Joe Getty (3:01)

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio

Jack Armstrong (3:04)

Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack

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Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Donald Trump (3:09)

Armstrong and Getty.

Joe Getty (3:11)

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

Jack Armstrong (3:21)

We got a lot of good stuff coming up. That is, it's got nothing to do with the war or horror or anything like that. Although I'm, I'm constantly surprised when I flip on my evening newscasts if they're doing weather or a plane crash. This war is a really big deal. Really big deal. And has the potential to be the biggest of deals.

Joe Getty (3:45)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (3:45)

If it goes the wrong direction, I'm just surprised it's not the lead all the time on all your evening newscasts.

Joe Getty (3:50)

But they're terrible, which is why they're going away.

Jack Armstrong (3:53)

True. Good point. Nobody watches them. So that's why if you weren't following the news over like the last 24 hours, Trump laid out a hell of an ultimatum. Straight a Hormuz needs to be open in the next 48 hours or we're taking out all your energy infrastructure hard. And that deadline was going to be

Joe Getty (4:10)

this evening, reminiscent of when George W. Bush gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to get out of Iraq, which he replied. Wait, what?

Jack Armstrong (4:21)

Anyway, then. And Trump truthed that out. So we were speculating in hour one, was that like coordinated with the Pentagon and Marco Rubio or was that just something he fired off, off the top of his head? I don't have any idea. And then this walk back that has happened today, did he claims that negotiations are going very, very well with Iran. So five day pause on the whole taking out their energy infrastructure as the negotiations are going well. Are there negotiations going on? Are they going well or did he fire off this truth social? I can tell you this headline is everywhere. Stocks rise, oil tumbles, which is something he really, really wanted.

Joe Getty (5:01)

Yeah, yeah. I will analyze after we hear from the POTUS himself. Michael, let's start with 43 just moments ago.

Jack Armstrong (5:08)

So this is, this is him answering the question of, I guess of. So what's the deal with the negotiations, Mr. President, Iran's Foreign ministry says you're not telling the truth, when it comes

Joe Getty (5:18)

to productive conversations, to end the world,

Donald Trump (5:20)

they're going to have to get themselves better public relations people. We have had very, very strong talks. We'll see where they lead. We have points, major points of agreement, I would say almost all points of agreement, perhaps that hasn't been conveyed. The communication, as you know, has been blown to pieces. They're unable to talk to each other, but we've had very strong talks. Mr. Witkoff and M. Kushner had them. They went, I would say, perfectly. I would say that if they carry through with that, it'll end that, that problem, that conflict, and I think it'll end it very, very substantially.

Jack Armstrong (6:02)

So, first of all, I like the, well, they need to get better communications people. You killed them all, which I'm fine with, but you killed them all. And then they got the second place team to be the communication people, and he killed them, too. So that's one of the reasons. But. So Jared and Witkoff are talking to somebody, but I haven't come across any reporting that explains who they're talking to

Joe Getty (6:25)

or where and under what auspices. It sounds like BS to me, honestly. Let's hear the next clip.

Donald Trump (6:34)

We have very much in mind our partners in the Middle East. We've had great relationships with a lot of them, as you know, a lot of them were surprisingly hit, and I was surprised to see it, and so was everyone else. But we have, they're very much in mind in the discussions.

Joe Getty (6:52)

So Trump is a gifted bsr, but that, I think he, he confirmed my theory, which is that he put out that truth social, not in consultation with his team and the allies and the rest. He was just threatening Iran. And ever, as I said last hour, every country on earth said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. If you take out their energy infrastructure, they're going to take out everybody's they can reach, and there will be a global energy shock and perhaps a global depression. And Trump, with our partners in mind, our partners are always in mind, said, oh, yeah, I guess that's right. And he backed down.

Jack Armstrong (7:28)

So Joe's going taco on us.

Joe Getty (7:30)

Oh, boy. I do enjoy a good taco, but no, no, I'm not. Next clip, Michael.

