April 15, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Assassination culture & arson at Gov. Shapiro's house
- Chickstronauts or bachelorette party
- Space travel & mockery
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It's a really sad thing. But actually about eighty five
to ninety percent of psychologists identify as.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Left of center.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And so when we pair that with knowledge that, for example,
there's a study out of Rutgers showing that over half
of people who identify as left of center felt it
was somewhat justified potentially to murder President Trump. So I
think that my own field psychology has a real blind
spot to this assassination culture.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We've talked about the polling that shows way too many
people are comfortable with political violence now.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
As a way to get what you want.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And you got the Luigiani story with murdering the United
Healthcare guy and people that are okay with that. But
but Luigiani, how you say his name? I forgot No,
you're you're you're, that's a portmanteau. You're giving them a
single name like benefit. Stop doing that, Luigi Menngioni. And
actually I was going to vote for replaying some of
(01:26):
those unhinged CNN clips with the Taylor Lorenz but we
can get that in a minute. But he seems pretty crazy,
Luigi seems pretty crazy. And and so we're about to
tell you about the guy who set Governor Shapiro's governor
mansion on fire in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
All these people are crazy. So I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Understand how that fits in with our acceptance of political viole.
I mean, do crazy people pick up in the wind
different differing attitudes towards political violence or what have I
think the way they relate to their overton window, which
is essentially just the list of things you could do,
(02:11):
is different than a sane person. But crazy, obviously is
a really imprecise term.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You can have somebody that's profoundly psychotic.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You can have somebody who's just stupid and alienated, alienated
and neurotic.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I mean, like the kid who took chunk of Trump's ear.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I mean he wasn't like seriously mentally ill, he was
just really odd.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Okay, this guy.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Balmer, he's the guy that if he didn't hear this
over the weekend, it was Saturday night. He got onto
the property where Governor Shapiro lives in Pennsylvania, to the
Governor's mansion, got in there, got to the house, had
a hammer, smashed the windows open, threw in Molotov cocktails,
and started one.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Heck of a fire.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I don't know if you've seen the damage that was done,
but I mean it caught things on fire for real,
and I mean Balmer, in an interview with the police
have been caught afterwards, admitted to harboring hatred of Governor
Shapiro and said that he would have beaten him with
his hammer had he run into him that night at
the mansion. According to an affidated file in the case,
Balmer's social media suggested not a particular ideology so much
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as deep cynicism, in some posts espousing a libertarian bent
bordering on anarchism, and others praising violence. His Facebook posts
included rants about big pharma, women, and the government, while
several posts slammed former President Biden. There was little sign
of any loyalty to any party. Of course, they say
(03:37):
that when he's you know, as we all know, the
mainstream media adjusts their sales on these things depending on who.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
They're mad at.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But sure, anyway, this guy didn't have a particular ideology.
It seems pretty clear outside of sociomyture of him. Yes,
his ideology is lunatic. Outside of social media, mister Balmer's
life appeared to have been unraveling in recent days. A
man who picked up the phone at Balmer's parents' home
on Monday said that we tried.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
This is troubling.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
We tried to get him help and he wouldn't take
his medicine, said probably dad, and refused to answer any
more questions.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Excuse me, I'm dying from an unknown ailment. So.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Mister Balmer's mother told CBS News that her son was
mentally ill and that she had reached out to local
police departments last week to have him picked up, but
couldn't get anybody to help. The district attorney said the
police officers had gone to the parents home on Thursday,
more than two days before the attack, but they'd left
without taking any action. He didn't make any threats, he
(04:45):
wasn't violent or expressing any violent intention, so there's nothing
they could really do.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
He's an adult.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
This is a serious problem We've got everywhere in the
country with these school shooters, political assassins.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Whoever.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
You talked to their friends and parents, they say, yeah,
he's crazy. We knew he was crazy. We've been trying
to get somebody to block him up, but we can't
get anybody to lock him up because they haven't done
anything yet.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
This happens over and over and over again. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I would love to see our best and brightest get
together and have a you know, a week long confab
where they come up with, okay, the idea that you
can just be loose until you murder somebody or come close.
He had bets not acceptable. He had beaten his wife
and kid, both kids, so he's violent. She went after him.
(05:34):
But you know, you don't go to prison for the
rest of your life for that sort of thing. But
if I can finish my thought, we agree that waiting
until somebody has been killed is not a very good standard.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Can we come up with a standard short of.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That, that somebody's so plainly fruit loops and clearly, according
to any but a reasonable observer, dangerous, that we intercede
before the.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Blood is spilled? How can we not do that as
a society? How awful is that? As a parent?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's heartbreaking.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And they were calling the police last week, So I
mean he went off the rails, like right, before Saturday
night when he actually tried to kill the governor.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
There were twenty five people in that place. By the way,
that could have been an awful situation. Obviously.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
How many children, Yeah, last week or several children, siblings
and parents were calling the police saying.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You gotta lock this guy up. He's nuts. Yeah, get
him out. But there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
The police in, the police go there, they interview him.
He didn't make any threats, So what are you gonna do?
And obviously, as civil libertarians, we all understand the downside
of moving the line. The other direction is that if
you're a vengeful ex husband, you can just call police saying,
my wife's saying crazy things.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Lock her up. She gets locked up, you say, because
that needs to happened.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Back in the day, Yeah, there was especially a presumption
of nuttiness toward females.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
But make your own jokes at home if you like.
But surely we.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Can design a system that's got a fail safe for
two so that can't happen.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It's again, this is not insurmountable.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So that's one aspect of this which I find interesting
that almost all the time, the people that knew them
best knew this was gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah. The other part is a person's crazy. So is the.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You know, over the top rhetoric from our house members
or the news channels or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Is this causing this when the people are nuts? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Maybe again I don't I couldn't explain how Again, the
overton window of a crazy person is different from that
of a sane person or somebody who's just at their
wits end and loses their temper and loses perspective temporarily.
I don't know, but it would seem there are ebbs
and flows to political.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Violence in US history. Definitely, that's undeniable.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And the crazy and the saying seemed to take part
in it during the periods of time when there's a
lot of it, most notably, you know, in our lifetimes
the early seventies when there were what something like two
hundred bombings in the US by mostly far left groups
in the early seventies, weather underground at all. So yeah,
(08:28):
it's just I don't know exactly how it works, but
it's undeniable.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It is.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
But like, was this guy if Marjorie Taylor Green and
AOC tempered their rhetoric, would that have made any difference
to this guy or the guy who shot Trumper. I
just don't know, different answers for different people. Yeah, hey,
run eighty two. This is embarrassment to journalism. Donnie O'Sullivan
(08:54):
on embarrassment to journalism, CNN with embarrassment to journalism.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Taylor Lorenz, who was the it girl.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
At the New York Times in Washington Post for quite
some time eighty two.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
The women who got her outside coorsh in New York.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
So you're gonna see women especially that feel like, oh
my god, right, Like, here's this man who who's revolutionary,
who's famous, who's handsome, who's young, who's smart. He's a
person that seems this like this morally good man, which
is hard to find.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
He murdered a young dad in gold Blood, but he's
a morally good man. Agree and chuckle Taylor Lorenz and
Donnio Sullivan on CNN. Now granted they're not, they don't
have huge influence in America anymore. But their comfort expressing
that point of view that somebody you committed a heinous
(09:49):
act of political violence against somebody who had not wronged
them directly at all, well, Taylor Lorenz and Donnie Sullivan
not at all. But Luigi Mangioni, I mean, he didn't
deal with United Healthcare at all, He had no relationship
with him. He just thought, all right, healthcare insurance in
general is evil. I'm gonna gun down a young dad
on the streets of Manhattan, and they're chuckling about it
and loving it and explaining how he's a revolutionary. He's young, smart,
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he's a morally good man, which is hard to find.
