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Speaker 3 (00:40):
This is one of your rare Michaelangel has taken it
in One More Thing podcasts.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah, as he referring to Senile Biden with his mouth
hanging open or somebody chewing or what.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
A friend of mine said that about their elderly dad
who he loves the other day, Like what age does
your mouth start hanging open?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
He said, I'm not looking forward to that, the ravages
of age. Oh, it's so hard. I'm not looking forward
to it. I'm going to get a strap around my
head that holds it up or something like you just
had surgery and tie at the top. Anyway, what are
you talking about, Michael, I'm.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Talking about Jim etiquette. And I don't know quite how
to handle this. Uh so I have to go to
the gym because I have type two diabetes.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Gym Jim, Yeah, g ym Jim etiquette as you call
him Jim or James, depending on what they want.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
So, yeah, working out, and I know you and you
go to the gym with your kids, and.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I know Katie goes to the gym, and.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So I go to the gym.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Or I wasn't leaving you out?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well you left me out. You literally left me out.
What do you mean you're not? Apparently, apparently it doesn't show.
I was saving the best boys. I'm strong like bull.
Are you kidding? Joe? You look great? That was rude, Jack.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Thanks Katie. I'm freaking ripped. Look at those guns.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Like if I say to somebody, I was at the
gym the other day, you go to the gym, what
sort of check like, James, whatever?
Speaker 7 (02:05):
It was?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Anyway, there there you were at the gym, Mike Lafe,
I think, right.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Yeah, So I'm on a gym machine and then there's
a guy to the right of me and he's working out.
But he's a bit of a mouth breather, so he
really excels. And the problem is he has the worst
breath I have ever saw, and it's the room breath. Yes,
I am like two machines away from him, and it
(02:29):
is so bad.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
That's there's something wrong there. They need to get to
a doctor.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You might have been intervening in a medical situation if
there are two machines away and you can smell their breath.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Oh yeah, And as sure hal etosis right over there?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Are you kidding me? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
The guy's got the rotten gums. That's what's happening there.
That's what halotosis is. Mostly, it's it's bacterial infections and
decay of your gums.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Give us an overall look other than his breath. What
do you look like?
Speaker 7 (02:55):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Age? Fifs or not?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Older man?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I'd say probably in this fifties. Normal guy, I mean
decent shape, but just terrible and a normal guy who
smells like a dung heap. Yeah, And I could not
continue my workout because it smelled so bad it was
making me sick. And so my question is, I don't
this guy if I see me?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
What do I do?
Speaker 8 (03:17):
I mean?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Do I just should I say something politely?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You make it leg day and you go over there exactly.
That's what I was going to say.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
Just pick a different part of your workout to do
while he's on the machine.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What possibly would you say to the gentleman.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I don't know, but I have to use certain machines
because I have to use certain exercises.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
It's a long story, but you get blood sugar down.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You sure you've got health reasons to be at the gym,
and nobody wants to, like have to alter their workout
because somebody stinks so bad. Sir, your mouth is offensive, Yeah,
you're s Your breath smells like that train wreck in
western Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Where was that? It had a funny name that was
ounce straw.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Something was a biblical name, right right, right, Yeah, it's
like Palestine, Ohio.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Palestine, that's right, East Palestine, Ohio. Right, yeah, that's it. Anyway,
where were we? I was? I was going to accuse
Michael of humble bragging because every to me, every complaint
about the gym is really just a humble brag that
you were at the gym.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But but but with.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Your diabetes, I can't play that card, so I will not. No,
there's nothing you can say to the stinky gent You
could recommend a good dentist, because I'm telling you it's
a dental problem.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I used to spot for a guy at the gym
and and like doing the bench press, so I'd be
kind of leaned over him, you know, getting ready to
help the bench up, and and haiti x sale. It
was just like whoa every single time I turned my
head and hold my breath for his ex sales.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
I had a buddy that had really really bad breath.
And what I would do is I always had mins
in my purse and but i'd pull him out. I'd
be super blatant, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I mean, I'm and I'd go, anybody want one min
in my life? But this is the best mint I've
ever had.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Tell you what, anybody who doesn't have one of these
mints is really missing out.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Just shake some altoids and offer him one, Michael.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's like a combination of an orgasm in the last
day of school.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
This mint is just oh one, It's a mint gasm.
