WEBVTT - Chasing My Intellectual Tail 0:00:02.980 --> 0:00:06.820 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:06.860 --> 0:00:08.840 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:08.900 --> 0:00:13.200 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now, 0:00:13.540 --> 0:00:18.360 here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:25.220 --> 0:00:27.440 And for the conspiracists out there, just to be clear, 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:28.700 we have been there before. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.940 We absolutely have been to the moon. We went there 0:00:32.060 --> 0:00:34.440 in 1969. You know, people ask, why is it that 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:36.220 it's so hard for us to do if we did 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.120 it way back in 1969? And what you have to 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:43.500 know is we spent 3% of GDP when we did 0:00:43.540 --> 0:00:47.090 it in 1969, almost 3% of GDP. So it was 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.690 very expensive. Today, we're going to do it at a 0:00:49.909 --> 0:00:51.769 much lower cost, and we're going to this time go 0:00:51.790 --> 0:00:53.990 to the moon to stay. It won't just be a 0:00:54.590 --> 0:00:58.010 mission and leave. It'll be a real sustainable lunar base. 0:00:58.290 --> 0:01:00.310 And that's how we'll really explore the moon and find 0:01:00.350 --> 0:01:01.030 interesting things. 0:01:01.710 --> 0:01:04.290 Brett Baer on Special Report last night did an extended 0:01:04.370 --> 0:01:08.760 interview from the Blue Origin headquarters near Cape Canaveral with 0:01:09.380 --> 0:01:10.940 Jeffrey Bezos. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:11.700 Jeffrey! 0:01:12.140 --> 0:01:18.520 Oh, that's the fella. Jeffrey Bezos! Exactly. The founder of Amazon.com, 0:01:18.540 --> 0:01:22.190 Blue Origin, and Prometheus, which is an interesting company, too. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:27.060 I tell you what, Jeff Bezos needs to do more 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.300 long-form interviews like that, maybe podcasts, maybe the Armstrong and 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:34.470 Getty show, and fewer, like, photo ops on his yacht 0:01:34.550 --> 0:01:39.170 with his enhanced-lipped trophy wife. And his shirt off. Because, well, 0:01:39.209 --> 0:01:41.410 he had a tight black T-shirt on because, of course, 0:01:41.430 --> 0:01:45.090 he did, Jack. The aging man who hits the gym 0:01:45.130 --> 0:01:47.259 a lot, outfit of choice. What's the point of hitting 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:48.680 the gym if you're not going to let people know 0:01:48.700 --> 0:01:51.560 you're hitting the gym? You're not wrong. You are not wrong. 0:01:51.970 --> 0:01:55.150 But he should do more interviews. He came off as 0:01:55.550 --> 0:02:00.630 the sort of guy who invents amazingly new, efficient, innovative things. 0:02:00.970 --> 0:02:07.090 He's relentlessly positive, super imaginative. And while he certainly seems 0:02:07.130 --> 0:02:09.690 to enjoy his wealth, he's a perfect example of what 0:02:09.790 --> 0:02:12.399 Elon Musk talks about. Yeah, I made a ton of money. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.359 Now I'm planning and now I'm plowing it all into 0:02:14.380 --> 0:02:17.380 all this stuff. And this stuff's amazing. I mean, his 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:23.019 enthusiasm is for exploring and learning and innovating is it's just, it's, 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.959 it's awesome to be old. Honestly, it is kind of interesting. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:30.460 The hatred toward the super rich when you've got Elon 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.380 and Bezos, and you could use Warren Buffett as an example, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.620 lives in his tiny house and drives an old car. 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.980 I mean, the crowd that hates on the billionaires, a 0:02:39.020 --> 0:02:42.490 lot of the most prominent billionaires are so not the. 0:02:42.430 --> 0:02:44.470 Kind of people that you portray them to be. 0:02:44.750 --> 0:02:46.590 They're giving back to the world in all kinds of 0:02:46.610 --> 0:02:46.989 different ways. 0:02:47.030 --> 0:02:48.970 But, um, I thought that was interesting. 