That sort of tolerance of horrifying political violence seeps into
brains both sane and insane. It has to, but it
shouldn't have anything to do with your political view either.
If somebody gunned down Randy Weingarten today, I would think
(10:35):
that was awful. Yeah, she's the one that locked up
your kids in school for two years because she's.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
An evil human being.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
But you can't be going around shooting people to solve things.
You need to vote and organize, and you know, we
have a system for this, right or it all falls
It all falls apart immediately when we use violence to
solve things. Yeah, absolutely true. God, that is horrifying. That
aired on CNN. It did, and there's quite a bit
(11:05):
to it, and good solid learned commentators have joined us
in saying that is one of the most sickening spectacles
they'd ever seen.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Holding him up is not only like cool, but like
you can't find guys like this again where you know,
don't you wish all more guys were like this cute
and morally brave mars to shoot a guy in the
back who's walking to work. And let's go ahead and
play clip number eighty, in which Taylor Lorenz expresses, just
(11:36):
just open contempt for anybody who's concerned about this.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching
their pearls about someone standing a murderer when this is
this is the United States of America. As if we
don't lionize criminals, as if we don't have you know,
we don't stan murderers of all sorts, and we give
them Netflix shows. There's a huge disconnect between the narratives
(12:01):
and angles those are of mainstream media pushes and what
the American public feels. And you see that in moments
like this.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Lots of men hold women down and forcibly rape them.
The question isn't whether it happens or how much it happens, Taylor.
The question is it morally repugnant or not? And the
answer is, in both of these cases, it's horrific. It's
repugnant millionaire pundits clutching their pearls.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
She's a despicable human where she is? Oh my god, man.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It it one thing we've learned in the last couple
of years that I never understood my whole life.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I didn't understand how.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The French Revolution could happen, how the Soviet Union could happen,
how lots of things could.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Happen over time. And I now understand.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Because there are whotudes, slaughter institute, seasoned vice versa.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I never understood how those things could happen, and now
I fully get it. People can justify anything. Uh troubling.
What do you think about that? Text line four one, five,
two nine five kftc.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Arm Straw and.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Getty Star studied all female Blue Origin flight grew, including
Katie Perry and Gail King lasting off headed to the
edge of space.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh for crying at lift off? How would you describe it?
It's very difficult because you're you're floating.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
But the best part was when we got back in
our seats after zero G's Katie sang, what a wonderful world?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
She did that nice? She said, what a wonderful I
see dreams? Oh, yes, yes, yes, oh. Because we've been
asking her.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
To sing all the time and she wouldn't and she wouldn't.
And then because everybody said sing roars, sing fire, and
she said.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It's not about me. I wanted to talk about the world. Wow,
you know, is that nice? You got to ask her
about that?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And now the stoned girl you wish you hadn't started
talking to at a party.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
You are officially an astra or not? How do you feel?
I still can't accept that word.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I just feel a renewed connection to everything in life
and where we are, and I can't wait to go
back out there.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It is the highest high, and it is surrender to
the unknown.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Trust God. We have played these that first clip about
the Katy Perry saying what a wonderful world? Oh my god,
she did.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We've played this like fifteen times and we're all still
rolling our eyes and shaking our heads.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh my god, she did?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Did you cry?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yes? It must be.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Would it be more enjoyable to go through life like
that or less? But you're you're you're more easily awe
stricken than I am.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
I feel like more people would be funny, people would
be put off by you, right if you're constantly awe stricken.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Oh my god, Oh my god, that's awesome. It's the
highest tie.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's the rendered to the unknown. Susie Weiss writes for
The Free Press.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
If you don't know what a bachelorette party is like,
let me tell you. It's like being vacuum sealed in
a tin can with a bunch of girls you don't
know that well, that well, but with whom you have
to pretend to have a life changing experience for the
sake of the bride, who invited everyone and.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Who has a vision.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
What happened on this this morning's historic American space flight.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
H Truer words have never been written.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Really, Katie, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I never thought about the bachelorette party where there's like
it's got to be like a life changing experience, especially.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
When it's like a group of friends and you're not
part of that group and you have to go in
and it's all ah.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Going.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
The tagline of the trip was taking up space, and
the whole thing smelled of a hen party, down to
the custom flight patch and matching outfits. The women all
wore figure hugging blue bell bottom Flight who is custom
made by the brand Moms and delivered on Perry's promise
Katie Perry that the six lady crew would put.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
The ass in an astronaut. Well, I had no problem
with that. That part I approved of. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
A few days ago, Perry told the AP she was
doing this to inspire the next generation. But watching all
the coverage, it seems like this flight was more like
the most publicized and most expensive bachelorette party ever, rather
than a generational watershed.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's hard to know where to start.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Sometime in the days before the flight, the women were
recorded standing with their arms around each other, looking up
at the dock rocket, telling it we love you and
bring us back safe, as though they were talking to
an uber driver charged with getting them to and from
a club in Las Vegas. Harry also inexplicably told the rocket,
thank you for helping us heal my God, and then
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she mentions she talks about some of them ringing the bell,
which is a tradition. There are always two kinds of
women at a bachelorette party one usually the having the
absolute time of her life and the older girl, maybe
a cousin or future sister in law, who is an
abject hell, questioning why she even said yes in the
first place.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Armstrong and getty, complete and utter joy and gratefulness. You
can hear no dream is too wild.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
The moon was so beautiful, and that was like, I
felt like that was a special gift.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Just for me.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
You can't go through what we went through to look
out for each other, to help each other.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And not be changed by that. I will never be
the same. This experience is right second to being a mom.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You can't go through what we went through together, the
way we had to help each other and be there
for each other without being.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
What did you do at all?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
You walked into a room, basically you sat down. They
buckled your belts, They shot up, and he came back down.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
What the hell are you talking about? I've got to
admit you're not we few?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
We happy few. I mean, come on, yeah, exactly. It
did not go to the moon on top of a
tin can. Nobody would. I was sure would work. So
I've got to admit I so misread this. I was
just rolling my eyes at this entire thing and paid
no attention to it, not realizing the enormous comedic potential
(18:24):
that it would you know, well, never mind potential, the
yield from this mission, this ship of fools, if you will.
