October 21, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Ex French President, shooting at ATL airport stopped & the Louvre heist
- No Kings protesters & China is desperate for marriage
- Research on Parkinson's & how to prevent it. Plus, Jack's coffee machine!
- Dodgers baseball & Prop 50 in CA
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Gatty and no he Armstrong and gettyn more
things I would like to bring up before we get
to the bulk of what we're going to do this segment.
First of all, I just looked up at the TV
and saw freaking Anthony Fauci's face on CBS News because
(00:31):
they're talking about that new peanut allergy study. What was
the name of that?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Good to ask Fauci.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Uh, Yeah, So I guess that shows you that the
divide in America. CBS Early Show thinks, you know who
our audience would like to see doctor Fauci talking about penealogies,
where half the country's like, I never want to see
that guy's face or hear his name ever again in
my life.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Wow. Yeah, picking him is the go to.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Speaking of health, and I'll explain why I am so
interested in this in a little bit, But the science
around Parkinson's disease is they're learning a lot and they've
come up with several really effective ways to lower your risk.
It's the second most common neurological problem to be set
us after.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Alzheimer's, so stay with us.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I want to hear that, and you can do it too.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
This is not like, you know anything weird or unlikely.
You can actually change your odds.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
This is kind of weird and unlikely, but it happened.
The former president of France is going into jail today
for his five year prison sentence. Nicholas Sarkozi.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Did he steal those jewels out of the louvery?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
He was the guy in the louver with the saw
it now all kinds of campaign finance stuff and he
was taking money from Katafi. Yeah, God dang it. Any who,
he's going to spend five years in prison and at
least this first stretch is going to be in solitary.
They say to keep him safe. But that's pretty high
(02:06):
position to be president. And all of a sudden he
left his home today and he's off to prison five years.
Good wow, glad to see that. Was he part of France?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Wasn't the son of the head of the un making
money off I guess he was making money off Iran
during the saying well.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Was Sarcauzi, Yeah, it was Sarkozzi, the guy running France
when they were going around our sanctions on a rack
with Sadam Hussein and making money. Probably bastards love bastard. Uh.
Quite a disaster averted yesterday they caught a guy who
is gonna shoot up the Atlanta Airport. This is the
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way CBS reported it.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
At the airport right now, I'm just my body warn
camera shows the moment two Atlanta police officers approached Billy
Joe Cagel at the airport's South terminal Monday morning.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
His police were canvassing for Kegel after his family called
nine to one one less.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Than thirty minutes earlier.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
We were alerted by family members that mister Cagele was
ent route to somewhere in the Atlanta area. They weren't sure.
Ultimately we found out it was the Atlanta Airport and
that he had the intention to inflict harm to as
many people as he could.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Wow. I want to hear more of this because we
got more. But like, how how specific was he with
the family members? I mean, obviously specific enough that they
called nine to one one. Here we got.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
About officers arrested Kegel in the terminal. He was unarmed
at the time, but police say just outside in his truck.
They found an AR fifteen assault rifle and twenty seven
rounds of ammunition. Surveillance video shows Kegel arriving in that
vehicle at nine to twenty nine in the morning.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It has absolutely horrifying go on. And then we have questions,
Please say.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Keegele left us pickup truck with a loaded semi automatic
rifle inside. He then went inside of the departure area
here at the airport to quote unquote scout the location.
They say he planned on returning back to his truck
to get his semi automatic rifle. Inside the terminal, Keago
walked towards the security checkpoint and stayed there for a
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while before walking away.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And I do believe he's likely to use that weapon
inside the crowded terminal.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
That hit just seen. We did have a trashy averted today.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
God dang it. There's one to fifteen people that would
be dead if this hadn't unfolded the way it did.
He's probably going in and seeing, Okay, where's the most
biggest concentration of people that can't run a certain direction
and the fewest cops around.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
How do we stem this social contagion of people wanting
to essentially commit suicide but take a bunch of people
with them, so everybody knows how mad they they were.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I don't know, but I still want to know more
about how how did the family know that Billy Joe
idiot was I mean, did he specifically?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I mean, yeah, how specific was what he said?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
They didn't know it was the airport at first, but
they warned that they they called the cops and warned
that they believed he was headed to Atlanta to harm people.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You must have said something, yeah, yeah, more for the family. Yeah,
and okay, we'll probably hear more about that in the
coming days.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You know, you got to.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I think just a little more needs to be said
about the decisiveness and courage of the family to reach
out to the authorities and say, hey, I know this
sounds kind of crazy, but you need to listen to me,
here's what's going on, and having the confidence in their
own judgment to make that call.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I salute them for that.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah. I wonder how specific he was, if they kind
of had an inkling, or if he just flat out
said that's it, I'm going to go kill a whole
bunch of people and got in his truck. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I wonder God, dang it. It's just.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
The randomness of the way these things play out is
hard to wrap your head around. But the real story is,
like you mentioned, how we break free from people who
are so depressed out there that they want to end
their lives. That's always existed, but the new thing is,
I'm going to take people with me, so it means
something I guess.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And hits the internet and gets news coverage and people
talk about me.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It's even in death. Everybody wants to be famous.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Right right, Yeah, if it doesn't land online, it didn't happen.
It had no meaning. I don't know how we break.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Out of that. I'll be in the woods if you
need me.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Just came across this nugget before we take a break.
I'd heard this before, but I didn't know this aspect
of it. The guy who ran the Love in nineteen
eleven resigned after the Mona Lisa Mona Lisa was stolen
while he was on vacation. Somebody actually stole the Mona
Lisa and had it for a while. They obviously got
it back. The Mona Lisa was only like one hundred
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feet away from where these guys were on Saturday. Although
it might have been one hundred feet through many walls,
and I imagine the security over by the Mona Lisa
is different than it was by Napoleon the thirds and
excuse me, Napoleon's jewels.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, plays poor man's Napoleon. Although you know they managed
to steal the Mona Lisa. Is it the same guy
who used to run the San Francisco Zoo when they
had the honor system for keeping the tigers in the enclosure?
Remember when those tigers got out and chewed some people off.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Horrible. You'd be way better off stealing jewels that you
could fence than the Mona Lisa. It'd be really difficult
to get any value out of the Mona Lisa. You
want to buy a painting, it's pretty good painting. Let
me show it to. You could show it to it's.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
A girl with kind of a weird smile. You didn't
like it.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You could show it to a numbskull in the darkest
parts of the jungles of Africa who doesn't know that
electricity exists, and he would say, that's a Mona Lisa.
