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Getty (4:06)

Are you gonna play any music?

Armstrong (4:08)

Yeah. So that's Bruce Springsteen announcing him and the E Street Band are gonna tour the United States. A bunch of angry 80 year olds. But if you were bringing like all the greatest hits of Bruce Springsteen in the E Street Band, I'd be really excited. If you're bringing speeches of freedom over fear or whatever, I'm not interested. I will pay a lot of money to not have to go to that.

Getty (4:31)

Yeah, no kidding. What's the ticket price? I'll pay you that if you'll stay away from me. And we're both huge Bruce fans as a songwriter and musician, but.

Armstrong (4:40)

Oh, more than I've ever been. I did such a deep dive on him and listened to his autobiography, got into a lot of his old stuff and rarity clips that he's been putting on albums. He is underrated and he's pretty highly rated.

Getty (4:52)

Yeah, agree.

Armstrong (4:53)

He is freaking unbelievable. But he went off the rails politically and he cares more about that now than music, which I guess is the old man disease or something.

Getty (5:03)

I don't know. That's a hell of a promotion of your tour.

Armstrong (5:07)

No kidding.

Getty (5:08)

And, and you know, it's funny, Hanson was describing the video of that as they're all staring in the camera like a gang. What, are you gonna hit me with your walker?

Armstrong (5:17)

It's gotta be like, you don't get that much enjoyment out of the music thing anymore.

Getty (5:23)

Yeah.

Armstrong (5:24)

Or something. Because like Eric Clapton, I just actually came across this yesterday by accident because I was gonna find an old Clapton song to play for my son who's taking guitar lessons. One of my favorite Clapton solos of all time and his most recent album, which is mostly his anger about COVID restrictions.

Getty (5:46)

It's like.

Armstrong (5:47)

It's like he gave up on wanting to be a rock star or a blues legend and cares about COVID restrictions.

Getty (5:53)

Well, you know, he's. He's done that. He's checked that box. And I. I get as a human being being restless to move on to your next chapter and to have renewed purpose. I mean, Bruce and Clifton don't money. They don't need more adoration. They're looking for satisfaction. I get that. On the other hand, it ruins that other thing that got you in front of me. And so go away. I don't want to hear it. Covid restrictions. I'm with Eric on that.

Armstrong (6:23)

Anywho, this is good news. This is breaking news. The Olympic Committee has made a big announcement. You know, the next Summer Olympics is in Los Angeles. It's the United States and LA. 2028 Summer Games. Ain't gonna be no trans women playing, though. They have been banned.

Getty (6:38)

What do you mean?

Armstrong (6:39)

Men, transgender women athletes are now excluded for the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy just a couple of hours ago that aligns with men. That aligns with what US President Donald Trump wanted and his executive order on women's sports. And they actually say at one point, keep this in mind, California high schools or lots of high schools around the country actually, according to the ioc. And they're corrupt and they're socialists and all kinds of things to not like. Also what they said the eligibility policy that will apply from the LA Olympics protects fairness, safety, and integrity in the female category.

Getty (7:21)

Amen.

Armstrong (7:22)

Good for you.

Getty (7:23)

Yep, Good for you. Love that. One other note from the world of sports. Well done, Michael. We. We were talking about the first Major League Baseball game of the year was last Giants and Yankees and how the Netflix broadcast, yes, it was on Netflix was so weird because it was like an Internet show with a. Or an interview show rather with a baseball game in the background for a significant part. A good friend with ties to Major League Baseball just pointed out that they missed the first ball strike challenge in Major league history.

Armstrong (8:00)

So they were talking during that because

Getty (8:02)

they didn't realize it was happening. And cut to a live interview with a manager in the dugout, which is always stupid anyway.

Armstrong (8:08)

They must have decided that baseball, the actual game is too boring. And so we need to get, you know, former stars up here in the booth and interview them and go down and talk to players on the field.

Getty (8:19)

But. And pro Wrestlers, too. The whole broadcast was like a hyper teen tick tock dream.

Armstrong (8:27)

In other sports news, we didn't give this enough shrift the other day when we had the headline from the world of professional cornhole.

Getty (8:37)

Oh, yes.

Armstrong (8:38)

Quadruple this. Head this.

Getty (8:40)

Oh, so now we're on to major sports. Good.

