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Connecting homeowners with skilled Pros for over 30 years, Angie, the one you trust to find the ones you trust. Find pros for all your home projects@angie.com. Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here, Armstrong and G. Live from Studio C. C it's what you okay. A dimly lit room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound built on stolen land. And today the title of the show is Epstein Found Guilty of Wasting Everybody's Time or All Land is Stolen. Dumb are two very different directions to go. How y' all doing? They do both speak to the stupidity of so much of the discourse these days. I don't know if you've noticed, our politics, our media, our social media, all's really, really stupid. Yeah. I gotta say, I find it harder to do this job, really, than probably ever would have done it because just so many of the stories are stupid. And I don't know, I don't know how to approach them. They're just dumb. The way they're being reported is dumb. I don't know what there is to say about it other than keep repeating that this isn't true. This isn't true. That isn't true. This isn't true. Right. And that's dumb. This is true. Even if you hate Trump. This is true. Even if you love Trump. Just all that stuff. I mean, there's so many layers of, like, clouding over, you know, what's, what's true, what's good, what's important in life. And so much of what we see and gets thrust at us is not leading us toward truth or happiness or anything else. Just click bait and crap. Yeah, yeah. Which is somebody's goal, Russia's goal or whoever, to just get us so inundated with crap that we just kind of tune out and then. Then. Well, between our adversaries and our own greed heads. Yeah. Then what happens when we all just tune out or. I don't suppose there's any difference between tuning out or tuning into stuff that's not true. I don't suppose there's a lot of difference in terms of functioning discourse. Got an example of that coming up later. I want to get to that sooner rather than later because it's something I was asked yesterday about by someone who was completely serious. Did you see the Epstein file about George H.W. bush and how he was participating? Now prepare yourself for this, okay? This is harsh stuff. George H.W. bush was participating in the rapes and dismemberments of babies. George H.W. bush, yes. Not that it would be any more likely if it's George W. Bush or Barack Obama or really anybody else other than, like, Hannibal Lecter. I mean, just nobody does this sort of thing, but. So there's a document in the Epstein files. Actually, in the Epstein files, somebody had reported to a hotline that George H.W. bush had been seen at some sort of gathering, you know, weird elite satanic pedophile cult orgy thing, raping children and dismembering babies. Yes, yes. For his. His Jollies and those of his fellow partygoers. Yes. Yeah. And people were witness to this sort of thing. Now that document is in the Epstein files because some crank or crazy person did call the hotline and report that. So they put that in the file, but they followed up on it briefly. They couldn't figure out who this person was. They couldn't come up with any corroboration of any kind, like even in the slightest, anywhere. And they had no belief at all that it was true. And, and, and of course not. Of course they didn't. You know, but I talk, was talking to somebody yesterday and then I went online and saw there's lots of people who believe that and are horrified, absolutely horrified, that the Clintons and the Obamas and the Bushes and the Hollywood elite and the Jews, because the Jews are in charge of it all, are, you know, raping babies and dismembering them at parties. Right. I mean, how freaking crazy is that? You know, stepping back from the specifics, just briefly, that sort of crazy has always existed. It just has not had a fuel line connected to it, namely A, you know, the Internet and social media and every other crank in the world. But B, a situation where the powers that be decide, you know, we never release the raw, you know, un. What to. What's the proper word? Unassessed, you know, everything from an investigation, including crank tips. We never do that because it would bring, you know, shame, disrepute or at least suspicion on people who don't deserve it. So we just don't do that. But now we do. Yeah. Which is partly because of the aforementioned crazy people who are fueled by the whole online thing. Yeah, well, two things. One, do you have the slightest guess whether there's 5,000 people that believe that in the United States or 5 million people that believe it? I don't really have the slightest idea. And it's hard to tell online. I was, I was checking out some of the responses. You know, some of them are your classic, like Twitter seem made up because they have two followers or whatever, but there's quite a few people that sure look like real