What Yall Got This Robot Dog In Here For?
36 min
•Apr 15, 20263 days agoSummary
Armstrong & Getty discuss viral videos of humanoid and robot dogs being deployed for security purposes, including a robot chasing wild boars in Poland and remote-operated robot dogs patrolling apartment complexes in Atlanta with overseas operators. The hosts explore concerns about surveillance, AI transcription in medical settings, and broader implications of an emerging surveillance state, while also analyzing Trump's strategic communication on Middle East policy.
Insights
- Remote surveillance technology operated by foreign entities raises national security and privacy concerns that most Americans are unaware of until directly encountering it
- AI transcription and automated monitoring systems are rapidly proliferating across sectors (healthcare, security, retail) with minimal transparency or consent mechanisms
- Strategic political communication can be engineered to simultaneously address multiple audiences with different messages through carefully constructed ambiguity
- Public acceptance of surveillance technology depends heavily on awareness and proactive communication rather than passive notification
- The shift from local to remote monitoring creates accountability gaps and potential for data misuse that existing privacy frameworks don't adequately address
Trends
Deployment of autonomous and remote-operated security robots in residential and commercial spaces without adequate public notificationOverseas operation of domestic surveillance infrastructure creating data sovereignty and foreign intelligence concernsAI-powered transcription and recording systems becoming standard in healthcare, workplace, and commercial settings with opt-out rather than opt-in modelsErosion of privacy expectations in public and semi-public spaces through ubiquitous surveillance technologyGeopolitical use of social media as strategic communication tool for multi-audience messaging and diplomatic signalingGrowing public awareness and concern about surveillance state expansion and its psychological effects on behavior and social normsWeaponization of robotics technology by authoritarian regimes (China's robot wolves) escalating surveillance and control capabilitiesHealthcare sector adoption of AI documentation tools creating new data collection and liability concerns for patients
Topics
Humanoid and quadruped robot deployment for securityRemote surveillance operations and overseas operatorsAI transcription in healthcare settings (AI Scribe)Data privacy and data broker practicesSurveillance state expansion and public awarenessForeign-operated domestic security infrastructureAutonomous weapons systems and robot militarizationStrategic political communication and diplomatic signalingIran sanctions and Strait of Hormuz blockadeFDA regulation and right-to-try for experimental treatmentsTax policy and government spending accountabilityStock market performance and economic indicatorsMissing person investigation and domestic violence patternsSpontaneous human combustionCongressional ethics and misconduct cover-ups
Companies
SimpleSafe
Home security company mentioned in context of robot dog security systems and monitoring capabilities
Incogni
Data privacy service that removes personal information from data brokers; offered exclusive discount code to listeners
iHeart Media
Podcast network distributing Armstrong & Getty On Demand episode
People
Jack Armstrong
Co-host of the show discussing robot security, surveillance, and political analysis
Joe Getty
Co-host of the show providing commentary on surveillance technology and policy
Katie
Contributes analysis on surveillance concerns and missing person case; appears to be regular show contributor
Chinaka Hanse Lemperera
Provided detailed analysis of Trump's strategic communication on Iran and Strait of Hormuz policy via social media
RFK Jr.
Mentioned as part of Trump administration's MAHA coalition with concerns about FDA regulation
Marty McCary
Praised as COVID-era hero and free speech crusader; now collaborating with controversial rationalized medicine advocate
Vinay Prasad
Criticized for blocking experimental cancer treatments based on cost-benefit analysis; leaving FDA position end of month
Brian Hooker
Husband of missing woman in Bahamas; interviewed about wife's disappearance; hosts speculate on guilt based on interv...
Lynette Hooker
Woman missing after allegedly falling overboard in Bahamas; subject of investigation and media coverage
Chris Rock
Vintage comedy bit about taxes and minimum wage cited to illustrate public frustration with tax burden
President Trump
Analyzed for strategic communication on Iran policy and Strait of Hormuz; discussed FDA appointments and stock market...
President Xi
Subject of Trump's diplomatic messaging regarding Iran weapons and energy policy through Strait of Hormuz
Quotes
"What y'all got this robot dog in here for?"
