June 6, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week, NBA Finals, grandma showers & alpha males
- Genetic testing
- National Donut Day & modular homes
- Remembering D-Day
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty. Did you watched
India last night? Michael? Did you watch Anhima? I saw
the Force Quarter? Oh really?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
How was it?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It was great?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, Oklahoma's got to be worried. Indiana has the ability
to come back on anybody anytime.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I just love Indiana. Wow, how did you have that?
I know you are. You are an idiot savant.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
If everybody is saying, uh, nobody can touch the Oklahoma
City Thunder and you lose game one on your home court.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's sick. That gets your attention.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
What our grandma showers? No, it's not when your mom
is a little gamy after exercize. It's something different, grandma showers.
M good lord, it's not when granny needs to get
the funk offer.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
And continuing updates of the feud that's shaking the earth,
Trump Musk, there's an updates?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, there actually is. Okay, it's kind of now. People
are weighing in from the Peanut Gallory.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It was something for Elon to retweet an impeachment tweet,
although he made the point. I don't know if it
was the same tweet or not. He made the point
that if the Dems take the House, or he was saying,
the tariffs are going to cause a recession, which is
going to cause the Dems to take the House, and
they will impeach Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That'll be the whole two years as lets you know.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The National Review podcast the other day and they went around,
if Dems take the House, will they impeach Trump?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
One hundred percent yes, every one of them. Oh yeah,
I don't think they're wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I wonder over what, I don't know, pick anything, the
Muslim band, the you know, whatever you want to do
with Tariff's name.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Something Harvard, something exactly. So this is not a rhetorical question.
We don't have to answer it now. But what kind
of person doesn't I mean, given how closely they worked
for a while, even if it was kind of phony
and just for politics and all, what kind of person
doesn't like one or two tweets in pick up the
phone and say, hey, this is getting kind of ugly.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Let's talk.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I wouldn't but I wouldn't engage in it in the
first place. So it's kind of hard to put myself
in that place. I'm putting myself in a place I
would never get. I can't imagine reacting that way publicly.
I just can't even imagine it.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah, I just I just have always always been a
believer in a not hitting send when you're angry, and
b if it's a good idea to say it today,
it'll still be a good idea tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So why don't you think about it?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I think about how you want to play those cards
and not shoot your mouthfall.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I want to discuss the term alpha male after we
do clips of the week, also, because that kept coming
up yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
All right, very good.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Now I'm not agreeing to it because I'm sort of
sort of beta male. I'm also an alpha male and
agree with Jack the alpha male.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm a Charlie male. I'm way down of the road.
I don't take murders from.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Nobody or Delphi or something. It's Friday tradition, It's beloved.
Let's take a fond look back at the week that was.
It's cow clips of the week.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well breaking news, the lasser raptor mounted Border patrol agents.
I think it's gonna be big. The Slips of the week.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Russia reeling from Ukraine's astonishing and unprecedented drone attacks.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
More than forty aircraft ablaze.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
We also have stronger tactical solutions. Our operation Spider Web
yesterday proved that.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I made it very clear. He said, we have no
choice but to attack. With Elon Musk and Donald Trump
are going through a divorce.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
You know, I was like disappointed to see the massive
spending bow rank.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Wat Elon Musk and I agree. I agree with Elon Musk.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Elon and I.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Had a great relationship. I don't know what well anymore.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I was surprised Musk and writing time to drop the
really big bomb.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real
reason they've not been made public. And then he said
he's got a problem. The poor guy's got a problem.
President Trump tonight should sign an executive order and seize
SpaceX tonight before midnight. Witnesses say Solomon was dressed like
a gardener.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Solomon brought eighteen Molotov cocktails for the park.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
He was about to use a makeshift flamethrower and all
I saw was someone on fire.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
The Travel Band is indeed back, and nothing will stop
us from Keeping America, saying, Chris.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Scares the hell out of me. I've been doing this
for forty years because we don't have I love people.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Show and discus momination.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
What I have decided to do is to follow my
own compass.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I don't make my kids go to school the last
couple of days of school.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I don't see the point is how should eat a banana? Now?
We don't pick it up and peel it like a primate. Instead,
we use a knife and fork. In my target that
used to have the pride section. It's now all USA.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Heay.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Just a few hours later, mom and dad and little
sister Gizmo together eating a fish.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Nancy has a headache and requires treatment. I will need
about an hour and a bottle of USTe Spermonte.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Show tap down the shade, Maybe we do man.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So Michael's got his phone out with the light on,
swaying back and forth.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
That's the wonder we were in a malaise in the
seventies that pop music sucks the will to live out
of me.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The summer anthem. I blame Jimmy Carter for bread and
and and the math works there. I blame bread for
Jimmy Carter. They sucked the masculinity out of America.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Speaking of the.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
NBA Finals last night, so uh, Indiana heavy underdogs they
win at Okay see upset. Jay Z had put a
million dollars down that OKC wins in five and now
they would have to win four straight, which has only
happened a couple of times in NBA history. But the
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story behind the story on that is he has three
hundred and fifty million dollars invested in the company fan Fanatics,
which is online sports gambling thing. He has three hundred
and fifty million and now you've heard about that company
because he invested a million dollars in the the bet.
(07:34):
And obviously, even if he loses the fact that he
got millions and millions of dollars in free advertisement for
this company he's invested in, that's the whole point, right right, Yeah, yeah,
smart listening stunt. And he's married to current country music
champion Beyonce.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Now, other things that we teased, what are grandma showers?
It's another way for families to celebrate newborn's. I guess
it's caught on as a thing. The internet is clapped back,
calling it peake narcissism. Okay, you found one tweet where
somebody complained about it, But anyway, it's a new thing
like reveal parties and whatever grandma showers or grand baby
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showers in addition to all the other things that you do,
and then you post online and get like, so knock
yourself out. If you're that sort of person, if you're
incredibly social and you like that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't come from it. Don't demand everybody else go
to it, please? Right?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Ah? Okay, so I heard several times yesterday the whole well,
what do you expect when you've got two alpha males?
