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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong
and Getty, en He Armstrong and Getty. According to The
(00:24):
New York Times.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Bill Belichick used to make his girlfriend Jordan Hudson wear
red pants so he could spot her in the crowd.
No wonder he kept trying to have sex with Travis.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Kelcey Man, never ending jokes. You're an old, fat rich man.
You date a girl fifty years younger than you, and
all of a sudden, you're a sport for people's comedy. Yeah,
that's cruelty, you know, Just get alive. Now.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
She is told at least a couple of people Jack
that they are engaged.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Do we have? And has that been substantiate? It has
not been.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It was.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
They confirmed it on Thursday last time we're on the
air on CNN, But I don't. I haven't followed up
because who cares.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
But of course, if I was an attractive young woman
who was a precious metal extractor sometimes called a gold digger,
I could absolutely see saying to people were practically engaged, Yeah,
we're it's definitely we're unofficially engaged and stuff, just trying
(01:29):
to sink the claws.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
In a little deeper. Everybody said it wants preying up?
Who wants preying up?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So Kanye, Kanye, who's in rehab by the way, We
got to talk about that later. Kanye ended a rehab
over the weekend, apologized never endingly on Twitter, to the
point that Elon kicked him off Twitter again. But to
eat Kanye's at one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars
a month rehab something like it. I don't know an
iota about it. I will bring you up to speak completely, don't.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I don't know where to get better Kanye coverage here,
I guess so I thought this was interesting. There are
a couple of Oh, stay tuned. In just a few minutes,
I'll reveal to you who will be running for president
in twenty twenty eight on both.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Sides, Yes, I do so, stay tuned. Is Trump beautiful?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But it's just absolutely beyond question that the Democratic Party
is in hell of a state. They don't know who
they are, they don't know who to follow. For a
third time, I don't know if the nation can handle that.
The three peat? Good lord, what a nightmare, that would be,
but they are their leader. Listen Rudderless. The only energy
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in the party is the Bernie aoc wing, which is ridiculous.
They're running away from a lot of the policies that
again have provided the energy. Defund the police, dei, anti white,
anti mail, the rest of it. They're in a hell
of a state. So a couple of things. Number one,
this from the New York Times. Six months later. Democrats
are still searching for the path forward, and they talk
(03:04):
to a variety of experts, including this one gal who
runs focus groups, which may be one of my least
favorite aspects of modern society. That leaf blowers, focus groups
and leaf bears both horrible. God, I got my son
started on this now the other.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But but what was one of the morning's beautiful day
We're sitting out in the backyard, the palm tree in
the pool, and it couldn't be it's like a resort, beautiful.
It couldn't be leaf blower down the street, right, And
so like fifteen houses have to be subjected to this.
And I always want to say, I just want to say,
(03:42):
if you turn that off, I can't hear you can
speak up. If you turn that off so I can
enjoy the piece and quiet. I'll come over and rake
your leaves. It'll take me like twenty minutes. I'll come
out and rank your leaves later. I love you. Watch this.
The guy standing there, got one leaf on the lawn.
Just looking at that leaf.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
He's gonna stand there and they will read that things
one stage.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
To get that one.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
He could bend over and pick it up. He could
rake it, he could kick it. He could do but no,
but no, he's gonna stand there with his freaking blower.
Is there anything in society so ubiquitous and so ubiquitously
hate it as the leaf blower? I despise them. You
know it'll never get done. But in our just in
our neighborhood, our development, two days a week, even three
(04:31):
days a week, I'll settle. I'll start it to I'll
settle for three three days a week. You can freaking
blow leaves all right. The other four days.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
No, or everybody time the gardeners the same day, which
would be roughly what you're doing. But it seems like
now people go out of their way to time it.
Let's make sure there's a leaf blower going on one
of these houses every day, right, and like, and.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You've got an hour shift, You've got eight to nine am. Mondays,
all right, let's take it nine to ten am on Monday.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Who's okay? Excellent?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, yeah, I know it's just a scene. So anyway,
this woman does not run a leafblower. She runs focus groups,
and after about two hundred and fifty of them of
swing voters, some patterns have emerged. She likes to ask
the folks to compare the major parties to animals. What
animal is the Republican Party? Most like, how about the Democrats?
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And she said Republicans are seen as apex predators like lions,
tigers and sharks, beasts that take what they want when
they wanted. Democrats are typically tagged as tortoises, slugs or sloths, slow, plotting,
and passive. One guy said, yeah, more like a deer
in the headlights. But I thought that was an interesting
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method of trying to figure out what was going on.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But it goes on and on, various study groups and
experts and.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
All trying to figure out why the Democratic Party is
so lost.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yes, Democrats got to be a scavenger of some sort.
You're eating off of something that somebody else hunted and killed. Wow,
that's a good one. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Well, and they talk about the trends of working class folks, men,
white people, whatever, going away from the Democratic Party and
it becoming just a cluster of hyper educated women and
in a way that I think we've all noticed, fear
and anxiety. There's one more thing I wanted to mention, Oh,
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the gender gap. It's swinging more and more in the
favor of Republicans.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
For your ideological.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Debates over policies, whether to push for a stricter stand
on immigration, defend transgender rights less forcefully, or embrace anti
corporate populism, are already playing out on Capitol Hill, et cetera.
So they just they have no idea what they're doing.
They're gathering at luxury hotels and spending tons of money
trying to figure out how to win back working class voters. Oh,
here it is. I knew there was one more thing.
(06:54):
And one of the things that they're pitching, I'll tell
you how it get back working class voters. Use the
latinex a lot or Hertstree, Hertstree. Talk about Hertstreet, you
know in our nation's Hurtstree, and teach little girls they
can become boys. With just a little bit of surgery
and some powerful hormones. We will carve up your body
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and turn you into a boy. Keep preaching that anyway.
So various people were pitching various projects. One was a
new twenty million dollar effort aimed to have reversed the
erosion of democratic support among young men, especially online. It
is coded code named SAM, short for Speaking with American Men,
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a strategic plan and promises investment to quote study the syntax,
language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fancy words and
smart people who couldn't pick up on young men don't
dig the whole trans restrooms thing or constantly being blamed
for everything that's wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Ah, they do mentioned quote above all. We must shift
from a moralizing tone, no way. Yeah, browbeating people constantly
that they're bad unless they go along with your ridiculous
radical ideology.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, that tends to piss people off. It wears them out.
So here you go. Red and Wall Street Journal a
profile of a man who is so clearly posturing himself
to run for president. It is unmistakable not Gavy Newsome,
not Josh Shapiro. Very very smart, very savvy, very moderate
(08:38):
Ram Emmanuel hm Obama's former chief of staff, mayor of Chicago.
