Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Shoe, Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and no He Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3: The US response has increased intensity eight times as many
Speaker 3: targets were hit compared to the last time the US
Speaker 3: responded to Iran firing on ships in the Strait. The
Speaker 3: targets include some sixty Revolutionary Guards small boats. Sencom also
Speaker 3: says the strikes included defense systems, command and control networks,
Speaker 3: coastal radar sites, and anti ship capabilities. And we have
Speaker 3: video of the US strikes hitting in Bandarabas. Iran responded
Speaker 3: by firing into their neighbors Kuwait and Bahrain. The official
Speaker 3: Iranian news agency claims to have hit some eighty five
Speaker 3: targets in those countries. Details on the number of targets
Speaker 3: are not confirmed by other sources. But sirens sounded in
Speaker 3: Await and boff rang.
Speaker 4: No, this isn't a rerun. We aren't still on vacation
Speaker 4: and you're listening to old shows. We are back and
Speaker 4: this is new. We are back at war with Iran.
Speaker 4: It would seem Iran struck several ships in the Strait
Speaker 4: violating the MoU According to Trump, which he says is
Speaker 4: now dead. We hit ran pretty hard. I guess we'll
Speaker 4: find out how hard when we ask Mike lines here
Speaker 4: in a second. And then Iran struck the countries around
Speaker 4: them as they like to do. Where it goes from now,
Speaker 4: I do not know. Welcome Mike Lyons to the Armstrong
Speaker 4: Engetty Show again. Mike served with various military organizations in
Speaker 4: both the United States and Europe throughout his career. Got
Speaker 4: his degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Speaker 2: Hey, Mike, what did you think of that? How big
Speaker 2: a deal was this? How hard to strike?
Speaker 4: Was this just a like a little love tap to
Speaker 4: let you know we're still paying attention?
Speaker 2: Or did we hit them hard? Yeah? Thanks for having
Speaker 2: me back.
Speaker 5: I've always thought that this has been the end of
Speaker 5: escalation management from the very beginning sort of. I published
Speaker 5: an article and were journal about that, and sent Com
Speaker 5: is reporting eighty targets hit with precision munition. So this
Speaker 5: is not a proportional response back.
Speaker 2: This is not a pit for.
Speaker 5: Tat what we had been doing good in the past,
Speaker 5: and so I think that that's a good sign. I
Speaker 5: do believe now it just gets back to you know,
Speaker 5: what are those targets. It looks like Iranian air defense systems,
Speaker 5: command and control networks, the coastal radar sites, those are
Speaker 5: so key. It looks like some of their anti ship
Speaker 5: messile capabilities now are more out in the open and
Speaker 5: around Revolutionary Guard Corps. I mean the small boat. You know,
Speaker 5: it just shows you the target rich environment. It is
Speaker 5: from a military perspective. When we stop, probably stops too soon,
Speaker 5: and it looks like our response back is disproportional.
Speaker 4: Well, Trump just said a few minutes ago, we're probably
Speaker 4: going to hit them hard again tonight. So you're saying
Speaker 4: there's plenty of stuff.
Speaker 5: To hit, Yeah, no question, And I think you know
Speaker 5: we were. You've got to figure out a way still
Speaker 5: to you know, make sure that it's it's not completely
Speaker 5: destroyed when the country's you know, when we finally move
Speaker 5: this thing forward. And so I'm for this, you know,
Speaker 5: this preparable deterrence going after some of their revenue capabilities,
Speaker 5: but not necessarily destroying you know, entire oil fields and
Speaker 5: entire things. But but there are quasi military targets that
Speaker 5: would make them very easy to repair when the time comes,
Speaker 5: but set them back when it comes to trying to
Speaker 5: raise revenue and things like that. So there's there's still
Speaker 5: many military targets to hit, many many to go after,
Speaker 5: and we're at the cleanup phase of that now, I think.
Speaker 4: So there was some reporting over the weekend that Trump
Speaker 4: had decided a while back we were going to use
Speaker 4: our military and force that straight back open, and Saudi
Speaker 4: Arabia talked him out of it.
Speaker 2: Uh So, I guess that still might be on the.
Speaker 4: Table if Iran's not willing to you know, stop firing
Speaker 4: on ships.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that would really ramp up with our off tempo,
Speaker 5: the pace that our military is working. We'd have to
Speaker 5: bring maybe some more destroyers and cruisers into the into
Speaker 5: the region, even though we have three terriers strike groups
Speaker 5: right now that they're more focused on the aircraft and
Speaker 5: the carriers themselves. But that's you know, a mission that
Speaker 5: we could do. It could take months, but it means
Speaker 5: really softening up any of the coastal batteries that seem
Speaker 5: to exist that are there, the fact that they can
Speaker 5: get off any shots whatsoever, either using drones or any
Speaker 5: kind of you know, precision munitions to show they still
Speaker 5: have this capability.