Atlanta apartment resident (from viral video)•Early segment
"One post, seven sentences, five audiences. Every word is a weapon aimed at a different target. This is the most compressed piece of strategic signaling in the history of social media diplomacy."
Chinaka Hanse Lemperera•Mid-show analysis
"My one job, my one job was to look out for her and that has not happened."
Brian Hooker•Late segment
"I didn't realize he was yelling. Because those are vicious bastards, those wild boar. I mean, they will screw you up for good."
Jack Armstrong•Opening segment
"Surveilled society is a polite and obedient society."
Joe Getty•Surveillance discussion
Full Transcript
This is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm strong and getty. And now he is. I'm strong and getty. In Poland, a video captured a humanoid robot chasing away a pack of wild boars and war cells. The robot named Edward Warchaki shouts, go away and polish as the animals flee into the forest. And that was the whole story on the NBC Nightly News. You can't drop that much information in 13 seconds and expect me to be able to assimilate it in my head and wrap my mind around it. That is humanoid robot chases pack of wild boar in Poland. I mean, there's I like how they told us its name, Edward Wachaki. What? What? That's a stray. A stray detail. The detail Jonathan Smith, Jr. Age 27. A humanoid robot running down the street. That alone is an amazing story. On its own. You just see a freaking looks like a person, but it's a robot straight out of a damned movie or a Star Wars film running down the street. The fact that it's chasing a pack of wild boar down what looks to be a suburban street. Right. That alone without the robot is something you got to pack a boy wild boar running through your neighborhood. How common is this in Poland? And then they say, what do they think? And then the fact that it's in Poland adds, of course, an international twist. And how did they decide, you know, our best option, a humanoid robot named Edward? Right. Bad news, Captain the Wild Boar loose in the, you know, in Warsaw Heights. What would we do? What would we do? I've got the perfect thing since C3PO after them. Yes, Katie. If you want to see that video, it's up at armstronggeddy.com and Katie's corner. It's the actual robot chasing the wild boar. Oh, yeah, it's on video. You haven't seen it. It's amazing. Oh, yeah. He's just jogging down the street and there go the boar. He's yelling in Polish. I didn't realize he was yelling. Because those are vicious bastards, those wild boar. I mean, they will screw you up for good. Yeah. If you have skin, if you have skin, not if you're a robot. That's what I'm saying. Right. Exactly. That's my point. That robot, like I said, the robot alone is a heck of a story. It was really good at jogging down the street with its red eyes. Why did they make it look like a person? Well, I got to watch that armstronggeddy.com. Is it under hot links or what? I think it's a Katie's corner under Katie's corner. All right. I like the way they laid that story out. It's just a just a quick hit like this little boy enjoyed his birthday because he got a bicycle like it's that sort of story. Right. Right. While a humanoid robot is chasing vicious wild boar down a suburban street in Poland. In sports news. Right. Right. Exactly. You know, we have important and impactful analysis to give you, but now is the perfect time to run this. This is from Atlanta, Georgia. It's clip number 13. The scene a an apartment parking lot in the hood. I think it kind of explains itself. Not they got the mother f***ing robot doll in the mother f***ing hood put her in the apartment. What the f*** type of a y***y. What the f*** he look like he from the bike show way. Hello. Oh, baby. They what? You. How are you? All right. What? Where are you at? I'm good. This a person I want to go. Well, what's your guy the robot dog in here for? Oh, sorry. So we're actually like the robotic security dog here. So you all got this robot dog in here for? Well, and you've you've kind of standard English eyes that one of the angles to the story is that residents in Atlanta are staring down robot dogs patrolling their apartment parking lots with live foreign operators apparently calling the shots through the machines. And they mentioned that the monitoring agents who are looking at the parking lot through the robot dog seem to have foreign accents and somebody pointed out. Yeah, they speak better English than the locals. But that's neither here nor there. Yeah, it's they're using it to patrol apartments. Wow. You got to let people know you can't robot dogs with flashlight eyes. You can't find out that your apartment complex now has robot dogs patrolling by seeing one for the first time. You assume that those good folks read the apartment newsletter? I don't know. You might have to go door to door knocking doors. Hey, just giving you a heads