He is very very smart, and he has been unmistakably
anti woke, right, and he has the spine and the
verbal talents to take on the AOC crowd and put
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him in their place, and would have no trouble doing it. Yeah, lost,
he lost his finger at an RB's. I feel like
that's a strike against him. But he's going to have
to explain that to America because he was working. He
was a young, hard working teenager trying to get ahead
in this great country.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Everybody else was running the sliced beef machine and didn't
lose their fingers. But hey, you live and you learn.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
So he is direct about what he thinks Democrats need
to win the national elections.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Again. Party wrong. When you point the finger at someone else,
he got three and a half fingers pointing back at you. Wow,
just let me know when you're done.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I'll continue on with some solid analysis America's electoral politics.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
He he called the party's brand toxic and weak and woke.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
He'll be the headliner at a September fish fry for
Democrats in Iowa.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I'd be rooting for him. He must really like Iowa fish.
I hope he runs at the very least in the
nomination fight to take on you know, Gavin Newsom in
his crap.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
So it's gonna be Rama Manuel versus. And I'm less
certain about this one. Marco Rubio, who I believe will
be more appealing to the American people than JD. Vans
because the band is my prediction. People mark my words,
mark them. People can't vote for a president with a beard.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Uh No.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I think the beard's fine, and the whole mangled finger
is also fine. It's it's a question of policy and
connecting with people.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
But it would be got Cham.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I'm not freaking Gavin, although watching him torn apart by
the electorate and the media will be great fun.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
So there's a big Supreme Court breaking news story right now.
We're headed into the time of the year, you know,
in June, where they announce all their big cases and
then run out the door so nobody can ask him
any questions. But we've we've got one ruling that has
come down today. I want to get back into Russia, Ukraine.
At some point Wall Street Journal editorye with the big statement,
(11:01):
Lindsey Graham with a major statement about it. And this
could be a turning point in the whole war. Lots
of stuff to talk about. Hope you can stay here.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Video of President McCaw and his wife Brigitte pushing his
face as they land in Vietnam is going viral. Later,
mccaorn appears to offer his arm, but Francis first Lady
wants to hold the railing instead. The ADZ Palace initially
denied anything unusual had happened, calling it a moment of
togetherness and playful teasing in a statement.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
See I bought that originally when I watched the video
the door opens on the plane. You got the President
of France, McCrone getting shoved in the face by his wife,
and you see it, and then he sees that the
doors open the cameras on a big smile. I originally
bought the idea because I've known people who are like that.
I've not been in that relationship, but I've known people
who like she might playfully push him like that. Sure, yeah,
(12:04):
and it's no big deal. The fact that he offered
her his arm as they headed down the stairs, and
she just stared straight ahead and didn't take it. That
means that was not some sort of playful push. They
were actually having an argument.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
To me body language segment, Yeah, absolutely true.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I watched it. I had no doubt. Yeah, she was pissed.
She has pissed off at him. Yeah, how very French
of him surrender to his old wife. Anyway, this headline
last week, I was worried about reading. It turned out
to be a nothing jurors a ditty trial, learn of
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the disgusting way he likes his burgers. Ex employs testify,
and given everything that has come out of the ditty trial,
I thought, oh my god, what does he put on
his burgers? What does he make people do? And then
the the Levins, I thought this is gonna be this
is gonna be so gross. But no, he likes apple
sauce on his burgers, which is kind of weird and
(13:01):
I've never heard of that. I wouldn't call it. Given
the context of the trial and some really disgusting things
that are happening, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Call it a smon beating rapist. That's the The apple
sauce is not the disgusting poll.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
On their yurinination has played a role. I mean, there's
all lots of disgusting things in this trial. Apple sauce
in your burgers doesn't count as disgusting in that context.
It's odd. I haven't tried it. I'm not like it.
Also breaking news last week, the penny is finally going
away sometime next year. The penny they will make the
last penny at the us Men. The us Men has
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placed its final order for penny blanks will stop producing
the coin when those run out early next year, marking
the beginning of the end of the oldest continually printed
money piece in America, the Treasury announced last week. I
just think this is such a good example of why
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can only Trump do some things like this? Why is that.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
He just lacks everybody else's tendency toward inertia. Inertia plays
a huge role in government. You know, we've talked about it.
You start a program, it's forever. But we start a bureaucracy.
All it does is grow.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
But whether it's something important, like now, Jerusalem is a
capital of Israel. Everybody treats that's in the capitol. From
now on, it's the capital. Whether it's that that every
president in my lifetime has said they were gonna do
but didn't because focus groups are think tanks or whatever.
He doesn't. And then the penny, which is not important,
but just everybody's talked about it. But what are you
(14:41):
afraid you'd be blamed by history or something. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It just seems so crazy to me, or that, you know,
commerce would come to a halt or something. It's absurd
when you think about it. I mean, because way back
in the day in England they had the haypenny frequently
or probably featured in the Christmas is Coming the Goose
is Getting Fat song, know that one. There's no hay
penny anymore. You know why, because that's an absurdly small
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denomination of money. Given the current value of the pound
or the dollar in this.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Case, there's no reason for it. Likewise, the penny.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
If the penny existed when a dollar could buy you
a horse, the penny.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Should not exist.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It's an absurdly small denomination, sure, obviously, and has been
for quite some time. And then with the most recent
inflation it just took it to the next level. Plus
you got the fact that it costs three cents to
make a penny, which is dumb. It makes it costs
like seven cents to make a nickel. There's talk of
doing away with the nickel. I don't know, yeah, boy,
(15:41):
nickels probably what a penny was not that long ago.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
If you were to start right now and say to people,
all right, here's what you can buy for a dollar,
you know, various examples of it, and it wouldn't be much,
and said, the smallest increment we're going to have is
a tenth of a dollar.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So what can it dollar buy? It like a candy bar?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah. I don't often have a dollar in my mitt
looking to buy something, So I don't know if I
go to the dollar store a fair amount because my
son really likes him. So give me, give me an example.
What can you buy for a dollar? A variety of cheap, plastic,
crappy things that are worth while.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Ye, So the smallest denomination we're gonna have is one
tenth of what it takes to buy a cheap, crappy
plastic whatever. People will say, Yeah, that's that's plenty small,
that's plenty fine enough.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, the dime is where, Yeah, the dime should probably
be the smallest denomination, and we actually do okay on
the dime in terms of it's about a break even
of what it costs to make a dime, right. And
I was shocked the other day.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I did an inflation calculator from I think was the
eighties to the present day, and it was I don't
remember the number, and I don't want to mislead, but
it was multiples. It was not like, wow, this is
a third or less everybody's more expensive. No, it's like quadruple.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Everybody should do that to have a really realistic view
of what your salary is or what your house costs
or whatever, compared to like when you were a kid
and aware of those things.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
It's shocking coming up some impactful, important stories about the world. Plus,
is it better to shower in the morning or at night?