So I was we were quoting Susie Weiss earlier, who
writes for the Free Press, and it's just hilarious.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I so want to hang out with her.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
But so she's relating it to like the bachelorette party
from Hell, and how all the dynamics are exactly the same.
If you missed last segment, I suggest strongly you get
it via the podcast Armstrong, you Getty on demand, But
she says, and I missed all of this. When the
group got up to space and started floating, everyone's perfectly
coft hair flying everywhere. The group huddled to chant take
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up space, and then like when your pregate, when you pregram,
when you pregame too hard before hitting a bar, they
all split up to do their own thing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
This is so freaking good, Katy Perry, too hard.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Katie Perry held a daisy her daughter is named Daisy,
for the camera and teared up. She also revealed a
set list for her upcoming Lifetime's tour on a cardboard
butterfly before letting it float away. Oh my god, you
did the thing with your daughter and then publicized your
tour in the same breath.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Whoa boy? You held a daisy for your daughter named Daisy.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I'm just I'm having trouble connecting dots here and then
I taking the spaceship in your how does this fit together?
Elsewhere in the pod, Lauren Sanchez held up a plushy
of Flynn, the dyslexic fly character from her children's book
The Fly Who Flew to Space, and like a drunk person,
kissed it and said, proud of you, Flynn, look a droppers.
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Proud of you, Flynn, because you're on a space tourist
flight that some of these people paid for. By the way,
Katy Perry was a freebie, but anyway. Bo held up
an embroidered patch that said Bahamas with the Bahamian flag,
while nun Shot gave a shout out to Vietnam. Apparently
at one point, Katy Perry sang, what a wonderful world,
(20:28):
which isn't my choice for karaoki, but a solid one nonetheless,
Like the Maid of Honor who takes her job very seriously.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Perry never sat still.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
In another shot, she was upside down making a shape
of a heart with her hands. Then, like any group
of girls who knows their horoscopes, someone screams.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Out look at the moon.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
These spacecraft's descent had the same audio footprint cackling, screaming,
whooping as one of those eighteen person party bikes that
you see bachelorettes drinking on all over Nashville when they
got out of the When they got out of the
vehicle back on Earth, like any exhausted bridal party member,
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landing at LaGuardia at two am Monday morning, it was
as though they'd spent years up there. Perry and King
each kissed the air at ground once they disembarked the pod,
with King exclaiming thank you Jesus. Sanchez and Nuen both sobbed.
And I must point out that Bezos, the eager groom,
fell on his face as he maneuvered to free his bride.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah he fell down.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, the whole kissing the ground after you get back
eight minutes later, what the hell is that?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
There's just a little more.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
In the postgame interview, Perry said the experience in space
was up there with meditation or the Hoffman process, whatever
that is. We're all looking around and saying, what that's
the uber expensive retreat where celebrities go to meditate and
exercise childhood traumas because quote, you're like really finding the
love for yourself, because you got to trust in yourself.
(21:58):
That's a quote from Katy Perry that she felt connected to,
quote the divine feminine. The purpose of the trip wasn't
to bring back any moon rocks or calculate the astronomical
unit between stars. The point was just to be literally
to take up space up near the edge of Earth.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Much like The Bachelorette.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
The concept was to look good, have a great time,
and do a lot of screaming and honestly, mission accomplished.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Now come the instagrams.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
If you have a face full of makeup, had your
hair done, and schlept to West Texas for your friends
to blast through the sound barrier, you might as well
get some likes out of it and sounding for all
the world like someone who narrowly survived Atlantic City and
who has a rehearsal dinner to plan. Sanchez told the
on site Blue Origin interviewer, quote, I had to come back.
I mean, we're getting married. Oh wow, that was women
(22:51):
really delicious. Hilarity in this is is well delicious. That
is really brilliant to compare that to a bachelorette party,
because it's it is spot on, it is it is
absolutely the same vibe. I can't wait to send this
to both my daughta from another mother, Katie, and my
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actual youngest daughter, who has been party to many of
these exhausting spectacles and testaments to how much you love
the bride.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I'm glad some she truly does. Yeah, I'm glad that
Katie's here.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You know, so we got a woman who's mocking this
and not just a couple of dudes, because.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Yeah, I mean you can. You can love the bride
and the bachelorette party can still be hell on earth.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It's just you know, well, the thing I used to
I worked at a bar for many many years, a
big country bar, like dance club sort of bar, really big,
and I would see this every Friday and Saturday night.
So there'd be the couple of chicks that got there
at like nine and then they're one of their friends
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from work would walk in it like fifteen, and they
would all go and run over and hug each other,
and I would think, I mean a lot of times
I knew these people and I thought, you just you just.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Left work at five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I mean like four hours ago, you worked all day today,
and you are you seeing each other a few hours
later at the bar and you're acting like you haven't
seen each other in two years?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, I mean, what is that?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And they would do it every Friday and Saturday night,
and I've never quite understood.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
And they run them and they hug each other.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I can't believe you're here, even though we said when
we left work four hours ago, see at the bar later.
I mean, I just I don't so I don't understand
that whole thing. And then you saw the womanhood, yes, right,
you saw that whole thing on display kind of with
the rocket yesterday.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It was basically the same thing. Told me, God, I
can't believe you're here. Yeah, we trained for this, for.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Exactly? Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
And it has to be so magical important and oh
you can't just say, hey, that was really fun, that's great,
views amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
No, it's got to be transcendent.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Well, I have a couple of I have a couple
of friends that do that every time they see friends,
and nothing makes you want to turn around and just
walk out.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You're either that kind of person you're not, And I
have no I personally have known preeople that do that,
and they're very nice people.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, it's very sweet, but boy, I just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
So I didn't realize this till you mentioned it, Joe.
So the space tourism you can pay to do that
thing has begun.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Oh yeah, what does it cost currently? Do you know?
Oh gosh, I don't remember. I remember when it was
like six figures.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Anyway, Yeah, it's five six figures, fifty grand, one hundred
grand something like that.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I don't know what price.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
What would it have to get down to where you
would even consider it, because I I wouldn't pay, And
I don't even mean from a whether you can afford
it or not.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I don't think it's worth ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I think for ten thousand dollars, I could take a
better vacation that ought to have better memories of them
doing that personally. Uh yeah, yeah, I haven't really thought
about it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
It would be pretty amazing, I think, but pretty I
don't think.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
It would like I would change my view of all
humanity and what love means the way some of these
people seem.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
To claim it.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
And I feel like I already have an appreciation for
the fact that when you look at the planet, you think,
all right, the disputes of the people in that tiny
corner and those people right next to them are stupid,
and they ought to drop it and figure out a
way not to slaughter each other's children.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I already think that. Actually.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
The one that made the most sense to me was
William Shatner when he went up last year sometime and
he was talking about everything being dead in space. There's
just life is here on Earth. This is where all
the life is happening in love and everything like that.