So listen.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I want to be delicate about this because this is
not meant from in any way a bad place. But
there are certain cultures that they're traditional diets render their
output post meal to be somewhat pungent.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Yeah, yeah, I mean the case here. Actually, now I think.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
About it, Okay, so racism raises its uglyhead, just go
up and.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Stick a sock in his mouth. Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Wow, I'm telling you there is a difference. If you
have a ham sami for lunch and if you have
some sort of spicy curried goat or something for lunch,
you can have a different breath profile.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I was just thinking, I think.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I always want somebody to tell me if my breath
is bad. I'm trying to come up with a scenario
where I would I would prefer you didn't like it
would be more hurtful than helpful. But I think I'd
like to always know until I will I get it
under control.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
And it's like the you know you got some I
eat blueberries for a number of reasons with my yogurt,
but the blueberries are one of the worst. You have
something on your teeth foods known to man because the skins,
so you have to rinse the look and all. But
if somebody said, hey, you got a little uh, that
would be Some people are so embarrassed to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
And if you if you're if you and I are
friendly and you let me walk.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Away with a big blotch of deep blue crap on
my teeth.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
You have done me no favorite like you got the
dead bluetooth that.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I'm stinking up the gym people try to work out
or ready to puke.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Guy with diabetes next to me can't work out. That's right,
kill him, but he doesn't want to be rude. No,
go ahead and say it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
My kid, you know, because kids are what you want honesty.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You ever want to know what you look or smell like,
have kids because they are gonna tell you, at least
up to a certain.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Age, all the time.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
But whenever my kids would say, Dad, your bread smells bad,
it's not a Fenman's good.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I want to know that.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
So Michael curious, partly because I've recently become aware that
a person I know on the autism spectrum is hyper
sensitive to smells. I have a daughter who's misophonic. Definitely,
there's certain sounds maker insane Jackie can relate to that.
Have you ever had a history of being super sensitive
to smells?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No, not at all, or hasn't changed since COVID. I
have the problem now I've learned to ignore it. When
I get a really bad smell, I have figured out
it's not as bad for anybody else since the COVID thing,
same thing that caused me to not taste sweet, I guess,
But like for a while, I was like to my
poor son.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Dude, take a shower. Good God.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And I finally figured out, with some time and different situations,
that my smell.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Is out of whack. Wow.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Wow, it just smells horrible to me all the time,
no matter how many times.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Really gets a bath.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, I consider myself so blessed that I've had Chairman
she'ese bat fever the fauci flew several times, but haven't
had any sensory changes as an epicurean that would be
tragic for me. Now, you who have been hard of
tasting since I've known you, I'm not happy it happened
to you, but it would be a tragic loss if I,
with my refined batot, were to suffer such a fate.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
So hold on, Jack, So your smells, certain things smell worse,
and then things you can't smell at all.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I don't know about that, because it's hard not to
notice not smelling something, But yeah, bad smells are a
hundred times.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Worse than they used to be. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I remember getting a number of emails from listeners during
the height of the COVID thing talking about how a
cup of coffee now smells just rancid to I.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Haven't had that, I don't think, but just bad smells
are like the sponge on the sink, which I never
used to ever notice sponge on the sink if it
started to get a little funky.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh, just walking in the kitchens at all, like a
ton of bricks.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So maybe you have that going or maybe the guy's
just disgusting Michael, Yeah, would scope fix that if your
teeth a rotten out?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Or would that not help that? Listine?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It would be better, I think one of your antibiotic
type thing.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You distract him. You slip some listerine into his water bottle.
Oh geez, you distract him.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
He's kind of a big guy.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Just so you know. Okay, boy, move quickly and stealthily.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Hey, one more thing for you guys to go to
the gym, do you let people work in with you?
They now put up a sign that said you need
to share your equipment let others work in between your sets.