people. Yeah, well, you, you, you've highlighted the difficulty in even making a guess as to how many people it is. It's probably somewhere between 5,000, 5 million. Although according to the latest figures, if you're one in a million in America, there are 342 of you. Yeah, I sure hope it's closer to 5,000. But either way there's that angle of it. And then two. Yeah, like you said, I'm sure this, if you released every shred of information about 911 investigation, I don't know, Iran Contra, Reagan being shot, I'm sure there's all kinds of crazy crap in there that went nowhere from some anonymous tip line, somebody or a drunk person at a hotel or whatever, right. That never turned out to be anything and shouldn't, you know, see the light of day, right? But now we live in a world where, the world where that can be disseminated and like somebody put a narrative together around it and it becomes a thing. And then not to indulge in self pity or anything like that because, you know, we've got a great job and we're lucky fellers. But how much of that stuff do you then respond to? I don't know, because some days I think, oh my God, we've got to respond to this because it seems to be, you know, everybody's hearing it, everybody's seeing it. So we probably ought to address this particular, you know, nut jobbery. But I don't, I don't know. Meanwhile, over here, there are half a dozen ways Donald J. Trump is challenging convention, and not in a good way. There are certainly half a dozen where he's challenging it in a very, very good way. There's half a dozen others where it's like, why are you doing this? You are creating way too much chaos and angst on top of everything else that's going on. So I don't know, I don't know. The world just feels like it is on fire. But is it? Is it the ruminations of a small percentage of people that's mostly that? Well, not completely, because there are a lot of real things happen. Russia had one of their biggest attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure last night of the entire war, Right. While they're supposed to be close to making a deal, so whatever the hell that means making a deal and you know, and all kinds of different things that are real. But then you throw in all this other stuff and I don't know how much of it is even real. So it's very frustrating. But it can give you the sense that everything's coming apart. All right, we need to have a consortium of our smartest listeners, all of you certainly. What standard wasn't talking to you, looking at you, not you? What standard should everybody use for what they pay attention to? Is it, will this impact my life directly? I mean, just to throw out an obvious one, people's particular fantasies about George H.W. bush, for instance, and I would be Curious to know, if I were to put together, you know, something even more lurid and horrifying than that, what would I be a couple of. Well, I've had a couple of ideas flash through my head, but I don't want to say them out loud because, number one, it will sicken you good people. And number two, I will probably be committed to a mental hospital for even saying them out loud. But would you believe that if I went a step beyond, like, he. How about a step beyond that? Like, after he dismembered the babies, having raped them, he got into a spaceship and went back to his home planet? Well, yeah. Or just, you know, even more horrifying in lurid scenarios involving humans and dog fighting and wild animals and witchcraft. And is there anything you can't be made to believe? And what does that say about the human psyche and the modern world? I don't know. It's all. It's all too much. It's all too much for a simple man like myself. Here's something that won't cheer you up. So I was listening to npr. Oh, boy. I feel like too often I started the show with, here's what NPR did that made me mad today. Driving to work. But anyway, something we can all enjoy together. Oh, by the way, there's like, no NPR stations that are closing. I'll have plenty of money. Yeah, well, if you're in the radio business, you know that if you want to get paid, you go work for the government radio station. They pay completely different wages than the private sector. The subsidized station. Yeah. With the one. The one without ads. Has plenty of money to pay people. Lots anyway, plenty of ads, honestly. But they just did a big feature as I was driving to work on Minnesota athletes and their. They were presenting it as a. Like a civic duty to speak out at the Olympics on what is happening in America in their home state. They went through all the different Minnesota athletes, some of whom have already made statements, and. And just presenting it as. As it's just obviously something you need to do. If you win a medal and get on a podium and you're from Minnesota, you need to use that opportunity to say something about ice and all that sort of stuff, as opposed to. How about you just don't bring