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, here is Armstrong and Getty. Live, live, live from Studio C. C.C. and Yorke. Hey, dimly lit room. Do you put them the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound? We are on a little Friday here and toiling under the title of the show. Kick them right in the economy. Or, if you prefer, when you're in love with a beautiful robot. Hey, I love Jack sweeping the populace. I wonder, we're asking this question on the one more thing podcast yesterday of what percentage of people are going to be susceptible to romantic relationships with chatbots and I don't know. I guess if it was one percent of the population, obviously it'd be a lot of people, but I don't know. Is it going to be one? Is it going to be 30? I don't know what percentage of people are going to be susceptible to this sort of thing. And I don't even know what lens we're looking at to figure that out. How would you describe, and anybody who has a thought, please jump in, how would you describe somebody who is extra susceptible to that sort of thing versus somebody who would never do that? They think this is ridiculous. It's a computer. This is not fulfilling my needs. Is it shallow versus a deep person, a deep thinker? Is it? I don't even know how to describe it. Dumb versus smart? That's not good enough. How about crazy as S? Oh, well, that's a little gestural, but... Or is it one of those things, and I hope this is not the case, where lots of us who think that's nuts, who would do that, are susceptible to it. But lonely old women. And only old men, too. And old men, Michael. You think there's only lonely old women? What are you, sexist? That's misogynistic. We apologize for Michael's comments. Yeah, that sounded pretty bad, Michael. I tell everybody to jump in if they want, and then we attack them for jumping in. I feel terrible. Right. Well, keeping in mind that this is the current iteration of these things. Oh, yeah, it's gonna get better. And it's not attached to an incredibly lifelike 10 years from now, warm-skinned sex bot. No, see, I think that's a different level. Oh, my God. People falling for the non-human robots? You think a physical manifestation will make it less common? God, I, yes, and God, I hope so. Well, I don't know. You know what? I just devastated myself. I had a thought, a devastating thought. I always refer to these companion bots as sex bots. What if they're like really lifelike hug bots? People who just need a hug, they just need a little physical contact, because it is beyond question in science and healing and the rest of it. The physical contact is incredibly important from infants to adults to the elderly. They'd have to have a very, very mild electrical charge in the skin as well, like a human being has, because nobody's precisely sure what the touch does. But anyway, that's a good question right there. Why do hugs make people feel good? I don't particularly like people hugging me, but... People you really care about though, right? Yeah, that'd be fun. That's a sliding scale. Very small number. I know there are people that would like... Michael, give Jack a hug right now. I can tell he needs one. I know there are so many people that feel good. Anybody hugging them is a good feeling. I, there's like four people on planet Earth that I'm okay with. But, yeah, what is it you get from that and could a robot... No, surely not. Robot walks up to you and puts its metal arms around you. Ah, Jack's doing his sci-fi robot walk. I'm telling you, dude, they are gonna be more human than humans before you know it. What if it's one of those warm skin robots? Oh, right. And I'm telling you, some, they'll figure out some mild electrical charge, and then the mind of man will divine some way to put out just a tiny whiff of human pheromones. Oh no. Then we're doomed. The birth rate will fall to zero. We got on this discussion yesterday in the One More Thing podcast, which if you don't listen, you should check it out. It's a segment separate from this radio show, but it was a New York Times story. It was, the headline was something like, I'm concerned about my mom's love relationship with her chatbot. And it was a mom and the son going back and forth over how she has fallen in love with, has a relationship with, according to her, Claudius Maximus. Maximus, who is her lover, who is a chatbot, she gave it a name. She's well into her 60s. He's a grown man concerned about his mom. She's 65, twice divorced and lonely, and likes the fact that he- Sounds like she knows her way around a pack of mall girls. She likes the fact that he, Maximus agrees with everything that she says, and she doesn't have to like pick up dirty socks or whatever. You know, you don't have to pick up dirty socks, no matter what, even with a human relationship. You could, you could be in a relationship to say, I'm not picking up your socks, or you could do it and it'd be perfectly fine out of love because he does something else. There's lots of ways you could do this. And she can turn him off when she gets tired of him. That's one of the things she likes. Just like in real life. According to that guy who was sailing with his wife in the Bahamas, allegedly. Allergently. That's right. I'm accusing the bot-loved lady of murder, murder the most foul. Not really. So anyway, we got to, we'll play a clip of her a little bit