August 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Friday, August 29,2025 A&G Replay contains:
- Designer Babies
- Jack & the $48K Used Mattress
- Young Americans Cut Back / Super Rich Prenups
- Drunk AG & friend arrested after being booted from restaurant
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Yack, Armstrong, Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Getty, Armstrong and Jetty, and Pee arms Strong and Strong.
Welcome to a replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show.
We are on vacation, but boy, do we have some
good stuff for you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yes, indeed we do. And if you want to catch
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the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. You ought to
subscribe wherever you like to get podcasts. Now on with
the Infotainments. The story is entitled the Bride of Chinese Frankenstein.
I mean you got Chinese Frankenstein. Of course you got
to have his bride and the race to make designer babies.
(00:56):
Some great coverage in the Free press about a very
very odd story. This guy's name is he Young Q.
I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that this guy is semi infamous.
You may actually recall the story that he actually, uh
was a brilliant student, left China, went to Stanford and
(01:20):
went back to China, and he ultimately got arrested and
jailed for three years for illegal medical practices.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
He was he had.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
He announced in twenty eighteen that he had created the
world's first gene edited babies, twin girls. He said he
designed to have a trait very few who humans are
born with immunity to HIV. They called me Chinese Frankenstein.
He told me, I didn't know, journalist, I didn't know
what you were going to say.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
They were edited to have a trait no human beings
have had, if they could fly or see through walls
or what it was going to be.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
No, turns out it's immunity the HIV, which is you know,
certainly lovely so anyway, but China jailed him partly because
it was so incredibly controversial. And now though he is
still in China not supposed to leave, he's getting together
financing to open a lab in Austin, Texas. There, he
said he would do Alzheimer's research on monkeys and non
(02:16):
viable human embryos in hope of figuring out how to
one day edit human embryos in order to prevent the disease.
His great competitor in this field, weirdly enough, is his
ex wife. They appeared to have been married for about
three months.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
By the way, I took a pass on going into
some sort of monkeys with Alzheimer's bit. I decided it
was distasteful, but good thank god.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Enter cat is not banana. I had it just oh no, no, no,
it's not funny. There's no humor there. Enter Kathy Tie
a twenty nine year old Chinese born Canadian Theo Fellow.
Last year she co founded a genetic engineering company in
the US that's trying to create All right, there is
humor to be had here. Just everybody, feel for you
to join in. She's co founded a genetic engineering company
(03:04):
that's trying to create the next generation of pets, including dragons, unicorns,
and glowing the Dark rabbits.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, finally, the long desired need not satisfied for so
many right, glowing rabbits.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Tired of misplacing your rabbit at night. Can't tell you
how many times I've stepped on a rabbit.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
In the dark.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Right, right, Dragons, unicorns and glowing the Dark rabbits. But
this week she Corner Interview, what sort of sad.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Inbred genetically modified ba horned pet is going to be
the unicorn that comes out of this plant? Good Lord,
you're gonna give that to your daughter for her sixth
birthday and she's gonna shriek in horror.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well, they're specially designing tanks where narwals can mount female
donkeys until it get it right. Oh, anyway, let's see.
Oh so she gave an interview with NPR this week,
I guess, and she said, yeah, we're gonna do that,
and we will explore how to do gene correction in
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human embryos more safely. We want to be the company
that does this in the light, with transparency and with
good intentions. So, which is interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Because how many companies around the world, whether it's in Russia, China,
North Korea, or maybe in our own labs in the
United States, are doing this secretly. Probably a lot of
people are.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
So the fact that you got a guy who has
been called Chinese Frankenstein and the bride of Chinese Frankenstein
is in the same field as just a little too much.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Hey, that's hurtful.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
According to these people, they call what they're doing a
Manhattan project. The stakes to be fair, writes the journalists.
The stakes here are existential, according to their defenders. Designer babies,
as they're colloquially colloquially known, or a way to fast
track evolution to that end. Different publication, The Wall Street
(05:06):
Journal inside Silicon Valley's growing obsession with having smarter babies.
Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant
dates or select high IQ embryos.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
They want to raise high performing children. Why is it
always that? How come they're not looking for a surly
bald man. I can provide that.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
So they mentioned this mathematician who spent seven years researching
how to keep an advanced form of artificial intelligence from
destroying humanity before he declare concluded that stopping it was
not possible, at least anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I agree that part. I do agree with that last part.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Well, yeah, and oddly enough, I think this story is
proof of it because I remember in the early days
of jeans placing, people are like, now we need to
be very careful because we're playing god here, and what
if people decided And it's like, yeah, they're doing it
now at full speedhead. They're spending tremendous amounts of money
and our best, brightest minds are one hundred percent dedicated
(06:04):
to this. But anyway, so this AI doomsday guy said
he's now considered it turned his considerable brain power to
promoting cutting edge technology to create smarter humans who will
be up to the task of saving us all and
Silicon Valley evidently interest in breeding smarter babies is peaking.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You know what an interesting side to that. I don't
know if they've thought this through. What's your experience with
super smart people? A lot of them are miserable and
nuts in.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
My cap Yeah, there's a pretty good share of either miserable,
so anti social, they can't get along with anybody, menfolillness
problems because they're so isolated and they just see the
world so differently than everybody else, and or and I
read this at an early age and it made it
was was it Edison? Somebody had this wonderful quote about
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what tools don't bring you success, that it's all about
hard work, and one of them was intelligence unfulfilled. Genius
is a cliche. And so you know, and we're kind
of jumping to the end here, which is fine. She
describes all of the tech CEOs that prefer Ivy League.
(07:21):
They're charging them up to a half million dollars, trying
to get them the smartest woman they can or just
her embryos, and blah blah, blah, So they can have
the smartest kids they could possibly have, so wild.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
If I was given the choice, and I would never
want to play god like this with my kid anyway.
But if I was given the choice between a kid
with one sixty IQ or average, I'd go average because
I think I'd be like just committing a kid to
a lifetime of misery.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
In large Yeah, in large percentages. Yeah, absolutely true. Well,
and then you know the lack of insight and intelligence
and wisdom are separate traits. I become completely convinced of
that anyway. Not curiosity, Absolutely, You're not breeding for curiosity
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or capacity for hard work or morality if that's genetic
morality or dedication to a cause. I'm just thinking from
the perspective of these tech geniuses. Wait a minute, it
was a lot more than intelligence that made you what
you are today.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
It's all sorts of traits. God, it's probably intelligence, probably
way down the list of the reason Elon Musker, Elon Musker,
Thomas Edison, or picked your person was able to do
what they did. Like you said, unfulfilled genius is a cliche.
I mean, just there's so many other pieces of the puzzle.
(08:47):
You gotta have, and I remember there was a study
came out made a hell of an impression on me.
