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Mike Lyons
Find out what happened when and.
Jacob Goldstein
You.
Jack Armstrong
Know, what orders were given.
Mike Lyons
I think all the, all the particulars.
Jack Armstrong
You want to know what the facts.
Mike Lyons
Are and then you want to compare that with the relevant and figure out, you know, procedurally, you know, what's the, you know, the correct lawful way to do things and determine whether or not that everything was followed.
Jack Armstrong
Of course, we're talking about the second strike on the boat. Turns out second, third and fourth, maybe strikes on the boat off the coast of Venezuela and whether or not Pete.
Joe Getty
Hegseth ordered it or not, and exactly what was ordered, when, by whom, and whether it was legal. It's worth noting that voice you heard was Senator John Thune, the Republican leader of the Senate.
Jack Armstrong
The very latest is from the New York Times, citing five U.S. officials today that Hegseth called for the original strike but did not specify what should happen if survivors remained. And then Admiral Frank Bradley, who you've now heard his name a lot, ultimately signed off on the initial strike and several follow up strikes that killed 11 people. Okay.
Joe Getty
Interesting. To gain a little perspective, we have invited on the terrific Mike Lyons, military analyst, who is also, I was happy to see, writing for Real Clear Defense, including a great piece about the possible Ukraine deal, which we'll touch on in a minute. But first, Mike, welcome. How are you?
Mike Lyons
Hey, good morning, guys. Thanks for having me back.
Joe Getty
Trust you and the family. Had a great Thanksgiving. Good to talk to you.
Mike Lyons
Yeah, it was good. I didn't have my son home and my daughter home, but hopefully we'll get him at Christmas time at this point. So. Looking forward to that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Onto that part of life. Yeah. So, Mike, let's talk a little bit about your impressions of the, you know, what is known thus far about the alleged targeting of survivors. What do you think?
Mike Lyons
Yeah, you know, so I've worded this story for a while because I just thought of it as 100% politics. That video that was released, I guess 10 days ago, almost two weeks ago by the congressmen and senators over, you know, not obeying legal orders. I thought that pierced this veil between the military and the civilians like I've never seen before and set this path on to where I think we are today. And the fact that this mission is being so scrutinized because I can give you multiple examples of previous missions that and people have testified in front of Congress about these kinds of double taps that we've done in the past. But for now, it's now reached this hyperbolic boiling point over what's going on here.
Jack Armstrong
Let's make sure we understand what you're saying there. Are you saying the sort of thing that is being alleged here happens regularly?
Mike Lyons
Well, no. First of all, nobody in the military is committing war crimes, which is where this has gone to. It's gone to, you know, we're murdering people that are hanging off of, you know, ship parts in the Caribbean or the Pacific or wherever the mission was. I mean, you know, it's not like Robinson Crusoe or Rose hanging off the side of the Titanic here. I mean, it's insane that we're still having this conversation. This is a military target that the initial target was approved legally and the target is to be destroyed and destroyed means destroyed. And so if the first target hits and there are still survivors and there's still a target in the water, well, those survivors were still part of the original target to begin with. So they are legal targets as well. But this is all about context. It's all about what, you know, what people want to view and they want. How they want to see this. And from my perspective, it's a shame. Now, we've seen the Secretary of Defense throw this over to the SOCOM commander, and this admiral now will testify in front of Congress. But these missions go on all the time. They're approved, legal. And once they are approved legal and they start, it's pretty hard to bring that Hellfire missile back.
Joe Getty
So there's a pretty good history, including the Nuremberg trials, of prosecutions for targeting survivors of an attack on a ship who no longer posed any threat. Are you saying this doesn't apply here or that's wrong or what?