that into the Olympics at all? Which was kind of the original point of the Olympics, was to, like, disregard all our differences and everything like that for a while and show how we're all human, can get together and let's just have a foot racing. Yes, let's Politicize the Olympics to make the world better. Yeah. Oh my God, it's so freaking maddening. How about you ruin another thing that people can't watch? So you take half the audience that used to enjoy the Olympics and now they watch that can't watch the Grammys, which you used to like. Can't watch the Olympics, you know, whatever. Just ruin everything with NFL for a couple of years. That's terrible. And then preach to your own choir. You'll have no effect on the people that you want to affect because they bailed. They were like, I'm not gonna watch you ski if you're gonna give me some lecture as soon as it's over. So. Plus your opinion's stupid and doesn't tend to convince people anyway. Hey, I just figured these people out, you know, one of those movies you're watching with your sweetheart or whatever and it's, it's okay, but it's just over the top and you're like, oh my God, when thing over these, the lefties, whether it's your Billy's Eilish or your whatever that other chick who was lecturing us last night or, you know, the NPR people, they live their lives like they're in one of those movies. One of those overdramatic. Everything is just emoted from the heart. Every line is just so flowery. Florid, I think is the term. They live their lives like that. They don't. No one is illegal on stolen land. We got to start the show. Officially we're going to be completely out of time. But anyway, so they don't like your government policy, so they throw themselves into the street, chanting and weeping and standing in front of cars and everything like that. It's. Oh, would you try to act normal for a day, please? Oh my God. Go to work. Feed your family. Jeez. I have my Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is. How did it get to be Tuesday, February 3rd, the year 2026, where Armstrong and getting. We approve of this program. Lets begin. Not blocking federal law enforcement with a kid in a car seat, for instance. Precisely according to FCC rules and regs. Ark. The Daily Mail reports Eilish's multimillion dollar home is located on tribal lands. The Togva Nation says they've inhabited a 4,000 square mile region now known as the greater Los Angeles area. A spokesperson for the tribe tells the Daily Mail. We do understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land. Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property. We do value the instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history of this country. In other words, if you feel so strongly, give your house back to the tribe. Or shut up. Or shut up. In fact, now that we think about it, just shut up. Yeah, let's just start there. We got Katie's headlines on the way. So much to get to today. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. I don't know about you, but every January I kind of get the itch to upgrade my tech. Like a new phone, new laptop, fresh start. But here's the thing. New devices mean new risks. Like lots of people last year clicked on sketchy links and then bam, your info's out there. It's a huge mess. That's why we're fired up about Webroot. Whether you're upgrading or sticking with your trusty old gear, now's the time to lock down your digital life. Webroot's total protection covers your devices, your identity, even your family. 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Get some more details on that a little bit later. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green. Katie, hit it. All right. The Alphabet networks went straight to Epstein. NBC. Some Epstein survivors identities appear unredacted in the files released by the doj. Abc Clinton's relent agree to depositions in the Epstein investigation while Comer reconsiders contempt resolutions. And CBS Bill Gates Elon Musk among big names in Epstein files. Yeah, they're gonna vote on contempt for Clintons today. And I figured they thought who care? Yeah, vote and contempt, I don't give a crap. But apparently they cared because they agreed they're gonna testify. Well, yeah, no, the lawyer said, hey, here's the conditions under which we'll testify and sent that back to Comer. It's a tennis match. You. You think it's. It's not going to be something he agrees to. It might be close, but it's just pushing it down the road a little more. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune. All federal immigration agents in Minnesota will be given body worn cameras effective immediately. Yeah, maybe should have done that in the first place. I don't know. From the telegraph. China unveils flying aircraft carrier. Oh boy, that's terrifying. Yeah, I thought so too. From the New York Times research. There's no more to that. We just have to imagine it and have it haunt our dreams. Okay, thanks. I'm gonna look, I'm gonna look up details on that. Okay. From the New York Times. New York Times research finds interaction with father, not mother, affects child's health. The long term study that said father's parenting styles have been linked to their children's heart health years later. And they didn't find the same connection with the mothers. That's interesting. Need to know more about that. More questions than answers. Once again, Katie, I'm here to tease. Yeah. From the New York Post. Backside from the dead women chasing the perfect body are pumping quote, ethically sourced cadaver fat into their boobs and butts. Ethically sourced though, right? Volunteers. Oh my God. Ethically sourced cadaver fat is a hell of a phrase. If that isn't a sign of the apocalypse or the collapse of civilization or something. I don't know what is the cadaver's last words were? I'd like to be a bbl. Study finds one in three young people hit their parents and some keep doing it into their 20s. What? Where's that from? This is from study finds. Send us that. Yeah, okay, will do. And finally the Babylon beach tearful Trump ends deportations after seeing celebrities wearing ice out pins. Yeah, no kidding. There's people hitting their parents. I mean past the age of like two or three. It's got a. Yeah, you gotta stop. Yeah. That's insane. Yeah. God. I would say we got. We got a lot on pack lots on back. Stay here. Dab her boobs hitting your parents. Armstrong and Getty. 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Nibbles would have loved you like a brother. Connecting homeowners with skilled pros for over 30 years. Angie the one you trust to find the ones you trust. Find pros for all your home projects@angie.com youm don't just live in your home, you'll live in your neighborhood as well. So when you're shopping for a home, you want to know as much about the area around it as possible. Luckily, homes.com has got you covered. Each listing features a comprehensive neighborhood guide from local experts. Everything you'd ever want to know about a neighborhood, including the number of homes for sale, transportation, local amenities, cultural attractions, unique qualities, and even things like median lot size and a noise score. Homes.com we've done your homework. NASA calls today's test a wet dress rehearsal. And almost right away, it got off to a problematic start. About an hour into fueling 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen into its designated tank in the SLS rocket, NASA discovered a leak. NASA has said the leak is still there, but as of now, falls within acceptable limits. This mission is a test flight, a 10 day practice run for an actual moon landing to come. Its crew of four will first orbit the Earth for a day and if all goes well, head out about a quarter million miles to the moon, loop around its far side and return to Earth with a splashdown in the Pacific. The big picture goal, get everything ready for the Artemis 3 moon landing to come by 2028. So that's two years from now before we put people on the moon, but. So we were supposed to go up and around the moon and get some amazing pictures for the first time in 50 years. It was supposed to happen like yesterday, but they got a fuel leak. So now it's gonna be first week of March, which I'm looking forward to that. Hang on a second. I'm an astronaut and they tell me, yeah, there's a fuel leak, but I wouldn't worry about it. It's, it's, you know, within our parameters. How fast it leaking? What's it leaking onto? Wait a minute. Well, they're putting it off for a whole month, so it'll be the first week of March before we launch now. All right, so. Katy, hi, I'm Katy Perry, let's go to space. Unfortunately, it's not astronaut Katy Perry that is ahead of NASA. Katy Perry, our Katie, Katie Green had a headline in her news about China having a new flying aircraft carrier, which is a little troubling. So I don't know how much you all know about aircraft carriers, but like, we really were the only country in the world that had them at all until about a decade ago. And then China built their first real aircraft carrier and now they have a handful. But we still dominate the world with aircraft carriers because they're a really big deal. If we send an aircraft carrier somewhere off your coast, we'll see Venezuela, see maybe perhaps Iran soon. It. The amount of military force that we can project out of that is just absolutely amazing. Especially because they're surrounded by other ships that carry a group. Yeah. Anyway, we got 11 active aircraft carriers. China currently has three. But now China is building this. They just unveiled plans to build a Star wars style warship capable of deploying unmanned fighter jets and firing missiles from space. Oh, the Communist Party released a concept video yesterday showing, I don't know how to pronounce it, which would be the world's largest aircraft carrier, period. And then