And I'm sure there's a whole field of this that
I'm just not familiar with, but.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
The different sorts of intelligence, and I think they separated
it in this seven different sorts at the time that
ranged from like mathematical, musical intelligence, emotional intelligence, athletic intelligence
because it's your brain directing your muscle fibers athletics and
learning and adapting and perfecting a skill. How is athletic
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prowess not a form of intelligence since it's all driven
by your brain. Anyway, I had an ultimate point of
just that the sort of d you're too dumb to
remember it. That's that's a big part of it. Yeah,
But how many of those different aspects of intelligence are
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necessary or even more important than just raw computing power?
So I mean, because IQ on one level, which is
impossible to measure, you could describe as just chip speed,
how fast, how effectively does your brain function, how fast
does it learn? But that's just one of a number
of qualities that I think lead to success, even in
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you know, a field like tech where everybody's a super genius.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And the history of the world is all technology is
co opted by the military for military us or porn.
I don't know how this is going to be affected
by porn, but one of the rare cases where I
can't see a porn application for this, but obviously a
military application. I mean, see all the Marvel movies. If
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you could actually breed a super soldier like Bucky and
Captain America are in those movies. China's doing that right now.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, Silicon Valley, they love IQ, said Kean Sidegi, founder
of Nucleus Genomics.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But again, what is your life experience that leads you
to believe that extra smart people are who you want
around you?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
But that's not necessarily what parents elsewhere value most. So
this guy is running one of these companies. You talk
to mom and Papa, Maara. Not every parent is like,
I want my kid to be, you know, a scholar
at Harvard Like, no, I want my kid to be
like Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Wow, okay, how much you want your kid? I want
my kid to be happy. I want my kid to
be you know, own a house, be married, have a
couple of kids, make a living, and be happy. That's
what I want.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I say, why don't we pluck this fruit from the
tree of knowledge and wolf it down and then enjoy
its delicious taste.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show,
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Liz Warrant fell down on the Senate floor yesterday and
to everyone's surprise, didn't even yell Geronimo, Indian name is
fall on ass.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That's pretty funny. How y'all doing?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
We got some good Newsy stuff for you. We talked
about this expensive bed on the One More Thing podcast
a while back, this really expensive mattress which oh I
remember that. Yeah, I'll hit you at the price here
in a moment, because if you haven't heard about this,
it's shocking. We actually walked by one of these stores.
It's Houstin's. I don't know how you pronounce it, h
A S T e ns. It's Scandinavian so hi Houston's.
(12:38):
I don't know how they pronounce it. But they don't
have many stores. The beds are ridiculously expensive, and we
walked by one of the stores on Park Avenue in
New York. We were leaving Central Park and we were
walking along all these ridiculously expensive stores and oh my god,
it's one of those bed stores. But you had to
have an appointment, and we were not dressed for people
to go in and look at these kind of mattresses.
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I would love to have laid down one.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I don't even know. If they don't let us orry
poor people, we can't allow you in here.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
So I don't remember how I came across this over
the weekend, and it it reignited my interest in this
sort of thing that it exists. But so I went
on eBay and there's one available on eBay that's used,
so they only want forty eight thousand dollars for it.
This used mattress comes with the box spring, so it's
mattress and box spring for forty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, And the owner of it, since I put it
on my watch, sent me an offer yesterday took four
thousand dollars off. They're only asking forty thousand dollars now
for this mattress and box spring. This mattress is made
of horsehair and some particular rare kind of horse and cotton.
(13:48):
It's all natural materials, it is said by reviewers. I
remember when I talked about this on our podcast. The
person who reviewed it, I think for the New York
Times said it's ridiculously overpriced and nobody is ever going
to buy one of these. But it is unlike sleeping
on anything you've ever slept on. It's as if you're suspended.
You're just floating. You can't even tell her or any
there's any pressure on any of your body.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You're just kind of floating there. And it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
But the original price on this particular mattress in box
Springs that I'm I'm you know, I'm trying. I'm deciding
whether or not to pull the trigger at forty grand
was eighty four thousand dollars eighty three nine eight Please
eighty four thousand dollars for a mattress and box spring.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Look, if you fly private all the time, go ahead
and buy the Horrors hair mattress.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
We prefer sex workers hair.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
By the way, Jack these horse the Beast of Burden. Oh,
I apologize, I misunderstood, But if that's your lifestyle, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
If not, that's insane.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Don't you remember that email we got from a gal.
She said, yeah, we bought one of these things, and
you've got to like have the Horrors hair massage every
two weeks. That's the most uncomfortable thing ever.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
No, that's part of the upkeep. Yes, you have to
have it. What is it called a rejuvenation or something
like that. Somebody needs to come into your home at
least once a year and re massage it to make it.
But it's just reinterview from somebody who's got one on Reddit.
They said, if you have the person come and rejuvenate
it all the time, it feels they've had it for
four years, feels exactly like it did on day one.
(15:21):
If you don't get it rejuvenated, you have a very
expensive sack of garbage, they said. But wow, I would
like to lay down on one. There's a store in
Silicon Valley, No surprise, I might. I might have to
go over there sometime and I'll I'll wear my suit
jacket and try to look like I belong there and
make an appointment and lay down on one so I
(15:41):
can re pull back. Isn't it amazing though, that anybody
would ever pulled the trigger on a four to eighty
four thousand dollars mattress in box sprint.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Like a lot of things, I think it exists.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So you can mention that you have it, But I
can't believe they sell enough of them to be able
to even be a company. Think you'd sell to a year.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It's at the you know, there are thousands of billionaires,
and every day I don't know that it's a billionaire.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I don't know. Maybe they get you.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
They sleep very you know.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I think if I walk into the I would think
if i'd have walked into that store in Park Avenue,
I'd been the first customer in six months one.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I don't know anyway, you here on purpose, sir? Oh yes,
oh my lord, Oh my god, Oh my god. Okay, okay, okay,
it'll be okay, all right, here we go, right. Yeah,
you know, it's funny. I was just reading that according
to several organizations, companies, people that would know, American consumers
(16:44):
are going way towards thrifty now. A lot of luxury
buying is down, generics are up, Bulk buying is on
the rise. Even your fancier burritos are going unordered in
your eateries, Your fancier burritos. Yeah, well, trust me what
I tell you. Like Chipotle, they keep very very careful
(17:04):
track of what is being ordered and what's not, and
they're seeing a trend towards lower dollar orders.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Wow, so maxed out credit cards, student loan payments coming back.
Probably a certain amount of uneasiness about the future that'd
be rated with the Center. I would never buy that
bed anyway, but I would never be able to sleep
because I'd be thinking, God, if the economy really crashes,
I'm going to feel like an idiot on this eighty
three thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I saw some of the pushback there in Venice about
the Bezos and his wife wedding. There's a lot of protesters.
