WEBVTT - Sparkly & Tight 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:11.809 Now broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at 0:00:11.850 --> 0:00:13.970 the George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:14.050 --> 0:00:16.210 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:16.430 --> 0:00:33.790 Armstrong and Getty. And now. We have the same two 0:00:33.850 --> 0:00:36.730 rules for the Armstrong and Getty show that Dolly Parton 0:00:36.770 --> 0:00:40.729 had for clothing, she said. Sparkly and tight. That's what 0:00:40.770 --> 0:00:44.729 we are. Sparkly and tight. Welcome to the live presentation 0:00:44.770 --> 0:00:47.430 of the Armstrong and Getty program. Deeper than the bowels 0:00:48.370 --> 0:00:50.989 of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. And today we're 0:00:51.030 --> 0:00:53.570 toiling under the title of the show. I struggled with 0:00:53.610 --> 0:01:04.490 how to express this most succinctly and persuasively. Title number one. Mom, 0:01:04.569 --> 0:01:10.410 the flag, apple pie, and Dolly. On a less life-affirming note, 0:01:10.990 --> 0:01:16.199 I hate politics. Oh, I hate politics so much. I'm 0:01:16.220 --> 0:01:18.980 sure we'll get to that soon enough and for the 0:01:19.020 --> 0:01:22.080 next however many years. As long as we live in 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:27.100 this godforsaken system. So what's your explanation? I can't wait. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:31.630 I'm going to go through all of the different people 0:01:31.790 --> 0:01:37.340 and entities that That came out with their, you know, 0:01:37.540 --> 0:01:39.970 tip of the hat to Dolly Parton. I mean, they 0:01:40.110 --> 0:01:44.060 vary more than any crowd I've ever seen in my life. Agreed. 0:01:44.090 --> 0:01:49.880 It's unbelievable. Like, from the Parliament of Ireland to Eminem to, 0:01:50.020 --> 0:01:53.240 I mean, it's just incredible. What's your explanation for that? 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.440 And I feel like I haven't heard that discussed much. 0:01:55.740 --> 0:01:58.690 People keep talking about how many hits she had. Okay, fine. 0:01:59.790 --> 0:02:01.730 And she was a good musician, no doubt about it. 0:02:01.750 --> 0:02:04.690 But there's lots of good musicians that pass along, and 0:02:04.730 --> 0:02:08.390 they don't get a hundredth of this sort of attention. 0:02:08.650 --> 0:02:13.190 So what was her thing? Yeah, accepting, stipulating, as they 0:02:13.230 --> 0:02:16.410 say in the courtroom, that she was a very well-known 0:02:16.530 --> 0:02:22.250 and successful entertainer. I think it was that she radiated 0:02:22.500 --> 0:02:28.000 goodness and kindness. I think so, too. And people respond 0:02:28.060 --> 0:02:31.660 to that, even as they go about their cynical lives 0:02:31.740 --> 0:02:36.820 in their snarky 21st century ways. There is something called riz, charisma, 0:02:36.940 --> 0:02:39.100 and maybe she just had it on a level that 0:02:39.220 --> 0:02:42.010 one and a Two billion and a half as opposed 0:02:42.030 --> 0:02:47.090 to just like lots of charisma. She was utterly disarming. Yeah. 0:02:47.250 --> 0:02:50.350 It's hard to imagine the kind of human being that 0:02:50.530 --> 0:02:55.160 wouldn't like her. Right. What you'd have to be. Right. 0:02:55.900 --> 0:03:01.160 She was just so about kindness and generosity and an 0:03:01.940 --> 0:03:07.100 enormous star while being completely unassuming. I mean, if that 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.340 doesn't appeal to humans, you have a different point of 0:03:09.380 --> 0:03:13.520 view than me. And we cannot be friends. I mean, 0:03:13.580 --> 0:03:17.080 she gave away hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions 0:03:17.139 --> 0:03:20.079 of dollars to charity over the many, many years. She'd 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.040 be a billionaire if she hadn't given away so much 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.730 money to charity. So that'll, you know, that'll buy a 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.570 lot of goodwill. And I don't mean that in like 0:03:27.590 --> 0:03:30.950 a cynical way that just makes, you know, makes people happy. 