Donald Trump (7:35)

So the discussions took place yesterday. They went into yesterday evening. They want very much to make a deal. We'd like to make a deal, too. We're going to get together by probably phone, because it's very hard to find a country. It's very hard for them to get out, I guess, but we'll at some point very, very soon, Meet. We're doing a five day period. We'll see how that goes. And if it goes well, we're going to end up with settling this. Otherwise we just keep bombing our little hearts out.

Joe Getty (8:11)

So some specifics there. Interesting. Okay.

Jack Armstrong (8:14)

Bombing our little hearts out.

Joe Getty (8:17)

I love this next clip.

Jack Armstrong (8:18)

Go ahead. Who is Steve witkoff speaking with Mr. President?

Donald Trump (8:22)

A top, A top person. Don't forget, we've wiped out the leadership. Phase one, phase two and largely phase three. But we're dealing with the man who I believe is the most respected and the leader. You know, it's a little tough. They've wiped out. We've wiped out everybody. No, not the Supreme Leader. We don't. Well, nobody's ever. Nobody heard of the second Supreme Leader, the sun, nobody. We have not heard from the Sun. Every once in a while you see a statement made, but we have not. We don't know if he's living.

Jack Armstrong (8:56)

So this is from the New York Times. The foreign minister of Oman, which is frequently mediated between the United States and Iran in the past, said on social media shortly before Trump's announcement that Oman was working to establish safe passage arrangements, arrangements for the Strait of Hormuz. So they were talking to somebody, apparently. I don't know who they're talking with in Iran. Whatever your view of Iran, this war is not of their making. The minister said this is already causing widespread economic problems and I fear they promise to get much worse if the war continues.

Joe Getty (9:27)

Okay,

Jack Armstrong (9:30)

but Oman is talking to somebody. But do they have any authority? Do they have, do they have the ability to do anything?

Joe Getty (9:38)

It's your classic back channels, I think.

Jack Armstrong (9:41)

With who?

Joe Getty (9:42)

The shuttle diplomacy.

Jack Armstrong (9:43)

I understand the whole black back channel thing, but man, not when a country's in this situation. How do they even know in Iran, I wonder, does the Revolutionary Guard have any ability to talk to the mullahs, for instance, in different locations, all underground, and if you get on a radio, you're going to get killed by the Israelis.

Joe Getty (10:02)

Yeah, probably. So I don't know the foreign minister, whose name I don't recall, but he's a hard ass. He's been part of the big negotiations in which they've negotiated in bad faith and lied over and over again. He's still kicking, he's still making statements, video statements, strong stuff about fighting to the end. So he's still around and I'm getting the vibe that maybe the IRGC has said, yeah, okay, you'll be our figurehead for now.

Jack Armstrong (10:27)

So while we have called off or Trump has called off the strikes on Their energy infrastructure for five days. Israel is still bombing the crap out of Iran. Like, as we speak. They're hitting Tehran hard and Iran is attempting to bomb Israel. And they've had several missiles and rockets get through through the weekend with some talk of is Israel running low on their Iron Dome? I mean, they're not going to say it out loud, but a lot more missiles and rockets have been getting through in the last couple of days than ever have before.

Joe Getty (10:55)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jack Armstrong (10:58)

If that became a, like, their Iron Dome shows to be really porous lights. That's a tiny little country. I mean, if lots of rockets start getting through, Holy crap.

Joe Getty (11:09)

You'd probably see a mass exodus of people from Israel, at least for now. Yeah. So just remember, you got to put a parentheses around the. The energy infrastructure, whether oil or electric power or whatever. That's like a separate question whether, because Trump threatened will. Will devastate that sector of the economy. The, the main war, I think is still going on. I don't know how much we're participating. Just the energy thing is separate. Let's see. Oh, Hanson is advocating for a clip of 67. This is Mark Ruta, who is. He's the Finn guy. Is he the head of NATO these days?

Jack Armstrong (11:48)

I don't know.

Joe Getty (11:49)

I think so. They call him the Trump whisperer. Let's hear what he has to say in 67.