There is a clear answer from science. Okay, Well, that
was us MIT talk. We'll see you next two day.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Of US high school students reported feeling sad or hopeless
in twenty twenty three, and twenty percent had seriously considered
attempting suicide.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I appreciated that Meet the Press on Sunday did not
go with the usual news of the day, particularly around
Donald Trump. They went with the crisis that we've talked
about a lot and should be treated like a crisis,
that people are lonelier than ever, young people are killing
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themselves and taking medications to deal with anxiety, and all
of the blah blah blah. We know all this stuff
as being like a lead story, which it is should
be a lead story, the lead story every week. B
this is what Trump did yesterday for the cynical about
these people.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I wonder whether they're doing that for the right reason
or if their ratings are just dropping off with never
ending Trump hysteria. But anyway, back to the very very
important topic.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Let's hear a little more from Christian Walker of Meet
the Press laying out some of the facts here.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
The mental health crisis in America is impacting young people
in profound ways, and public health officials say it is
an emergency. Two thirds of gen z report feelings of loneliness,
and half of young adults report symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Youth suicide rates are climbing. It is now one of
the leading causes of death in adolescents and young adults.
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Almost one in five young adults report rarely or never
receiving the social support they need. In our super connected times,
over fifty five million US adults report frequent loneliness. The
smartphones and social media apps that connect us to the
world are also accelerating the crisis.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, we all know that. That's one thing about this story.
I feel like every single time we quickly get to smartphones,
social media and everybody's aware of this already, there's a
lot like there's not like the next sentence or the
next whatever comes after that. So we should what make it?
(19:35):
Have Superman fly around the world where really fast and
turn back time to be four smartphones. If that were possible,
I'd be all for it.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Right, I'm trying to remember there was a great phrase
by Caitlin Flanagan I think who wrote that we're drowning
in the stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's killing us, but we like it under the water. Ahh,
that's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good. Now, combining a
couple of things that are related and not related, I guess.
So this Netflix show Adolescence that's getting a tremendous amount
of attention. It's already got one hundred and fourteen million views,
which is a lot compared to like regular TV shows,
(20:12):
it's based on a horrifying story of a middle schooler
boy who murdered his classmate girl. And one of the
reasons it's getting a fair amount of attention by The
New York Times, and Gavin Newsom talked about how he
had to turn it off was horrifying, is because they
present a lot of it as right wing, toxic masculinity
(20:34):
that is caught on on social media and the Tate
Brothers and that sort of stuff. But and it goes
too far. All of that stuff is true, but it
leaves out, you know, there's plenty on all sides of
what's wrong with social media and what it's doing to
people and their worldviews, especially young men. And then this
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story worry that also fits into what I think is
this thing it became a TikTok craze, but the I
think there's a lot of truth in it. It's the
idea of men calling each other at night and saying, hey,
just want to say good night to you. You know
you're a good friend, and saying good night. And I
thought that's because that's a thing that usually gets taken
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care of by having a girlfriend or wife or boyfriend
or husband if you're gay, but you you have a
relationship of somebody that's going to text you goodnight, call
you good night, or is in bed next to you,
and so many people don't. Now it was kind of
presented as like a joke, but I could see how
that could be a thing. I'm not going to do it,
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but I could see how that could be a thing
because you're lacking that in your life. Nobody at the
end of the day that says, yeah, I'm thinking about you, goodnight,
miss you, something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, these are all very troubling elements. Right right, I'm
struck by and I'm trying to find the right words.
How much of this stuff is antiseptic is the closest
I'm getting. What I'm what I'm driving at is online interaction,
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including everything that we've described so far.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And you're gonna make fun of this, but go ahead.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
First they laugh at you, then they laugh at you more,
then they really really laugh at you, but then they Hailey,
who's a genius. I think that's how it ends anyway,
an online relationship, porn, social media, online quote unquote friends.
I remember railing about the term friends. Yeah, when Facebook
(22:49):
first caught on, I was ahead of my time.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yeah, you're right about that. The Yeah, the porn chick
you're looking at is not going to text you miss
you good night at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
But here's what just dawned on me is you're going
through these things, all of those quote unquote relationships or
being with those people. They have no smell, they have
no taste, they have no feelings, physical sensation until the
love bots come along and the rest of it. They
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are incredibly antiseptic, and they lack all of the like downside.
All right, So you're with a girl, maybe she's got
bad breath. Porn doesn't have bad breath, for instance.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It all is so.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Lacking in the rough and tumble of real life that
I think people can no longer tolerate the rough and
tumble of real life of a lover who's occasionally insensitive
or has bad breath or is sweating from the gym
or whatever, and friends who annoy you and stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I don't know if those are the examples that are
keeping people. I think it's the but it's easy, it's
all so, I think it's the emotional effort is a
is a problem. If if if there's a crowd out there,
and we know that it's true. I've seen this with
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my own eyes, and it horrifies me. They like draw
straws to see who's going to call to order the
pizza because it's so intimidating that crowd's not going to
ask somebody out and make the emotional risk that is
getting into her relationship. I mean, I think pretty clearly true.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Or fight through the inevitable part of the relationship where
you realize, Okay, this person is fully human and has
flaws and annoys me at times, and there are.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Sometimes we're going to have to do stuff that they
want to do and not just stuff I want to do.
I think that's a big part of it. To go
back a second, and I don't want to get a
hung up on this, because the point is not any
of this. The whole point is not any of the
sex stuff. But apparently because I've read about this, I
think I was out in the New York Post. You can,
like a lot of these OnlyFans women, you can get
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some sort of set up with them where they text
you throughout the day how's your day going, and text
you at night to fulfill that particular desire. That desire
is strong enough that dudes are not doing it with
each other, at least according to a TikTok trend. You know,
just thinking to you good night, you can pay somebody
to do that. How would that look? I can't imagine
(25:30):
getting any satisfaction from that whatsoever. Hey, you've got to
delude yourself. You'd have to delude yourself. The person I'm
paying just texted me to say good night. Hi, good
night everybody. John Fetterman, he's mine. Yeah, uh god, that
is horrifying. But I had another prink. Oh. So, the
lead on Meet the Press was the Surgeon General saying
(25:51):
a while back that we have a loneliness epidemic. It's
cutting years off people's lives. It's a leading killer because
because because it's all kinds of different problems. So do
you think it's just flat loneliness because of all the
stuff where you've just described.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's a it's a vicious circle
of loneliness for the reasons we've been discussing. You have
this antiseptic uh simulacrum, a faux relationship with various people
from you know, and that you have your OnlyFans, girl,
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texts you thinking of you.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
And then you begin to think.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I mean, it's it's the stripper saying, oh you're handsome
on steroids, and people are primed to actually believe it.
It's like, you know, falling in love with a damn robot.
It's it's it's it's awful.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
God. I would say so if we're at the loneliness
epidemic right when AI is taking off, and like only
Fans has only been around for a few years, it
just seems like the timing is the cures are coming. Cures.
I guess I'll use my finger quote because it's not
curing the underlying problem, but the the ointment or the
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sav for the problem.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
They're getting they're getting better. Yeah, the band aids over
the gaping wound are getting better. That's the metaphor I
would go with. Oh, yes, yes, here's a really nice
band aid. Look it completely covers the gaping wound.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah. I'm telling you the human kind is doomed.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
On the other hand, between now and when the beavers
take over, you want to protect your loved ones and stuff.
