WEBVTT - The Weird Thing About Being Human... 0:00:01.510 --> 0:00:05.350 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.390 --> 0:00:10.420 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:16.890 and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:28.920 Apparently, the Department of Commerce greenlit the sale. 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:30.780 Of $ 4. 0:00:29.340 --> 0:00:35.500 Billion in advanced chips to the spy's company. Why were 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:39.160 they selling the chips? Did they follow the trail? How 0:00:39.180 --> 0:00:43.350 do they know the chips went to the company and 0:00:43.409 --> 0:00:46.750 not to the Communist Party of China? I mean, this 0:00:46.790 --> 0:00:50.129 whole thing is an intergalactic freak show. 0:00:50.950 --> 0:00:56.420 Yeah, and... As we were talking about yesterday, so much 0:00:56.500 --> 0:01:02.530 of it seems obviously horrible, and every excuse anybody gives 0:01:02.610 --> 0:01:05.030 for why it happened is laughable. 0:01:05.650 --> 0:01:05.850 Right. 0:01:06.970 --> 0:01:09.740 Sometimes things are what they seem to be. I think 0:01:09.780 --> 0:01:13.830 that's what... Senator Kennedy of Louisiana Republican is hinting at. 0:01:13.890 --> 0:01:14.459 He goes on. 0:01:14.470 --> 0:01:17.270 It was so clever and homespun, I couldn't follow him. 0:01:17.790 --> 0:01:18.810 He goes on with a little more. 0:01:18.830 --> 0:01:22.800 I'm not naive. I'm not Bambi's baby brother. I know 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:27.139 people have affairs. I don't recommend it, but if you do, 0:01:28.060 --> 0:01:30.920 if you do, you ought to make sure it's not 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:32.440 with a Chinese spy. 0:01:32.459 --> 0:01:36.500 Yeah, he says more here. Let me bring up the 0:01:36.540 --> 0:01:39.440 rest of the quote here because it's pretty good. I'll 0:01:39.500 --> 0:01:49.480 find it. My jaw is stuck on the floor, he said. Allegedly, 0:01:49.540 --> 0:01:52.260 he's a double agent cheater. He cheated on the spy, 0:01:52.620 --> 0:01:55.320 which is a pretty funny thing to say. That's pretty funny. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.320 And it's more serious than that. Apparently, the Department of 0:01:58.380 --> 0:02:01.600 Commerce greenlit the sale of the $ 4 billion in advanced chips, 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.180 as he just said there. Well, then you've got the... 0:02:04.620 --> 0:02:09.930 Scott Besson is out today, the Treasury Secretary, saying... Besson 0:02:09.970 --> 0:02:15.360 says Treasury supported blacklisting Megaspeed, but Commerce didn't act. So 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.420 that's that whole Lutnik versus Besson thing, which there are 0:02:19.460 --> 0:02:22.500 stories of them having a screaming match or whatever, which 0:02:22.540 --> 0:02:25.900 has been denied in some quarters. But an argument anyway. 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.660 What the hell was going on there? Where the Treasury 0:02:29.690 --> 0:02:32.329 Department and where's Trump on this? Which side of this 0:02:32.370 --> 0:02:37.560 was Trump on? Nobody knows yet. And then you got 0:02:37.580 --> 0:02:41.220 the ridiculous explanations from Jensen Wong about, well, if we 0:02:41.260 --> 0:02:43.960 don't sell them to them, they'll try to create them 0:02:44.020 --> 0:02:45.760 on their own, which is one of the dumbest things. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.640 I mean, the more you think about it, the dumber 0:02:47.740 --> 0:02:52.210 it gets. Yeah, you've got to be cautious. We all 0:02:52.250 --> 0:02:52.650 know this. 0:02:52.690 --> 0:02:55.910 You all know this about these anonymous leaks to the 0:02:55.950 --> 0:03:01.520 various Bigfoot media. But the the leaks today are saying. Yeah, 0:03:01.660 --> 0:03:05.960 everybody was saying, Lutnick, you in commerce, you're way too 0:03:06.060 --> 0:03:10.750 chummy with Huang. This is, you know, we keep telling 0:03:10.790 --> 0:03:12.710 you to put this company on the list. When are 0:03:12.750 --> 0:03:14.380 you going to act? Yeah, I'll get around to it, 0:03:14.750 --> 0:03:18.010 you know, eventually. Now, whether it's just, you know, they've 0:03:18.050 --> 0:03:21.600 decided to fit the goat's horns on Lutnick, which is 0:03:21.620 --> 0:03:24.280 certainly what you would do in these situations in D.C., 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.799 and whether it's legitimate or not, you would do that, 0:03:26.860 --> 0:03:29.100 but There could. 