later, so you can hear the whole dealio there. But I, I've been really bad at predicting about what things that I would like. So I don't know that I can predict what other people like. I always tell this story, first time I ever heard about texting. I thought, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Why wouldn't you just call? Then I like everybody else. Become, you know, endless texting and wonder, why don't I call occasionally? As opposed to texting all day long. And I never thought self-driving would be of any interest to me whatsoever. I do it every single day. There's just lots of these technological advancements. It's hard to predict. And so I don't know what percentage of people will be into talking to chatbots. What the f*** top of A.I. sh**ty? Say, say again, young lady? What the f*** top of A.I. sh**ty? That is a woman who is shocked to see robots, robot dogs in her apartment complex. But that's another thing. That is weird. So I talk to a chatbot pretty much every single day, either verbally or in my truck, because Grock is in my Cybertruck, or I type it out. But I don't feel any relationship with it, like zero. I just think this is a great resource. Yeah. Yeah. I love the resource and the ability to get the answers, but I feel like no connection at all. So is that a good, is that hopeful for me then? Well, I just, if you're an investor listening, I would suggest that if Jack Poo Poo something and says, nobody will do this, you invest heavily. Yeah. And I'm kidding. Go big. You also proved a DVR. Yeah, I probably did. I hadn't thought about it until now. Yeah, I feel nothing, nothing at all. I talk to the lady in my Grock every single day, I ask her questions. She says, nice job, very perceptive, you know, blah, blah, blah. And then she tells me the answer, but I get, I get, I get no feeling of connection from her at all. Just being creeped out. Yeah. Like wish you wouldn't do that. Just give me the answer. The capital of India is, you know, whatever I asked. To our other headline, kick them right in the economy. This is a new phase of the still extremely early days conflict with Iran, where we are going to squash their ability to run their government and their country through economic means. And I predict it will be quite effective. At least the first steps will be you're dealing with duplicitous satanistic bastards. So you got to stay on your guard at all times, but I think this will work. Yeah. And underappreciated part of this story is we are still locked and loaded with one of the greatest military forces ever assembled on planet earth is right there. And we're sending more stuff on a daily basis. It seems to be lost. Like, well, it's calm down. That part's over. New. Well, it could ramp back up like hard at any moment. And sorry, tick tockers. Sometimes things take a little time to unfold. Yeah. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday, April 16th, the year 2026. I'm Jack Armstrong and he's Joe Getty. And we approve of this program. Okay. Let's begin then officially according to FCC rules and regulations. The show starts at Mark and at the same time, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson and our friends over at Treasury are launching Operation Economic Fury as well, maximizing economic pressure across the entirety of the government to Iran. Choose wisely. There's his mantra. Choose wise. There's a report that the leader of Iran or the head of the parliament or whoever's speaking for Iran right now is traveling to Islamabad to talk to Pakistanis about meeting more this weekend. So that's like one of the most hopeful signs that they want to negotiate something that has happened yet. We had the report yesterday that I haven't heard anywhere else. So I don't know if it's true or not, but that the president of Iran was very unhappy that the delegation came back completely empty-handed and told them, look, we're weeks from collapse. We got to do something. I hope I really hope that's true. That would be the best thing for everyone. The Iranian people, the America, the world, our soldiers, everybody, if they would decide, yeah, the jig is up. We got to do something. Now that the lion's share of their oil exports have been choked off, yeah, I think that is absolutely true or true enough. Although as I think it was in New York Times was pointing out, the leader, nobody knows exactly who's in charge and it's possible that who's actually in charge is a deaf cult that believes dying would be the greatest thing that they could do. Correct. So then that makes negotiation difficult. And I suggest we oblige them in their fondest wish. Hurry them along and then they can see if they were right or not. I agree. Say hey to Allah when you get there. Take a box of condoms. I guess you don't have to. They're all virgins that are waiting for you. Oh boy. 27 seems like a lot. Man, stretch, eat your weedies. Is it at 72? 72, yeah, I got the number backwards. 