Do you know I don't do that either, No, because
you wipe down your equipment afterwards.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
I don't want somebody else sitting down on it and
getting it all set.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
No, I haven't been to a gym or you had
to do that in many many years. When I was younger,
I did all the time you had. It is just
so crowded. It was pretty much no other way to
work out. But it was always just so discouraging if
people were like at a much different level than you are,
and they're like, you put on so much more weight
than you got to take it back down to the
little girl level before you do your weight, or you're
just you're there to.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Do A B and C, and you do A and
B and then C is used up or you know
it's being used, so all right, I'll go do my
set of B, I guess, and then okay, now A.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Now somebody's on a N C and I just my.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
One discouraged my one quick story on this as we
do the longest podcast we've ever done. I was working
out the University of Kansas at the gym there, and
I was doing the squats on the squat machine, and
a guy wanted to work in with me, and I
was too embarrassed to say that I couldn't do the
amount of weight he was doing, so I did a
way above my limit as best as I could, and
then when I was done, my legs were so jelly
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from doing way more weight than I was capable of doing.
I could barely walk and I had to like really
stiffen up my leg to shuffle out of there. And
I got in my car, which had a manual transmission,
and I couldn't push the clutch in my legs was
so I had to sit there for like twenty minutes
before my legs calmed down enough I could push it.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
They were just shaking.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I thought, oh, maybe you should swallow your pride and
just say that's more weight than I can do. A
lesson in life is.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
What it was.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Well, I've decided what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Guys.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
As he does the chest press and has.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Both arms occupied, I will grab a toothbrush with full
tooth based and start.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Brushing his tee.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah, while he's in mid he can't do anything about it.
You got the flawstick in there.
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Eggs are the best shampoo. Do you know why this
feels like cute? Because co clutes of dairy is terrible
for you. Table salt is a dangerous salt. Red flag
number two. There's organic, natural flavor and natural flavor.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
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Speaker 2 (12:34):
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Speaker 3 (12:47):
That was a lot of contradictory information, but you get
that every single day from the internet.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
Wow, trying to go online and get any food advice
is impossible, or any.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Advice about anything. I was thinking, that's exactly like the politics.
I mean, it's just exactly like the world of politics.
Good luck. You got to get involved in a homework
assignment to figure it out. So you come across the
headline drinking water is the worst way to hydrate. Well,
maybe that's one percent true, one hundred percent true, not
true at all, I don't know, but I guess it's
one of.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
The most idiotic assertions I've ever heard in my life.
There's probably a fancy term for this. It's like, you
know how in news it's I think it's called notability
of bias or something like that. If something really rare
and crazy happens, it makes the news. I mean this
to the old joke is man bites dog, Now that's news.
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But because weird stuff is on the news now constantly,
you start to think that it's really common. A child
abduction is the one of the most insidious examples, because
it's so rare and terrible it always makes the news
when it happens, So people now are afraid to let
their kids run and play and become strong, resilient kids. Anyway,
the Internet, it just occurred to me listening to some
(13:57):
of that. If I had a website that claimed you
should eat lean meats and vegetables and go light on
the carbs, nobody's going to click on that. You got
to claim something utterly, you know, new or wild or
ridiculous to get clicks.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Table salt is killing.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
You, right exactly, So people are incentized to, you know,
offer up crap I need crappy advice.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I found the worst of both worlds.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
There's this woman that popped up on Instagram yesterday where
she goes shopping dressed like a whoa and then tells
you all the foods you shouldn't eat and the reasons why.
But she's a vegan health nut, so none of it
makes any sense. When you said a woman, I thought,
of course a woman. Was she hot? Of course, that's
that's the whole thing. She got a hot woman in
a tank top saying you've been peeling potatoes wrong your
(14:45):
whole life. And then you are supposed to click. Yeah,
well give it a click. Maybe your shirt slips or something.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, yeah, she's got some buy she's kind of a butterface.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
So oh my god, oh hey, come on, now, you
don't need from unkindness.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Oh my god, it's a description. I know it is,
I'm familiar with it. Butter butter is Butter is bad
for you.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
By the way, according to the one person right before
the guy who insisted we cooked with butter.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
All artificial. What are artificial flavors made out of patrol alium.
