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's, I'm strong and getty. I'm strong and getty. I'm strong and getty. They just announced that 7-Eleven will close 645 US stores this year. The company explained that personal consumption had softened particularly among low income households as inflation continued to weigh on spending. Yes, that's how bad things are in America. Folks can't afford to eat at 7-Eleven. What's next? Are Americans forced to limit themselves to a sensible gulp? Damn it, this is America. I do not believe I should have to drink from any cup I couldn't possibly also drown in. Oh my God, I saw somebody, I saw several people over the week, but I saw somebody carrying around this trash can of cola of some sort. I mean, the size of these things. And we have a 7-Eleven, a brand new one that opened near us like a year so ago. It's nice. It's in a nicer area, town next to us, and is new and clean. That's fantastic. My view of 7-Eleven is often because it's been in a bad neighborhood and it's been there for so long and it's grimy. Yeah, that I kind of associated 7-Eleven with, well, grime, but grime and crime. I used to love me a slurpee. I had a girlfriend who had like a, her drink was, we were like 18 years old, her drink was slow gin in some flavor of slurpee. Good Lord. That was her favorite drink. Nice sip around a summer day though. A slurpee? Yeah, you're at a park or a ball game or whatever. Yeah. You get that little, little, another, I approve certainly of drinking in any form, but you get that just little summertime buzz going. You're gonna like this, I think, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as a threat to America yesterday in a speech. Probably because it is. Probably because it is. He doesn't talk much when he's on the bench, but he gave a speech yesterday. I'll read ABC News' version of this. Yeah, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday delivered a televised broadside against progressivism, a political philosophy he described as an existential threat to America and the principles it was founded on 250 years ago. Once again to Joe Getty. Probably because it is. Quote, Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government. Thomas said in a speech at the University of Texas Austin Law School, Yesterday, a spirit of cynicism, rejection, hostility and animus toward America by Americans has taken hold. He said in the remarks carried on C-SPAN. Once again, that's because that has happened is why he was saying that. He said the values enshrined in the 1776 Declaration of Independence have fallen out of favor among Americans. A trend perpetrated, he argued, by intellectuals and the nation's colleges and universities. Wait, stop me. Stop me if he says anything even close to not obviously true. Thomas also said he believes many people no longer believe all men are created equal and deserving of unalienable rights protected by limited government. Progressivism holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God but from government. It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with the Constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights. Correct. Still correct. It occurs to me when Judy and I are on vacation this summer. Y'all to have a Clarence Thomas fill in. Pinch it for me. Thomas said Washington has been overrun by elected and appointed officials who lack commitment to righteous cause to traditional morality, to national defense, to free enterprise, to religious piety or the original meaning of the Constitution. They recast themselves as institutionalists, pragmatists or thoughtful moderates all as a way of justifying their failure to themselves. I like that part. Their failures to themselves, their consciousness and their country. Yeah, there is a lot of that. I have failed so, what is wrong with this country that I am not doing well? I would suggest that those are the useful idiots who are used by the activists who are trying straight out of, you know, Soviet propaganda and George Orwell and the rest of it to separate us from our history, our principles and our perception of ourselves in place of self-hatred because a nation that hates itself will not defend itself. Thomas called on Americans to stand up for their principles and endure personal sacrifices if necessary to preserve the nation's democracy. Final quote, in my view, we must find in ourselves that same level of courage that the signers of the declaration have so that we can do for our future what they did for theirs. Obviously, he takes this as a pretty big threat to the country. What? The fact that we're educating everyone from K through graduate degree to hate their country? Yeah, I do think that is a problem. To pave the way for Neo Marxist takeover, yeah. This leads me into something that our friend Tim retweeted over the weekend. Faculty ideology in the United States. This is the ideology of, you know, are you a liberal, a far left liberal, a far right conservative or middle of the road in our university systems across the country? Going way back to 1969, giggity, giggity. So in 1969, you had, even back then, it was 45% liberal compared to 27% conservative. That's, you know, 1969 is quite a bit further on from when Bill Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale. Could you look up that, Katie? I think that came out in 52 or 53, I think if I remember right. Young William F. Buckley