0:03:31.450 --> 0:03:31.530 Sure. 0:03:31.550 --> 0:03:35.530 Fair enough. Yeah. A great deal of it devoted childhood literacy, 0:03:35.630 --> 0:03:40.250 which is. it's difficult to surpass as a wonderful idea, 0:03:40.310 --> 0:03:43.630 given that if a child learns to read, A, and B, 0:03:43.670 --> 0:03:47.090 becomes capable at it, that changes their life. Unfortunately, as 0:03:47.150 --> 0:03:50.650 a nation, we've decided to give up on that. But, yeah, well, 0:03:50.750 --> 0:03:55.440 she's old. So she grew up in a time and 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.320 place where that was really a big thing. I mean, 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:02.880 her dad couldn't read or write. So one of 12 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:11.320 in a one-bedroom shack? Holy crap. No electricity or running water. Yeah. 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:17.320 To global superstardom and stayed normal. Yeah. That's not easy. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.690 And got there pretty fast. So when she was graduating 0:04:21.700 --> 0:04:24.789 high school, she says right before they left. And the 0:04:24.810 --> 0:04:27.270 day she graduated high school, she moved to Nashville. But 0:04:29.270 --> 0:04:32.130 before she graduated high school, like right before they did 0:04:32.170 --> 0:04:33.850 the whole, you know, what do you want to be 0:04:33.870 --> 0:04:35.000 when you grow up? She said, I'm going to be 0:04:35.010 --> 0:04:38.250 a star. Very matter of factly. And everybody laughed. She's 0:04:38.270 --> 0:04:40.890 just one of those people that just knew, you know, 0:04:40.990 --> 0:04:43.190 that's what I'm going to do. I'm cut out for 0:04:43.230 --> 0:04:44.229 that sort of thing, you see. 0:04:45.070 --> 0:04:45.250 Yeah. 0:04:45.750 --> 0:04:48.929 As a hack musician, and I don't want to focus 0:04:48.990 --> 0:04:54.730 on this, but her public image with the rhinestones and 0:04:54.750 --> 0:04:59.270 the hooters and all that. And the hooters! Well, that's 0:04:59.290 --> 0:05:05.310 the first not completely respectful comment on the Dolly Parton memorials. 0:05:06.130 --> 0:05:09.909 Nor was she. I'm echoing her failures. She used the 0:05:09.950 --> 0:05:12.550 term hooters, though. It's the term. It's not the body part. 0:05:12.630 --> 0:05:15.830 Half the world has the body part. All right, breasts, 0:05:15.890 --> 0:05:18.070 for God's sake. Memory glands. What do you want out 0:05:18.089 --> 0:05:24.060 of me? I like the term figure. Oh, bosom. Her 0:05:24.070 --> 0:05:25.680 prodigious bosoms. 0:05:26.130 --> 0:05:26.480 Yes. 0:05:26.750 --> 0:05:32.380 No, I always found it mildly annoying. Because I thought 0:05:32.460 --> 0:05:35.919 she was so wonderful. And, you know, as a songwriter, 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.990 as a musician, as a thinker and a businesswoman and 0:05:40.029 --> 0:05:43.130 the rest of it, I was like, you could be 0:05:43.150 --> 0:05:47.550 wearing anything, looking like anything. But, you know, she had 0:05:47.589 --> 0:05:51.430 her thing. She had her, you know, her groove and 0:05:51.470 --> 0:05:53.120 she stuck with it. So I got to respect her. 0:05:53.130 --> 0:05:55.290 I have to read from one of the New York 0:05:55.310 --> 0:05:58.390 Times articles that I got into because they kept hyperlinking 0:05:58.490 --> 0:06:01.070 to various things. And one of them was about her look. 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.850 And how they tried to change her look, and it 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:11.190 became a real problem. She had to break with the 0:06:11.230 --> 0:06:14.240 management company that was launching her. She said, I'm not, 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.520 I just can't. I can't. Because she kind of broke 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:22.150 right when the woman thing was changing to, like, tight 0:06:22.330 --> 0:06:25.200 slacks and a different kind of shirt and flat hair 0:06:25.260 --> 0:06:27.080 and just a different look. And she did that for 0:06:27.100 --> 0:06:28.940 like a day and said, I, this is not me. 0:06:28.980 --> 0:06:30.340 I can't do this. And