Mark Ruta (NATO Official) (11:53)

We cannot confirm that at the moment, so we're looking into that. But if this will be true, it is the more evidence that what the president is doing here, taking out the ballistic missile capability, taking out the nuclear capability from Iran is crucial and exactly as the ambassador just said. Ambassador Waltz, we have seen with North Korea, if we negotiate for too long, you might pass the moment where you can still get this thing done. And North Korea now has the nuclear capability. If Iran would have the nuclear capability, including together with the missile capability, it will be a direct threat, an existential threat to Israel, to the region, to Europe, to the stability in the world. So the president doing this is crucial, and I've seen the polling. But I really hope the American people will be with him because he is doing this to make the whole world safer.

Jack Armstrong (12:43)

That's the NATO Secretary General saying what Trump is doing is to make the world safer. Glad he did it. Keep going right.

Joe Getty (12:53)

United States media, Iran with a nuke would be horrific.

Jack Armstrong (12:58)

But hey, United States media, that's the NATO Secretary General. I mean, he'd been going on for years about Trump destroying the most important alliance in world history that keeps the world blah, blah, Blah. Their head guy is saying, Trump's doing the right thing, doing a great job and we need to keep going. Do you have no interest in that?

Joe Getty (13:17)

Yeah. They're utterly dishonest, utterly ideological and not very smart. Our media is terrible.

Jack Armstrong (13:25)

Well, they're rooting for loss. That's what they're doing. They hate the idea of this turning out well or anybody saying, you know, that was probably a good idea. They hate that.

Joe Getty (13:35)

Yeah, I know. They hate that more than their country being defeated. Boy. Well, if the dogs of war are aging and slowing down, feed them rough greens.

Jack Armstrong (13:46)

Wow. Wow.

Joe Getty (13:48)

I actually feel pretty good about that one.

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Jack Armstrong (14:42)

If, if I was going to give any advice to our show, talking to myself here, it would be probably less media criticism given the fact that nobody's watching the media but me.

Joe Getty (14:55)

Yes.

Jack Armstrong (14:55)

Nobody's watching these shows. And then I come on the air and criticize them. To whose benefit? But I'll do it again right now.

Joe Getty (15:04)

Okay.

Jack Armstrong (15:04)

Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation. She's got the NATO Secretary General on there saying nothing, as you just heard, nothing but positive things about the reason for going to war, how it's going, everything. And she just got me. Yes, but Trump said. And don't you think it's, I mean, trying as hard as she could.

Joe Getty (15:24)

Yes.

Jack Armstrong (15:24)

To drive a wedge between NATO and Trump while they were saying good things about what we're doing in Iran. That, to my mind are obviously true.

Joe Getty (15:32)

Right. And the 11 people watching were shocked.

Jack Armstrong (15:35)

And the 11 people watching were shocked and outraged. Back to my original point of view, media criticism is pointless since nobody's watching the media.

Joe Getty (15:42)

I would like to criticize your criticism at least briefly. First of all, let's just stipulate the American media is terrible for reasons we've discussed that the whole profession has changed so much in the last 30 years. The sort of person who does it has changed completely. Anyway, let's stipulate that. But it is useful, I think, to remind ourselves that there's a significant chunk of America in that media bubble, whether on the TV or you know. Actually I have an article here about the head of the FCC criticizing news media when he ought to be paying attention to freaking TikTok where most young read left people get their damn news. So it is worth talking about why so much of America is self hating. And that has to do with all the media.

Jack Armstrong (16:29)

Why are meteors attacking the United States? Why is space attacking America?

Joe Getty (16:33)

The alien the invasion has begun.

Jack Armstrong (16:35)

Also, Joe teased a couple of great health things. We got good stuff to talk about. That's not the war. Hope you can stick around Armstrong and Getty.

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Jack Armstrong (19:48)

I was leaning toward Trump was making it up. We had some negotiations going on. But there is breaking news. The U.S. is holding talks with Iranian Parliament Speaker Muhammad Bagger Gubbali. How are you pronounce his name. But they got a specific name and a specific office that they're putting out now of who we're negotiating with. So apparently there are some negotiations. All right, good.

Joe Getty (20:14)

We can assume they're in bad faith, I think, but yeah. Wow.

