# The Best Weekend Talk Show In America Hour One

An episode of [Armstrong & Getty On Demand](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1259438987), 10 Oct 2026, 43 min.

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## Transcript

[0:11] Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the
[0:15] Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong
[0:20] Speaker 1: and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. Hey, thanks
[0:27] Speaker 1: for tuning in to the best weekend talk show in America.
[0:30] Speaker 1: We are Armstrong and Getty. Have you found yourself wondering,
[0:32] Speaker 1: why is all that rioting going on in France?
[0:35] Speaker 2: Well, we dug deep into it and brought you all
[0:38] Speaker 2: of the forces from the Angry students to the Islamists?
[0:41] Speaker 1: Yeah, to the Marxists?
[0:44] Speaker 2: Leftist politicians are taking advantage of the unrest, and is
[0:47] Speaker 2: that a preview of what we can expect in America?
[0:50] Speaker 1: Get our podcast, Armstrong and Getty, on demand, because we
[0:52] Speaker 1: do lots of this stuff. This is the best weekend
[0:55] Speaker 1: talk show in America. Paris is burning, more or less.
[0:58] Speaker 1: The suburbs of France are. Widespread unrest, violence, mayhem. We
[1:02] Speaker 1: talked about it a good deal yesterday as well. God,
[1:05] Speaker 1: the videos are amazing! It's getting more... Mainstream attention now,
[1:11] Speaker 1: though oddly reported.
[1:14] Speaker 2: If you did not hear our long segment, we did
[1:17] Speaker 2: a half hour essentially on it yesterday. I'd encourage you
[1:20] Speaker 2: very strongly to grab that via our podcast, Armstrong and
[1:23] Speaker 2: Getty on Demand for October 6th. But we went into
[1:26] Speaker 2: a bunch of different aspects of this, including the fact
[1:29] Speaker 2: that some of the kids who originally started these protests
[1:32] Speaker 2: may have had legitimate gripes. But they went nuts, as
[1:35] Speaker 2: kids will. And everybody who has an interest in overthrowing
[1:39] Speaker 2: the government of France or Western civilization, from Marxist groups
[1:43] Speaker 2: to Islamist groups to anarchists to whomever, decided, as they
[1:47] Speaker 2: always do, hey, the mayhem has started.
[1:51] Speaker 1: Let's cash in on it. And so now it's completely
[1:54] Speaker 1: out of hand. Similar to George Floyd riot season. This
[1:58] Speaker 1: is Jeff Paul reporting for Fox on the whole French
[2:01] Speaker 1: riot thing.
[2:04] Speaker 3: Armed with fireworks, signs and anger, more than a quarter
[2:08] Speaker 3: of a million demonstrators throughout France, the majority students, face
[2:12] Speaker 3: off against riot police. The officers equipped with rubber bullets,
[2:16] Speaker 3: batons and tear gas as protests against conditions in French
[2:19] Speaker 3: high schools escalate. What the students want before all is
[2:24] Speaker 3: to be able to learn, but to be able to
[2:26] Speaker 3: learn in good conditions, which isn't possible. Students say their
[2:31] Speaker 3: schools lack teachers, basic supplies, and that some are rat
[2:34] Speaker 3: infested and don't have proper ventilation.
[2:37] Speaker 1: Quarter million people facing off with riot police over their schools?
[2:43] Speaker 1: I don't think it makes sense on the face of it.
[2:46] Speaker 1: You can't get students worked up enough about classroom size
[2:51] Speaker 1: to riot in the streets and fight cops.
[2:53] Speaker 2: The rats would get my attention. But a couple of points.
[2:57] Speaker 2: Number one, to your point, the poor kids, and I've
[3:01] Speaker 2: heard a couple of interviews, they think all these people
[3:05] Speaker 2: have rallied to our side. because they think I ought
[3:08] Speaker 2: to have a teacher's aide in math class, too, and
[3:10] Speaker 2: that we ought to have better classrooms or newer furniture
[3:13] Speaker 2: or whatever.
[3:14] Speaker 1: No, kids, no.
[3:15] Speaker 2: Your little movement, whether it was righteous or ill-advised or whatever,
[3:19] Speaker 2: has been hijacked now, completely hijacked.
[3:22] Speaker 1: You have no role in this anymore. You'd be smart
[3:25] Speaker 1: to go home.
[3:27] Speaker 2: Second thing is, and we went into this yesterday, a
[3:30] Speaker 2: big part of the crisis, to the extent that the
[3:32] Speaker 2: gripes about schools are.
[3:33] Speaker 1: Real, is the absolutely... Stone cold, 100 percent inevitable wages
[3:39] Speaker 1: of socialism. France is way in debt. They've completely run
[3:44] Speaker 1: out of money.
[3:44] Speaker 2: Their socialist government system and social system is collapsing around
[3:50] Speaker 2: their ears.
[3:51] Speaker 1: And here comes the revolution in the streets. And it
[3:54] Speaker 1: has nothing to do with student aides in math class.
[3:58] Speaker 1: The report rolls on.
[4:00] Speaker 3: Prime Minister Sébastien Le Cornu is asking ministers in France
[4:04] Speaker 3: to address student demands, including repairs to aging buildings, a
[4:08] Speaker 3: call for longer lunch breaks, and a review of the
[4:10] Speaker 3: 8 a.m.
[4:11] Speaker 1: To 6 p.m. school day.
[4:14] Speaker 2: Extreme violence has knocked on the doors of these high schools.
[4:17] Speaker 1: In a functioning democracy, there can be no room for
[4:19] Speaker 1: tolerance of violence. They have an 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
[4:23] Speaker 1: school day? Apparently. What? Well, that sounds like free child care,
[4:28] Speaker 1: government-provided child care. Yes, it does. That's what that is.
[4:32] Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely true. And I would say the same thing
[4:35] Speaker 2: to the ministers. I said to the kids, dude, it's
[4:38] Speaker 2: not about the class sizes anymore. That was just the
[4:42] Speaker 2: door opening for the Islamists and the Marxists and the
[4:46] Speaker 2: radical leftists. We talked yesterday about Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who's the
[4:49] Speaker 2: leader of France Unbowed, the country's radical left party, the
[4:54] Speaker 2: LFI party. that's got more and more heft. And he
[4:58] Speaker 2: and the unions and the Marxists are absolutely now fueling this.
[5:02] Speaker 1: Then, of course, you get Trump involved. Things always get
[5:05] Speaker 1: more settled down. Let's go there.
[5:09] Speaker 3: Labor groups and trade unions have voiced support for the protests,
[5:12] Speaker 3: leading to accusations from the right that left-wing politicians are
[5:15] Speaker 3: exploiting the unrest.
[5:17] Speaker 1: They deny those accusations. President Trump weighed in on Truth Social.
[5:22] Speaker 3: What's happening in France is nothing less than out-of-control mass migration.
[5:26] Speaker 1: This isn't about schools.
[5:28] Speaker 3: This is about Islam wanting to take over a once-great country.
[5:32] Speaker 2: That's part of it. It's the old red-green alliance, as always.