Trump and Elon going at it like that? How do
you define alpha male? The way it's used thrown around
all the time, not like the dictionary definition, but the
way it's used all the time, because I think it's
(08:52):
misapplied regularly. Just because you lose your temper and shoot
off a bunch of stuff you didn't need to, that
doesn't necessarily make you an alpha male or or or
the other.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I guess it's the other that's more important. Point. The
fact that you don't do that doesn't mean you're not
an alpha male. I mean, agree yeah, I don't. I
don't use the term to mean that.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I don't use the term ever because I think it's
gotten all kinds of twisted in kind of weird ways that.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I don't like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No. To me, it's
just it is a uh a.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Dynamic man, a leader somebody others look up to, just
in general.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Okay, well that's interesting. Usually it goes with like kinda
I think maybe this is my own head. But when
people throw it around, it's kind of a loud, aggressive
sort of person. And I was thinking about, remember, no,
not to you.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
That's not the way I see it now.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I think that's why it's used like with Elon and
Trump yesterday and whenever you're around, And it's usually people
like that. And and the reason I don't like that,
I think your definition is better. I think about our
our old boss, you know, radio Station be for this one,
when we were doing soft rock.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
He was as like.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Gentle and quiet and and and maybe even meek would
be a fair word to put on him.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
As anybody's I've ever known. And he was in charge
of the whole place and really really good at it.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I would agree completely. Yeah, it's an interesting new sample
and I don't think a lot of people would consider
him alpha male. But he was in charge of everything
and got that way for a reason and continued to
be in charge of things throughout his career.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
So, uh yeah, what an interesting example.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah, he led through thoughtful uh consideration and conversation and
good decisions.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Oh yeah, yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
So I don't know, does that is he an alpha
male or not? He's literally the alpha male affle person
in that building.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
He might be the ultimate alpha male in that he
is confident in the way he does things and if
somebody came on like a blow hard, which is that negative,
you know, kind of way to use the term, he
would just wait.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Him out and he would win that battle.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
If people were using the definition the way you use it,
I have no problem with it whatsoever. But I think
and I'm not a guy that believes that, you know,
I don't like the toxic masculinity term or whatever, but
I feel like that that's what they go for when
they use the term alpha male. It's anybody that's like,
what kind of a jackass really is an alpha male?
You know, like, what's his name? Ramsey from the Cooking Show? Okay,
(11:31):
so you yell at people in belittle. Oh yeah, I
don't like using that sort of thing as like a
you get a cool title for that.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Tell me what is an alpha male? Is that what
we got going on here? The beating their chest and
whizzing on each other's tree with Elon and Trump. All right,
let's play who's your favorite Ramsey? Gordon Ramsey, Dave Ramsey
or this is a streat Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the second? Actually,
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because I try to be careful with my money, I'm
gonna go with dad. We have a winner alpha male
thing way on in that, among other things we got
coming up. Here's our text line four one five two
nine five KFTC. My son is done with school and
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he's got big weekends planned with his friends and is
about as excited as anybody can be. And I was
trying to remember how great that feeling is when school
gets out. It is something else.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The high school parking lot, believe how hop happy you
are now? And he's a high school now.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So the high school parking lot was full of, you know,
for the older kids who can drive cars, jam and
music and laughter and everybody headed off to their summer
lives whatever they are when you're fifteen through eighteen years old.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Holy crap. Yeah, good times. Yeah, I'd say so.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Enough politics for the moment. At least some interesting stories
from the world of business and or science. Here's a
startup wants to help parents rank their embryos for longevity. Actually,
I should have alerted Katie that we're going to be
talking about IVF.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
But once again, of the emphasis is on length of life.
That's your health, among other things.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Prospective parents using IVF will soon be able to rank
embryos using genetic and other information in the hopes of
extending the longevity of their offspring. According to this startup,
Nucleus plans to charge six thousand dollars for an analysis
of up to nine hundred conditions, including diseases that occur
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later in life in our major causes of death in
older people, such as Alzheimer's disease, arts disease, and cancers.
The company will analyze up to twenty embryos for you
four six thousand dollars, some twenty five year old entrepreneur.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Scientists. Dude, it might be legit, it might be Elizabeth Holmes.
I don't know. It's kind of sort of similar to
the analysis you had done, right, Katie, somewhat.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Yeah, it's more doing genetic testing that falls into my
bloodline or into Drew's blood line.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But yeah, that's.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
It's pretty amazing. We're getting real close to playing god
with some of these things.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Though.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Well, I know you wanted an embryo that would turn
out to be a good dancer and have a really
solid jaw line, so you had them screen.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
For that, right, that was tough priority. Actually, yeah, I agree.
We don't know. I mean I could, I would I
do it? I don't know, but I can.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Obviously you'd love the idea of if you can genetically
modify out the tendency and your family to have some
horrible cancer. Well, we don't know what goes with that tendency.
We don't know what's combined with that as a personality
trade or other thing.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We don't know. Yeah, it's conceivable. There's a tie there,
you know.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I think I may have come up with some sort
of philosophical dividing line, not that it do anybody any good,
but because they mentioned that IVF, doctors and clinics routinely
offered a test embryos for chromosomal abnormalities that could cause
like down syndrome, or let prospective parents know that at
risk of having a child with a lethal disease caused
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by a mutation in a single gene.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I think everybody's.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Pretty comfortable with eliminating negatives. It's when you start demanding
quote unquote positives that it starts to get a little weird.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I mean, you can screen for to make sure your
child doesn't have a terrible debilitating condition or it's like
super likely to get cancer or something like that. But taller,
more handsome, Yeah, good dancer. That starts to get weird.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Anytime you start playing this though, I'm thinking of several
famous examples of people who really were ass kickers because
the men in their family, the last couple of generations
had died young. Yeah, and so they felt like they
probably didn't have a lot of time, so they Mickey
Mantle baseball player, not important stuff, but that's what motivated
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him as to to work as hard as he did.
Teddy Roosevelt probably the best example. There's lots of them.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So do we is it good for mankind to eliminate that?
I don't actually know, But so.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
We're going to be a race of big good looking,
shallow real estate agents. Not that there's anything wrong with
real estate agents, but just kind of charmingly handsome, just
but never any difficulties.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Or dancing real estate agents. Dancing real estate we have
great rhythm. You know.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I should have known we'd get off on a tangent
on this topic because it's such an interesting one. I've
got a couple other things to talk about, including modular homes.
If you think of modular homes as kind of a cheaper,
somewhat embarrassing, you know, substitute for a real built house,
think again. The technology is leapt forward and they're thinking
it could be a fabulos thing for disaster sites.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
You were wrong, you idiot.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, you're a stupid idiot and should take a long
look at yourself. But Alta, Dina, California hurricane sites. It's
all about the manufactured homes.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I'm talking about Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Wall Street Journal this week published a guide on how
people can pass frequent flyer miles down to their errors
after they die.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Tip number one fly into Newark. Wow, So why is
this happening?
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Hold interesting?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Okay, there are donuts all over the place today.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I wrote up the elevator with someone several boxes of
donuts or donuts all over the radio station. Today is
National Donut Day, in which Tim Sanderford tweeted out, let's
all agree that we should spell donut doug.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
H U T, which I've never spelled it that way.