Jack Armstrong (20:18)

Wow.

Joe Getty (20:19)

Dizzying. The whole thing is just dizzying. Coming up, a couple of stories from the world of science and health that you may find interesting. And also a story about how science itself. I represent science. How science itself is in crisis because so much of research is fraudulent. They have a huge. They we have a huge fraud problem in science. So stay tuned for that last hour. Toward the end of the hour, we were talking about the Afroman case and what a beautiful and powerful affirmation it is of the First Amendment because the. The government did this guy wrong and he gets to say so and he gets to make fun of him and they can't do anything about it. That is what the First Amendment is, and I think it's great. Anyway, this is gonna be a First amendment case. What town is this? Panama City Beach, Florida. The cops have banned over the top twerking. Too much twerking is a no go.

Jack Armstrong (21:23)

I saw this headline and I thought.

Joe Getty (21:25)

What? Let me read this to you. Too much twerking is a no go. At one legendary Florida party beach where cops showed up with paintball guns.

Jack Armstrong (21:33)

That's too much. Oh, no.

Joe Getty (21:35)

Oh, stop it. Stop it. Nobody, nobody on God's green earth wants that. Oh, my God. I will cancel the First Amendment, prevent that from happening again. It's tough to read this now that I'm blind. Let's see. They showed up with paintball guns and pepper spray over the weekend to shut down the wild spring break booty shaking pepper spray. And we're working on getting this audio. It's from the New York Post. Of course, if somebody wants to track it down. Quote, no twerking. You will be charged with disorderly conduct.

Jack Armstrong (22:07)

Why?

Joe Getty (22:08)

An office said an officer from Florida Fish and Wildlife. Clearly the wildlife part of it. Shouting at a group of cheeky over the top female twerkers in Panama City beach on Saturday evening.

Jack Armstrong (22:22)

What?

Joe Getty (22:22)

Disorderly conduct?

Jack Armstrong (22:23)

How are you? A town that is known for spring breaks yet has a rule where excessive twerking will not be allowed. I wouldn't think those two things could go together.

Joe Getty (22:32)

That is actually indirectly a really good question. Town after town after town in Florida has said we're out of the spring break business.

Jack Armstrong (22:40)

I don't blame them.

Joe Getty (22:41)

Yeah, they have passed ordinances that make it effectively impossible to do it.

Jack Armstrong (22:45)

I'll have to tell my annual spring break story of seeing a town just destroyed.

Joe Getty (22:51)

Yeah. Yeah. So Panama City beach has tried to clean up its reputation after its own struggles with shootings, out of control parties and sexual assault in recent years. You can't drink on the beach. You can't even have coolers. There's an 8pm curfew. This guy sells alcohol fueled jello shots on the beach at the next town over. Blah, blah, blah.

Jack Armstrong (23:12)

I understand all those booze rules where they're trying to discourage their people from coming to their town for spring break because it becomes just such mayhem and everything like that. But the rules on twerking, I can't imagine how you possibly would adjudicate that.

Joe Getty (23:27)

This is why it's going to be such an interesting free speech case because the freedom to shake your booty is implied in the First Amendment if, as I believe it to be as chief history, they have ordinances, they're trying to make it a family vacation destination. And if you had your kids there and you had a bunch of women like really twerking right in front of them, you wouldn't be happy either.

Jack Armstrong (23:51)

If you took your kids to Florida the week of spring break to certain towns you did not plan properly.

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Now, now, now, now, now I've got to jump in here again. The week of spring break is freshest for weeks and weeks, depending on what schools or what college you're talking about.

Jack Armstrong (24:06)

Oh my God. Okay, we got lots on the way. Stay here.

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Joe Getty (27:01)

It's condon to lead, driving to the

Jack Armstrong (27:04)

cuff underneath, straight to the lane, can't get a shot and Iowa wins a Sunshine State stunner. Iowa bounces Florida in Tampa 73 72. The reigning champion Gators are gone, the one is done in the south and a nine is on to Sweet 16. I didn't realize I was practically a home game for Florida too. Any hope they're the first number one to drop if you had them in your bracket? I am in last place in the group I'm doing brackets with, but there's still time, I think.