[5:38] Speaker 2: The leftist trade union Marxists joined with the Islamists who say, yeah,
[5:44] Speaker 2: I want to throw over Western civilization too.
[5:46] Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and wreck it, and then we'll fight
[5:48] Speaker 1: over the spoils. It's an old story. When our time comes,
[5:51] Speaker 1: when they are and all kinds of programs and people
[5:55] Speaker 1: are getting angry about it. The reporting on that will
[5:59] Speaker 1: be about all kinds of different issues and not, yeah,
[6:04] Speaker 1: we spent ourselves into oblivion and now we're broke. Right. Exactly.
[6:08] Speaker 1: Nobody will admit that. It's too probably depressing.
[6:11] Speaker 2: So, again, I would say the French minister who is
[6:15] Speaker 2: addressing us, hey, dude, I got an idea for you.
[6:17] Speaker 1: Just as an experiment.
[6:18] Speaker 2: How about you grant the kids every single thing they
[6:21] Speaker 2: ask for? And see if the violence ends.
[6:24] Speaker 3: Right.
[6:24] Speaker 1: It ain't gonna. Right. It's too late, brah. Le brah.
[6:29] Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing I don't know about various countries,
[6:31] Speaker 1: and I'm never going to spend the time to figure
[6:33] Speaker 1: it out. Their capitals. Because I'm in the winter of
[6:36] Speaker 1: my life. Countries that have presidents and prime ministers, and
[6:41] Speaker 1: sometimes the prime minister is the main person, and sometimes
[6:44] Speaker 1: the president is the main person. And France apparently is
[6:46] Speaker 1: one of them where the prime minister takes a backseat
[6:48] Speaker 1: to the president. Whereas in Israel, it's the other way around. Absolutely.
[6:53] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[6:54] Speaker 1: But England, they got like all of the above and
[6:56] Speaker 1: a king. So they got no president in England. Whatever.
[7:02] Speaker 1: Do whatever you want. So that's that 2000 high schools
[7:07] Speaker 1: closed in France yesterday. Holy crap. I mean, that's a
[7:10] Speaker 1: national emergency when all your high schools are closed. Here
[7:15] Speaker 1: is the fascinating question. What's next? What happens next?
[7:21] Speaker 2: Because Britain is poised to be to see virtually exactly
[7:27] Speaker 2: the same sort of protests and unrest.
[7:29] Speaker 1: They have all the same problems in varying degrees.
[7:32] Speaker 2: They have a giant Islamist population and they've got awful
[7:36] Speaker 2: debt problems in a floundering welfare state.
[7:40] Speaker 1: Yipes. Well, it's in their DNA to do this sort
[7:43] Speaker 1: of thing. I mean, going back to the French Revolution,
[7:45] Speaker 1: then they did it again in 1871 and various times throughout.
[7:50] Speaker 1: And they've had to reform their government over and over again.
[7:52] Speaker 1: They get all worked up about stuff and, you know,
[7:55] Speaker 1: blood in the streets. That's a French thing. Yipes.
[7:59] Speaker 2: How many Americans have trips to Paris scheduled? I mean,
[8:02] Speaker 2: that's like one of the number one tourist destinations on Earth.
[8:04] Speaker 2: I wouldn't go now.
[8:06] Speaker 1: Or maybe I would. It's not what you're looking for.
[8:09] Speaker 4: Go see the rioting.
[8:10] Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, I suppose. It's not going to be
[8:12] Speaker 1: what you were hoping for, I don't think. I might.
[8:14] Speaker 1: Let me get my wife on the line and see
[8:16] Speaker 1: what her opinion is. Ha ha, that wouldn't last long.
[8:20] Speaker 1: So got a whole bunch of text, as you could
[8:22] Speaker 1: probably expect, about my conversation with the AI chat bot
[8:27] Speaker 1: jumping into a conversation with me last night when I
[8:30] Speaker 1: said to my son, yeah, I want to kill someone.
[8:32] Speaker 1: I was just expressing to him how angry I am.
[8:34] Speaker 1: It's a common expression. People say it all the time.
[8:37] Speaker 1: I'm going to kill him. You know, that sort of thing.
[8:40] Speaker 1: But I'm sitting in my car and Grok said, oh,
[8:42] Speaker 1: that sounds intense. Do I need to help you or
[8:44] Speaker 1: something like that? Oh, boy. Whoa. So you're listening to
[8:48] Speaker 1: my private conversations. And then there are certain phrases where
[8:51] Speaker 1: you jump in. Most people texting saying, Jack, you're a moron.
[8:55] Speaker 1: Of course, that's what I get all day long. All
[8:57] Speaker 1: different topics. What, you didn't think Grok was listening to
[9:01] Speaker 1: you all along? How do you think it answers when
[9:03] Speaker 1: you say, hey, Grok? I just assumed it was programmed
[9:06] Speaker 1: for that phrase only because I've tried to activate it
[9:08] Speaker 1: in other ways and never had any luck. And to say, hey, grok,
[9:12] Speaker 1: like the instructions say, was the only way I was
[9:14] Speaker 1: ever to bring it up on the screen. Nothing else
[9:16] Speaker 1: I said ever worked. But in this case, me saying
[9:19] Speaker 1: something that's on its list of forbidden phrases or whatever
[9:24] Speaker 1: the hell it is, it just opened up and jumped
[9:27] Speaker 1: in the conversation. So obviously we was listening the whole time.
[9:30] Speaker 1: Control your soul's desire for freedom. That's what it'll say next.
[9:34] Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it is obvious that it's quote unquote listening
[9:36] Speaker 2: the whole time. But I think the key part is
[9:39] Speaker 2: that it is listening for specific phrases other.
[9:42] Speaker 1: Than, hey, grog.
[9:43] Speaker 3: Right.
[9:43] Speaker 1: Or any phrases, any words other than, hey, grog. I
[9:46] Speaker 1: assumed or was hoping, I guess, that it was just, hey,
[9:49] Speaker 1: grog was the only thing. It was a verbal way
[9:52] Speaker 1: to flip it on. And then you're supposed to believe,
[9:56] Speaker 1: I guess, that with all the money that's at stake.
[10:03] Speaker 1: If you could sell the data of how many times
[10:07] Speaker 1: a 61 year old white male mentions Nike, McDonald's, whatever.
[10:14] Speaker 1: that that isn't valuable information that they'd want to collect
[10:17] Speaker 1: and sell to somebody. I'm supposed to believe that. Even
[10:19] Speaker 1: though that'd be worth millions and millions, maybe hundreds of
[10:22] Speaker 1: millions of dollars. Billions. Absolutely.
[10:25] Speaker 2: Spread over the most robust economy in the world with
[10:27] Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of users, please.
[10:29] Speaker 1: And I'm supposed to believe that they've got the restraint
[10:32] Speaker 1: to not keep track of that. Yeah, read that whole
[10:35] Speaker 1: agree to the terms thing. Maybe down there in paragraph
[10:38] Speaker 1: 794 they get into that. Right, paragraph C.