The hell are you doing?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
What the Mona Lisa? Right exactly?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, I don't know So do you think that the
heist of the historical jewels and crowns and everything was
they were stealing those specifically, or it was just an
amazing density of precious stones that they could then you know,
separate out and sell.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I don't know. I would assume they had you know,
cased that particular room. And I'll mention this again today
in case you didn't hear me say yesterday. I guess
it's fairly common for people to make their money off
the insurance company because these things are insured for a
lot of money and it's cheaper, and so the insurance
company will say, no questions asked, you return them, We'll
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give you five million dollars. It's cheaper for the insurance
company to pay you a big chunk and get the
stuff back and let you get away with it. Then
it is to pay off the insurance claim.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Sure could be insured for thirty million dollars, right, so
five million dollars would be a bargain. So you send
me some Bitcoin and I'll send the stuff back to you.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Funny how, and this may be a guy.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It's an extra fifteen bucks if you want the second day,
by the way, for five million bucks.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
You get ground ups ground.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
This might be a thing that guys think about for
some trying to do the swatch, the swap, like the
hostage swap or the you know, the jewels for the money,
Like how you would pull it off? Do you do
it on a bridge or do you leave it like
leave it in a park? You but I'm watching you
through barnoc.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
In orc course.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
You see, you don't get screwed. There's no like foolproof
way to not get screwed on the deal.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
That's why the whole internet bitcoin thing is really it's
a great new era for blackmail, like the what's the
term for you? You blackmail hospital. You're not going to
be able to get back online unless you pay us.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Off ransom cyber ranch where.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's a new era.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
But so I got the jewels, you're gonna give me
the check. How about you give me the check, then
I'll give you the jewels. I ain't giving you the
check till you give me the jewels.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Turn you turn around, you walk backward, I'll walk backward.
Favorite ransom exchange scene of all time, gotta be.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
The great Lebowski.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Oh please, so good, so good.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What is the way to do it though? Is there
is there a good, foolproof way to do it? How
does like the CLA do it?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's all about it. I'm telling you. It's a bitcoin online.
It's effortless.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Hostages you can't do on the internet though. So I
remember what we did some sort of swap there in
Afghanistan where I believe it was.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It was like a no, no, no, the hostages. You
send them the money and then they just drop off
the hostage.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
You have to trust them that they're going to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Well, ye, the trust is the hard part. The trust part. Well,
when we got that bo burged off? Was that the
one where we got back of that numb nut soldier
and they met like in a valley and we let
five al Qaeda terracets walk across and then they send
him across or something.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
They did have the hole walking past each other in
the middle.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
That's the spy movie classic exchange and it's.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
From real life.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah right, And they said various things to each other,
that is how it went down.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And everybody has guns out. You shoot our guy, we're
shooting your guys.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I gotta think, I gotta think this all through before
I robbed the louver. Because I haven't figured out how
to get my money, I'll leave it in a sack
in the park. God, don't you didn't give me the money?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Crap.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I knew that was gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It's a bag full of old magazines.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I thought that's dishonest.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
We learned something about Amazon yesterday when the when they
got either they got hacked or they had a software
problem or they forgot to update their app or whatever,
brought down tons of websites around the world, among other
things we can talk about coming up. Stay here.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Switching gears.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Today, Amazon Web Services was hit by a massive outerage
that brought down major apps and websites like Fortnite, Snapchat,
and Facebook. Everyone under twenty was like, not Fortnite, Everyone
under thirty was like not Snapchat, and everyone over for
it was like not Facebook.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's pretty good, that's pretty good. Yeah, who knew Facebook
was connected to Amazon's web server. It turns out lots
and lots and lots and lots of stuff is oh yeah,
which is a little frightening if you start thinking about,
you know, Chinese hacks or whatever, because they probably know
that people couldn't use their Starbucks app at the Starbucks
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yesterday because Amazon got hacked. Yeah, because so many people
are hosted or tied in or whatever with Amazon.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, they did not get hacked. They are saying it
was a an update techie problem, maybe internal.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Everything's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But as you say, if it was a Chinese heck
the I'm sure our security services would have told him.
Don't say so. We're working our way through it. But anyway,
oh uh, speaking of China. Fascinating demographic note about China
coming up in a moment or two. But first, why
would we play more clips from the No Kings marches
over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Because it's fun. That's why. Let's hear some more.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
We're out here the No Kings protest, and we're asking
all your great questions.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Such as if Trump was elected, how exactly is he
a being.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Because he is trying.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
To take control of everything, like his Texan balances.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Are not working, so he is just trying to completely
disregard to Constitution.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I feel like a lot of amendments have been kind
of a pubercome like in a way that they're not
so used to be Leah, which specific Yeah, the first one,
freedom of protesting.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I hope these weren't college students. They were all young
adult those were young adult women. Yeah, yeah, they were
not children.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
By like, lots of our amendments are being overcome, like
like which one? Like the first one?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, our freedom of protest? You're you're literally had a
giant protest right now.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
One more Michael forty five. I would say that it's
because even though he was elected.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I agree, you know, due process.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
He got what he you know, he all elected fairly, sure,
but he's doing things that make him a king, like
he's taking away you know, civil rights.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I that's a great question. I don't particular things.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
He's a king.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's how people want viewing him. Ask oh, actively switching
the levers of power and orches suburg elections, and what
does that mean?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Such as uh uh not a.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Sorry trouble coming up the door? Now.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
The one woman in there, she had an answer that
is reasonable. But how do you end up at a
protest and you can't enunciate why you're there? I I've
never been to a protest, but I'm pretty sure if
I'm ever at one, if you ask me what I'm protesting,
I would be able to tell you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And then finally from the family guy forty six, Michael,
what do we want?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
We do know when do we want it? Also, I'm
clear why do we want it?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Because it was forwarded to, so it must be true.
I recognized the voice of what Peter Griffin, shut up,
mag let's see. So I'm sorry that was That was weird.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
That was like Homer Simpson a wrong cartoon guy.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So I was just reading an article about how Chinese,
like middle aged and older people are desperate for their
kids to get married because nobody is getting married, and
they have this.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
It's kind of one of those.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Job fairs in this big park, but it's not a
job fair. It's like a resume sometimes with pictures sometimes
not posted, you know, just walls full of them, and
the parents come through and try to pick out what
might be a good.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Match for their their kid.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh my god, helicopter parents picking out a spouse for you.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well, it's because and it's so crowded sometimes it's hard
to move people trying to do this. They mentioned that
in a nation of one point what is it, one
point four billion, one point three billion people, just six
million couples registered their marriages last year. That's down twenty
one percent from the previous year. Wow, their marriage rates
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and birth rates are plunging. They're already way way below replacement.
China could have half its population in like sixty years.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That is something, how me something an experiment to watch
for the.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
World, And I wonder how that factors indusheshen Ping's decisions
about the great conquest that he believes is China's a
lot that they should stand astride the world.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
How to keep from getting Parkinson's new information looking forward
to this, Yeah, Armstrong and Getty looking up cvjd Vance
is in Israel in the Middle East, saying about fifteen
of the hostages bodies are not known where they exist.
I don't know what that does for the whole peace
talks thing. Anyway, if he says something interesting, we'll let
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you know.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
One more note on that Chinese matchmaking article I was
talking about. I was reading down. Some of the stuff
was funny. What they're looking for in search of you know,
you've got to be this height or this age.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Or light earning power. It's a big thing for men.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
But then you get into this couple of sentences. This
is in the journal by the way. The aftermath of
China's one child policies created unique difficulties for singles. Men
outnumber women due to a traditional cultural preference for sons.