up. Starting this Friday, there will be robot dogs running around the apartment complex. I mean, you got to give me a heads up on this. Yeah, you might have to deliver it verbally. I'm not sure they read much, if anything. Good Lord. So at the beginning of that again, Michael. Not they got the mother f***ing robot doll in the mother f***ing hood put on apartment. What the f*** top of a y***y? What the f*** he look like he from the bike show way. Hello. Oh, baby. They what? How are you? How are you? That's an interesting dialect. Well, what's all got the robot dog in here for? That's my favorite part. Sorry. So we're actually like the robotic security dog here. That's my favorite part. What y'all got the robot dog in here for? Which is a good question. She asks the robot dog. Well, it's actually robotic security. Oh my God. Well, what y'all got the robot dog in here for? Yes. Right. That's the question on everyone's mind. It'll be the title of my TED talk. Well, what y'all got the robot dog in here for? So are we now at the place where the dollars work to buy yourself robot dogs to patrol your apartment complex? Apparently. I don't see that robot dog lasting terribly long in that neighborhood. Or many others in America. You would think that if you can't have copper wire to run your electricity because somebody will steal it. Robot dogs are really fair game. Yeah. Somebody with a gun or a bat. Yes, Katie. Do we know any more about these robot dogs? Like, do they have communicate with law enforcement? Do they have like a weapons capability to stop? That's what I was wondering. Does this thing have the ability to shoot me? Can it bite somebody? Also, in some of these neighborhoods, they're going to capture them in stage of robot dog fights. Wow. Wow. So these robotic dogs are equipped with 360 degree cameras, thermal imaging, headlights, sirens, speakers and sensors. Despite this, they're not. Yes, RPGs. They're not fully autonomous. They typically have a live human operator monitoring the feed remotely. For now, home security, simply safe.com slash Armstrong. They are not. I want this as a side gig so bad. They are not fully autonomous for now. Oh, you want to be the person that talks through the robot? No, yes. But absolutely. Whoa, some people are troubled by the fact that it's an overseas operator and another of these droids was recently seen given commands to Americans in Atlanta. And even when citizens complied peacefully, the bot issued orders and summoned real police. All while the eyes and ears sit behind. I'm sorry, the eyes and ears behind the machine sit overseas, leading everyone to ask the question. Well, what's wrong with your robot dog in here for? Well, meanwhile in China, they're taking the technology in a far more aggressive direction. Beijing has already unleashed machine gun toting robot wolves equipped with a collective brain for coordinated urban combat. And they're probably saying what you all got that robot wolf in here for. Right. And the outskirts of Beijing. Yeah. I don't even know how I would react if I walked out into the parking lot and realized it's being controlled by a robot dog. I would think, well, things have changed. We are into a new era. Oh, yeah. And the person writing this article is concerned about sensitive footage of American homes, vehicles and daily movements streaming overseas, potentially stored analyzed. You're even shared with foreign governments. I hadn't really thought of that. The push toward automation remote monitoring is delivering a creeping surveillance state where the watchers aren't even in the country while elite celebrate the future. American, everyday Americans get robot dogs in the M Fing hood and foreign accents telling them to move along. Well, are you familiar with AI scribe, which I just heard about yesterday for the first time? I don't think so. So I'm in the doctor's office and she says, are you comfortable with AI scribe? And I said, what now? I said, what y'all got that robot dog in here for? And she said AI scribe, it will, it will record all this and transcribe it for us. If you don't want that, we won't do it. And I said, I guess I'm okay with it. I said, it depends on the subject. In this particular case, I got a sore neck, but I could have other problems where I thought, you know what? I don't want you listening to every word I say to the doctor about this situation I got, um, and transcribing it. I have a relationship with my doctor over many years. He doesn't like write down everything I tell him. And he knows I don't want him to write down everything I tell him about everything. So the, I, I scribe, but, well, first thing I thought is, okay, if you can listen to the conversation and write it all down, I'm supposed to believe you're not because we know what the history of that is. Sure. Um, at some point they're going to decide for legal reasons, we're recording everything. So if a patient