation is here. So throw on your flip flops, enjoy a cold Pepsi and a hot hot dog. Whoops. I did it again. Let's start the show officially, which has some good news in it from my perspective anyway in our opening clip. I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty. Here it is. Oh, brand new month. Rent is due. The rent is too Damn High. Monday, June 2, the year 2025. We're Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program. Let's begin the show officially then, according to FCC rules and regulations, we start at Mark. The Ukrainian security service, able to use mobile wooden homes, essentially the roofs of them seem to have opened up and allowed these clouds of drones remotely piloted to target some of Russia's most important long range strategic bombers. 41 damaged, according to Ukraine's security service. Air bases that must have thought they were basically far enough away to impregnable. They're calling it inside Russia. Russia's Pearl Harbor. One of the most amazing attacks in the history of warfare, according to many that Ukraine pulled off over the weekend. Taken out about a third of Russia's long range range bombers with these drones that they had hidden in these little shacks and somehow gotten into Russia. It's really quite the thing. We'll get into more details on that a little bit later. Talking to Mike Lyons about it and I can't wait for that. In hour three of the show, our military analyst. Just because I'm so curious about the advantages of drones as opposed to missiles and that sort of thing, because it's a incredibly sophisticated plan that took them a year to come up with and execute as opposed to just shooting ordinance. And what are the advantages of drones disadvantages? Why did they do it like this? Can't wait to talk to Mike. Well, and Ian Bremmer tweeted out on this attack. Until now, Putin hasn't felt there are any costs to continuing the war. Ukraine just changed that equation with one of the most extraordinary asymmetrical attacks we've ever seen in modern warfare. Might actually get his attention and think continuing this could have downsides for me. There's so called peace talk starting today. Oh please, that's a joke. Or it might flip a switch and and have them say conquest requires the killing of millions. Let's kill some millions. Yep, we'll see. 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Every episode is like an audio class, and we learn together. I'm Christina Quinn. Now you know me. Check out Try this wherever you're listening. Wasn't that delicious? So good. Your bill, ladies. I got it. No, I got it. Seriously, I insist. I insisted first. Don't be silly. You don't be silly. People with the Wells Fargo active cash credit card prefer to pay because they earn unlimited 2% cash back on purchases. Okay. Rock, paper, scissors for it. Rock, paper, scissors. Shoot. No, the Wells Fargo ActiveCash credit card. Visit Wells Fargo.comActiveCash terms apply. So, just a clarification. After Russia's Pearl harbor over the weekend and Ukraine's amazing attack, you said this might cause Russia to hit back even harder. Are you suggesting that perhaps Ukraine shouldn't have done this? Oh, no, no. I'm just saying that's one of the two alternatives. It's a choose your own adventure book. Right. And Vladimir Putin is going to choose how to respond. Right. Cool. I'm looking forward to talking to Mike lines about this later. He was super excited about how amazingly successful it was, the Ukrainian attack. And we have him on later. Mm. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie, welcome back. Hit it. Thank you. Starting with Reuters. Iran poised to dismiss US Nuclear proposal according to Iranian diplomat. Oh, really? Okay. Well, this will be a yet another giant global potential war in which the ball is in Trump's court on how he reacts. Yes, Just reading a little breakdown of this. Both sides say, yeah, we're approaching a deal. The US Says the one red line is enrichment. No way Iran can enrich another iota of uranium. And Iran says, yeah, we're getting closer to a deal, but the one thing we will always preserve is our right to enrich. So, please, from Breitbart, like you guys mentioned. Suspect an anti Semitic terror attack in Boulder. Is illegal alien admitted into country under Biden. Now that's a headline. That's some information. Well, and then the weirdness of our system, where you get to stay with all These different kinds of extended work visas. He didn't have a job ever. So what was that? Wow. From USA Today, US Stock futures lower after Trump's steel and aluminum tariff threats. Yeah, And I'll tell you what, there's one story I've checked out of. It's the tariff story. Yeah, yeah. Let me know when something firms up from the Wall Street Journal. Harvard has trained so many Chinese Communist officials, they refer to it as their party school. I can't wait to get to that. Where's the headline on that? Wall Street Journal? Oh, really? Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. We are spending a great deal of time and effort to educate the best and brightest Chinese Communists, and have been for generations. Which is excusable. Back when we thought we were drawing Chinese China out to become a citizen of the world, a nation like other nations. But no, that ship has long ago sailed and we're still doing it for the money. Ay, carambo. We're so dopey, we deserve to fall apart as an empire. From Caesar. Can you imagine Julius Caesar announcing the generous subsidies and. Well, there aren't subsidies because we're money grubbers. But Julius Caesar opening up the academy for barbarians. We want to make sure the barbarians are up on all the latest weaponry and techniques of war. From cnn, climate activist Greta Thunberg joins aid ship sailing to Gaza. Yeah, I saw that. So that. Sir, she's got a new thing, huh? This is her new thing. The Palestinians. How dare you. Yeah, well, it's. You're doing it publicly. Sweetheart. That is. That is an ugly scene. Even, you know, regardless of the. Who could stop it or make it worse or whatever. What an ugly, ugly situation. You have stolen my dreams. From The New York Post. 334 pound man sues Walt Disney World over injuries sustained on water slide that didn't support his weight. Wow. So you're 340. And because they didn't make it, for somebody who weighs 340 pounds, you. You deserve money. Well, they should have kept him off of that. They should have said, give him Jumbo the old ho ho ho. Hang on there, big boy. All right, Food Giant, come here and have a good time, but you're not going down this slide. You got to have the guts to do that. The concession stands over there. Why don't you wait till your family gets done? Jumbo and Food Giant. What? From the New York Times. Sydney Sweeney's fans wanted her bath water and now they can buy it. Yeah, yeah, it's got some of her bath water in it. Like, if you get the lotions and the perfume and a variety of different things. Soap, I think, has just a little bit of her bath water in it. Tiny bit. The whole she's so hot, I would drink her bath water phrase. That's been around for many years. That's it. And finally, the Babylon be Elon Musk leaves job of making government more efficient for much easier job of sending humans to Mars. Yeah, no kidding. There's truth to that. There is. There absolutely is. Are there people so hot you would drink their bath water? Is a good question. I question whether the drinking of the bathwater would indeed establish any sort of emotional, much less sexual connection between me and the object of my desire. There is a bit of a disconnect there, isn't there? What am I getting out of drinking the bathwater? I'm not closing up for 8 to 12. Yeah, an upset stomach, great deal of vomiting, and some sort of gastrointestinal disorder. Yes. I don't think it's as sexy as you imagine. We got some more news of the day to get to and mailbag, so I hope you can stick around Armstrong and Gettysburg. At Amica Insurance, we know it's more than a life policy. 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They're doing finals all week long. So it's like the most intense week of the year this last four days. But in general, I remember a lot of those final days. I don't know about the whole week, but certainly several days of. Not a lot of learning going on. Just kind of. No, you're fulfilling the minimum number of days of school required by your state. Watched a lot of movies. Yeah, a lot of movies. And. And I, I hate to get this cynical about. Well, how do you not get cynical about the whole school thing after Covid and the shutdowns and everything we learned. But there's a lot of days that are. You got to have a certain number of kids at school to get the federal funding or the state funding. That's why we're. That's why we're here today. Right? I was just going to say the her Sentiment that the. The teachers don't want them there. No, they do. The administration sure does. Because you get. You got to take attendance and then you get your funding based on purse your. Your per student, you know, amount from your state. That's another thing we should demand is every day that you make my kid be there is an instruction day of this level, you want your federal funding, be teaching something. And I'd say with the success in terms of reading and math and the proficiency scores and all that, I got plenty to back up my. My side of the argument. Right, right. Well. And if you've got all that stuff down pat, give me 24 hours. I will come up with a list of enrichment activities that you could do on those last few days that you're teaching the kids something. How about useful knots? How about, you know, basic financial literacy? Of course, that's so important, it shouldn't be left to chance. But I mean, how to use a