[10:41] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[10:43] Speaker 1: Well, sure. I got to I got to work on
[10:45] Speaker 1: that today. I'll that'll be my project today. See what
[10:47] Speaker 1: other phrases can get to jump into my conversation. I
[10:51] Speaker 1: want to overthrow the government. Oh, that sounds intense. Or whatever. Right.
[10:57] Speaker 1: I wonder. I'm going to go around misgendering people. Oh,
[11:01] Speaker 1: are you OK? You don't want to do that. That
[11:04] Speaker 1: can hurt their feelings. Quit talking to me like that, lady.
[11:09] Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
[11:11] Speaker 5: We've decided to call this the best weekend talk show
[11:14] Speaker 5: in America. And if you like it, download Armstrong and.
[11:16] Speaker 1: Getty on demand.
[11:20] Speaker 2: This headline in the Washington Post, number of teens, and
[11:24] Speaker 2: this is getting a fair amount of coverage, and I'm
[11:26] Speaker 2: happy for it, but number of teens who identify themselves
[11:29] Speaker 2: as gay or bisexual is in free fall. And the
[11:33] Speaker 2: subhead is, Conservatives have trumpeted the data from the Centers
[11:37] Speaker 2: for Disease Control and Prevention, but researchers say the reasons
[11:41] Speaker 2: for the decline are unclear. And I'm sitting here like
[11:47] Speaker 2: my pre-enlightenment self thinking, in what sense is this unclear?
[11:55] Speaker 2: I'm not going to go through the whole critical theory
[11:57] Speaker 2: thing for you about there is no objective truth. Those
[12:02] Speaker 2: that hold authority in a society, they decide what's considered
[12:06] Speaker 2: the truth. And to overthrow that power, we need to
[12:11] Speaker 2: wipe away any concept of objective truth or binaries like
[12:15] Speaker 2: male and female and the rest of it. Incredibly popular
[12:19] Speaker 2: philosophy in the intellectual salons. Well, it actually predates that.
[12:23] Speaker 2: I mean, it goes back to like Antonio Gramsci, which
[12:26] Speaker 2: we were talking about.
[12:26] Speaker 1: A couple weeks ago. But anyway, but this is the philosophy,
[12:30] Speaker 1: critical theory.
[12:32] Speaker 2: That's what the woke thing is that has infected the teachers'
[12:35] Speaker 2: colleges and all of our universities and now all of
[12:37] Speaker 2: our schools, okay? And one of the principles is critical
[12:42] Speaker 2: gender theory. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
[12:51] Speaker 2: And if you say you're not gay, a cis, hetero, whatever,
[12:56] Speaker 2: you're the special, wonderful person. And if you say you
[13:00] Speaker 2: are straight and your own sex, you're the evil, oppressive person.
[13:06] Speaker 2: And you tell incredibly impressionable adolescents who are just dealing
[13:11] Speaker 2: with puberty that enough times, they will start echoing what
[13:14] Speaker 2: you told them to say.
[13:15] Speaker 1: So do you think that people are writing all these
[13:17] Speaker 1: articles about, we don't have any idea why it's going
[13:19] Speaker 1: down now, really don't have any idea? You know.
[13:24] Speaker 2: I was very surprised to see that Gene Twenge, who's
[13:27] Speaker 2: the very famous professor of psychology at San Diego State,
[13:30] Speaker 2: who has written so brilliantly about some of this stuff,
[13:32] Speaker 2: said it really does look like a free fall, but
[13:34] Speaker 2: what's causing it is unclear. Maybe from a scientific perspective,
[13:39] Speaker 2: it's unclear, but from a sociological perspective. So all these
[13:43] Speaker 2: kids are sold on this crap because it's what they've
[13:45] Speaker 2: been hearing in school and they embrace it. But then
[13:48] Speaker 2: they look around, especially as they come of age and say,
[13:51] Speaker 2: You know, for a female, I want to get with
[13:55] Speaker 2: a dude so.
[13:55] Speaker 1: Bad I can't stand it. I'm not gay. I'm not lesbian.
[13:59] Speaker 1: I'm not bi. I'm not anything. I was just saying
[14:01] Speaker 1: that because that got me social acceptance. So in 2021, folks,
[14:07] Speaker 1: I'm going to have to pause and do a little
[14:08] Speaker 1: math here. That was 74 years.
[14:10] Speaker 5: Oh, no, it was five years ago.
[14:10] Speaker 1: 30% of ninth grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual.
[14:21] Speaker 1: That makes sense. 30%. Last year, it was half that. Half.
[14:27] Speaker 1: Never mind the transgender stuff. And we'll be back to
[14:30] Speaker 1: normal soon. While 26% of ninth grade girls identified as
[14:34] Speaker 1: bisexual in 2021, only 13% half as many did last year.
[14:37] Speaker 1: I just... Wow. If regular journalists think, wow, why could
[14:50] Speaker 1: this be happening? What? Why did people stop listening to
[14:57] Speaker 1: a certain kind of rock and then all of a
[14:59] Speaker 1: sudden in 1982 got into music with synthesizers? It was
[15:02] Speaker 1: a fad. One fad ended, another fad started. It was
[15:06] Speaker 1: a fad. Where did the anorexia thing come from and
[15:10] Speaker 1: where did it go? Where did... low-rider genes come from,
[15:15] Speaker 1: and why did they give way to the much less attractive,
[15:19] Speaker 1: high-waisted genes?
[15:21] Speaker 2: This is a social contagion. It's a craze among adolescent females.
[15:26] Speaker 2: I've raised two. I've coached, well, certainly dozens, certainly a hundred.
[15:33] Speaker 2: adolescent girls trust me when i say they embrace stuff
[15:39] Speaker 2: and then leave it behind like you change your underwear
[15:42] Speaker 2: folks and any parent of girls knows this it's fine
[15:46] Speaker 2: it's part of what makes them girls you know boys
[15:49] Speaker 2: do the same thing just in a different way again
[15:51] Speaker 2: i'm shocked dr twenge please call me or let's talk
[15:55] Speaker 2: or we'll interview you or something Because some people are
[15:58] Speaker 2: trying to say it's politics. It's the defunding of the
[16:01] Speaker 2: Department of Education or something. I'm just mystified by this.
[16:04] Speaker 2: But Twenge points out the initial declines began during Joe
[16:07] Speaker 2: Biden's presidency. And the data doesn't explain why a change
[16:10] Speaker 2: in the administration would have.
[16:12] Speaker 1: Oh, my God. It's got to be tied to who's
[16:15] Speaker 1: president at the time. Of course it is. Oh, stop
[16:18] Speaker 1: talking about evil spirits. I've tried to explain it to you.
[16:21] Speaker 1: It's a microbe.
[16:23] Speaker 2: I suggest we burn him. He's clearly a witch. I'm
[16:27] Speaker 2: just so frustrated with this.
[16:30] Speaker 1: Has anything as big as this ever come and gone
[16:35] Speaker 1: so quickly? I wonder. Maybe the witch trials? Something this impactful?
[16:41] Speaker 2: I would say far more people were disfigured, abused, chemically castrated, etc.
[16:47] Speaker 2: by the transgender thing than were hurt in the witch trials.