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.020 Certainly there's smoke here, whether there's fire or not. 0:03:31.060 --> 0:03:31.360 Who knows? 0:03:32.700 --> 0:03:34.299 I'm trying to find I can't find where I was 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.350 reading this in the middle of the night. In one 0:03:38.370 --> 0:03:41.330 of your major newspapers, this stuff about the way Jensen 0:03:41.450 --> 0:03:44.630 Wong has been the last several weeks since the Chinese 0:03:44.650 --> 0:03:48.650 spy story broke that he's been. He's usually, I guess, 0:03:48.730 --> 0:03:50.650 I'm just reading about this. I don't know anything about this, 0:03:50.670 --> 0:03:55.010 but that he's usually like a super comes into the office, hot, 0:03:55.210 --> 0:03:58.210 fired up, go, go, let's get him sort of guy. 0:03:58.530 --> 0:04:00.490 Just like very, very energetic. And he has not been 0:04:00.530 --> 0:04:02.450 that the last couple of weeks. He's been very dour 0:04:02.530 --> 0:04:05.830 and negative. And anytime anybody brings up any questions, I 0:04:05.870 --> 0:04:07.850 don't know, you do it or who cares? Doesn't nothing 0:04:07.910 --> 0:04:13.080 matters anymore. Anyway, that sort of. OK. And multiple people 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.650 were quoted saying, hearing him say, I'm a piece of ass. Which, 0:04:17.950 --> 0:04:20.890 if he was, you know, not if, he clearly was 0:04:20.930 --> 0:04:23.910 cheating on his wife and family. I don't think there's 0:04:23.950 --> 0:04:26.290 any chance that turns out not to be true. But 0:04:27.130 --> 0:04:30.390 it's possible he did that and now really, really regrets 0:04:30.410 --> 0:04:31.789 that he did that and feels like he was off 0:04:31.810 --> 0:04:35.010 the rails. And it's not just, as Joe said earlier, 0:04:35.410 --> 0:04:40.180 he regrets being caught. That happens. Sometimes people only regret 0:04:40.220 --> 0:04:44.479 being caught. But sometimes people actually regret doing what they did. Yeah, 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:45.599 I would agree. I don't know. It's possible. I have 0:04:45.620 --> 0:04:46.479 no idea. Yeah. 0:04:47.060 --> 0:04:48.859 How any of us would do and I'm not I'm 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.140 not this has nothing to do with the Commerce Department 0:04:52.300 --> 0:04:55.640 and Chinese communists and chips and spies and the rest 0:04:55.660 --> 0:04:59.000 of it. But how well would any of us do 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:03.200 with infinite temptation? I wouldn't want it. 0:05:04.930 --> 0:05:10.010 Certainly. Anyway, back to the spine of the story. No. 0:05:10.190 --> 0:05:14.270 And for men and women, business travels rough. That whole 0:05:14.310 --> 0:05:18.029 being on the road all the time. Oh, yeah. Yeah. 0:05:18.529 --> 0:05:21.929 I made it a policy long ago because I'm really hot, 0:05:22.210 --> 0:05:26.860 if you don't know me. I mean, like Brad Pitt hot. Yeah, 0:05:26.940 --> 0:05:29.200 I go to my room. I never hang out in 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:30.120 hotel bars. 0:05:30.500 --> 0:05:32.740 Why? That's the Garden of Iniquity. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.580 Don't go to the old GOI unless you're looking for 0:05:37.620 --> 0:05:38.420 bad things to happen. 0:05:38.500 --> 0:05:41.219 She at the GOI at six? No, I'm not going 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:42.140 to the Garden of Iniquity. 0:05:42.670 --> 0:05:46.110 No, I get a bottle of something and drink in 0:05:46.150 --> 0:05:49.820 my usual fashion, alone in the dark, muttering angrily. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.200 Okay. Yes, Michael. Did you have something? Yeah. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.580 You know, if his mental state isn't good and he's 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.080 trying to decide whether or not to sell the Chinese chips, 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:00.980 that's probably not a good thing. You know, if he 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.460 doesn't care, then he might make decisions that he might 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.280 just say, hey, I don't care. Go ahead and sell 0:06:06.300 --> 0:06:07.020 them to him. 0:06:07.140 --> 0:06:08.860 Who knows where his mind is now? And I'm going 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.680 to read a little bit from his biographer. This came 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:16.040 out of the New York Times yesterday. So. Starting with 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:20.700 this precursor, prelude, something, I don't know, I'm telling you 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:28.080 something before I tell you some overture forward preface. For 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:33.210 whatever reason, a lot of normal people like criticizing really, 0:06:33.250 --> 0:06:37.730 really successful people. In ways that I find weird, like 0:06:38.029 --> 0:06:40.810 Steve Jobs was too hard on people or whatever. OK, 0:06:40.870 --> 0:06:47.820 I probably was. He's like an incredibly aggressive genius building 0:06:47.900 --> 0:06:50.680 one of the most important companies in world history. Probably was. 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:52.760 And so is this guy. And so are lots of people. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:54.740 Elon Musk yelled at an employee. You know, I don't 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.640 like that. It'd be nice if they didn't. But I 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.750 don't find that stuff shocking and appalling or cancels them 0:07:00.850 --> 0:07:04.990 out as being admirable at their jobs or anything like that. 0:07:05.570 --> 0:07:05.810 Sure. 0:07:06.050 --> 0:07:06.230 Right. 0:07:07.029 --> 0:07:11.810 That in mind, let me read from Jensen Huang's biographer. Mr. 0:07:11.830 --> 0:07:15.590 Huang went to considerable lengths to cloak his arrogance again. 0:07:15.670 --> 0:07:18.930 And like these people are arrogant. Yeah, that's the kind 0:07:18.970 --> 0:07:21.790 of person that ends up starting one of the most 0:07:21.830 --> 0:07:24.490 important companies in the world and being successful. They tend 0:07:24.510 --> 0:07:26.670 to be arrogant. I just I don't I don't know. 0:07:26.710 --> 0:07:29.510 That doesn't bother me. But anyway, I'll stop where confidence 0:07:29.570 --> 0:07:32.150 turns into arrogance is an interesting question. But I'm sorry, 0:07:32.190 --> 0:07:35.100 I've got a little preamble here slash, you know, overture. 0:07:37.350 --> 0:07:39.770 The many ways he tried to cloak his arrogance. Well, 0:07:40.330 --> 0:07:42.770 isn't that what you're supposed to do? Well, right. 0:07:42.830 --> 0:07:42.950 Yeah. 0:07:42.970 --> 0:07:44.750 You know, I'm getting a little arrogant. I need to 0:07:44.790 --> 0:07:46.550 be nicer to people. I might just have to read 0:07:46.570 --> 0:07:48.110 this whole thing and then we comment on it. Because 0:07:48.150 --> 0:07:49.650 there's a lot of this sort of thing to say 0:07:49.690 --> 0:07:49.970 about it. 0:07:49.970 --> 0:07:50.240 Yeah. 0:07:50.250 --> 0:07:50.540 Wow. 0:07:50.710 --> 0:07:50.880 Yeah. 0:07:51.500 --> 0:07:54.119 Mr. Wong went to considerable lengths to cloak his arrogance. 0:07:54.140 --> 0:07:56.240 When I first met him in 2023, he and his 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.780 handlers were pushing the idea that he was a humble man. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.620 In our conversation, Mr. Wong was constantly deflecting attention away 0:08:02.660 --> 0:08:05.880 from his success, always quick to assign credit to his 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.750 employees and executive staff members. See, if you're actually... No, 0:08:09.790 --> 0:08:12.730 I'm jumping in. If you're actually doing that, are you 0:08:12.830 --> 0:08:16.890 cloaking your arrogance, or are you just doing what... Are 0:08:16.930 --> 0:08:20.780 you a nice guy? Are you a nice guy? Wow, 0:08:20.820 --> 0:08:22.680 that is a funny thing to say. 0:08:22.700 --> 0:08:25.550 I tell you what, he was cloaking his abusiveness by 0:08:25.580 --> 0:08:27.810 being really kind and understanding to his wife. 0:08:28.490 --> 0:08:31.990 Or you're that sometimes and sometimes you're really arrogant, which 0:08:32.070 --> 0:08:35.809 is a common thing. So what? I don't know. I 0:08:35.830 --> 0:08:38.559 don't even know what that is. That doesn't mean you're cloaking. 