I'm just a do n ut guy. A rube. Does
it make me a rube?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Okay, clearly does. That's the dividing line.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
We non rubes have secretly used that for a measuring
stick all these years.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
That's pretty funny National Donut Day.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I have not had one yet, as I had a
very good weight on the scale this morning and I'm
happy about that. It's funny how if you're losing weight,
it motivates you to lose more weight and be more disciplined.
Oh yeah, and when you're if you gain, it's like,
what the hell difference does it make? I might as
well to donate. And I was telling my son the
same thing about working out yesterday. He felt like he
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could actually feel his arms being firmer, and I said, yeah,
that's what really. You know, you start to get motivated
lifting weights when you start to see results.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You think, wow, I can change the way I look
yeah and feel definitely.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I'm wracked with guilt now because I haven't been in
the gym lately other than my weekly thing.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
That I gained like five to six pounds during whooping
cough because of printing his own and laying around on
all kinds.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Of different things. And it's not good for me. My
face as round as a basketball. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, So back to what we were talking about before
the break. I found this very interesting, partly because I've
got this weird fixation with real estate and houses and
that sort of thing. I just find them interesting. But
they start this article talking about a guy in Alta,
Dina's childhood home burnt down and he was determined to
rebuild it as it was before the wildfires, which is
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kind of sentimental and sweet. I guess I would have
just built the better, newer house, but anyway, he figured
out his homes insurance policy would only cover a fraction
of the estimated seven hundred grand to rebuild the house,
not a big house at all. Then he stumbled across
this company that sells prefabricated homes as pieces and factories,
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then assembles them on site.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
It's called Happy Homes HAPI.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
The company said it could build a home for two
hundred grand less than the cost of a traditional construction
and doing less than half the time. And they mentioned
that the whole prefab house thing used to exist, like
on the edges of home building as kind of low
quality skews me houses. But they mentioned that now companies
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use modular construction, three D printing, or other non traditional methods,
and they're trying to break into the mainstream by offering
faster and less costly alternatives, especially in places ravaged by
natural disasters. They're thinking that's their big opportunity.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Interesting, well, they've always and there's always been really good
versions of them. I've known plenty of people that had
whatever you want to call them mobile homes or whatever,
that were really really nice. But then I've lived in
a couple that were incredibly crappy. I mean it's like
the walls were were like paper.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Oh yeah, yeah. So listen to this, would you.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Jason Ballard's the chief executive for ic On, a company
that makes three D printed homes. They use giants three
D printers to squeeze layers of concrete into the framing
for a house. And I'm looking at a picture right now,
we can post this article at Armstrong and Giddy dot
com under hot links.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
But they are they are concrete houses that look.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Not like a rest stop bathroom. They've got a little contour,
a little style.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
A little you're selling me this with the idea that
this house looks like a rest stop bathroom.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Well no, I just said it doesn't in a way
that like concrete houses can. Being familiar both with fire
country and hurricane country in my travels, some people decide,
my priority is to build something that can withstand anything,
but you got to be careful that it doesn't look
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like a rest stop bathroom.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You're the third little pig exactly. Yes, And and these
houses are pretty good looking.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I mean, you're not gonna see them like in upscale
custom home developments. But this is no El Chiapo Cheapo.
In fact, this is the proverbial brick poop house.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Uh, I might throw a few bucks in investing in
one of these places.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I lived in a mobile home in college for my
senior year, my final year of college, and my roommate
and I Rusty and I lived there and it was
the rent was one hundred and twenty dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
And I'm old. But that was nothing then, I mean
that was nothing.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Then it was ridiculous. We paid sixty two dollars and
fifty cents each in rent every month.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Wow, that wasn't per man that was the total. Yeah,
and people were laughing. Then it's And it was such
a crap hole. It was just like it was made
out of paper.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
And there were mushrooms around the toilet because the carpet
had gotten so wet for so many years.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Actually was growing fung guy up out of the floor.
Oh man, if it was windy, your hair would get
messed up. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
When I was a kid, we lived in a ground
floor apartment, crappy apartment complex, and it would rain and
there would be all sorts of leaks and there would
be mushroom in the carpets in the hallways, not inside park.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Okay, I thought I was the only one that had
ever had mushrooms indoors, like a No, this is in
suburban Chicago land kind of working class back in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
It was pretty nasty, but you know what, my Paris
worked hard and got us out of there and on
the bigger and better things. Well, on the upside is
a college kid of living in a crappy place is
you don't have to worry that much about taking care
of it. And we would have We would play darts
a lot, and we put the dart board all the
way down the hallway in the kitchen, and you have
to try to throw the dart so hard and.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Flat like a like a like a baby pitch to
really fire.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, through the hallway all the way to the kitchen,
maybe constantly sticking in the walls of the ceiling room.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Places like crap, right right, yeah, So this is an
interesting story from the world of science that perhaps I
don't know, Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk might listen to.
Really interesting. The neuroscience of vengeance. Hmmm, now you got
my attention.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
It can be as addictive as drugs. I like to
serve piping hot. How should you serve vengeance?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
No, no again, you rue no cold?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Uh? And that forgiveness works like detox neurologically speaking, can
you get addicted to revenge?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Wow? This this writer is actually talking about This is.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
A troubling notion. And I think I can pick people
I feel like I've done that in their lives. Yeah, yeah,
or family, you know what this is so interesting.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
It's longish.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
He talks about his childhood and some really significant ugly
stuff as a kid, and his family and revenge, and
then he says, I didn't get revenge that night, but
I eventually went into the professional revenge business. I became
a lawyer. The way I saw lawyers get paid a
lot for selling revenge to the masses. Wow, and getting
revenge from my clients occupied the next twenty years of
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my life. And then then he says how it affected
his life, and he said, it seems like I was
addicted to revenge, but so were people everywhere.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Gives a bunch of examples. I began to hate what
I did.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
For a living and descended into a professional and psychological crisis.