Joe Getty (27:39)

Yeah. So you had something you want to mention, right?

Jack Armstrong (27:43)

Oh yeah. I had quite a conversation with Chat GPT over the weekend and I can't wait to talk about it and read it to you. And then you try to explain to me how AI is going to take over the country or drive us all out of jobs or whatever. I just don't see it yet.

Joe Getty (28:05)

Okay, I want to finish up the story about the Florida beaches and stuff from last segment. I like the New York Post and what they are. The writing is frequently very silly, but we need more fun in the world, not less. And the fact that they try to tie like big boobs into everything is hilariously dopey. But they buried the lead because of the nature of what the New York Post is With the fact that people are being warned not to twerk on this beach in Panama City, the serious news story is, to quote the sheriff from that area, there's been a huge increase in takeovers, these flash mobs organized on social media. He says when you have thousands of people showing up in one place, there are some with guns, there are gang bangers, you have crowd dynamics where someone pulls out a gun, it causes a stampede over and over again. And so what these towns are saying is none of it. So if somebody's twerking, I realize it sounds silly and first amendment, we, who knows, we'll have maybe have it tested. But they're saying the only people doing that on the beach are these out of control flash mobby spring breakers. And we're not having any of it.

Jack Armstrong (29:29)

I don't know how they're gonna legit, how they're gonna work that out.

Joe Getty (29:31)

It's tough.

Jack Armstrong (29:32)

I mean, when does dancing become illegal? Twerking.

Joe Getty (29:36)

Yeah. I mean, the twist, very provocative. The rotation of the female pelvis is known to blah, blah, blah. Yeah, interesting. Anyway, there are definitely certain subcultures though that are much more willing to engage in gun violence than others. Just say that. And Florida's dealing with it. So I promised a handful of things about nutrition and science and that, you know, broad category. I thought this was really good. There are a couple of columnists for the Washington post, including Megan McArdle. Jack, who you've mentioned, is really good that I'm finally going back to the Post. Some, because it's news reporting was just obnoxiously left for so long I haven't bothered. But this Tamar Haspel, she's a woman, is their science writer and she writes. Ever notice how nutrition advice keeps changing? Yeah. Don't even answer. Been writing about how diet affects our health. I've watched low fat come and go. I've watched low carb morph to paleo, then keto, then carnivore. I've watched people eat according to their blood types and food pHs. Now we're saddled with dietary guidelines that double down on meat, saturated fat and protein. Nobody can get a straight answer to the simple question, what should I eat? And she goes into. And we probably don't have time for it, but she goes into the fact that most evidence is lousy for studies that purport that this is good for you. They're just very loosely conducted or study humans in the field or are self reporting or that sort of thing. And as science goes, it's just very Very flimsy.

Jack Armstrong (31:10)

Well, it's always been so interesting, the whole diet thing, because we want something to be true so much that if somebody comes along, a new study says that whatever. Don't eat anything bigger than the size of your fist. You know, here's. Here's our study of people who did it and all lost weight. We don't take the time to look into. Look into it at all because we want it to be true so much that there's some magical, I can still eat what I want and not have to exercise way to lose weight. We're just willing to go forward with anything that's part of it.

Joe Getty (31:41)

Yeah, Michael, I believe the don't eat anything bigger than your fist is the Arnold Schwarzenegger diet, isn't it? He says hinting most evidence is lousy yields inconsistent answers. You can find some support for almost every diet theory going. Go ahead. But I hope you leave enough room for my fist, because I'm going to ram it into your stomach. There you go. There you. There it is. So anyway, she. I'll skip to the punchline here. She goes into the serious studies with real data and comes up with these three things. Number one, dietary fiber is good for you in a lot of ways. Fiber is really good for you.

Jack Armstrong (32:23)

Had. People said it wasn't. I don't pay attention to any diet trends, so I never know.

Joe Getty (32:27)

Right, right.