0:02:49.010 --> 0:02:51.410 I didn't know we spent three percent of our GDP 0:02:51.430 --> 0:02:52.230 to get to the moon. 0:02:52.410 --> 0:02:52.970 Wow. 0:02:53.430 --> 0:02:53.670 Yeah. 0:02:53.790 --> 0:02:53.970 Yeah. 0:02:54.310 --> 0:02:56.530 And to your point, while he certainly seems to enjoy 0:02:56.570 --> 0:03:00.230 his wealth, he's also put twenty three billion dollars of 0:03:00.270 --> 0:03:04.400 his own money into Blue Origin because he's so excited 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:05.220 about space travel. 0:03:05.260 --> 0:03:08.000 You know, one thing I don't I've never completely understood. 0:03:08.300 --> 0:03:10.640 And maybe he speaks to this. Maybe he doesn't. 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.500 So is he in contact with Elon and his plans 0:03:15.620 --> 0:03:17.280 for the base on the moon and getting to Mars 0:03:17.500 --> 0:03:20.190 or NASA or any of the other entities that are? 0:03:20.500 --> 0:03:24.170 Are they all doing this independently? And, you know, somebody 0:03:24.210 --> 0:03:25.450 lands there. Hey, wait a second. 0:03:25.550 --> 0:03:27.070 I was going to land there. Yeah. 0:03:27.130 --> 0:03:27.350 Yes. 0:03:27.389 --> 0:03:29.489 Did you? Well, right. 0:03:29.530 --> 0:03:29.750 Yeah. 0:03:29.830 --> 0:03:32.549 And it's funny. I kept waiting for Brett to ask him. 0:03:33.810 --> 0:03:36.640 Talk about what SpaceX and Elon Musk are doing and 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:38.720 what you think of it and how it meshes with 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.880 what you're doing. Were you coordinating in any way? Yeah, 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.810 it's all centered around and coordinated with NASA. They have 0:03:45.930 --> 0:03:48.180 different parts of the puzzle that they're working on, from 0:03:48.220 --> 0:03:50.520 what I understand. But yeah, I was surprised they never 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:51.840 got to that because it was the first thing that 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.420 popped into my mind. But anyway, back to the interview 0:03:54.460 --> 0:03:58.640 with Bezos. We'll play clip number 30. Brett is asking, hey, 0:03:58.660 --> 0:04:00.580 we've been to the moon before. Why bother? 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.250 Well, I'm really glad to see the country put their 0:04:04.410 --> 0:04:07.330 energy behind the moon. Look, it's not good to skip steps. 0:04:07.650 --> 0:04:09.750 In general, you don't want to skip steps. And we'll 0:04:09.770 --> 0:04:11.930 go to Mars. We'll do all the other things. But 0:04:11.950 --> 0:04:13.650 we need to go to the moon first. The moon 0:04:13.710 --> 0:04:16.670 is a gift. It's only three days away from Earth. 0:04:16.710 --> 0:04:18.630 You get there in three days and you don't need 0:04:18.650 --> 0:04:21.669 to wait for special launch windows. And it has all 0:04:21.710 --> 0:04:25.930 these resources that we can utilize. And it takes 28 0:04:25.930 --> 0:04:29.490 times less energy to lift something off the moon because 0:04:29.510 --> 0:04:31.690 of its lower gravity than it does to lift something 0:04:31.750 --> 0:04:35.100 off the Earth. So the resources, you know, we're working on, 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.200 for example, building solar cells. We here at Blue Origin, 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.279 building solar cells out of lunar regolith, out of the 0:04:41.339 --> 0:04:45.360 dirt that's on the moon. It's 20% silicon. It's very 0:04:45.460 --> 0:04:48.020 easy to do this. So we can make solar cells 0:04:48.060 --> 0:04:50.109 on the moon. We can make liquid oxygen on the moon, 0:04:50.140 --> 0:04:53.330 which is a rocket propellant. We can find water on 0:04:53.350 --> 0:04:55.430 the moon. There's all sorts of things. And it's a 0:04:55.490 --> 0:04:57.350 natural body. So when we go explore it, there are 0:04:57.370 --> 0:05:00.529 going to be positive surprises. So, yes, we should be 0:05:00.550 --> 0:05:03.270 going to the moon. I'm glad to see that happening, 0:05:03.730 --> 0:05:05.909 and I'm glad everybody's coming. 0:05:06.930 --> 0:05:10.110 Regolith is a word I became aware of fairly recently. 