One night, I found myself alone contemplating suicide. Can you
become addicted to revenge? I stopped being a litigator and
spent much of the next two decades trying to find out.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Wow, Yeah, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Don't you feel like you've known people that seem to
be addicted to revenge? They're always they've always like they're
always trying to.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Get back at somebody.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Just seems so time consuming and obviously takes up a
lot of your mental efforts.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I think we've all known families like that, that everybody
wants to have a psychological advantage over someone else because
they've been wrong.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yes, yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
It's yeah, break and I'll come back and tell you
about We got some of the things the scientists figured out.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
We got a little tribute to D Day. We're going
to do when we come back. I don't know, Sorry, No,
it's going to be. Yeah, why don't we We got
revenge on the Nazis? All right, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Let's let's spend another minute ninety seconds on this then,
and we'll come back with the D Day thing, because
I absolutely love that idea.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
So anyway, this guy becomes obsessed.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
With the idea of being addicted to revenge, and he
mentions that science right around them. Right around then, around
twenty oh four or so, we're starting to get really
good at brain scans and that sort of thing. Turns
out that your brain on revenge looks very much like
your brain on drugs. In an zero four study in
(27:06):
the journal Science, participants were given the opportunity to retaliate
against players who betrayed them during economic games, but at
the cost of bankrupting themselves. PET scans of the brains
showed activation of the dorsal stradium, part of the circuitry
involved in habit formation and dediction. Then he describes a
similar study. The brains of participants who did not seek
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revenge showed successful intervention by the prefrontal cortex, the area
of the brain responsible for executive function and self control,
which appears to be hijacked during addiction.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Wow, I'm glad I've never had that happen. I think
I feel like part of it is I'm too lazy
for this. Grievances I have too bad a memory. I
can't remember who I'm supposed to be angry at. Grievance
is real or imagined, appear to cue the brain to
crave revenge in much the same way that stress and
anxiety are seeing. Drug paraphernalia or places or drug use
cue the brains of addicts to crave narcotics.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
You crave revenge just like drugs.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Addiction scientists describe this mechanism as part of the brain
system for maintaining balance between pleasure and pain, calibrated partly
by levels of dopamine blah, blah blah. You can be
addicted to revenge and your brain looks just like a
drug addict.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
How crazy is that? Well, watch out for that, I guess, and.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Knowing that if it is an addiction, like all addictions,
it's something you could get away from with effort. Probably Yeah. Wow,
I hope we've helped at least one person with the
show today. Well, we the Allies got revenge on the
Nazis eighty one years ago. Today take that eight off, huh,
A little tribute to that when we come back.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
This is London, London calling in the Home Overseas and
European services of the BBC and through United Nations Radio Mediterranean,
and this is John snag Speed, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary
Forts have just issued Communicate number one, and in a
(29:08):
few seconds I will read it TOIL. Communicate number one.
Under the command of General Eisenhower, Allied naval forces supported
by strong air forces began landing Allied armies this morning
(29:29):
on the northern coast of France. I repeat that Communica
Communica number one, under the command of General Eisenhower, Allied
naval forces supported by strong air forces began landing Allied
Armies this morning on the northern coast of France. This
(29:55):
ends the reading of Communicate number one from Supreme Headquarters,
Expedition Revolse Ah.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
That was the very first announcement anywhere in the world
that D Day had begun. And if you haven't watched
Saving Private Ryan for that opening scene, what that would
have been like I was in my mind as he
was reading that.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yeah, And it's worth remembering is those words were being read.
Everybody's like, oh my god, the effort to retake France's begun,
and D Day might end up being disaster Day. Sure,
the loss of you know, Europe to the Fascist Day,
it might not have worked.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
And that was BBC, you know, broadcasting out of London,
which just a couple of years earlier had been almost
bombed out of existence, so not an academic matter for
them at all. It reminded me hearing.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
That guy's voice.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
So just a few weeks ago in May, remember, we
celebrated the eightieth anniversary of Victory in Europe Day and
it got a lot of attention and we talked about.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I heard a feature on Public Radio NPR are a
long like our long, full hour long feature on that
was unbelievable. It was the best that sort of thing
I'd ever heard in my life. As they went through
the day from broadcast to broadcast New York, London, various cities,
as the world became aware of the world of the
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war ending, and then statements from Churchill and Truman and
whoever else, and it was just absolutely fantastic. And one,
I was thinking, God, there's so many people I know
would love this. I wish I could lurk to them
to hear this. And two, of course, you can pull
off something this fantastic. You don't have to live by
the regular rules of commercial radio because you get taxpayer funding,
(31:44):
so you can pull off something this complicated and expensive
to put together.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
But it was so good.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I don't know if it's available online or what. I'd
never and I'd been a World War two buff for
so many years and taken in so much so I'd
never heard anything that good about the end of the
warner ever.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I'd like to hear that. I'll
have to dig into some good d Day stuff today.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Well, it's just it's hard to, I think, for a
lot of people to conceive of the fact that we
could have lost.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
It didn't have to turn out the way it turned
out to where the good.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Guys won, right, Yeah, which is why I made my comment,
because it's easy to look back at history as inevitable
or well, of course it was going to come out
one way or another, or everybody knew. D Day meant
that the victory was on the way now, right. It
was very iffy and many months of bloody battles followed.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
You know, it's time for the final thought with Tom
strug at Getty and you know, we hope it's about
Elog because he went bad. He went so bad. He's
a nasty guy, a nasty guy. We also heard that
Joe's coming out with a new party called the Empiolic Kids.
What a terrible idea, just to disgrace of a day,
but the party and Joe's been an oyal guy, but
(33:04):
now he's turning like e love. We Hopie comes to
his Sits is a bunday, but.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
We'll have to see. That's kind of a combo Donald
Trump Darth Vader thing there. I don't know what that is.
It is pretty amusing. Yeah, here's you crically done. Who
did that? As great? Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Getty, Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on
the crew to wrap things up for the day, beginning
with our technic Cule director Michaelangelo. Michael final thought, all Right,
I've decided I have got to get good at AI.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I've got to find the best you know, Chat GBT,
all the different AI apps and get good.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
At this stuff. Yeah, yeah, you might as well. We
all need to. Katie Green are Esteemed Newswoman. As a
final thought, Katie.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
I am one hundred percent chot team chat GPT. I'm
using it more and more every day.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
It's something and then once once you get started in
the habit, it's just it's it's there for so many things.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Jack. Final thought for us, I am fighting so hard
the desire to eat a donut. Their donuts everywhere. I'm starving.
It's National Donut Day. I feel like I'm a bad
American if I don't take one.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
In something or something. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
My final thought is getting back to the whole addicted
to vengeance thing I was reading about. You know that
feeling you get when somebody like cuts in line or
is driving like a moron, and you really want to
punish him, and you're imagining what you'd like to do.
That pleasure is what people get addicted to actually doing.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Hanson just came in with the box of donuts and
waved them around my head. That was cool, not helpful.
I was not helpful. Hey, why does he want me
to be fat?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Armstrong in Getty wrapping up another grueling for hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Same reason A drunk wants everybody to drink. So many
people saying, so little time.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
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See you Monday. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Is an unpredictable beast. What a powerful metaphor. I was wondering.