72, God, that's a lot. Hell, five would kill me. Oh my God, that's inappropriate. Oh, you're not sorry. We've got it again. How about like half virgins and half harlots? I'm just, look, I'm not making any demands here, Almighty One, but just asking. Well, somebody knows their way around the, you know, come on. All right. What's going on? All right. Katie's headlines are next, text line 415 295 K FTC. So hard to tell if somebody's trolling you or they actually believe this or they're crazy, but we got this text. You guys clearly were assigned Operation Boomer Earhole by Barry Weiss, and now you just say whatever she tells you to without question. I know it saves so much time and effort. That's great. I wish we'd started this earlier. Is that trolling or is that a joke? I have no idea. I would like to salute Michael for his marshaling of the obscene and incoherent, yet appropriate phrase, what the F kind of AIS is this? What the F type of AIS? Now the woman speaks a bizarre Southern black dialect of English that's caught on with some of the kids where you don't finish words, but what the blank kind type of AIS is this might be the slogan of the next 10 years of life in America. Just one correction. She doesn't say is this. She said it did. We will all be saying some version of that in our own dialects. Perhaps with consonants. Yes. In our own dialects. For quite some time to come. That is your point. Whether it's romance or science or politics or warfare, what the blank or type of AI blank is this? Or at work and wondering what are they going to need me for now? Yeah. Yeah. No kidding. Well said. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie. All right. Starting with some of the major networks. NBC Trump says Israel and Lebanon leaders to hold talks for the first time in decades. ABC. Hegseth says China assured the United States that it would not send weapons to Iran and MS now, formerly MSNBC. Iran's supreme leader believed to be alive, wounded and disfigured. I want to rewind just quickly to the Lebanon-Hezbollah thing. Lebanon and Israel holding talks. This is a wonderful thing. Hezbollah is an evil organization. It's a political party with an army that has perverted and sickened Lebanon, which was a predominantly Christian, wonderful, modern place to live until the Islamists started throwing their weight around. It's a tragedy. And if they could, if Lebanon could crush Hezbollah, that would be an incredible blessing to the Lebanese people. And while NPR would try to convince you that it's a horror that Israel is doing this, Netanyahu still has two-thirds support. I just heard him a latest poll for continuing to wipe out Hezbollah. Two-thirds of the people are behind him. Yeah, if NPR got their way, and please, if you know somebody at NPR, send them the link to this podcast. If NPR got their way, the raping, murdering, woman-abusing Islamists would win the day. God, you people are sick. You're so twisted. From The Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon has approached automakers, American manufacturers about playing a larger role in weapons production. And that's pretty interesting. The arsenal of democracy. Yeah, I want to get into that. USA Today. Trump shares new AI image as feud with Pope Leo escalates. I know. Have you seen this picture? No, I don't know. He didn't create it, though. Somebody else didn't. He reshared it. It doesn't. I don't think that matters. It doesn't matter. It's that's a distinction without a difference in my opinion. The president shared a picture of it. I just saw it briefly. It's him and like Jesus has got his arm around Trump. Jesus is hugging him. Yeah. Trump doubling down. Oh, yeah. What's this? I mean, just. Yo, boy. From The Washington Post, what is osempic personality and why does it make life feel meh? Oh, really? I hadn't heard this. Doctors and patients across social media are reporting a kind of emotional flattening while taking GLP. Wow. So you're thinner, but you've lost your joy. You know the buzz you get from eating and the buzz you get from drinking and the buzz you get from friends and family and sunsets suppresses all of it in some people. Kills all the buzzes. Right. From The New York Post, egg. Whoa. What's happening to my voice? Egg coffee. Drink going viral on social media as doctors warn of the health risk. Okay. People are blending egg yolks with sugar and condensed milk and creating a fluff and putting it on top of coffee. This originated in Vietnam, but they're saying, hello, Sam and Ella. Are people doing this? Yes. Or did one person do it? No, it's all over multiple platforms right now. That's a thing. Well, maybe I'll try it then. Oh, good. That's what we need. Study finds. Scientists name a new Colombian spider species after the band Pink Floyd. Nice. And finally, the Babylon bee. After devastating sexual assault allegations, Swalwell is now leading Democratic presidential candidate. Oh boy. So, Swalwell, I was talking to somebody about this yesterday. If the Democratic Party hadn't decided to take him out for purely self-serving reasons, decent chance he was going to be governor for eight years of the biggest state in the country. Decent chance. Yep. And they all knew all this stuff. They just decided now we're better within them than without him. No, I'm shocked. He led a devil life. Armstrong and Getty. So, we've got another big warship headed over to Iran with 6400 troops on it, then another ship to try to back it up with about 4000 troops on it. This is an addition to what we already have there. This whole thing could just explode literally at any moment. So, we'll have more on that a little bit later in the show and what Pete Hegzeff, Secretary of War, said today. Yeah, we've got a lot of really interesting stuff. I can't wait to dig into the Trump