Speaker 4: Well, Trump's over there talking to all the NATO leaders
Speaker 4: the big NATO meeting, and the NATO Secretary General said
Speaker 4: this morning that what the United States did was perfectly appropriate,
Speaker 4: had to be done, I mean, and that's not the
Speaker 4: way NATO's really been talking about this whole Iran operation
Speaker 4: the whole time. So is there any chance we get
Speaker 4: any help from any of our NATO allies on this
Speaker 4: at this point?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You know, Mark Brute's influence on Trump, to me, is
Speaker 5: a masterclass and how to manage him? Right. All these
Speaker 5: other NATO leaders are just can't manage Trump, right. McCrone
Speaker 5: thinks he's smarter than him. You know. The Germans tried,
Speaker 5: you know, to be more technical. Let's say Keir Starmer.
Speaker 5: That's you know, he failed miserably. But I think I
Speaker 5: think Route cracks the code. He validates them publicly. As
Speaker 5: soon as Trump got on with that. The MoU Is
Speaker 5: over Route couldn't say it any quicker. I'm with you
Speaker 5: in the same breath, right, So very clearly he's because
Speaker 5: a Trump whisper when it comes to that. Now, the
Speaker 5: downside is that he's really only managing him. He's not,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe not advising him, but he at least
Speaker 5: speaks his language. He's not trying to be Macron, He's
Speaker 5: not trying to be some other UH leader that that's
Speaker 5: trying to be Trump's peer. He lets he lets kind
Speaker 5: of Trump be Trump. And I think from what we
Speaker 5: are right now, I think that's still a good thing.
Speaker 5: I think it's a good thing for NATO. I think
Speaker 5: it's going to keep you, you know, well in sant
Speaker 5: of NATO.
Speaker 4: Trump's talking as we're talking to you, so he's saying
Speaker 4: more things like we may put the blockade on the
Speaker 4: Straight of Hormuz back in place, so we might be
Speaker 4: back right back to where we were two and a
Speaker 4: half weeks ago by the end of tonight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the whip song is challenging to the military, going
Speaker 5: back back and forth again. The blockade just means repositioning
Speaker 5: some of those ships. I think most of the military
Speaker 5: community that I had spoken to didn't think we had
Speaker 5: finished the job, so to speak. We gave the president
Speaker 5: enough leverage to start to talk. I think he needed
Speaker 5: that for making sure that oil prices didn't go crazy,
Speaker 5: and he was keeping one eye on the politics of this.
Speaker 5: But I think those in the military we felt that
Speaker 5: it really wasn't finished that this campaign should have gone
Speaker 5: on longer than thirty seven days is really what it
Speaker 5: went on for. I should have went on at least
Speaker 5: forty five, even sixty. It should have had a better
Speaker 5: logical conclusion with a clear sign of the US victory.
Speaker 4: Well, the Wall Street journals reporting today is that they
Speaker 4: were making no progress whatsoever, like zero on the whole
Speaker 4: details around nuclear weapons, which was what the whole war
Speaker 4: was about. So which doesn't surprise me in the least. So,
Speaker 4: what's the worst case scenario? Worst case scenario obviously is
Speaker 4: that Oram gets a nuclear weapon, but we prosecute this war.
Speaker 4: We need to go forward and put pressure on us.
Speaker 4: What what should we watch out for that could go wrong?
Speaker 5: Well, you know that they had some kind of internal
Speaker 5: revolution and that you have this humanitarian crisis that exists
Speaker 5: inside that the country because it implosed United States gets
Speaker 5: blamed for that or something. I think I don't think
Speaker 5: we have to worry about. You know, there's potentially some
Speaker 5: of our military targets, but there's not a situation that
Speaker 5: I could see that we're in trouble now unless the
Speaker 5: Chinese decide to enter the fixture of they decide, which
Speaker 5: I think should have been part of the MoU anyway,
Speaker 5: I think that we should have made sure that no
Speaker 5: other countries were going to come in and assist a Ron.
Speaker 5: You know that that MoU is all front loaded for
Speaker 5: the Iranians. It was you know, all the all the
Speaker 5: United States activities were on the back side of it.
Speaker 5: We don't want the Chinese in there, we don't want
Speaker 5: any other countries in there, and we often need stronger
Speaker 5: Gulf states to make sure that they're focused on making
Speaker 5: sure we take this to the end. But but what
Speaker 5: goes wrong? I think the real the real challenge would
Speaker 5: be more inside of Iran humanitarian crisis. Ninety million people
Speaker 5: will have to feed and keep water, and if the
Speaker 5: Ranian government collapses, you know, how do they do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 4: So also part of the Wall Street General Reporting day
Speaker 4: was that Iran has gotten back a fair amount of
Speaker 4: their capability. Was that with the help of China and Russia,
Speaker 4: that they rebuilt all that stuff.