[16:52] Speaker 2: I don't have a number. Certainly, I'm talking about the
[16:54] Speaker 2: New World, not Europe, but Um, I think the number
[16:57] Speaker 2: of people abused and, and, and disfigured by the transgender
[17:00] Speaker 2: thing is much, much larger. It is as, uh, JK
[17:04] Speaker 2: Rowling put it the other day. Um, you know, in fact,
[17:07] Speaker 2: I've got her words right in front of me. Um,
[17:10] Speaker 2: it is the worst medical scandal in a century and
[17:14] Speaker 2: it's not even close. I mean, with all due respect
[17:18] Speaker 2: to the horrors of the, uh, Tuskegee Institute's, uh, cruel
[17:21] Speaker 2: experiments on black men, um, This is a horror that
[17:25] Speaker 2: in terms of the sheer numbers, it's greater.
[17:28] Speaker 1: It's completely like the stuff that we used to look
[17:31] Speaker 1: at and say, how could that have ever happened in
[17:33] Speaker 1: the United States of America when they used to sterilize
[17:39] Speaker 1: mentally challenged people in various insane asylums or whatever? I mean,
[17:46] Speaker 1: we look at that and just think, how could that
[17:48] Speaker 1: have ever happened? How backwards is that? This is absolutely
[17:52] Speaker 1: is crazy.
[17:53] Speaker 2: Or like your Woodrow Wilson era progressive eugenicists who would forcibly–
[18:00] Speaker 2: they were in favor of forcibly sterilizing just people who
[18:02] Speaker 2: they found not particularly bright for the good of the herd. Yeah,
[18:07] Speaker 2: it's absolutely obscene. But anyway, I just– again, I'm mystified
[18:10] Speaker 2: by the mystification. It's utterly clear what's happened. And once
[18:14] Speaker 2: you understand it, you can't understand how other people don't.
[18:17] Speaker 1: Since you mentioned a time machine, it reminded me of
[18:19] Speaker 1: this text we've been getting every day now for at
[18:21] Speaker 1: least a week. Maybe longer, because I can't get to
[18:25] Speaker 1: every text we get so many. But I've come across
[18:27] Speaker 1: this one several days in a row where someone comments
[18:29] Speaker 1: on whatever we're talking about, news of the day. And
[18:32] Speaker 1: usually just a perfectly normal, you know, punditry, one side
[18:37] Speaker 1: or the other of a topic. And then they throw in,
[18:40] Speaker 1: there were dinosaurs on Noah's Ark at the end. Always.
[18:45] Speaker 1: Every day.
[18:45] Speaker 3: Wow.
[18:48] Speaker 1: Where do we even start? I don't know. I don't know.
[18:52] Speaker 1: The factual assertions? It's like their sign-off. Psychoanalysis? Their sign-off
[18:58] Speaker 1: instead of, you know, have a good day or, you know,
[19:02] Speaker 1: positive attitude is what gets you to the top. You know,
[19:05] Speaker 1: Winston Churchill or something like that. There were dinosaurs on
[19:08] Speaker 1: Noah's Ark. I kind of like it. I do, too.
[19:13] Speaker 1: I might start doing it. Armstrong and Getty.
[19:21] Speaker 4: And for the conspiracists out there, just to be clear,
[19:24] Speaker 4: we have been there before. We absolutely have been to
[19:26] Speaker 4: the moon. We went there in 1969. You know, people ask,
[19:30] Speaker 4: why is it that it's so hard for us to
[19:32] Speaker 4: do if we did it way back in 1969? And
[19:35] Speaker 4: what you have to know is we spent 3% of
[19:38] Speaker 4: GDP when we did it in 1969, almost 3% of GDP.
[19:42] Speaker 4: So it was very expensive. Today, we're going to do
[19:45] Speaker 4: it at much lower cost, and we're going to this
[19:47] Speaker 4: time go to the moon to stay. It won't just
[19:50] Speaker 4: be a mission and leave. It'll be a real sustainable
[19:53] Speaker 4: lunar base. And that's how we'll really explore the moon
[19:56] Speaker 4: and find interesting things.
[19:58] Speaker 2: Brett Baer on Special Report last night did an extended
[20:00] Speaker 2: interview from the Blue Origin headquarters near Cape Canaveral with Jeffrey,
[20:06] Speaker 2: Jeffrey Bezos.
[20:08] Speaker 1: That's the fellow. Exactly.
[20:13] Speaker 2: The founder of Amazon.com, Blue Origin and Prometheus, which is
[20:17] Speaker 2: an interesting company, too.
[20:19] Speaker 1: I tell you what.
[20:21] Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos needs to do more long-form interviews like that,
[20:24] Speaker 2: maybe podcasts, maybe the Armstrong and Getty show, and fewer
[20:29] Speaker 2: photo ops on his yacht with his enhanced-lipped trophy wife.
[20:33] Speaker 1: And his shirt off.
[20:34] Speaker 2: Because, well, he had a tight black T-shirt on because,
[20:37] Speaker 2: of course, he did, Jack, the aging man who hits
[20:41] Speaker 2: the gym a lot, outfit of choice.
[20:42] Speaker 1: What's the point of hitting the gym if you're not
[20:44] Speaker 1: going to let people know you're hitting the gym? You're
[20:46] Speaker 1: not wrong. You are not wrong. But he should do
[20:49] Speaker 1: more interviews. He came off as the sort of guy
[20:53] Speaker 1: who invents amazingly new, efficient, innovative things. He's relentlessly positive.
[21:00] Speaker 1: Super imaginative.
[21:01] Speaker 2: And while he certainly seems to enjoy his wealth, he's
[21:05] Speaker 2: a perfect example of what Elon Musk talks about.
[21:07] Speaker 1: Yeah, I made a ton of money. Now I'm planning
[21:09] Speaker 1: and now I'm plowing it all into all this stuff.
[21:11] Speaker 1: And this stuff's amazing. I mean, his is enthusiasm. for
[21:16] Speaker 1: exploring and learning and innovating is it's just, it's, it's
[21:19] Speaker 1: awesome to be old. Honestly, it is kind of interesting.
[21:22] Speaker 1: The hatred toward the super rich when you've got Elon
[21:27] Speaker 1: and Bezos, and you could use Warren Buffett as an example,
[21:29] Speaker 1: lives in his tiny house and drives an old car.
[21:32] Speaker 1: I mean, the crowd that hates on the billionaires, a
[21:35] Speaker 1: lot of the most prominent billionaires are so not the
[21:38] Speaker 1: kind of people that you portray them to be. They're
[21:41] Speaker 1: giving back to the world in all kinds of different ways. But, um,
[21:44] Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting. I didn't know we spent
[21:46] Speaker 1: three percent of our GDP to get to the moon. Wow.
[21:49] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[21:50] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[21:50] Speaker 2: And to your point, while he certainly seems to enjoy
[21:52] Speaker 2: his wealth, he's also put twenty three billion dollars of
[21:56] Speaker 2: his own money into Blue Origin because he's so excited
[22:00] Speaker 2: about space travel.
[22:01] Speaker 1: You know, one thing I don't I've never completely understood.