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Everything outside of here is dead. It's just a barren rock,
which is kind of interesting. Well, and I think it
would be actually a transcendent experience if you got up
high enough, and I'm not sure, I mean, they could
absolutely see the curvature of the Earth and comprehend that
it is indeed a sphere.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Roughly. I think that.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Would be really really cool and interesting. But again, I
already know what I've seen the pictures. Yeah, I've seen
really good pictures like in a I've seen them in
the sphere in Las Vegas, surrounded by four k I mean, so.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
How much better would it be than that?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I mean, I'm not trying to be too cynical, but no,
I just find it hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I'd come back and say, I now understand what love means.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, I think I would enjoy the feeling of weightlessness.
I would love that that I would like to experience.
How long do they get to do it? Like a minute?
I've wanted to do that since I was little kid.
Get to float around like an astronaut. I think that
would be That'd be the most amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Part to me to ever get to do that. You
know what the best part would be?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
You know that my little yellow pad that I have
in the bathroom where I write down my weight every day.
That day I would write down to zero, and the
next day I'd go back to whatever happens to be. Yes,
briefly today, I wait nothing. Then I had a bad day.
I had more, but I knew I shouldn't have that
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last piece of pizza, and I gained one hundred and
ninety eight pounds of.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Okay, we'll finish strong.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Next, in a new interview, Rosie O'Donnell revealed her friendship
with Lyle Menendez, saying that he made her feel quote
safe enough to trust and love a straight man. Upon
hearing this, Menendez came out as gay and returned to
his prison cell.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
It's tax day, and I have a feeling many of
you have heard this before.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I hadn't. Somehow, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It's a letter Donald Rumsfeld sent to the IRS back
in twenty fourteen on tax Day. Donald Rumsfeld, who was
the oldest Secretary of Defense we've ever had and the
youngest Secretary of Defense we've ever had under Ford and Bush.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You might remember him from the.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Go for anyway, he and his wife sent this letter
to the IRS in twenty fourteen. Dear Sir Madam, I
have sent in our federal income tax as in prioris.
Is important for you to know that I have absolutely
no idea whether our tax returns and our tax payments
are accurate. I say this despite the fact that I
am a college graduate and I try hard to make
sure our tax returns are accurate. The tax code is
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so complex and the forms are so complicated that I
know I cannot have any confidence that I know what
is being requested, and therefore I cannot and do not know.
And I suspect a great many Americans cannot know whether
or not their tax returns are accurate. As in past year,
as I have spent more money than and I wanted
to spend to hire an accounting firm to prepare our
tax returns, and believe they are well qualified. This note
(30:05):
is to alert you that I know that I do
not know whether or not my tax returns are accurate.
Which is a sad commentary on governance in our nation's capital,
and it goes on. It's in other words, it is yes,
how does the end? He says, I do hope that
at some point in my lifetime, and I am now
in my eighties, so there are not many years left,
the US government will simplify the US tax code so
(30:28):
that those citizens who sincerely want to pay what they
should are able to do it right and know they
have done it right. I should add that my wife
of fifty nine years, also a college graduate, has signed
our joint return, but she also knows that this does
not have any idea whether or not our tax payments
are accurate.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Sincerely, Donald Rumsfeld, that's pretty funny. Wow, wow, yeah, no kidding. Well,
I've been saying this for years. It's clearly true.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
The government, at the point of a prison sentence makes
you pay taxes. Okay, fine, but then you make it
so complicated that you have to hire somebody to figure
out how much you have to pay your own expense
to the government, and even then you can't be certain
that you haven't violated any law. That's a ridiculous system. Yeah,
(31:20):
it's abusive, it's absurd. It's the product of lobbyists and
social engineering and legitimate desires to shape society and the
rest of it. But you know, I just if someone
proposed this system, they would probably be fifty one fifty
and held for their own safety and that of others, right,
(31:41):
because you'd have.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
To be insane to propose our current system.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
And always keep in mind, while the Democratic Party winds
and moans about taxes all the time, and they would
like taxes to be higher in general, they don't attack
a lot of these regulations that help out them and
their friends and all kinds of different people that want
(32:06):
them to stay the same way.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Right, when Hillary Clinton was running for president and going
on or whoever democratic president's going around running around complaining
about the Richard. They don't point out specific things that
they want change in the textago.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Well, if there were any reason for this conversation to
take place, and I don't think there was, it would
have Hillary would have spouted about taxing the billionaires and
their assets and blah blah blah. Jamie Diamond, some Wall
Street giant would call her and say you don't really
mean that stuff, and she's say, no, no, of course not.
And he said, okay, fine, I get it right here.
You're it's populism. Admit me quotus to this history. Who
(32:44):
prologue like your humble patients, prey gently to hear, kindly
to judge the final thoughts of Armstrong and Ditty. Yeah,
so I'd rather have people talk like that than say, Finna,
get a sandwich.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Finn to do final thoughts with our host Joe Geddy.
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Say how about our technical director Michael Angelo leading us off, Michael, Yeah,
next time I fly Southwest Airlines, I'm gonna kiss the
ground when we land.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
And hold up a daisy and tell everybody I now
know what love is.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I think you should Katie Green or Esteemed to use
women as a final thought, Katie, Well, for.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
The rest of the week.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Every time I see you guys, I'm gonna go show
my excitement and.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I'll yell it back.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Jack. A final thought for us, Yeah, next time I
do the fifty minute flight to Burbank and get off
the plane, which by the way, is five times longer
than their flight, I will talk about how what love
means to me, and how we all pulled together and
had each other's backs and all that sort of stuff,
and how it was just trust and the highest high sir,
(33:53):
get off the flight.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
There are people beyond you.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
My final thought is I've often said I would love
the federal government to show me the bridge I have
paid for or the battleship. But honestly, if that were
to happen, it would probably be a bunch of lazy
bastards with the pot addictions who don't work and I've
been paying for their Medicaid all along, or something like that.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
How disappointing would that be?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Armstrong In and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
So many people think so little time good to Armstrong
in getdy dot com. Many pleasures await you there, including
the hot links, Katie's Corner, the swag shop, get an a,
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at Armstrong You getdy dot com so something we ought
to be talking about.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
You see, send it along.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
So many pleasures await you there. Oh we will see
you tomorrow. God bless America for here.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Because an extreme concentration of Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
And Getty, it became a parent that what we have
here is I feel like that was a special gift
just for me.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
I still can't accept that word.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I will never be the same, are you sure? Oh
dead show one final message. You can't go through.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
What we went through to look out for each other,
to help each other and not be changed by that moron.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Get the hell out of here. Bye bye, Armstrong and
Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It's a really sad thing. But actually about eighty five
to ninety percent of psychologists identify as.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Left of center.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And so when we pair that with knowledge that, for example,
there's a study out of Rutgers showing that over half
of people who identify as left of center felt it
was somewhat justified potentially to murder President Trump. So I
think that my own field psychology has a real blind
spot to this assassination culture.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We've talked about the polling that shows way too many
people are comfortable with political violence now.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
As a way to get what you want.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And you got the Luigiani story with murdering the United
Healthcare guy and people that are okay with that. But
but Luigiani, how you say his name? I forgot No,
you're you're you're, that's a portmanteau. You're giving them a
single name like benefit. Stop doing that, Luigi Menngioni. And
actually I was going to vote for replaying some of
(01:26):
those unhinged CNN clips with the Taylor Lorenz but we
can get that in a minute. But he seems pretty crazy,
Luigi seems pretty crazy. And and so we're about to
tell you about the guy who set Governor Shapiro's governor
mansion on fire in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
All these people are crazy. So I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Understand how that fits in with our acceptance of political viole.