Speaker 5: I think they just basically took it out of the mountains,
Speaker 5: and they had a lot to begin with. And again
Speaker 5: from a scale perspective, they still can't deploy hundreds at
Speaker 5: a time. But when you have a lot when you sneak,
Speaker 5: you know, take a thousand rockets, let's say, or a
Speaker 5: thousand missiles and hide them in the mountains and hide
Speaker 5: them in places if you look at the geography of Iran,
Speaker 5: easy to do. And all that they're doing now is
Speaker 5: just deploying those that are out there. So that's where
Speaker 5: there's more targets for us to kind of go after.
Speaker 5: I think that's really what happened. There's no industrial capability
Speaker 5: to fix anything that's not really on the table. It's
Speaker 5: the fact that just shows you the level of ballistic
Speaker 5: missile capability. They always had tens of thousands of missiles
Speaker 5: that they had that had built them, been ready for
Speaker 5: the site.
Speaker 4: Are any of those countries surrounding around that keep getting
Speaker 4: hit by the Iranians going to finally like really join
Speaker 4: us in this battle.
Speaker 5: Well that's another great question. And you know, it just
Speaker 5: shows you how Middle Eastern politics are, you know more
Speaker 5: in some ways based on religion. A lot of it
Speaker 5: has to do with that, you know, the Shia Sunni
Speaker 5: divide that exists in that part of the world, and
Speaker 5: so that they you know, you can't change the geography, right,
Speaker 5: I mean, Katar and the UAE are doing what they
Speaker 5: can to avoid the straits, right. They're building tunnels and
Speaker 5: things like that, but they should have been building them
Speaker 5: before the thought he's already did that. They've got a
Speaker 5: pipeline going to the Red Sea. But the politics are
Speaker 5: just not what we're used to, and that they have
Speaker 5: to they recognize that there are what they are.
Speaker 4: Well, I have a feeling there's a chance we might
Speaker 4: be talking to you again later this week after a
Speaker 4: couple of more rounds of strug.
Speaker 2: Mike's in Iran Mike Lyons military analyst.
Speaker 4: You can follow him on Twitter at m A j
Speaker 4: is in Major at Major m Aj Mike Lyons, I
Speaker 4: go there whenever something happens to see what you thought
Speaker 4: about it. Thanks Mike, Thanks for av me the war's
Speaker 4: back on. I think clearly, well, let's play this just
Speaker 4: because we got a moment. Find my sheet.
Speaker 2: Here, play play forty two to me, I.
Speaker 6: Think it's over. I don't want to deal with them
Speaker 6: with this gum. You know what scum is there? Gum,
Speaker 6: there's sick people. They're led by six people. There's something
Speaker 6: wrong with them. They're cuckoo. Far as I'm concerned, it's over.
Speaker 4: That he was asked about the MoU, the memorandum of
Speaker 4: Understanding that you know, brought about the sixty day cease
Speaker 4: fire and they get their money back before we start
Speaker 4: the nuclear talks, which never happened. Shock shock shock. Trump's
Speaker 4: saying it's over. They're cuckoo, It's over. I hope he
Speaker 4: means it, because he says this sort of stuff about
Speaker 4: Putin or the Mullahs or the IRGC, and then you know,
Speaker 4: by the end of the day he'll say, no, he
Speaker 4: talked to do a guy, and he sounds like he's
Speaker 4: a it's really exciting.
Speaker 1: JD.
Speaker 4: Vans will come out and say, you know, it's really cool,
Speaker 4: is they they now understand that they've been doing the
Speaker 4: wrong thing all these years, which was just the lamest
Speaker 4: thing that has ever come out of Jade Vance's mouth. Oh, anyway,
Speaker 4: does Trump change his tune on this? I do not
Speaker 4: know if we'll have more on this topic a little
Speaker 4: bit later, partially because Trump's talking about it as we speak.
Speaker 2: So we got other.
Speaker 4: Stuff on the way. I want to get to we
Speaker 4: didn't play enough of the mom Donnie fourth of July address.
Speaker 4: I've got some stuff on exercise, a little more on
Speaker 4: that sleep study that I wanted to get to, so
Speaker 4: stick around please.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a game or a match.
Speaker 4: Do you called a soccer game or a soccer match
Speaker 4: or can you use both? Anyway, A number of people
Speaker 4: are calling it one of the best of those that's
Speaker 4: ever occurred in the World Cup. Yesterday, Argentina, the defending
Speaker 4: World Cup champ, was down to nothing at like the
Speaker 4: eighty minute mark. They play ninety minutes, which is way
Speaker 4: too many minutes for me. So I had heard that
Speaker 4: Argentina made a comeback in the last ten minutes, which
Speaker 4: they did. They came back and they won three to two,
Speaker 4: including their star player Lionel Messi, who's considered by many
Speaker 4: people to be the greatest soccer player of all time.