0:08:38.940 --> 0:08:43.800 I don't. Sorry. He also liked to glad hand service people. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.079 He'd been a dishwasher himself once, a point he never 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.410 let you forget. He loved visiting small hole-in-the-wall restaurants and 0:08:49.450 --> 0:08:52.530 leaving extravagant tips. I'd met him for breakfast at Denny's, 0:08:52.590 --> 0:08:55.719 and he tipped our waitress $ 1, 000 in $ 100 bills. He 0:08:55.740 --> 0:08:57.220 didn't make a show of it, either. I had to 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:01.699 track her down to ask. Once again, cloaking his arrogance. Cleverly! 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.819 With generosity. 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:06.000 Right. 0:09:06.580 --> 0:09:09.260 He never let you forget that he was a dishwasher. Like, 0:09:09.380 --> 0:09:11.820 that's a bad thing? I mean, I don't know. Who 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.780 wrote this? His biographer. One of his lovers? One of 0:09:15.820 --> 0:09:18.370 his spurned lovers? But this part I thought was pretty 0:09:18.410 --> 0:09:20.770 darn interesting. Over time, though, I began to suspect that 0:09:20.790 --> 0:09:23.230 that was an act. One performed not for the observer, 0:09:23.270 --> 0:09:26.550 but to flatter himself. In truth, Mr. Wong was quite arrogant. 0:09:26.990 --> 0:09:29.910 He had little tolerance for disagreement and almost no capacity 0:09:29.950 --> 0:09:33.170 for open discourse. When you contradicted him, even over the 0:09:33.210 --> 0:09:36.500 most trivial matter, it was like lighting a fuse. Stick 0:09:36.530 --> 0:09:39.440 to your position and soon he exploded, screaming at you 0:09:39.500 --> 0:09:42.620 for your idiocy. A harangue from Mr. Wong could last 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.319 an hour or more. Oh, that's a lot. 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:45.740 Yeah. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.479 His executive staff appeared genuinely afraid of him. Listening to 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.160 their stories, I was reminded of the abusive music instructor 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.730 from the movie Whiplash, which I don't know the reference. 0:09:54.730 --> 0:09:54.890 But. 0:09:55.690 --> 0:09:59.260 Oh, yeah, yeah, from the guy with the farmer's insurance commercials. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:00.540 He got an Oscar for that. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:09.180 Um... See, I don't know the point of the biographer 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:10.599 saying this. I don't know the point of the New 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.680 York Times printing it. I am not surprised. Maybe I've 0:10:13.700 --> 0:10:17.380 been around some really successful, powerful people. I'm not surprised 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:23.500 that they're complex, emotional, feel like they're smarter than you people. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:27.120 I don't know. That doesn't strike me as awful or 0:10:27.500 --> 0:10:31.330 even that interesting, actually. If Steve Jobs would, like, hate 0:10:31.350 --> 0:10:33.190 it to be challenged, okay. 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.550 Because he'd already thought three steps past what you're bringing 0:10:37.670 --> 0:10:40.470 up in some cases or just maybe it's ego. But 0:10:40.510 --> 0:10:44.170 it reminds me of the, you know, super superstar athlete is, 0:10:44.210 --> 0:10:46.390 you know, really kind of a dick. And really, he's 0:10:46.429 --> 0:10:49.260 just all he focuses on is the sport. And he's 0:10:49.300 --> 0:10:51.640 so competitive. I mean, it's hard to get along with him. 0:10:52.140 --> 0:10:52.540 Yeah. 0:10:52.900 --> 0:10:53.260 Yeah. 0:10:53.500 --> 0:10:54.560 That's kind of the package. 