this one flies speeding through the Earth's atmosphere and evading all current air defense systems, which is somewhat troubling. Yeah. The terrifying machine according to the sun, will be a massive gray triangular behemoth measuring nearly 800ft long and 2,000ft wide. It's touted to have a takeoff weight of 120,000 tons, dwarfing any other similar carrier in use today. It would surpass the largest existing aircraft aircraft carrier, which is the USS Gerald R. Ford, by 20%. So 20% bigger than the Gerald R. Ford, our biggest aircraft carrier. But I, I'm not even sure why we're continuing to compare it to aircraft. I don't know why either. It's an aircraft, since it will be flying and it could, it won't be. They expect it to hit the skies in about 20 years. Skeptics have branded it a stunt and designed to inspire the Chinese public. Although maybe it's not. Anyway, I could see some sort of drone mothership. Well, it might not look quite as Star wars and one of the great shots in cinematic history. By the way, that opening shot in Star wars, the first Star Wars, I've been saying for a while we all need to get prepared for the maybe coming, like in the next couple of months, the militarization of the sky in a way that, you know, was just. Nobody was thinking about not that long ago, because, you know, space is just. We all work together. And the Soviet cosmonauts in the United States shaking hands in the space station because there are no conflicts in space. We somehow came to believe when I was a child. It is hilarious. It's ridiculous. And it's going to be exactly like, you know, any new piece of land discovered on Earth. It's going to be a battle among the powers for who gets to control it and what the resources are. And it's going to be ugly. And I hope our technology wins out, but that's going to happen real damn soon. That's one of the reasons we're going around the moon. Hey, China, get away from our moon Night. Suddenly had a mental picture invade my brain of Billie Eilish floating around in an astronaut costume saying, no one is illegal in stolen space. No one is illegal on stolen land. You're a child. Be quiet. The grownups are talking. Well, speaking of futuristic militaristic endeavors, I thought, this is interesting. Anthropic. That's your OpenAI people? No, that's the Claude people. I'm sorry. Indeed, Claude, they got a $200 million contract from the Defense Department last summer. And everybody said, ooh, good for Anthropic, man. They're doing good stuff. But now, apparently, their relationship with the Pentagon is on the rocks. They're at odds over certain contractual terms. According to the anthropic's terms and conditions, they dictate that Claude cannot be used for any actions related to domestic surveillance. And so that would affect, like, ICE and FBI and stuff and how they could use it. And also their other issue was that it would. It cannot be used for any fully autonomous killing systems. Anthropic won't let it be used for that. All right. That helps you sleep at night. I don't. You know, it's funny, you're reacting the same way I was. I'm like, that's. That's kind of what it's for. But, you know, what's the. What's the name of the guy that runs Anthropic? I should know it because he was featured on 60 Minutes earlier this year. He's an interesting dude. But I was taking in a podcast the other day, and so there's about to be some acquisitions going on that's going to, like, blow up the whole AI world. Like some. Some of your big companies are going to get, like, grok's going to get swallowed up by somebody or, you know, chat GPT. Go ahead. Katie runs it as Dario Emoti. Oh, yeah, Dario. But they all said Dario will never sell. Dario, under no circumstances will sell. There's no amount of money that would make him sell Anthropic. Those other companies could get gobbled up and then that. Then we're going to get into a really, you know, not surprising. Oh, no. In the way that, like Netflix and YouTube are battling and that sort of thing. But that's what's going to happen. But Dario will never sell Anthropic because he's got this sort of view of, I don't want my company to ever be used for military use or something. Fine, okay. But do you think China gives a crap? So I just don't understand that sort of thing. Yeah. And I appreciate his spirit. I do. And Dario, if you're listening, thanks for listening to the Armstrong and Giddy show. Secondly, I appreciate your spirit, but it's like Alexander Graham Bell saying, the one thing I insist upon is my invention never be used by any spy agencies or militaries to make telephonic calls about killing people. It's like, okay, sure, Alex, sure. We won't use it for that. I had a friend who was a super genius computer programmer, and this is 20 years ago, but he was being courted by all the big schools in the country, ended up going to Cornell because they wanted him in their PhD programs and that sort of stuff like teaching. But his main