0:05:10.150 --> 0:05:12.419 That's a big word in the world of getting to 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:12.740 the moon. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:17.820 Yeah, yeah. It means just like the dusty dirt, right? 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.420 Sharp little dusty rock dirt, yeah. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.960 Okay, fair enough. I call it gravel on Earth. 0:05:24.100 --> 0:05:27.200 But a lot of it is really... Well, it's so fine. 0:05:27.260 --> 0:05:29.779 I guess it's a pretty big problem. It's so fine 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.000 to keep it from gunking up everything. 0:05:36.260 --> 0:05:38.300 All the time. But it's full of a lot of. 0:05:38.290 --> 0:05:41.850 Your minerals that we're mining here on Earth that we 0:05:41.890 --> 0:05:44.070 need to become super wealthy. 0:05:44.730 --> 0:05:48.950 Excellent, regolith knowledge. So a couple of things. Number one, 0:05:49.050 --> 0:05:51.610 you don't want to skip steps, was a veiled shot 0:05:51.650 --> 0:05:54.830 at Elon Musk, I believe. and his constant talking about 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.100 going to Mars, but very veiled. Second, Elon will challenge 0:05:58.140 --> 0:06:00.980 to fight him. Jeff, you're one of the richest people 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.830 on Earth. Join me in my crusade against effing, expressing 0:06:04.990 --> 0:06:11.000 fractions as multiples. It's 28 times lighter. Do you mean 128th? 0:06:13.779 --> 0:06:20.490 I despise that. All right. What would be if it's weightless? 0:06:20.650 --> 0:06:23.450 How would you express that? Oh, my God. It's just 0:06:23.510 --> 0:06:26.910 it's idiotic. The things that work you up. Anyway, at 0:06:26.930 --> 0:06:29.350 least I can order my liquid IV and get it 0:06:29.390 --> 0:06:32.730 like the next day. Let's see. Then he talks about 0:06:32.810 --> 0:06:34.890 how their goal is to fly every day and make 0:06:34.930 --> 0:06:38.339 this a super regular thing. All reusable components are to 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.640 the extent that that's conceivable. And Brett then asks him 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.260 about flying constantly. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.810 So it will happen in our lifetimes where there's just 0:06:45.940 --> 0:06:49.530 there's spaceships taken off every single day, maybe multiple times 0:06:49.550 --> 0:06:52.790 a day. Maybe it's like Southwest out of Burbank going 0:06:52.810 --> 0:06:54.670 to the moon and back. And if you're rich, you 0:06:54.690 --> 0:06:57.450 can go sometime if you want. How cool would that be? Yeah. 0:06:57.610 --> 0:06:57.790 Yeah. 0:06:58.130 --> 0:07:00.890 Here he's he's talking about the question of making lots 0:07:00.930 --> 0:07:06.080 of money and Why billionaires are demonized in today's society. 33, Michael. 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:10.180 One thing to really think about is that all civilizational wealth, 0:07:10.220 --> 0:07:15.490 draw the box very big, all civilizational wealth comes from invention. 0:07:15.670 --> 0:07:19.090 So 6,000 years ago, somebody invented the plow. And when 0:07:19.110 --> 0:07:21.990 they did, we all got wealthier. And then much later, 0:07:22.050 --> 0:07:24.530 somebody invented the steam engine. And when they did, we 0:07:24.650 --> 0:07:28.810 all got wealthier. And that cycle has continued. And what 0:07:28.850 --> 0:07:31.140 we want to do is speed that up, speed up 0:07:31.180 --> 0:07:34.880 the rate of invention. So use AI to make physical things. 0:07:34.940 --> 0:07:36.620 And we're going to make the tools so easy to 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.280 use that anyone will be able to be an engineer. 0:07:39.900 --> 0:07:41.550 You know what I wish we had the clip of 0:07:41.620 --> 0:07:44.570 was he was talking about how you become a billionaire. 0:07:44.610 --> 0:07:47.110 And he gave the example of the Cane's Chicken people. 0:07:47.310 --> 0:07:47.450 Hmm. 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.880 And he said, look, they started a chicken restaurant people 0:07:49.940 --> 0:07:52.440 really like, so they opened up another one, and they 0:07:52.500 --> 0:07:56.080 really love that. Now they're employing 300 people, and they 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.360 opened 10 more, and people still really love the chicken. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:07:59.940 Now the guy's a billionaire. He says, what in the 0:08:00.050 --> 0:08:03.970 world is wrong with that? Yeah, no kidding. Why would 0:08:03.990 --> 0:08:08.090 you demonize that? You're demonizing coming up with chicken people 0:08:08.170 --> 0:08:12.350 really like to eat? What the hell? It's, well, it's envy. 0:08:12.390 --> 0:08:13.410 It's the politics of envy. 0:08:13.450 --> 0:08:16.320 And opening stores and paying taxes and hiring people and, 0:08:16.380 --> 0:08:19.360 you know, buying chicken and chairs and paint. 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.420 Yeah, it's ridiculous to be against that. Yeah, you want 0:08:23.460 --> 0:08:27.500 to start a charity that feeds, clothes, and medicates hundreds 0:08:27.540 --> 0:08:33.050 of families for decades? Start a successful business. Anyway, I 0:08:34.270 --> 0:08:36.470 want to know, Jack, if you find this at all 0:08:36.530 --> 0:08:40.300 compelling or comprehensible to Brett is asking him about will 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:44.459 AI create a labor shortage? 35, Michael. You said AI 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.350 is going to create a labor shortage. 0:08:46.620 --> 0:08:46.750 Yes. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.130 I've heard you talk about this a lot. 0:08:48.150 --> 0:08:50.829 Yes, I feel this very strongly. What I would say 0:08:50.910 --> 0:08:52.770 about AI is what's going to happen is, again, it's 0:08:52.809 --> 0:08:56.089 because of the productivity. So because of the productivity in 0:08:56.110 --> 0:08:59.540 the economy, many people are going to decide. Let's say 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.790 you have a two-earner income household. One of those people 0:09:03.850 --> 0:09:05.910 is likely, you're not going to need to have a 0:09:05.950 --> 0:09:08.390 two-earner income household. If you want to have it, fine, 0:09:08.450 --> 0:09:10.480 you'll have it. But if you don't want to have it, 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.219 one of the people might drop out. Some people will 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:14.920 also decide, you know what, I can support my family 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.020 working three days a week. That's what productivity in the 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.359 economy means. And so people, I think you're going to 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.220 have a labor shortage. It's going to actually be difficult 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.239 to hire people because the productivity in the economy is 0:09:25.260 --> 0:09:27.280 going to make it so that if people don't want 0:09:27.300 --> 0:09:29.179 to work two jobs, they won't have to. 0:09:29.980 --> 0:09:32.260 You hear the fear out there, though. Oh, yes. On 0:09:32.300 --> 0:09:32.939 a number of fronts. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:33.520 Oh, yes. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.680 The fear about AI and the fear about jobs. Of course. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.459 And I understand it because a lot of smart people 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.160 are prognosticating that. I just happen to disagree with those 0:09:42.179 --> 0:09:42.790 smart people. 0:09:43.490 --> 0:09:43.910 Yeah. 0:09:44.950 --> 0:09:50.809 That goes against what society has done over the last 0:09:51.670 --> 0:09:59.030 half century or more. We're all living, most everybody's living 0:09:59.530 --> 0:10:03.450 much worse wealthier lifestyle than our parents and grandparents did. 0:10:04.309 --> 0:10:09.390 We didn't decide... You know, a thousand square feet and 0:10:11.330 --> 0:10:14.830 a kind of car ago that this is enough. Only 0:10:14.950 --> 0:10:18.080 one of us will work now. We decided we want more. 0:10:18.140 --> 0:10:20.100 We want a bigger house. We want more cars. We 0:10:20.140 --> 0:10:21.179 want nicer vacations. 0:10:21.780 --> 0:10:24.620 Mm hmm. So I don't understand. A lot of people have, yeah. 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:25.319 Most people. 