0:10:55.179 --> 0:10:55.339 Right. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.870 It's a package. It's a package to a fault to 0:10:58.990 --> 0:11:02.939 achieve the other stuff. Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, so competitive, 0:11:02.980 --> 0:11:05.900 they're nuts. It'd probably be horrible to be in a 0:11:05.940 --> 0:11:08.660 relationship with either one of them. But, you know, it 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.920 allows you to do this other thing. And I don't 0:11:10.940 --> 0:11:15.540 understand why people can't accept that. Yeah, yeah. The Steve Jobs, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.270 the Elon Musks, the Jensen Wongs of the world. I 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.450 don't know what I'm supposed to take from that information. Yeah, 0:11:20.470 --> 0:11:23.930 there's some really funny writing there. And I'm not saying 0:11:23.990 --> 0:11:26.010 it in a great men have great appetite. So it 0:11:26.070 --> 0:11:29.990 excuses any bad behavior. I just expect bad behavior out 0:11:30.010 --> 0:11:33.080 of people who also have the other really extraordinary other 0:11:33.130 --> 0:11:37.900 things like spy banging. It happens by banging. OK, we 0:11:37.940 --> 0:11:40.140 do need to talk at some point. Maybe we'll take 0:11:40.179 --> 0:11:41.650 a break from this and get back into it. But 0:11:42.050 --> 0:11:44.830 at some point about this, this angle from not just 0:11:44.970 --> 0:11:47.110 we got tons of text about this yesterday, but some 0:11:47.150 --> 0:11:50.170 of my favorite pundits putting out there. This could have 0:11:50.190 --> 0:11:52.930 been all kinds of a psyop where we got on 0:11:52.950 --> 0:11:54.530 to the fact that she was a spy a long 0:11:54.590 --> 0:11:57.790 time ago. 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And I'm the 0:13:41.910 --> 0:13:45.490 butt of the embarrassment, so everybody enjoys that. Okay, that's later. 0:13:45.530 --> 0:13:45.850 Stay here. 0:13:47.370 --> 0:13:51.810 Armstrong and. 0:13:53.870 --> 0:13:54.770 Getty. 0:13:54.790 --> 0:13:55.329 Professor. 0:13:55.350 --> 0:13:55.910 Let me. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:09.170 Out! This isn't heroism! You useless sock. You sit there 0:14:09.230 --> 0:14:11.730 in shape because you're dependent on a drink. You're sick 0:14:11.790 --> 0:14:12.360 as all over you. 0:14:14.590 --> 0:14:18.820 Have you ever seen a child starve to death, Professor? 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:19.940 No. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:21.480 I have. 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.640 Nick Nolte there. Rob Lowe in the movie doesn't sound 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.240 like a comedy. That's Confession, the new Ben Shapiro written 0:14:29.340 --> 0:14:32.800 movie that's getting unbelievable reviews and is supposed to be 0:14:32.970 --> 0:14:36.140 on level of Passion of the Christ in terms of 0:14:36.220 --> 0:14:38.680 a Christian message. We'll talk more about that later. 0:14:39.100 --> 0:14:41.400 Before we get there, can we talk about the first 0:14:41.460 --> 0:14:46.040 guy to introduce the boom, low-pitched drum with lots of 0:14:46.140 --> 0:14:48.520 reverb in movie previews? 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.710 Can I meet him and wring his neck, please? Hit 0:14:51.750 --> 0:14:52.330 him with a drum. 0:14:52.950 --> 0:14:55.550 Anyway, just real quickly, Rod Dreher in the Free Press, 0:14:55.590 --> 0:14:58.530 the new film explores a host of profound questions. Can 0:14:58.570 --> 0:15:01.650 beauty change the world? Does evil exist? Can one be 0:15:01.690 --> 0:15:05.410 good without God? That sounds pretty good to me. Speaking 0:15:05.430 --> 0:15:06.930 of movies and more on that. 0:15:06.950 --> 0:15:08.810 I thought it was two divorced guys driving across the 0:15:08.830 --> 0:15:11.830 country in all their hijinks. No, you're thinking of a 0:15:11.870 --> 0:15:12.370 different movie. 