You can have all the cultural preference you want, that
doesn't influence whether you have a boy or girl.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You'll end up with fifty to fifty boys and girls roughly,
unless you have forced government abortions of girl or or
choice choice abortions of girls by families.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That's the cultural preference for sons. They aborted girl babies
or killed them when they appeared, or just sent them
off to orphanages and said that's not my kid, just
abandon them. So yeah, yeah, a traditional culture preference for sons. Wow, okay,
is that what passes for journalism these days? Unbelievable? All right,
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moving a long right too. So, I, Joe Getty, we
lost my mom several years ago. She died of complications
from Parkinson's disease, as did my grandfather, her dad, and
so my fellow siblings and I are more than a
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little interested in Parkinson's disease and how it You know
what the patterns are in the rest of I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Is there a hereditary component to Parkinson's I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yes, yes, and we'll get to that in a second.
But so I read this article top to bottom. Believe me,
the science is continuing to evolve, but this is for
surprising things that may reduce your risk of Parkinson's, which
was once considered relatively rare. It's now one of the
most common neurological disorders in the world, second place after Alzheimer's.
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A number of people living with Parkinson's is more than
doubled in the past twenty five years, et cetera. About
ten to fifteen percent of cases are linked to inherited
genetic mutations. The rest are considered sporadic with no known
cause till seventeen. Is what you said ten to fifteen.
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Although treatments are available that can manage symptoms, there's no
cure or that can really slow the.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Disease progression, et cetera, et cetera. If you know about this,
you do. If you don't, you can look into it yourself.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But there are ongoing research on Parkinson's is revealing several
risk factors related to lifestyle and environments, some of which
are actionable. For example, moderate to vigorous exercise may reduce
one's risk, according to a twenty eighteen meta analysis healthy
eating less or unprocessed foods.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Last year's study.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Found that higher levels of exposure to air pollution were
associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's. All of that
is still in the preliminary stages. Is it correlation or
is it causation? But this is amazing to me. Here's
some lesser known risk factors that can be offset by
actions you can take. Is recommended by experts. Caffeine lovers rejoice.
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Both coffee and tea consumption have been linked to a
lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease, at least in part
because of the caffeine. Yes, the mechanism isn't entirely understood,
but it's known that caffeine, which I'm sucking down right now,
reduces oxidative stress, which is an imbalance of free radicals
and antiocidants in the body that lead to cell damage
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as well as inflammation within the brain. And a meta
analysis of twenty six studies confirmed that higher caffeine intake
is associated with lower Parkinson's risk. It's been observed for
a number of different substances blah blah blah, so that
one looks pretty good. They quote a bunch of different scientists.
Here's somebody from the Duke Something Medical Center. The risk
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reduction generally is twenty five to thirty percent if you
take two to three six to eight ounce cups of
coffee per day over ten years.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
How about a gallon of coffee over fifty years.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
The first fifteen minutes of the day.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You gotta be able to fly.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, okay, be careful about dry cleaning. What trichloethylene I'm sorry,
trichloroethylene TCE.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
We'll just go.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
TCE is an industrial solvent long used in dry cleaning, degreasing,
and furniture care. It's considered a carcinogen, been linked to
certain types of cancer as well as damage to reproductive organs,
nervous system, immune system, and the growing body of evidence
is beginning to reveal that exposure to high levels of TCE,
such as in contaminated drinking water, as well as closely
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related chemicals called PCE, may risk increase the risk of Parkinson's.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Would it be something if we figure out that autism,
Parkinson's or whatever. A lot of it had to do
with more people move into cities and needing to get
their shirts pressed.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
It's possible.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Some of the evidence for this was a groundbreaking twenty
twenty three study and you've seen commercials for lawyers linked
to this, that discovered that veterans who'd been exposed to
TCE and PCE contaminated water at Marine Corps based Camp
Lejune in North Carolina had a seventy percent higher risk
of developing Parkinson's compared to veterans who were at Camp
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Pendleton in California that did not have contaminated water seventy
percent higher. And they go into the numbers which are
shocking and absolutely heartbreaking. Now, in the fifties, TCE was
replaced by PCE, but PCE can still biodegrade into TCE.
I believe both have been banned in California, but sixty
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to seventy percent of dry cleaners in the US still
use it. The scientist says, if your dry cleaner is
using PCE, take the bag off area clothes outside so
the chemicals aren't released inside where you're breathing them.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
No kidding, Wow, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
A couple more big ones avoid pesticides. Numerous studies of
lincoxsposure to high levels of pesticides to Parkinson's disease. Twenty
eleven study reported combined exposure to the well I'll just say,
zerum maneb and paraquat in workplaces in heavily agricultural regions
California increase the risk of Parkinson's threefold.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
They say.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Switch to organic produce, which avoids certain pesticides, including the
three named above, has been shown to reduce pesticide biomarkers
found in urine within days. How important it is, They're
not quite sure, and then finally considered use it.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Consider using a water filter.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Drinking water can be a source of pesticides in industrial
chemicals such as peace a tce. Depends where you live,
You got to get your water tested. Golf courses here
are often treated with pesticides to maintain the pristine look
of the greens and fairways, and those chemicals can contaminate
both the surrounding air and drinking water.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Dorsey and his colleagues.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
That's the scientists found us in a study this year
that people living within a mile of a golf course,
how about like a few yards, were more than twice
as likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson's compared with those
living six miles away.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Or more. Yikes, that last one is not good. Honey,
we're moving again.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I just anyway will post this at Armstrong and Giddy
dot com under hot links. It's Washington Post piece, and
it'll be right next to the fabulous Feminization of America
essay that we were talking about to an hour two
of the show.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Speaking of coffee, I just bought a new fancy, really
fancy coffee machine. I don't drink, so I can't like
get into wine or craft beer or scotch or any
of the things that some other people get into or cigars,
you know, for variety of reasons, but coffee. So I
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bought this fancy coffee machine because sometimes when I go
to a fancy restaurant and I get a cup of coffee,
it's just so damn much better than what I usually drink.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, real difference.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And so I bought this fancy coffee machine. I get
it on Friday. I'll let you I found a used one,
because they're ridiculously expensive. O's see if I actually end
up using in her liking and it might just be
a sad, desperate attempt as a full time single parent
to find joy in my life, but or maybe I
will really like coffee and use it every day.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I track arms trom loves coffee.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And what's that was that just produced like in the
last fifteen seconds?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And what did that accomplish? What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Yes, Hanson had that Hanson, do your job all right,
quit screwing around.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Sure, but that added to the conversation. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I took a look at some of the fancy machines
because my youngest daughter and I like to go out
for a latte when she's in town, that sort of thing. Uh,
And I think, wow, I really like those. Maybe it'd
be nice in the afternoon, but not with the milk
and the clay.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I see, I got it. See I did a lot
of research on this with the help of chat GPT,
comparing different thing completely no milk thing. I not drinking
any milk drinks. I don't drink milk drinks. So yeah,
because the cleanup what I didn't want, because I've been
at people's houses before. I'll make you one and it
takes them like fifteen minutes to get it all set up.