Speaker 4: And he's old now and he's this would be his
Speaker 4: last World Cup, so he scores one of the games.
Speaker 4: So I did watch in real time the last ten
Speaker 4: or so minutes of the dang thing, and it was very,
Speaker 4: very exciting.
Speaker 2: It was too nothing.
Speaker 4: Egypt, it was good about to pull off one of
Speaker 4: the great upsets in World Cup history, and Argentina comes back.
Speaker 4: But I got a couple of goal calls here for
Speaker 4: you they're both in Spanish. This one is from I
Speaker 4: don't remember what channel from this is from, but this
Speaker 4: is on one of the goals help us out. It's
Speaker 4: because they don't have other sports they care about in
Speaker 4: these countries that they get so excited. I mean, MESSI
Speaker 4: was just bawling like a child, just crying his eyes
Speaker 4: out because it would have been the end of his
Speaker 4: World Cup career had they lost, and it looked like
Speaker 4: they were going to lose, and they came back and won,
Speaker 4: and we just we have so many sports in year
Speaker 4: round and move from this and that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I get.
Speaker 4: Excited too, But man, they act like their lives on
Speaker 4: the line for these things. And I still contend that
Speaker 4: if we cared about soccer and our best players played soccer,
Speaker 4: we would dominate soccer around the world. Can you imagine
Speaker 4: if Steph Curry had played soccer?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Anyway, that's ugly American talk right there. I heard this one.
Speaker 4: I like this one from Telemundo because the guy gets
Speaker 4: so excited he just runs out of gas.
Speaker 7: No Messy, right, are you okay? Sir Canino?
Speaker 2: See how emotionally good about this.
Speaker 4: It's a bigger deal to them than it is to
Speaker 4: us for whatever reason. Guy, Oh, it was exciting. Like
Speaker 4: I said, though I'm understanding it more and I'm able
Speaker 4: to watch it a little more. Oh I'm I did
Speaker 4: say earlier. So thirty three million people tuned into USA Belgium,
Speaker 4: which we lost.
Speaker 2: We looked horrible.
Speaker 4: Biggest US crowd for soccer ever in the history of
Speaker 4: the sport, thirty three million people. We got this text.
Speaker 4: Maybe the thirty three million people watching the soccer is
Speaker 4: a true barometer of how many people came into the
Speaker 4: country illegally when Biden was in charge. You might be
Speaker 4: right about that. Maybe that's just because we let in
Speaker 4: so many people from other countries where they care about soccer.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine myself watching the full ninety minutes. So
Speaker 4: it's just I I'm trying to buy into what I
Speaker 4: see about the poetry of the game and the rhythm
Speaker 4: that you get used to of the moving the ball
Speaker 4: up and down the field, and then the rare scoring
Speaker 4: moments being so much more important than in our stupid
Speaker 4: American sports, where you score every two minutes and scores
Speaker 4: no matter. Using their words, not mine, but I just
Speaker 4: haven't been able to get into the flow of the
Speaker 4: magic of the poetry of the game or whatever.
Speaker 2: It just looks to.
Speaker 4: Me like hockey on grass. Where So Argentina the defending
Speaker 4: world champions. So they scored two goals last night, and
Speaker 4: I think they've had ten World Cup games in a
Speaker 4: row where they've scored two goals or more, which is
Speaker 4: the all time record. Two goals in an hour and
Speaker 4: a half is just not enough action for me.
Speaker 2: I don't know, and I'm not part of the TikTok generation.
Speaker 2: It's just I need a little more out of my sport.
Speaker 2: But anyway, that one was exciting and I watched it.
Speaker 4: And how many people are gonna watch now that the
Speaker 4: United States is out? I don't know if the ratings
Speaker 4: will drop of I don't know if I'll watch anymore.
Speaker 4: I suppose I will, or maybe I won't, or maybe
Speaker 4: I'll catch the highlights. So I want to finish up
Speaker 4: on the sleep study they had in the New York Times,
Speaker 4: combined with an exercise thing that they've got. This is
Speaker 4: all the latest information meta studies with many, many thousands
Speaker 4: of people. I really think this is valuable information worth hearing.
Speaker 3: Coming up, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: There's a new Dolly parton musical apparently is it going
Speaker 4: to be on Broadway about her life. I've always liked
Speaker 4: Dolly Parton since I was a little kid, But I
Speaker 4: feel like enough with Dolly Parton already. Just I don't know,
Speaker 4: she's the new Betty White. She's an old person that
Speaker 4: we're all supposed to just be enthralled with constantly.
Speaker 2: Eh, I'm not eight, non Dolly Parton. Just enough with
Speaker 2: Dolly Parton already.
Speaker 4: So I took a graduate statistics class many years ago
Speaker 4: in college, and luckily I had a very very good
Speaker 4: teacher who hammered the point home all of the time.