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Yeah, I got it at my house. I always say this,
I like the sign in the yard when I'm backing
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And I mean they don't need to be alerted. Maybe
it keeps them from getting in in the first place,
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on all the doors and windows, and the lifeguard protection
and the cameras and everything else that will keep you
out of my home.
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Speaker 1 (28:37):
I don't know what this is gonna sound like. Let's
jam this in real quick. This is from the TikTok trend,
which I think is a combination of kind of funny
and silly and a serious underlying problem.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
I'll just call and tell you good night, sleeep dreams.
I'm about to lay down. I'm not get in the
bad I just want to call tell you good night, bro,
sleep dreams.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Why are you doing? I hope you sleep tight? Bro?
What do you have? What sweet drink? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Bro? I just I can't wish did you sleep good tonight?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Which mean.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I was just calling to say tonight. Well thanks man.
I appreciate that. I don't remember the lost of time
someone say good night.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I just want Colin say you good night, sweet dreams.
I just want Colin say you good night, bro. If
you sleep tight tonight, I think we get it.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So, whether it's just it's just TikTok silliness, somebody trying
to go viral, but it's calling.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
People, if guys, to freak him out and then post
it on them, but it reeks of a need, I
think that is well.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I don't think I guarantee it's out there. Yeah, I
guess the loneliness epidemic, which is well Joe. Joe always
said we're doomed, so there's no point in going on
with the conversation. Humanity is doomed. I think he's right.
We love it here under the water. That's the problem. Wow. Yeah,
they didn't really have any answers on meet the press either,
(29:59):
as they went through all that stuff of social media
and phones and lack of connection and blah blah blah
and all these different sorts of things. Uh, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
They didn't really have an answer. Turn the effing thing off,
leave it behind. People aren't gonna do that though. Hang
out with your friends, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And you know it. People.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I'm not concerned with people, Jack, I'm not concerned with
solving the problem.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Quote unquote.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I'm throwing starfish back in the water. If I listen
to me and one other person does, that's great. I
can't save society, forget it.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's doomed. I just want to save as many people
as I can, including me and the people I love.
We got like two generations left, and there'll be no
more human beings. On earth Land of the Beavers. Yeah
and thoughts. Text line is four one, five two nine
five kftc.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
An overturned truck covered a Texas highway an eight million dime,
sparking a wild frenzy of drivers picking up like three
dimes and saying, this is actually hard.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Let's just go.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
The dimes should be the smallest denomination of American coinage
that has been decided.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Surprising number of texts from your teas of is it
better to shower in the morning or at night? Hmmm?
I would like to know the answer according to science, Yes,
I've I was always a morning guy. I have become
a night guy. I shower at night. Yeah, well I
stay too. If you work out during the day, what
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are you going to get in You're gonna get into
bed with your sweaty body.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Grows you shower again, play golf, workout, whatever, double shower. Yeah, absolutely,
So it's the question is.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Long better debate? Better shower in the morning or night.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Of course, morning shower enthusiasts say that's the obvious winner.
It helps you wake up start the day fresh, Absolutely true.
Night shower loyalists, on the other hand, will argue it's
better to wash the day away and relax before bed.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
You get into bed nice and clean. Yeah, I don't
like into getting into bed not clean. Also, you know,
getting back to our previous conversation, I got no companionship
and that plays a role. I would be showering more
often if I did well.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
The microbiologist who wrote this says, there is actually a
clear answer to the question. This part is really interesting,
and their perspective is mostly about body odor. Many of
us think body odor is caused by sweat. It is
kind of indirectly, but it's actually produced by bacteria that
live on the surface of the skin. Fresh sweat is odorless,
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but skin dwelling bacteria, specifically staphlocaci, use sweat as a
direct nutrition source. When they bring down the sweat, it
releases as a sulfur compaining containing compound, which is behind
pungent boh.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Finding this very gross, I think I almost never have
the body odor. I shower enough to avoid that.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
So during the day, your body and hair inevitably collect
pollutants and allergens, dust pollens that are alongside the usual
accumulation of sweat and sebaceous oil. While some of these
particles will be retained by your clothes, others will inevitably
be transferred to your sheets and pillow cases.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I don't want that.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
The sweat and oil from your skin will support the
growth of bacteria that comprise your skin microbiome. They can
be transferred onto your sheets. So showering at night may
remove some of the allergen sweat and oil picked up
during the day, so less ends up on your bed sheets. However,
even if you're freshly showered before bed, you still sweat
during the night, whatever the temperature. Your skin microbes will
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then eat the nutrients in the sweat, and you know
what that means. By the morning, you'll have both deposited
microbes onto your bed sheets and you'll probably wake up
with some boh all right, And what particularly negates the
cleaning benefits of the night's showers If your bedding is
not laundered regularly, the odor causing micro present your bed
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sheets may be transferred while you sleep under your clean body.
So I'll cut to the chase, because this is long.
Morning showers help remove dead skin cells as well as
any sweater bacteria you've picked up from your bed sheets
during the night. Especially important if your bed sheets aren't
freshly washed when you went to bed. This microbiologist says,
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clear winter morning showers.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, good for you. I'm in a shower at night,
rejecting science. Mm, rejecting that scientist.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
You're like the priests who tortured Galileo or poisoned him
or punched him in the face.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I don't remember. You would have kicked Copernicus out of
the temple as you reject you know, you know what
I noticed coming out of my three week sickness. But
usually when you're sick, it's like a week or something
like that. Usually when I'm sick, I get into a
habit of like not doing my normal stuff, and so
like the bed sheets are all there's tissues everywhere. My
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room is not just when you're sick. And then finally,
when I'm done being sick, it's like, okay, let's get
back to real life. Let's wash all the sheets, throw
all the stuff away, let's get everything straightened out again.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so true. Yeah, Okay, So anyway, shower
whenever they you want. Sarson who sleeps in socks? So
why would anybody take like a cycle path? Why wouldn't
anybody take any advice from you? Tell you what, there's
a fire, burglary. I throw my shoes on, which are
right next to the bed, next to my gun, my eyeglasses,
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and I'm ready to go. Somedights, I sleep in a
track suit if I think, you know, there could be
action tonight. Gotta be ready.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Like a guy I knew in high school on the
wrestling team. He would put on his socks and shoes first. Now,
you younger people are going to find this shocking, like Michelangelo,
as we've learned over the years, because nobody ever sees
anybody naked in the modern world. But back in the day,
you played sports and everybody was naked in the locker
room at the same time after you showered. Anyway, he
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would put on his socks and shoes before anything else.
And his theory was, what if there're a fire right now,
I can run out the door. You your bare foot.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Socks, end shoes, socks and shoe then like had to
work his pants over his shoes.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Now that's a psychopath. He went on to be a
marine and a cop, I believe, Wow, okay, and he
was always ready. Trump said the strongest things he's said
about Putin yet yesterday. That's after Putin launched the biggest
attacks of the entire war against Ukraine over the weekend. Yes, strong,
(36:27):
but odd and inconclusive. We'll talk about Matt an hour three,
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong
and Getty, en He Armstrong and Getty. According to The
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New York Times.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Bill Belichick used to make his girlfriend Jordan Hudson wear
red pants so he could spot her in the crowd.