Armstrong (8:42)

This is one of the great headlines of all time.

Getty (8:44)

Oh, yeah.

Armstrong (8:45)

Quadruple amputee, comma, pro cornhole player allegedly shot and killed acquaintance during argument, then drove off with the body.

Getty (8:57)

Holy cow. You want to talk about more questions than answers. Where do you. Where do you go in order or

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Getty (9:09)

Or order of importance? Or do you start with the cornhole or the murder? It's up to you.

Armstrong (9:16)

He's 27 years old. I've seen the videos of him playing cornhole.

Getty (9:21)

Oh, you have?

Armstrong (9:21)

Yeah.

Getty (9:22)

Okay.

Armstrong (9:23)

He. He got no legs or arms, clearly.

Getty (9:29)

Get to how he hurls the bag.

Armstrong (9:33)

Who's the southern comedian with the podcast? Theo Vaughn. Theo Vaughn's got a bit about a kid he knew in high school who used to win all these fights and he didn't have any arms. And I know, and he always says, I'm not kidding. Zero arms. That was a funny line. But this guy's got zero arms and legs. But he's got. He's got arms down to, like, just past his shoulders. It's got enough to, like, put the beanbag on there and he hurls it toward the thing. And he's really good at get it in the right spot.

Getty (10:04)

They are, I believe, the boards 29ft apart. That's quite a hurl.

Armstrong (10:08)

Yeah, but he can do it.

Getty (10:10)

Resourceful, evidently. Quick to anger. However, which brings us back to the whole, well, murder.

Armstrong (10:18)

He'd been thriving as a professional cornhole player, getting a lot of attention because of the fact that he's a quadruple amputee and had posted a lot of videos of him firing handguns. That's another thing he manages to do with. With barely any arms and no legs. So he's into shooting guns. Anyway, he was driving three pals in his Tesla SUV during a late night joyride in Maryland Sunday when he got into a heated argument with his front passenger. So the guy sitting next to you. No, we're not playing that song again. Geez. We played it five times in a row. The art or whatever it was. The argument turned violent, and he allegedly shot and killed the dude sitting next to him. And then he kept driving with the body and then eventually dumped it somewhere.

Getty (11:08)

Wow. Well, he must have colored that song. Yeah, yeah.

Armstrong (11:13)

I don't know what they are about,

Getty (11:14)

but yeah, that is a colorful human being right there.

Armstrong (11:19)

God. And he had overcome so much, and now he's gonna spend the rest of his life in prison, which will not

Getty (11:25)

be an easy thing, I assume.

Armstrong (11:28)

Not unless he gets a cornhole league going.

Getty (11:30)

Yeah, I'm a professional athlete. I've got a car, got friends in spite of my handicaps, but man, do I have a temper.

Armstrong (11:42)

Yeah, there's got to be some. There's got to be a documentary there with this guy's life. I mean, all the things he had to overcome just period, without ever being a cornhole champion. Just getting through Life to age 27. Yeah, I'm not.

Getty (11:58)

I'm not talking about like a crappy Dateline documentary. I want Ken Burns involved. Right. Six parts at least. Six parts with famous actors doing voiceovers.

Armstrong (12:12)

Exactly.

Getty (12:12)

Tom Hanks explaining. And then I lost my other arm. Do we have any idea how he came to be in the state he's in? I mean, it's none of my business, but it appears to be Birth defect. Oh, okay. All right.

Armstrong (12:28)

But I don't know that.

Getty (12:29)

Wow. Wow.

Armstrong (12:31)

I don't know. Maybe he fought an alligator.

Getty (12:33)

I mean, he's got a temper problem. Fought it unsuccessfully. Well, depends how you look at it, I guess. Moving along.

Armstrong (12:43)

So Trump said some stuff just now about Iran in a big cabinet meeting and other stuff on the way. Stay here.

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They are negotiating by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly but they're afraid to say it because they figure they'll be killed by their own people. They're also afraid they'll be killed by us. There's never been a head of a country that wanted that job less than being the head of Iran. I don't want it. We listen to some of the things they say. We hear them very clearly. They say, I don't want it. We'd like to make you the next Supreme Leader.

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No, thank you.

Donald Trump (16:46)

I don't want it.