They unfurled a giant sign in the middle of whatever
square that was there.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Did it say how much work is too much? With
a picture of her face?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Now there's a giant sign that said, if you can
afford this wedding, you can afford to pay more taxes. Okay,
all right?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Anyway, So some fairly shocking economic numbers out about the
purchasing the spending of eighteen to twenty four year old adults.
It fell thirteen percent year over year, thirteen percent a lot.
It's a huge drop spending my older groups is still
(18:36):
on the rise, but has slowed significantly. They mentioned a
combination of economic challenges. Young grads are having a much
tougher tougher time finding jobs, student loan payments are restarting
for millions of borrowers that for that crowd.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I know a few people in that situation, and it
has been quite the shock to their system, because I
know some people with some pretty big nuts, if you'll
pardon the expression, that they've got to be able to meet.
And all of a sudden, you have a five hundred
dollars a month bill that you didn't have before, and
you somehow were convinced by an ancient president you were
never gonna have to pay.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Right, little aoc and the mummy president convinced you that
you shouldn't have to pay those It's unjust. Yeah, people
they believe that stuff, which is why I warned my kids.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
This could be and that could be a lot of it.
You are not spending money on going out to eat,
in concerts and maybe travel. If all of a sudden
you're paying an extra five hundred to one thousand dollars
a month.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
No need to speculate I have those numbers. You're absolutely right. Plus,
over the roughly of the past year, credit card delinquency
rates have risen to the highest points since pre pandemic
levels highest for those eighteen to twenty nine years of age.
They quote a bunch of experts and economists. Expenditures this
is among eighteen to twenty four year olds on video
(19:53):
games is down twenty four percent, twenty three percent year
over year. We're the rest of those numbers. Apparel is
down eleven percent. Accessories is down eighteen percent. Oh, they
don't get how important it is to accessorize well accessories
I Technology is down fourteen percent. Small appliances down almost
(20:14):
twenty percent. Now I was going to get a toaster,
but I guess I won't small appliances. I like those
kind of statistics, but like my own anecdote dot evidence,
and this is completely anecdotal. I live in a wealthy
college town.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
The gout.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
These college kids are out to eat all the time,
dressed cool, talking on thousand dollars phones. That's not what
I was doing when I was in college. I was
eating beanie. Whenis five cans for a dollar from the
food club to get by I wasn't going out to
eat every day at expensive restaurants, which is what happens
in my college. But again that's anecdotal. But yeah, I
(20:53):
would say that is that is the anecdote that misleads. Honestly, Well,
you can't deny that they're There are a lot of
people living lifestyles you shouldn't lead at that age or
income level, and.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
That's why you're in financial trouble. Hence the credit card
to language. Yeah, yeah, absolutely true. Yeah, it's all part
of the same too. I was just thinking about the
shocking number of foreign students paying full tuition and snapping
up spots that American students could have in university after university.
(21:28):
I saw some of those statistics recently, and they're unbelievable anyway,
So take a look look for that as a continuing
maybe I should add into my commentary. I know, and
this is taking anecdotal to another level.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But I know at least a half a dozen people
that are in that group who tell me how broke
they are all the time, or how they could use
more hours if they could get them, because they're really
in tough financial straits. I think you live like you're
a forty five year old with a really good job
and you're twenty. Yeah, so maybe you wouldn't be in
a bind if you didn't. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Actually, that is the part of the article I should
have told you. The headline is Goodbye fancy bar, Hello
at home pizza party. Young Americans cut back. Yeah, okay, yeah,
and they have to obviously. So let's talk about the
super rich Jack the other end of the economic scale,
the rich and their prenuptial agreements. Attorneys say prenups are
only becoming more common for people of all wealth levels,
(22:29):
but for those with net worths that are nine figures
or larger. That would be one hundred million bucks, right,
nine figures?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Okay, Those agreements become sophisticated legal instruments to protect assets, business, vampires,
and finally, family dynasties.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I don't know what I think about prenups. I really don't.
I've gone back and forth on my I personally would
be much better off if I had done it, but
I don't ever really think that I wish I had.
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
So I know a little bit about prenups, but not
very much. Having been married since we're eleven, years old.
But here's some examples. Prenups can dictate who gets up
that's Kanye. Ah, yes, that's the great philosopher Kanye. Prenups
can dictate who gets access to the private jet, how
the thoroughbred horses are cared for, and who gets to
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say what about the divorce on social media. The embedded
confidential reality agreement can even prohibit disclosing the existence of
the prenup itself.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well, that's funny. You have to have a prenup that
includes who gets to say what on social media, as
Kanye would say, because when she leaves your.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Ass, she's gonna leave with that. Oh well, said Gay.
Ultra wealthy prenups must address as assets that can't be
easily split or sold. Don't worry, we'll get caddy in
a second, such as startup equity that can't be traded
in public markets, carry the interest in private equity funds,
royalty streams from intellectual property, and family trusts with complex
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distribution rules, and if you don't have like crazy planning,
the distributing those assets can lead to painful trade offs,
to financial tradeoffs, not to mention years, if not decades,
long legal battles and everybody in the family ending up
hating each other. It's it's tough to generate too much
sympathy for the ultra wealthy. But eh, what are you
(24:20):
gonna do?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
She says she's gonna buy Tyit Goo with your money,
but she only gets light bulb with your money, money money.
Who has listened to gold Digger one thousand times?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
I have?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That's who?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh well, it's a catchy too, and I understand the appeal.
So where is the where's my favorite part? Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Here you go.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Prenups can lay out who in a divorce supervises the
packing of personal belongings.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Wow, God, that would be awful. Can you imagine anything
worse than getting down to those details of argument or.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Or require a spouse to move out within thirty days?