ever claims this or that, and if you can have a robot, if you've got a robot dog running around of the apartment complex, how are you not going to have microphones somewhere doing the AI scribe thing? Constantly, we're going to be surrounded by AI scribe everywhere at work and a store, everywhere you go, they're going to be recording entire conversations. I got to believe that that's already here, lots of places and soon will be ubiquitous. Right. Partly for liability reasons, Katie. So I, they didn't refer to it as AI scribe, but I dealt with this a couple of weeks ago during one of my, uh, appointments and I felt that it completely allowed my doctor to tune out. Um, yeah, she was like, she asked me a bunch of questions and I gave her answers that later on in the after office visit notes were just completely wrong. Ah, but that happens a lot too. Oh boy. Oh boy. It's like rear, you know, the, uh, rear view cameras, backup cameras, people no longer check their blind spot. Right. But also with the, why would we expect AI scribe to be better than the voice text capability I've got on my iPhone? How often does it get it? Completely wrong. It's got to be better than the iPhone, which is an embarrassment. Uh, right. So, uh, my final question, Jack is, did that robot dog bite you in your eye? Did she say that? So boy, he did it. I heafen a bite your way. Oh, I'm going to adopt that. Not finishing words as a student of linguistics. I'm fast. My son does that. It's a thing young people do. He did it. I heafen a bite your way. Ah, what are you too busy to throw the S sound in there? Or what sweetheart? Um, so you always talking about there's no right for privacy, privacy. What are you up in public? So that's going to be taken to a degree. We didn't think was possible whenever we first came out with the idea that you have no right to privacy because 24 seven surveillance state. Correct. Every word you say is going to be transcribed everywhere you go. Yeah. Imagine when that sinks in the way you will react. That's going to make it all weird. Surveilled society is a polite and obedient society. Yeah. And, and that's going to make us all weird. Yeah. Very weird. Those of you who started weird, even weirder. Exactly. Well, we have some serious dam analysis. We're not going to be able to squeeze it in the next segment. We'll certainly get to it in a few minutes about, you know, the yin and yang of Trump. I hate his FDA. I love his recent truth social post. According to one of my favorite commentators, it might be one of the most powerful and effective, you know, communications in the history of social media. I want to talk more about a I scribe later at more of the more thoughts and concerns are popping into my head. I didn't know this was a thing at the doctor's office. Might be a thing at your workplace now. And do they need to tell you? I don't even know if they need to tell you that they got a I scribe going on. You probably clicked something somewhere. I said, go ahead. Right. Exactly. All right. Lots more on the way. Not they got the mother f***ing robot doll in the mother f***ing hood. Armstrong and Getty. It's a work making minimum wage. It came up to about $200 a week. And then it would take out $50 in taxes. That's a lot of money. If you only make $200 a week, man, that's like kicking Wednesday and Thursday and eat f***s. OK. $50 a week in tax. Now, what do I get for my tax money? Get all the free street light in the world. As far as I'm concerned, give everybody a candle. Give my $50 back. I hate taxes. I hate checks. I hate the fact they put two amounts of money on your check. You know what I mean? It's like, just the money you bust your w**** all week for. And this is what you're going to get. I wish more people had that. I wonder what year Chris Rock did that. Do you know what year that is? Because that sounds like a young Chris Rock. Yeah, yeah, great. Yeah. And I wish more people reacted that way to their taxes. We've designed on purpose a system where we have to make them where very few people react that way because you don't pay hardly any taxes and that keeps you from complaining about the way they spend it. Well, I love those viral videos where a teenager gets their first check and is in the car with their dad and says, wait, wait a minute. Yeah, because I love that. Obviously, the more if you spread the taxes out, you got more people saying, what am I getting for this? Because that's the big question. If you're losing a whole bunch of your paycheck, this is tax day. This is why this came up. You didn't know. I hope you know. You're thinking, what am I getting for this? A school I didn't I wish my kid wasn't going to or, you know, homeless programs that end up with more homeless people or whatever, you know, whatever your particular bugaboo is. I appreciate the national defense, but everybody knows at this point that the social programs, which is the