You know what you felt about that? Whatever you say
that and child, listen, it's one final message.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
It's child to put this word behind us. Just count down, Shade,
have a great Friday.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Armstrong and Geddy
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty. Did you watched
India last night? Michael? Did you watch Anhima? I saw
the Force Quarter? Oh really?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
How was it?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It was great?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, Oklahoma's got to be worried. Indiana has the ability
to come back on anybody anytime.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I just love Indiana. Wow, how did you have that?
I know you are. You are an idiot savant.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
If everybody is saying, uh, nobody can touch the Oklahoma
City Thunder and you lose game one on your home court.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's sick. That gets your attention.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
What our grandma showers? No, it's not when your mom
is a little gamy after exercize. It's something different, grandma showers.
M good lord, it's not when granny needs to get
the funk offer.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
And continuing updates of the feud that's shaking the earth,
Trump Musk, there's an updates?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, there actually is. Okay, it's kind of now. People
are weighing in from the Peanut Gallory.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It was something for Elon to retweet an impeachment tweet,
although he made the point. I don't know if it
was the same tweet or not. He made the point
that if the Dems take the House, or he was saying,
the tariffs are going to cause a recession, which is
going to cause the Dems to take the House, and
they will impeach Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That'll be the whole two years as lets you know.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The National Review podcast the other day and they went around,
if Dems take the House, will they impeach Trump?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
One hundred percent yes, every one of them. Oh yeah,
I don't think they're wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I wonder over what, I don't know, pick anything, the
Muslim band, the you know, whatever you want to do
with Tariff's name.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Something Harvard, something exactly. So this is not a rhetorical question.
We don't have to answer it now. But what kind
of person doesn't I mean, given how closely they worked
for a while, even if it was kind of phony
and just for politics and all, what kind of person
doesn't like one or two tweets in pick up the
phone and say, hey, this is getting kind of ugly.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Let's talk.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I wouldn't but I wouldn't engage in it in the
first place. So it's kind of hard to put myself
in that place. I'm putting myself in a place I
would never get. I can't imagine reacting that way publicly.
I just can't even imagine it.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah, I just I just have always always been a
believer in a not hitting send when you're angry, and
b if it's a good idea to say it today,
it'll still be a good idea tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So why don't you think about it?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I think about how you want to play those cards
and not shoot your mouthfall.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I want to discuss the term alpha male after we
do clips of the week, also, because that kept coming
up yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
All right, very good.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Now I'm not agreeing to it because I'm sort of
sort of beta male. I'm also an alpha male and
agree with Jack the alpha male.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm a Charlie male. I'm way down of the road.
I don't take murders from.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Nobody or Delphi or something. It's Friday tradition, It's beloved.
Let's take a fond look back at the week that was.
It's cow clips of the week.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well breaking news, the lasser raptor mounted Border patrol agents.
I think it's gonna be big. The Slips of the week.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Russia reeling from Ukraine's astonishing and unprecedented drone attacks.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
More than forty aircraft ablaze.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
We also have stronger tactical solutions. Our operation Spider Web
yesterday proved that.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I made it very clear. He said, we have no
choice but to attack. With Elon Musk and Donald Trump
are going through a divorce.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
You know, I was like disappointed to see the massive
spending bow rank.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Wat Elon Musk and I agree. I agree with Elon Musk.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Elon and I.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Had a great relationship. I don't know what well anymore.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I was surprised Musk and writing time to drop the
really big bomb.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real
reason they've not been made public. And then he said
he's got a problem. The poor guy's got a problem.
President Trump tonight should sign an executive order and seize
SpaceX tonight before midnight. Witnesses say Solomon was dressed like
a gardener.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Solomon brought eighteen Molotov cocktails for the park.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
He was about to use a makeshift flamethrower and all
I saw was someone on fire.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
The Travel Band is indeed back, and nothing will stop
us from Keeping America, saying, Chris.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Scares the hell out of me. I've been doing this
for forty years because we don't have I love people.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Show and discus momination.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
What I have decided to do is to follow my
own compass.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I don't make my kids go to school the last
couple of days of school.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I don't see the point is how should eat a banana? Now?
We don't pick it up and peel it like a primate. Instead,
we use a knife and fork. In my target that
used to have the pride section. It's now all USA.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Heay.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Just a few hours later, mom and dad and little
sister Gizmo together eating a fish.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Nancy has a headache and requires treatment. I will need
about an hour and a bottle of USTe Spermonte.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Show tap down the shade, Maybe we do man.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So Michael's got his phone out with the light on,
swaying back and forth.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
That's the wonder we were in a malaise in the
seventies that pop music sucks the will to live out
of me.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The summer anthem. I blame Jimmy Carter for bread and
and and the math works there. I blame bread for
Jimmy Carter. They sucked the masculinity out of America.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Speaking of the.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
NBA Finals last night, so uh, Indiana heavy underdogs they
win at Okay see upset. Jay Z had put a
million dollars down that OKC wins in five and now
they would have to win four straight, which has only
happened a couple of times in NBA history. But the
(07:13):
story behind the story on that is he has three
hundred and fifty million dollars invested in the company fan Fanatics,
which is online sports gambling thing. He has three hundred
and fifty million and now you've heard about that company
because he invested a million dollars in the the bet.
(07:34):
And obviously, even if he loses the fact that he
got millions and millions of dollars in free advertisement for
this company he's invested in, that's the whole point, right right, Yeah, yeah,
smart listening stunt. And he's married to current country music
champion Beyonce.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Now, other things that we teased, what are grandma showers?
It's another way for families to celebrate newborn's. I guess
it's caught on as a thing. The internet is clapped back,
calling it peake narcissism. Okay, you found one tweet where
somebody complained about it, But anyway, it's a new thing
like reveal parties and whatever grandma showers or grand baby
(08:14):
showers in addition to all the other things that you do,
and then you post online and get like, so knock
yourself out. If you're that sort of person, if you're
incredibly social and you like that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't come from it. Don't demand everybody else go
to it, please? Right?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Ah? Okay, so I heard several times yesterday the whole well,
what do you expect when you've got two alpha males?