I mean, do crazy people pick up in the wind
different differing attitudes towards political violence or what have I
think the way they relate to their overton window, which
is essentially just the list of things you could do,
(02:11):
is different than a sane person. But crazy, obviously is
a really imprecise term.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You can have somebody that's profoundly psychotic.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You can have somebody who's just stupid and alienated, alienated
and neurotic.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I mean, like the kid who took chunk of Trump's ear.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I mean he wasn't like seriously mentally ill, he was
just really odd.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Okay, this guy.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Balmer, he's the guy that if he didn't hear this
over the weekend, it was Saturday night. He got onto
the property where Governor Shapiro lives in Pennsylvania, to the
Governor's mansion, got in there, got to the house, had
a hammer, smashed the windows open, threw in Molotov cocktails,
and started one.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Heck of a fire.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I don't know if you've seen the damage that was done,
but I mean it caught things on fire for real,
and I mean Balmer, in an interview with the police
have been caught afterwards, admitted to harboring hatred of Governor
Shapiro and said that he would have beaten him with
his hammer had he run into him that night at
the mansion. According to an affidated file in the case,
Balmer's social media suggested not a particular ideology so much
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as deep cynicism, in some posts espousing a libertarian bent
bordering on anarchism, and others praising violence. His Facebook posts
included rants about big pharma, women, and the government, while
several posts slammed former President Biden. There was little sign
of any loyalty to any party. Of course, they say
(03:37):
that when he's you know, as we all know, the
mainstream media adjusts their sales on these things depending on who.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
They're mad at.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But sure, anyway, this guy didn't have a particular ideology.
It seems pretty clear outside of sociomyture of him. Yes,
his ideology is lunatic. Outside of social media, mister Balmer's
life appeared to have been unraveling in recent days. A
man who picked up the phone at Balmer's parents' home
on Monday said that we tried.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
This is troubling.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
We tried to get him help and he wouldn't take
his medicine, said probably dad, and refused to answer any
more questions.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Excuse me, I'm dying from an unknown ailment. So.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Mister Balmer's mother told CBS News that her son was
mentally ill and that she had reached out to local
police departments last week to have him picked up, but
couldn't get anybody to help. The district attorney said the
police officers had gone to the parents home on Thursday,
more than two days before the attack, but they'd left
without taking any action. He didn't make any threats, he
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wasn't violent or expressing any violent intention, so there's nothing
they could really do.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
He's an adult.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
This is a serious problem We've got everywhere in the
country with these school shooters, political assassins.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Whoever.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
You talked to their friends and parents, they say, yeah,
he's crazy. We knew he was crazy. We've been trying
to get somebody to block him up, but we can't
get anybody to lock him up because they haven't done
anything yet.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
This happens over and over and over again. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I would love to see our best and brightest get
together and have a you know, a week long confab
where they come up with, okay, the idea that you
can just be loose until you murder somebody or come close.
He had bets not acceptable. He had beaten his wife
and kid, both kids, so he's violent. She went after him.
(05:34):
But you know, you don't go to prison for the
rest of your life for that sort of thing. But
if I can finish my thought, we agree that waiting
until somebody has been killed is not a very good standard.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Can we come up with a standard short of.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That, that somebody's so plainly fruit loops and clearly, according
to any but a reasonable observer, dangerous, that we intercede
before the.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Blood is spilled? How can we not do that as
a society? How awful is that? As a parent?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's heartbreaking.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And they were calling the police last week, So I
mean he went off the rails, like right, before Saturday
night when he actually tried to kill the governor.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
There were twenty five people in that place. By the way,
that could have been an awful situation. Obviously.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
How many children, Yeah, last week or several children, siblings
and parents were calling the police saying.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You gotta lock this guy up. He's nuts. Yeah, get
him out. But there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
The police in, the police go there, they interview him.
He didn't make any threats, So what are you gonna do?
And obviously, as civil libertarians, we all understand the downside
of moving the line. The other direction is that if
you're a vengeful ex husband, you can just call police saying,
my wife's saying crazy things.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Lock her up. She gets locked up, you say, because
that needs to happened.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Back in the day, Yeah, there was especially a presumption
of nuttiness toward females.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
But make your own jokes at home if you like.
But surely we.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Can design a system that's got a fail safe for
two so that can't happen.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It's again, this is not insurmountable.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So that's one aspect of this which I find interesting
that almost all the time, the people that knew them
best knew this was gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah. The other part is a person's crazy. So is the.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
You know, over the top rhetoric from our house members
or the news channels or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Is this causing this when the people are nuts? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Maybe again I don't I couldn't explain how Again, the
overton window of a crazy person is different from that
of a sane person or somebody who's just at their
wits end and loses their temper and loses perspective temporarily.
I don't know, but it would seem there are ebbs
and flows to political.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Violence in US history. Definitely, that's undeniable.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And the crazy and the saying seemed to take part
in it during the periods of time when there's a
lot of it, most notably, you know, in our lifetimes
the early seventies when there were what something like two
hundred bombings in the US by mostly far left groups
in the early seventies, weather underground at all. So yeah,
(08:28):
it's just I don't know exactly how it works, but
it's undeniable.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It is.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
But like, was this guy if Marjorie Taylor Green and
AOC tempered their rhetoric, would that have made any difference
to this guy or the guy who shot Trumper. I
just don't know, different answers for different people. Yeah, hey,
run eighty two. This is embarrassment to journalism. Donnie O'Sullivan
(08:54):
on embarrassment to journalism, CNN with embarrassment to journalism.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Taylor Lorenz, who was the it girl.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
At the New York Times in Washington Post for quite
some time eighty two.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
The women who got her outside coorsh in New York.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
So you're gonna see women especially that feel like, oh
my god, right, Like, here's this man who who's revolutionary,
who's famous, who's handsome, who's young, who's smart. He's a
person that seems this like this morally good man, which
is hard to find.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
He murdered a young dad in gold Blood, but he's
a morally good man. Agree and chuckle Taylor Lorenz and
Donnio Sullivan on CNN. Now granted they're not, they don't
have huge influence in America anymore. But their comfort expressing
that point of view that somebody you committed a heinous
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act of political violence against somebody who had not wronged
them directly at all, well, Taylor Lorenz and Donnie Sullivan
not at all. But Luigi Mangioni, I mean, he didn't
deal with United Healthcare at all, He had no relationship
with him. He just thought, all right, healthcare insurance in
general is evil. I'm gonna gun down a young dad
on the streets of Manhattan, and they're chuckling about it
and loving it and explaining how he's a revolutionary. He's young, smart,
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he's a morally good man, which is hard to find.