was at Yale and like, nobody here believes in God. And was just shocked by it and wrote a book about it. He thought it was so stunning. I mean, it was already to the point that because imagine that, that had to strike him is pretty amazing. At that time, we were a lot of church going people in this country and the fact that he could find nobody in the faculty that believed in God made you think, well, this is not representative of our country. Yes, Katie. That book was in 1951. Okay. That was close. Let me throw in very briefly. It is absolutely undeniable that universities have always been left, including in 1969, as it turns out. But what was defined as left now, what is defined left now as left is very, very different than what was then. So, I mean, our lefties now are miles to the left of a 1969 leftie. Right. And but trying to, you can't see this chart, but it's just a main, the line for far left liberal, very steep up over the years, not surprising. The line for far right conservative very steep down and it started at a low number in middle of the road also down. The only number that is up at all is far left liberal and it's up a lot. So it's gone from 45% of the faculty of our, you know, one of your college university system across the country. It is now 75% far left liberal, only 10% conservative. And that's what the whole country, and you know, at the elite universities, it's more like 98 to two or we had that story was at Harvard or Yale that had completely 100%. There wasn't a single conservative that showed up last time they did this survey. Yeah, it was in one major department. Yeah. But so you include all the countries across the colleges across the country where you got some that are, you know, probably, oh my God, 70 30 liberal to conservative. You end up with an average across the country of 75 to 10 with 15% middle of the road and both those are trending down by the way, as liberal trends up. That's that's not why why would you have I wouldn't I wouldn't like if it was the other way around that wouldn't be good if our university system was three quarters conservative and like ignoring the other political philosophies that wouldn't be good either. And I have a question this is not quibbling exactly but someone on a university campus who describes themselves as middle of the road. Yeah, what do they believe right. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, this is undeniably true. I happen to have a feature of a handful of different stories. I can do anytime on a similar topic but one headline that just got published. DEI is alive and well at the University of Michigan it just goes by a different name. Not surprisingly, the people we've talked about now and will for the rest of my career and life. They have not given up at all on taking over the universities haven't been called out by the Trump administration. They've just orchestrated a strategic retreat so that they're under the radar screen and we could get into this in a little while but yeah all those DEI programs and the woke crap. They're still there they've just disguised themselves cleverly. Question for America. Do we want our pilots making animal noises couple of pilots who have been scolded for moving and I think quacking while at the stick of a commercial airline. We'll get to that context to me very very scary story coming up. It's all about the context. Yeah, are they like moving at people as they get on the plane folks who may be struggling with look at him. Yeah, that would be right over the intercom right that's I wouldn't approve that did they merely fly over the Midwest look out the window and. In the time on our tradition if you go by herd of cows at least one person in the car must move. All right, so that another stuff on the way. We're talking about academia moments ago. Let's not leave out the media secretary of war Pete Hegzeff calling them out for their relentless anti-American coverage of the war. Speaking of choosing wisely a note to the press to the press corps to the American media. As I just can't help but notice the endless stream of garbage. The relentlessly negative coverage you cannot resist peddling despite the historic and important success of this effort and the success of our troops troops. Sometimes it's hard to figure out what side some of you are actually on. It's incredibly on patriotic this same press corps not not this exact same press corps but at least an older press corps bent over backwards during the by administration to explain away. You explained away the disastrous and disgraceful Afghanistan withdrawal. You called it the greatest airlift in American history. It's almost like you're cheering only for one side. Yeah, those people would sneer at any notion any notion of patriotism. You think us. Oh yeah, the crowd that finds patriotism kind of. What would the word be? Oh, embarrassing stupid. Yeah. Yeah, only stupid people are patriotic. Yeah. By the way, on that topic briefly. So yesterday I had to have a notary public sign something for me. And somehow it came up that he was in the Navy stuff like that. So I asked him on how much he liked it. I said, so do you wish you were in the Middle East or not? Right now. And he said, hell yeah. I said, so you'd go and he said, if they asked me, I'd be there tomorrow. My country asks, I'm going. And I thought I had that exact same conversation with my brother or the weekend. I said, do