went back to the giant 0:06:30.380 --> 0:06:31.960 hair and they said, well, we can't market you that way. 0:06:31.980 --> 0:06:33.540 And okay, I guess we're not, I guess we have 0:06:33.580 --> 0:06:35.920 to agree to disagree. So she really was looking for 0:06:35.940 --> 0:06:40.029 a more Helen ready-ish approach to exactly. You're old enough 0:06:40.070 --> 0:06:42.090 to remember that. That's exactly what they're trying to do. 0:06:42.710 --> 0:06:45.529 Google it. As usual, the people that run these kind 0:06:45.570 --> 0:06:49.570 of show business industries having no imagination whatsoever. We'll just 0:06:49.589 --> 0:06:53.200 do exactly what everybody else is doing it. I hate them, too, 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.030 along with politics, but go on. And assume nobody with 0:06:56.089 --> 0:06:58.050 the talent can possibly figure this out on their own. 0:06:58.810 --> 0:07:00.990 They need the suits to tell them how to be 0:07:01.010 --> 0:07:03.690 good at what they do. Yes. Even though they've never 0:07:03.730 --> 0:07:07.830 done it. No. They've watched other people do it, so 0:07:07.850 --> 0:07:12.510 they think they know, but they don't. How much money 0:07:12.540 --> 0:07:14.760 do you suppose she made off of I Will Always 0:07:14.820 --> 0:07:17.040 Love You? Just that one song. If that's all she'd 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.070 ever done was written that song and Whitney records it, 0:07:19.100 --> 0:07:20.840 I wonder how much money she would have made. That 0:07:20.860 --> 0:07:24.990 was back when people were still buying physical media, so zillions. 0:07:26.130 --> 0:07:28.510 She would have been insanely wealthy with just that one song. 0:07:28.970 --> 0:07:31.770 It was number one for 11 weeks, 13 weeks, something 0:07:31.790 --> 0:07:33.070 like that. It was a number one hit for her 0:07:33.370 --> 0:07:34.990 and then for Whitney Houston, so it made a lot 0:07:35.030 --> 0:07:37.050 of money. Number one hit for her twice on the 0:07:37.070 --> 0:07:40.400 country charts. Right. Yes. And it was on the same 0:07:40.700 --> 0:07:42.720 album as Jolene. That was a good album. She said, 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.340 I must have something going that night. Holy crap. She 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.780 wrote those two songs in the same night. That's funny 0:07:48.820 --> 0:07:54.000 how that works with the artists, isn't it? That's incredible. Yeah, 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:58.080 I know it is. Yeah, but we got some more 0:07:58.300 --> 0:08:00.300 flashbacks and retrospects and all that sort of stuff. I just, 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.640 I think, I used to say this should be, this 0:08:04.660 --> 0:08:07.220 should have like a PhD level study, but that's back 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.080 when I used to have respect for PhD level studies 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.430 of any kind. Third thing I hate, yes. There should 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.580 be some sort of study on her ability to, to 0:08:19.420 --> 0:08:25.440 appeal to everyone. That's an incredibly rare thing. Right, right. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.080 And I think people know this about us, but I 0:08:28.100 --> 0:08:32.620 want to make clear, as a cynic, a celebrity passes. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.780 I don't, I generally don't have all that much interest 0:08:37.050 --> 0:08:41.230 in showing out about that. I just, I don't. I 0:08:41.290 --> 0:08:44.270 admired their work. They lived a good life, I feel, 0:08:44.330 --> 0:08:47.810 for their family. It's that. But as we started to 0:08:47.850 --> 0:08:52.250 discuss at the beginning what it is about dolly and 0:08:52.350 --> 0:08:56.950 her life and her manner that was so universally beloved 0:08:57.410 --> 0:09:02.170 i think is i think it's important and i think 0:09:02.210 --> 0:09:05.530 it's worth contemplating for a minute particularly in a world 0:09:05.550 --> 0:09:10.890 where we're surrounded by you know hateful divisive politics bizarro 0:09:10.990 --> 0:09:16.130 movements everybody's angry everybody's distracted constantly by the internet It's 0:09:16.190 --> 0:09:18.730 one of the few common, well, my title was, my 0:09:18.750 --> 0:09:21.530 proposed title, Mom, the Flag, Apple Pie, and Dolly. This 0:09:21.610 --> 0:09:25.640 is one of the few commonalities we have left. Yeah. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.180 And it's worth, anytime we run into one of those, 0:09:28.260 --> 0:09:31.560 it's worth everybody saying, I like that, and you like that, 0:09:31.700 --> 0:09:34.960 and I do too. Let's think about that. That's exactly 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.270 why I wanted to get into that. That is a 0:09:37.410 --> 0:09:41.950 very unique thing. Katie is nodding her head along. I'm 0:09:41.990 --> 0:09:43.910 glad to hear we have your agreement, Katie. She was 0:09:43.950 --> 0:09:47.219 a woman. If we're having the argument about what a 0:09:47.260 --> 0:09:50.250 woman is, Dolly Parton. Oh, I see. Yeah. You know what? 0:09:50.350 --> 0:09:52.190 I love that because, you know, a guy will say, no, 0:09:52.230 --> 0:09:56.970 that's a man. Or in Yiddish slash German, mensch means 0:09:56.970 --> 0:09:59.860 that's a complete man. That is that is somebody worth 0:09:59.900 --> 0:10:05.559 admiring yeah yeah she she went with that cartoonish hair 0:10:05.740 --> 0:10:09.750 and uh breast augmentation but she started from a base 0:10:09.850 --> 0:10:15.100 of Very attractive. But through all of that, she remained classy. Yeah. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:15.650 She was. 0:10:15.740 --> 0:10:16.030 Yeah. 0:10:16.270 --> 0:10:22.180 How she did that. Right. Without ever being smutty, slutty, trashy. Right. 0:10:22.300 --> 0:10:24.800 How do you pull off that line? I don't know. 0:10:24.820 --> 0:10:28.260 We've left out her fantastic sense of humor. Right. And 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:33.439 her refusal to take herself overly seriously. Which helps a lot. Wisdom, 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:38.660 in short. She had a ridiculous smile. So that helps, too. 0:10:39.340 --> 0:10:41.270 That helps, too. looked sincere to me. 0:10:41.770 --> 0:10:41.949 Yeah. 0:10:42.130 --> 0:10:42.309 Yeah. 0:10:42.330 --> 0:10:42.530 Yeah. 0:10:42.730 --> 0:10:46.209 I think she's just like really digging, you know, whatever 0:10:46.270 --> 0:10:48.699 she was doing or whoever she was talking to, which 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.660 I never worked a day in her life. Right. I 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.920 can't pull off for an hour enjoying who I'm talking 0:10:54.940 --> 0:10:58.100 to her. If you don't look homicidal for five minutes, 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.870 it's a victory. Yeah. Um, Yeah, well, if you look 0:11:01.890 --> 0:11:03.700 at where she came from and what she went through, 0:11:03.740 --> 0:11:06.960 that will give you wisdom. That will give you perspective. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.500 Do we know anything about her other 11 brothers and sisters? 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:15.420 Are they all really cynical, angry, troll-like people? Exactly. She 0:11:15.470 --> 0:11:18.530 got all the joy. All the joy went to Dolly. 0:11:18.610 --> 0:11:22.689 That's right. Well, let's start the show officially. Got a 0:11:22.710 --> 0:11:24.730 good clip for you. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. 0:11:24.770 --> 0:11:27.510 On this, it is Wednesday, August 26th, the year 2026. 0:11:27.510 --> 0:11:29.800 We're Armstrong and Getty, and we approve of this program. 0:11:30.429 --> 0:11:32.839 Let's begin the show officially then, according to FCC rules, 0:11:32.910 --> 0:11:36.360 regs at mark. Okay, the category in our top ten 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.400 Dolly Parton pet peeves. Dolly, are you all set? Here 0:11:38.420 --> 0:11:39.660 we go. Number three. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.750 Okay, smart-ass emcees who introduced me by saying, and now 0:11:43.780 --> 0:11:44.610 here they are. 0:11:44.650 --> 0:11:51.360 Dolly Parton. Number two. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.720 When the Super Bowl is over, winner never says, hey, 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.000 I'm going to Dollywood. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:56.420 That's right. 0:11:57.100 --> 0:12:01.850 And now, the number one Dolly Parton pet peeve. Nobody 0:12:01.910 --> 0:12:09.770 notices I've got a great ass, too. Wow. That is 0:12:09.870 --> 0:12:13.120 not a person who takes herself overly seriously. How do 0:12:13.140 --> 0:12:17.400 you get a shout out from John Fogarty and Eminem? 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.500 Heavy D and Steven Pinker. I mean, the list I've 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:27.290 got here is absolutely amazing. Heavy D and Steven Pinker. 0:12:27.550 --> 0:12:29.309 That may be the first time those two have ever 0:12:29.350 --> 0:12:33.270 been mentioned in the same sentence. Wu-Tang Clan and Larry Gatlin. 0:12:33.610 --> 0:12:35.290 For those of you who know who that is. I mean, 0:12:35.309 --> 0:12:43.020 it's just, it's insane. Wow. Robert Reich and every living president. 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:49.780 I don't know. There's something going on there. The only 0:12:49.860 --> 0:12:52.960 time you will hear this sort of outpouring again from 0:12:52.980 --> 0:12:55.500 the world of music, well, from the entire world, will 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.030 be when Paul McCartney passes. But he was a foreigner. 0:13:00.510 --> 0:13:02.929 On the other hand, you know, he had similar attributes 0:13:03.210 --> 0:13:07.690 of just disarming, you know, not taking himself seriously, etc. 0:13:09.380 --> 0:13:13.040 And monumental talent. What Dolly Dye of? I didn't get 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:14.660 into that. I didn't read or watch any of this 0:13:14.700 --> 0:13:17.280 stuff where they got into the last days. Officially a 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:21.189 brief bout of cancer. Okay. We got headlines on the 0:13:21.230 --> 0:13:23.350 way and lots to talk about today. Lindsey Graham's sister. 0:13:23.390 --> 0:13:25.580 I hope she's smarter than I think she is, and 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.720 I hope she is willing to learn. You hate her? 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.179 You hate her. You're a hater. I don't hate her. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.620 I just don't think she probably should have been a U.S. Senator, 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.860 but she's going to be, so let's get over it. 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:37.960 Headlines on the way. Stay here. 0:13:37.980 --> 0:13:40.740 Armstrong and Getty. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.040 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:13:54.250 --> 0:13:58.590 Shaboozy, Brooke Shields, and Motley Crue all weighing in with 0:13:58.630 --> 0:14:04.469 their tributes to Dolly Parton. I mean, what? Never thought 0:14:04.490 --> 0:14:07.790 I'd hear that combo. I know. I got many of those. 0:14:07.870 --> 0:14:12.580 It's unbelievable. Well, I'm going to that festival, by the way. Yeah, 0:14:12.620 --> 0:14:14.540 I know. And then outside the world of music, like 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.780 you said, Steven Pinker, the great defender of enlightenment and humanism, blah, blah, blah. 0:14:19.850 --> 0:14:21.690 More to come on a million different topics, but let's 0:14:21.710 --> 0:14:23.910 figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with 0:14:24.010 --> 0:14:25.130 Katie Green. Katie. 0:14:25.510 --> 0:14:28.810 So not to waste time, all the alphabet networks, Dolly Parton. 0:14:30.050 --> 0:14:30.670 Non-stop. 0:14:31.010 --> 0:14:31.230 Yeah. 0:14:32.110 --> 0:14:35.869 Apparently a brief battle with cancer. Man, it seemed to 0:14:35.910 --> 0:14:39.630 happen fast, which is. Well, you know what? She canceled 0:14:39.650 --> 0:14:44.970 a bunch of shows like six months ago. Right, well, yeah, 0:14:45.050 --> 0:14:48.890 but they put together that whole residency thing in Vegas, 0:14:48.930 --> 0:14:51.770 which she would have been huge. Right. And, you know, 0:14:51.830 --> 0:14:55.150 they booked that. She booked that thinking she was healthy, obviously. 