Mike Lyons
Yeah, I don't know enough about it. I'd have to see a lot more. But sure, we're not going to target sole survivors waving their hands in the water, let's say. Right? Especially with the Hellfire missile. And again, I don't know what visual is on them with Seal Team 6 close to them. I mean, there's just so much information that needs to come out that would figure out whether or not. I mean, I saw this one report that said maybe they thought that there was another boat in the air and this boat could have came and picked up some of the cargo of this ship. I don't know. Again, I haven't seen the battle damage assessment or anything, but all I know is that so many different opinions are being layered into this. Contextually that is now clouded to the point of we don't. It's going to get this mission accomplished of stopping what they're trying to do. I think it's a pure political situation. The Democrats don't want anything to do with what Trump is doing in the Caribbean. I think he needs to say what, what that strategy is. I still don't know what that is as well. But this is not the way to do it, to use the military, because basically, if he's going to accuse Hexith of a war crime, if you're going to accuse him of war crime, you're accusing everybody to pull the trigger, all the way down to who fired that, that missile.
Joe Getty
Okay, just for the record, obviously, you know, we're not engaging in hyperbole or trying to cloud new waters. In fact, we're trying to do just the opposite and help people understand what are the actual issues going on here.
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Mike Lyons
So, yeah, no, I don't think you are. This is. Again, I avoided this just for this reason. I think it's more political. I think it's a shame that we're at this place that now the military is going to be questioned about this going forward. We're going to drag this admiral into this political hearing. And this is all about getting Secretary Hegseth. Frankly, from my perspective and interesting, it just seems too close to the video that was released 10 days ago to have this situation come up right now.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, we wondered about that yesterday. The timing seems pretty suspicious.
Mike Lyons
Exactly. And then the initial Washington Post article now is proven wrong. When the New York Times is throwing the Washington Post off under the bus over there, then, you know, something is up.
Jack Armstrong
So, so is your take. And I just want to make sure I completely understand what you're saying is that we, we are entering into getting way too lawyerly on this sort of thing, or much more lawyerly than we usually are in reality, you know, in a war situation.
Mike Lyons
Well, my take is that I think they decided that these are legal targets and they are. They're military targets as they've been declared narco terrorists and enemies of the state. And each one is evaluated separately with regard to how they're going to take it out and what they want to do and what the definition of destroyed means. And I think that once the initial shot was fired then. And if that was determined legal, then any shot fired after it is determined legal as well. Again, I got to think there's not a video on audio of Hegsett standing up Saying kill them all and all these other things that are coming out of this. I mean, it's just not the case. The people. You know, I had a chance to talk to some of the former JSOC commanders the last few days and they wanted me to reiterate to everybody that the people that are on these missions are professionals and they're doing things exactly by the book. And if they thought for one second that that was an illegal target or they were, they were survivors and the fact that they thought that the target wasn't destroyed, they wouldn't have fired again. Why did, why didn't a couple of weeks later we, we turned two people back over to this, the host country? Why did that happen? Well, they must have thought that situation was different from this. I'm sure that will be explained in the Senate Armed Services Committee. But the professionals in the military are looking at every single aspect and there's just no way they were going to fire on a target that wasn't legal.
Joe Getty
All right, well said. We will wait for more facts to come out. Now to your piece about the, the still taking shape Ukraine deal. I thought the way you framed it was so interesting that it's not exactly a peace treaty, it's more a Korean style armistice or freeze. Tell us about that.
Mike Lyons
Yeah, it's a freeze and you know, it's a classic trading land for some kind of freedom or immediate relief from stopping the war. We all want the war to stop, but there's no guarantees of what specifically what that means without NATO being involved. For example. I still don't believe Russia will accept anything, any peace agreement or any agreement that they come to right now anyway. And I'll kind of put this out preemptively because it's going to force the United States to try to create more leverage at some point. But if they did accept what's currently on the table right now, all it does is going to set up round two at some point. I mean it's appeasement to try to stop a war. You know, 1938, let's say that was kind of appeasement to try to keep a war from happening. This is the, it flips it on its head. It's Korea, 1953 in the same regard that will create a DMZ and will create this, this line, but it can always be restarted. And I just don't believe this is good for the long term of Eastern Europe and I don't think it's in the long term interest of the United States to do that.