Then they make you a little shot of espresso. Then
I watched them clean for like a half an hour,
and I thought I don't want to do that. I
(27:21):
have no interest in that. So I got the whatever
self cleaning something or other whatever. Well, i'll see if
I like it, or.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I copy that and paste that to a text. I'd
like to see what you went with.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I'll see if I again desperate attempt to make myself
happy with commercial items. Yeah, I was playing a storm.
I needed to get a new computer for my son
the other day, and I was trying to compare various things.
I gave chat GPT, I told chat GPT, I did
the same thing on groc and Claude said, this is
what my son does with it a computer, this is
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the game he wants, wants what kind of computer should get.
And it started comparing and contrasting and strengths and weaknesses
and asking me questions and narrowing it down and saying
this would be overkill, so don't buy that, bab bah.
It was amazing, absolutely amazing. It would have taken me
hours to do that kind of research on my own.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, I've done a couple of things like that lately,
and it's just absolutely stunning. It's funny because you know that,
and we were talking about the differences between men and
women during hour two in general, and you know, guys,
knowing things and being able to do things is how
we have status.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
But now everybody knows everything.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
If you master the rather easy art of using AI systems.
Sure now it helps that you know what to ask
and how to ask, but really not much.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
So now everybody knows everything. So what's the least?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Sometimes I ask AI, am I being scammed here? And
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Speaker 2 (29:34):
I was watching all these videos about espresso beans versus
coffee beans and how long after they've been roasted you
should use them, and I thought, I was thinking the
whole time, it's amazing what human beings will do to
avoid like thinking about their actual lives. Whether you get
into this or that or whatever it is, it's just.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, yeah, we need our enthusiasms.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Sit around, come a plate to you know, death all the.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Time or the point of life?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
All right, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
A good point too. What am I my only supposed
to think about parenting and mortality or or can sometimes
I get caught up in, you know, researching a new
bicycle or a coffeemaker or whatever.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Life is short and hard and there's a lot of pain.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
So if you find something that makes you happy, if
it doesn't hurt somebody else.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Do it. We'll end on that. That's really good. That's
really I was a lot better than Jack Armstrong drinks coffee.
I don't know what's wrong, loves coffee. There you go,
So what was the point to heart? Guess what is.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Just longer?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Some on the Bjays My ahead.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
That was some home run right there by George Springer
of Toronto, who are now going to play the Dodgers
in the World Series. It's funny he mentioned the Kirk
Gibson moment. I kind of feel like there's a reverse
situation going on here. If you're a sports fan, you
know this. Going back to nineteen eighty eight, the Dodgers
were just seen as like they got no chance against
(31:18):
the absolute machine that was the Oakland A's. At that time,
it wasn't even seen as a why even play the games?
And then Dodgers ended up winning that World Series. And
I feel like Dodgers are on the other side of
this with Toronto, and who knows, maybe we're setting up
for a very exciting upset now.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Granted, I don't think there's a single Canadian on the
Toronto Blue Jays only the Americans are more likely Dominicans
and Venezuelans. But will there be any sort of weird
America VERSUS Canada, Trump threatening to annex vibe going on.
I feel like it could be if it weren't the Dodgers,
because for as many Dodgers fans as there are, there
(31:56):
are lots of Dodgers haters too.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Oh sorry, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Is not going to climb on board and say, hey, Dodgers, Sorry,
Dodgers fans, you know it's true.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah, No, I was whear of Dodgers hat yesterday. The
number of people said, what are you doing, dude?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Where Dodgers had I'd rather see my daughter and my
sister in a whorehouse, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Do you have any idea what this thing? Why? When
they get a hit they all do this on base
they do this thing with they wave their hands. Do
you know where that came from?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I think they know.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
No, A lot of teams have different versions of that.
I guess they all have a particular gesture to the dugout.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
So I completely had missed the boat on this this
story somehow. So this stupid proposition in California to try
to read district as an attempt to balance out what
Texas is doing.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Because California is not blue enough.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I thought was a just a obvious attempt to look
like the resistance by Gavin Newsom. The early polling was
nobody liked it. Almost seventy percent of voters, even sixty
percent of Democrats said no, no, no, no, no, no.
Redistricting should be in the hands of that special group.
Blah blah blah. Right now, but the numbers have completely
(33:16):
flipped around on that. And now Political's got a story
out today that they're considering sending Trump to California to
try to rally Republicans to go to the polls because
of what you've been saying in these off year elections,
you know, it's only the really, really really politically motivated
and often tied into the unions people that go out
(33:37):
and in California you're going to get trounce. That's what
happened to Arnold back in the day. But right now
it's looking like, I mean, Politico and Mark Alpern are
treating it like, oh, it's a given that this is
going to pass. Wow, I didn't know that I missed.
I missed this story completely, and that is disturbing. The Yes.
(33:57):
Newsom's on prop is spent two one the know and
it is disturbing. What's disturbing about it to me is
not so much the what's going to come out of it,
because it's you know, it's the whole race to the
bottom jerry mandering. Every state has done it. Now we're
going to do it even further. And Republicans are doing
(34:18):
and Democrats have been doing. It's been going on for
a long time. But the fact that something that seventy
percent of voters were opposed to could end up going
the other direction because of you know, the way we
do things, special interests and the power of the unions
and everything else. It's not I don't think they changed
(34:38):
people's minds. I think it's just the concentrated effort.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, I'll bet the change in the polls is a
change in methodology for methodology for likely voters. Yeah, right,
because the concentrated special interests will have huge turnout. Mister
and missus California were busy, you know, feeding their kids
and trying desperately to make a living.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
They won't.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I knew this at the time, but the numbers were
so about forty percent of California votes read, which is
enough to lose every election. But you should have roughly
forty percent of the House members if you're gonna not
be jerrymandered. But it's not even close, and it's going
(35:21):
to go down to like six percent or something if
this goes through. Yeah, And what's especially galling about this
and just makes it clear how there's no principle anymore,
is California has a number of years ago passed a
law that was very specifically designed of have a nonpartisan
districting panel try to come up with fair, reasonable districts. Now,
(35:44):
the Democrats found ways to cheat that and load it anyway,
but it was like at least halfway toward fairness.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
And Gaby Newsome with the excuse of counterbalancing Texas, never
mind all of the gerrymandered blue states, including California and
New York, and then I'm missing an obvious one. Oh Illinois.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
I said, Oh, we've got to do this to fight
Trump's cherry mandering.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
So he's gonna make California completely blue.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Really interesting political calculation. Whether Trump coming to California and
campaigning on this would do more harm than good. Would
it rile up more Democrats than it riles up Republicans
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Gatty and no he Armstrong and gettyn more
things I would like to bring up before we get
to the bulk of what we're going to do this segment.