navigation system. Is there anything. What did my seventh grader say the other day to me? Oh, we were watching. There was a joke about. They used the joke. The punchline was Robert E. Lee. And my son said, who's Robert E. Lee? He's in seventh grade. So, yeah, how about that day you teach the Civil War. Anyway, I'm sure there was some sort of pride celebration that bumped that off the schedule. Exactly. Anyway, Civil War was when one group of white supremacists fought another group of white supremacists to see who would be the ultimate white supremacists, and they accidentally freed some black people. I wanted to nail this down for you just because it came up several times. So that guy, if you've seen the video, he looks like a white guy. So that. That was confusing to a lot of people. Shirtless white guy standing in some grass there in Boulder, Colorado with a couple of bottles in his hand. And he was setting people on fire because he hates Jews is what was going on there. He looks less white in his picture that he used to get into the country. This is confirmed by DHS sources to Bill Malusian of Fox. The Boulder terror suspect is an Egyptian national in the US illegally. As a visa overstay, he entered the US during the Biden administration. Mohammed Sabri Salman arrived at LAX in 22 on a B1 B2 non immigrant visa with an authorized stay through February of 23. But he overstayed and never left. Then he got it re signed up with some sort of work authorization, although there's no information whatsoever that he ever worked anywhere. But he was illegal. Why? He overstays his first visa and then you give him a work authorization. Well, we got it. We gotta. Obviously, one of the points of that is we gotta come up with a better system or stick to the rules or the people that want open borders, they know that there's no follow through. It's all. It's all a farce. Yeah, well. And here I am griping about this guy overstaying a visa when millions, literally millions of people were allowed to just march in wherever they were. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of discouraging. Speaking of our hard working undocumented friends, illegal aliens are being recruited to join sophisticated criminal networks in the US that stage accidents and injuries to get payouts through the nation's personal injury system. House Republicans told Attorney General Pam Bondi. A group of Republicans warned Bondi that personal injury fraud is a growing industry in the US that requires immediate attention from the doj. So is this the. I kind of like step in front of a moving car. Oh, my leg. Do that whole routine. Exactly. Slipping. Jimmy is slipping. Joseph, up on the hood. God dang it. What are you doing? Roll on. I probably ought to settle my neck. Yeah, you don't go with your arm. They can X ray that. My neck, my back. You can't really X ray that if you claim your neck and back tingling and numbness. Yeah. In particular. Excuse me. The Republicans noted that a criminal ring operating in Louisiana staging vehicle accidents with commercial trucks resulted in 63 individuals, including plaintiffs attorneys, getting indicted as part of a federal probe into the scheme. Also appears illegal immigrants are being recruited as part of these schemes, sometimes as a requirement to pay coyotes who help them cross the border. Numerous cases highlight the intersection of illegal immigration, alleged abuse, abuse of the personal injury system, with some plaintiffs reportedly using litigation loans and workers compensation payments to repay debts owed to human smugglers. You know, I've always kind of wanted to do this sort of thing just to see how easy it is to do the. The Slippin Jimmy act. Well, like, remember, I got rear ended in my brand new cyberbeast, like two weeks after I bought it. This is a month or so ago. I got rear ended. Got hit pretty hard. And if I had gone immediately. Oh, God, my neck. Oh, geez, my fingers are numb. You know, that routine, even though I was fine, who's gonna stop me? What mechanism would stop me from continuing to claim that? And his insurance company. My insurance company goes after his insurance. Blah, blah, blah. Right. I find that despicable. I do, too. Discouraging because it happens every day. But I would, I would be kind of interested in how easy it is to do that and pull it off being perfectly fine. The only way I could, you know, morally do it is if at some point I Houdini like pull the curtain off, open up the curtain. Ta da. I'm perfectly fine. You. This is a sting and lots of people do this all across the country all the time and we need to fix it. Yeah. Then I'd be thrown in jail for fraud or something. Probably. So. Yeah. Although then go fund me would start and you'd be a millionaire. Exactly. That's the way these things work. Yeah. I am. Ah. Yeah. Well, there are better ways to manage your money. 