Jack Armstrong (32:29)

People have been saying fiber was bad for you. Who was. Was somebody. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

Joe Getty (32:34)

It's distilled down to the three things you can absolutely count on. Number one, what I just said. Number two, salt raises blood pressure, increases the risk of stroke and heart disease. Minimize salt, period. There's no science zero that argues against that. Minimize salt. Salt is yummy. Salt is also addictive in that the more you use it, the more you need to use it to perceive salty flavors. I've known some people who, like, are really into it, and my God, they put obscene amounts of salt on food.

Jack Armstrong (33:08)

I never saw dilating. So I'm pretty clear there.

Joe Getty (33:10)

There you go. And number three, most saturated fat raises heart disease risk. So just keep it to a minimum. It's. It's very basic. She says that's the best advice nutrition science can gives us. Give us. Which means I've got my spiel down to about 8 seconds. Eat a wide variety of wholeish foods you enjoy in quantities consistent with the weight you want to be. Get lots of fiber and don't overdo the salt or saturated fats.

Jack Armstrong (33:37)

Well, that's a phrase that's easier said than done. In quantities consistent with the weight. I want to be. Oh, sure.

Joe Getty (33:43)

It was going to be easy.

Jack Armstrong (33:44)

Sure. I'll just start doing that.

Joe Getty (33:46)

Yeah. Well, at least you know I appreciate your cynicism, but knowing what to do and being sure of it.

Jack Armstrong (33:55)

I'll start doing that tomorrow.

Joe Getty (33:57)

Is. Is the first step. A journey of a thousand steps the

Jack Armstrong (34:01)

key to all diets. I will start that tomorrow.

Joe Getty (34:05)

Yes. Make a note on your calendar.

Jack Armstrong (34:07)

Not today. Tomorrow. Today I'm going to a really good restaurant. But tomorrow that'll be perfect.

Joe Getty (34:12)

Have your AI agent set a alarm on your calendar. Want to talk about that more?

Jack Armstrong (34:19)

I'm surprised there aren't more diets that. Or dietitians that say never eat out. That seems like that'd be a really good piece of advice.

Joe Getty (34:26)

Or never finish it if you do. Well, do we have time for this? I love this story from the Journal. This is a $400 a little jar skin cream that's made by playing music to kelp before they mash it up and turn it into skin cream. Katie. Oh, Katie. If looks could kill. It almost did, and it was a near fatal look. That's one of the dumbest things I have heard in a long time.

Jack Armstrong (34:59)

Is this a Gwyneth Paltrow thing? It's.

Joe Getty (35:02)

Yeah. Is that from her store?

Jack Armstrong (35:04)

Yeah. No kidding. So they play music.

Joe Getty (35:06)

No.

Jack Armstrong (35:06)

And then whatever.

Joe Getty (35:07)

That's day Lauder.

Jack Armstrong (35:08)

Whatever. Just read you whatever that does to kelp, which I'm sure is nothing. Then they put it. They grind it up and put it in this jar. Hundred dollars.

Joe Getty (35:16)

I will just read you the first sentence. There's a room in an Estee Lauder owned facility on Long island where kelp swirls around in giant kettles while scientists pump sounds of the ocean to help unlock its healing powers. Oh, shove it.

Jack Armstrong (35:31)

Unlocking the healing powers.

Joe Getty (35:36)

Shove that kelp up your blow hole. Huh? Wow. 400 bucks jar. Katie.

Jack Armstrong (35:47)

No. If somebody buys that, we need.

Joe Getty (35:49)

We need to have a conversation. You know, that's the redistribution of wealth, though. Everybody who works on that, everybody works for that company. Everybody gets a cut of that. You are taxing the rich because they spend a lot of money on silly stuff. Anyway, moving along very briefly, some dude

Jack Armstrong (36:05)

was sitting in a meeting just smoking a joint, going, hey, tell him we played music to kelp. Yeah, no kidding.

Joe Getty (36:12)

Should we actually play the music to the kelp so we don't get busted?

Jack Armstrong (36:15)

Or don't. It doesn't.