0:14:55.230 --> 0:14:56.130 It wasn't that long ago. 0:14:57.670 --> 0:15:01.670 From the Wall Street Journal. Years late, billions over budget. 0:15:01.990 --> 0:15:06.060 California's high-speed rail hasn't laid a track. 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.880 Who's reporting on that? Wall Street Journal. Yeah, we'll get 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:14.690 into that. Yet another... I mean, it's like retrying John 0:15:14.730 --> 0:15:18.770 Wilkes Booth for killing Lincoln. There's no need. The state 0:15:18.830 --> 0:15:22.410 is guilty of enormous theft, and yet the punishment is 0:15:22.490 --> 0:15:25.590 not forthcoming. USA Today. 0:15:26.290 --> 0:15:30.410 Shopping malls are charging for prime parking, and it's not 0:15:30.500 --> 0:15:34.640 going well. Wow. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.800 All right. First of all, shopping malls are still open 0:15:38.340 --> 0:15:41.620 in various places, apparently. Are they talking about big box 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.640 hell shopping malls or traditional malls? 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.570 Like traditional malls. But I know that a lot of 0:15:47.590 --> 0:15:49.690 people use them as a safe place to walk. 0:15:50.850 --> 0:15:51.030 Right. 0:15:51.090 --> 0:15:53.910 Yeah, true. That's what my parents used to do. That's 0:15:54.290 --> 0:15:57.050 the fact that they're charging us now. Park farther away, 0:15:57.100 --> 0:16:00.820 you numbskulls. Heartless Joe. What? 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:06.640 New York Post, Chucky Masked Sicko, who terrorizes Philadelphia citizens, 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.600 is captured in Vegas. 0:16:08.860 --> 0:16:12.430 Oh, they caught him in Vegas. Wow. After a two-week manhunt. 0:16:12.450 --> 0:16:13.830 I don't know if you saw in those videos. They 0:16:13.850 --> 0:16:18.490 were chilling. Just a sick effort. Thought he was being 0:16:18.510 --> 0:16:22.240 funny or something. Well, as someone who loves horror, did 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.960 not love this. No, no, no. Nobody loves that stuff 0:16:24.980 --> 0:16:25.540 in real life. 0:16:25.660 --> 0:16:25.820 Right. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:29.100 Right. Study finds had a sleepless night. 0:16:29.660 --> 0:16:33.900 Study suggests that exercising protects your memory as much as 0:16:33.980 --> 0:16:34.440 a nap. 0:16:36.100 --> 0:16:36.260 Hmm. 0:16:37.020 --> 0:16:40.120 Cool. Babylon B. 0:16:40.140 --> 0:16:46.310 Apocalypse draws near as last remaining universally loved human passes away. 0:16:46.530 --> 0:16:49.890 Yeah, I wonder about that. Was she the last universally 0:16:49.950 --> 0:16:53.950 loved human? We'll see. We ain't going to have many more. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:57.540 I was thinking about various titles we could give the 0:16:57.580 --> 0:17:00.400 show today, and one I was toying with the idea 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.900 of here comes the Civil War. The last thing that 0:17:02.940 --> 0:17:07.100 held us together has passed. Yeah. Thank God she never 0:17:07.180 --> 0:17:10.740 weighed in on Trump or anything. No, she's too smart 0:17:10.780 --> 0:17:13.659 for that. Yes, she was. I sure would love to 0:17:13.700 --> 0:17:17.770 have seen her behind closed doors making business decisions. There 0:17:17.830 --> 0:17:19.010 had to be that side of her. 0:17:19.950 --> 0:17:20.210 Oh, yeah. 0:17:20.230 --> 0:17:25.340 You don't become a billionaire by accident. Nope. Nope. We 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:26.560 got a lot of the news of the day that 0:17:26.580 --> 0:17:28.620 we need to get into and some other interesting stuff 0:17:28.660 --> 0:17:30.860 about Dolly Parton that is worth talking about, too. If 0:17:31.060 --> 0:17:33.200 you miss a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty 0:17:33.340 --> 0:17:33.880 on demand. 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:43.200 Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.480 What would you tell your younger self? 0:17:47.830 --> 0:17:49.189 Well, that's a tricky question. 