Speaker 4: He would hit you with a number, new study says,
Speaker 4: blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, let's think about
Speaker 4: that for a second. And he would delve into all
Speaker 4: of the reasons why the stat that came out of
Speaker 4: this particular study may be incredibly misleading. And he did
Speaker 4: that with everything that was like his main thing, which
Speaker 4: I think was good because Joe always quotes the famous
Speaker 4: Mark Twain saying about statistics, there's three kinds of lies, lies,
Speaker 4: damned lies, and statistics. Because it's really easy to tell
Speaker 4: any kind of story you want to tell with statistics
Speaker 4: for all the reasons we're about to get into here.
Speaker 4: But so I like doing that and I think it's helpful,
Speaker 4: and the media does a terrible job of that. Part
Speaker 4: of it is the clicks world, so that if you
Speaker 4: have a study that says, and we talked about this
Speaker 4: a couple of months back, because it was a New
Speaker 4: York Times article, swimming much less beneficial as an exercise
Speaker 4: than running, way more people die doing swimming as an
Speaker 4: exercise is running incredibly misleading headline. But that's all the
Speaker 4: further you get with most mainstream media coverage. They give
Speaker 4: you a thirty second version and then they move on
Speaker 4: and you're incredibly misinformed. You'd have been better off if
Speaker 4: you hadn't heard the story at all. We'll get into
Speaker 4: that particular thing here in just a little bit, but
Speaker 4: I started on the sleep thing last hour, and I
Speaker 4: wanted to pay that off. I like meta analysis, and
Speaker 4: this is what they are doing in the New York
Speaker 4: Times with this doctor over the weekend. That's when you
Speaker 4: look at lots of different studies or lots of different
Speaker 4: big studies, and you put it all.
Speaker 2: Together and you kind of go from there.
Speaker 4: As opposed to one PhD did a small study at
Speaker 4: a university somewhere and they can't replicate it, which is
Speaker 4: the sort of thing that gets repeated in the media
Speaker 4: all the time that stuff is practically worthless. These are
Speaker 4: meta studies, and with these metas studies, they found that
Speaker 4: the highest mortality rates were with people who sleep nine
Speaker 4: to eleven hours a night. Eight hours is not the
Speaker 4: magic number. Risk doesn't really rise much below eight until
Speaker 4: you get down to below six. You have to get
Speaker 4: less than six hours of sleep before you start to
Speaker 4: match the death rate of people mortality risk health risk
Speaker 4: of people who sleep nine to eleven hours, So between
Speaker 4: like six and a half and.
Speaker 2: Nine, it's all.
Speaker 4: About the same and it just depends on different people
Speaker 4: have different amounts they need. And this was good news
Speaker 4: to me because I get between six and a half seven.
Speaker 4: That's about what I live with. That's what I feel
Speaker 4: best with, and it says here that's perfectly fun. But
Speaker 4: when you're getting into the stuff I'm talking about on
Speaker 4: how you can be misled about these sorts of things
Speaker 4: is why do people in the nine to eleven hours
Speaker 4: a night category have worse health outcomes world There's all
Speaker 4: kinds of different reasons. Perhaps if you're sleeping that much,
Speaker 4: it's because you're depressed. Perhaps, if you're sleeping that much,
Speaker 4: it's because you've got some sort of injury or sickness
Speaker 4: that causes you to sleep that much. That has nothing
Speaker 4: to do with how much you sleep. It just it
Speaker 4: keeps you in bed a lot more. You know, it's
Speaker 4: pretty easy to imagine these sorts of things. But six
Speaker 4: and a half hours of sleep a night perfectly. Okay,
Speaker 4: there's one other number I wanted to.
Speaker 2: Hit you with in here, bah bah bah.
Speaker 4: Studies show an association between sleep duration and mortality. Often
Speaker 4: find that the lowest risk of mortality clusters around seven hours.
Speaker 4: So seven is more of a magic number than eight,
Speaker 4: according to this meta analysis. I don't know where eight
Speaker 4: came from originally, it's been around my whole life. I
Speaker 4: don't know who religionally decided that, but we really should
Speaker 4: throw around the number seven as the number that most
Speaker 4: of us need. You know, somewhere on either side of that,
Speaker 4: I need a little less. Joeways talks about he needs
Speaker 4: a little more, but it's.
Speaker 2: It's not eight.
Speaker 4: That's a little higher than we need. Now to the
Speaker 4: exercise stuff, which I thought was really really interesting. A
Speaker 4: review of a whole bunch of different tests averaged together
Speaker 4: many tens of thousands of people found that exercise lowered
Speaker 4: mortality risk by thirteen percent. I'm a little disappointed that it's.
Speaker 2: Not more than that.