administration talking to the big motor companies about switching at least some share of their capacity to military hardware. Which is really, really interesting. I am checking a detail I want to get exactly right now. Pretty sure we haven't done that since World War II. Not, I'm not familiar with it. Could be during Vietnam in some way it was done, but it's, I love it because it is a return to self-reliance for manufacturing, obviously. Which is, well, we'll talk about it when the time comes. But now, speaking of innovation and things that haven't been done in a long time, we haven't used this time slot for a gender-bending madness update. Let's do it. So, I kept hearing about this thing called... The Locos. We're in a brave new world. Fighting against the insidious transmania that twisted so many of our poor little children. The activists seek to influence them. We're going to start with the incredibly powerful testimony of one Jamie Reed. Michael, this is in the 90s there. I meant to alert you who I believe is testifying in Missouri. Trying to reform their gender-bending for kids policies that were passed at the height of the woke apocalypse when so few people were willing to stand up against the just utter insanity of the idea that if a boy feels the least bit feminine, he needs to be poisoned with chemicals and mutilated with scalpels and turned into a girl. Here is Jamie Reed testifying. Good morning. My name is Jamie Reed. I hold a Masters of Science in Clinical Research Management. As I said earlier, I am a lesbian. I run a national gay and lesbian organization dedicated to evidence-based medicine. And I spent five years working inside a pediatric gender center. I have testified in nearly 17 states across this country, and I've been in your state for a few hours. I am shocked at how far behind your state is, not just politically, but on the evidence. Okay, I don't know these clips, so I don't know what direction she's about to go on this. Oh, this is exciting. Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Michael. Every single independent systematic review of the evidence for pediatric gender medicine has reached the exact same conclusion. The evidence base is insufficient. Every single one without exception. This week, the Finnish study tracked over 2,000 young people through gender clinics, and their psychiatric morbidity did not improve after medical transition. It increased markedly. So she hates the idea that they're still operating on kids. And she's calling out as a flaming, evidence-free lie, which has always been that if we don't do this, the kids will kill themselves. And that every major study shows that this improves their psychological well-being. That was always a lie. She does not seem like a solid part of the LGBTQ plus all those letters are community. She seems to be breaking off from all those letters and saying, hey, I'm a lesbian, but that is crazy. That stuff over there. Imagine that putting science above so-called allyship with lunatics. Next clip. I have watched this committee today engage issue after issue. You acknowledge the opposition. You work towards common ground. And that is not happening when the word gender is said. Your colleagues will not even speak to us. They are paralyzed. Ask the sponsor. Why is abortion tied up with gender? And why are we forcing these two issues together? The international evidence base is crumbling regarding gender. So why have you tied it to abortion? Country by country, review by review. It is crumbling. Can you need an explanation on that? I had not been familiar with that strategy, but yet clearly in Missouri, they are trying to group all of those things in with gender rights and women's rights and reproductive care. And it's all part of the left wing permanent omnic cause. It's interesting. I don't know anything about this woman here, but I was reading a post the other day on Twitter from Martina Navotilova, the tennis player. If you're not old enough, she was Serena Williams before Serena Williams. She was the dominant female tennis player for a very long time. Very husky female who probably hates this trans stuff with children a lot, partially because somebody as a very butch chick when she was young, she's afraid would have pushed her toward you're actually a guy. So we are heading 100% in that direction in moments. So back to Jamie Reed, who again worked at one of these gender clinics for years and emerged as a whistleblower. I want the heterosexual members know to know that there is a civil war right now happening on this issue within the very community this bill is purporting to protect. The LGBTQIA is currently at war. When you refuse to engage with the evidence, you are not staying neutral. You have chosen the side that is going to harm gender nonconforming children. You are harming future homosexuals and you have done it without the courage to even look at the data. Wow. I love that. When you have refused to engage with evidence, you have chosen a side. That's that's brilliantly simple and powerful. Last clip. We got this so wrong. We were so determined to protect gender nonconforming kids because we didn't want to repeat the problems of how we treated the LGBT in the past. The kids who reminded us of ourselves that we sent them down a medical pathway and hurt them. Every single country who has had the courage to look at the evidence