No wonder he kept trying to have sex with Travis.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Kelcey Man, never ending jokes. You're an old, fat rich man.
You date a girl fifty years younger than you, and
all of a sudden, you're a sport for people's comedy. Yeah,
that's cruelty, you know, Just get alive. Now.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
She is told at least a couple of people Jack
that they are engaged.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Do we have? And has that been substantiate? It has
not been.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It was.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
They confirmed it on Thursday last time we're on the
air on CNN, But I don't. I haven't followed up
because who cares.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
But of course, if I was an attractive young woman
who was a precious metal extractor sometimes called a gold digger,
I could absolutely see saying to people were practically engaged, Yeah,
we're it's definitely we're unofficially engaged and stuff, just trying
(01:29):
to sink the claws.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
In a little deeper. Everybody said it wants preying up?
Who wants preying up?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So Kanye, Kanye, who's in rehab by the way, We
got to talk about that later. Kanye ended a rehab
over the weekend, apologized never endingly on Twitter, to the
point that Elon kicked him off Twitter again. But to
eat Kanye's at one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars
a month rehab something like it. I don't know an
iota about it. I will bring you up to speak completely, don't.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I don't know where to get better Kanye coverage here,
I guess so I thought this was interesting. There are
a couple of Oh, stay tuned. In just a few minutes,
I'll reveal to you who will be running for president
in twenty twenty eight on both.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Sides, Yes, I do so, stay tuned. Is Trump beautiful?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But it's just absolutely beyond question that the Democratic Party
is in hell of a state. They don't know who
they are, they don't know who to follow. For a
third time, I don't know if the nation can handle that.
The three peat? Good lord, what a nightmare, that would be,
but they are their leader. Listen Rudderless. The only energy
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in the party is the Bernie aoc wing, which is ridiculous.
They're running away from a lot of the policies that
again have provided the energy. Defund the police, dei, anti white,
anti mail, the rest of it. They're in a hell
of a state. So a couple of things. Number one,
this from the New York Times. Six months later. Democrats
are still searching for the path forward, and they talk
(03:04):
to a variety of experts, including this one gal who
runs focus groups, which may be one of my least
favorite aspects of modern society. That leaf blowers, focus groups
and leaf bears both horrible. God, I got my son
started on this now the other.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But but what was one of the morning's beautiful day
We're sitting out in the backyard, the palm tree in
the pool, and it couldn't be it's like a resort, beautiful.
It couldn't be leaf blower down the street, right, And
so like fifteen houses have to be subjected to this.
And I always want to say, I just want to say,
(03:42):
if you turn that off, I can't hear you can
speak up. If you turn that off so I can
enjoy the piece and quiet. I'll come over and rake
your leaves. It'll take me like twenty minutes. I'll come
out and rank your leaves later. I love you. Watch this.
The guy standing there, got one leaf on the lawn.
Just looking at that leaf.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
He's gonna stand there and they will read that things
one stage.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
To get that one.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
He could bend over and pick it up. He could
rake it, he could kick it. He could do but no,
but no, he's gonna stand there with his freaking blower.
Is there anything in society so ubiquitous and so ubiquitously
hate it as the leaf blower? I despise them. You
know it'll never get done. But in our just in
our neighborhood, our development, two days a week, even three
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days a week, I'll settle. I'll start it to I'll
settle for three three days a week. You can freaking
blow leaves all right. The other four days.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
No, or everybody time the gardeners the same day, which
would be roughly what you're doing. But it seems like
now people go out of their way to time it.
Let's make sure there's a leaf blower going on one
of these houses every day, right, and like, and.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You've got an hour shift, You've got eight to nine am. Mondays,
all right, let's take it nine to ten am on Monday.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Who's okay? Excellent?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, yeah, I know it's just a scene. So anyway,
this woman does not run a leafblower. She runs focus groups,
and after about two hundred and fifty of them of
swing voters, some patterns have emerged. She likes to ask
the folks to compare the major parties to animals. What
animal is the Republican Party? Most like, how about the Democrats?
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And she said Republicans are seen as apex predators like lions,
tigers and sharks, beasts that take what they want when
they wanted. Democrats are typically tagged as tortoises, slugs or sloths, slow, plotting,
and passive. One guy said, yeah, more like a deer
in the headlights. But I thought that was an interesting
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method of trying to figure out what was going on.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But it goes on and on, various study groups and
experts and.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
All trying to figure out why the Democratic Party is
so lost.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yes, Democrats got to be a scavenger of some sort.
You're eating off of something that somebody else hunted and killed. Wow,
that's a good one. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Well, and they talk about the trends of working class folks, men,
white people, whatever, going away from the Democratic Party and
it becoming just a cluster of hyper educated women and
in a way that I think we've all noticed, fear
and anxiety. There's one more thing I wanted to mention, Oh,
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the gender gap. It's swinging more and more in the
favor of Republicans.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
For your ideological.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Debates over policies, whether to push for a stricter stand
on immigration, defend transgender rights less forcefully, or embrace anti
corporate populism, are already playing out on Capitol Hill, et cetera.
So they just they have no idea what they're doing.
They're gathering at luxury hotels and spending tons of money
trying to figure out how to win back working class voters. Oh,
here it is. I knew there was one more thing.
(06:54):
And one of the things that they're pitching, I'll tell
you how it get back working class voters. Use the
latinex a lot or Hertstree, Hertstree. Talk about Hertstreet, you
know in our nation's Hurtstree, and teach little girls they
can become boys. With just a little bit of surgery
and some powerful hormones. We will carve up your body
(07:15):
and turn you into a boy. Keep preaching that anyway.
So various people were pitching various projects. One was a
new twenty million dollar effort aimed to have reversed the
erosion of democratic support among young men, especially online. It
is coded code named SAM, short for Speaking with American Men,
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a strategic plan and promises investment to quote study the syntax,
language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fancy words and
smart people who couldn't pick up on young men don't
dig the whole trans restrooms thing or constantly being blamed
for everything that's wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Ah, they do mentioned quote above all. We must shift
from a moralizing tone, no way. Yeah, browbeating people constantly
that they're bad unless they go along with your ridiculous
radical ideology.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, that tends to piss people off. It wears them out.
So here you go. Red and Wall Street Journal a
profile of a man who is so clearly posturing himself
to run for president. It is unmistakable not Gavy Newsome,
not Josh Shapiro. Very very smart, very savvy, very moderate
(08:38):
Ram Emmanuel hm Obama's former chief of staff, mayor of Chicago.
He is very very smart, and he has been unmistakably
anti woke, right, and he has the spine and the
verbal talents to take on the AOC crowd and put
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him in their place, and would have no trouble doing it. Yeah, lost,
he lost his finger at an RB's. I feel like
that's a strike against him. But he's going to have
to explain that to America because he was working. He
was a young, hard working teenager trying to get ahead
in this great country.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Everybody else was running the sliced beef machine and didn't
lose their fingers. But hey, you live and you learn.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
So he is direct about what he thinks Democrats need
to win the national elections.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Again. Party wrong. When you point the finger at someone else,
he got three and a half fingers pointing back at you. Wow,
just let me know when you're done.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I'll continue on with some solid analysis America's electoral politics.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
He he called the party's brand toxic and weak and woke.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
He'll be the headliner at a September fish fry for
Democrats in Iowa.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I'd be rooting for him. He must really like Iowa fish.