Jack Armstrong
Well, we were wondering yesterday, why would Putin quit? If you're Russia with Russia's goals, would you keep prosecuting the war?
Mike Lyons
Exactly. Not for one second would I quit. So that's the thing. And there's the battlefield math has not changed. There's nothing differently on the battlefield. In fact, the Russians have caught up with the Ukrainians when it comes to their drone technology. It's incredible. The fiber opt optic drones that are being used right now and they're tethered and they're ubiquitous to the weather and they're not impervious to electronic warfare. We need to be paying close attention. I know we are at the military academy of this because we've got a leapfrog this technology. We can't be satisfied with what's good enough on the battlefield right now. We've got to be looking over the horizon and figuring out what it's going to take, what the drone technology looks like on the next battlefield. Because right now it's very, very advanced right now. And the Russians have caught right up with the Ukrainians on it.
Joe Getty
Right. And final point on the comparison with Korea, the thing that bothers me as somebody who's been standing up for Ukraine is that unlike the Korean deal where you got your demilitarized zone, but then everybody's armed to the teeth on both sides of it, this is calling for Ukraine to more or less disarm, to weaken their own military and become a just. It wouldn't take 10 minutes for Putin to violate the agreement and beat the hell out of Ukraine. Take even more land a year or two hence.
Mike Lyons
Exactly. They would have interior lines. They would take land that they haven't conquered yet. You know, in Korea we poured in 45,000 troops. There's 10,000 artillery rounds, you know, targeting each other right now. That's a tinderbox on some level and we've talked about that before. But this in particular would beit would clearly lead to a round two at some point. Unless NATO, for example, provided an air defense umbrella over Ukraine that guaranteed all missiles coming from Russia would be shot down. Perhaps a no fly zone. Although a no fly zone is techn. Effectively an act of war. But. And where do the troops come from? So NATO has to be in the game or NATO countries have got to be in the game from a security perspective or to exact your point, they would roll right through Ukraine once they were disarmed.
Joe Getty
Military analyst Mike Lyons will post his piece forum realclear defensemstrongandgidi.com Mike, really interesting perspective. Thanks so much for the time.
Mike Lyons
Yeah. Great, guys. Thanks for having me. And thanks for having this kind of conversation because I'm not sure other people are having it. And I think it's important to recognize that our military is profess not murdering people in the water. I just think I just want to make that point clear.
Joe Getty
Yeah, we'd probably be better off pandering, but we're too stubborn to do it. So anyway, thanks, Mike. Great to talk to you.
Mike Lyons
Great guys. Great out here.
Jack Armstrong
So do these two things go together, though, that our military is professional and we're not in the business of murdering people in the water and things aren't quite as delineated as you think they are in TV shows or whatever around these issues.
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Jack Armstrong
But did they work?
Joe Getty
They cured their placebo almost right away.
Jack Armstrong
Had quite a conversation with my niece who's in medical school right now, over Thanksgiving about placebo and how I'm all for it. If I think it works and it made me feel better, I'm 100%, I'll pay for it. Yeah.
Joe Getty
So the folks who sponsored this, who I believe are a domestic supplement maker, they discovered that every single overseas registered supplement they tested, failed testing, including six from mainland China, delivered none of the claim potency. Plus, you get your opaque seller identities on Amazon. I've fallen prey to that once or twice too. Third party sellers. Anyway, buyer beware. Go. Go with known domestic brands. Yeah. And one thing that I've seen, I can't remember where I saw this report, but these, especially the Chinese manufacturers will pay people to review the product. So then it'll show the product is having a higher rating because, you know, they've, they've obviously planted all these, these reviews. And then people purchase.
Jack Armstrong
How about these giant, giant vitamin stores that, that they have in strip malls or whatever. Those are probably legit, right? If you go into one of those.