Oh my god, time to unplug the internet. It was
a brave experiment, really interesting there for a while, but
it's clearly a bad thing.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
The only one I agreed with was the guy that
said don't drink tap water.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
That I can get you're an anti tapwater.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I'm a pro right princess. Whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
There's a a really well funded startup that is building
much less expensive, super efficient, smaller nuclear power plants, and
they're getting I think their first one going in Montana
or Idaho or or one of your one of your.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
States with more elk than people.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
But it looks to be really promising technology, and even
some of the green numb skulls are having to admit.
You know, the greenest power out there is nuclear power.
As has been said and written, it's the only power
source that contains its waste. It packages up and then
you put it deep in a mountain somewhere or something.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It'll be fine. But I think we're about to see
a resurgence in nuclear power. WHI should be good, really good.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
You mentioned that phenomenon this headline and I didn't read
the story, But Montana has more cows than people, which
doesn't surprise me. I know the county I lived in, Kansas,
we definitely had more cowsan people. I mean, it wasn't
even close. But I also saw the headline the other
day that Montana has the highest suicide rate in the country.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Why would that be? I didn't look into it any guesses.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
A lot of rural areas have really struggled with the
opioids and drugs of various sorts.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Just a guess. Long Bleak Winter Kevin Costner's show ended.
Long Bleak winters have been around for a long time
a lot of places. Yeah, I'm spitballing here.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
He asked me these giant sociological question and then you
mock me when you don't look my answers.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
No, I'm the opposite when it comes to brainstorming. I
stand up and say, everybody throw out an idea that
I tell them they're all stupid.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
I went to the Googs and it says that altitude
has something to do. Yeah, because metabol extress can disrupt
your mental health.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I'm not sure I'm buying that. It's always been the
same height. He didn't get higher recently.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's growing.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Are they saying suicides are up or just that it's
the highest rate.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Maybe it's always been the highest rate. That's a good question, there,
you bully stupid idea.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
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Speaker 3 (17:42):
The world's oldest living person died over the weekend. What's
interesting about Maria Morera is she is the eighth oldest
person who's ever lived, at least that can be verified.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Maybe Moses did live to be six hundred. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
We don't have a Bert's certificate or a variety of
people throughout history. But she lived to be one hundred
and seventeen, dang near one hundred and eighteen and died
over the weekend one seventeen. So I was just so
I was going to put this out as a thought
experiment for everyone listening. Do the quick bath in your
head from your age from current age, how many more
years that would be if you died at one seventeen.
(18:20):
You get a form right now, You get to sign up,
yes or no? Do you want to because like for me,
it'd be basically doubling my lifespan or doubling my current
life I'd have to live my entire life, which I've
found very tiring, over again, and I'm not sure I
would sign up for that. I would have to think
about it all day long. Do I want when I
(18:41):
want that or not?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Well of the inevitable comment slash question is well, am
I healthy and in good shape?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Does my brain work or not? But that's that's part
of the bargain. You don't write right.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Well, even if oh, okay, let's this makes it even
more interesting. You're going to be an extraordinarily mentally fit
at least and pretty physically fit oldster. You're gonna be
really good up until the very very end. So take
that off the table. Even then, do you want to
live your entire life over again? I don't know that
(19:13):
I could do it. I don't know if I even
if I could take it. Wow, well, you're looking at
it wrong.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
You know, you're familiar with the whole concept one day
at a time, right, sure, but you can't look at
the entire span.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What's the point of it?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
But you know how as you get older, the world
just too much change. Kids today, I can't handle the
in the modern attitudes or whatever. It just Oh no,
I'd be. I can't go right there in the Come on,
could I go through my one hundredth presidential election of
this is the most important election of our lifetime.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I could I do that? I don't think I could.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I'd be there in the rec room saying, I tell
you what, anybody born after the year twenty sixty, they're
full of crap.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
They got the wrong attitude.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Never trust anyone under one hundred and five exactly. Any
would you sign up for that?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
No? No, absolutely, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Plus, financially, you gotta think about so I've got to
be able to support myself somehow for.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Another sixty years. What it's a long time. And then
how many of your friends are gonna live that long? No? No,
none of them, You'll be Yeah, But so you gotta work.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Is if you're gonna live to one hundred and seventeen,
you probably gotta work to you one hundred and five
A money?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Wow, Wow, that's unpalatable.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I don't know. I just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I would guess at the you get me all day
long to sign the forums. At the end of the day,
I'd say, Okay, I'm gonna roll the dice. See what happens.