I hope he runs at the very least in the
nomination fight to take on you know, Gavin Newsom in
his crap.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
So it's gonna be Rama Manuel versus. And I'm less
certain about this one. Marco Rubio, who I believe will
be more appealing to the American people than JD. Vans
because the band is my prediction. People mark my words,
mark them. People can't vote for a president with a beard.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Uh No.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I think the beard's fine, and the whole mangled finger
is also fine. It's it's a question of policy and
connecting with people.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
But it would be got Cham.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I'm not freaking Gavin, although watching him torn apart by
the electorate and the media will be great fun.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
So there's a big Supreme Court breaking news story right now.
We're headed into the time of the year, you know,
in June, where they announce all their big cases and
then run out the door so nobody can ask him
any questions. But we've we've got one ruling that has
come down today. I want to get back into Russia, Ukraine.
At some point Wall Street Journal editorye with the big statement,
(11:01):
Lindsey Graham with a major statement about it. And this
could be a turning point in the whole war. Lots
of stuff to talk about. Hope you can stay here.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Video of President McCaw and his wife Brigitte pushing his
face as they land in Vietnam is going viral. Later,
mccaorn appears to offer his arm, but Francis first Lady
wants to hold the railing instead. The ADZ Palace initially
denied anything unusual had happened, calling it a moment of
togetherness and playful teasing in a statement.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
See I bought that originally when I watched the video
the door opens on the plane. You got the President
of France, McCrone getting shoved in the face by his wife,
and you see it, and then he sees that the
doors open the cameras on a big smile. I originally
bought the idea because I've known people who are like that.
I've not been in that relationship, but I've known people
who like she might playfully push him like that. Sure, yeah,
(12:04):
and it's no big deal. The fact that he offered
her his arm as they headed down the stairs, and
she just stared straight ahead and didn't take it. That
means that was not some sort of playful push. They
were actually having an argument.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
To me body language segment, Yeah, absolutely true.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I watched it. I had no doubt. Yeah, she was pissed.
She has pissed off at him. Yeah, how very French
of him surrender to his old wife. Anyway, this headline
last week, I was worried about reading. It turned out
to be a nothing jurors a ditty trial, learn of
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the disgusting way he likes his burgers. Ex employs testify,
and given everything that has come out of the ditty trial,
I thought, oh my god, what does he put on
his burgers? What does he make people do? And then
the the Levins, I thought this is gonna be this
is gonna be so gross. But no, he likes apple
sauce on his burgers, which is kind of weird and
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I've never heard of that. I wouldn't call it. Given
the context of the trial and some really disgusting things
that are happening, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Call it a smon beating rapist. That's the The apple
sauce is not the disgusting poll.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
On their yurinination has played a role. I mean, there's
all lots of disgusting things in this trial. Apple sauce
in your burgers doesn't count as disgusting in that context.
It's odd. I haven't tried it. I'm not like it.
Also breaking news last week, the penny is finally going
away sometime next year. The penny they will make the
last penny at the us Men. The us Men has
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placed its final order for penny blanks will stop producing
the coin when those run out early next year, marking
the beginning of the end of the oldest continually printed
money piece in America, the Treasury announced last week. I
just think this is such a good example of why
(13:57):
can only Trump do some things like this? Why is that.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
He just lacks everybody else's tendency toward inertia. Inertia plays
a huge role in government. You know, we've talked about it.
You start a program, it's forever. But we start a bureaucracy.
All it does is grow.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
But whether it's something important, like now, Jerusalem is a
capital of Israel. Everybody treats that's in the capitol. From
now on, it's the capital. Whether it's that that every
president in my lifetime has said they were gonna do
but didn't because focus groups are think tanks or whatever.
He doesn't. And then the penny, which is not important,
but just everybody's talked about it. But what are you
(14:41):
afraid you'd be blamed by history or something. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It just seems so crazy to me, or that, you know,
commerce would come to a halt or something. It's absurd
when you think about it. I mean, because way back
in the day in England they had the haypenny frequently
or probably featured in the Christmas is Coming the Goose
is Getting Fat song, know that one. There's no hay
penny anymore. You know why, because that's an absurdly small
(15:05):
denomination of money. Given the current value of the pound
or the dollar in this.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Case, there's no reason for it. Likewise, the penny.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
If the penny existed when a dollar could buy you
a horse, the penny.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Should not exist.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It's an absurdly small denomination, sure, obviously, and has been
for quite some time. And then with the most recent
inflation it just took it to the next level. Plus
you got the fact that it costs three cents to
make a penny, which is dumb. It makes it costs
like seven cents to make a nickel. There's talk of
doing away with the nickel. I don't know, yeah, boy,
(15:41):
nickels probably what a penny was not that long ago.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
If you were to start right now and say to people,
all right, here's what you can buy for a dollar,
you know, various examples of it, and it wouldn't be much,
and said, the smallest increment we're going to have is
a tenth of a dollar.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So what can it dollar buy? It like a candy bar?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah. I don't often have a dollar in my mitt
looking to buy something, So I don't know if I
go to the dollar store a fair amount because my
son really likes him. So give me, give me an example.
What can you buy for a dollar? A variety of cheap, plastic,
crappy things that are worth while.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Ye, So the smallest denomination we're gonna have is one
tenth of what it takes to buy a cheap, crappy
plastic whatever. People will say, Yeah, that's that's plenty small,
that's plenty fine enough.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, the dime is where, Yeah, the dime should probably
be the smallest denomination, and we actually do okay on
the dime in terms of it's about a break even
of what it costs to make a dime, right. And
I was shocked the other day.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I did an inflation calculator from I think was the
eighties to the present day, and it was I don't
remember the number, and I don't want to mislead, but
it was multiples. It was not like, wow, this is
a third or less everybody's more expensive. No, it's like quadruple.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Everybody should do that to have a really realistic view
of what your salary is or what your house costs
or whatever, compared to like when you were a kid
and aware of those things.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
It's shocking coming up some impactful, important stories about the world. Plus,
is it better to shower in the morning or at night?
There is a clear answer from science. Okay, Well, that
was us MIT talk. We'll see you next two day.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Of US high school students reported feeling sad or hopeless
in twenty twenty three, and twenty percent had seriously considered
attempting suicide.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I appreciated that Meet the Press on Sunday did not
go with the usual news of the day, particularly around
Donald Trump. They went with the crisis that we've talked
about a lot and should be treated like a crisis,
that people are lonelier than ever, young people are killing
(17:57):
themselves and taking medications to deal with anxiety, and all
of the blah blah blah. We know all this stuff
as being like a lead story, which it is should
be a lead story, the lead story every week. B
this is what Trump did yesterday for the cynical about
these people.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I wonder whether they're doing that for the right reason
or if their ratings are just dropping off with never
ending Trump hysteria. But anyway, back to the very very
important topic.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Let's hear a little more from Christian Walker of Meet
the Press laying out some of the facts here.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
The mental health crisis in America is impacting young people
in profound ways, and public health officials say it is
an emergency. Two thirds of gen z report feelings of loneliness,
and half of young adults report symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Youth suicide rates are climbing. It is now one of
the leading causes of death in adolescents and young adults.