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And we've talked to people in social services and law enforcement and all sorts of different walks of life who've pointed out that when you import people in large numbers who come from societies where the only way you can get, get ahead or get stuff or get richer than you are is to game the system. You figure out the system, you game it. You know, and I could give you various examples of that, but they're generally, you know, socialist countries, communist countries, former communist countries. And those people immediately look for the loopholes, they look for the opportunities and say are, you know, compensation for injuries systems. Here they think, wow, that's just. That is ripe fruit plucked and it's low to the ground. And they do it. Probably too late for my little car wreck to claim blurred vision and numbness, right? I'm probably not. How long ago was it? Six, eight weeks? You cut me in. I'll say. You've been complaining about it since that day. Ah, perfect, Michael, happy to help. Yeah, I'd like to be part of this as well. There you go. See how easy it is to make friends? I'd like to be part of it, of this very vocal public fraud myself. Oh boy. So we mentioned it earlier. We, the United States of Stupid, have been educating communist Chinese officials for years and years to make sure they're extra good at governance in particular. It's just insane and incredibly lucrative. I'll tell you about that too. Awesome. So we got Mailbag on the way. We got another trans athlete winning contest sort of situation where the, the girls involved refused to participate in the whole awards ceremony. Way to go, ladies. Yeah, so we'll have to get to that story a little bit later. The two year old that ended up on the baggage thing at the Newark airport is getting a lot of attention. Have you seen that video? No, just heard about it. A little kid going around with the bags. I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often. 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Oh, that would be good. Oh, yeah. Wow. Cool job, man. I hope it pays pretty well. Saw you out there water skiing. Hi there. I'm Jack Armstrong, fraud investigator. You're under arrest. Yeah, exactly. Fabulous. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. One of your founding papas. Not discussed that much, but a wise man. Lisander Spooner. I don't know if I know that name. Spooner. I just met her. Anyway, he said, quote, the only security men can have for their political liberty consists in keeping their own money in their own pockets. Yeah, well, the government disagrees these days. Lisander, you wouldn't believe the taxes. Mailbag, feel free to reach out. Drop us an email mailbagarmstrongandgetty.com mailbagarmstrongandgetty dot com Note from Dan here, guys. I was just forced to download a security update for my iPhone and a gay pride flag came along with the download. Are you kidding me? Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. So the download, they say you got to do it for some new virus that's out there or something like that. So Apple's saying download the latest, but it also includes some gay pride stuff that you now have access to. Yippee emojis and whatnot. Super. Yeah, the little graphic explains. Oh, he asked chat GPT if I can delete it. You cannot delete the Pride Harmony wallpaper directly. The best way to delete it is simply not to choose to use it as your wallpaper. Thank you. You don't have giving us that option. You don't have to use the emojis or the wallpaper. It's just included in the update. Right. Moving along. I can't keep up, writes Chris. For months from the left, I heard about Elon's drastic slashing of the government that'll kill people. Now he left and all I hear from the left is that he didn't cut enough. I can't keep up with the shifting sands of the left. Chris from St. Louis, Roseville, Lake Zurich in Springfield, Missouri. How many houses are off? Chris? I saw Elon yesterday in his Occupy Mars T shirt. I, I'm glad he's focused on that. Let's, let's get that going, see how far we can go. Will we put somebody on Mars in my lifetime? I mean, that's, that's fascinating stuff. And there are some great guys still involved in the Doge project. It could still bear some fruit. I don't. We are so headline driven and click baity as a society. The idea of a long running, you know, group of people who's gonna study government efficiency and cut it where they can and offer up suggestions. Chainsaw. Nobody has any time for something patient and cerebral. That was his point last week, is that they've put some systems in place to take a look at expenditures that didn't ex before. It was just an automatic sign off on. Hey, I need $4 million for this. Okay, where do I Sign without anybody looking into it. And now they've got a system for looking into it. That's. That's a good. That's good. Right? And