Armstrong (16:47)

So that's at a live event yesterday. That was Trump, but he just had a cabinet meeting, you know, where he's sitting there at the long table, and he's got Marco on one side and Pete on the other. He said some danged interesting things. Just roll on to the next one, Michael.

Donald Trump (17:00)

But they say, oh, we're not talking to him. Anybody would know that. Only a total fool. And they're not fools. They're very smart, actually, in a certain way. And they're great negotiators. I say they're lousy fighters, but they're great negotiators. And they are begging to work out a deal. I don't know if we'll be able to do that. I don't know if we're willing to do that. They should have done that four weeks ago. They should have done it two years ago.

Getty (17:28)

I had a friend who is Iranian American, and he talked very frankly about it, that it's part of the culture to be a brutal, no holds barred negotiator. It's admired there. It's not bullying or cheating or anything.

Armstrong (17:41)

No.

Getty (17:42)

That's what you're supposed to be good at. Well, culture, the other guy.

Armstrong (17:46)

Cultural differences are interesting. So, like, if. If we use this example yesterday, like, you're trying to sell a car, and the guy's opening bid is, not only am I not going to pay you $40,000 for your car, you're gonna pay me a couple of hundred dollars and I get the car.

Getty (18:06)

Mm.

Armstrong (18:07)

And you'd think you're a crazy person, but you're saying culturally, they go really, really hard.

Getty (18:13)

Right? That. Right.

Armstrong (18:14)

Just part of the way you do it. So we wouldn't be shocked.

Getty (18:17)

And if you said, you're not arguing, you're not bargaining in good faith, they would. They would say, quit being a baby. Okay, well, the game is played.

Armstrong (18:25)

Well, that's worth knowing then, because their opening gambit of the United States has to pay reparations for everything they bombed. I mean, that's silly, but that's just the way they do.

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I'm paying you 500 to take my car.

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Armstrong (18:39)

This is a good point. Trump makes next.

Donald Trump (18:41)

And you know that because why did they shoot all these countries that weren't even really involved with them, they weren't involved. They had no big problems because they're sick. Because they want to take over the Middle East. Not just Israel, certainly Israel would have been the first on their list. They would have used nuclear weapons. A nuclear. You don't need too many of them. But they would have used a nuclear weapon on Israel and they would have used it on the other neighbors. And, and then they would have come after us. And if we had a weak president, they would have done great damage. But fortunately you don't have a weak president. I knew what was happening.

Armstrong (19:15)

Boy, there's one of the great counter history or whatever you call that of all time. If Kamala had won four years. Does Iran get a nuke? Yes, Iran probably gets a new nuke. And then what do they do with it? Do they use it?

Getty (19:31)

Hey, let me dovetail off that real quickly. Why did they shoot at neighbors? They're sick. They would have used nukes, et cetera. Michael, give me 56. This is back to Lena Nasaiba again. She's the foreign minister from the UAE on Special Report with Bret Baer last

Armstrong (19:51)

night, why diplomacy hasn't worked. They told us they didn't have a nuclear enrichment program today. We know they have enough enriched uranium to make up to 12 bombs. They told us they didn't have a ballistic missiles weapons program that could threaten anyone. They can now reach most capitals in Europe, including also the Gulf, which they've demonstrated they're willing to do. 89% of their targets have been civilian infrastructure in my country. This has to stop. Again, I say, why am I not hearing this on any mainstream news outlet?

Getty (20:18)

Oh, you're so right.

Armstrong (20:20)

Only on Fox. And then Trump bashes NATO. Let's hear that. 64.

Donald Trump (20:29)

I said 25 years ago that NATO is a paper tiger, but more importantly that we'll come to their rescue, but they will never come to ours. And I want you to remember that we said this. They didn't come to our rescue. Now they all want to help. When they're annihilated, the other side is annihilated. They said we'd love to send ships, actually made a statement, a couple of them, that we want to get involved when the war is over. No, it's supposed to get involved with the war's beginning or even before it begins.

Getty (21:00)

I actually disagree with Trump's take on all of that. I mean, Europe is useless, but Europe is much useless.

Armstrong (21:07)

But they did come to our aid after 9, 11. They helped a lot with Iraq. They got involved in Afghanistan and it's

Getty (21:15)

just not, it's not a situation where you call them and say, hey, you heard we bombed Iran last night, can you be in the Gulf tomorrow? It just, it doesn't really work like that.