But I it seems like a long time. Well, see,
you're lacking foresight. This is a static analysis.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I'm picturing the world as it will be when draining
the blood of the ns rush the old is much
more common.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You're unburdened by what has been I'd forgotten.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Exactly therapies and development science jack science will have advanced.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I'm not thinking about that at all, diseases or anything
like that. I'm thinking about just the world, the crap
of the world. I can't I couldn't do it all
for another sixty years. Again, kids today, they just changing
cultures and annoyances.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
No freaking way would get to drugs, get drunk or something,
ignore the crap.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
There are lots of people right now who are ignoring
all of that, get drunk or something.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
It jells down. If he could just be hammer the
whole time.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yesterday, So yesterday, I'm trying to get my WiFi set
up at the new place with a with a country.
I won't mention the company to Expinity and beyond. Oh boy,
who in the customer service was absolutely fabulous. Once I
got to someone, But like I started talking to my
kid while I was waiting on hold, I said you know,
when I was young, you'd call a human being who
spoke English from America would answer the phone. And now
(21:58):
it's a foreign land. Blah blah blah. See the more
changes like that, I can't do that for sixty years.
As things get crappier, I assume things are going to
get crappier, at least that's been my recent experience.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Now I'm going to have Lackey's to deal with that
sort of stuff for me. Okay, I'm busy draining the
blood of the young. My assistance assistant is dealing with
you know, get drunk or something.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Is your answer to the whole problem? Right right? Creative? Okay?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
So R FK Junior, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, his dad
was part of the whole Camelot thing. Do that was
the attorney general under his brother was i'd brothers hear.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
The other s word on the ear than camelot, and
that's that's inappropriate.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I'm kidding. And so he you know who he is? There?
You don't what am I trying to do here? Set
this up? And uh and uh So he was running.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
For president but couldn't get any even though he was
pulling very very well, at one point he was pulling
like eighteen percent in national polls. He couldn't get any
traction with any media. Then, I think part of it
is people learn more about him and he's quite the
whack job. It's all over the place on a lot
of different things. But Democrats spent tons of money and
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lots of lawsuits to make sure he couldn't get on
the ballot anywhere because they were afraid that he would
damage Joe Biden at the time, Now, Kamala.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Harris, I thought they were in favor of democracy and
people voting for who they wanted.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Exactly the money. Democracy dies in darkness, but God help
us up. There could be a third party that could
ever get a sniff of anything. He stops his campaign
and has endorsed Donald Trump and with Donald Trump on
the stump over the weekend and is going to campaign
with him in a variety of battleground states where he
pulls well and all that sort of stuff. He did
a couple of interviews over the weekend. Here's him talking
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a little bit about how he was denied any media coverage.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
It became clear to me that I did not have
a path to victory sixteen months of censorship, of not
being able to get on any network really except for Fox,
and I had in fact, when when Rosbero ran, in
the ten months that he ran, he had thirty four
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appearances on the networks. I had two appearances in sixteen months.
I was blocked up networks. I was blocked up from
the bay. I had no phath to victory.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I think that's damned interesting that he was as polling
as high as he was and he couldn't get a
sniff on any of the big time Sunday talk shows
or anything like that, where if he was a Republican
talking about how bad Trump was, he would have been
on every single talk show first day he announced and
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regularly from there forward.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yeah, it is a you know, to site the obvious
that we've cited more than once. It is clearly a
different era for the media when Rosbero was running. Should
we cover this guy? Of course, we should cover the guy.
Guys getting five percent, now ten percent, Now he's getting
fifteen percent. What do you mean should we cover him?