bulk of the budget, is just there's a mountainous waste and fraud and abuse and nobody cares. It's because it's a scam to buy votes. Yeah, it's all very discouraging. I don't mean to just make you angry, but more we need, you know what? Honestly, a candle. Let me keep my money. Here's here's the yin and yang of it. We need much more anger about the abuse we take from government. On the other hand, I don't want to be stoking it all the time here. Nobody's going to listen. No, no, no, no, no, I've had shows I really like. I love radio, love podcasts, and I've had shows that were so consistently angry. I couldn't listen to them. Correct. And I just, I don't want to be that. But at the same time, like I said, I mean, there ought to be revolution in the streets. So speaking of economics, just let me touch on a couple of headlines really quickly. We can dig into them more later, but here's your stock market today report from the Wall Street Journal. Bank of America says US economy looks resilient. Investor is taking in positive signs. Blambo. OK, here's another good one. Nasdaq logs longest winning streak since 2021. As investors look beyond war, stock markets are skyrocketing. The economy looks great. Yeah, that's a set of record today. Looks like depending on what Trump says, because he can make the stock market go up or down with a sentence. Yeah, I've I've been reading reams of analysis about the war with Iran and one of them posited and they're quite right. That we are so insulated from. Uncertainty that could like bring Europe and China to their knees. Yeah, because of our two oceans, because of our because of our energy independence. Drill, baby, drill that we're starting to realize, OK, this uncertainty, which the entire American led global system was trying to prevent now for decades and decades, doesn't hurt us that much. Yeah, that's an interesting one. I got more on that later. Got good stuff today. It's going to be a pretty good show, actually. Armstrong and Getty. Story of the lady, the wife that fell out of the boat and disappeared, likely drowned and everybody just jumped to the conclusion that the husband did it. And he was arrested or held briefly in the Bahamas and they let him go. He did an interview yesterday. We'll play a little that for you a little later and you can determine. Does he sound like a guy who's being truthful about how distraught he is that his wife is missing or do you think he pushed her out of the boat? So stay tuned for that. You're asking people to judge a man swiftly and harshly based on a radio report. Exactly. I'm absolutely in. Here we go. A couple of stories for you, the yin and yang of the Trump thing. And Jack has pointed out, reminding me occasionally, and it's absolutely true that you a coalition elects you, president, no matter what party you're in. And you got to bring members of the coalition along to keep them on your side. And in the case of Trump, it included the maha crowd, which has a couple of different like wings within it, including RFK Jr, who I think is a green head trial lawyer who's right about a couple of things. Excuse my mic. Swole. He is absolutely swole. Yeah. And knows his way around a dead bear. Anyway, and I respect that. And then you've got Marty McCary, who was an absolute hero in covid. Absolute American hero and crusader for free speech. Love, Marty. But he's now working with Vinay Prasad, who is a crackpot, Bernie Acolyte, rationalized medicine. If the incredible advances in science that America is famous for cost too much money, we just don't do them. And he's like eliminating all these revolutionary new cancer treatments because he thinks they're too expensive. Rationalized medicine or ration medicine? Ration. I'm sorry. Ration medicine. Yeah. Thank you for the clarification. Because I can rationalize medicine pretty quickly. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, it keeps you from dying. This will make you feel better. Yes. But it's just it's terrible. And we can't get too far into this because it is so multi-layered and has to do with, you know, methods of trials and experiments and control groups and the rest of it. But this Prasad guy who's leaving, thank God, at the end of this month, has quashed in a way that's completely unprecedented to all of these exciting new breakthroughs and cancer treatments. He's a freaking maniac and I hate him. Anyway, what's his what's his thinking? Well, he's just he. His his rationale that he states is nonsense. He does not believe he believes in a very British slash Canadian system of medicine where, OK, look, this will save your life. You've got late stage melanoma, which is the latest thing. And here is a new immunotherapy that's having miraculous results for the 8500 or so Americans who die every year from melanoma. 