thing was he didn't want to be associated with any program that had any ties with DARPA or anything like that. You know, our, our Pentagon stuff. And I just thought that's so stupid. I mean, you're the best and brightest in this country. They got the best and brightest in China trying to figure out a way to subjugate you. You don't have any interest in trying to combat that. You think you're. Pacifism is the ideology of the moron. That might be insulting to some of you, but it's an ideology for morons. Well, as it is an insult, it will be insulting to some people. Yes. Or. Or you're doing, you know, you need to flip. This is your great. This is your saying that gets recorded by history. Pacifism is the philosophy of the. Well, it really is. I mean, and it just, I'm sure it feels good to say, oh, it feels very self righteous. And you get to check out of all the conversations that the rest of grownups have to have because that's the way the world works. Yeah. The guys from the valley next door are on their way Here right now with sharp spears and bows and arrows and torches, and they're going to kill us. Us all. They're gonna take our women and rape them. They're gonna. No, no, no, no. You can't rape me. You can't rape me. I'm a pacifist, so. Oh, okay. I don't believe in violence. Oh, my God. Seriously, you use them as human shields. Pacifist. That. That's less likely to be reported as a great saying. Oh, my God. Use the pacifist as human shields. Which is just interesting. It is interesting. Gavin, we got to get back into that Vogue piece because I dug out some more of the amazing, florid statements from the Vogue piece about Gavin Newsom that we. We got into some yesterday. Oh, the near sexual servicing of Gavin Newsom and Vogue. Hilarious. You laugh. I laugh. Yeah. Mentioned this already since we were talking about war, that Russia launched one of their biggest attacks ever on Ukraine's energy grid during one of the coldest winters Ukraine has had in decades. And so then people not being able to heat their homes, which is, you know, war crime. You know, add it on, you know, stack it on with the other war crimes that have been committed all at the time when they're supposed to be the closest they've been yet to a peace deal. A guy launching one of his biggest attacks as a war crime while you're supposedly close to a deal, to me, is a signal. Maybe I'm reading too much between the lines. That he's not actually interested in a peace deal. Or is it. Could it be he just strike one more really rough hit to let him know to make him agree to some tough terms? That one. You think it's that 100%. Yeah. Or he has no intention of agreeing to anything. The one thing that only a fantasist would indulge themselves in right now is thinking that we're close to a peace deal. Says who? Not Putin and not Zelensky. Yeah. Zelensky put out a statement today basically saying he's got to be careful how he words this so he doesn't insult his American counterparts who are claiming every day that we're close to a peace deal, but saying, you know, a guy who does this is not really interested in peace. He said in a very kind way. Yeah, yeah. Gently being schooled in the art of Trump whispering. Yeah. That is something, isn't it? So you think it might be making them so despondent and desperate in Ukraine that they agree to some stuff that they might not have agreed to before? Oh, yeah, yeah, he would be. Putin would be a fool to stop his aggressions on the battlefield. He's got to make it as unpleasant as possible. That increases the chances of Ukrainian agreement to unpleasant settlements. Well, in the last week, it's been a passenger train out in the country that he blew up a maternity ward in one city and then the energy grid. All war crimes, but in the span of, like, five days. So maybe that's an indication that they were as close to a peace deal as they've been. The fact that he launched these three really over the top attacks. Yeah, I've always been very cynical about the concept of international law and the idea of a war crime. It's very much like the tree that falls in the forest and no one hears it. If a war crime is committed and no one is outraged enough to do anything about it, does that war crime exist? No. Does that even mean. Well, I guess only that he doesn't give a crap, clearly. And that people should understand his evil. I'm not saying it shouldn't be called a war crime, but, yeah, I understand it's a little childish to start throwing those terms around. Well, I know it's right. And yet if nobody has the motivation to do anything about it, it takes a lot of the. Well, it takes all of the power out of the term. Right. And if they come to some sort of agreement, you get to keep this land and Ukraine gets to keep this big of an army, blah, blah, blah. None of that agreement's going to be. And you'll stand trial for your war crimes. That is not going to be part of the agreement. So, no, it's like theft in California. It used to be a crime. It isn't anymore. And so people do it. We've got Mailbag on the way. So much to get to today. I hope you can stay here. 