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.040 There's plenty, plenty of people that could live the way 0:10:29.420 --> 0:10:31.839 you and I, our parents lived if they wanted to 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.980 have one parent working, but they don't want to live 0:10:34.020 --> 0:10:36.360 that way. So I don't know why Jeffrey Bezos thinks 0:10:36.380 --> 0:10:38.140 we're going to all of a sudden change into human 0:10:38.179 --> 0:10:39.510 beings where we decide we've got enough. 0:10:40.350 --> 0:10:42.250 I don't know why that would happen. You know, that's 0:10:42.290 --> 0:10:44.530 a really interesting philosophical point. I think it's kind of 0:10:44.570 --> 0:10:50.500 beside his point, though, which is that you'll have that option. Well, 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.220 I'm saying you got that option now. No, as opposed 0:10:53.260 --> 0:10:57.780 to massive society ruining unemployment, which is what we're always 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.179 talking about. That's interesting. Yeah. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.439 So that on its own, the fact that you've got 0:11:02.580 --> 0:11:06.780 several of the smartest people in the world, their guesses 0:11:06.850 --> 0:11:10.290 about this and they are guesses are that wildly different 0:11:11.270 --> 0:11:13.750 that there will be nobody will have a job or 0:11:13.970 --> 0:11:16.229 there'll be there won't be enough people to hire. There'll 0:11:16.250 --> 0:11:19.950 be so many jobs. So, yeah, I mean, that's. Somebody's right. 0:11:20.230 --> 0:11:25.120 Somebody's wrong. Brett asks him about government regulation, Michael, in 36. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.620 So what do you think should happen? 0:11:28.540 --> 0:11:31.140 Well, look, let's back up a bit and look at 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:36.679 this thing. Regulation is very useful. Government regulation can be 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.040 very useful if it's done in a light way and 0:11:39.090 --> 0:11:43.350 done in a smart way. And where sometimes regulation goes wrong, 0:11:43.410 --> 0:11:49.429 especially when people are scared, you know, reacting emotionally and 0:11:49.470 --> 0:11:51.390 so on, is they want to try to regulate the 0:11:51.530 --> 0:11:55.110 underlying thing instead of the applications of the thing. And so, 0:11:55.170 --> 0:11:57.510 you know, the simple example I could give you would be, 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.680 you know, you don't want to regulate knives. You want 0:12:02.700 --> 0:12:05.099 to regulate murder. So, you know, you can use a 0:12:05.140 --> 0:12:07.960 knife to murder somebody, but you don't want to say 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.870 the solution to that is to eliminate knives. You want 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.800 to say, let's make murder illegal. 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Advisory services are offered 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.459 through Talon, LLC, and SEC-registered investment advisor. Learn more at bluecollardollar.com. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.590 Armstrong and Getty. 0:13:51.150 --> 0:13:52.870 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:13:55.260 --> 0:13:58.219 To right field. This should do it. Tucker is there. 0:13:59.260 --> 0:14:03.220 The quest for the three-peat rolls on. The Dodgers are 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:08.959 headed back to the NLCS. 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:09.410 There you go. 0:14:09.420 --> 0:14:12.059 Dodgers one step away from another World Series. So is 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.760 it Dodgers-Brewers for the NLCS? 0:14:14.780 --> 0:14:16.880 That's what we got going on here? Indeed. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:17.319 Yeah. 0:14:17.540 --> 0:14:21.440 Yeah, that'll be a fun series. And then Rays. It's 0:14:21.460 --> 0:14:24.850 going to be Rays who? White Sox. Oh, no, that 0:14:24.890 --> 0:14:27.430 series not over yet. Right. I don't know. I haven't 0:14:27.450 --> 0:14:28.210 really been following it. 0:14:28.270 --> 0:14:30.030 White Sox are the best story out there. If they 0:14:30.070 --> 0:14:31.730 end up going for the role, I have to talk 0:14:31.770 --> 0:14:34.940 about that. So I got on this topic last night. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.560 I've mentioned before that I lost my ability to taste 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:44.660 sweet because of COVID. My kids believe I'm lying about 0:14:44.700 --> 0:14:46.070 this for some reason. I don't know why I would 0:14:46.090 --> 0:14:47.670 make this up. I feel like that would make me 0:14:47.710 --> 0:14:48.290 a crazy person. 0:14:48.710 --> 0:14:51.210 Seems like an odd line to bother with. 0:14:51.750 --> 0:14:52.030 I know. 0:14:52.270 --> 0:14:53.010 I don't I don't know why. 0:14:53.510 --> 0:14:56.010 But, uh, for instance, last night we're at the dinner 0:14:56.130 --> 0:15:00.350 and my son ordered something called dragon fruit punch or 0:15:00.390 --> 0:15:02.790 something like that to drink. And he said, oh, this 0:15:02.850 --> 0:15:04.030 is one of the best drinks I've ever had in 0:15:04.050 --> 0:15:04.370 my life. 0:15:04.410 --> 0:15:06.050 And I took a sip of it and he said, 0:15:06.090 --> 0:15:06.870 it's so sweet though. 0:15:06.890 --> 0:15:09.130 And I said, wow, it's got, it's sweet because I 0:15:09.170 --> 0:15:10.950 didn't taste any sweet whatsoever. 0:15:11.370 --> 0:15:11.610 Wow. 0:15:11.690 --> 0:15:13.670 And, uh, it just reminded me that I, that I 0:15:13.710 --> 0:15:17.390 can't taste sweet. So I did a little research on that. Um, 0:15:17.630 --> 0:15:19.790 for those of you out there who, who maybe have 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:23.080 lost some taste or all of your taste, About a 0:15:23.300 --> 0:15:27.960 third of people who got COVID experienced some change in taste. 0:15:28.110 --> 0:15:31.650 About a third. Yeah, I lost my taste in art. 0:15:31.930 --> 0:15:40.090 I just watched McHale's Navy all day long. Hey-o! Oh, boy. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:44.100 That's right. You only listen to Britney Spears now. That's right. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:46.860 So about a third of people had some effect of 0:15:46.940 --> 0:15:49.600 their taste when they got COVID, and then about half 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:50.120 of those. 0:15:51.990 --> 0:15:52.630 uh had a. 0:15:52.730 --> 0:15:57.650 Uh it continued it didn't go away so about half 0:15:57.670 --> 0:15:59.720 of those it stayed and then of those that it 0:15:59.750 --> 0:16:03.080 stayed it's it's different there's complete loss like you can't 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:07.260 taste anything which was about 28 that would suck i 0:16:07.300 --> 0:16:09.320 can't even imagine what it would be like to not 0:16:09.380 --> 0:16:12.380 taste anything i don't know maybe it wouldn't suck i 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.480 have no idea but um it would be weird can 0:16:15.500 --> 0:16:17.000 you imagine putting food in your mouth and it has 0:16:17.140 --> 0:16:19.500 no flavor or anything you drink it would just. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.130 Be weird to lose any of your senses does not 0:16:22.150 --> 0:16:22.989 sound like a good thing. 0:16:24.050 --> 0:16:26.890 Uh, and then about a third of those, this is 0:16:27.100 --> 0:16:29.620 of people who lost taste, which is a third. And 0:16:29.660 --> 0:16:31.380 then about half of those, it was permanent. And then, 0:16:31.700 --> 0:16:35.680 so it goes down there. And so distorted versus, um, uh, 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:41.240 losing it completely verse. And then, uh, only about half 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.750 of those, you're breaking it down even further, ever get 0:16:43.770 --> 0:16:44.130 it back. 0:16:44.190 --> 0:16:46.230 And I, my, the doctor told me I'm probably never 0:16:46.270 --> 0:16:46.830 going to get it back. 0:16:46.890 --> 0:16:51.190 I'll never taste sweet again in my life. Um, 40% 0:16:51.430 --> 0:16:58.980 lost sweet. This doesn't add up right, but 71% lost salty. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.880 That was a more common one. 32% lost bitter. 22% 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.220 lost sour. And we got into a discussion last night 0:17:05.260 --> 0:17:09.399 what would be the worst or the least bad. I 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:14.560 think losing salty would be horrible. First of all, what 0:17:14.619 --> 0:17:16.939 I have learned from losing sweet, everybody tells me, oh, 0:17:16.980 --> 0:17:19.550 I wish that would happen to me. Yeah, I thought that, too. 0:17:19.590 --> 0:17:23.370 But it's the opposite. You eat more sweets. Your brain 0:17:23.470 --> 0:17:26.590 wants sweet or we need sweet or something like that. 0:17:26.670 --> 0:17:29.010 And my brain doesn't feel like I'm getting any sweet. 