8500 is not a huge number in the nation of three hundred forty million. You it's a lot. So exactly. Oh, well said. So he's a guy of the British slash Canadian bent. That's like, sorry, no, that's too much of the government's money for a few people. We're not doing this. He quashes it. He is hardcore anti right to try where if you're dying of cancer, you get to try an experimental treatment, even if it's not fully approved. Yeah, I can I can write somebody off very quickly on that. If you don't think people ought to be able to try those things when you're dying, then I have no interest in your opinion. And it's usually the we don't want to give people false hope, which makes me want to punch you in the face and then hold you down and continue punching you in the face. Yes, until my arms, my little arms are too tired to keep it up. Yeah. So that's the yang of the Trump administration. I just spies what they're doing at the FDA. On the other hand, love this. This is one of my favorite commentators lately. He's got the musical name of Chinaka Hanse Lemperera. What? Yeah, he's an author and a commentator and extremely astute about Middle Eastern politics. And I love this. I thought it was so interesting. Seven sentences, five audiences. Every word is a weapon aimed at a different target. This is the most compressed piece of strategic signaling in the history of social media diplomacy. Today, Trump posted and I will read the entire thing. And then we will we'll break down a little bit. China is very happy that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz. I am doing it for them also and the world. This situation will never happen again. They have agreed not to send weapons to Iran. President Xi will give me a big fat hug when I get there in a few weeks. We are working together smartly and very well. Doesn't that beat fighting? But remember, we are very good at fighting if we have to. Far better than anyone else. And Mr. Pereira says, let's decode every sentence. I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz. The blockade is not a blockade. It is a service. Trump reframes it, reframes the entire operation from aggression to provision. The Navy enforcing interdiction is now the Navy opening the Strait. And permanently signals to oil markets, Asian importers in Iran that the US intends to remain the guarantor of Hormuz transit indefinitely, not as leverage as architecture. I am doing it for them also in the world. China imports over 50 percent of its energy through Hormuz. Trump positions the blockade as a gift to Beijing. The country whose Iranian oil he just cut off is now the beneficiary. As Scott Bassin said hours earlier, quote, they can get oil, just not Iranian oil. Trump completes the sentence and I am the one making sure they can. Meaning China. Yeah, man, that's a missing piece of this whole story over the last month as China's involvement and what they've been saying to Trump. And Trump's been saying to them and they've been saying to Iran. They get 50 percent of their oil through the Strait of Hormuz. Wow. For the second biggest economy in the world. Holy cow. And not to pat ourselves on the back, but this is the kind of analysis you will just never get in the mainstream media. Moving along. Trump said this situation will never happen again. A doctrine in five words. The Hormuz crisis, Iran's closure, the tolls, the mines, the 46 days of disruption will not recur because the United States is establishing permanent enforcement. No treaty, no negotiation, a unilateral declaration of perpetual choke point control posted on truth social, quote. They have agreed not to send weapons to Iran. Unverified. China's MFA called the reports that their state media, the propaganda outfit, entirely fabricated hours earlier. But the sentence forces Beijing into a trap. If China confirms it concedes publicly that it was. If China denies it implies the weapons were under consideration. Silence reads as confirmation. Every response validates the claim. The rhetorical structure is designed to be unfalsifiable in real time. He said, quote, President Xi will give me a big fat hug when I get there in a few weeks. The May 14 15 summit confirmed is the most disarming language possible. Big fat hug humanizes the relationship for domestic audiences while signaling to Beijing that Trump views the summit as a victory lap. The framing shakes, shapes expectations before a single agenda item is discussed. Doesn't that beat fighting? The carrot, three audiences to China. Cooperation beats confrontation to Americans. This president ended a war with a deal to Iran. Fighting is the alternative and you are losing. And then finally, but remember, we are very good at fighting. If we have to far better than anyone else, the stick, the hug is conditional. The cooperation is optional. The carrier strike group is not the same paragraph offers peace and threatens war. And both are credible because the blockade proves both simultaneously. Also, all of those soldier, sailors and Marines who've been