What a stupid question. Now it's like, oh, you might
help Trump, so just to preticce not there right, so weak, But.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We're in favor of democracy.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
More on that angle in just a second, but just
for the whole stupidest thing. I've hated the whole Kennedy thing,
that's the camelot thing, that's the lionizing, the revering them
acting like they're are royal family thing for a very
very long time. But here is RFK junior sister talking
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about how disgusted she is that her brother is backing Trump.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
I'm outraged and disgusted by my brother's guardian of scene
embrace of Donald Trump. I completely have and separate and
dissociate myself from from Robert Kennedy Junior and his flagorant
and inexpectable effort to death creating tramp said fire to.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
My father's now setting father setting fire to their father's memory.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Whatever I want, George Washington, arise from the grave and
give you the broadside of his sword.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
But we're gonnave you a good slapping.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
But on the subject of who you vote for or
who endorses who were that sort of thing, and we're
gonna play a little JD vance later in the show.
He was on Meet the Press yesterday and quitted himself
quite well. He was asked a lot about RFK Junior
endorsing the party, and then he was asked to answer
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for a variety of RFK Junior's positions, and he answered,
what I think should be in the way everybody answers
for this stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Well, I don't agree with.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Everything, and I somehow in the last several cycles we've
gotten into this weird thing. I feel like, where you
can't support somebody because of X. What about the fact
that they did this or they did that. Well, I
don't agree with that part, but I like the other part.
There are only two choices to one of two people
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are going to be president of the United States. That
is just a fact. One of two people. And would
you rather have Harris me president or Trump? It's that
simple to me. And so the idea you voted for Trump's,
You're okay with January sixth of the year.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Okay with his his you know, his crazy tweets or
things he says about don't know what, don't know, But
there are only two choices. I'm choosing this one over
that one.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
For all of his sins, Barack Obama was remarkably uncalculated
and much more natural.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Because your political insiders, they think way too much about oh,
that's how said the orthodoxy. I'm nasure I can say that.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Maybe I could say that I remember now because Obama said,
you know, you said you weren't going to run for
blah blah blah, and he said, yeah, I changed my mind.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
And that ends the conversation.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Do you agree with JFK that, Oh, no, no, we
overlap by I don't know, like seventy five percent, and
that's the other twenty five percent.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But you know, we agree more than we disagree.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
And RFK Junior said the same thing over the weekend,
and when he's asked about Trump's this or that, because
he had criticized a lot of the things that Trump
did very harshly over the years and.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Still does, he said, no, I don't agree with that.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
But of the two choices, the Democrats are doing this
and this, and I don't like that. I'd prefer Trump.
I wish everybody would get to that position. I think
we'd be better off. I think we would be less
dug in and less apocalyptic about the elections if we
looked at it more as a of the two choices,
I'm going this way as opposed to I'm in bed
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with all of the decisions that this side made, and
I suppose I should be gentle because a lot of
you are people I know go with the I can't
vote for. I can't cast a vote for somebody who
did X. Okay, I guess I don't quite get that. Again,
there are two choices, which would you rather have lead
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the country for the next four years.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Yeah, voting for the lesser of two evils is not
very inspiring, but get used to it.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
It happens a lot.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
I'd also like to point out that folks on the
left are never ever asked the sei you and this
other you know. You could name a number of unions
they are regularly playing footsee with communist organizations, hardcore socialist
slash communist organizations. Do you agree that the government should
run all private business and industry?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
You never even asked that question.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
So, you know, save your raised eyebrow and your feigned outrage,
you DC Beltway hypocrites.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Well, I guess in general, I personally think we'd be
better off if you didn't cherish your vote so much
that you feel like if I voted for this person,
I've done something evil or wrong. No, again, there's two choices.
You can go this way, or you can go It's
there a fork in the road, you go and left
or right. You gotta choose one of them, or you've
decided to let other people choose for you.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
The Armstrong and Getty Show, Yeah or Jack or show
podcasts and our hot links.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Thee Armstrong.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I'm just listening to the drive by Trucker's tune that
I enjoy so much in Patterson Hoods singing in his
unique whiskey soaked cigarette Wu's voice, and how inimitable it is.