Armstrong (21:25)

And then why? It is I think appalling. Neil Ferguson was making this point the other day. He had a quote from Margaret Thatcher from way back in the day because she was getting some pressure. I don't remember what the campaign was but Reagan used their military bases for something that the population didn't like in Britain. And Margaret Thatcher said they're our best friend. If the United States wants to use our military bases, we let them. Well, Ker Starmer went the opposite direction. He didn't let us use the military bases. And Neil Ferguson thought that was awful. I think it's awful also.

Getty (21:59)

But. Yep.

Armstrong (22:00)

I still think it's ridiculous to turn down help now.

Getty (22:03)

Why? Well, right. Yeah, the post war reality's gotta be enforced. The more friends the better. Yeah, Trump is way too easily butthurt but you know, that's not exactly news.

Armstrong (22:15)

I think this thing is going to explode more. I certainly, you know, maybe, maybe behind the scenes it's completely different and none of us have any information on that. But unless it's very, very different behind the scenes. Iran sounds like they have no interest in giving up and Trump sounds like he's got every intention of. Okay, if you're not going to give up, we're going to take what we need to take to get where we need to get.

Getty (22:39)

Yeah, I think a lot of us were really hoping that there were much more transactional, practical, forward looking forces within the IRGC that could be bargained with. They haven't come forward yet. It appears they are as hardcore as you know as their reputation. Hardcore Islamist death cultists or those that

Armstrong (23:00)

are are in charge somehow we killed a whole bunch of people but they can't hardly communicate with each other, anything like that. Whatever the hardliners in charge and this next step, I mean this is gonna turn into a completely different looking war here. Like maybe by this weekend. The deadline of the five day pause

Getty (23:17)

is Saturday morning and all of the Marines and the 82nd Airborne are going to be in place at some point on Friday. Tomorrow. Yeah.

Armstrong (23:26)

With the deadline Saturday morning.

Getty (23:27)

So at least that's what I'm told.

Armstrong (23:28)

Yeah, this could be a much better different or to follow on cable news and on Twitter within 72 hours.

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I think you mean on the Armstrong and Getty show.

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I'm not working this weekend. You working this weekend, Mom.

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I meant Monday. Come back Monday. I meant Monday Armstrong and Getty.

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Tucker Carlson just tweeted out it's worth remembering that ground troops are often followed by tyranny in the country that sends them those of you who live the whole every single day, we're on the verge of, you know, whatever. Don't you get tired of it? I find it exhaust. I don't even believe the stuff you say. I get exhausted just reading it. Don't you get exhausted being we're under so much threat every day from all the different things Israel, pedophiles, Epstein, whatever.

Getty (27:24)

I think it gives a lot of people a sense of purpose and like they're live, they're living a life of importance because they're quote unquote in this fight on the Internet.

Armstrong (27:35)

And all those dummies who aren't paying attention.

Getty (27:37)

Yeah.

Armstrong (27:38)

Coming up, our tribute to Chuck Norris or something.

Getty (27:41)

Our musical tribute to Chuck Norris. Not to be missed in moments actually. But first, speaking of big personalities, physically, a very different fellow, Bill Maher. We were talking about following the the war on cable news perhaps over the weekend or Twitter or wherever you like to follow it. He had a couple of thoughts about cable news and the super into politics, culture.

Donald Trump (28:02)

Less than 1% of the country is watching Fox News, CNN and MSNow combined. Combined. A guy on TikTok pressure washing his driveway gets bigger ratings. 76% of Americans watch less than one hour of any cable news in a month.

Getty (28:31)

You thought opera was getting its ass kicked.

Armstrong (28:36)

That stat was something.

Getty (28:38)

Yeah, it is. It's not as simple as therefore it doesn't matter because people who are involved in the movers and shakers of the world, they are watching that stuff.

Armstrong (28:48)

I don't think that'll last much. Talking points from that's that's an age thing.

Getty (28:51)

I think I would agree.

Armstrong (28:53)

Like Trump watches the cable news channels because when he was younger they were a big deal. But when that crowd is gone, the next crowd's not gonna have any interest in it whatsoever.