brought to the Gulf, a new session. Anyway, he ends with one post, seven sentences, five audiences, China, Iran, domestic voters, oil markets in the May summit negotiating table. Every word measured, every ambiguity, deliberate, every claim, unfalsifiable in the window that matters. Trump did not write a tweet. He wrote a treaty draft disguised as a social media post. Well, that's really interesting stuff. And I usually reject the. No, no, it's three to nine dimensional chess explanations. When Trump's fountains nonsense, there was a lot in that post. P.S. President Xi looks like Winnie the Pooh. Thank you for your attention to this matter. It's the only thing it was missing. Yeah. Yeah. This is so much more complicated and frankly, friends, interesting. Then Trump has failed. The straight of her moves worse. The regime worse. Chuck Schumer up on the floor of the Senate yesterday. God, I wish people were saying I wish God was still in the business of smiting people. Oh, that'd be fun to watch. May have done that in SoCal. He may have smote a guy at the mall. Did you see that? That coming up. All right. So, uh, do you ever get a random fishing texts or emails? That's a hilarious question. Is it? Or phone calls? You get millions of them and then you're always worried you're going to answer one or click on one or whatever. We got this fixed. This is awesome. Forget the spam filters and call blockers. 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Father fighting for his life after bursting into flames at the San Bernardino County Mall. And they don't know why. First people thought it was like must be a homeless guy or something like that. Nope. It was just a dad and father and standing there at the mall and he burst into flames and they they haven't figured it out yet. And it reminded me of where did I first learn about spontaneous combustion? Was it 60 minutes in my mind at 60 minutes? But surely 60 minutes never did a segment. Yes, they did. Did they? Yes. It was super hot in what the 80s. Everybody's talking about it. Oh yeah, it happens. Pardon the expression. Human spontaneous combustion. And I was worried as hell about it when I first learned about it. It's the idea that we've got all these chemicals in our body that if you combine them a certain way are very combustible and every once in a while they get combined that way and a person just burst into flames and all they find is your smoldering shoes. No, no, no, no, they don't know that's not real. It's not real. Well, this guy spontaneously combust and to say how did he know more? How is it like the talk of the country for a while? But you haven't heard about it for 25 years. What does that tell you? You wouldn't think it'd have to happen very often before it'd be quite the topic of conversation. Well, and everybody would catch it on their phone right now and it would be online. And you see it. This is a good party. Where's Jim? How come you didn't invite Jim? Well, you didn't hear about Jim. He burst into flames, burned up. Spontaneous combustion. Wife's got to be upset. Well, she's on fire now. Look, I don't know if it blew up like that, but that's the theater of the mind. Well, some man to that guy at the mall. I've been at the mall and kind of wished while I'm waiting for somebody to try and pants that I spontaneously combusted, but it didn't happen. Oh, speaking of people who can't keep their pants on, more on the Eric Swalwell thing and how how it's been an open secret for ages among the party that cares about women's rights. And some of the other monsters who are friends of his covering from him and they're covering for him in their own sins. When we come back, I want you to hear from this dude and you determine whether he sounds legitimately distraught, that his wife fell out of the boat and disappeared, or he's faking it and he pushed her out and killed her. We'll let you determine it. And then we'll send him angry emails. OK, that's coming up. Perfect. Hours after being released by Bahamian police, Brian Hooker fought back tears as he sat down with CBS News and told us he wants to resume the search for his missing wife, Lynette. I'm going to need somebody with more authority to tell me to stop. Hooker was held for five days and questioned by police in the disappearance of his wife, who's been missing for more than a week. Do you believe that Lynette's still alive? I do. I believe I've been told that people have lasted in the Bahamas after falling overboard for days and even weeks. OK, so this is going to be a little mini episode of Dateline. And we know how you women love the stories about did the husband murder his wife or not stories for some reason? I guess it's a self preservation thing. I don't know what it is. The hosts generally have better hair than you, but I'll go with it. Every woman I've ever known loves the Dateline 2020 stories about the boyfriend or the husband who turned