First of all, I just looked up at the TV
and saw freaking Anthony Fauci's face on CBS News because
(00:31):
they're talking about that new peanut allergy study. What was
the name of that?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Good to ask Fauci.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Uh, Yeah, So I guess that shows you that the
divide in America. CBS Early Show thinks, you know who
our audience would like to see doctor Fauci talking about penealogies,
where half the country's like, I never want to see
that guy's face or hear his name ever again in
my life.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Wow. Yeah, picking him is the go to.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Speaking of health, and I'll explain why I am so
interested in this in a little bit, But the science
around Parkinson's disease is they're learning a lot and they've
come up with several really effective ways to lower your risk.
It's the second most common neurological problem to be set
us after.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Alzheimer's, so stay with us.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I want to hear that, and you can do it too.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
This is not like, you know anything weird or unlikely.
You can actually change your odds.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
This is kind of weird and unlikely, but it happened.
The former president of France is going into jail today
for his five year prison sentence. Nicholas Sarkozi.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Did he steal those jewels out of the louvery?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
He was the guy in the louver with the saw
it now all kinds of campaign finance stuff and he
was taking money from Katafi. Yeah, God dang it. Any who,
he's going to spend five years in prison and at
least this first stretch is going to be in solitary.
They say to keep him safe. But that's pretty high
(02:06):
position to be president. And all of a sudden he
left his home today and he's off to prison five years.
Good wow, glad to see that. Was he part of France?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Wasn't the son of the head of the un making
money off I guess he was making money off Iran
during the saying well.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Was Sarcauzi, Yeah, it was Sarkozzi, the guy running France
when they were going around our sanctions on a rack
with Sadam Hussein and making money. Probably bastards love bastard. Uh.
Quite a disaster averted yesterday they caught a guy who
is gonna shoot up the Atlanta Airport. This is the
(02:42):
way CBS reported it.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
At the airport right now, I'm just my body warn
camera shows the moment two Atlanta police officers approached Billy
Joe Cagel at the airport's South terminal Monday morning.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
His police were canvassing for Kegel after his family called
nine to one one less.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Than thirty minutes earlier.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
We were alerted by family members that mister Cagele was
ent route to somewhere in the Atlanta area. They weren't sure.
Ultimately we found out it was the Atlanta Airport and
that he had the intention to inflict harm to as
many people as he could.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Wow. I want to hear more of this because we
got more. But like, how how specific was he with
the family members? I mean, obviously specific enough that they
called nine to one one. Here we got.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
About officers arrested Kegel in the terminal. He was unarmed
at the time, but police say just outside in his truck.
They found an AR fifteen assault rifle and twenty seven
rounds of ammunition. Surveillance video shows Kegel arriving in that
vehicle at nine to twenty nine in the morning.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It has absolutely horrifying go on. And then we have questions,
Please say.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Keegele left us pickup truck with a loaded semi automatic
rifle inside. He then went inside of the departure area
here at the airport to quote unquote scout the location.
They say he planned on returning back to his truck
to get his semi automatic rifle. Inside the terminal, Keago
walked towards the security checkpoint and stayed there for a
(04:20):
while before walking away.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And I do believe he's likely to use that weapon
inside the crowded terminal.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
That hit just seen. We did have a trashy averted today.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
God dang it. There's one to fifteen people that would
be dead if this hadn't unfolded the way it did.
He's probably going in and seeing, Okay, where's the most
biggest concentration of people that can't run a certain direction
and the fewest cops around.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
How do we stem this social contagion of people wanting
to essentially commit suicide but take a bunch of people
with them, so everybody knows how mad they they were.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I don't know, but I still want to know more
about how how did the family know that Billy Joe
idiot was I mean, did he specifically?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I mean, yeah, how specific was what he said?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
They didn't know it was the airport at first, but
they warned that they they called the cops and warned
that they believed he was headed to Atlanta to harm people.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You must have said something, yeah, yeah, more for the family. Yeah,
and okay, we'll probably hear more about that in the
coming days.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You know, you got to.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I think just a little more needs to be said
about the decisiveness and courage of the family to reach
out to the authorities and say, hey, I know this
sounds kind of crazy, but you need to listen to me,
here's what's going on, and having the confidence in their
own judgment to make that call.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I salute them for that.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah. I wonder how specific he was, if they kind
of had an inkling, or if he just flat out
said that's it, I'm going to go kill a whole
bunch of people and got in his truck. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I wonder God, dang it. It's just.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
The randomness of the way these things play out is
hard to wrap your head around. But the real story is,
like you mentioned, how we break free from people who
are so depressed out there that they want to end
their lives. That's always existed, but the new thing is,
I'm going to take people with me, so it means
something I guess.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And hits the internet and gets news coverage and people
talk about me.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It's even in death. Everybody wants to be famous.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Right right, Yeah, if it doesn't land online, it didn't happen.
It had no meaning. I don't know how we break.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Out of that. I'll be in the woods if you
need me.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Just came across this nugget before we take a break.
I'd heard this before, but I didn't know this aspect
of it. The guy who ran the Love in nineteen
eleven resigned after the Mona Lisa Mona Lisa was stolen
while he was on vacation. Somebody actually stole the Mona
Lisa and had it for a while. They obviously got
it back. The Mona Lisa was only like one hundred
(07:16):
feet away from where these guys were on Saturday. Although
it might have been one hundred feet through many walls,
and I imagine the security over by the Mona Lisa
is different than it was by Napoleon the thirds and
excuse me, Napoleon's jewels.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, plays poor man's Napoleon. Although you know they managed
to steal the Mona Lisa. Is it the same guy
who used to run the San Francisco Zoo when they
had the honor system for keeping the tigers in the enclosure?
Remember when those tigers got out and chewed some people off.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Horrible. You'd be way better off stealing jewels that you
could fence than the Mona Lisa. It'd be really difficult
to get any value out of the Mona Lisa. You
want to buy a painting, it's pretty good painting. Let
me show it to. You could show it to it's.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
A girl with kind of a weird smile. You didn't
like it.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You could show it to a numbskull in the darkest
parts of the jungles of Africa who doesn't know that
electricity exists, and he would say, that's a Mona Lisa.