So before your nuptials, you are saying you're negotiating, All right, Look,
when and if we get divorced, I will be in
charge of hiring the company that packs up all of
your belongings to move them out, because I don't once
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you're stealing anything.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Ah, right, And you're gonna have that conversation while you're
all in love, right right? I love you? I love
you too. Let me look deep into your eyes while
you look deep into my eyes. You know, if we
ever split up, and I think there's a decent chance
we do, I think you'd probably steal. So I got
this piece of paper that says somebody needs to watch you, and.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I'll need you to move out within two weeks.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Two weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I gotta find a place to live, all right, four weeks, look,
make it a month, make it thirty days, all right,
I know, right, you gotta be out within thirty days.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Here's a good one. I know someone who got hit
with the prenup like just two weeks before the wedding,
had never come up in conversation before the idea of it,
and then they got to I'm gonna want you to
sign this, and then it was like too late to
pull the plug. I mean you could, obviously, but it's
a lot harder to sure. Yeah, some clients demand that
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their prenups.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Here we go stipulate that a spouse maintain a specific weight,
you say, within twenty pounds of what it was on
the wedding day.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Oh, that's fantastic a prenup weight agreement. Honey, I'm gonna
need you to come on and step on the scale
looking like that might be breaking some rules. It's an
excellent point, Katie, to enforce the prenup. If anybody's getting close,
somebody's got to say, all right, we need to have
a way. I put in the pre nup. I would
(26:42):
never do this, but if you were going to the
only way to make this less contentious was part of
the prenup is we have to have weekly weigh in
both of us.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Right, Well, one thing is you go ahead.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Otherwise you end up in a situation. Hey, katie's talking
about Hey, I just noticed when we were at the
pool on big look like you a little.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Porky there street heart.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
One common thing is you've got to stay within twenty
pounds of what you are on the wedding day.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Or what. I don't know me. I saw you come
out of the sauna, and if you're not two ten,
my name's Marco Rubio. I mean, so I think we
should get the scale out well.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
And if you're looking for a trophy wife or a
husband or something, I mean that just that ends. Is
she just is he just marrying me because I'm young
and hot? Well, yes, yes, it's being made very very
clear here. If you gain twenty one pounds. You're in
violation of the prenup and you lose your rights to
(27:44):
god knows, I don't know the house, the car, money, whatever,
or it says you've got. Well, for instance, here's another
one a prenups. There's one prenups says you agree to
exercise four times a week during the marriage.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
That one seems hard to enforce.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Again, there's got to be a subclause about if you
have the flu or a similar disease. Others want financial
penalties for cheating. One attorney described a client seeking a
million dollar payment for each affair.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
See that's you know, some states have that. That's one
of the problems that you get into the So if
one person cheats and then you go through the divorce
laws where they are and you're gonna get lose half
your stuff for somebody who violated the vows, that just
seems so incredibly uncool to me.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
But on the other side of it, here's an Atlanta attorney, Well,
go ahead, did you have one more point on that?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Well, I'm not a misogynist like you, so I wanted
to point out that it could be the other direction
for the weight gain. I've known a number of women
who are very unhappy that they got married in their
husband's game, like fifty pounds, Eh, what are you gonna do? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Here's an Atlanta based divorce attorney. He alreadycounts a professional
basketball player client who insisted his prenup acknowledge that quote.
NBA players are known to have a fait, so cheating
could not trigger costly cos it was a get out
of jail free. Or you know I'm going to have
affairs clause in the prenup. Well why even get married?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I know I got no success to lean on as
a but I just, yeah, I can't imagine you get
all that taken care of, and now you're walking down
the aisle storry eyed and happy with each other. Happiest
day of my life now that we've worked out that
you can't gain more than ten pounds, or I'll put
you on the scale and hold you to it, or
you know all these other different things. Well, I need
to be watched while I pack boxes if we do
(29:34):
split up, because I can't be trusted. I mean, where's
the magic.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Nothing says love like getting the lawyers involved. And here's
a New York to Forest attorney. A woman who says
every prenuptial agreement is a power play. It's exciting for
them to have this control, but the leverage goes to
whoever cares less about the marriage. If you're willing to
walk away, you hold all the cards.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Wow. Wow, that's row. That is so foreign to my
life experience. Yeah, I know, I'm so lucky.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Whoever cares less about the marriage holds all the cards.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yes, thanks, I'm sorry, I think because it what I agree.
But you know I'm not married, so I haven't pulled
it off. I think you got to sneak it in.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
You do.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Like I weighed my truck the other day on a
truck scale. And know if you've ever been on a
truck scale, but it just it looks like the driveway.
It's just that the driveway floats. And so you gotta
do that. Under their chair at the table or like
the easy chair where they watch television. You make that
a scale, have a digital readout on the back of
it or on you you know, yeah, ip a n
app on your phone, so they sit in their chair
and think one ninety five. Okay, man, he's two pounds away. Yeah,
(30:51):
a digital readout on your couch.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
You need to secretly weigh him. That's my point. She
sits down.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Oh you know, I found the salad recipe for dinner.
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I can't believe a weight guarantee of the pre nup.
That's a funny one. Wow oof love.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
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Speaker 1 (31:31):
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Speaker 3 (31:40):
Wow wow. So my investigative journalism is paid off. Yet
another key fact that makes the hot, self important drunk
chicks in Rhode Island story even more hilarious.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Okay, I wasn't sure in what order to.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
List those adjectives hot, drunk, self important chicks.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I think the hot part because you only get traction
at all, because you're a hot chick with this sort
of behavior.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Right, militant, loud, nasty looking chick or exhibits this sort
of behavior too. In political settings lately, it's the angry
grad school lunatic screaming at the cops, what are you doing?
(32:33):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Are you're arrested? That's some you know, pro hamas rally
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
It's kind of a cousin to the drunk, self important
hot chick syndrome.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Anyway, So here's the question for you.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
First of all, you know more about drunks in general
than I do. These women, particularly the special Assistant Attorney
General name of Devon Hogan Flanagan.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Who is who's busted by the cops? You know what
I'll ask my question after we played the tape.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Go ahead, Michael, this is what it sounded like, the
cops trying to get them to leave a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
You're trust mess. We gotta leave now. Number one, you're
not going to rest us. Number two, we got.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I'm an aging.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Good for you, let's go leaving.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Off.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
I'm an aging.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
The fact that she apparents can I buy those cops
a drink place? I would like to sit down and
enjoy a libation with you, fellas well done.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
The fact that she literally seems to believe that as
the Attorney General, the.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Top mission assistant attorney General.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
But well, she's saying, i'm an age anyway, you're part
of the top cop office, that the laws don't apply
to you. I mean, that's what you're saying. That it's
a heck of a thing to say out loud.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Well, and here's my favorite part of it, other than
that they tried to show that they indeed were the
reasonable ones by trying to kick out the windows in
the cop car. The cops had told them repeatedly, I
don't want to arrest you.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
All you have to do is go.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
They've asked you to leave, Just go. I don't want
to arrest you. You're not going to arrest us. Okay,
so let's leave. We gotta go, We gotta go.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
The officer replies, no, you can't make us.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
You can't arrest us.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I don't want to arrest you. Just leave.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
See the no, No, they had to sit there.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
The normal drunken reaction to that would be, WHOA, I
have really lucked out here that all they're doing is
asking me to leave. I am going to get out
of here to avoid any further problems.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Well, and just again give you a sense of how
it was inside the restaurant, the following exchange took place.
The cop can be heard on the camera asking a
restaurant employee do you just want them out? Do you
want them trespassed? The employee says, anything we can do trespass. Yes,
So here's the question for you, as a guy who's
(35:19):
somewhat familiar with overin bibers, these two hobbies will take
complete responsibility quote unquote, and say I have a problem
with alcohol. I am an alcoholic.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
It is a disease.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
You wouldn't You wouldn't fire somebody for having a disease?