0:17:49.350 --> 0:17:51.490 It was my dream to do it. But I would 0:17:51.510 --> 0:17:54.030 just probably, looking back, I would just say, girl, you 0:17:54.070 --> 0:17:56.780 better buckle up because you're in for the ride of 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.880 your life. You're going to have to take a lot 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:00.580 of stuff. You're going to have to give a lot 0:18:00.619 --> 0:18:03.490 of stuff. And you're going to have to stand by 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.080 your guns, believe in yourself, stay true to yourself. 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.219 I heard some interview, this just popped into my head, 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.939 where she's talking about, I created a persona which is 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.379 mostly not me. And I thought, well, that's really interesting. 0:18:14.820 --> 0:18:18.480 Because one of your appeals is coming off so insanely genuine. 0:18:19.500 --> 0:18:22.320 And you're saying your persona is mostly not who you are. 0:18:22.340 --> 0:18:29.359 I don't know. I'd love to know more about that. Yeah. Anyway, 0:18:30.260 --> 0:18:31.700 we can talk more about that later. We got a 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.580 couple of texts, a conversation about the passing of Dolly 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:40.120 Parton and the amazing variety of different people that spoke 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.220 out about that yesterday in positive ways. And somebody texted, 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.359 don't forget big boobs. Everyone likes those. So thanks for that. 0:18:47.380 --> 0:18:49.550 Good point. Yes. But we got this. You have any 0:18:49.590 --> 0:18:52.560 idea what this means? This is about. The Hooters comment 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.430 was not even close to the holy crap moment. You're 0:18:55.470 --> 0:18:58.010 a seriously disgusting person, Jack. I hope you get to 0:18:58.050 --> 0:19:02.649 taste holy C word. And for that matter, you have 0:19:02.710 --> 0:19:05.469 no idea what the word holy means or what holy is. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.920 I hope you get a mouthful of holy C dot 0:19:08.940 --> 0:19:13.859 dot dot. You jerk. I think they're accusing you of 0:19:14.460 --> 0:19:18.830 being blasphemous by saying holy crap. What? As far as 0:19:18.869 --> 0:19:23.820 I can tell. I don't know. The rantings of the 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.740 kooky are often difficult to interpret. If I'm going to 0:19:27.780 --> 0:19:32.010 spend eternity in hell with a mouthful of holy sea, 0:19:32.090 --> 0:19:34.240 I should know why. Probably burning hot, holy crap, yes. 0:19:34.350 --> 0:19:35.250 I should know why. 0:19:35.730 --> 0:19:35.990 Right. 0:19:36.070 --> 0:19:37.889 Yeah, well, that would be nice. Maybe it's on the 0:19:37.930 --> 0:19:42.540 forum somewhere. Also, let the revolution begin, or not the revolution, 0:19:42.540 --> 0:19:44.730 the Civil War, as my, our old friend, Mike, the 0:19:44.770 --> 0:19:48.290 attorney points out, um, when Trump posted that the flags 0:19:48.310 --> 0:19:51.899 would be flown at half mast in honor of Ms. Parton, uh, 0:19:51.950 --> 0:19:55.680 and her life, uh, the online world exploded with anger. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:56.520 What? 0:19:56.540 --> 0:19:59.460 Of course, because, because it was Trump, I guess, but 0:19:59.619 --> 0:20:04.520 it online, anything is just, it's a, it's a cesspool 0:20:04.540 --> 0:20:09.020 of radioactive effluvium way to spend your life. I thought 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.619 it was cool. Flaming sewage. How about the fact that 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.460 the Empire State Building turned itself whatever color in honor 0:20:14.500 --> 0:20:17.100 of Dolly Parton last night? I like that. Rhinestone-y. Yeah, 0:20:17.180 --> 0:20:21.530 that's amazing. So on a slightly more serious note, golly gee, 0:20:21.590 --> 0:20:27.710 this is something. Bill Gates has issued the occasional messages 