(18:51):
Almost one in five young adults report rarely or never
receiving the social support they need. In our super connected times,
over fifty five million US adults report frequent loneliness. The
smartphones and social media apps that connect us to the
world are also accelerating the crisis.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, we all know that. That's one thing about this story.
I feel like every single time we quickly get to smartphones,
social media and everybody's aware of this already, there's a
lot like there's not like the next sentence or the
next whatever comes after that. So we should what make it?
(19:35):
Have Superman fly around the world where really fast and
turn back time to be four smartphones. If that were possible,
I'd be all for it.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Right, I'm trying to remember there was a great phrase
by Caitlin Flanagan I think who wrote that we're drowning
in the stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's killing us, but we like it under the water. Ahh,
that's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good. Now, combining a
couple of things that are related and not related, I guess.
So this Netflix show Adolescence that's getting a tremendous amount
of attention. It's already got one hundred and fourteen million views,
which is a lot compared to like regular TV shows,
(20:12):
it's based on a horrifying story of a middle schooler
boy who murdered his classmate girl. And one of the
reasons it's getting a fair amount of attention by The
New York Times, and Gavin Newsom talked about how he
had to turn it off was horrifying, is because they
present a lot of it as right wing, toxic masculinity
(20:34):
that is caught on on social media and the Tate
Brothers and that sort of stuff. But and it goes
too far. All of that stuff is true, but it
leaves out, you know, there's plenty on all sides of
what's wrong with social media and what it's doing to
people and their worldviews, especially young men. And then this
(20:59):
story worry that also fits into what I think is
this thing it became a TikTok craze, but the I
think there's a lot of truth in it. It's the
idea of men calling each other at night and saying, hey,
just want to say good night to you. You know
you're a good friend, and saying good night. And I
thought that's because that's a thing that usually gets taken
(21:25):
care of by having a girlfriend or wife or boyfriend
or husband if you're gay, but you you have a
relationship of somebody that's going to text you goodnight, call
you good night, or is in bed next to you,
and so many people don't. Now it was kind of
presented as like a joke, but I could see how
that could be a thing. I'm not going to do it,
(21:46):
but I could see how that could be a thing
because you're lacking that in your life. Nobody at the
end of the day that says, yeah, I'm thinking about you, goodnight,
miss you, something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, these are all very troubling elements. Right right, I'm
struck by and I'm trying to find the right words.
How much of this stuff is antiseptic is the closest
I'm getting. What I'm what I'm driving at is online interaction,
(22:21):
including everything that we've described so far.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And you're gonna make fun of this, but go ahead.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
First they laugh at you, then they laugh at you more,
then they really really laugh at you, but then they Hailey,
who's a genius. I think that's how it ends anyway,
an online relationship, porn, social media, online quote unquote friends.
I remember railing about the term friends. Yeah, when Facebook
(22:49):
first caught on, I was ahead of my time.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yeah, you're right about that. The Yeah, the porn chick
you're looking at is not going to text you miss
you good night at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
But here's what just dawned on me is you're going
through these things, all of those quote unquote relationships or
being with those people. They have no smell, they have
no taste, they have no feelings, physical sensation until the
love bots come along and the rest of it. They
(23:23):
are incredibly antiseptic, and they lack all of the like downside.
All right, So you're with a girl, maybe she's got
bad breath. Porn doesn't have bad breath, for instance.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It all is so.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Lacking in the rough and tumble of real life that
I think people can no longer tolerate the rough and
tumble of real life of a lover who's occasionally insensitive
or has bad breath or is sweating from the gym
or whatever, and friends who annoy you and stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I don't know if those are the examples that are
keeping people. I think it's the but it's easy, it's
all so, I think it's the emotional effort is a
is a problem. If if if there's a crowd out there,
and we know that it's true. I've seen this with
(24:22):
my own eyes, and it horrifies me. They like draw
straws to see who's going to call to order the
pizza because it's so intimidating that crowd's not going to
ask somebody out and make the emotional risk that is
getting into her relationship. I mean, I think pretty clearly true.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Or fight through the inevitable part of the relationship where
you realize, Okay, this person is fully human and has
flaws and annoys me at times, and there are.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Sometimes we're going to have to do stuff that they
want to do and not just stuff I want to do.
I think that's a big part of it. To go
back a second, and I don't want to get a
hung up on this, because the point is not any
of this. The whole point is not any of the
sex stuff. But apparently because I've read about this, I
think I was out in the New York Post. You can,
like a lot of these OnlyFans women, you can get
(25:10):
some sort of set up with them where they text
you throughout the day how's your day going, and text
you at night to fulfill that particular desire. That desire
is strong enough that dudes are not doing it with
each other, at least according to a TikTok trend. You know,
just thinking to you good night, you can pay somebody
to do that. How would that look? I can't imagine
(25:30):
getting any satisfaction from that whatsoever. Hey, you've got to
delude yourself. You'd have to delude yourself. The person I'm
paying just texted me to say good night. Hi, good
night everybody. John Fetterman, he's mine. Yeah, uh god, that
is horrifying. But I had another prink. Oh. So, the
lead on Meet the Press was the Surgeon General saying
(25:51):
a while back that we have a loneliness epidemic. It's
cutting years off people's lives. It's a leading killer because
because because it's all kinds of different problems. So do
you think it's just flat loneliness because of all the
stuff where you've just described.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's a it's a vicious circle
of loneliness for the reasons we've been discussing. You have
this antiseptic uh simulacrum, a faux relationship with various people
from you know, and that you have your OnlyFans, girl,
(26:30):
texts you thinking of you.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
And then you begin to think.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I mean, it's it's the stripper saying, oh you're handsome
on steroids, and people are primed to actually believe it.
It's like, you know, falling in love with a damn robot.
It's it's it's it's awful.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
God. I would say so if we're at the loneliness
epidemic right when AI is taking off, and like only
Fans has only been around for a few years, it
just seems like the timing is the cures are coming. Cures.
I guess I'll use my finger quote because it's not
curing the underlying problem, but the the ointment or the
(27:09):
sav for the problem.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
They're getting they're getting better. Yeah, the band aids over
the gaping wound are getting better. That's the metaphor I
would go with. Oh, yes, yes, here's a really nice
band aid. Look it completely covers the gaping wound.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah. I'm telling you the human kind is doomed.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
On the other hand, between now and when the beavers
take over, you want to protect your loved ones and stuff.
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Yeah, I got it at my house. I always say this,
I like the sign in the yard when I'm backing
out of the driveway that alerts people to the fact.