I'm hearing even very smart people who I respect offering up the question was Doge a success or a failure? Well, clearly a failure. They didn't come anywhere close to the goals. Moving along. It's still happening. Crazy smart guys are trying their best. Anyway, let's see. On the topic of extremists, Mikey, Luke writes. Guys firebombing Colorado senior citizens. Our fight is here in our homeland. Not in a country far away, but here in America increasingly. Let's see. How about this? Ah, Kevin, who's a Russian apologist in the classical sense. He makes arguments in favor of frequently gents. Well, I'm sure you cold warriors will be crowing obnoxiously about how great Ukraine is and how giant Zelensky's schwantz is, et cetera, et cetera. Don't hit send when you're drunk, brother. It's just not a good look. That seems a little over the top. It does. It really does. I don't think many people realize how destabilizing the attack on Russia nuclear facilities could be. I'm not sure exactly what he's referring to. A bunch of those long range bombers were the bombers you would use to. To pull off a nuclear attack as part of the nuclear, whatever you call it. Arsenal. Oh, I see. Okay. Nuclear facilities. Okay, that's a stretch. That's generally referred to power generation. Anyway, now I get it. It's because of nuclear treaties that all of those planes were out in the open. Same with the silos and the submarine base that was also hit. Ukraine struck Russian nuclear infrastructure without any notice to the US that's an insane thing to do. How can we trust Ukraine? Is a nuclear response from Russia warranted at this point? Oh my God. So Russia who every week sets a new record for large attacks against just indiscriminate everything. Schools, buses. If a bunch of people are gathered at to. To. To get on a bus, you kill them. That sort of thing. Ukraine fights back. That's a. A horror. That's. That's cause for nuclear war. That's ridiculous. Meant specifically part of the nuclear arsenal. But anyway I'm. I aired it. My job here is done. Jeff with a G Unnatural writes Good morning Old simple Jack and Big Freedom. Longtime consumer, your glorious talk product. Minor correspondent for subjects such as killer clowns on the edge of the woods updates. I've also been married To a liberal in all caps for the past decade. When it comes to politics, we rarely see eye to eye. But we're also not in our 20s and we didn't start our journey by establishing our political beliefs. Yeah, that aside, she threw me for a loop yesterday. They were taking a trip to the zoo. She jumps in the car, had a little soft rock on the radio, and what I heard next will shock you. The better half gets in the car, here's one chord of music and immediately says, throw on some Armstrong and Getty. Oh, so this is a great day for America, gents, writes Jeff. Wow, that's beautiful. Best to the little woman. Common. And just because we have different ways of seeing things doesn't mean we can't be friends. My goodness. I would like to learn from you. Perhaps you can learn from me. Yeah, I would like to hear more of that. How you make a different politics long term relationship work. Do you just not talk about it? Is that the best way to go about it? Yeah, that, that would seem practically effortless to me. Honestly. I actually brought up politics last night to Judy over dinner because it was on my mind. And as I was speaking the words, I thought, wow, I never do this practically. You don't ever bring, you don't, you don't ever bring up any political anything at home. Not much unless it has a direct bearing on our lives. You know, local ordinance, tax, that sort of thing. Like it's never been an issue with me really in my life. But, but I like, I know somebody whose spouse is big on like going to all the marches and stuff like that, and they aren't down with it. I mean, like, that would be, I ain't going to the march, I ain't marching with you. Love you, whatever, you know, forever. But I ain't marching with you in this freaking parade. Right, right. I'm curious which side of the aisle we're marching on in this scenario, but it doesn't really matter. That's your super lefty marches? Yeah. Oh, Lord, no. All right. I couldn't do that. Can I go and heckle you, sweetheart? Wouldn't that be fun? How about if we scream each other? I'll be the one on the sideline. You mean we'd be screaming f you at each other? Then we'll get in the same car and drive home. We'll get on tv. Yeah. Armstrong and Getty, we've all done it. You see a headline but don't have time to read the whole story or there's so much news you're not sure what is worth your time Colby I'm Colby Ekowitz, co host of Post Reports, the weekday afternoon podcast from the Washington Post. Post Reports brings you what's relevant and revealing breaking stories, politics, wellness, culture. 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