The hell are you doing?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
What the Mona Lisa? Right exactly?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, I don't know So do you think that the
heist of the historical jewels and crowns and everything was
they were stealing those specifically, or it was just an
amazing density of precious stones that they could then you know,
separate out and sell.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I don't know. I would assume they had you know,
cased that particular room. And I'll mention this again today
in case you didn't hear me say yesterday. I guess
it's fairly common for people to make their money off
the insurance company because these things are insured for a
lot of money and it's cheaper, and so the insurance
company will say, no questions asked, you return them, We'll
(08:54):
give you five million dollars. It's cheaper for the insurance
company to pay you a big chunk and get the
stuff back and let you get away with it. Then
it is to pay off the insurance claim.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Sure could be insured for thirty million dollars, right, so
five million dollars would be a bargain. So you send
me some Bitcoin and I'll send the stuff back to you.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Funny how, and this may be a guy.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It's an extra fifteen bucks if you want the second day,
by the way, for five million bucks.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
You get ground ups ground.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
This might be a thing that guys think about for
some trying to do the swatch, the swap, like the
hostage swap or the you know, the jewels for the money,
Like how you would pull it off? Do you do
it on a bridge or do you leave it like
leave it in a park? You but I'm watching you
through barnoc.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
In orc course.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
You see, you don't get screwed. There's no like foolproof
way to not get screwed on the deal.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
That's why the whole internet bitcoin thing is really it's
a great new era for blackmail, like the what's the
term for you? You blackmail hospital. You're not going to
be able to get back online unless you pay us.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Off ransom cyber ranch where.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's a new era.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
But so I got the jewels, you're gonna give me
the check. How about you give me the check, then
I'll give you the jewels. I ain't giving you the
check till you give me the jewels.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Turn you turn around, you walk backward, I'll walk backward.
Favorite ransom exchange scene of all time, gotta be.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
The great Lebowski.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Oh please, so good, so good.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What is the way to do it though? Is there
is there a good, foolproof way to do it? How
does like the CLA do it?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's all about it. I'm telling you. It's a bitcoin online.
It's effortless.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Hostages you can't do on the internet though. So I
remember what we did some sort of swap there in
Afghanistan where I believe it was.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It was like a no, no, no, the hostages. You
send them the money and then they just drop off
the hostage.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
You have to trust them that they're going to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Well, ye, the trust is the hard part. The trust part. Well,
when we got that bo burged off? Was that the
one where we got back of that numb nut soldier
and they met like in a valley and we let
five al Qaeda terracets walk across and then they send
him across or something.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
They did have the hole walking past each other in
the middle.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
That's the spy movie classic exchange and it's.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
From real life.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah right, And they said various things to each other,
that is how it went down.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And everybody has guns out. You shoot our guy, we're
shooting your guys.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I gotta think, I gotta think this all through before
I robbed the louver. Because I haven't figured out how
to get my money, I'll leave it in a sack
in the park. God, don't you didn't give me the money?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Crap.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I knew that was gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
It's a bag full of old magazines.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I thought that's dishonest.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
We learned something about Amazon yesterday when the when they
got either they got hacked or they had a software
problem or they forgot to update their app or whatever,
brought down tons of websites around the world, among other
things we can talk about coming up. Stay here.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Switching gears.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Today, Amazon Web Services was hit by a massive outerage
that brought down major apps and websites like Fortnite, Snapchat,
and Facebook. Everyone under twenty was like, not Fortnite, Everyone
under thirty was like not Snapchat, and everyone over for
it was like not Facebook.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That's pretty good, that's pretty good. Yeah, who knew Facebook
was connected to Amazon's web server. It turns out lots
and lots and lots and lots of stuff is oh yeah,
which is a little frightening if you start thinking about,
you know, Chinese hacks or whatever, because they probably know
that people couldn't use their Starbucks app at the Starbucks
(12:46):
yesterday because Amazon got hacked. Yeah, because so many people
are hosted or tied in or whatever with Amazon.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, they did not get hacked. They are saying it
was a an update techie problem, maybe internal.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Everything's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But as you say, if it was a Chinese heck
the I'm sure our security services would have told him.
Don't say so. We're working our way through it. But anyway,
oh uh, speaking of China. Fascinating demographic note about China
coming up in a moment or two. But first, why
would we play more clips from the No Kings marches
over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Because it's fun. That's why. Let's hear some more.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
We're out here the No Kings protest, and we're asking
all your great questions.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Such as if Trump was elected, how exactly is he
a being.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Because he is trying.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
To take control of everything, like his Texan balances.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Are not working, so he is just trying to completely
disregard to Constitution.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I feel like a lot of amendments have been kind
of a pubercome like in a way that they're not
so used to be Leah, which specific Yeah, the first one,
freedom of protesting.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I hope these weren't college students. They were all young
adult those were young adult women. Yeah, yeah, they were
not children.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
By like, lots of our amendments are being overcome, like
like which one? Like the first one?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, our freedom of protest? You're you're literally had a
giant protest right now.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
One more Michael forty five. I would say that it's
because even though he was elected.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I agree, you know, due process.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
He got what he you know, he all elected fairly, sure,
but he's doing things that make him a king, like
he's taking away you know, civil rights.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I that's a great question. I don't particular things.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
He's a king.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's how people want viewing him. Ask oh, actively switching
the levers of power and orches suburg elections, and what
does that mean?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Such as uh uh not a.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Sorry trouble coming up the door? Now.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
The one woman in there, she had an answer that
is reasonable. But how do you end up at a
protest and you can't enunciate why you're there? I I've
never been to a protest, but I'm pretty sure if
I'm ever at one, if you ask me what I'm protesting,
I would be able to tell you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And then finally from the family guy forty six, Michael,
what do we want?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
We do know when do we want it? Also, I'm
clear why do we want it?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Because it was forwarded to, so it must be true.
I recognized the voice of what Peter Griffin, shut up,
mag let's see. So I'm sorry that was That was weird.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
That was like Homer Simpson a wrong cartoon guy.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So I was just reading an article about how Chinese,
like middle aged and older people are desperate for their
kids to get married because nobody is getting married, and
they have this.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
It's kind of one of those.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Job fairs in this big park, but it's not a
job fair. It's like a resume sometimes with pictures sometimes
not posted, you know, just walls full of them, and
the parents come through and try to pick out what
might be a good.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Match for their their kid.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh my god, helicopter parents picking out a spouse for you.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well, it's because and it's so crowded sometimes it's hard
to move people trying to do this. They mentioned that
in a nation of one point what is it, one
point four billion, one point three billion people, just six
million couples registered their marriages last year. That's down twenty
one percent from the previous year. Wow, their marriage rates
(16:50):
and birth rates are plunging. They're already way way below replacement.
China could have half its population in like sixty years.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That is something, how me something an experiment to watch
for the.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
World, And I wonder how that factors indusheshen Ping's decisions
about the great conquest that he believes is China's a
lot that they should stand astride the world.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
How to keep from getting Parkinson's new information looking forward
to this, Yeah, Armstrong and Getty looking up cvjd Vance
is in Israel in the Middle East, saying about fifteen
of the hostages bodies are not known where they exist.
I don't know what that does for the whole peace
talks thing. Anyway, if he says something interesting, we'll let
(17:38):
you know.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
One more note on that Chinese matchmaking article I was
talking about. I was reading down. Some of the stuff
was funny. What they're looking for in search of you know,
you've got to be this height or this age.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Or light earning power. It's a big thing for men.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
But then you get into this couple of sentences. This
is in the journal by the way. The aftermath of
China's one child policies created unique difficulties for singles. Men
outnumber women due to a traditional cultural preference for sons.