Getty (29:02)

Little more mar if you ask most

Donald Trump (29:04)

Americans what their opinion of Tulsi Gabbard is their answer is going to be, what's it? Tulsi Gabbard. And they're completely unaware that they're supposed to be boycotting Target or Chick Fil A. Here's the criteria they use when deciding where to go for chicken. How's the chicken? And if they had to guess, they'd say Ms. Now is a multiple sclerosis charity and fact. Fox and Friends is a children's cartoon show. Their lives don't revolve around having a hot take on every stupid thing. Katy Perry went to space and now she's the worst person on earth. Pineapple doesn't belong on pizza. You know what? You're arguing about these things. Here's the hottest take of all.

Armstrong (29:50)

Who gives a.

Getty (29:56)

Oh, Bill, brilliant as always. Well done.

Armstrong (29:58)

Have you seen the. You know, the in the. In the basement show, whatever he calls that, where he interviews people? Have you seen the one with John Cougar Mellencamp?

Getty (30:04)

No.

Armstrong (30:05)

Well, it's really good all day.

Getty (30:07)

Yeah. Yeah. Interesting guy. Anyway, both of them, a couple of stories for you real quickly. Then we'll pay off the Chuck Norris. The loving musical tribute to Chuck Norris. I'm not going to get into the details of this. You can find them yourself if you're super into it. But I'm so amused. They're fighting over affordable housing in Napa Valley. Like, right next door to the world's fanciest restaurant, the French Laundry, where Gavin Newsom likes to enjoy a late evening dinner, I believe. Am I correct on that time, Mr. Governor, sir? In the middle of COVID when everybody else is locked down by his oppressive and utterly unscientific rules.

Armstrong (30:52)

Anyway, I actually have a calendar alert set for next. I'm not going to say when for when. They open up the next batch of reservations for the French Laundry to see if I can get in. I think I ate there once, but I'm so fancy, I was so hammered, I don't remember. I'm pretty sure I ate there because I remember. I remember an NFL quarterback being there and we met in the bathroom, but by accident, not like on purpose.

Getty (31:23)

Love, Bloom. What the hell is going on? What, did he knock three times on the stall? How does that work, huh?

Armstrong (31:29)

Anyway, back to the French Laundry and super rich arguing about things.

Getty (31:32)

Oh, yeah.

Donald Trump (31:33)

So.

Getty (31:34)

And the head chef, the guy who runs it, is coming to city council meetings and all, and it's absolutely hilarious. They don't want affordable, cheap, like working class worker housing in the midst of their beautiful, beautiful place, and they come up with all sorts of creative, like explanations of.

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It's not that we don't want to poor people or ugly houses or anything. It's that it's inappropriate. The unit size is not proper. And it's so, so funny.

Armstrong (32:08)

It reminds me of we did this story a couple years ago about Beverly Hills. They did exactly the same thing. They got around all of the rules for that stuff with because they got enough money to have lawyers and by city council members. They get around all those rules and it's exactly what you said. That crowd loves this sort of thing. You got to have affordable housing in every neighborhood. It's not fair that just the rich get to live in a nice neighborhood. You need to have affordable housing there too. A certain number of units. Except for me, that's not true for me because I mean here, I mean here, I'm at other places.

Getty (32:47)

Oh, it's so funny. And hell, they've got my sympathy. You know what?

Armstrong (32:51)

I live in a really nice place.

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I don't want a big apartment building to go up on my block. That would be horrible. I would hate that. I would find any bull s excuse I could to explain why it's a bad idea. You know why? Because I don't want it there. But I admit it, these people are lecturing the rest of us. It's absolutely hilarious. Anyway, change the topic kind of back to real estate. La Miami and San Diego are shrinking as immigration slows. Some of the biggest US Metro areas are shrinking, according to new government data. It's driven ra by a sharp slowdown on immigration coupled with losses from people leaving for other parts of the country. The result is LA San Diego and Miami areas, which are three of the biggest 20 in the country. Also, a population decline in the year through June through 2025, blah, blah. Release Thursday data also shows New York city shrank for the first time in a few years, although the much larger metro area grew.

Armstrong (33:54)

Well, did you hear this station?

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That hit me.

Armstrong (33:57)

75% of U S. Counties, the population growth either slowed or turned negative. 75 of U S. Counties, that's never happened before.