0:20:27.970 --> 0:20:31.949 on how he sees AI and its development and what 0:20:31.990 --> 0:20:35.160 it might bring in the future. And his latest is 0:20:35.180 --> 0:20:40.440 a 12-page humdinger, by golly. Gates issued a stark warning 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.960 about AI's risks to employment in the human condition, saying 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:46.830 that companies were barreling ahead with the technology and with 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:51.130 no larger plan for the massive upheaval it would cause. Quote, 0:20:51.210 --> 0:20:53.810 even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new 0:20:53.990 --> 0:20:56.210 AI era will be one of the most turbulent times 0:20:56.270 --> 0:20:59.970 in human history, he wrote in a 12-page essay. Right now, 0:20:59.990 --> 0:21:01.970 we are not preparing for it. I don't see evidence 0:21:02.010 --> 0:21:05.490 that leaders, experts, and communities are confronting the challenges adequately. 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.879 One of the most turbulent times in human history is 0:21:08.940 --> 0:21:13.970 a heck of a thing to throw around. He decided 0:21:14.010 --> 0:21:16.830 to weigh in now, apparently, because he believes that there 0:21:16.910 --> 0:21:20.240 is not much time to prepare for the transition. That's 0:21:20.300 --> 0:21:23.360 what I was wondering when he says that. What's he 0:21:23.420 --> 0:21:29.270 feel like the horizon is? I don't think he was very, 0:21:29.330 --> 0:21:31.960 very specific. If he has been, I haven't come across it. 0:21:32.010 --> 0:21:35.850 But he's going to D.C. like now. He says he 0:21:35.890 --> 0:21:38.109 wants to talk to lawmakers. Quote, you have a chance 0:21:38.130 --> 0:21:41.970 to act now. Before unemployment rises sharply, communities are hurting 0:21:42.090 --> 0:21:47.870 and public trust has eroded. Eroded further? Yikes. That's interesting 0:21:47.910 --> 0:21:51.070 what he said there about the companies having no plan. 0:21:53.330 --> 0:22:01.720 That's not really their job or arena. I mean, how 0:22:01.859 --> 0:22:05.400 could they? So I'm trying to think of an example, 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:08.000 but like when the car industry came along, you know, 0:22:08.020 --> 0:22:11.910 when cars became really popular, there was a very big 0:22:11.990 --> 0:22:14.530 concern that all of a sudden we had mobile bedrooms 0:22:14.950 --> 0:22:16.350 and people were going to be able to make out 0:22:16.390 --> 0:22:18.710 and have sex in cars. For the first time ever, 0:22:18.750 --> 0:22:20.369 you got a mobile bedroom. You used to have to 0:22:20.650 --> 0:22:22.720 either get a hotel or be at home. Uh, and 0:22:22.740 --> 0:22:24.760 that was just like swept the nation. I've read a 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:26.400 bunch of articles about that from way back. I think 0:22:26.420 --> 0:22:28.380 it was forties and fifties. It's really kind of hilarious 0:22:28.420 --> 0:22:32.139 in retrospect, but it wasn't the car industry's duty to 0:22:32.180 --> 0:22:35.090 come up with a plan for that. That was a 0:22:35.150 --> 0:22:38.689 by-product of this new invention. Isn't it the same with AI? 0:22:38.710 --> 0:22:38.790 Yeah. 0:22:39.670 --> 0:22:42.190 I'm vending this AI. It's a, it's a computer thing. 0:22:42.230 --> 0:22:43.909 It can learn itself, whatever like that. What's that going 0:22:43.930 --> 0:22:47.939 to do to people working? I don't know. You figured out. Well, right. 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:51.540 And boy, this is a, this leads to a, incredibly 0:22:51.580 --> 0:22:53.480 important tangent that I'll try to keep kind of brief, 0:22:53.500 --> 0:22:58.590 but yeah, let the companies pursue their self-interest because it's 0:22:58.650 --> 0:23:04.290 when government gets involved and mixes some politicians view opinion 0:23:04.369 --> 0:23:06.810 on what the public interest is with the private interest 0:23:07.070 --> 0:23:09.960 that all of a sudden the free market gets completely skewed. 0:23:10.420 --> 0:23:14.360 Government itself becomes screwed up and, and you just, you're 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:17.980