0:15:13.070 --> 0:15:17.990 And as the resident A Christmas Carol freak, I will 0:15:18.030 --> 0:15:22.370 be seeing the new Johnny Depp version of it. It's 0:15:22.430 --> 0:15:25.930 said to mingle the traditional story with horror. I've always 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.940 thought there isn't quite enough horror in the previous versions 0:15:29.980 --> 0:15:32.609 of A Christmas Carol. Because Scrooge spends a great deal 0:15:32.650 --> 0:15:34.290 of the time terrified. 0:15:34.430 --> 0:15:36.330 I heard it's woke and they try to jam trans 0:15:36.370 --> 0:15:40.310 down your throat. Oh, Lord. Okay. So there's that. 0:15:40.650 --> 0:15:43.620 And then we probably ought to touch on carrot maxing 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:44.580 and shrimp maxing. 0:15:44.620 --> 0:15:47.600 What? Katie, I know you're at least somewhat familiar with this. 0:15:48.820 --> 0:15:51.280 Not because I've done it, but because I read the article. 0:15:51.340 --> 0:15:56.520 Yes. So you got good looking women's often, you know, 0:15:56.900 --> 0:16:00.750 past 30. who really want that tan look but are 0:16:00.850 --> 0:16:03.830 smart enough to know they shouldn't abuse their skin in 0:16:03.870 --> 0:16:07.370 the sun. And so what they're doing is wolfing down 0:16:07.450 --> 0:16:12.630 compounds called carotenoids, which are, handily enough, in carrots. It's 0:16:12.670 --> 0:16:15.340 a type of natural yellow, orange, or red pigment. So 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:22.300 they're wolfing down carrots, sweet potatoes, shrimps, tomatoes, and or 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:26.040 pills that contain lots and lots of this stuff. So 0:16:26.100 --> 0:16:30.520 it turns them a pleasantly... shrimpy, pinkish, carrot-y orange. 0:16:30.860 --> 0:16:35.540 We've got another riddle for you. Do you want to 0:16:35.580 --> 0:16:40.720 be orange? Violet, you're turning violet! 0:16:41.460 --> 0:16:44.680 I think, you know, the gals that they are showing 0:16:44.940 --> 0:16:48.720 in this article just look tan to me. 0:16:48.740 --> 0:16:53.580 Okay, that's fine. Orange is not good. I mean, as 0:16:53.620 --> 0:16:57.050 I'm looking at this one gal's nicely tanned shoulder.... 0:16:57.650 --> 0:17:01.910 There are elements of orange in it, yes, balanced by 0:17:01.930 --> 0:17:05.590 a creamy brown. 0:17:05.210 --> 0:17:11.810 Essence as well. But you couldn't possibly eat it. I 0:17:11.990 --> 0:17:12.689 guess these people do. 0:17:13.010 --> 0:17:15.870 I eat two, maybe three carrots a day, said wellness 0:17:15.910 --> 0:17:19.470 creator Lee Tilgham. I think they're the best raw. It's 0:17:19.510 --> 0:17:21.300 the best skin of my life, blah, blah, blah. 0:17:21.540 --> 0:17:27.399 Oh, I see. Hi, you're looking good. How much of 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.250 this is for the internet, though? I know. I know. 0:17:31.310 --> 0:17:34.810 It's the new trend. Carrot maxing. Hey, how are things 0:17:34.850 --> 0:17:37.650 down at the chocolate factory? You're looking real orange. He's 0:17:37.690 --> 0:17:40.930 not making America great again. He's making America orange again. 0:17:42.010 --> 0:17:43.580 Marco Rubio's greatest line ever. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.800 That he regretted and Lon He Chen says was a 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:47.399 bad idea. 0:17:47.420 --> 0:17:51.399 Okay, one of my media idols calls me on the 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:52.199 phone yesterday and. 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:54.000 Wow. 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.840 I answered the phone. Mark Halpern here. And then it 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:58.530 turned embarrassing very quickly. 0:17:59.609 --> 0:18:00.090 Oh, my. 0:18:00.150 --> 0:18:02.790 So we'll get to that, among other things, on the way. Oh, my. 0:18:03.850 --> 0:18:04.270 All right. 0:18:04.570 --> 0:18:10.260 I'm mortified just hearing about it. Orange. What does that 0:18:10.300 --> 0:18:11.980 do to your digestive system? 