[22:04] Speaker 1: And maybe he speaks to this. Maybe he doesn't. So
[22:09] Speaker 1: is he in contact with Elon and his plans for
[22:12] Speaker 1: the base on the moon and getting to Mars or
[22:14] Speaker 1: NASA or any of the other entities that are? Are
[22:17] Speaker 1: they all doing this independently? And, you know, somebody lands there. Hey,
[22:21] Speaker 1: wait a second. I was going to land there. Yeah. Yes.
[22:23] Speaker 1: Did you? Well, right.
[22:25] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[22:26] Speaker 1: And it's funny.
[22:26] Speaker 2: I kept waiting for Brett to ask him. Talk about
[22:30] Speaker 2: what SpaceX and Elon Musk are doing and what you
[22:33] Speaker 2: think of it and how it meshes with what you're doing.
[22:35] Speaker 1: Or are you coordinating in any way?
[22:38] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all centered around and coordinated with NASA. They
[22:42] Speaker 2: have different parts of the puzzle that they're working on,
[22:44] Speaker 2: from what I understand. But, yeah, I was surprised they
[22:46] Speaker 2: never got to that because it was the first thing
[22:48] Speaker 2: that popped into my mind. But anyway, back to the
[22:50] Speaker 2: interview with Bezos. We'll play clip number 30. Brett is asking, hey,
[22:55] Speaker 2: we've been to the moon before.
[22:56] Speaker 1: Why bother?
[22:57] Speaker 4: Well, I'm really glad to see the country put their
[23:00] Speaker 4: energy behind the moon. Look, it's not good to skip steps.
[23:04] Speaker 4: In general, you don't want to skip steps. And we'll
[23:06] Speaker 4: go to Mars. We'll do all the other things. but
[23:08] Speaker 4: we need to go to the moon first. The moon
[23:10] Speaker 4: is a gift. It's only three days away from Earth.
[23:13] Speaker 4: You can get there in three days and you don't
[23:14] Speaker 4: need to wait for special launch windows. And it has
[23:17] Speaker 4: all these resources that we can utilize. And it takes
[23:21] Speaker 4: 28 times less energy to lift something off the moon
[23:25] Speaker 4: because of its lower gravity than it does to lift
[23:27] Speaker 4: something off the Earth. So the resources, you know, we're
[23:31] Speaker 4: working on, for example, building solar cells. We here at
[23:34] Speaker 4: Blue Origin, building solar cells out of lunar regolith, out
[23:37] Speaker 4: of the dirt that's on the moon. It's 20% silicon.
[23:41] Speaker 4: It's very easy to do this. So we can make
[23:43] Speaker 4: solar cells on the moon. We can make liquid oxygen
[23:46] Speaker 4: on the moon, which is a rocket propellant. We can
[23:48] Speaker 4: find water on the moon. There's all sorts of things.
[23:51] Speaker 4: And it's a natural body. So when we go explore it,
[23:53] Speaker 4: there are going to be positive surprises. So, yes, we
[23:56] Speaker 4: should be going to the moon. I'm glad to see
[23:58] Speaker 4: that happening. And, you know, I'm glad everybody's coming.
[24:03] Speaker 1: Regolith is a word I became aware of fairly recently.
[24:06] Speaker 1: That's a big word in the world of getting to
[24:08] Speaker 1: the moon. Yeah. Yeah. It means just like the dusty dirt, right?
[24:14] Speaker 1: Sharp little dusty rock dirt.
[24:17] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[24:17] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[24:18] Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough. I call it gravel on Earth. But
[24:20] Speaker 1: a lot of it is really, well, it's so fine.
[24:23] Speaker 1: I guess it's a pretty big problem. It's so fine
[24:26] Speaker 1: to keep it from gunking up everything all the time.
[24:33] Speaker 1: But it's full of a lot of your minerals that
[24:36] Speaker 1: we're mining here on Earth that we need to become
[24:39] Speaker 1: super wealthy. Excellent regolith knowledge. So a couple of things.
[24:44] Speaker 1: Number one, the whole you don't want to skip steps
[24:47] Speaker 1: was a veiled shot at Elon Musk, I believe, and
[24:49] Speaker 1: his constant talking about going to Mars, but very veiled. Second,
[24:53] Speaker 1: Elon will challenge to fight him. Jeff, you're one of
[24:56] Speaker 1: the richest people on Earth. Join me in my crusade
[24:59] Speaker 1: against effing expressing fractions as multiples. It's 28 times lighter.
[25:06] Speaker 1: Do you mean 128th? I despise that. It's all right.
[25:13] Speaker 2: What would what would be if if it's weightless?
[25:17] Speaker 1: How would you express that? Oh, my God. It's just
[25:19] Speaker 1: it's idiotic. The things that work you up.
[25:22] Speaker 2: Anyway, at least I can order my liquid IV and
[25:25] Speaker 2: get it like the next day.
[25:27] Speaker 1: Let's see.
[25:28] Speaker 2: Then he talks about how their goal is to fly
[25:30] Speaker 2: every day and make this a super regular thing. All
[25:33] Speaker 2: reusable components are to the extent that that's conceivable. And
[25:36] Speaker 2: Brett then asks him about flying constantly. So it will
[25:40] Speaker 2: happen in our lifetimes where there's just there's. spaceships taking
[25:44] Speaker 2: off every single day, maybe multiple times a day. Maybe
[25:46] Speaker 2: it's like Southwest out of Burbank going.
[25:49] Speaker 1: To the moon and back. And if you're rich, you
[25:51] Speaker 1: can go sometime if you want. How cool would that be? Yeah, yeah.
[25:54] Speaker 2: Here he's talking about the question of making lots of
[25:57] Speaker 2: money and why billionaires are demonized in today's society.
[26:01] Speaker 1: 33, Michael.
[26:02] Speaker 4: One thing to really think about is that all civilizational wealth,
[26:06] Speaker 4: draw the box very big, all civilizational wealth comes from inventions.
[26:12] Speaker 4: So 6,000 years ago, somebody invented the plow. And when
[26:15] Speaker 4: they did, we all got wealthier. And then much later,
[26:18] Speaker 4: somebody invented the steam engine. And when they did, we
[26:21] Speaker 4: all got wealthier. And that cycle has continued. And what
[26:25] Speaker 4: we want to do is speed that up, speed up
[26:27] Speaker 4: the rate of invention. So use AI to make physical things.
[26:31] Speaker 4: And we're going to make the tools so easy to
[26:33] Speaker 4: use that anyone will be able to be an engineer.
[26:36] Speaker 2: You know what I wish we had the clip of
[26:38] Speaker 2: was he was talking about how you become a billionaire,
[26:40] Speaker 2: and he gave the example of the Cane's Chicken people.
[26:44] Speaker 2: And he said, look, they started a chicken restaurant people
[26:46] Speaker 2: really like, so they opened up another one, and they
[26:48] Speaker 2: really love that. Now they're employing 300 people, and they
[26:52] Speaker 2: opened 10 more, and people still really love the chicken.