You can have all the cultural preference you want, that
doesn't influence whether you have a boy or girl.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You'll end up with fifty to fifty boys and girls roughly,
unless you have forced government abortions of girl or or
choice choice abortions of girls by families.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That's the cultural preference for sons. They aborted girl babies
or killed them when they appeared, or just sent them
off to orphanages and said that's not my kid, just
abandon them. So yeah, yeah, a traditional culture preference for sons. Wow, okay,
is that what passes for journalism these days? Unbelievable? All right,
(18:51):
moving a long right too. So, I, Joe Getty, we
lost my mom several years ago. She died of complications
from Parkinson's disease, as did my grandfather, her dad, and
so my fellow siblings and I are more than a
(19:14):
little interested in Parkinson's disease and how it You know
what the patterns are in the rest of I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Is there a hereditary component to Parkinson's I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yes, yes, and we'll get to that in a second.
But so I read this article top to bottom. Believe me,
the science is continuing to evolve, but this is for
surprising things that may reduce your risk of Parkinson's, which
was once considered relatively rare. It's now one of the
most common neurological disorders in the world, second place after Alzheimer's.
(19:48):
A number of people living with Parkinson's is more than
doubled in the past twenty five years, et cetera. About
ten to fifteen percent of cases are linked to inherited
genetic mutations. The rest are considered sporadic with no known
cause till seventeen. Is what you said ten to fifteen.
(20:10):
Although treatments are available that can manage symptoms, there's no
cure or that can really slow the.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Disease progression, et cetera, et cetera. If you know about this,
you do. If you don't, you can look into it yourself.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But there are ongoing research on Parkinson's is revealing several
risk factors related to lifestyle and environments, some of which
are actionable. For example, moderate to vigorous exercise may reduce
one's risk, according to a twenty eighteen meta analysis healthy
eating less or unprocessed foods.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Last year's study.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Found that higher levels of exposure to air pollution were
associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's. All of that
is still in the preliminary stages. Is it correlation or
is it causation? But this is amazing to me. Here's
some lesser known risk factors that can be offset by
actions you can take. Is recommended by experts. Caffeine lovers rejoice.
(21:04):
Both coffee and tea consumption have been linked to a
lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease, at least in part
because of the caffeine. Yes, the mechanism isn't entirely understood,
but it's known that caffeine, which I'm sucking down right now,
reduces oxidative stress, which is an imbalance of free radicals
and antiocidants in the body that lead to cell damage
(21:26):
as well as inflammation within the brain. And a meta
analysis of twenty six studies confirmed that higher caffeine intake
is associated with lower Parkinson's risk. It's been observed for
a number of different substances blah blah blah, so that
one looks pretty good. They quote a bunch of different scientists.
Here's somebody from the Duke Something Medical Center. The risk
(21:48):
reduction generally is twenty five to thirty percent if you
take two to three six to eight ounce cups of
coffee per day over ten years.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
How about a gallon of coffee over fifty years.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
The first fifteen minutes of the day.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You gotta be able to fly.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, okay, be careful about dry cleaning. What trichloethylene I'm sorry,
trichloroethylene TCE.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
We'll just go.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
TCE is an industrial solvent long used in dry cleaning, degreasing,
and furniture care. It's considered a carcinogen, been linked to
certain types of cancer as well as damage to reproductive organs,
nervous system, immune system, and the growing body of evidence
is beginning to reveal that exposure to high levels of TCE,
such as in contaminated drinking water, as well as closely
(22:38):
related chemicals called PCE, may risk increase the risk of Parkinson's.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Would it be something if we figure out that autism,
Parkinson's or whatever. A lot of it had to do
with more people move into cities and needing to get
their shirts pressed.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
It's possible.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Some of the evidence for this was a groundbreaking twenty
twenty three study and you've seen commercials for lawyers linked
to this, that discovered that veterans who'd been exposed to
TCE and PCE contaminated water at Marine Corps based Camp
Lejune in North Carolina had a seventy percent higher risk
of developing Parkinson's compared to veterans who were at Camp
(23:17):
Pendleton in California that did not have contaminated water seventy
percent higher. And they go into the numbers which are
shocking and absolutely heartbreaking. Now, in the fifties, TCE was
replaced by PCE, but PCE can still biodegrade into TCE.
I believe both have been banned in California, but sixty
(23:41):
to seventy percent of dry cleaners in the US still
use it. The scientist says, if your dry cleaner is
using PCE, take the bag off area clothes outside so
the chemicals aren't released inside where you're breathing them.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
No kidding, Wow, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
A couple more big ones avoid pesticides. Numerous studies of
lincoxsposure to high levels of pesticides to Parkinson's disease. Twenty
eleven study reported combined exposure to the well I'll just say,
zerum maneb and paraquat in workplaces in heavily agricultural regions
California increase the risk of Parkinson's threefold.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
They say.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Switch to organic produce, which avoids certain pesticides, including the
three named above, has been shown to reduce pesticide biomarkers
found in urine within days. How important it is, They're
not quite sure, and then finally considered use it.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Consider using a water filter.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Drinking water can be a source of pesticides in industrial
chemicals such as peace a tce. Depends where you live,
You got to get your water tested. Golf courses here
are often treated with pesticides to maintain the pristine look
of the greens and fairways, and those chemicals can contaminate
both the surrounding air and drinking water.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Dorsey and his colleagues.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
That's the scientists found us in a study this year
that people living within a mile of a golf course,
how about like a few yards, were more than twice
as likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson's compared with those
living six miles away.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Or more. Yikes, that last one is not good. Honey,
we're moving again.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I just anyway will post this at Armstrong and Giddy
dot com under hot links. It's Washington Post piece, and
it'll be right next to the fabulous Feminization of America
essay that we were talking about to an hour two
of the show.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Speaking of coffee, I just bought a new fancy, really
fancy coffee machine. I don't drink, so I can't like
get into wine or craft beer or scotch or any
of the things that some other people get into or cigars,
you know, for variety of reasons, but coffee. So I
(25:54):
bought this fancy coffee machine because sometimes when I go
to a fancy restaurant and I get a cup of coffee,
it's just so damn much better than what I usually drink.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, real difference.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And so I bought this fancy coffee machine. I get
it on Friday. I'll let you I found a used one,
because they're ridiculously expensive. O's see if I actually end
up using in her liking and it might just be
a sad, desperate attempt as a full time single parent
to find joy in my life, but or maybe I
will really like coffee and use it every day.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I track arms trom loves coffee.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And what's that was that just produced like in the
last fifteen seconds?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And what did that accomplish? What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Yes, Hanson had that Hanson, do your job all right,
quit screwing around.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Sure, but that added to the conversation. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I took a look at some of the fancy machines
because my youngest daughter and I like to go out
for a latte when she's in town, that sort of thing. Uh,
And I think, wow, I really like those. Maybe it'd
be nice in the afternoon, but not with the milk
and the clay.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I see, I got it. See I did a lot
of research on this with the help of chat GPT,
comparing different thing completely no milk thing. I not drinking
any milk drinks. I don't drink milk drinks. So yeah,
because the cleanup what I didn't want, because I've been
at people's houses before. I'll make you one and it
takes them like fifteen minutes to get it all set up.