Speaker 4: I wanted it to be more than that thirteen percent
Speaker 4: eight nothing, but it ain't size I wanted. But we
Speaker 4: talked about that swimming study that came out a while
Speaker 4: all back that found that swimming didn't lower mortality rates,
Speaker 4: but running did, and that was the headline everybody ran with.
Speaker 4: And then they went about a half inch deep and
Speaker 4: no more. As it says here by this doctor doing
Speaker 4: the meta analysis and using their brain to think about this,
Speaker 4: does that mean that swimming isn't effective as an exercise. No,
Speaker 4: it does not. When you look more closely at the
Speaker 4: data in the appendix of the study, which you know
Speaker 4: the CBS Evening News isn't going to do. They're just
Speaker 4: going to tell you swimming actually does not lower your
Speaker 4: mortality rate. Isn't that interesting? In other news Taylor Swift's wedding.
Speaker 4: When you look at the appendix of the study, which
Speaker 4: media I would stone apparently have time to do, swimmers
Speaker 4: were more much more likely to not engage in other
Speaker 4: positive health behaviors. For a variety of reasons, swimmers don't
Speaker 4: do the other good things you should be doing to
Speaker 4: lower your risk of.
Speaker 2: Death that runners do.
Speaker 4: For instance, only about five percent of frequent runners smoke.
Speaker 4: It doubles for swimmers. Twice as many swimmers smoke as runners.
Speaker 4: Right there, you're going to have a major difference. I
Speaker 4: was kind of struck by the fact that people that
Speaker 4: are regular runners, five percent out of them smoke. One
Speaker 4: out of twenty regular runners smokes.
Speaker 2: It's kind of surprising to me.
Speaker 4: For swimmers, it's one out of ten. Swimmers are almost
Speaker 4: were also more likely to have high blood pressure way
Speaker 4: more and to have a family history of cancer. One
Speaker 4: explanation is that doctors may recommend swimming as a low
Speaker 4: impact activity for people who are overweight or have other
Speaker 4: health problems. It's easier to do better for your joints
Speaker 4: and all that sort of stuff than running. So that's
Speaker 4: people that are less healthy to start with, so their
Speaker 4: risk of mortality goes up. That's just a for instance,
Speaker 4: And I would encourage y'all whenever you hear any of
Speaker 4: these statistics. First of all, if they give you the
Speaker 4: thirty to forty five second version of any statistic about anything.
Speaker 4: You gotta dig into it because you almost certainly were
Speaker 4: missing a whole bunch of context. I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: remember a time whenever I've dug into a headline story
Speaker 4: with a big shocking statistic where it doesn't turn out
Speaker 4: there's some explanation for it. Oh okay, swimmers smoke twice
Speaker 4: as much as runners or whatever.
Speaker 2: It is. Same with the sleep thing.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, you don't sleeping ten hours a day or
Speaker 4: nine hours a day isn't going to kill me. It's
Speaker 4: that people that sleep that much tend to have other problems.
Speaker 2: And see what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: So so I'm going to continue to sleep by six
Speaker 4: and a half to seven hours, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: continue to exercise.
Speaker 2: Oh, just in general.
Speaker 4: They have found, We've talked about this a lot, found
Speaker 4: that exercises that include short bursts of energy are really
Speaker 4: really good for us. For some reason, I guess that's
Speaker 4: the way we're designed. You know, you're walking across the
Speaker 4: serengetti as a caveman, and all of a sudden you
Speaker 4: see an antelope and you have to run really really
Speaker 4: fast and hope you hit it with this beer. That's
Speaker 4: what we're kind of built for. So those short bursts
Speaker 4: of energy are really really good for you, and all
Speaker 4: kinds of stuff around weight training, which I love doing,
Speaker 4: but weight training is so good for your brain, not
Speaker 4: just your body, but really really good for your brain
Speaker 4: and send some sort of signals apparently to your brain
Speaker 4: that we're still alive, we're still needed, muscles and brain
Speaker 4: are still needed, We're still doing something. I'm not still
Speaker 4: doing something, but it tricks my brain into thinking, so
Speaker 4: so it'll stave off dementia and keep you in better shape. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I hope that was of some use to you. I
Speaker 4: have a bunch of other stuff I need to get to.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to read this thing. Elon Musk said
Speaker 4: the other day about why America is exceptional, pushing back
Speaker 4: against Mayor Mamdani and his speech that he gave over
Speaker 4: fourth of July that America is not exceptional. If we
Speaker 4: are exceptional, we're exceptional in bad ways. So we'll get
Speaker 4: to a pushback on that at some point that I
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Speaker 4: will say this as a guy who currently exercises regularly,
Speaker 4: and I've never really had a time where as sedentary
Speaker 4: of my life, but I've had periods where I didn't
Speaker 4: exercise as much as I did now. And I know
Speaker 4: how hard it is to get started if you've been
Speaker 4: out of the groove for a while, it's really really
Speaker 4: hard to get started. But I can tell you once
Speaker 4: you get started, once you get going, it's going to
Speaker 4: be so much easier. You just got to make yourself
Speaker 4: do it, just like all kinds of other stuff we
Speaker 4: have to make ourselves do regularly, clean the house, whatever
Speaker 4: it is. I'm on a writing kick right now where
Speaker 4: I'm trying to write every single day and I'm trying
Speaker 4: to make myself do it, and I don't want to
Speaker 4: do it, and I'm hoping that if I make myself
Speaker 4: do it every day, it'll finally come naturally. Exercise is
Speaker 4: certainly worked that way for a lot of people. Enough
Speaker 4: of my preaching about that.