you wish you're in the Middle East? He said, hell yeah. Yeah. The military guys who wish they were there. And then you got, you know, unfortunately so many young people that under no circumstance would be willing to help defend our country. No, well, they've been taught to hate it. It's not their fault, but we need to somehow deep program them if we can. Speaking of progressivism, a really amusing piece I came across by Todd Myers in the dispatch posing the question. And this goes out to our beloved friends in the great Northwest is Washington state, the most embarrassing state in the nation. Now California is like hold my Chardonnay, but wait, there is a case to be made for Washington. As Todd puts it, a combination of incompetence and arrogance at least put it in the running. He's lived in Washington practically his entire life. He explains and appreciates the many wonderful things about it. I really love Washington state in many ways, including the people of mostly Eastern Washington, but the decision he goes into the new income tax driving entrepreneurs out of the state demonizing the job creators. Politicians and government bureaucracies across the country make decisions that are self destructive. But in Washington we find a way to make mistakes that go beyond ordinary incompetence or political hackery. And then and there's some delightful audio to this. For example, Washington Department of Licensing recently upgraded its helpline, allowing people to choose the language to get a business license or whatever. But when users chose Spanish, instead of hearing the information in that language, well, let's play the audio. You have reached the driver licensing service line. If you are calling about a vehicle or boat, please press one. Please press one for English. Dos para español. Triglarusco. So, well, thank you for calling the Department of Licensing Customers Support Center. For assistance with scheduling a driver licensing office appointment, cancelling an existing appointment, or questions about an upcoming appointment, please press one. No. All other callers, please stay on the line. Thank you. To better serve you, we need the last quadruped digits of your social security number and your data. If you have a right to use the license. You know, this is going on too long, but the as the person who posted this points out, wait a minute. If you press two for Spanish, you get it in English, but with a thick Mexican accent. Right. As Todd writes, you must watch the video. It is truly remarkable. Press three for Italian. Oh, what's the matter? You don't know how to do this. You want the license your car. Wow. More on the making the case for Washington State is our most absurd state after a quick word. From our friends at Rough Greens, the idea of Rough Greens is you don't have to change your dog's food. Rough Greens supplements your dog's diet with natural antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds that help reduce oxidative stress, support immune defense and slow age related decline, helping dogs stay active, mobile and alert as they age. Yeah. 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The very real problem is that much of the government's climate policy is quite literally fake. Last November the State Department of Ecology released a report detailing what it said and is picked up in the major media all over the country. Detailing what it said were amazing environmental benefits from the one and a half billion dollars in projects funded by the state's carbon tax. The agency claimed the resultant admissions reduction was equivalent to removing 40% of all cars and trucks in the state from the roads for an entire year. That's quite an achievement. But then Todd writes, after looking at the press release, I instantly knew it was false. Within two hours I'd found and verified a problem that made virtually all of the claim benefits disappear. The department was forced to admit and it did that the true amount was just 1% of what it had originally claimed. Again, it's absolutely astounding an error of that magnitude could occur, especially on an issue that state leaders love to lecture others about. None of the so-called experts at the agency noticed the massive error that was immediately obvious to me. Well, yeah, as soon as you said that I thought, well, that's complete BS. It has to be. There's a lot more to this too. Maybe we'll sprinkle some in as the hour goes by. Who killed Charlie Kirk? It's not really an open question, but there's some info out today that has people talking. Oh, God. Strong and Getty. So we talked about this a while back. There's a documentary about Jerry Springer's show and that sort of stuff. And here's a little bit from that. I noticed pretty quick what the secret was. Here's how we got him to fight in the beginning on Springer. Let's say that I have two brothers in a conflict. When you're prepping the guests, you tell one of them, if your brother says something you don't like, you can yell at him, get up in his face, you can even spit on him. But whatever you do, don't hit him. Then you don't tell the other person any of that. Once you produce one person to get up and spit in someone's face, then you don't give any instruction to the other one. The other one is going to haul off and knock the other one who did it, and boom, you got to fight. What? So they're staging bomb fights with mostly non-bombs. What? Wow. So