Then they make you a little shot of espresso. Then
I watched them clean for like a half an hour,
and I thought I don't want to do that. I
(27:21):
have no interest in that. So I got the whatever
self cleaning something or other whatever. Well, i'll see if
I like it, or.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I copy that and paste that to a text. I'd
like to see what you went with.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I'll see if I again desperate attempt to make myself
happy with commercial items. Yeah, I was playing a storm.
I needed to get a new computer for my son
the other day, and I was trying to compare various things.
I gave chat GPT, I told chat GPT, I did
the same thing on groc and Claude said, this is
what my son does with it a computer, this is
(27:52):
the game he wants, wants what kind of computer should get.
And it started comparing and contrasting and strengths and weaknesses
and asking me questions and narrowing it down and saying
this would be overkill, so don't buy that, bab bah.
It was amazing, absolutely amazing. It would have taken me
hours to do that kind of research on my own.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, I've done a couple of things like that lately,
and it's just absolutely stunning. It's funny because you know that,
and we were talking about the differences between men and
women during hour two in general, and you know, guys,
knowing things and being able to do things is how
we have status.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
But now everybody knows everything.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
If you master the rather easy art of using AI systems.
Sure now it helps that you know what to ask
and how to ask, but really not much.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
So now everybody knows everything. So what's the least?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Sometimes I ask AI, am I being scammed here? And
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Speaker 2 (29:34):
I was watching all these videos about espresso beans versus
coffee beans and how long after they've been roasted you
should use them, and I thought, I was thinking the
whole time, it's amazing what human beings will do to
avoid like thinking about their actual lives. Whether you get
into this or that or whatever it is, it's just.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, yeah, we need our enthusiasms.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Sit around, come a plate to you know, death all the.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Time or the point of life?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
All right, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
A good point too. What am I my only supposed
to think about parenting and mortality or or can sometimes
I get caught up in, you know, researching a new
bicycle or a coffeemaker or whatever.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Life is short and hard and there's a lot of pain.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
So if you find something that makes you happy, if
it doesn't hurt somebody else.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Do it. We'll end on that. That's really good. That's
really I was a lot better than Jack Armstrong drinks coffee.
I don't know what's wrong, loves coffee. There you go,
So what was the point to heart? Guess what is.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Just longer?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Some on the Bjays My ahead.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
That was some home run right there by George Springer
of Toronto, who are now going to play the Dodgers
in the World Series. It's funny he mentioned the Kirk
Gibson moment. I kind of feel like there's a reverse
situation going on here. If you're a sports fan, you
know this. Going back to nineteen eighty eight, the Dodgers
were just seen as like they got no chance against
(31:18):
the absolute machine that was the Oakland A's. At that time,
it wasn't even seen as a why even play the games?
And then Dodgers ended up winning that World Series. And
I feel like Dodgers are on the other side of
this with Toronto, and who knows, maybe we're setting up
for a very exciting upset now.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Granted, I don't think there's a single Canadian on the
Toronto Blue Jays only the Americans are more likely Dominicans
and Venezuelans. But will there be any sort of weird
America VERSUS Canada, Trump threatening to annex vibe going on.
I feel like it could be if it weren't the Dodgers,
because for as many Dodgers fans as there are, there
(31:56):
are lots of Dodgers haters too.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Oh sorry, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Is not going to climb on board and say, hey, Dodgers, Sorry,
Dodgers fans, you know it's true.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah, No, I was whear of Dodgers hat yesterday. The
number of people said, what are you doing, dude?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Where Dodgers had I'd rather see my daughter and my
sister in a whorehouse, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Do you have any idea what this thing? Why? When
they get a hit they all do this on base
they do this thing with they wave their hands. Do
you know where that came from?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I think they know.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
No, A lot of teams have different versions of that.
I guess they all have a particular gesture to the dugout.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
So I completely had missed the boat on this this
story somehow. So this stupid proposition in California to try
to read district as an attempt to balance out what
Texas is doing.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Because California is not blue enough.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I thought was a just a obvious attempt to look
like the resistance by Gavin Newsom. The early polling was
nobody liked it. Almost seventy percent of voters, even sixty
percent of Democrats said no, no, no, no, no, no.
Redistricting should be in the hands of that special group.
Blah blah blah. Right now, but the numbers have completely
(33:16):
flipped around on that. And now Political's got a story
out today that they're considering sending Trump to California to
try to rally Republicans to go to the polls because
of what you've been saying in these off year elections,
you know, it's only the really, really really politically motivated
and often tied into the unions people that go out
(33:37):
and in California you're going to get trounce. That's what
happened to Arnold back in the day. But right now
it's looking like, I mean, Politico and Mark Alpern are
treating it like, oh, it's a given that this is
going to pass. Wow, I didn't know that I missed.
I missed this story completely, and that is disturbing. The Yes.
(33:57):
Newsom's on prop is spent two one the know and
it is disturbing. What's disturbing about it to me is
not so much the what's going to come out of it,
because it's you know, it's the whole race to the
bottom jerry mandering. Every state has done it. Now we're
going to do it even further. And Republicans are doing
(34:18):
and Democrats have been doing. It's been going on for
a long time. But the fact that something that seventy
percent of voters were opposed to could end up going
the other direction because of you know, the way we
do things, special interests and the power of the unions
and everything else. It's not I don't think they changed
(34:38):
people's minds. I think it's just the concentrated effort.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, I'll bet the change in the polls is a
change in methodology for methodology for likely voters. Yeah, right,
because the concentrated special interests will have huge turnout. Mister
and missus California were busy, you know, feeding their kids
and trying desperately to make a living.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
They won't.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I knew this at the time, but the numbers were
so about forty percent of California votes read, which is
enough to lose every election. But you should have roughly
forty percent of the House members if you're gonna not
be jerrymandered. But it's not even close, and it's going
(35:21):
to go down to like six percent or something if
this goes through. Yeah, And what's especially galling about this
and just makes it clear how there's no principle anymore,
is California has a number of years ago passed a
law that was very specifically designed of have a nonpartisan
districting panel try to come up with fair, reasonable districts. Now,
(35:44):
the Democrats found ways to cheat that and load it anyway,
but it was like at least halfway toward fairness.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
And Gaby Newsome with the excuse of counterbalancing Texas, never
mind all of the gerrymandered blue states, including California and
New York, and then I'm missing an obvious one. Oh Illinois.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
I said, Oh, we've got to do this to fight
Trump's cherry mandering.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
So he's gonna make California completely blue.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Really interesting political calculation. Whether Trump coming to California and
campaigning on this would do more harm than good. Would
it rile up more Democrats than it riles up Republicans
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