Joe Getty
Well, I would again, I would check the label. Maybe go with the better known supplement brands. Yeah, I mean, maybe taking turmeric or whatever the hell is. Is today's hot, hot mineral magnesium a good idea or bad idea? But you might as well get what you're paying for.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And then whiz it out, because your body gets plenty of it just from regular diets, like most things.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
How much time we got? Michael, we gotta talk about that field goal from last night. If you haven't watched the video, why did they send me out to kick a field goal? That was a mistake. We got a lot of stuff on the way. Hope you can stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Look like he just stubbed his foot right into the turf. There it is.
Jack Armstrong
They're watching, they're laughing. So here's what happened. The field goal kicker who is like me, he runs up to kick a field goal. His foot hits like two feet in front of the ball and he just jams his foot into the ground almost.
Joe Getty
Yeah. He never contacted the ball. He didn't come within a foot of contact. Speaking as a guy who kicked a 35 yarder on the air, I would like to point out that was a. I have never seen anything like that.
Jack Armstrong
No, I was just going through a whole bunch.
Joe Getty
Any level of football. Not high school football.
Jack Armstrong
No, no, no. If you do that in junior high, everyone would laugh at you and they would wonder why did you ever think you could kick a football?
Joe Getty
Understand again, he planted his plant foot, he swung his foot, he hit a foot, foot and a half behind the ball. Never even scared the ball. I mean, and the, the holder's like, what the hell do I do now? He picks the ball up and gets the hell beat out of him.
Jack Armstrong
I was just going through a whole bunch of social media stuff from various NFL players through the years who say, I have watched 8 million games. I've never seen anybody do that before. Yeah, it's hard to imagine the equivalent of it. Be like if you're shooting a free throw and you turned around and faced the other direction and tried to put it in the other basket or hit.
Joe Getty
Yourself in the face with it. Right.
Jack Armstrong
It's amazing how there was a play like this in the World Series where somebody dropped a pop fly. Basically how professionals who are the best in the world at it can make the, you know, I am a sucky athlete, 13 year old mistake sometimes.
Joe Getty
Well, yeah, but to drop a fly ball is one thing. To stand there and have it like go four feet away from your mitt, I mean, that would Be the equivalent to this. I'm sure he'll be out trying to explain that guy was just cut by another team and he caught on with the sucky, sucky Giants. Oh, boy. Oh, the barrel. No, I'm just picturing what his teammates.
Mike Lyons
Must have said to him as he.
Joe Getty
Was walking back to the bench.
Jack Armstrong
Will there be nothing to say? You don't need to say anything. There's nothing you could say. The guy knows what he did. His foot hit not even close to the ball. He probably about broke his ankle.
Joe Getty
Yeah. I'll tell you, there's one thing you could say. Hope you catch on with another team, buddy. Sorry. Maybe carnival.
Jack Armstrong
That's what I just said to him. Car insurance. You ever thought about that?
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
You know, if he's got a smart agent, he's trotting him out right now with some sort of. Sometimes you swing and miss badly and that's when you call service master or something.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know.
Joe Getty
Something, Anything. Apparently the quarterback was on the sideline. Jackson Darton, he. You could see him lipping in the camera. Oh, my God.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I saw that. I saw that. It was just. Oh my God. He turns his head like.
Joe Getty
And then he turns and says, what? And then mercifully his head is turned. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. You gotta lean into it. That's exactly it. You gotta on Kimmel tonight and. And you know, do something ridiculous and become a household name for that. And you'll make your living pitching various products the rest of your life. You'll make more money than you were ever going to make as a second tier kicker. Right. You need to become a household name for the worst kick in NFL history.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Been in a car wreck, right? Boy, this was a car wreck, wasn't it? And they show the tape.
Jack Armstrong
Yes.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Hey, we posted that@armstrongandgetty.com because you got. If you haven't seen the video of the Giants kicker missing that field goal, you think we're exaggerating. We're not. We're on. We're not doing it justice of how bad that is.