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Would you?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
If I had COVID? Would you fire me?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
No, it's a disease.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Is the primary problem that they're drunks or is it
hard to separate?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
No, No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Or is it that they're a holes?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
It's their a holes. I've known thousands of drunks. There's
only a certain personality that ever acts
Speaker 1 (36:02):
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the Infotainments. The story is entitled the Bride of Chinese Frankenstein.
I mean you got Chinese Frankenstein. Of course you got
to have his bride and the race to make designer babies.
(00:56):
Some great coverage in the Free press about a very
very odd story. This guy's name is he Young Q.
I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that this guy is semi infamous.
You may actually recall the story that he actually, uh
was a brilliant student, left China, went to Stanford and
(01:20):
went back to China, and he ultimately got arrested and
jailed for three years for illegal medical practices.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
He was he had.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
He announced in twenty eighteen that he had created the
world's first gene edited babies, twin girls. He said he
designed to have a trait very few who humans are
born with immunity to HIV. They called me Chinese Frankenstein.
He told me, I didn't know, journalist, I didn't know
what you were going to say.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
They were edited to have a trait no human beings
have had, if they could fly or see through walls
or what it was going to be.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
No, turns out it's immunity the HIV, which is you know,
certainly lovely so anyway, but China jailed him partly because
it was so incredibly controversial. And now though he is
still in China not supposed to leave, he's getting together
financing to open a lab in Austin, Texas. There, he
said he would do Alzheimer's research on monkeys and non
(02:16):
viable human embryos in hope of figuring out how to
one day edit human embryos in order to prevent the disease.
His great competitor in this field, weirdly enough, is his
ex wife. They appeared to have been married for about
three months.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
By the way, I took a pass on going into
some sort of monkeys with Alzheimer's bit. I decided it
was distasteful, but good thank god.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Enter cat is not banana. I had it just oh no, no, no,
it's not funny. There's no humor there. Enter Kathy Tie
a twenty nine year old Chinese born Canadian Theo Fellow.
Last year she co founded a genetic engineering company in
the US that's trying to create All right, there is
humor to be had here. Just everybody, feel for you
to join in. She's co founded a genetic engineering company
(03:04):
that's trying to create the next generation of pets, including dragons, unicorns,
and glowing the Dark rabbits.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, finally, the long desired need not satisfied for so
many right, glowing rabbits.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Tired of misplacing your rabbit at night. Can't tell you
how many times I've stepped on a rabbit.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
In the dark.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Right, right, Dragons, unicorns and glowing the Dark rabbits. But
this week she Corner Interview, what sort of sad.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Inbred genetically modified ba horned pet is going to be
the unicorn that comes out of this plant? Good Lord,
you're gonna give that to your daughter for her sixth
birthday and she's gonna shriek in horror.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well, they're specially designing tanks where narwals can mount female
donkeys until it get it right. Oh, anyway, let's see.
Oh so she gave an interview with NPR this week,
I guess, and she said, yeah, we're gonna do that,
and we will explore how to do gene correction in
(04:11):
human embryos more safely. We want to be the company
that does this in the light, with transparency and with
good intentions. So, which is interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Because how many companies around the world, whether it's in Russia, China,
North Korea, or maybe in our own labs in the
United States, are doing this secretly. Probably a lot of
people are.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
So the fact that you got a guy who has
been called Chinese Frankenstein and the bride of Chinese Frankenstein
is in the same field as just a little too much.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Hey, that's hurtful.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
According to these people, they call what they're doing a
Manhattan project. The stakes to be fair, writes the journalists.
The stakes here are existential, according to their defenders. Designer babies,
as they're colloquially colloquially known, or a way to fast
track evolution to that end. Different publication, The Wall Street
(05:06):
Journal inside Silicon Valley's growing obsession with having smarter babies.
Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant
dates or select high IQ embryos.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
They want to raise high performing children. Why is it
always that? How come they're not looking for a surly
bald man. I can provide that.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
So they mentioned this mathematician who spent seven years researching
how to keep an advanced form of artificial intelligence from
destroying humanity before he declare concluded that stopping it was
not possible, at least anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I agree that part. I do agree with that last part.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Well, yeah, and oddly enough, I think this story is
proof of it because I remember in the early days
of jeans placing, people are like, now we need to
be very careful because we're playing god here, and what
if people decided And it's like, yeah, they're doing it
now at full speedhead. They're spending tremendous amounts of money
and our best, brightest minds are one hundred percent dedicated
(06:04):
to this. But anyway, so this AI doomsday guy said
he's now considered it turned his considerable brain power to
promoting cutting edge technology to create smarter humans who will
be up to the task of saving us all and
Silicon Valley evidently interest in breeding smarter babies is peaking.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You know what an interesting side to that. I don't
know if they've thought this through. What's your experience with
super smart people? A lot of them are miserable and
nuts in.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
My cap Yeah, there's a pretty good share of either miserable,
so anti social, they can't get along with anybody, menfolillness
problems because they're so isolated and they just see the
world so differently than everybody else, and or and I
read this at an early age and it made it
was was it Edison? Somebody had this wonderful quote about
(06:58):
what tools don't bring you success, that it's all about
hard work, and one of them was intelligence unfulfilled. Genius
is a cliche. And so you know, and we're kind
of jumping to the end here, which is fine. She
describes all of the tech CEOs that prefer Ivy League.
(07:21):
They're charging them up to a half million dollars, trying
to get them the smartest woman they can or just
her embryos, and blah blah, blah, So they can have
the smartest kids they could possibly have, so wild.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
If I was given the choice, and I would never
want to play god like this with my kid anyway.
But if I was given the choice between a kid
with one sixty IQ or average, I'd go average because
I think I'd be like just committing a kid to
a lifetime of misery.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
In large Yeah, in large percentages. Yeah, absolutely true. Well,
and then you know the lack of insight and intelligence
and wisdom are separate traits. I become completely convinced of
that anyway. Not curiosity, Absolutely, You're not breeding for curiosity
(08:11):
or capacity for hard work or morality if that's genetic
morality or dedication to a cause. I'm just thinking from
the perspective of these tech geniuses. Wait a minute, it
was a lot more than intelligence that made you what
you are today.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
It's all sorts of traits. God, it's probably intelligence, probably
way down the list of the reason Elon Musker, Elon Musker,
Thomas Edison, or picked your person was able to do
what they did. Like you said, unfulfilled genius is a cliche.
I mean, just there's so many other pieces of the puzzle.
(08:47):
You gotta have, and I remember there was a study
came out made a hell of an impression on me.
And I'm sure there's a whole field of this that
I'm just not familiar with, but.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
The different sorts of intelligence, and I think they separated
it in this seven different sorts at the time that
ranged from like mathematical, musical intelligence, emotional intelligence, athletic intelligence
because it's your brain directing your muscle fibers athletics and
learning and adapting and perfecting a skill. How is athletic
(09:19):
prowess not a form of intelligence since it's all driven
by your brain. Anyway, I had an ultimate point of
just that the sort of d you're too dumb to
remember it. That's that's a big part of it. Yeah,
But how many of those different aspects of intelligence are
(09:42):
necessary or even more important than just raw computing power?