out to be a secret psychopath. True Crimes Podcast. All right, exactly. So this Brian Hooker guys in the Bahamas with this woman, you've probably heard the story, she falls out of the boat or whatever happens. He tries to save her. She disappeared. He hopes she's still alive. He's still looking for her. Everybody jumped to the same conclusion. I did immediately. He pushed her out and killed her. Well, not because the original story weirdly explained everything that needed to be explained to make it clear that I did not do this. She had the key in her hand when she was swept overboard and it pulled out of the ignition and fell overboard. I don't think they were swept away. Yeah, but then the daughter comes out and says, my mom and dad fought like crazy and he threatened to kill her many times and they they had been arrested. Well, anyway, you're going to hear some of that in the report here. So that was CBS Evening News. Let's run through a little more of this is Brian Hooker on a phone call. He's the I'll just call him the distraught husband because he lost his wife. I threw her a flotation cushion that we used to sit on the dingy. You know, right after she went in, but I didn't. I couldn't tell if she got she got it or not. The wind blew us apart so fast that I think I think she tried to slam back to the sailboat to her back to our sailboat, which is probably I don't know thousand yards or something. But the waves were three foot. So what we're trying to do here, people, is we're trying to determine does that sound like a guy telling a legit story about losing his wife and he tried to save her or is this guy pretending to be distraught and he actually killed her? More Brian Hooker. I will always think there was something I could have done differently. My one job, my one job was to look out for her and that has not happened. Where are you so far on this before we hear more? I don't even need to hear his voice. The facts are all I need. I'm a fact. He was a juror. Yeah, I'm well, I'm leading the investigation in my own mind. Where are you, Katie, as a woman? I think he killed her. That was a very past tense statement he just made. Like he knew she was dead. I had one job. Well, in the whole, you know, do you think she's alive? I do. I mean, you could say I really hope she is, but seems I think I'd go with. Seems really unlikely. I pray she is, but we all know that it's unlikely. Yeah. OK, here's a little more from the ABC News interview. It was hell. It was a little a different chapter of hell and a giant hell that I'm in. You're still in it. Yes, I don't have a wife. She belongs with me. That was his response to the your daughter came out and said that you two fought all the time and you had threatened to kill her in the past. What was that like? And he said it was hell. It's a different chapter of hell and the giant hell that I'm in. And then he either cried legitimately or is completely acting. And then would you want to end that? Then finally this. My only focus is to go back to the boat and then hire or beg people to help me go find some areas to search. Is that what's next for you? That's what's next for me until my visa runs out. So you plan on staying in the Bahamas? Yes, this is where my wife is. All right, a couple of things. Would I be stealing anybody's thunder if I talked about this guy's history? Oh, no, no, no, no. OK, guys, I got a question for you. How many times have you been arrested and charged with choking out a loved one and threatening to kill them? Well, this guy's got a lead on you to nothing. Well, she was in one of the cases. She was charged also, though. So it was a mutual combatant thing. Oh, sure. But he's also he was arrested and tried for choking out his daughter in the earlier 2000s, he was acquitted, could have been mutual combat. Who knows? But this guy's got a history of threatening violence. Well, even if it was mutual combat, they got into combat again. And this time he killed her. All right. And you know, in terms of his emotion or lack of or whether it was authentic or not, I tend not to want to judge people for that because I do reacts differently. But it's also possible because this guy screams. Anger problems, physical violence, alcohol, crime of passion. It could be he's racked with remorse, but doesn't want to go to the stripy hole for the rest of his days. I can't imagine if I'm out there with my wife on a vacation and she actually falls over and dies. I wouldn't even be able to talk to anybody. Now, you're you're right. Different people react differently and everything like that. But the doing calm interviews with the various reporters, she said, be the last thing I'd want to do. Final word, Katie, we only have a few seconds. He did. I didn't do it. I think he's guilty of it, unfortunately. He had another thought he was smarter than everybody else. Criminal, most likely. We've got a lot more on the way. Stay here.