Joe Getty (36:16)

Go ahead. Put a speaker in there. I don't care. Yeah, exactly. We don't really have time for this, but I'm going to touch on it because I've mentioned it a couple of times. Science has a fraud problem. For decades scientists were above reproach. Not anymore. And it's all about the incentives and disincentives and grants situation in science and how politics has gotten into science and boy, a peer reviewed paper just doesn't mean that much anymore.

Jack Armstrong (36:46)

Well, the application problem has been going on forever and just I don't know how they keep that quiet or people don't catch on or whatever. So many studies, they can't be replicated. They just can't be.

Joe Getty (36:56)

It's either gotten worse or people have gotten better and more enthusiastic about hunting this stuff down. Because the numbers of retracted posts that had to be. Well, I'm sorry. Of papers that had to be retracted is just staggering at this point.

Jack Armstrong (37:12)

Then you get, I represent science.

Joe Getty (37:14)

Actually, I'm sorry, Anthony Fauci perfectly represented science.

Jack Armstrong (37:19)

Yeah, he did, actually.

Joe Getty (37:19)

He threw on the white coat and looked all authoritative and then lied and lied and lied.

Jack Armstrong (37:25)

You get something published in some thing that nobody ever reads and that goes on your resume for some reason. I don't get that whole world.

Joe Getty (37:35)

Oh, I know. The world of academia is just so strange. You know, once in a while somebody will say to me, and it's a lovely, confident compliment, rather, Joe, you ought to teach if you ever retire. And I'm like, no, I would probably self combust on a college campus or my head would explode. Anyway, what was I going to say? Oh yeah, the fact that that's what you have to, you have to publish. You have to publish. He's got nine papers, blah, blah, blah. Seven of them are bull crap and nobody's read any of them. But that's the currency of the realm in academia. It's just bizarre. And then finally this. And I make this pledge. I, Joe Getty, will make zero stupid jokes or unnecessary sexual references in this story. This is about men's health and I heard this many times. And I have a good friend who was until recently a urologist who did surgeries on both sexes parts, but mostly male parts, prostate surgery and that sort of thing. The more it works, the lower your chance of prostate cancer. Like significantly 20 to 30% lower risk. We're shooting for 21 times a month.

Jack Armstrong (38:57)

Of what?

Joe Getty (38:58)

Which is a pretty rigorous schedule of using your prostate exam ejaculating.

Jack Armstrong (39:05)

Oh, okay. I didn't know what you're driving at. That's what you meant. Okay, yes, yes, Working your man.

Joe Getty (39:14)

Well, that's okay.

Jack Armstrong (39:16)

Punching the clown.

Joe Getty (39:17)

What did you would do? The prostate has only one function.

Jack Armstrong (39:21)

I'd have no idea what the prostate's function is. I've got the slightest idea. No, I've never thought about it in my life.

Joe Getty (39:27)

Oh my God. How interesting.

Jack Armstrong (39:28)

I've never thought about it once in my life. No. This is news to me. That's the only thing the prostate does.

Joe Getty (39:34)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (39:34)

Oh yeah, I know. I had one. I knew it can get cancer, but I didn't have any idea what it did. Wow.

Joe Getty (39:39)

Okay, interesting. So that's five times a week? Yeah, roughly.

Jack Armstrong (39:45)

Easy peasy.

Joe Getty (39:47)

Oh, well, I like your attitude. That's a positive can do attitude on a slow week.

Jack Armstrong (39:52)

That's easy.

Joe Getty (39:55)

Well, and now that there's a like powerful health insanity.

Jack Armstrong (39:58)

Oh yeah.

Joe Getty (39:59)

Like a monkey in a cage. Wait. Oh, I broke my own vow. Oh, moment everyone.

Jack Armstrong (40:06)

You're going to have to excuse me. I care about the family and I need to be here for you. So I'll be right back.

Joe Getty (40:11)

Oh boy. Oh, worse and worse. I knew it was a minefield folks, and I went in anyway. I am to blame.

Jack Armstrong (40:19)

Wow. How many? So that, that's the latest science on that.

Joe Getty (40:22)

Yeah, the. The. Well, you know what?

Jack Armstrong (40:25)

This.