So I mean, because IQ on one level, which is
impossible to measure, you could describe as just chip speed,
how fast, how effectively does your brain function, how fast
does it learn? But that's just one of a number
of qualities that I think lead to success, even in
(10:04):
you know, a field like tech where everybody's a super genius.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And the history of the world is all technology is
co opted by the military for military us or porn.
I don't know how this is going to be affected
by porn, but one of the rare cases where I
can't see a porn application for this, but obviously a
military application. I mean, see all the Marvel movies. If
(10:29):
you could actually breed a super soldier like Bucky and
Captain America are in those movies. China's doing that right now.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, Silicon Valley, they love IQ, said Kean Sidegi, founder
of Nucleus Genomics.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But again, what is your life experience that leads you
to believe that extra smart people are who you want
around you?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
But that's not necessarily what parents elsewhere value most. So
this guy is running one of these companies. You talk
to mom and Papa, Maara. Not every parent is like,
I want my kid to be, you know, a scholar
at Harvard Like, no, I want my kid to be
like Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Wow, okay, how much you want your kid? I want
my kid to be happy. I want my kid to
be you know, own a house, be married, have a
couple of kids, make a living, and be happy. That's
what I want.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I say, why don't we pluck this fruit from the
tree of knowledge and wolf it down and then enjoy
its delicious taste.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show,
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Liz Warrant fell down on the Senate floor yesterday and
to everyone's surprise, didn't even yell Geronimo, Indian name is
fall on ass.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That's pretty funny. How y'all doing?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
We got some good Newsy stuff for you. We talked
about this expensive bed on the One More Thing podcast
a while back, this really expensive mattress which oh I
remember that. Yeah, I'll hit you at the price here
in a moment, because if you haven't heard about this,
it's shocking. We actually walked by one of these stores.
It's Houstin's. I don't know how you pronounce it, h
A S T e ns. It's Scandinavian so hi Houston's.
(12:38):
I don't know how they pronounce it. But they don't
have many stores. The beds are ridiculously expensive, and we
walked by one of the stores on Park Avenue in
New York. We were leaving Central Park and we were
walking along all these ridiculously expensive stores and oh my god,
it's one of those bed stores. But you had to
have an appointment, and we were not dressed for people
to go in and look at these kind of mattresses.
(12:58):
I would love to have laid down one.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I don't even know. If they don't let us orry
poor people, we can't allow you in here.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
So I don't remember how I came across this over
the weekend, and it it reignited my interest in this
sort of thing that it exists. But so I went
on eBay and there's one available on eBay that's used,
so they only want forty eight thousand dollars for it.
This used mattress comes with the box spring, so it's
mattress and box spring for forty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, And the owner of it, since I put it
on my watch, sent me an offer yesterday took four
thousand dollars off. They're only asking forty thousand dollars now
for this mattress and box spring. This mattress is made
of horsehair and some particular rare kind of horse and cotton.
(13:48):
It's all natural materials, it is said by reviewers. I
remember when I talked about this on our podcast. The
person who reviewed it, I think for the New York
Times said it's ridiculously overpriced and nobody is ever going
to buy one of these. But it is unlike sleeping
on anything you've ever slept on. It's as if you're suspended.
You're just floating. You can't even tell her or any
there's any pressure on any of your body.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You're just kind of floating there. And it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
But the original price on this particular mattress in box
Springs that I'm I'm you know, I'm trying. I'm deciding
whether or not to pull the trigger at forty grand
was eighty four thousand dollars eighty three nine eight Please
eighty four thousand dollars for a mattress and box spring.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Look, if you fly private all the time, go ahead
and buy the Horrors hair mattress.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
We prefer sex workers hair.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
By the way, Jack these horse the Beast of Burden. Oh,
I apologize, I misunderstood, But if that's your lifestyle, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
If not, that's insane.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Don't you remember that email we got from a gal.
She said, yeah, we bought one of these things, and
you've got to like have the Horrors hair massage every
two weeks. That's the most uncomfortable thing ever.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
No, that's part of the upkeep. Yes, you have to
have it. What is it called a rejuvenation or something
like that. Somebody needs to come into your home at
least once a year and re massage it to make it.
But it's just reinterview from somebody who's got one on Reddit.
They said, if you have the person come and rejuvenate
it all the time, it feels they've had it for
four years, feels exactly like it did on day one.
(15:21):
If you don't get it rejuvenated, you have a very
expensive sack of garbage, they said. But wow, I would
like to lay down on one. There's a store in
Silicon Valley, No surprise, I might. I might have to
go over there sometime and I'll I'll wear my suit
jacket and try to look like I belong there and
make an appointment and lay down on one so I
(15:41):
can re pull back. Isn't it amazing though, that anybody
would ever pulled the trigger on a four to eighty
four thousand dollars mattress in box sprint.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Like a lot of things, I think it exists.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So you can mention that you have it, But I
can't believe they sell enough of them to be able
to even be a company. Think you'd sell to a year.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It's at the you know, there are thousands of billionaires,
and every day I don't know that it's a billionaire.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I don't know. Maybe they get you.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
They sleep very you know.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I think if I walk into the I would think
if i'd have walked into that store in Park Avenue,
I'd been the first customer in six months one.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I don't know anyway, you here on purpose, sir? Oh yes,
oh my lord, Oh my god, Oh my god. Okay, okay, okay,
it'll be okay, all right, here we go, right. Yeah,
you know, it's funny. I was just reading that according
to several organizations, companies, people that would know, American consumers
(16:44):
are going way towards thrifty now. A lot of luxury
buying is down, generics are up, Bulk buying is on
the rise. Even your fancier burritos are going unordered in
your eateries, Your fancier burritos. Yeah, well, trust me what
I tell you. Like Chipotle, they keep very very careful
(17:04):
track of what is being ordered and what's not, and
they're seeing a trend towards lower dollar orders.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Wow, so maxed out credit cards, student loan payments coming back.
Probably a certain amount of uneasiness about the future that'd
be rated with the Center. I would never buy that
bed anyway, but I would never be able to sleep
because I'd be thinking, God, if the economy really crashes,
I'm going to feel like an idiot on this eighty
three thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I saw some of the pushback there in Venice about
the Bezos and his wife wedding. There's a lot of protesters.
They unfurled a giant sign in the middle of whatever
square that was there.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Did it say how much work is too much? With
a picture of her face?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Now there's a giant sign that said, if you can
afford this wedding, you can afford to pay more taxes. Okay,
all right?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Anyway, So some fairly shocking economic numbers out about the
purchasing the spending of eighteen to twenty four year old adults.