Joe Getty
Missing the field goal hardly is. It's really inadequate to describe what happened the Ball didn't get off the ground. If I did, the ball wasn't even jostled. No, the ball didn't get off the ground. The ball was not assaulted. The ball was not contacted. The ball has nothing to do with this. It was not part of the play. All right.
Jack Armstrong
Oh my God.
Joe Getty
For that. Coming up, two things. Number one, it may be the greatest scam ever perpetrated in terms of the dollar value and it was perpetrated against the people of Europe. I will explain. And also this, this is so good. The question. And who is asking it, the question is if I am really turned on by a woman's bare feet. Is showing me pictures of a woman's bare feet pornography. And who's asking it? The irs.
Jack Armstrong
I'll try to get past the. Because I think feet are disgusting and I just do not understand people who are turned on by feet.
Joe Getty
Feet, I'm foot neutral. They're handy for walking, certainly.
Jack Armstrong
But so I'll just try to ignore that. That you're a freaking weirdo if you're turned on by feet and just accept that some people are.
Joe Getty
You know, I'm not going to go too deep in the Getty playbook, but a nice foot rub is, you know, it's a good thing, right? Are you anti that you refuse to indulge there or what? I mean, you don't have to getting or giving? Giving.
Jack Armstrong
I'd rather not.
Joe Getty
I think feet are gross. Wow, wow, wow. Katie, you can sigh heavily and roll your eyes or you could step up to the mic.
Mike Lyons
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Joe Getty
There you go.
Jack Armstrong
Feet are just disgusting. They should always be covered.
Joe Getty
Do you look at yours every day.
Jack Armstrong
And go, ew, keep them away from people. But the coming up, the IRS wants.
Joe Getty
To know if feet turn you on. Is that porn?
Jack Armstrong
I know somebody, I know a woman who became aware of the fact that one of her male co workers, if she wear, if she was barefoot in like, you know, attractive footwear at work, that that male co worker stared at her feet all the time.
Joe Getty
Oh boy.
Jack Armstrong
And it kind of became a thing. People in the people, other people became aware that man, oh boy, he's really going to be checking you out today. Like, you know, if she showed up in open toed sandals of some sort.
Joe Getty
Man, everybody with some sort of quasi lesbian look from then on and go hiking boots and thick woolen socks every day.
Jack Armstrong
Because apparently he was obvious about it that other people in the the workplace were aware that, oh boy, Jim's gonna be staring at your feet today. You know, that Sort of.
Joe Getty
Oh, that's uncomfortable.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's.
Joe Getty
That's terrible.
Jack Armstrong
But it's. Well, for us, for somebody who's like in defeat, it's the equivalent of wearing, you know, a tube top or something, I guess for somebody who's into.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
So.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Yes, please.
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It's not your fault.
Joe Getty
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So the whole Pete Hegseth guys in the boat, second strike thing, we talked about it early in the show, then we had Mike Lyons on talking about it and we've gotten so many texts about it. We'll have maybe get some of those in hour three. Seems to be a hot topic for you all.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I guess. Wow. Okay. Yeah, I'm surprised. I thought we dealt with it. Just plenty, lot of plenty and a half. But people are crazy into it.
Jack Armstrong
Fair amount of partisan breakdown. And I think that's true in the media. Also, like, like my clients said that, you know, there's a lot of Democrats that would just love to get a scalpel with Pete Hegseth having to resign. That would. I've never understood this kind of partisanship where if you make somebody from the other party resign, like, wow, we've really got them now. I don't, I don't understand that.
Joe Getty
Well, yeah. What do you think Trump's gonna point AOC to the post? No, he's gonna appoint another hardcore pro defense Republican.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I don't. I don't understand that level of politics. But anyway, we got that. A lot of other stuff on the way to here.
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Jack Armstrong
To someone covering the Luigi trial at Scumbag Murderer. I resaw the video. God, that guy needs to if, if we, if we're going to have a death penalty, that guy should be executed.