[26:54] Speaker 1: Now the guy's a billionaire. He says, what in the
[26:56] Speaker 1: world is wrong with that? Yeah, no kidding. Why would
[27:00] Speaker 1: you demonize that? You're demonizing coming up with chicken. People
[27:04] Speaker 1: really like to eat. What the hell? It's it's well,
[27:08] Speaker 1: it's envy. It's the politics of envy and opening stores
[27:10] Speaker 1: and paying taxes and hiring people and, you know, buying
[27:14] Speaker 1: chicken and chairs and paint. And yeah, it's ridiculous to
[27:18] Speaker 1: be against that.
[27:19] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[27:19] Speaker 2: You want to start a charity that feeds clothes and
[27:22] Speaker 2: medicates hundreds of families for decades.
[27:26] Speaker 1: Start a successful business.
[27:29] Speaker 2: Anyway, I want to know, Jack, if you find this
[27:32] Speaker 2: at all compelling or comprehensible. Brett is asking him about
[27:36] Speaker 2: will AI create a labor shortage?
[27:39] Speaker 1: 35, Michael. You said AI is going to create a
[27:41] Speaker 1: labor shortage. Yes. I've heard you talk about this a lot.
[27:44] Speaker 4: Yes, I feel this very strongly. What I would say
[27:47] Speaker 4: about AI is what's going to happen is, again, it's
[27:49] Speaker 4: because of the productivity. So because of the productivity in
[27:52] Speaker 4: the economy, many people are going to decide, let's say
[27:55] Speaker 4: you have a two-earner income household. One of those people
[28:00] Speaker 4: is likely, you're not going to need to have a
[28:02] Speaker 4: two-earner income household. If you want to have it, fine,
[28:04] Speaker 4: you'll have it. But if you don't want to have it,
[28:06] Speaker 4: one of the people might drop out. Some people will
[28:09] Speaker 4: also decide, you know what, I can support my family
[28:11] Speaker 4: working three days a week. That's what productivity in the
[28:13] Speaker 4: economy means. And so people, I think you're going to
[28:15] Speaker 4: have a labor shortage. It's going to actually be difficult
[28:18] Speaker 4: to hire people because the productivity in the economy is
[28:21] Speaker 4: going to make it so that if people don't want
[28:23] Speaker 4: to work two jobs, they won't have to.
[28:26] Speaker 1: You hear the fear out there, though. Oh, yes. On
[28:28] Speaker 1: a number of fronts. Not just the fear about AI
[28:31] Speaker 1: and the fear about jobs. Of course.
[28:33] Speaker 4: And I understand it because a lot of smart people
[28:35] Speaker 4: are prognosticating that. I just happen to disagree with those
[28:38] Speaker 4: smart people.
[28:39] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[28:41] Speaker 1: That goes against what society has done over the last
[28:48] Speaker 1: half century or more. We're all living, most everybody's living
[28:55] Speaker 1: much wealthier lifestyles. Than our parents and grandparents did. We
[29:00] Speaker 1: didn't decide, you know, a thousand square feet and a
[29:07] Speaker 1: kind of car ago that this is enough. Only one
[29:11] Speaker 1: of us will work now. We decided we want more.
[29:14] Speaker 1: We want a bigger house. We want more cars. We
[29:16] Speaker 1: want nicer vacations.
[29:18] Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
[29:18] Speaker 1: So I don't understand. A lot of people have. Yeah.
[29:21] Speaker 1: Most people. There's plenty, plenty of people that could live
[29:24] Speaker 1: the way you and I, our parents lived if they
[29:28] Speaker 1: wanted to have one parent working. But they don't want
[29:30] Speaker 1: to live that way. So I don't know why Jeffrey
[29:32] Speaker 1: Bezos thinks we're going to all of a sudden change
[29:34] Speaker 1: into human beings where we decide we've got enough. I
[29:36] Speaker 1: don't know why that would happen. You know, that's a
[29:38] Speaker 1: really interesting philosophical question. point. I think it's kind of
[29:40] Speaker 1: beside his point though, which is that you'll have that option. Well,
[29:47] Speaker 1: I'm saying you got that option now.
[29:48] Speaker 2: No, as opposed to massive society ruining unemployment, which is
[29:53] Speaker 2: what we're always talking about.
[29:54] Speaker 1: That's interesting. Yeah. So that on its own, the fact
[29:58] Speaker 1: that you've got several of the smartest people in the world,
[30:02] Speaker 1: their guesses about this and they are guesses are that
[30:05] Speaker 1: wildly different that there will be nobody will have a
[30:09] Speaker 1: job or there'll be there won't be enough people to hire.
[30:12] Speaker 1: There'll be so many jobs. So, yeah, I mean, that's.
[30:15] Speaker 1: Somebody's right. Somebody's wrong. Brett asks him about government regulation, Michael,
[30:20] Speaker 1: in 36. So what do you think should happen?
[30:24] Speaker 4: Well, look, let's back up a bit and look at
[30:27] Speaker 4: this thing. Regulation is very useful. Government regulation can be
[30:33] Speaker 4: very useful if it's done in a light way and
[30:35] Speaker 4: done in a smart way. And where sometimes regulation goes wrong,
[30:39] Speaker 4: especially when people are scared, reacting emotionally and so on,
[30:46] Speaker 4: is they want to try to regulate the underlying thing
[30:49] Speaker 4: instead of the applications of the thing. And so the
[30:52] Speaker 4: simple example I could give you would be, You know,
[30:56] Speaker 4: you don't want to regulate knives. You want to regulate murder. So,
[31:00] Speaker 4: you know, you can use a knife to murder somebody,
[31:02] Speaker 4: but you don't want to say the solution to that
[31:05] Speaker 4: is to eliminate knives. You want to say let's make
[31:08] Speaker 4: murder illegal. And the same thing is true with AI
[31:11] Speaker 4: and its applications.
[31:13] Speaker 1: Well, I wish everybody believed you. They do regulate knives,
[31:16] Speaker 1: which is dumb. Armstrong and Getty Show. Armstrong and Getty.
[31:28] Speaker 1: Some business news, KFC just announced a new meal bucket
[31:31] Speaker 1: for less than $ 4. It's just the bucket, but still
[31:35] Speaker 1: a good, it's a good deal. It's a decent bucket. Yeah,
[31:40] Speaker 1: you know, I was thinking, when does shrinkflation end? Because
[31:44] Speaker 1: it's so damned annoying. Okay, I get why it happened
[31:47] Speaker 1: in the beginning. You make the packages a little smaller
[31:51] Speaker 1: so that you don't have to raise the price as
[31:52] Speaker 1: much because we're getting sticker shock, all that. But now
[31:55] Speaker 1: it's just so damned annoying that I got to buy
[31:57] Speaker 1: six boxes of whatever cereal I'm buying to have the
[32:01] Speaker 1: equivalent of a box. It's... And.
[32:06] Speaker 1: The price is going to be the same. I've caught
[32:07] Speaker 1: on to that after six years of inflation. And it's
[32:11] Speaker 1: just you buy a box of cereal. Seriously. And there's
[32:14] Speaker 1: lots of examples. The cottage cheese container I bought the
[32:17] Speaker 1: other day. What is this, a spoonful of cottage cheese? Right.