It fell thirteen percent year over year, thirteen percent a lot.
It's a huge drop spending my older groups is still
(18:36):
on the rise, but has slowed significantly. They mentioned a
combination of economic challenges. Young grads are having a much
tougher tougher time finding jobs, student loan payments are restarting
for millions of borrowers that for that crowd.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I know a few people in that situation, and it
has been quite the shock to their system, because I
know some people with some pretty big nuts, if you'll
pardon the expression, that they've got to be able to meet.
And all of a sudden, you have a five hundred
dollars a month bill that you didn't have before, and
you somehow were convinced by an ancient president you were
never gonna have to pay.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Right, little aoc and the mummy president convinced you that
you shouldn't have to pay those It's unjust. Yeah, people
they believe that stuff, which is why I warned my kids.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
This could be and that could be a lot of it.
You are not spending money on going out to eat,
in concerts and maybe travel. If all of a sudden
you're paying an extra five hundred to one thousand dollars
a month.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
No need to speculate I have those numbers. You're absolutely right. Plus,
over the roughly of the past year, credit card delinquency
rates have risen to the highest points since pre pandemic
levels highest for those eighteen to twenty nine years of age.
They quote a bunch of experts and economists. Expenditures this
is among eighteen to twenty four year olds on video
(19:53):
games is down twenty four percent, twenty three percent year
over year. We're the rest of those numbers. Apparel is
down eleven percent. Accessories is down eighteen percent. Oh, they
don't get how important it is to accessorize well accessories
I Technology is down fourteen percent. Small appliances down almost
(20:14):
twenty percent. Now I was going to get a toaster,
but I guess I won't small appliances. I like those
kind of statistics, but like my own anecdote dot evidence,
and this is completely anecdotal. I live in a wealthy
college town.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
The gout.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
These college kids are out to eat all the time,
dressed cool, talking on thousand dollars phones. That's not what
I was doing when I was in college. I was
eating beanie. Whenis five cans for a dollar from the
food club to get by I wasn't going out to
eat every day at expensive restaurants, which is what happens
in my college. But again that's anecdotal. But yeah, I
(20:53):
would say that is that is the anecdote that misleads. Honestly, Well,
you can't deny that they're There are a lot of
people living lifestyles you shouldn't lead at that age or
income level, and.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
That's why you're in financial trouble. Hence the credit card
to language. Yeah, yeah, absolutely true. Yeah, it's all part
of the same too. I was just thinking about the
shocking number of foreign students paying full tuition and snapping
up spots that American students could have in university after university.
(21:28):
I saw some of those statistics recently, and they're unbelievable anyway,
So take a look look for that as a continuing
maybe I should add into my commentary. I know, and
this is taking anecdotal to another level.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But I know at least a half a dozen people
that are in that group who tell me how broke
they are all the time, or how they could use
more hours if they could get them, because they're really
in tough financial straits. I think you live like you're
a forty five year old with a really good job
and you're twenty. Yeah, so maybe you wouldn't be in
a bind if you didn't. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Actually, that is the part of the article I should
have told you. The headline is Goodbye fancy bar, Hello
at home pizza party. Young Americans cut back. Yeah, okay, yeah,
and they have to obviously. So let's talk about the
super rich Jack the other end of the economic scale,
the rich and their prenuptial agreements. Attorneys say prenups are
only becoming more common for people of all wealth levels,
(22:29):
but for those with net worths that are nine figures
or larger. That would be one hundred million bucks, right,
nine figures?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Okay, Those agreements become sophisticated legal instruments to protect assets, business, vampires,
and finally, family dynasties.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I don't know what I think about prenups. I really don't.
I've gone back and forth on my I personally would
be much better off if I had done it, but
I don't ever really think that I wish I had.
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
So I know a little bit about prenups, but not
very much. Having been married since we're eleven, years old.
But here's some examples. Prenups can dictate who gets up
that's Kanye. Ah, yes, that's the great philosopher Kanye. Prenups
can dictate who gets access to the private jet, how
the thoroughbred horses are cared for, and who gets to
(23:19):
say what about the divorce on social media. The embedded
confidential reality agreement can even prohibit disclosing the existence of
the prenup itself.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well, that's funny. You have to have a prenup that
includes who gets to say what on social media, as
Kanye would say, because when she leaves your.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Ass, she's gonna leave with that. Oh well, said Gay.
Ultra wealthy prenups must address as assets that can't be
easily split or sold. Don't worry, we'll get caddy in
a second, such as startup equity that can't be traded
in public markets, carry the interest in private equity funds,
royalty streams from intellectual property, and family trusts with complex
(23:59):
distribution rules, and if you don't have like crazy planning,
the distributing those assets can lead to painful trade offs,
to financial tradeoffs, not to mention years, if not decades,
long legal battles and everybody in the family ending up
hating each other. It's it's tough to generate too much
sympathy for the ultra wealthy. But eh, what are you
(24:20):
gonna do?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
She says she's gonna buy Tyit Goo with your money,
but she only gets light bulb with your money, money money.
Who has listened to gold Digger one thousand times?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
I have?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That's who?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh well, it's a catchy too, and I understand the appeal.
So where is the where's my favorite part? Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Here you go.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Prenups can lay out who in a divorce supervises the
packing of personal belongings.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Wow, God, that would be awful. Can you imagine anything
worse than getting down to those details of argument or.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Or require a spouse to move out within thirty days?