But it is imitable with AI or will be soon
artificial intelligence. Yes, that's what I meant by AI.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
More than two hundred musical artists, including such heavy hitters
as Billie Eilish, Katie Perry, Smokey Robinson, Elvis Costello, and
many more, The Family sign Frank Sinatra, have signed this
open letter to AI developers, tech firms, and digital platforms
to quote cease the use of artificial intelligence to infringe
upon and devalue the rights of human artists.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Good luck. Well, yeah, they're specifically.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Talking about you can't have an AI that sounds exactly
like whatever Nora Jones producing a new song. I get that,
But they and Tennessee passed the law recently. I didn't
actually read the wording of the law, but having to
do with protecting the rights of musicians and their jobs
not to be taken away by AI, I'm putting you
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all in the same category. And this is with all
due love and respect for musicians being one, I put
you in the same category as somebody standing on the
beach ordering the tide not to come in.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
It's not going to work. You are doomed, doomed, doomed
in a.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Go ahead or more maybe more accurately. You know you're
a blacksmith in nineteen hundred and you're just going to
fight the car.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Yeah yeah, well, said in a funny quin incidence, John
with No Age, beloved listener the Armstrong and Getty Show
said essentially, dude, you got to check this out. This
website and it is well, we'll have a link at
Armstrong and Getty dot com if you want to check
it out. But it's a website that allows you to
access AI and you feed it a prompt that's like
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an uplifting pop song about how you're always there for me,
and AI will write it for you lyrics and music, and.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
You're always yourmentation, You're always there for me. Well, i'd
like that song.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
A dreamy rap song about being trapped in an AI
song factory, A bouncy Cumbia song I don't know what
that is about how you're always there for me, A
bouncy electronic pop song about a faded photo on the mantle.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
You just those are the sort of prompts you do.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
And here's one that was described as what was it
called punk rock scot punk rock rap about being tired
of the nine to five workday.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And this is what it turned out, seventy three. Please Michael, I'm.
Speaker 10 (32:36):
Saying here at my desk, staring at the clock, wondering
when the day will finally stop. Gussie my escape.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
It's not great that AI has listened to Weezer and
Fountains of Lane over and over and a little.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Green Day in there as well, if you like it.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Yeah, And this is a website that's for free to
amuse yourself.
Speaker 10 (33:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Picture you've got the tools of Google or what have you,
professional recording mastering equipment, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Well, they're almost two different categories.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
The NBC News did this story last night, and it's
almost two different things. There's the creating music sounds just
like someone else thing, and that's going to end up
in court over and over again. I mean, because like
I listen to country radio, if I listen to music
radio at all, and there's like five dudes and five women,
or fifty dudes and fifty women that sound exactly the same,
and those are real human beings. So how are you
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ever going to nail down No AI ripped off this guy.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Well, there's twenty other guys in the radio sound just
like that guy, So how do you claim what?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
But then they were getting the argument of we need
to discourage AI from just doing music because it takes
away the blah blah blah of humankind and.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Never gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
I mean, you talk about screaming at the ocean trying
to stop the waves.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
That's just sorry. That ain't gonna up.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Michael hit us with number seventy. Here's another example. Latin flow,
slow smooth about to beautiful woman or something. You want
to know the name of this guitar player. There wasn't one.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
You beauty suntan, the bustle lap. The fact that there's
no human being that did this is amazing.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
What at any point, not the music, not the singing,
not the writing, the producing.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Sun I know it's.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Surreal, it's disturbing, and like you said, this is the
free amateur version, not the professional I've.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Got some talent version, and I tweak it as I
go along. Oh my god, who knows where this is going?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Movies, music, books, it's depressing.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Actually, the lyrics are pretty stupid, so I don't think
really good books will be anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
So are all the lyrics on on pop radio? Touche?
Why would I bother.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Assembling studio musicians performers, right, I mean, granted, pops formulaic anyway,
But I find it I can just type into a computer.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah, I find it discouraging from wanting to do that,
which is weird. But and it's only going to get better.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Things are getting weird, and they're getting weird fast.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Sorry, Billie Eilish in the family of Frank Samantra and
whoever else signed this letter.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I think you're up against it, Armstrong and they're gonna
work fast. Don't you think that's a little odd? Absolutely,
there's no doubt.
Speaker 10 (36:03):
In my mind.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
This is the Armstrong and Getty Show.