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Wow. And do they attribute that to slow down immigration too? Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, and we're not having babies, right? Oh, right, of course, yeah.

Armstrong (34:16)

You didn't need immigration back in the day because we had babies, people, you know, you got to be about 18. You found someone. Yeah. Started a family and you had some kids. People don't.

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Grandma and grandpa passed, but we have three kids. Right, yeah. Let's see the numbers show in Closer detail how immigration restrictions have significant significantly slowed US population growth. There's a part I wanted to get to. Strong growth continues in many metro areas too often in mid sized and smaller ones across the Carolinas, Texas and the Mountain West. To the horror of a lot of the people in the mountain west in particular among those growing up at four times the national rate or more. So that's growth. Austin, Texas still. Although I know that real estate market has cooled off because they build so fast in Texas. They respond to demand for housing in Texas, Gavin, you fake. Anyway, also Raleigh, North Carolina, Ocala, Florida, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina, Boise, Idaho and St. George, Utah. Quadruple the national growth rate or more. Wow. Interesting. Yeah. And they can actually build infrastructure in a lot of those states. I've been to them, so. Interesting. Anyway, yes.

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More time for our musical tribute.

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Time for our musical tribute. Yes, indeed. Somebody has taken all the best Chuck Norris song jokes and made them into a song. We'll start with the first half, Michael. Although I'm told perhaps the second half is better. Oh, it's been edited.

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Good.

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It's nice and short. All right. 13.

Armstrong (35:48)

Did you know that I got bit by a king cobra?

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But after five days of agonizing pain, the cobra died. Chuck Norris once counted to infinity. Twice. Twice. Chuck Norris once destroyed two stones with one bird. Chuck Norris once missed two days of school. Those days are now called the weekend.

Armstrong (36:16)

Go ahead.

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Chuck Norris doesn't dial the wrong number. You answered the wrong phone. Chuck Norris doesn't need good a his bullet. Know better not to miss. Chuck Norris wants to the periodic table by using the element of surprise. Chuck Norris is the only person who can slam a revolving door.

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Chuck Norris gave a guy a left

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hook with his right hand.

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Chuck Norris cuts knife worth butter.

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When Chuck Norris was born, he drove

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his parents home from the hospital. He cuts knives with his butter.

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He love his parents over the hospital he was born. That is pretty good.

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He destroyed the periodic table with the element of surprise.

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And that first one that was a little hard to hear. Chuck Norris doesn't dial wrong numbers. You answered the wrong phone. That's good. The great Chuck Norris, who apparently had an 18 year old girlfriend at age 49.

Armstrong (37:21)

Yeah, I'm looking at the pictures right here. It became a thing on Facebook in the Turlock area, which is not far from here. Yeah, because apparently when he was 49 years old, he attended this high school graduation because his girlfriend was graduating.

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Not his niece, not his granddaughter.

Armstrong (37:37)

According to these people that were in that class and posted pictures on Facebook yesterday. It was kind of a topic topic. And everybody was saying, because this is a younger crowd, they're saying, well, it was more acceptable back then. I'm of the age, I graduated before that from high school and I, I, it was not okay for 49 year olds to be waiting for their 18 year old girlfriend to cross the stage. That wouldn't have been considered well. So we're all doing it.

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No, no, no, it was, it was more acceptable than, but not much more. And not acceptable. Yeah.

Armstrong (38:15)

Wow. Do you think she, do you think

Donald Trump (38:17)

Chuck did a leg kick as she

Armstrong (38:18)

went across the stage?

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I don't know.

Armstrong (38:20)

She graduated.

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I know he was married to his second wife for a very long time. Was that the.

Armstrong (38:29)

I think this is her.

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The teen.

Armstrong (38:31)

Yeah, I think so.

Getty (38:32)

Well, if it lasted. Yeah. So it was.

Armstrong (38:34)

Yeah. So you know, when that happens, do you give it a pass? It's like Woody and his, in his wife, they've been together for decades in there and, and, and she's happy.

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Right, right. Woody Allen. Yeah, yeah, I give it a pass. But that's, that's not like a different answer. You view it with suspicion and caution at first because it sounds like thing A. Yeah.

Armstrong (38:59)

It turns out to be thing B.

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You think, okay, all right, fair enough. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't look upon suspicion with near 50 year olds hanging out outside of high school.