So before your nuptials, you are saying you're negotiating, All right, Look,
when and if we get divorced, I will be in
charge of hiring the company that packs up all of
your belongings to move them out, because I don't once
(25:12):
you're stealing anything.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Ah, right, And you're gonna have that conversation while you're
all in love, right right? I love you? I love
you too. Let me look deep into your eyes while
you look deep into my eyes. You know, if we
ever split up, and I think there's a decent chance
we do, I think you'd probably steal. So I got
this piece of paper that says somebody needs to watch you, and.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I'll need you to move out within two weeks.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Two weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I gotta find a place to live, all right, four weeks, look,
make it a month, make it thirty days, all right,
I know, right, you gotta be out within thirty days.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Here's a good one. I know someone who got hit
with the prenup like just two weeks before the wedding,
had never come up in conversation before the idea of it,
and then they got to I'm gonna want you to
sign this, and then it was like too late to
pull the plug. I mean you could, obviously, but it's
a lot harder to sure. Yeah, some clients demand that
(26:10):
their prenups.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Here we go stipulate that a spouse maintain a specific weight,
you say, within twenty pounds of what it was on
the wedding day.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Oh, that's fantastic a prenup weight agreement. Honey, I'm gonna
need you to come on and step on the scale
looking like that might be breaking some rules. It's an
excellent point, Katie, to enforce the prenup. If anybody's getting close,
somebody's got to say, all right, we need to have
a way. I put in the pre nup. I would
(26:42):
never do this, but if you were going to the
only way to make this less contentious was part of
the prenup is we have to have weekly weigh in
both of us.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Right, Well, one thing is you go ahead.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Otherwise you end up in a situation. Hey, katie's talking
about Hey, I just noticed when we were at the
pool on big look like you a little.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Porky there street heart.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
One common thing is you've got to stay within twenty
pounds of what you are on the wedding day.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Or what. I don't know me. I saw you come
out of the sauna, and if you're not two ten,
my name's Marco Rubio. I mean, so I think we
should get the scale out well.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
And if you're looking for a trophy wife or a
husband or something, I mean that just that ends. Is
she just is he just marrying me because I'm young
and hot? Well, yes, yes, it's being made very very
clear here. If you gain twenty one pounds. You're in
violation of the prenup and you lose your rights to
(27:44):
god knows, I don't know the house, the car, money, whatever,
or it says you've got. Well, for instance, here's another
one a prenups. There's one prenups says you agree to
exercise four times a week during the marriage.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
That one seems hard to enforce.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Again, there's got to be a subclause about if you
have the flu or a similar disease. Others want financial
penalties for cheating. One attorney described a client seeking a
million dollar payment for each affair.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
See that's you know, some states have that. That's one
of the problems that you get into the So if
one person cheats and then you go through the divorce
laws where they are and you're gonna get lose half
your stuff for somebody who violated the vows, that just
seems so incredibly uncool to me.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
But on the other side of it, here's an Atlanta attorney, Well,
go ahead, did you have one more point on that?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Well, I'm not a misogynist like you, so I wanted
to point out that it could be the other direction
for the weight gain. I've known a number of women
who are very unhappy that they got married in their
husband's game, like fifty pounds, Eh, what are you gonna do? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Here's an Atlanta based divorce attorney. He alreadycounts a professional
basketball player client who insisted his prenup acknowledge that quote.
NBA players are known to have a fait, so cheating
could not trigger costly cos it was a get out
of jail free. Or you know I'm going to have
affairs clause in the prenup. Well why even get married?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I know I got no success to lean on as
a but I just, yeah, I can't imagine you get
all that taken care of, and now you're walking down
the aisle storry eyed and happy with each other. Happiest
day of my life now that we've worked out that
you can't gain more than ten pounds, or I'll put
you on the scale and hold you to it, or
you know all these other different things. Well, I need
to be watched while I pack boxes if we do
(29:34):
split up, because I can't be trusted. I mean, where's
the magic.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Nothing says love like getting the lawyers involved. And here's
a New York to Forest attorney. A woman who says
every prenuptial agreement is a power play. It's exciting for
them to have this control, but the leverage goes to
whoever cares less about the marriage. If you're willing to
walk away, you hold all the cards.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Wow. Wow, that's row. That is so foreign to my
life experience. Yeah, I know, I'm so lucky.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Whoever cares less about the marriage holds all the cards.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yes, thanks, I'm sorry, I think because it what I agree.
But you know I'm not married, so I haven't pulled
it off. I think you got to sneak it in.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
You do.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Like I weighed my truck the other day on a
truck scale. And know if you've ever been on a
truck scale, but it just it looks like the driveway.
It's just that the driveway floats. And so you gotta
do that. Under their chair at the table or like
the easy chair where they watch television. You make that
a scale, have a digital readout on the back of
it or on you you know, yeah, ip a n
app on your phone, so they sit in their chair
and think one ninety five. Okay, man, he's two pounds away. Yeah,
(30:51):
a digital readout on your couch.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
You need to secretly weigh him. That's my point. She
sits down.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Oh you know, I found the salad recipe for dinner.
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I can't believe a weight guarantee of the pre nup.
That's a funny one. Wow oof love.
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Speaker 3 (31:40):
Wow wow. So my investigative journalism is paid off. Yet
another key fact that makes the hot, self important drunk
chicks in Rhode Island story even more hilarious.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Okay, I wasn't sure in what order to.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
List those adjectives hot, drunk, self important chicks.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I think the hot part because you only get traction
at all, because you're a hot chick with this sort
of behavior.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Right, militant, loud, nasty looking chick or exhibits this sort
of behavior too. In political settings lately, it's the angry
grad school lunatic screaming at the cops, what are you doing?
(32:33):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Are you're arrested? That's some you know, pro hamas rally
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
It's kind of a cousin to the drunk, self important
hot chick syndrome.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Anyway, So here's the question for you.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
First of all, you know more about drunks in general
than I do. These women, particularly the special Assistant Attorney
General name of Devon Hogan Flanagan.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Who is who's busted by the cops? You know what
I'll ask my question after we played the tape.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Go ahead, Michael, this is what it sounded like, the
cops trying to get them to leave a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
You're trust mess. We gotta leave now. Number one, you're
not going to rest us. Number two, we got.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I'm an aging.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Good for you, let's go leaving.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Off.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
I'm an aging.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
The fact that she apparents can I buy those cops
a drink place? I would like to sit down and
enjoy a libation with you, fellas well done.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
The fact that she literally seems to believe that as
the Attorney General, the.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Top mission assistant attorney General.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
But well, she's saying, i'm an age anyway, you're part
of the top cop office, that the laws don't apply
to you. I mean, that's what you're saying. That it's
a heck of a thing to say out loud.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Well, and here's my favorite part of it, other than
that they tried to show that they indeed were the
reasonable ones by trying to kick out the windows in
the cop car. The cops had told them repeatedly, I
don't want to arrest you.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
All you have to do is go.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
They've asked you to leave, Just go. I don't want
to arrest you. You're not going to arrest us. Okay,
so let's leave. We gotta go, We gotta go.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
The officer replies, no, you can't make us.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
You can't arrest us.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I don't want to arrest you. Just leave.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
See the no, No, they had to sit there.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
The normal drunken reaction to that would be, WHOA, I
have really lucked out here that all they're doing is
asking me to leave. I am going to get out
of here to avoid any further problems.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Well, and just again give you a sense of how
it was inside the restaurant, the following exchange took place.
The cop can be heard on the camera asking a
restaurant employee do you just want them out? Do you
want them trespassed? The employee says, anything we can do trespass. Yes,
So here's the question for you, as a guy who's
(35:19):
somewhat familiar with overin bibers, these two hobbies will take
complete responsibility quote unquote, and say I have a problem
with alcohol. I am an alcoholic.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
It is a disease.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
You wouldn't You wouldn't fire somebody for having a disease?
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Would you?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
If I had COVID? Would you fire me?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
No, it's a disease.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Is the primary problem that they're drunks or is it
hard to separate?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
No, No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Or is it that they're a holes?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
It's their a holes. I've known thousands of drunks. There's
only a certain personality that ever acts
Speaker 1 (36:02):
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