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Okay, super something to look forward to. Here's your freedom loving quotes of the day. Going with a series of quotes by and about communists for the foreseeable future. And we're going to start with the great Ronald Reagan. How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. That's pretty good. That's a good shot. We miss you, Ronald. We miss you, mailbag. Feel free to drop us a note. Mailbagarmstrongandgetti.com got this from Jeanette, not Janet, in Sacramento, California. Guys, I have a job interview this morning and the nerves are kicking in. It's at 9:30, so I'm gonna miss the award winning fourth hour. So please don't be so amazing because I hate to miss the fabulousness and I'm behind on the podcast. Send up a prayer, cross your fingers and toes. I really need this promotion. That'd be a good liner for our show. Don't miss the fabulousness. Armstrong and Getty. Jeanette, not Janet. If you're looking for mediocrity, I'm your guy. Our four will be substandard. Shooting for a B my whole life. Oh, B minus. Maybe today. Moving along on the topic of George H.W. bush killing babies, if you're just tuning in. Oh my God, don't even want to reset it. An acquaintance of mine was heavily in a QAnon. She was convinced that Hillary Clinton was the one with satanic rituals killing babies on Epstein Island. I guess it won't. It went both ways. That's the bipartisanship we're looking for. Yeah. Oh boy. On the topic of no one is illegal on stolen land, you soft heads Orion. No one is illegal on stolen land. Oh, that is so powerful, so profound. Dear illegal warrior and old illegal Jack, the brave Billie Eilish standing against the howling mob spoke bravely. No one is illegal on stolen land. I have to ask, since the Grammys were on stolen land, would she be cool with letting me in? Since no one is illegal when she has a concert on stolen land, do I need a ticket? I'm assuming she would call the police or get her security to give me the wood shampoo. But her house is on stolen land. Like when the Pope asks for bridges, not walls, while standing behind walls. And they never get the question, why is it okay for you but not for us? Yeah, let's see. She got a lot of attention for that. But I'll bet that in her circles she's, you know, she feels like she really, you know, landed that one. Oh, being hailed as a heroine, a woman of great courage for saying that in spite of everything she was risking there and an audience full of people who all agreed with her. Steve writes, if you speak Spanish in the Americas, aren't You living on stolen land? Yeah, absolutely. Of course. Yeah. The whole thing is, we didn't cross the border. The border crossed us. No, the conquistadors cross the ocean, and you people are idiots. Let's see. Kathy went to see the Melania movie. Cool. She says, I went as a Trump supporter who doesn't agree with everything, but I'm thankful. My biggest takeaway was that Melania loves this country, the Constitution, and the importance of America. She also loves and respects her parents and misses her mother. She also loves Donald J. Trump being a mom and helping kids. Also hot. Oh, boy. Well, I guess the movie is entertaining on different levels for different people. You look like you're poised to say something. This thing I came across. The Washington Post. This is. This was the Washington Post. TV critics about the Grammys try to believe that they actually wrote this. Oh, boy. Politics are often treated like radioactive material on Grammy night. But on Sunday, something changed. The world outside had finally become too loud to ignore. How many moons are there in your world? Do you have, like, two or three of them? What color's the sky? So you're telling me, what do you call the Atlantic Ocean? Politics have been out of bounds at awards shows throughout history. But Sunday night, this was just such a troubling situation that the stars had to finally speak their minds. Are you kidding me? In your world, when you drop an object, does it go, like, sideways or up or what? Because in my world, it goes down. You live in a different universe. How is that possibly even in print? I feel like I've been slapped hard in the face. I don't know what to do. Oh, my God. We got a lot more to come. An hour, too. Oh, my Lord. Armstrong and Getty. Do you like free money? Well, today's your lucky day. Better Picks is offering a free $10 just for signing up. Download the Better app. Pick more or less on your favorite player's stats, watch the games, and win some cash. It's that simple. Better Pick is available in 33 states, including Texas, California, and Georgia. Download the Better app today. That's better betr, and get a free $10. No deposit necessary. 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