Joe Getty
But he's handsome and some people are unhappy about their health insurance. So we should murder young dads, say people who ought to be denied the effing vote immediately.
Mike Lyons
Morons.
Joe Getty
Anyway, so remember when Trump promised to exempt tips from taxes to win Nevada was a clever political ploy and then it was passed into law this past summer. Creates a number of challenges though. The tax break does not exempt tips from taxes entirely, but it's an incentive for people to earn more of them. Obviously, laws pass and people adjust their behavior to them. Tax laws especially. That's one thing liberals never get. Anyway, to avoid some sort of giant economy wide shift of earnings into tips, the IRS and the treasury have imposed some limits. Only people who work jobs that have customarily and regularly received tips can claim the deduction.
Jack Armstrong
Like talk show hosts.
Joe Getty
Exactly. Yeah, we've started to go fund me. No, we haven't. Anyway, so on a list of nearly 70 eligible occupations under the IRS list detailed in a proposed regulation in September were digital content creators, entertainers and performers and dancers, categories that seem to be a boon for America's sex workers. Everybody's thinking, yes, all these tips that I get online are now tax free.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, okay, I didn't know.
Joe Getty
Trump administration.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, I didn't know what you meant by digital content creators. I thought that those people get tips. You mean only fans?
Joe Getty
People among others. Yeah. Okay, well there, there's a hell of a lot of different digital content, but sure, yeah. But the Trump administration then added the tips for prostitution or pornographic activity, quote, unquote, would not Be entitled to the new tax break. Okay, so obviously that was a disappointment or at least, or a head scratcher to people who post.
Jack Armstrong
Hey, that's some nice fornicating. Here's 20%. I'm disappointed in that fornicating. I'll give you a 15 tip, but try harder.
Joe Getty
Well, that's. That's how it works. That's precisely how it works. For the online performance that you.
Jack Armstrong
I'll take your word for it.
Joe Getty
The coins are. Well, I try to understand stories before I launch into them. So anyway, so where were we? Oh, okay. So people who post sexually explicit or even just sensual comments on platforms like OnlyFans, where users leave tips, aren't quite sure where this is going. Now, performers in the adult entertainment industry all already face difficulties accessing basic financial services they go into. But that's another difficulty. It certainly is. But nobody's sure how tax, how restrictions on pornographic activity would actually work, because the irs, like the rest of us, has not yet elaborated on which activities it would consider pornographic. It's unclear, for instance, whether strippers could claim the tap the tips deductions. How about exotic dancers who just lose their top? How about those who take off their top and their bottom? Plenty of activity, an accountant or tax lawyer could argue is merely titillating and not pornographic. Where's the line? How about some girl who does yoga in a bikini? How about some gal or guy who just shows their feet to people who get super turned on by feet. They are getting sexual gratification from it. Yet is it pornographic? And can you deny them the right to deduct those tips from their taxes?
Jack Armstrong
You're watching somebody do yoga and tights and giving them tips, you know.
Joe Getty
All right, yeah, I mean, I realize you'd like to write some sort of ironclad list of what you should be turned on by and what not and publish that as some sort of bible. I find the tax what is porn? Question to be more interesting, but whatever. All right, moving along. Perhaps the greatest scam in the history of mankind. The people of Europe, those poor bastards. Number one, they've all got a learn like three, four languages. What?
Jack Armstrong
We've changed subjects. I was, I was not tracking. We're on a different subject here.
Joe Getty
Yes. Yeah. On a different topic, European politicians told their voters, we go with this big green energy thing. We'll have green jobs and cheap, abundant solar and wind energy. Also a sharp reduction in carbon emissions. And the poor Euros, having learned three or four languages, got screwed. We're two decades in and energy prices have skyrocketed They've cut their carbon emissions. Great. Yeah. China and India are like, that's cute. Way to go. Idiots. Yeah. They've cut their carbon emissions by more than any other region. 30% compared to 17% for us. But listen to their energy prices, would you? And people who pay high energy prices in the U.S. you think you're getting hosed. Now, granted, these are national averages, and somebody's getting hosed.