Trump and Elon going at it like that? How do
you define alpha male? The way it's used thrown around
all the time, not like the dictionary definition, but the
way it's used all the time, because I think it's
(08:52):
misapplied regularly. Just because you lose your temper and shoot
off a bunch of stuff you didn't need to, that
doesn't necessarily make you an alpha male or or or
the other.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I guess it's the other that's more important. Point. The
fact that you don't do that doesn't mean you're not
an alpha male. I mean, agree yeah, I don't. I
don't use the term to mean that.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I don't use the term ever because I think it's
gotten all kinds of twisted in kind of weird ways that.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I don't like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No. To me, it's
just it is a uh a.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Dynamic man, a leader somebody others look up to, just
in general.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Okay, well that's interesting. Usually it goes with like kinda
I think maybe this is my own head. But when
people throw it around, it's kind of a loud, aggressive
sort of person. And I was thinking about, remember, no,
not to you.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
That's not the way I see it now.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I think that's why it's used like with Elon and
Trump yesterday and whenever you're around, And it's usually people
like that. And and the reason I don't like that,
I think your definition is better. I think about our
our old boss, you know, radio Station be for this one,
when we were doing soft rock.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
He was as like.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Gentle and quiet and and and maybe even meek would
be a fair word to put on him.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
As anybody's I've ever known. And he was in charge
of the whole place and really really good at it.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I would agree completely. Yeah, it's an interesting new sample
and I don't think a lot of people would consider
him alpha male. But he was in charge of everything
and got that way for a reason and continued to
be in charge of things throughout his career.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
So, uh yeah, what an interesting example.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah, he led through thoughtful uh consideration and conversation and
good decisions.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Oh yeah, yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
So I don't know, does that is he an alpha
male or not? He's literally the alpha male affle person
in that building.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
He might be the ultimate alpha male in that he
is confident in the way he does things and if
somebody came on like a blow hard, which is that negative,
you know, kind of way to use the term, he
would just wait.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Him out and he would win that battle.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
If people were using the definition the way you use it,
I have no problem with it whatsoever. But I think
and I'm not a guy that believes that, you know,
I don't like the toxic masculinity term or whatever, but
I feel like that that's what they go for when
they use the term alpha male. It's anybody that's like,
what kind of a jackass really is an alpha male?
You know, like, what's his name? Ramsey from the Cooking Show? Okay,
(11:31):
so you yell at people in belittle. Oh yeah, I
don't like using that sort of thing as like a
you get a cool title for that.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Tell me what is an alpha male? Is that what
we got going on here? The beating their chest and
whizzing on each other's tree with Elon and Trump. All right,
let's play who's your favorite Ramsey? Gordon Ramsey, Dave Ramsey
or this is a streat Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the second? Actually,
(12:05):
because I try to be careful with my money, I'm
gonna go with dad. We have a winner alpha male
thing way on in that, among other things we got
coming up. Here's our text line four one five two
nine five KFTC. My son is done with school and
(12:25):
he's got big weekends planned with his friends and is
about as excited as anybody can be. And I was
trying to remember how great that feeling is when school
gets out. It is something else.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The high school parking lot, believe how hop happy you
are now? And he's a high school now.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So the high school parking lot was full of, you know,
for the older kids who can drive cars, jam and
music and laughter and everybody headed off to their summer
lives whatever they are when you're fifteen through eighteen years old.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Holy crap. Yeah, good times. Yeah, I'd say so.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Enough politics for the moment. At least some interesting stories
from the world of business and or science. Here's a
startup wants to help parents rank their embryos for longevity. Actually,
I should have alerted Katie that we're going to be
talking about IVF.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
But once again, of the emphasis is on length of life.
That's your health, among other things.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Prospective parents using IVF will soon be able to rank
embryos using genetic and other information in the hopes of
extending the longevity of their offspring. According to this startup,
Nucleus plans to charge six thousand dollars for an analysis
of up to nine hundred conditions, including diseases that occur
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later in life in our major causes of death in
older people, such as Alzheimer's disease, arts disease, and cancers.
The company will analyze up to twenty embryos for you
four six thousand dollars, some twenty five year old entrepreneur.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Scientists. Dude, it might be legit, it might be Elizabeth Holmes.
I don't know. It's kind of sort of similar to
the analysis you had done, right, Katie, somewhat.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Yeah, it's more doing genetic testing that falls into my
bloodline or into Drew's blood line.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But yeah, that's.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
It's pretty amazing. We're getting real close to playing god
with some of these things.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Though.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Well, I know you wanted an embryo that would turn
out to be a good dancer and have a really
solid jaw line, so you had them screen.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
For that, right, that was tough priority. Actually, yeah, I agree.
We don't know. I mean I could, I would I
do it? I don't know, but I can.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Obviously you'd love the idea of if you can genetically
modify out the tendency and your family to have some
horrible cancer. Well, we don't know what goes with that tendency.
We don't know what's combined with that as a personality
trade or other thing.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We don't know. Yeah, it's conceivable. There's a tie there,
you know.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I think I may have come up with some sort
of philosophical dividing line, not that it do anybody any good,
but because they mentioned that IVF, doctors and clinics routinely
offered a test embryos for chromosomal abnormalities that could cause
like down syndrome, or let prospective parents know that at
risk of having a child with a lethal disease caused
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by a mutation in a single gene.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I think everybody's.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Pretty comfortable with eliminating negatives. It's when you start demanding
quote unquote positives that it starts to get a little weird.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I mean, you can screen for to make sure your
child doesn't have a terrible debilitating condition or it's like
super likely to get cancer or something like that. But taller,
more handsome, Yeah, good dancer. That starts to get weird.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Anytime you start playing this though, I'm thinking of several
famous examples of people who really were ass kickers because
the men in their family, the last couple of generations
had died young. Yeah, and so they felt like they
probably didn't have a lot of time, so they Mickey
Mantle baseball player, not important stuff, but that's what motivated
(16:08):
him as to to work as hard as he did.
Teddy Roosevelt probably the best example. There's lots of them.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So do we is it good for mankind to eliminate that?
I don't actually know, But so.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
We're going to be a race of big good looking,
shallow real estate agents. Not that there's anything wrong with
real estate agents, but just kind of charmingly handsome, just
but never any difficulties.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Or dancing real estate agents. Dancing real estate we have
great rhythm. You know.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I should have known we'd get off on a tangent
on this topic because it's such an interesting one. I've
got a couple other things to talk about, including modular homes.
If you think of modular homes as kind of a cheaper,
somewhat embarrassing, you know, substitute for a real built house,
think again. The technology is leapt forward and they're thinking
it could be a fabulos thing for disaster sites.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
You were wrong, you idiot.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, you're a stupid idiot and should take a long
look at yourself. But Alta, Dina, California hurricane sites. It's
all about the manufactured homes.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I'm talking about Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Wall Street Journal this week published a guide on how
people can pass frequent flyer miles down to their errors
after they die.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Tip number one fly into Newark. Wow, So why is
this happening?
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Hold interesting?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Okay, there are donuts all over the place today.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I wrote up the elevator with someone several boxes of
donuts or donuts all over the radio station. Today is
National Donut Day, in which Tim Sanderford tweeted out, let's
all agree that we should spell donut doug.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
H U T, which I've never spelled it that way.