And I mean they don't need to be alerted. Maybe
it keeps them from getting in in the first place,
but they'll find out soon enough that I have censors
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and the cameras and everything else that will keep you
out of my home.
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Speaker 1 (28:37):
I don't know what this is gonna sound like. Let's
jam this in real quick. This is from the TikTok trend,
which I think is a combination of kind of funny
and silly and a serious underlying problem.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
I'll just call and tell you good night, sleeep dreams.
I'm about to lay down. I'm not get in the
bad I just want to call tell you good night, bro,
sleep dreams.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Why are you doing? I hope you sleep tight? Bro?
What do you have? What sweet drink? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Bro? I just I can't wish did you sleep good tonight?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Which mean.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I was just calling to say tonight. Well thanks man.
I appreciate that. I don't remember the lost of time
someone say good night.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I just want Colin say you good night, sweet dreams.
I just want Colin say you good night, bro. If
you sleep tight tonight, I think we get it.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So, whether it's just it's just TikTok silliness, somebody trying
to go viral, but it's calling.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
People, if guys, to freak him out and then post
it on them, but it reeks of a need, I
think that is well.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I don't think I guarantee it's out there. Yeah, I
guess the loneliness epidemic, which is well Joe. Joe always
said we're doomed, so there's no point in going on
with the conversation. Humanity is doomed. I think he's right.
We love it here under the water. That's the problem. Wow. Yeah,
they didn't really have any answers on meet the press either,
(29:59):
as they went through all that stuff of social media
and phones and lack of connection and blah blah blah
and all these different sorts of things. Uh, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
They didn't really have an answer. Turn the effing thing off,
leave it behind. People aren't gonna do that though. Hang
out with your friends, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And you know it. People.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I'm not concerned with people, Jack, I'm not concerned with
solving the problem.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Quote unquote.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I'm throwing starfish back in the water. If I listen
to me and one other person does, that's great. I
can't save society, forget it.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's doomed. I just want to save as many people
as I can, including me and the people I love.
We got like two generations left, and there'll be no
more human beings. On earth Land of the Beavers. Yeah
and thoughts. Text line is four one, five two nine
five kftc.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
An overturned truck covered a Texas highway an eight million dime,
sparking a wild frenzy of drivers picking up like three
dimes and saying, this is actually hard.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Let's just go.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
The dimes should be the smallest denomination of American coinage
that has been decided.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Surprising number of texts from your teas of is it
better to shower in the morning or at night? Hmmm?
I would like to know the answer according to science, Yes,
I've I was always a morning guy. I have become
a night guy. I shower at night. Yeah, well I
stay too. If you work out during the day, what
(31:35):
are you going to get in You're gonna get into
bed with your sweaty body.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Grows you shower again, play golf, workout, whatever, double shower. Yeah, absolutely,
So it's the question is.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Long better debate? Better shower in the morning or night.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Of course, morning shower enthusiasts say that's the obvious winner.
It helps you wake up start the day fresh, Absolutely true.
Night shower loyalists, on the other hand, will argue it's
better to wash the day away and relax before bed.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
You get into bed nice and clean. Yeah, I don't
like into getting into bed not clean. Also, you know,
getting back to our previous conversation, I got no companionship
and that plays a role. I would be showering more
often if I did well.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
The microbiologist who wrote this says, there is actually a
clear answer to the question. This part is really interesting,
and their perspective is mostly about body odor. Many of
us think body odor is caused by sweat. It is
kind of indirectly, but it's actually produced by bacteria that
live on the surface of the skin. Fresh sweat is odorless,
(32:38):
but skin dwelling bacteria, specifically staphlocaci, use sweat as a
direct nutrition source. When they bring down the sweat, it
releases as a sulfur compaining containing compound, which is behind
pungent boh.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Finding this very gross, I think I almost never have
the body odor. I shower enough to avoid that.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
So during the day, your body and hair inevitably collect
pollutants and allergens, dust pollens that are alongside the usual
accumulation of sweat and sebaceous oil. While some of these
particles will be retained by your clothes, others will inevitably
be transferred to your sheets and pillow cases.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I don't want that.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
The sweat and oil from your skin will support the
growth of bacteria that comprise your skin microbiome. They can
be transferred onto your sheets. So showering at night may
remove some of the allergen sweat and oil picked up
during the day, so less ends up on your bed sheets. However,
even if you're freshly showered before bed, you still sweat
during the night, whatever the temperature. Your skin microbes will
(33:39):
then eat the nutrients in the sweat, and you know
what that means. By the morning, you'll have both deposited
microbes onto your bed sheets and you'll probably wake up
with some boh all right, And what particularly negates the
cleaning benefits of the night's showers If your bedding is
not laundered regularly, the odor causing micro present your bed
(34:00):
sheets may be transferred while you sleep under your clean body.
So I'll cut to the chase, because this is long.
Morning showers help remove dead skin cells as well as
any sweater bacteria you've picked up from your bed sheets
during the night. Especially important if your bed sheets aren't
freshly washed when you went to bed. This microbiologist says,
(34:21):
clear winter morning showers.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, good for you. I'm in a shower at night,
rejecting science. Mm, rejecting that scientist.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
You're like the priests who tortured Galileo or poisoned him
or punched him in the face.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I don't remember. You would have kicked Copernicus out of
the temple as you reject you know, you know what
I noticed coming out of my three week sickness. But
usually when you're sick, it's like a week or something
like that. Usually when I'm sick, I get into a
habit of like not doing my normal stuff, and so
like the bed sheets are all there's tissues everywhere. My
(34:53):
room is not just when you're sick. And then finally,
when I'm done being sick, it's like, okay, let's get
back to real life. Let's wash all the sheets, throw
all the stuff away, let's get everything straightened out again.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so true. Yeah, Okay, So anyway, shower
whenever they you want. Sarson who sleeps in socks? So
why would anybody take like a cycle path? Why wouldn't
anybody take any advice from you? Tell you what, there's
a fire, burglary. I throw my shoes on, which are
right next to the bed, next to my gun, my eyeglasses,
(35:25):
and I'm ready to go. Somedights, I sleep in a
track suit if I think, you know, there could be
action tonight. Gotta be ready.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Like a guy I knew in high school on the
wrestling team. He would put on his socks and shoes first. Now,
you younger people are going to find this shocking, like Michelangelo,
as we've learned over the years, because nobody ever sees
anybody naked in the modern world. But back in the day,
you played sports and everybody was naked in the locker
room at the same time after you showered. Anyway, he
(35:53):
would put on his socks and shoes before anything else.
And his theory was, what if there're a fire right now,
I can run out the door. You your bare foot.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Socks, end shoes, socks and shoe then like had to
work his pants over his shoes.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Now that's a psychopath. He went on to be a
marine and a cop, I believe, Wow, okay, and he
was always ready. Trump said the strongest things he's said
about Putin yet yesterday. That's after Putin launched the biggest
attacks of the entire war against Ukraine over the weekend. Yes, strong,
(36:27):
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