0:17:29.070 --> 0:17:31.190 So I eat more. I want more donuts and stuff 0:17:31.230 --> 0:17:33.090 like that than I ever did before. Would that happen 0:17:33.109 --> 0:17:35.280 with salty? Probably the same. You need a certain amount 0:17:35.300 --> 0:17:38.740 of salt. You just be bags of potato chips or whatever. 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:39.639 Wow. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.730 That wouldn't be great. No, no, no, no, no. Which 0:17:42.810 --> 0:17:48.470 would your least? Sour, bitter, salty, or sweet? How about umami? 0:17:48.490 --> 0:17:51.990 Because that's one of the tastes, isn't it? They now say. 0:17:52.050 --> 0:17:53.930 I don't know what that is. Gosh, I don't know. 0:17:53.970 --> 0:17:56.790 I've never thought about it. It's a strange question and off-putting. 0:17:56.850 --> 0:18:02.200 I refuse to answer. That's an odd stance. I don't 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.220 have the slightest idea. I think loose and salty would 0:18:05.260 --> 0:18:08.740 be horrible. Yeah, it would probably lead to bad things, 0:18:08.820 --> 0:18:09.459 I would guess. 0:18:09.780 --> 0:18:12.100 Just have a mound of salt on top of everything 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:13.580 you eat, trying to get some salt. 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.719 This segment brought to you by Dr. Fauci's House of 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.310 Gain of Function. If you need a virus altered, call Dr. Fauci. 0:18:20.460 --> 0:18:24.409 Excellent point. Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:26.530 --> 0:18:28.210 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:18:34.290 --> 0:18:35.010 So I heard the. 0:18:34.910 --> 0:18:37.170 Tease of this story last night. I haven't actually heard 0:18:37.210 --> 0:18:40.210 the story. So that scumbag woman in Tennessee who they 0:18:40.260 --> 0:18:43.399 tried to euthanize, but. 0:18:44.260 --> 0:18:47.700 Didn't pull it off. Execute. Yeah. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.580 And she's still alive. She woke up and she spoke 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:53.640 her first words. And I can only assume her first 0:18:53.700 --> 0:18:56.689 words were, where's that phlebotomist? I'm going to kill him. 0:18:57.990 --> 0:18:58.290 Yeah. 0:18:59.450 --> 0:19:02.190 But this new story will have the actual first words. 0:19:03.950 --> 0:19:07.260 Our understanding was the first thing she said was, where 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.380 am I and who are you? There's still a lot 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:13.800 of cognitive confusion, and so I will say that. She 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.500 has wanted to know what's happened, and she's asked about 0:19:18.700 --> 0:19:20.719 several people. She's asked about her team. 0:19:20.810 --> 0:19:24.530 She's asked about the victim's family. 0:19:24.550 --> 0:19:29.129 I think she is angry and confused about everything right now. 0:19:29.310 --> 0:19:32.230 She asked about the victim's family. Give me a break. 0:19:32.630 --> 0:19:37.200 That's her lawyer. Maybe she did. Maybe she didn't. I 0:19:37.220 --> 0:19:38.560 don't trust these guys. 0:19:38.340 --> 0:19:41.260 Trying to argue that they shouldn't try to kill her 0:19:41.300 --> 0:19:42.960 again or that she shouldn't be killed at all. And 0:19:42.980 --> 0:19:46.180 then the other side, I heard that lawyer say, yeah, 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.270 we're absolutely going to try again. 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:50.879 To execute her. 0:19:51.460 --> 0:19:53.879 Yeah, I got a little bit into I didn't go 0:19:53.940 --> 0:19:56.600 very far into the actual crime she committed that got 0:19:56.619 --> 0:19:59.940 her onto death row. It's pretty, pretty horrific. Here's something 0:19:59.980 --> 0:20:04.840 I did not know till yesterday. Because there was an 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.010 attempt to portray this as, she was 18 when she 0:20:08.050 --> 0:20:13.450