first of all, I think most of us thought it was all completely phony. Is that Jerry Springer himself? Or a producer? That's what a producer is, yeah. Oh, it sounded like Springer to me. Houston Curtis is his name. Jerry Springer impersonator, Houston Curtis. He's suggesting the fights were real. They just prodded them a little, he had to fight. But that's an interesting theory. That's an ingenious technique. So if you tell me, if he insults you, feel free to spit on him. I mean, you could tell me that all day long. I'm still not going to spit on someone. So you got to have a certain kind of person, don't you? Yeah, I'd say IQ of 82 or below. In fact, you could, someone could say pretty much anything to me. And I'm not going to even get up out of my chair, let alone spit on him. Well, and or they could offer me $5,000 if I did spit on someone and I would tell them, no thank you. No, I'm not going to spit on anyone. Right. But so they tell one guy that and then they don't tell the other guy. Yeah. You can do anything you want, anything the way we do it around here, up to including spitting on somebody, but just don't throw a punch. The other guy has no idea. Joe and I have been doing this for so long that way back in the day, we used to have TVs on in the studio and Springer'd be on, remember like last hour of the show? Where was that? Was that in Wichita or Charlotte or wherever we were at the time? But Springer'd be on and they'd be like, oh, they're fighting again. The chairs would be knocked over and they'd be rolling around on the floor and the crowds chanting Jerry. And we were kind of amateur anthropologists watching it with the sound off because, you know, he couldn't see what was being said, but people constantly were moving their shirts too to show their anger or as a preparation to fight or something. That's the thing. I've known a couple of guys like that for whatever reason at the bar. At some point I'm going to look over, they'll be in a fight and they get their shirt off. It's just the kind of person. Yes, Katie? Just if we were homesick from school, it was Jerry Springer. So you're young enough that that was your home from school television. That's funny. Then we talk about it the next day. Did you see that fight? No one in your generation's away. It is. When I was homesick from school as an old person, I watched like, you know, let's make a deal or something. You're watching people fight on Jerry Springer. Oh, it was the best. That explains everything. I remember watching the soaps occasionally when I was homesick. I had watched a lot of soaps. I remember I got so sucked into days of our lives one time where I spent a week in the hospital as a kid that I'd come home from school and ask my mom, you know, what happened with John and Charlotte, you know? That also explains a lot. It sure does. Wow. Okay. So Joe just brought up a little bit ago a conversation. You heard about the whole Charlie Kirk assassination. I thought, why is that? Oh, it's because there's some new information out today from the ATF. They are unable to identify the 30 caliber class fragment bullet that they recovered from the scene of Charlie Kirk's murder. And that has caused people to think, you see, it wasn't him. It's somebody else shot him. He's being framed or whatever. The ATF is the rest of the ATF is report is, but the bullet jagman, the bullet jacket fragment did have the stuff inscribed on it. And it matches the tooling of what he used at his home. So he had a certain tool he was using to inscribe on there what stuff about trans or ATF or whatever it was, and it was a non sense it was from the crazy person. And that matches up. So they, so no, they were able to conclusively connect that shell fragment with the shooter that we all know the trains, young trains dude moron that killed Charlie Kirk. But people are running with, they couldn't identify the caliber of the shell. It wasn't him, proof and the whole conspiracy that it was the Jews. And then it was Erica Kirk, Charlie Kirk's wife, that horrible thing that she announced this week. She was supposed to speak at a TPA, turning point TPA USA event. And she had to cancel because she's gotten so many death threats. They don't think they can protect her particularly because Candace Owens has gone on a run recently with more information about her. She's a robot controlled by the Jews. She's not even a human. I watched this video yesterday from Candace Owens. God. Candace is either just a charlatan or crazy or both. Yeah. But some of you out there believe it's possible that Charlie Kirk's widow is a robot controlled by the Jews. You're nuts. If you believe that or even consider a possibility, you're so crazy you should go to a mental institution right now for the sake of society. I had a very disturbing conversation today with a couple of guys who I thought would never go down this road who are very much on the Candace Road and the, hey, there's no explaining this. And I didn't have time or interest in trying to set them straight, but grifters like Candace and there are a handful of them, they say things that are true and describe nefarious motives to them when there's a perfectly reasonable motive. They say things that are partly true may be even 75% true, but they leave out that 25% that completely changes your perception of them. They do that all the time. And then third, they just make crap up and they