I'm just a do n ut guy. A rube. Does
it make me a rube?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Okay, clearly does. That's the dividing line.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
We non rubes have secretly used that for a measuring
stick all these years.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
That's pretty funny National Donut Day.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I have not had one yet, as I had a
very good weight on the scale this morning and I'm
happy about that. It's funny how if you're losing weight,
it motivates you to lose more weight and be more disciplined.
Oh yeah, and when you're if you gain, it's like,
what the hell difference does it make? I might as
well to donate. And I was telling my son the
same thing about working out yesterday. He felt like he
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could actually feel his arms being firmer, and I said, yeah,
that's what really. You know, you start to get motivated
lifting weights when you start to see results.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You think, wow, I can change the way I look
yeah and feel definitely.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I'm wracked with guilt now because I haven't been in
the gym lately other than my weekly thing.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
That I gained like five to six pounds during whooping
cough because of printing his own and laying around on
all kinds.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Of different things. And it's not good for me. My
face as round as a basketball. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, So back to what we were talking about before
the break. I found this very interesting, partly because I've
got this weird fixation with real estate and houses and
that sort of thing. I just find them interesting. But
they start this article talking about a guy in Alta,
Dina's childhood home burnt down and he was determined to
rebuild it as it was before the wildfires, which is
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kind of sentimental and sweet. I guess I would have
just built the better, newer house, but anyway, he figured
out his homes insurance policy would only cover a fraction
of the estimated seven hundred grand to rebuild the house,
not a big house at all. Then he stumbled across
this company that sells prefabricated homes as pieces and factories,
(19:54):
then assembles them on site.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
It's called Happy Homes HAPI.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
The company said it could build a home for two
hundred grand less than the cost of a traditional construction
and doing less than half the time. And they mentioned
that the whole prefab house thing used to exist, like
on the edges of home building as kind of low
quality skews me houses. But they mentioned that now companies
(20:20):
use modular construction, three D printing, or other non traditional methods,
and they're trying to break into the mainstream by offering
faster and less costly alternatives, especially in places ravaged by
natural disasters. They're thinking that's their big opportunity.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Interesting, well, they've always and there's always been really good
versions of them. I've known plenty of people that had
whatever you want to call them mobile homes or whatever,
that were really really nice. But then I've lived in
a couple that were incredibly crappy. I mean it's like
the walls were were like paper.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Oh yeah, yeah. So listen to this, would you.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Jason Ballard's the chief executive for ic On, a company
that makes three D printed homes. They use giants three
D printers to squeeze layers of concrete into the framing
for a house. And I'm looking at a picture right now,
we can post this article at Armstrong and Giddy dot
com under hot links.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
But they are they are concrete houses that look.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Not like a rest stop bathroom. They've got a little contour,
a little style.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
A little you're selling me this with the idea that
this house looks like a rest stop bathroom.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Well no, I just said it doesn't in a way
that like concrete houses can. Being familiar both with fire
country and hurricane country in my travels, some people decide,
my priority is to build something that can withstand anything,
but you got to be careful that it doesn't look
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like a rest stop bathroom.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You're the third little pig exactly. Yes, And and these
houses are pretty good looking.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I mean, you're not gonna see them like in upscale
custom home developments. But this is no El Chiapo Cheapo.
In fact, this is the proverbial brick poop house.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Uh, I might throw a few bucks in investing in
one of these places.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I lived in a mobile home in college for my
senior year, my final year of college, and my roommate
and I Rusty and I lived there and it was
the rent was one hundred and twenty dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
And I'm old. But that was nothing then, I mean
that was nothing.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Then it was ridiculous. We paid sixty two dollars and
fifty cents each in rent every month.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Wow, that wasn't per man that was the total. Yeah,
and people were laughing. Then it's And it was such
a crap hole. It was just like it was made
out of paper.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
And there were mushrooms around the toilet because the carpet
had gotten so wet for so many years.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Actually was growing fung guy up out of the floor.
Oh man, if it was windy, your hair would get
messed up. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
When I was a kid, we lived in a ground
floor apartment, crappy apartment complex, and it would rain and
there would be all sorts of leaks and there would
be mushroom in the carpets in the hallways, not inside park.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Okay, I thought I was the only one that had
ever had mushrooms indoors, like a No, this is in
suburban Chicago land kind of working class back in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
It was pretty nasty, but you know what, my Paris
worked hard and got us out of there and on
the bigger and better things. Well, on the upside is
a college kid of living in a crappy place is
you don't have to worry that much about taking care
of it. And we would have We would play darts
a lot, and we put the dart board all the
way down the hallway in the kitchen, and you have
to try to throw the dart so hard and.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Flat like a like a like a baby pitch to
really fire.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, through the hallway all the way to the kitchen,
maybe constantly sticking in the walls of the ceiling room.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Places like crap, right right, yeah, So this is an
interesting story from the world of science that perhaps I
don't know, Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk might listen to.
Really interesting. The neuroscience of vengeance. Hmmm, now you got
my attention.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
It can be as addictive as drugs. I like to
serve piping hot. How should you serve vengeance?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
No, no again, you rue no cold?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Uh? And that forgiveness works like detox neurologically speaking, can
you get addicted to revenge?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Wow? This this writer is actually talking about This is.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
A troubling notion. And I think I can pick people
I feel like I've done that in their lives. Yeah, yeah,
or family, you know what this is so interesting.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
It's longish.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
He talks about his childhood and some really significant ugly
stuff as a kid, and his family and revenge, and
then he says, I didn't get revenge that night, but
I eventually went into the professional revenge business. I became
a lawyer. The way I saw lawyers get paid a
lot for selling revenge to the masses. Wow, and getting
revenge from my clients occupied the next twenty years of
(25:25):
my life. And then then he says how it affected
his life, and he said, it seems like I was
addicted to revenge, but so were people everywhere.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Gives a bunch of examples. I began to hate what
I did.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
For a living and descended into a professional and psychological crisis.