Speaker 8: I hurt myself exercising.
Speaker 2: Though always or just recently.
Speaker 8: Just recently, two days ago, I go to sit down
Speaker 8: in like a chest press machine, and I sat down
Speaker 8: on the chair and I'm about ready to lift the
Speaker 8: weight and I just pulled my head back and all
Speaker 8: of a sudden, I feel this pop and pulled it
Speaker 8: like a neck muscle or something.
Speaker 4: But so basically, just the activity of sitting down, you
Speaker 4: hurt yourself. Yes, you aren't even to the lifting weights.
Speaker 2: No, No, I had to get up.
Speaker 4: I think you need to start a lot slower if
Speaker 4: just sitting down is hurting you. Yeah, did you crack
Speaker 4: your head against the machine or no, I was.
Speaker 8: Just getting it into proper position. Is I did something
Speaker 8: with my neck?
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 8: But it's just I guess part of being older.
Speaker 2: But what kind of gym do you go to?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: I mean I would say it is sort of a
Speaker 2: family gym. I mean, you know, people of all ages. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I uh.
Speaker 4: I go to a gym where there aren't that many
Speaker 4: super studs there just every once in a while.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't need that kind of gym at this point
Speaker 2: in my life.
Speaker 4: It's just it's too much grunting, too many dropping weights.
Speaker 8: I can't stand that. Yeah, the guy that needs to
Speaker 8: show off for the whole gym.
Speaker 4: God, there's one guy that comes to my gym, and
Speaker 4: luckily I don't cross paths with him very often, but
Speaker 4: he has to just scream everything. He just all right,
Speaker 4: we get it, you're lifting a lot of weight. Good
Speaker 4: for you, But come on, dude, I mean, it's just
Speaker 4: it's comedic. It's like it's a Saturday Night Live bit.
Speaker 4: It's so over the top. And then he always has
Speaker 4: to drop the weights. He can't set them down clang
Speaker 4: by boom and good for you. He's one of the
Speaker 4: guys that wears the tank tops with the like the
Speaker 4: holes are really big on the side of the tank top,
Speaker 4: so it's like you're basically shirtless.
Speaker 2: He's one of those guys too good for you. And
Speaker 2: he smells horrible.
Speaker 4: You can you see he walks by and it's just
Speaker 4: a cloud of odor, screaming, dropping weights and you smell horrible.
Speaker 4: I have gone before where he's there, and I think
Speaker 4: I'll skip today or I'll.
Speaker 2: Come back tomorrow. I can't do it.
Speaker 4: Oh, I just saw something on the TV about Caitlyn Clark,
Speaker 4: the basketball player red an interesting piece in the National Review.
Speaker 4: I got to get to an hour three. That league
Speaker 4: is making such a mistake. Best thing that ever happened
Speaker 4: to the WNBA ever is Caitlyn Clark. They voted for
Speaker 4: players voted the other day for All Star. They voted
Speaker 4: her as the eleventh best guard. She might be the
Speaker 4: best player ever in the WNBA history. They voted her
Speaker 4: currently as the eleventh best guard in the league because
Speaker 4: they all hate her because she's white and she's straight.
Speaker 4: Really interesting story. Maybe we'll get to that inw ur
Speaker 4: three lots on the way, Stay.
Speaker 5: Here, Armstrong. Yeah, we just had a fireworks a plane built.
Speaker 1: And built to ten seventy six. Can you tell me
Speaker 1: if you had to, I guess any further information about
Speaker 1: the fireworks two hundred feed HL two to fifty AHL.
Speaker 1: But we just started to bang on the plane, so
Speaker 1: we'll have to take a look at I want to
Speaker 1: get to the gate, and we're just hoping it was
Speaker 1: just the mortar that went off underneath, but definitely felt
Speaker 1: the big bang. There have been multiple reports as you
Speaker 1: can imagine the city's are where. They said they would
Speaker 1: notify the Chicago police, but you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what they'll do.
Speaker 4: So did the plane actually get hit by fireworks?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I think of it by a mortar. They heard a
Speaker 8: bang on the plane. I think like a mortar hit it.
Speaker 4: Do they teach you at pilot school to be just
Speaker 4: extra monotone no matter what's going on as that? And
Speaker 4: I'm not even trying to be jokey or sarcastic here.