That sort of tolerance of horrifying political violence seeps into
brains both sane and insane. It has to, but it
shouldn't have anything to do with your political view either.
If somebody gunned down Randy Weingarten today, I would think
(10:35):
that was awful. Yeah, she's the one that locked up
your kids in school for two years because she's.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
An evil human being.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
But you can't be going around shooting people to solve things.
You need to vote and organize, and you know, we
have a system for this, right or it all falls
It all falls apart immediately when we use violence to
solve things. Yeah, absolutely true. God, that is horrifying. That
aired on CNN. It did, and there's quite a bit
(11:05):
to it, and good solid learned commentators have joined us
in saying that is one of the most sickening spectacles
they'd ever seen.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Holding him up is not only like cool, but like
you can't find guys like this again where you know,
don't you wish all more guys were like this cute
and morally brave mars to shoot a guy in the
back who's walking to work. And let's go ahead and
play clip number eighty, in which Taylor Lorenz expresses, just
(11:36):
just open contempt for anybody who's concerned about this.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching
their pearls about someone standing a murderer when this is
this is the United States of America. As if we
don't lionize criminals, as if we don't have you know,
we don't stan murderers of all sorts, and we give
them Netflix shows. There's a huge disconnect between the narratives
(12:01):
and angles those are of mainstream media pushes and what
the American public feels. And you see that in moments
like this.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Lots of men hold women down and forcibly rape them.
The question isn't whether it happens or how much it happens, Taylor.
The question is it morally repugnant or not? And the
answer is, in both of these cases, it's horrific. It's
repugnant millionaire pundits clutching their pearls.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
She's a despicable human where she is? Oh my god, man.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It it one thing we've learned in the last couple
of years that I never understood my whole life.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I didn't understand how.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The French Revolution could happen, how the Soviet Union could happen,
how lots of things could.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Happen over time. And I now understand.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Because there are whotudes, slaughter institute, seasoned vice versa.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I never understood how those things could happen, and now
I fully get it. People can justify anything. Uh troubling.
What do you think about that? Text line four one, five,
two nine five kftc.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Arm Straw and.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Getty Star studied all female Blue Origin flight grew, including
Katie Perry and Gail King lasting off headed to the
edge of space.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh for crying at lift off? How would you describe it?
It's very difficult because you're you're floating.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
But the best part was when we got back in
our seats after zero G's Katie sang, what a wonderful world?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
She did that nice? She said, what a wonderful I
see dreams? Oh, yes, yes, yes, oh. Because we've been
asking her.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
To sing all the time and she wouldn't and she wouldn't.
And then because everybody said sing roars, sing fire, and
she said.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It's not about me. I wanted to talk about the world. Wow,
you know, is that nice? You got to ask her
about that?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And now the stoned girl you wish you hadn't started
talking to at a party.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
You are officially an astra or not? How do you feel?
I still can't accept that word.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I just feel a renewed connection to everything in life
and where we are, and I can't wait to go
back out there.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It is the highest high, and it is surrender to
the unknown.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Trust God. We have played these that first clip about
the Katy Perry saying what a wonderful world? Oh my god,
she did.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We've played this like fifteen times and we're all still
rolling our eyes and shaking our heads.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh my god, she did?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Did you cry?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yes? It must be.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Would it be more enjoyable to go through life like
that or less? But you're you're you're more easily awe
stricken than I am.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
I feel like more people would be funny, people would
be put off by you, right if you're constantly awe stricken.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Oh my god, Oh my god, that's awesome. It's the
highest tie.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's the rendered to the unknown. Susie Weiss writes for
The Free Press.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
If you don't know what a bachelorette party is like,
let me tell you. It's like being vacuum sealed in
a tin can with a bunch of girls you don't
know that well, that well, but with whom you have
to pretend to have a life changing experience for the
sake of the bride, who invited everyone and.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Who has a vision.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
What happened on this this morning's historic American space flight.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
H Truer words have never been written.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Really, Katie, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I never thought about the bachelorette party where there's like
it's got to be like a life changing experience, especially.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
When it's like a group of friends and you're not
part of that group and you have to go in
and it's all ah.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Going.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
The tagline of the trip was taking up space, and
the whole thing smelled of a hen party, down to
the custom flight patch and matching outfits. The women all
wore figure hugging blue bell bottom Flight who is custom
made by the brand Moms and delivered on Perry's promise
Katie Perry that the six lady crew would put.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
The ass in an astronaut. Well, I had no problem
with that. That part I approved of. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
A few days ago, Perry told the AP she was
doing this to inspire the next generation. But watching all
the coverage, it seems like this flight was more like
the most publicized and most expensive bachelorette party ever, rather
than a generational watershed.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's hard to know where to start.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Sometime in the days before the flight, the women were
recorded standing with their arms around each other, looking up
at the dock rocket, telling it we love you and
bring us back safe, as though they were talking to
an uber driver charged with getting them to and from
a club in Las Vegas. Harry also inexplicably told the rocket,
thank you for helping us heal my God, and then
(16:52):
she mentions she talks about some of them ringing the bell,
which is a tradition. There are always two kinds of
women at a bachelorette party one usually the having the
absolute time of her life and the older girl, maybe
a cousin or future sister in law, who is an
abject hell, questioning why she even said yes in the
first place.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Armstrong and getty, complete and utter joy and gratefulness. You
can hear no dream is too wild.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
The moon was so beautiful, and that was like, I
felt like that was a special gift.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Just for me.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
You can't go through what we went through to look
out for each other, to help each other.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And not be changed by that. I will never be
the same. This experience is right second to being a mom.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You can't go through what we went through together, the
way we had to help each other and be there
for each other without being.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
What did you do at all?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
You walked into a room, basically you sat down. They
buckled your belts, They shot up, and he came back down.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
What the hell are you talking about? I've got to
admit you're not we few?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
We happy few. I mean, come on, yeah, exactly. It
did not go to the moon on top of a
tin can. Nobody would. I was sure would work. So
I've got to admit I so misread this. I was
just rolling my eyes at this entire thing and paid
no attention to it, not realizing the enormous comedic potential
(18:24):
that it would you know, well, never mind potential, the
yield from this mission, this ship of fools, if you will.