Joe Getty (40:25)

This is actually an interesting hill story. That total 21 times. Ish. 20 to 30% lower than a much lower frequency. Like four to seven times a month. Never mind. Zero. Zero.

Jack Armstrong (40:42)

Can't even imagine. I can't even imagine.

Joe Getty (40:48)

Not since I was 9.

Jack Armstrong (40:51)

I'd be so angry.

Joe Getty (40:53)

Oh, you wouldn't want to live with me. Anyway, that's probably enough of that. We have war news coming up. Solid, violent war news. Important.

Jack Armstrong (41:06)

How do you. You don't see billboards or TV ads or Vogue magazine like you know, to quote George Costanza.

Joe Getty (41:13)

Time for break everybody.

Jack Armstrong (41:15)

And we.

Joe Getty (41:16)

We didn't see it going here, Hal. Red faced and sweating Michelangelo demands we take a break. All right.

Jack Armstrong (41:23)

More later. Stay here.

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Jack Armstrong (45:33)

Quick headlines and we'll get into this more in hour three. Probably Trump had put a 48 hour warning on Iran, opened the Strait of Hormuz. We're going to bomb the bejesus out of you. And then changed his mind because of negotiations that he said were going really, really well and nobody knew what he was talking about. And now they've announced the name of some Iranian dude who's negotiating with the United States. So called off the worst of the strikes for five days. That's where we are right now. It is hard to know what is going on because what media outlet or person do you trust or whatever to have a sense of things and I don't know the proportions of any of these things. So there's so much noise online, the anti Israel noise. Well, I sent Joe a video last night. It was a Israel killed Charlie Kirk. Who comedy routine news thing.

Joe Getty (46:35)

Right. That Erica Kirkstein, they were calling her.

Jack Armstrong (46:41)

Yeah.

Joe Getty (46:41)

League with the Jews. Yes.

Jack Armstrong (46:43)

Right. And it was really well done and somebody put a lot of work into that. And, and, and I just don't know how big that crowd is. I'm leading up to this. Tucker Carlson had a guest on over the weekend and Tucker has gazillions of followers, a Chinese professor who said that the United States should willingly forfeit its role as the number one global superpower to China and Russia and all, all of us work together. To which Tucker agreed wholeheartedly and blamed Israel. Prevent from preventing that happening.

Joe Getty (47:17)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (47:17)

So Israel is stopping the United States from doing what it should do, which is giving up its role as the superpower and letting China and Russia have a stronger role on the world Stage.

Joe Getty (47:31)

Yeah. I heard Tucker's take characterized as, I don't hate America. I hate what America's become because it's controlled by the Jews.

Jack Armstrong (47:41)

So what is, what is that new take that China and Russia should be given more leverage on the world because we're not doing it right or it's

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the whole spheres of influence thing. I think the US shouldn't be the world cop anymore. We should just pay attention to our neighborhood. They can have their neighborhoods.

Jack Armstrong (47:58)

Okay, that's interesting.

Joe Getty (48:01)

Which would never, ever work so well,

Jack Armstrong (48:04)

partially because they want our neighborhood too.

Joe Getty (48:07)

Yes. Yeah. Oh, and gosh, I mean, we don't have time right now, but the 60 Minutes story, one of them last night was about how we just don't build ships anymore in the US Whether Navy ships or horrifying or ships for commerce or whatever. And we've got a very, very knowledgeable listener, a terrific correspondent who writes semi regularly about this issue. We don't have the maritime fleet, the non military ships, to conduct a war right now because the vast percentage of ships that are used in war are not military ships. They're shipping stuff and people all over the globe. And if, well, we just don't build ships. And so if we're ever cut off from a couple of our allies that do, we'd be completely screwed.

Jack Armstrong (48:53)

What'd they say? China's building 30 cargo ships a year and we're building one? Something like that.

Joe Getty (48:59)

Oh, it's, it's way more than that. It's a thousand. China, we'd build one a year. Korea builds one a week.

Jack Armstrong (49:06)

That's rough. Okay, we got that and other stuff on the way. Hope you can join us. Get the podcast if you miss it.

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