Jack Armstrong
That does count as pornography. If they're merely doing yoga, I'm not sure.
Joe Getty
Certainly the US in the US we pay, and this is an average. So if you're in, you know, Oklahoma, it's different than California. You pay 8.1 cents per kilowatt hour, 8 cents in the up. In the UK they're paying 34 cents.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
A kilowatt hour.
Jack Armstrong
I heard that it was crazy high because of their net zero policies. I didn't know it was that much. Go.
Joe Getty
It's quadruple. Italy's a little behind that at 29. Germany, 27. Poland, 25ish. France, 21ish. But, yeah, unfreaking believable.
Jack Armstrong
Charles. Charles C. Cook of National Review. He's. He's from England. He's regularly talks about how much cheaper everything is in the United States. And people in the United States don't realize it. It's just so much cheaper just to live compared to Europe.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Germany now has the highest domestic electricity prices in the developed world. There's also industrial energy prices, which complicates this a little bit. While the UK has the highest industrial electricity rates, average electricity prices for heavy industries in the European Union remain roughly twice Those in the US and 50% higher than China. No wonder their economies suck. And energy prices have grown more volatile as the share of renewables increased. So they skyrocket up and down, crippling industry hobbling. Europe's ability to attract key economic drivers like AI, which requires cheap and abundant electricity. They just got ripped off. Defrauded.
Jack Armstrong
So I got a question.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
So is the Trump administration arguing for more of those places to count as tips or fewer of those places of activities to count as tips? Like the person doing yoga and stretching on camera for people who want to watch them do yoga. Are they trying to get that included or trying not to? They're trying.
Joe Getty
I would guess. I would guess they're trying to minimize the number of people who could deduct tips just for revenue reasons.
Jack Armstrong
Like.
Joe Getty
Like any deduction.
Jack Armstrong
I thought they were going to try to broaden it just to include as many people as possible. But they already, you know, he's not running for election again, so he doesn't need to do that again again.
Joe Getty
Right, Right. So now you make these political promises and the IRS has to figure out and you know, a more mundane example of it is all right, what is a work expense is are this going.
Jack Armstrong
To become court cases like trying to figure out whether or not somebody's showing their feet. If people are turned on, they'll have to be like a judge will have to decide, right?
Joe Getty
Yeah, unless the IRS goes super liberal on that sort of stuff. But yeah, absolutely could end up in court.
Jacob Goldstein
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Joe Getty
I have shown one breast, your honor. One breast. This is not porn. This is not porn.
Jack Armstrong
That is really anatomy.
Joe Getty
We got a lot more on the way.
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Date: December 2, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Notable Guest: Mike Lyons (Military Analyst)
This episode opens with the Armstrong & Getty team diving into the ongoing controversy around recent U.S. military strikes off the coast of Venezuela, questions about legality and military professionalism, and the political fallout for Secretary Pete Hegseth. Military analyst Mike Lyons joins to provide context and perspective. The discussion shifts to the Ukraine war "freeze" proposal and its historical parallels, before moving on to concerns about supplement fraud on Amazon, a viral NFL field goal gaffe, and the IRS's awkward attempt to define pornography for tip-tax purposes. Light-hearted commentary on bizarre foot fetishes, awkward workplace dynamics, tips on fantasy sports, and a sharp critique of Europe’s energy policy rounds out the episode.
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The hosts maintain their trademark mix of pointed inquiry, irreverent commentary, and dry wit. Mike Lyons brings clear, military-informed expertise, steering discussions away from sensationalism back to context and operational realities. Throughout, Armstrong & Getty balance skepticism and snark, particularly when poking fun at supplement fads, foot fetishes, or field goal debacles. The episode offers sharp, insightful, and often humorous takes on the major stories of the week.