So I was we were quoting Susie Weiss earlier, who
writes for the Free Press, and it's just hilarious.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I so want to hang out with her.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
But so she's relating it to like the bachelorette party
from Hell, and how all the dynamics are exactly the same.
If you missed last segment, I suggest strongly you get
it via the podcast Armstrong, you Getty on demand, But
she says, and I missed all of this. When the
group got up to space and started floating, everyone's perfectly
coft hair flying everywhere. The group huddled to chant take
(19:02):
up space, and then like when your pregate, when you pregram,
when you pregame too hard before hitting a bar, they
all split up to do their own thing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
This is so freaking good, Katy Perry, too hard.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Katie Perry held a daisy her daughter is named Daisy,
for the camera and teared up. She also revealed a
set list for her upcoming Lifetime's tour on a cardboard
butterfly before letting it float away. Oh my god, you
did the thing with your daughter and then publicized your
tour in the same breath.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Whoa boy? You held a daisy for your daughter named Daisy.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I'm just I'm having trouble connecting dots here and then
I taking the spaceship in your how does this fit together?
Elsewhere in the pod, Lauren Sanchez held up a plushy
of Flynn, the dyslexic fly character from her children's book
The Fly Who Flew to Space, and like a drunk person,
kissed it and said, proud of you, Flynn, look a droppers.
(20:08):
Proud of you, Flynn, because you're on a space tourist
flight that some of these people paid for. By the way,
Katy Perry was a freebie, but anyway. Bo held up
an embroidered patch that said Bahamas with the Bahamian flag,
while nun Shot gave a shout out to Vietnam. Apparently
at one point, Katy Perry sang, what a wonderful world,
(20:28):
which isn't my choice for karaoki, but a solid one nonetheless,
Like the Maid of Honor who takes her job very seriously.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Perry never sat still.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
In another shot, she was upside down making a shape
of a heart with her hands. Then, like any group
of girls who knows their horoscopes, someone screams.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Out look at the moon.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
These spacecraft's descent had the same audio footprint cackling, screaming,
whooping as one of those eighteen person party bikes that
you see bachelorettes drinking on all over Nashville when they
got out of the When they got out of the
vehicle back on Earth, like any exhausted bridal party member,
(21:08):
landing at LaGuardia at two am Monday morning, it was
as though they'd spent years up there. Perry and King
each kissed the air at ground once they disembarked the pod,
with King exclaiming thank you Jesus. Sanchez and Nuen both sobbed.
And I must point out that Bezos, the eager groom,
fell on his face as he maneuvered to free his bride.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah he fell down.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, the whole kissing the ground after you get back
eight minutes later, what the hell is that?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
There's just a little more.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
In the postgame interview, Perry said the experience in space
was up there with meditation or the Hoffman process, whatever
that is. We're all looking around and saying, what that's
the uber expensive retreat where celebrities go to meditate and
exercise childhood traumas because quote, you're like really finding the
love for yourself, because you got to trust in yourself.
(21:58):
That's a quote from Katy Perry that she felt connected to,
quote the divine feminine. The purpose of the trip wasn't
to bring back any moon rocks or calculate the astronomical
unit between stars. The point was just to be literally
to take up space up near the edge of Earth.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Much like The Bachelorette.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
The concept was to look good, have a great time,
and do a lot of screaming and honestly, mission accomplished.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Now come the instagrams.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
If you have a face full of makeup, had your
hair done, and schlept to West Texas for your friends
to blast through the sound barrier, you might as well
get some likes out of it and sounding for all
the world like someone who narrowly survived Atlantic City and
who has a rehearsal dinner to plan. Sanchez told the
on site Blue Origin interviewer, quote, I had to come back.
I mean, we're getting married. Oh wow, that was women
(22:51):
really delicious. Hilarity in this is is well delicious. That
is really brilliant to compare that to a bachelorette party,
because it's it is spot on, it is it is
absolutely the same vibe. I can't wait to send this
to both my daughta from another mother, Katie, and my
(23:13):
actual youngest daughter, who has been party to many of
these exhausting spectacles and testaments to how much you love
the bride.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I'm glad some she truly does. Yeah, I'm glad that
Katie's here.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You know, so we got a woman who's mocking this
and not just a couple of dudes, because.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Yeah, I mean you can. You can love the bride
and the bachelorette party can still be hell on earth.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It's just you know, well, the thing I used to
I worked at a bar for many many years, a
big country bar, like dance club sort of bar, really big,
and I would see this every Friday and Saturday night.
So there'd be the couple of chicks that got there
at like nine and then they're one of their friends
(23:58):
from work would walk in it like fifteen, and they
would all go and run over and hug each other,
and I would think, I mean a lot of times
I knew these people and I thought, you just you just.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Left work at five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I mean like four hours ago, you worked all day today,
and you are you seeing each other a few hours
later at the bar and you're acting like you haven't
seen each other in two years?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, I mean, what is that?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And they would do it every Friday and Saturday night,
and I've never quite understood.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
And they run them and they hug each other.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I can't believe you're here, even though we said when
we left work four hours ago, see at the bar later.
I mean, I just I don't so I don't understand
that whole thing. And then you saw the womanhood, yes, right,
you saw that whole thing on display kind of with
the rocket yesterday.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It was basically the same thing. Told me, God, I
can't believe you're here. Yeah, we trained for this, for.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Exactly? Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
And it has to be so magical important and oh
you can't just say, hey, that was really fun, that's great,
views amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
No, it's got to be transcendent.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Well, I have a couple of I have a couple
of friends that do that every time they see friends,
and nothing makes you want to turn around and just
walk out.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You're either that kind of person you're not, And I
have no I personally have known preeople that do that,
and they're very nice people.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, it's very sweet, but boy, I just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
So I didn't realize this till you mentioned it, Joe.
So the space tourism you can pay to do that
thing has begun.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Oh yeah, what does it cost currently? Do you know?
Oh gosh, I don't remember. I remember when it was
like six figures.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Anyway, Yeah, it's five six figures, fifty grand, one hundred
grand something like that.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I don't know what price.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
What would it have to get down to where you
would even consider it, because I I wouldn't pay, And
I don't even mean from a whether you can afford
it or not.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I don't think it's worth ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I think for ten thousand dollars, I could take a
better vacation that ought to have better memories of them
doing that personally. Uh yeah, yeah, I haven't really thought
about it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
It would be pretty amazing, I think, but pretty I
don't think.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
It would like I would change my view of all
humanity and what love means the way some of these
people seem.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
To claim it.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
And I feel like I already have an appreciation for
the fact that when you look at the planet, you think,
all right, the disputes of the people in that tiny
corner and those people right next to them are stupid,
and they ought to drop it and figure out a
way not to slaughter each other's children.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I already think that. Actually.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
The one that made the most sense to me was
William Shatner when he went up last year sometime and
he was talking about everything being dead in space. There's
just life is here on Earth. This is where all
the life is happening in love and everything like that.