One night, I found myself alone contemplating suicide. Can you
become addicted to revenge? I stopped being a litigator and
spent much of the next two decades trying to find out.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Wow, Yeah, isn't that crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Don't you feel like you've known people that seem to
be addicted to revenge? They're always they've always like they're
always trying to.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Get back at somebody.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Just seems so time consuming and obviously takes up a
lot of your mental efforts.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I think we've all known families like that, that everybody
wants to have a psychological advantage over someone else because
they've been wrong.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yes, yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
It's yeah, break and I'll come back and tell you
about We got some of the things the scientists figured out.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
We got a little tribute to D Day. We're going
to do when we come back. I don't know, Sorry, No,
it's going to be. Yeah, why don't we We got
revenge on the Nazis? All right, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Let's let's spend another minute ninety seconds on this then,
and we'll come back with the D Day thing, because
I absolutely love that idea.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
So anyway, this guy becomes obsessed.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
With the idea of being addicted to revenge, and he
mentions that science right around them. Right around then, around
twenty oh four or so, we're starting to get really
good at brain scans and that sort of thing. Turns
out that your brain on revenge looks very much like
your brain on drugs. In an zero four study in
(27:06):
the journal Science, participants were given the opportunity to retaliate
against players who betrayed them during economic games, but at
the cost of bankrupting themselves. PET scans of the brains
showed activation of the dorsal stradium, part of the circuitry
involved in habit formation and dediction. Then he describes a
similar study. The brains of participants who did not seek
(27:29):
revenge showed successful intervention by the prefrontal cortex, the area
of the brain responsible for executive function and self control,
which appears to be hijacked during addiction.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Wow, I'm glad I've never had that happen. I think
I feel like part of it is I'm too lazy
for this. Grievances I have too bad a memory. I
can't remember who I'm supposed to be angry at. Grievance
is real or imagined, appear to cue the brain to
crave revenge in much the same way that stress and
anxiety are seeing. Drug paraphernalia or places or drug use
cue the brains of addicts to crave narcotics.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
You crave revenge just like drugs.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Addiction scientists describe this mechanism as part of the brain
system for maintaining balance between pleasure and pain, calibrated partly
by levels of dopamine blah, blah blah. You can be
addicted to revenge and your brain looks just like a
drug addict.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
How crazy is that? Well, watch out for that, I guess, and.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Knowing that if it is an addiction, like all addictions,
it's something you could get away from with effort. Probably Yeah. Wow,
I hope we've helped at least one person with the
show today. Well, we the Allies got revenge on the
Nazis eighty one years ago. Today take that eight off, huh,
A little tribute to that when we come back.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
This is London, London calling in the Home Overseas and
European services of the BBC and through United Nations Radio Mediterranean,
and this is John snag Speed, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary
Forts have just issued Communicate number one, and in a
(29:08):
few seconds I will read it TOIL. Communicate number one.
Under the command of General Eisenhower, Allied naval forces supported
by strong air forces began landing Allied armies this morning
(29:29):
on the northern coast of France. I repeat that Communica
Communica number one, under the command of General Eisenhower, Allied
naval forces supported by strong air forces began landing Allied
Armies this morning on the northern coast of France. This
(29:55):
ends the reading of Communicate number one from Supreme Headquarters,
Expedition Revolse Ah.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
That was the very first announcement anywhere in the world
that D Day had begun. And if you haven't watched
Saving Private Ryan for that opening scene, what that would
have been like I was in my mind as he
was reading that.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yeah, And it's worth remembering is those words were being read.
Everybody's like, oh my god, the effort to retake France's begun,
and D Day might end up being disaster Day. Sure,
the loss of you know, Europe to the Fascist Day,
it might not have worked.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
And that was BBC, you know, broadcasting out of London,
which just a couple of years earlier had been almost
bombed out of existence, so not an academic matter for
them at all. It reminded me hearing.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
That guy's voice.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
So just a few weeks ago in May, remember, we
celebrated the eightieth anniversary of Victory in Europe Day and
it got a lot of attention and we talked about.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I heard a feature on Public Radio NPR are a
long like our long, full hour long feature on that
was unbelievable. It was the best that sort of thing
I'd ever heard in my life. As they went through
the day from broadcast to broadcast New York, London, various cities,
as the world became aware of the world of the
(31:20):
war ending, and then statements from Churchill and Truman and
whoever else, and it was just absolutely fantastic. And one,
I was thinking, God, there's so many people I know
would love this. I wish I could lurk to them
to hear this. And two, of course, you can pull
off something this fantastic. You don't have to live by
the regular rules of commercial radio because you get taxpayer funding,
(31:44):
so you can pull off something this complicated and expensive
to put together.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
But it was so good.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I don't know if it's available online or what. I'd
never and I'd been a World War two buff for
so many years and taken in so much so I'd
never heard anything that good about the end of the
warner ever.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I'd like to hear that. I'll
have to dig into some good d Day stuff today.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Well, it's just it's hard to, I think, for a
lot of people to conceive of the fact that we
could have lost.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
It didn't have to turn out the way it turned
out to where the good.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Guys won, right, Yeah, which is why I made my comment,
because it's easy to look back at history as inevitable
or well, of course it was going to come out
one way or another, or everybody knew. D Day meant
that the victory was on the way now, right. It
was very iffy and many months of bloody battles followed.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
You know, it's time for the final thought with Tom
strug at Getty and you know, we hope it's about
Elog because he went bad. He went so bad. He's
a nasty guy, a nasty guy. We also heard that
Joe's coming out with a new party called the Empiolic Kids.
What a terrible idea, just to disgrace of a day,
but the party and Joe's been an oyal guy, but
(33:04):
now he's turning like e love. We Hopie comes to
his Sits is a bunday, but.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
We'll have to see. That's kind of a combo Donald
Trump Darth Vader thing there. I don't know what that is.
It is pretty amusing. Yeah, here's you crically done. Who
did that? As great? Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Getty, Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on
the crew to wrap things up for the day, beginning
with our technic Cule director Michaelangelo. Michael final thought, all Right,
I've decided I have got to get good at AI.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I've got to find the best you know, Chat GBT,
all the different AI apps and get good.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
At this stuff. Yeah, yeah, you might as well. We
all need to. Katie Green are Esteemed Newswoman. As a
final thought, Katie.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
I am one hundred percent chot team chat GPT. I'm
using it more and more every day.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
It's something and then once once you get started in
the habit, it's just it's it's there for so many things.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Jack. Final thought for us, I am fighting so hard
the desire to eat a donut. Their donuts everywhere. I'm starving.
It's National Donut Day. I feel like I'm a bad
American if I don't take one.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
In something or something. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
My final thought is getting back to the whole addicted
to vengeance thing I was reading about. You know that
feeling you get when somebody like cuts in line or
is driving like a moron, and you really want to
punish him, and you're imagining what you'd like to do.
That pleasure is what people get addicted to actually doing.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Hanson just came in with the box of donuts and
waved them around my head. That was cool, not helpful.
I was not helpful. Hey, why does he want me
to be fat?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Armstrong in Getty wrapping up another grueling for hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Same reason A drunk wants everybody to drink. So many
people saying, so little time.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
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See you Monday. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Is an unpredictable beast. What a powerful metaphor. I was wondering.
You know what you felt about that? Whatever you say
that and child, listen, it's one final message.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
It's child to put this word behind us. Just count down, Shade,
have a great Friday.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
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