Speaker 4: I wonder if that's to deal with a crisis easier
Speaker 4: that no matter what happens. Go at the somebody shooting
Speaker 4: explosives as Roger Tower. We'd like you to know that
Speaker 4: if we could stop the explosives that are hitting the plane.
Speaker 4: We'd appreciate that click, just to keep things calm. They're
Speaker 4: always so monotone no matter. It's like the guy we
Speaker 4: had a couple of weeks ago, who actually is a
Speaker 4: friend of a friend of mine, talking about we have
Speaker 4: a family that was exposed to a bola on the plane,
Speaker 4: and just want to let you know we need to
Speaker 4: test them for a bola as soon as we lent.
Speaker 2: I guess they're just supposed to stay calm.
Speaker 4: I want to talk about the workplace violence training I took.
Speaker 2: Have you taken that yet, Michael, Yeah, I took that one.
Speaker 2: That's why you're not violent. Yeah, that's why you're so calm.
Speaker 4: I want to talk about the workplace violent training that
Speaker 4: I found quite hilarious. First this, we should talk to
Speaker 4: this guy. I co founded Wikipedia. Now I'm banned for life.
Speaker 4: This guy Larry Sanger. He and another guy started Wikipedia
Speaker 4: back in two thousand and one with the admirable, game
Speaker 4: changing goal of democratizing information. It's known as the world's
Speaker 4: greatest encyclopedia that has ever existed.
Speaker 2: Wikipedia. I know a lot of you have troubles with Wikipedia.
Speaker 4: I used to use it every day prior to chat
Speaker 4: GPT and Grock and Claude and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: I used Wikipedia every day. I don't think i've used
Speaker 4: it since I started using chatbots. And we also knew
Speaker 4: it got biased, which is what this co founder, Larry
Speaker 4: Sanger says he started in two thousand and one. They
Speaker 4: wanted to democratize information and have all of it be
Speaker 4: out there and anybody could get it for free. But
Speaker 4: after Sanger left Wikipedia, he watched in dismay, he says,
Speaker 4: I'm quoting him as the site I'd created began to
Speaker 4: drift from its founding mission. Ideological bias took hold, pages
Speaker 4: were whitewashed, left leaning outlets came to dominate sourcing, and
Speaker 4: a small group of administrators grew beholden more to each
Speaker 4: other than to any constitutional framework.
Speaker 2: This is from one of.
Speaker 4: The guys who invented and started Wikipedia, who noticed that
Speaker 4: it started to slide left and they became all about
Speaker 4: trying to please each other rather than have, you know, uh,
Speaker 4: straight down the middle factual information. It reminds me of
Speaker 4: that saying, and I don't remember where it came from.
Speaker 4: I know our friend Tim Sanderfer has said it before.
Speaker 4: Any organization not specifically designed to be conservative drifts leftward
Speaker 4: over time, and I would say based on watching things,
Speaker 4: even ones that were specifically designed to be conservative, in
Speaker 4: some cases drift leftward over time. It's got something to
Speaker 4: do with the iron law, bureaucracy, and just whatever it is,
Speaker 4: everything drifts leftward. Last week, this original co founder of
Speaker 4: wikiped launched an effort to reform Wikipedia from within, only
Speaker 4: to be met with a coordinated effort to ridicule, discredit,
Speaker 4: and undermine him, culminating in a lifetime ban. On Monday,
Speaker 4: the guy who started Wikipedia with another dude got banned
Speaker 4: for life from Wikipedia, and he says, I knew Wikipedia's
Speaker 4: disciplinary processes were bad, but I had never experienced them myself.
Speaker 4: He He goes on to talk about how one of
Speaker 4: the miracles of the Internet age has abandoned truth and
Speaker 4: evolved into an emblem of our censorious age, and what
Speaker 4: his band reveals about the culture that allowed it. Guys
Speaker 4: started Wikipedia now says it's so off the rails that
Speaker 4: he tried to reform it he got banned for life.
Speaker 4: So well, you know, I wasn't using Wikipedia anymore, Like
Speaker 4: I said, I use chatbots for everything, and I'm pretty
Speaker 4: happy with them. Most of the time, but how long
Speaker 4: until they drift so far leftward that they're unusable like
Speaker 4: Wikipedia did?
Speaker 2: How much time I got my girl thirty seconds. I
Speaker 2: don't have much time.
Speaker 4: I'll have to talk about my violence training, which makes
Speaker 4: me very very angry later makes me want to punch
Speaker 4: a coworker. The fact that I have to put this
Speaker 4: off until hour three. We'll also get to that the
Speaker 4: way the WNBA is handling the best thing that ever
Speaker 4: happened to them, Caitlin Clark. And this is not a
Speaker 4: sports story. This is a cultural politics story. It's pretty
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