(27:07):
Everything outside of here is dead. It's just a barren rock,
which is kind of interesting. Well, and I think it
would be actually a transcendent experience if you got up
high enough, and I'm not sure, I mean, they could
absolutely see the curvature of the Earth and comprehend that
it is indeed a sphere.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Roughly. I think that.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Would be really really cool and interesting. But again, I
already know what I've seen the pictures. Yeah, I've seen
really good pictures like in a I've seen them in
the sphere in Las Vegas, surrounded by four k I mean, so.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
How much better would it be than that?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I mean, I'm not trying to be too cynical, but no,
I just find it hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I'd come back and say, I now understand what love means.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, I think I would enjoy the feeling of weightlessness.
I would love that that I would like to experience.
How long do they get to do it? Like a minute?
I've wanted to do that since I was little kid.
Get to float around like an astronaut. I think that
would be That'd be the most amazing.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Part to me to ever get to do that. You
know what the best part would be?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
You know that my little yellow pad that I have
in the bathroom where I write down my weight every day.
That day I would write down to zero, and the
next day I'd go back to whatever happens to be. Yes,
briefly today, I wait nothing. Then I had a bad day.
I had more, but I knew I shouldn't have that
(28:28):
last piece of pizza, and I gained one hundred and
ninety eight pounds of.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Okay, we'll finish strong.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Next, in a new interview, Rosie O'Donnell revealed her friendship
with Lyle Menendez, saying that he made her feel quote
safe enough to trust and love a straight man. Upon
hearing this, Menendez came out as gay and returned to
his prison cell.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
It's tax day, and I have a feeling many of
you have heard this before.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I hadn't. Somehow, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It's a letter Donald Rumsfeld sent to the IRS back
in twenty fourteen on tax Day. Donald Rumsfeld, who was
the oldest Secretary of Defense we've ever had and the
youngest Secretary of Defense we've ever had under Ford and Bush.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You might remember him from the.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Go for anyway, he and his wife sent this letter
to the IRS in twenty fourteen. Dear Sir Madam, I
have sent in our federal income tax as in prioris.
Is important for you to know that I have absolutely
no idea whether our tax returns and our tax payments
are accurate. I say this despite the fact that I
am a college graduate and I try hard to make
sure our tax returns are accurate. The tax code is
(29:43):
so complex and the forms are so complicated that I
know I cannot have any confidence that I know what
is being requested, and therefore I cannot and do not know.
And I suspect a great many Americans cannot know whether
or not their tax returns are accurate. As in past year,
as I have spent more money than and I wanted
to spend to hire an accounting firm to prepare our
tax returns, and believe they are well qualified. This note
(30:05):
is to alert you that I know that I do
not know whether or not my tax returns are accurate.
Which is a sad commentary on governance in our nation's capital,
and it goes on. It's in other words, it is yes,
how does the end? He says, I do hope that
at some point in my lifetime, and I am now
in my eighties, so there are not many years left,
the US government will simplify the US tax code so
(30:28):
that those citizens who sincerely want to pay what they
should are able to do it right and know they
have done it right. I should add that my wife
of fifty nine years, also a college graduate, has signed
our joint return, but she also knows that this does
not have any idea whether or not our tax payments
are accurate.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Sincerely, Donald Rumsfeld, that's pretty funny. Wow, wow, yeah, no kidding. Well,
I've been saying this for years. It's clearly true.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
The government, at the point of a prison sentence makes
you pay taxes. Okay, fine, but then you make it
so complicated that you have to hire somebody to figure
out how much you have to pay your own expense
to the government, and even then you can't be certain
that you haven't violated any law. That's a ridiculous system. Yeah,
(31:20):
it's abusive, it's absurd. It's the product of lobbyists and
social engineering and legitimate desires to shape society and the
rest of it. But you know, I just if someone
proposed this system, they would probably be fifty one fifty
and held for their own safety and that of others, right,
(31:41):
because you'd have.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
To be insane to propose our current system.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
And always keep in mind, while the Democratic Party winds
and moans about taxes all the time, and they would
like taxes to be higher in general, they don't attack
a lot of these regulations that help out them and
their friends and all kinds of different people that want
(32:06):
them to stay the same way.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Right, when Hillary Clinton was running for president and going
on or whoever democratic president's going around running around complaining
about the Richard. They don't point out specific things that
they want change in the textago.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Well, if there were any reason for this conversation to
take place, and I don't think there was, it would
have Hillary would have spouted about taxing the billionaires and
their assets and blah blah blah. Jamie Diamond, some Wall
Street giant would call her and say you don't really
mean that stuff, and she's say, no, no, of course not.
And he said, okay, fine, I get it right here.
You're it's populism. Admit me quotus to this history. Who
(32:44):
prologue like your humble patients, prey gently to hear, kindly
to judge the final thoughts of Armstrong and Ditty. Yeah,
so I'd rather have people talk like that than say, Finna,
get a sandwich.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Finn to do final thoughts with our host Joe Geddy.
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Say how about our technical director Michael Angelo leading us off, Michael, Yeah,
next time I fly Southwest Airlines, I'm gonna kiss the
ground when we land.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
And hold up a daisy and tell everybody I now
know what love is.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I think you should Katie Green or Esteemed to use
women as a final thought, Katie, Well, for.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
The rest of the week.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Every time I see you guys, I'm gonna go show
my excitement and.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I'll yell it back.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Jack. A final thought for us, Yeah, next time I
do the fifty minute flight to Burbank and get off
the plane, which by the way, is five times longer
than their flight, I will talk about how what love
means to me, and how we all pulled together and
had each other's backs and all that sort of stuff,
and how it was just trust and the highest high sir,
(33:53):
get off the flight.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
There are people beyond you.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
My final thought is I've often said I would love
the federal government to show me the bridge I have
paid for or the battleship. But honestly, if that were
to happen, it would probably be a bunch of lazy
bastards with the pot addictions who don't work and I've
been paying for their Medicaid all along, or something like that.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
How disappointing would that be?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Armstrong In and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
So many people think so little time good to Armstrong
in getdy dot com. Many pleasures await you there, including
the hot links, Katie's Corner, the swag shop, get an a,
andng lighthood. It's the perfect way drops an omail bag
at Armstrong You getdy dot com so something we ought
to be talking about.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
You see, send it along.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
So many pleasures await you there. Oh we will see
you tomorrow. God bless America for here.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Because an extreme concentration of Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
And Getty, it became a parent that what we have
here is I feel like that was a special gift
just for me.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
I still can't accept that word.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I will never be the same, are you sure? Oh
dead show one final message. You can't go through.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
What we went through to look out for each other,
to help each other and not be changed by that moron.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Get the hell out of here. Bye bye, Armstrong and
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