state it with complete confidence. They assure you they have it from the highest sources and it is as fictional as, I don't know, the Easter Bunny. But people fall for it for the reasons we've discussed on a number of occasions. This is a new level of whatever you want to call this sort of thing. The fact that this young mom of little kids has her husband's head practically blown off in front of her and she ends up fearing for her life. Because of this crazy S that people are spewing out there for financial gain and for no other reason, is just a terrible development. And I hope it's not, but I would guess that it is. Just like we'll look back on this and say, oh, this is when this started, this era of this sort of thing began. The new normal, if I may indulge in that horrible cliche. Yeah, it's awful. And the people who are perpetrated are evil. I mean, they are just 120 proof evil on our planet perverting people's minds like that. And the fact that these grifters or grifters doesn't bother me that much, they're grifters everywhere. But the fact that they would take their grift to the point that they're making unimaginable amounts of money, but putting innocent people that are very lives at risk and doing something is obscene as bringing horror and pain and fear on the widow of a young man who was murdered trying to encourage open conversation. I mean, just the level of evil is just unbelievable. Yeah, you're right. But the grifter thing, fine, like a musician, Steve Earl says it's snake oil. Y'all it's been around for a long, long time. That's fine. But if you're selling me like Jerry Springer, he's a grifter. If you're a snake oil, you know, you're selling me water with cherry flavoring in it and telling me it'll cure my ills. That, you know, that's grifting, but nobody's really harmed. You lost a little money. This is your right evil. And I don't know if there's any stopping it is the problem. No, it's it has diagnosed and figured out how to exploit a fundamental couple of aspects of human psychology. In a way, that's just crazy, crazy troubling. We were talking about this a couple of days ago, quoting Arthur Brooks, the great psychologist or whatever he is, but about the sort of personality types that tend to fall for this, the needs that are fulfilled by it. It's, you know, it reminds me of a certain horrific political movements through history. They have understood human psychology and harnessed it to evil, evil purposes. But this is similar. Didn't you think there was a limit for things that people would believe? Yes. I mean, there are crazy people that will believe anything, but like masses of people that believe George H. W. Bush was it was raping, killing and eating babies. There are lots of people believe that there are lots of people who believe Erica Kirk is a robot run by the Israelis. I like I thought there was a limit to what you could push. Yeah. And find any takers. The only upside to this and it's not nearly enough, the whole internet conspiracy culture is that we're getting a sense of like you're asking what percentages of folks are. And there's probably a spectrum of from skeptical to credulous credulous, meaning you will you will believe you believe anything. And I've been shocked at how credulous a lot of people are how easily duped they are. Maybe again, they're running up against. I mean, Candice is exceptionally bright. She is way smart enough to learn how to manipulate people and exploit them. And you and the science has gotten really good. And from that story you had a couple of weeks ago, she's making tens of millions of dollars. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's ball player money like all star ball player. Oh my God. You know, and you you probably remember me saying this to people like in private. One thing I've said to people for years, like if they just talk about doing this job or whatever I say, one thing I've learned from this line of work. Emails, phone calls, texts, they're way more crazy people than you thought there were. And that is one thing. So maybe that's what's happening now. All the way more crazy people than you ever thought existed are latching on to these stories. My new slogan and it's not an encouraging one is everyone's a grifter and everything's clickbait. 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It's like incognito but minus the T-O-I-N-C-O-G-N-I's how it's spelled. Get 60% off the regular price when you use the code Armstrong and incogni.com slash Armstrong. 60% off when you use the code Armstrong and incogni.com slash Armstrong. I hope this doesn't happen but I fear that it will. Something really bad is going to happen to Erica Kirk. Herder killed. And then I hope we can have some sort of conversation about how nuts things have gotten. Probably wouldn't have. It won't do any good. It won't do any good. How is she fearing for her life as a young mom widow? I'm not the most religious person in the world by far but this is the manifestation of evil that the Bible talks about. And you don't have to be religious to believe in the concept of evil or twisted minds. But yeah this is, as I said, this is pure distilled evil. It is greed. It is cruelty. It's endangering an innocent person's life. It's horrible. It's horrible. It's really second to me. Anybody have any thoughts on this? Or you know... Well your opinion on this topic. Text line 415295 KFTC. Armstrong and Getty. Beef