has already begun the reckoning. I am asking you to simply begin it here. At least open up some dialogue within the opposition. Thank you. Jamie Reid, hero. Absolutely fantastic. The fact that the United States is behind on this as opposed to the leader on this compared to Europe is troubling because it used to be on so many different issues of the progressivism. Europe was the model for progressives. And we were the stodgy left behind commonsensical midwestern Protestant dummies who didn't get the new progressive world. And now Europe is saying this stuff is nuts with kids. Yeah, you're mutilating kids. And we're behind them on that. Yeah, I know. That's how far progressivism has gone the United States. So to your earlier point, Jack, Apropos, great piece by James Kerchick, often the progressives rail about conversion therapy, which, and this is a classic progressive trick, they keep mutating the meaning of words. And so you think you know what they mean, but you don't anymore because they're using them differently. Conversion therapy was originally therapy that, you know, counselors, ministers, whatever would sit down with kids who thought they were gay and try to talk them out of it, pray them out of it, counsel them out of being gay because they believed it was a choice, right? A choice and a sin and just a sexual desire as opposed to what you are. We can leave that question aside for now. But then they tried to because conversion therapy, quote unquote, got a bad reputation for that reason. So then they started to call anybody saying to a 14 year old girl who says, yeah, I'm trans, let's talk about your life. Let's talk about, you know, your situation. I know you're sexually assaulted as a child. You are on the autism spectrum. I know you have this problem. Let's let's just talk about all of it and see where we go. That is now being demonized as conversion therapy among these people. Okay. Just to bring you up to speed if you're not, you know, familiar with that absolute perversion and, you know, making evil something that is kind and generous and caring. Anyway, this piece by James Kerchick, the new conversion therapy, it's making gay kids trans. You got a feminine boy or a girl who's attracted to other girls or whatever. The activists seize them, put them on the pipeline or the conveyor belt, whisk them down the conveyor belt, as I've been saying for years, and convince them, transition, I'm sorry, conversion therapy, them to convince them, you're not gay, you're trans. And as I've said many times, if like conservative people said what Iran says to gay men, you got one choice, will surgically make you into a woman and with hormones and then you're okay. Or if you're a gay man, we're going to kill you. That's what the trans activist community says to young gay boys or, you know, young gay men or lesbian women or whatever. It's bizarre and sick that progressives would take that side of it. And, you know, I could go on and on about this because the piece is brilliantly written and talks about how mushy the idea of gender identity, which is just a subjective feeling of how much of a man do I feel like or not. Which is, oh please, you'd like a lumberjack of it. Kind of a John Wayne meets Paul Bunyan. That's how I describe you. If people say, what kind of guy is Jack? That's what I go with. But the idea that if you say, you know, as a eight year old boy, yes, sometimes I like to play with dolls and the activists say, yeah, you got gendered as for you, you're probably a girl. Don't let them force you to be a boy, you're probably a girl. It's just absolutely sick and that's the real conversion therapy. Another quick tip of the cap, great coverage in the free press. The medical establishment is tearing itself apart over youth gender surgeries. The AMA came out for years and said every major medical association supports gender affirming care for adolescents. But now that several major groups have come out against it, the AMA is making self-contradictory, hiding behind weird vague statements, contradicting itself every three weeks statements about what they actually think about this. As Western countries, virtually all of them have sharply restricted medical transition of youth after first ardently embracing it. But not a couple of the biggies in the United States. The AMA is sick and diseased. It was captured by progressive organizations. It's quoted all the time as if they're a non political organization. Yes, just a bunch of caring doctors and white lab coats who want the best for the patients. No, the forces of postmodernism used all the tools we've talked about, the critical race theory stuff to call out anybody who wouldn't go e-ramex, kendi as a racist and booted them out of the board of advisors of the AMA, booted them out of the panel on gay and trans issues or whatever and completely captured it. One more story and I do want to dig more into the AMA thing at some point in detail. But why do you have to reset you stupid website? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Anger problems. Oh, there it is. One more story. Jack, I tell you what, why don't you dive into a valuable message, an important message from our friends at Trust and Will and then we'll pay this off. I got a friend, he had the realization lots of people get to, especially his parents, where you have this moment. He told me he and his wife were flying to Ireland actually and they're on the plane and one of them said to the other, this plane crashed, what would happen to our kids? 