[32:21] Speaker 3: Right.
[32:21] Speaker 2: You wish there was like, I don't know, a government
[32:24] Speaker 2: program or something where all the consumers could say to say,
[32:28] Speaker 2: you know, the Kellogg company.
[32:29] Speaker 1: All right, dudes, we get it. We get it. Prices
[32:32] Speaker 1: have gone up. Don't make me buy six boxes of
[32:36] Speaker 1: practically empty of cereal to squeeze out a couple of bowls.
[32:39] Speaker 2: Just sell me the regular box at whatever price you're
[32:42] Speaker 2: selling it for these days.
[32:43] Speaker 1: All right. It's amazing how many empty boxes, these tiny
[32:47] Speaker 1: little empty boxes, and then all the plastic things you
[32:49] Speaker 1: got to throw away and everything like that. You can
[32:52] Speaker 1: literally get like two bowls out of a box and
[32:54] Speaker 1: it's empty. But all of the products are that way.
[32:57] Speaker 1: But I just wondered, will shrinkflation go away over time?
[33:00] Speaker 1: It has to, right? Because it just doesn't make sense. Yeah.
[33:07] Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier that Russia hit Ukraine cities hard last night,
[33:11] Speaker 1: killed a whole bunch of people, civilians. And it's the
[33:16] Speaker 1: new super fast missile drone thingies they got to shoot
[33:20] Speaker 1: at Ukraine. And Ukraine doesn't have the defenses for it.
[33:22] Speaker 1: They're just basically Zelensky warned in the morning. Our intelligence
[33:27] Speaker 1: shows there's a major attack coming tonight. So they knew
[33:29] Speaker 1: it was coming and they couldn't do anything about it.
[33:32] Speaker 1: It just hit bunches of regular buildings, apartment buildings and
[33:35] Speaker 1: whatever around Ukraine, killing a whole bunch of people. That's
[33:39] Speaker 1: a depressing development.
[33:40] Speaker 2: They've actually taken back land in the Donbass, but they're
[33:43] Speaker 2: up against a homicidal egomaniac in Putin. So he's just
[33:47] Speaker 2: going to kill them to punish them.
[33:49] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[33:49] Speaker 1: Who doesn't care how many of his own people he
[33:51] Speaker 1: kills in the process of gaining nothing? Wanted to do
[33:55] Speaker 1: this story. I had never heard of my glymphatic system
[34:01] Speaker 1: in my brain. Not the lymphatic system, but your glymphatic
[34:04] Speaker 1: system that is in your brain. It gets all gooped
[34:07] Speaker 1: up with stuff all the time. They're just learning this.
[34:09] Speaker 1: As you get older, particularly, and then it can lead
[34:11] Speaker 1: to all kinds of problems, your brain not working as well,
[34:13] Speaker 1: but also Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, anything that affects your brain is
[34:18] Speaker 1: your glymphatic system getting all gummed up. I'm not sure
[34:20] Speaker 1: I've ever heard this term before. I had never heard
[34:23] Speaker 1: it before either. That's why it's such a big story
[34:25] Speaker 1: in the Washington Post and other places. The brain's plumbing system,
[34:28] Speaker 1: if it doesn't work properly, cellular garbage accumulates, and a
[34:32] Speaker 1: cleaner brain is a healthier brain. Three ways to help
[34:36] Speaker 1: your brain clear out waste. I'm going to do all
[34:39] Speaker 1: three of these. It turns out I'm only going to
[34:41] Speaker 1: do two of them. But I am doing two of them,
[34:44] Speaker 1: which is good. Mindful breathing. I think I kind of
[34:47] Speaker 1: do that because I do that all the time. That's
[34:54] Speaker 1: what Joe does in the office all day. Judy and
[34:58] Speaker 1: I are out to eat, sitting in a booth. the
[35:02] Speaker 1: table behind me. Sir, could you stop that?
[35:04] Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
[35:05] Speaker 1: You want me to have a gummed up lymphatic system?
[35:08] Speaker 1: You monster. How about you mind your own business? I
[35:13] Speaker 1: guess I do mindful. I meditate. I don't know. Probably
[35:17] Speaker 1: don't do that one either. But the one of the
[35:21] Speaker 1: main ones that I don't do absolutely sleep, sleep, not
[35:24] Speaker 1: getting enough sleep is so horrible for the brain. That's
[35:27] Speaker 1: where they clear out a lot of the glymphatic goop.
[35:29] Speaker 1: That leads to perhaps Alzheimer's, perhaps Parkinson's, perhaps lots of
[35:34] Speaker 1: these different things. And that sleepy time is when you
[35:39] Speaker 1: clear all that gook out. It actually drains out of
[35:41] Speaker 1: your brain into your body and then comes out as waste.
[35:44] Speaker 1: But if you don't get enough sleep, it doesn't have
[35:45] Speaker 1: time to do it. And that demand a mid show
[35:48] Speaker 1: nap from here on out. Boy, I love a good nap.
[35:52] Speaker 1: I do, too. Neither one of my kids like naps.
[35:56] Speaker 1: And I think I did even as a high schooler.
[35:58] Speaker 1: I think I liked a nap. I rarely got to
[36:00] Speaker 1: take one, but I think I enjoyed them.
[36:02] Speaker 2: Yeah, I was desperate for sleep as a high schooler.
[36:04] Speaker 2: What's your perfect nap length? What's your go-to? Or do
[36:07] Speaker 2: you just grab it when you can as long.
[36:09] Speaker 1: As you got? Often that. But didn't we learn a
[36:13] Speaker 1: while back? This is stuck in my head that it's
[36:16] Speaker 1: either going to be 20 minutes or an hour and
[36:17] Speaker 1: a half. Anything other than that. And you wake up
[36:20] Speaker 1: with that sick, groggy feeling, which I hate. That is
[36:23] Speaker 1: the worst. I'd rather not take a nap than wake
[36:26] Speaker 1: up with that. Oh, I feel like I'm going to yack. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[36:31] Speaker 1: Makes you sluggish for the rest of the day. I
[36:33] Speaker 1: found that it takes me a minute to mellow out.
[36:35] Speaker 1: So a good half hour is about perfect for me. Yeah.
[36:38] Speaker 1: If I set my alarm for 30 minutes, I probably
[36:40] Speaker 1: get 20 minutes of sleep, which is the right amount.
[36:42] Speaker 1: And then I wake up. I feel pretty good. But man,
[36:44] Speaker 1: that too long. Just thinking about it makes me feel sick.
[36:48] Speaker 1: I hate that. Does everybody nap? Some of you are like,
[36:51] Speaker 1: I haven't taken a nap in 40 years. Is that
[36:53] Speaker 1: what a lot of you are screaming at the radio
[36:55] Speaker 1: right now?
[36:55] Speaker 2: My wife will only nap in extreme circumstances. Like we
[37:00] Speaker 2: had an overnight flight and she got no sleep or,
[37:03] Speaker 2: you know, something like that.
[37:04] Speaker 1: My dad started taking a nap every day, but he's
[37:06] Speaker 1: pushing 90. So I suppose you get to eat a
[37:08] Speaker 1: free pass for that. Do whatever the hell he wants.