0:18:12.140 --> 0:18:12.639 Oh, my. 0:18:12.780 --> 0:18:16.139 Shrimp and carrots all day. Wow. No, don't go there. 0:18:16.220 --> 0:18:16.680 No kidding. 0:18:16.859 --> 0:18:18.180 Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:32.820 The Armstrong and Getty Show. Rachel, what appeals to you 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.600 about Two-Way? I love the fact that you're hearing everybody's 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:37.920 different opinions. 0:18:38.500 --> 0:18:41.360 I started listening to you guys from a recommendation from 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:43.060 Armstrong and Getty. Thank you, Rachel. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:44.899 Armstrong and Getty are great guys. I didn't know they 0:18:44.980 --> 0:18:48.000 were listeners. I love Armstrong and Getty. They are great guys. 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.260 I like them. I don't believe Mark Halpern knows who 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:57.210 we are. Oh, wow. I could be wrong, but we've 0:18:57.250 --> 0:19:00.870 had we've had we've had him on before over the years. 0:19:00.890 --> 0:19:04.690 So sure. Back when like going way back when I 0:19:04.710 --> 0:19:06.820 remember when Game Change came out, which was about the 0:19:06.820 --> 0:19:10.660 2008 election. So that's many, many years ago. But so 0:19:11.020 --> 0:19:14.379 he is a really big deal in the world of 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.820 politics right now, whether you're whether you're knowing or not. 0:19:16.859 --> 0:19:20.580 He's got a newsletter that people subscribe to that is 0:19:20.660 --> 0:19:24.889 just so freaking good. But it's really expensive. I mean, 0:19:24.910 --> 0:19:27.550 you know how like you got Netflix and it's $ 19 0:19:27.510 --> 0:19:29.790 a month or whatever. This ain't that. This is like 0:19:29.810 --> 0:19:31.800 you could buy a used car for what it costs 0:19:31.859 --> 0:19:35.300 for a year to have Mark Halpern's newsletter. But we've 0:19:35.340 --> 0:19:37.760 decided as a show, Joe and I, that it's worth 0:19:37.780 --> 0:19:39.060 it in the long run. You got to spend money 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.409 to make money. And we give that sort of value 0:19:41.410 --> 0:19:41.910 out of it. 0:19:41.910 --> 0:19:44.910 And for what it's worth, we always, always, always give 0:19:44.910 --> 0:19:46.840 credit to Mark for his reporting. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.140 Absolutely. A hundred percent, which he actually said to me yesterday, 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.200 he said, which in theory helps me, which I thought 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.960 was kind of funny. Cause yeah, you always wonder about that. 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:01.900 But so this, this, I'm trying to tell this story 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:03.899 in a way that you can feel my embarrassment the 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:08.270 way I felt it. It reminded me of like, if 0:20:08.310 --> 0:20:12.020 you think, somebody's into you. I don't know if you've 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.340 ever done this, Katie, but I've done this before where 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:16.340 I think some woman's into me, and then when I 0:20:16.380 --> 0:20:22.160 finally make my move, they look at you like wide-eyed, like, what? No, 0:20:22.300 --> 0:20:24.619 I have no interest in you whatsoever. I was only 0:20:24.660 --> 0:20:26.420 talking to you because I'm interested in your friend, or 0:20:27.619 --> 0:20:30.580 we work together, but whatever it is, you realize you 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:31.900 were completely off base. 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.260 I've had that happen to me, and I have been 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.119 the person that has said, you are of being off 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:38.770 base to someone. 0:20:38.790 --> 0:20:41.490 That's true. Yes. That's true. Been on both ends of it. 0:20:41.750 --> 0:20:47.870