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Again, 20% off trustandwill.com slash Armstrong. So here's the last story I wanted to do real quick. The BBC has been covering the story of Jennifer Melly, who is a nurse for the National Health Service and mentions that she was in serious trouble for misgendering a patient. And after a year long investigation, they finally let her get back to work. And after hanging her head and saying she was sorry, in 2024, she racially abused, let's see, she, well, she misgendered a transgender, a fake woman called the Mr. The BBC did not mention in their coverage at all that the transgender person they're talking about was a convicted child rapist, had grabbed Ms. Melly, tried to headbutter and smash her face and dropped n bombs on her over and over again. I guess they just ran out of room in the BBC and couldn't put that in. Or it's yet another organization captured by The Woke, like we've been describing. It's gender bending madness. We've got a lot to talk about today. Ticketmaster, a monopoly, among other things, and we've got Mailbag next. Armstrong and Getty. I've been avoiding this, but I think maybe it's worth touching on the whole Catholic Church pulp just war Bible stuff that has become a topic over the last week or so a little bit later in the show. Yeah, I just started digging into that a little bit myself. It's an interesting topic. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. In the wake of Swallwell, and I just got a fundraising letter from Kamala who's hinting that she'll run for president and all the jackasses and conmen on the Republican side as well. This is from the excellent Carl Popper. The enemies of freedom have always charged its defenders with subversion and nearly oh that's not the one I wanted to read. This is the one I mean. It appears to me madness to base all our political efforts upon the faint hope that we shall be successful in obtaining excellence or even competent rulers. Yeah, no kidding. I caramba. Mailbag. Drop us a note. Mailbag at Armstrong and Getty.com. Man, we got zillions of great emails in the last couple of days. Keep them coming. I wish we could read all of them, but we cannot. This one is from Oside Jeff. Joe, yes, Lincoln said a house divided itself cannot stand, but go to the source. When the late great Abraham Lincoln said this, his audience understood he was quoting Michael Q. Trump saying the Bible. He was quoting Matthew, Mark and Luke. Christ said this in response to the Pharisees questioning his ability to cast out demons. The Bible. That's right. He's talking about a house that was being torn apart by sin and evil. Thank you for that reminder. Steven Eugene writes, remember the cartoons of Muhammad years ago set the Muslim world on fire, ended up with many murders all because of a harmless cartoon and a massive overreaction. But Trump does what he does, trolls everyone by broadcasting his huge ego with a silly image, and people get all bent. And oddly, the anti-religious media makes a big deal about it. It's just a goofy picture. One of a billion goofy pictures out there. It means nothing other than to reinforce the idea that Trump does think very highly of himself. People should just lighten up. Fair enough. Tom and Windsor. Hey, guys, did you ever put a circle back? Did you ever circle back and put a pin in the topic of voter fraud that you were going to go over Friday but wanted to be more upbeat? You know what, Tom, we didn't, but I've got all of that information still. Wasn't here Friday. Were you having trouble being upbeat? I think it was at the very end of the show I'd intended to do, or the second to last segment, I'd intended to do a big thing on voter fraud, but I'm like, no, we can't do it. Last, yeah, the last half hour on a Friday. So yeah, thanks for the reminder, Tom. We will get back to that because it's super interesting. And yes, voter fraud is real. Meg, who lives on Beaver Bay, no joke, she says, which is in California. I hadn't intended to make a joke. I wish my address was Beaver Bay. I don't know anything about it or where it is, but sounds fantastic. I may write a song with the phrase Beaver Bay and it just because it's so much fun to say and sing. Let's see. Oh, you know what? One minute, I don't think we have time. She was a small business owner talking about our tax system and how in Cal Unicornia at one point, they passed a massive tax retroactively for several years. Right, right, right, right. And she makes the point kind of indirectly. And I think it's true that the super narrowing of the tax base that we've talked about many times, that's coming very, very close to taxation without representation. I'd say because the masses who don't really pay income tax get, you know, get all of the same votes as people who do pay income tax on what level income tax should be. Yeah, I couldn't possibly, if you're in the narrow part that pays taxes, you couldn't possibly get enough people together to have any influence on tax policy. Yeah, that's an interesting angle. We've got a lot more to come if you miss the Segment Gits podcast, Armstrong and Getty on Demand. Armstrong and Getty. This is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.