is getting harder for Americans to afford. Which explains Pizza Hut's new leftover Easter candy lovers pizza. No one out peeps the Hut. Pizza Hut originated in Kansas. So I'm very familiar with Pizza Hut. I was having a conversation with my brothers over the weekend about how crappy Pizza Hut is compared to when we were young. When it was delicious. I don't know that they started using cheaper ingredients but they had to have. Yeah some pizza joints compete on price. Some on quality. Yeah. Yeah, that's right, Getty. I disagree with your slamming of the Pizza Hut. I have had it a couple of times in the last couple of months and it has been a winner. Advantage of being a pregnant woman. Wow. My husband's not a pregnant woman and he likes it. Yeah. I still... I still eat it. I have eaten it. Not that long ago. But it ain't what it used to be. So getting back to, I promised I would sprinkle in some more examples of how Washington State is indeed America's looniest state and this terrific writer is describing several examples. Seattle's new 43 year old mayor, Katie Wilson, spent the last several years as General Secretary, a title she made up and gave herself of the Transit Riders Union, a group she created in 2011. A self-proclaimed socialist, she's relied heavily on subsidies from her parents from paying her college tuition to paying $10,000 for childcare during her campaign. There's something too on the nose about a socialist mayor being reliant on funding from her parents into her 40s. She's now the mayor of Seattle. And then... That's classic though. That's Karl Marx himself. Oh yeah. That's Mamdani. That's this person. It's just, it happens all. It's Che Guevara and Fidel Castro as I've been going through a book on their revolution in rise. They were that kind of people. Yeah. And gosh, he goes into the fact that it's 40 years of one party rule in the governor's mansion, makes California look like a purple state. And he addresses, how could this be with all those innovative minds in Washington State? More college degrees than any city in the nation? Well, that's a minus, not a plus really, but he says, part of the answer is the wealth generated by the high tech sector insulates voters from the consequences of their actions. If public policy won't materially change your situation, why not vote for candidates you believe reflect your own righteousness, even if they are incompetent or dishonest? But then he gets to, and this is the part I really wanted to get to, there was a state task force on artificial intelligence. And at the first meeting of the task forces subcommittee on climate and sustainability, a social worker who was a member of the panel, for some reason, explained at length her understanding of AI. And this is the short version. And I quote, I wish I had audio. I don't. So you can have a TV that doesn't need a plug. It either takes the energy out of the environment like whatever the AI does, right? We're talking nanotechnology. We're talking all kinds of stuff, all kinds of stuff already out there. So there is already a process out there where you can self power a TV. I don't know if there's any actual those type of TVs on the market. Is that something that I believe is out there? I've never seen it with my own eyes. Absolutely. You know, I'm a person, I live in this world, and there's smart people out there. What? And it went on in that vein for some time. Apparently the attorney general's office canceled that subcommittee meeting after, I'm sorry, subcommittee after just one meeting. What's this person's name? It's just a social worker who's a member of the AI panel. I feel like I need to follow them somehow. Oh, I know. That is stunning. He mentions at that time Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkin's comment that the violent takeover of the several city blocks by protesters in 2020 was actually a summer of love and their billion dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims during COVID. That was chop or Chaz or what was it? Chaz at first, then they renamed it chop. But few other states can combine Washington's sheer incompetence with the arrogance of believing that we are policy leaders and looking down on the rest of the country, even as we commit blunder after blunder, we are the New York Jets, but we think we're the Seattle Seahawks. We, you don't need to plug for some TVs because they get their energy through the air like AI does. What are you talking about? We're talking nanotechnology. We're talking all kinds of stuff, all kinds of stuff already out there. I've never seen it myself, but I'm sure it exists. These TVs just power themselves by the electricity in the air somehow. So there is already a process out there where you can self power a TV. Wow. Absolutely. You know, I'm a person. I live in this world and there's smart people out there. How'd you get to be at a level of any influence whatsoever? They live in a dream world supported by the wealth of the tech companies, just like California. If California didn't have Silicon Valley, oh my God, it would be Venezuela. Yeah, really would be economically, fiscally speaking. Probably be better for us actually, for us in reality. We do a lot of segments, a lot of hours. If you miss anything, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. You can find it. We got some good stuff for hour four. Appreciate you joining us today. Armstrong and Getty.