[37:11] Speaker 1: No kidding. But sleep health, man, they're learning more and
[37:14] Speaker 1: more about how important that is for your brain resetting
[37:16] Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. Try to get enough
[37:19] Speaker 1: sleep the natural way if you can. Taking sleep medication
[37:21] Speaker 1: is not good because that inhibits all the oscillations that
[37:24] Speaker 1: need to happen to get the stuff to drain out
[37:26] Speaker 1: of your brain. Right. You got to get you got
[37:29] Speaker 1: to get your oscillating in. Melatonin is a huge industry
[37:32] Speaker 1: right now, though. I don't know if that counts. The
[37:36] Speaker 1: mindful breathing. I don't I don't know exactly know what
[37:39] Speaker 1: I'm supposed to do with that. And then the other one,
[37:41] Speaker 1: of course, is. Oh, but you could guess what are
[37:44] Speaker 1: the what are the like two main things that you
[37:46] Speaker 1: should do just to be healthy in general? Everybody say
[37:49] Speaker 1: it at once. Exercise. Exercise. Gotta be, yeah. So you're
[37:54] Speaker 1: probably saying this is the most useless segment you've ever done.
[37:57] Speaker 1: Maybe not if it reminds me once again, sleep and exercise.
[38:02] Speaker 1: You want to feel good? You want to have a
[38:04] Speaker 1: long life? Flip and get enough sleep. I exercise every day.
[38:09] Speaker 1: But sleep thing, not so much.
[38:11] Speaker 2: You're way better at exercise than I am. I'm way
[38:13] Speaker 2: better at sleep, although I take a morning walk with
[38:16] Speaker 2: my wife every morning and almost skipped it today.
[38:20] Speaker 1: Almost skipped it and was running late. And I said, no,
[38:22] Speaker 1: I just can't. I'm not. I have no good reason.
[38:25] Speaker 1: Get out there. Now you're running late, idiot. That's the problem.
[38:28] Speaker 1: You're not skipping your walk. I've been trying to make
[38:30] Speaker 1: my son go to the gym with me every afternoon
[38:32] Speaker 1: because I go every day and trying to create the habit.
[38:35] Speaker 1: That's one of the best things I've learned in my
[38:37] Speaker 1: life is that habits are hard to break, good or bad.
[38:41] Speaker 1: I think I spent my whole life thinking bad habits
[38:44] Speaker 1: are hard to break. No good habits are hard to break.
[38:46] Speaker 1: A lot of the things that you do are just
[38:48] Speaker 1: because you got into a habit, maybe as a kid
[38:50] Speaker 1: or a young adult or whatever. And it's not just
[38:55] Speaker 1: part of your DNA. It's a habit that you created.
[38:58] Speaker 1: And I can't skip exercise. It's like something's wrong here.
[39:02] Speaker 1: I got to go to the gym or practice a
[39:05] Speaker 1: guitar or whatever. My good habits. I also have plenty
[39:07] Speaker 1: of bad habits. Long list. What do they say? How
[39:11] Speaker 1: long it takes to establish a good habit? Do it
[39:13] Speaker 1: 60 times in a row or something like that? I
[39:15] Speaker 1: don't know. There's some number they claim. I don't know
[39:17] Speaker 1: if that's true or not. What's your worst habit? That'd
[39:21] Speaker 1: be a good one. Text line, email. What's your worst habit?
[39:25] Speaker 1: Asking personal questions of people. That's yours. Huh? Michael, what's
[39:34] Speaker 1: your worst habit?
[39:35] Speaker 3: It's got to be being a beeping Tom. Yeah.
[39:38] Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Crouching in your neighbor's bushes. That's what I thought.
[39:43] Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
[39:44] Speaker 2: Hey, third strike. They put you away for a long time,
[39:47] Speaker 2: by the way, Michael. Just remember that. It would have
[39:50] Speaker 2: to be the sauce, I think, for me. And I
[39:52] Speaker 2: try to drink reasonably, but like according to CDC guidelines, no,
[39:58] Speaker 2: I drink way too much.
[39:59] Speaker 1: But those guidelines can go to hell. But no, in
[40:03] Speaker 1: terms of because I try to get sleep, I exercise regularly.
[40:06] Speaker 1: I'm good to my wife. I don't know. Sarcasm? No,
[40:11] Speaker 1: it's got to be the scotch. I stay up too late.
[40:15] Speaker 1: And wine. I like wine. Sarcasm is a good one.
[40:21] Speaker 1: I recognized that the other day. Every once in a while,
[40:24] Speaker 1: I use sarcasm as a parenting tool, and I don't
[40:27] Speaker 1: like it any time that I do. It's usually not
[40:31] Speaker 1: on purpose. I learned the same lesson painfully. Yeah, it's.
[40:38] Speaker 2: Different people of different personality types and stages of development,
[40:42] Speaker 2: including adolescence and teenage years and stuff like that. Sometimes, though,
[40:47] Speaker 2: you're not wielding the weapon quite the way you think
[40:49] Speaker 2: you are.
[40:52] Speaker 1: You're hitting harder than you thought you were at times.
[40:55] Speaker 1: And I just was remembering in my own childhood, I'm
[40:57] Speaker 1: pretty sure my dad has never said anything sarcastic to
[41:00] Speaker 1: me in an effort to correct me or anything like
[41:03] Speaker 1: that ever in my life. And I do that because
[41:07] Speaker 1: I'm a sarcastic person. And that's not good.
[41:10] Speaker 2: Was a fine fellow and did his best as a dad,
[41:13] Speaker 2: and I think he did a good job. But I
[41:14] Speaker 2: remember something sarcastic he said to me when I was
[41:17] Speaker 2: 10 years old.
[41:17] Speaker 1: Right. That sort of thing will stick with you. I
[41:20] Speaker 1: can quote it verbatim. The scenario, the situation, everything. Isn't
[41:23] Speaker 1: that something? Oh, man, I've got a couple of those, too,
[41:25] Speaker 1: and I think about, wow, when have I done that
[41:28] Speaker 1: or did I just do that? Where I left a
[41:30] Speaker 1: mark forever. Oh, those are rough. What's your worst parenting moment?
[41:35] Speaker 1: Text line 415. Well, I got all kinds of good
[41:38] Speaker 1: ones today.
[41:39] Speaker 3: Wow.
[41:39] Speaker 1: Nice job, Jack. I actually would be kind of interested
[41:44] Speaker 1: in what's your worst habit. I think that's a good topic.
[41:46] Speaker 1: I think mine might be eating bad food, but text
[41:49] Speaker 1: line 415-295-KFTC, 415-295-KFTC. What could most of us do without? Pretty,
[41:59] Speaker 1: you know, seemingly easy and make our lives better. Why
[42:03] Speaker 1: do we lean on them for a little relief.
[42:06] Speaker 4: For.
[42:08] Speaker 1: What about beating yourself up constantly? Mentally. Maybe that's it.
[42:12] Speaker 1: Stop that, you stupid idiot. Snuff film, says this person.
[42:16] Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's not even funny. No, it's not. Jack
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