Armstrong (39:10)

I can think of a couple of relationships I know in my personal life that started in not the best of ways. And they've been together for decades and had kids and are happy together and

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so not in the best ways. What do you mean? Spill, spill the beans.

Armstrong (39:25)

Both were having an affair on their other marriage and you would think, well, this is just rebound bad, blah, blah, blah. No, no, they, they both were unhappily married young, found someone else and been together now for 38 years or whatever.

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Yeah. You know, it's funny, I don't talk about this much. I think, I think my kids have heard it at least once. My wife and I, when we got together and we were quite young, it was purely physical. I mean, we liked each other, but it was, it was, you're young and hot, I'm young and hot. Let's, let's get together. This will be fun. And it was. And then we did what? Oh, it was great fun. And then we subsequently learned, oh, we get along better than like any two human beings on earth. And I'm madly in love with her after 45 years of being Together. Lucky. But you know.

Armstrong (40:13)

But it started tawdry.

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Oh, it was lost. It was absolutely animal love. Oh, yeah. Life is funny.

Armstrong (40:24)

Life is funny. Well, is that, that. What are we designed for? To have the lust bring us together first or the fallen in love part first?

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Oh, I think that's all part of one package.

Armstrong (40:37)

Kind of happens at the same time.

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Yeah, yeah. Just don't. Don't mistake one for the other.

Armstrong (40:42)

Well, that's good advice.

Getty (40:44)

I'm sorry because I just said it's one thing, then I said one or the other. You're an idiot, Joseph. Don't mistake the physical aspect of attraction for what's going to yield long term joy.

Armstrong (40:56)

Well, the problem with the physical part is it can blind you. Once that gets going, really never noticed. To everything else.

Getty (41:03)

Yes, yes. The weather, your job, basic eating and drinking, hygiene. Yes, yes, right, exactly. It's a good thing. Breathing is automatic or you might forget. Right, yeah.

Armstrong (41:17)

Which is why, you know, the ancient wisdom of waiting is probably a good idea.

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Waiting.

Armstrong (41:23)

Oh, not the rushing in America, because.

Getty (41:26)

Oh, oh, okay.

Armstrong (41:27)

So you're not blinded by that part.

Getty (41:29)

Right, right. Yeah. Because once the bingo bango starts, you know, it's, you know, again, very enjoyable.

Armstrong (41:36)

Though in your case it worked out.

Getty (41:37)

Yeah.

Armstrong (41:38)

And you did announce to the world that it was fantastic.

Getty (41:40)

Yeah. Oh, it was. Yeah. Utterly satisfying. Yes. Yeah.

Armstrong (41:46)

Is that what you'd say afterwards? Well, that was utterly satisfying. Okay, we gotta take a break. More after this.

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Mentioned earlier that Elon put out a new trailer tease ad thing for his Tesla robot. What's it called? The Tesla Robot. It's got a name anyway. Doesn't I can't remember Ad for that. And yesterday Melania Trump came walking down the hallway there in the White House, the red carpet with a robot at her side and we mentioned that on the air. Well, she gave a speech afterwards that got a fair amount of attention. This is Melania Trump pitching the whole robot thing as if it's obviously going to Be great for all of us. Imagine a humanoid educator named Plato. Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous. Literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics and history. Humanity's entire corpus of information is available in the comfort of your home. Plato will provide a personalized experience adaptive to the needs of each student. Plato is always patient and always available. Predictably, our children, we develop deep critical thinking and independent reasoning abilities. Well, we hope so. We don't know that that's going to happen.

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Wasn't she just describing the Internet and

Armstrong (46:28)

I. Yeah, I was gonna say all that stuff is available to me in my home right now if I want to access it. Now, the idea that the teacher will, as she said there, the robot will adjust its teaching style for each individual person. You know, if it gets really good at that, that'd be pretty awesome.

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Oh, yeah, that's an amazing thought. I hope everybody has access to it.

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Why is the White House pitching the whole robot thing? Is an obvious good for humanity, though, because, you know, there's all kinds of naysayers about this.

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Is it undermining the rot or trying to diminish the. The effect of the rot in government schools? Union goons.

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There might be less of a reason to have teachers in schools. Even more of a reason to not have that. Once these robots get going.

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I want to hear that clap in our four.

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