WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Monday Hour One 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.159 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.879 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Caddy arms Strong and. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:53.760 He Armstrong and Strong. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.840 Welcome to a replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.319 We are on vacation, but boy, do we have some 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:07.039 good stuff for you. 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:08.360 Yes, indeed we do. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.160 And if you want to catch up on your ang 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:12.160 listening during your travels, remember. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.039 Grab the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. You ought 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.800 to subscribe wherever you like to get podcasts. Now on 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:22.080 with the infotainment. Dozens of Ukrainian prisoners. 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:26.840 Of war were freed in an exchange with Russia. They 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.959 were greeted to a hero's welcome at a hospital north 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:35.560 of Kiev, but they looked like the living dead, gaunt 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:41.920 heads shaven, their bodies broken and some said beaten. Alexandro 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.720 Kolkoff told me he was a prisoner for over three 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:49.480 years and that the Russians broke his ribs. If nothing 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.760 was already broken, they would break it, he said. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:56.800 Jeez, Putin and his military, they're animals. You want to 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:03.400 let them win. Don't get it anyway, Pete Hagzeth, who 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:07.480 we were just applauding for something. He was asked under 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.320 oath yesterday by Senate lawmakers. He's doing three appearances before 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.280 Congress this weekend, being grilled about a whole bunch of 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:18.680 different things. Senator McConnell, former Majority Leader, asked the question 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:24.960 of Hegxeth who is the aggressor in Ukraine? And Hagzeth said, 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:30.720 Russia is the aggressor now. Steve Hayes of The Dispatch said, 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.040 should we be encouraged that Hegzeth gave the obvious and 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.880 accurate answer to that question or discourage that McConnell felt 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.720 the need to ask it. But yeah, it's good. It's 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:46.240 good good news as far as I'm concerned. Man oh Man, 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:50.800 that's that's something. Those stories about the hostages are prisoners 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:51.360 coming back. 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.320 He had the utter disregard for human life, whether theirs 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.640 or other people's. That is part of Russian military history 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:04.640 is a I was just reading and listening about World 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.640 War two, some of the major victories that Russia had 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.480 and the incredible sacrifices they made, and the point was 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.640 made that some of those horrific numbers are because of 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.880 their techniques. They're just utterly heedless of wasting men. 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:20.600 That it doesn't matter. Tomo never had. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:26.720 Yeah, and US casualties were much much lower in similar encounters, 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.320 just because we go about warfare in a very different 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:33.600 way we did back in the forties. Anyway, culture and 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:34.840 continues to today. 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.040 Obviously back closer to home. I thought this was a 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.320 pretty good point from Jim Garrity the National Review. Do 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.480 California elected officials realize how ridiculous they sound when they 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.960 spend several days insisting that local law enforcement had it handled, 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.840 the streets were quiet, and local law enforcement resources are 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.960 sufficient to maintain order, and then a day or two later, 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:57.760 last night, the mayor is forced to declare a curfew. Okay, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.720 you had it and under control, you still got You 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.360 had to have a curview last night with the National 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.000 Guard troops. What would have been like without them? 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:08.440 You know? 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.520 The metaphor I keep using and I'm sticking with it 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.480 is demark the leaders in California are like a sports 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.600 team that has not yet played a real game. They 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.160 just scrimmage. They have an inter squad scrimmage over and 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.760 over and over again, and they never come up against 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.200 an opponent that's really really trying to win, and they 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:32.400 think they have game. Gavin Newsom thinks he has national 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:33.320 level game. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.760 Two suspects of It's just been charged with throwing molotov 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.520 cocktails at police during the LA riots. This happened moments ago. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:47.320 That doesn't sound very peaceful to me. Firebombs. Just a 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.960 bunch of people having fun watching carsburn. Just a bunch 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:52.760 of people enjoying watching cars burn. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.320 Oh wait a minute, give me seventy, Michael seventy again, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:56.760 the great Maxine Waters. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:01.000 Don't think that somehow, because they called the National Guard 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.279 there was violence. There was no violence. I was on 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:05.520 the street. I know. 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.600 Yeah, those chunks of concrete being hurled over and over 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:10.680 again at the cops. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.360 I guess that video is AI or something. Okay, we 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:18.599 live in a post truth universe. Oh and inflation lower 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.640 than expected, So I don't understand what's going on. Why 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.520 after a liberation day in the tariffs and the turmoil 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.440 and this and that, and of course the endless mainstream 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.440 coverage of how Trump's Hitler with a bad economic policy, 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.440 his poll numbers are up. In inflation's basically flat. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.800 Okay, bing bing bang bang bing bing bing bing bing 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:48.400 bong bong. Granted, but it's a complicated stew of the economy. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:52.640 It could be argued that increased fears of economic woes 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.880 to come have caused a suppression of consumer spending. I 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:56.760 would have to dig. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.160 Into that economic stew. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.640 Oh hey, speaking of AI, which I mentioned a second ago. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:08.680 Tens of thousands of people now believe AI or chat 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.000 GPT is God. 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:11.640 What seems to. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:19.800 Be a religion is forming up around AI. Quasi religious 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:24.880 posts would fill up entire AI forums if moderators didn't 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.560 censor them. Just five days ago, the moderator of a 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:33.480 pro AI reddit announced that they are now banning these fanatics. 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.479 Two days earlier, another dditor warned of thousands of people 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.120 online with spiritual delusions about AI. 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.880 I need to look into this. That I hadn't heard 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.720 a word about nor anticipated a lot of this stuff. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.000 I had anticipated a lot of us did I hadn't 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.279 anticipated that. That's kooky. Now I did get ye, I 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.800 did get sent this the other day. It was an ad. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.400 I don't know where the ad show up. I won't 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.760 replace him, but I'll be here when you can't sleep. 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.159 Here are ten AI boyfriends who help you, heal, distract you, 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.560 and remind you of your worth and it's got a 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:14.920 picture of a young handsome man. Where in the hell 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:20.559 are we headed a planet of the beavers? Nobody's getting 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.120 together anymore. I won't replace him, but I'll be here 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.880 when you can't sleep. Here are ten AI boyfriends who 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.440 help you, heal, distract you, and remind you of your worth. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:34.720 That is so freaking crazy. That is so freaking crazy. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.480 How did it happen so fast? I mean we thought 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.480 maybe someday, if AI gets good enough and robots look 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:49.480 exactly like humans, possibly the most deranged among us could develop. No, no, 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.280 just the middle of that sentence that happened, just just 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.120 words on a screen with no voice, yeah, and no 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.320 image whatsoever. And no robot is making people stay at 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.440 home and feel like they're in a relationship. That is 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.160 so crazy. 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.320 You yourself have mentioned that uh chat GPT or whatever 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.480 is a better counselor than most counselors. 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.960 Freaking right if you have that in using that that 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.720 biggest stretch that it's a better friend too. Yeah, but 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.720 a but an emotional like love. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:25.960 Relationship, really, see, a friend relationship is sick because it's 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.080 like you No, no, I haven't. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.160 I haven't felt that at all any like friendship or 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:35.480 anything like that. The ability to distill a tremendous amount 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.240 of information down to the best very quickly and put 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:43.880 it in like conversational terms. Yes, but that is so nuts. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.680 I mean, I don't know where we're going, man, down 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.600 this road lies Matt, You're right, Jonathan Turley, Maybe this 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.160 stat that I came across doesn't matter since everybody's going 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.319 to be in love with a chatbot. You can't have 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.559 a kid with a chatbot. The average cost of raising 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.240 a child in the US is now twenty six thousand 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.800 dollars per year. Okay, I think most parents listening right 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.800 now are saying, how in the heck are you raising 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.120 a kid for twenty six thousand dollars a year? 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:14.520 Really? 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.199 I mean, I don't know what they factor into raising 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.480 a kid or whatnot, but seems low to me. Everything 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:29.719 everything in, food, clothes, schooling, everything. Every time I hear 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.480 those numbers, whether they are low or high, I think, 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.400 how did you come up with that? That's true? Yeah, 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:43.199 because what are you? And who asked? Band? Rental, travel, sports, vacation. 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:50.240 But then again, to my point, who asked you? Since 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:56.440 I've never heard a parent good point say, you know 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.840 my kid's costing more than I thought. I'm a good 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:04.360 point consider change in this relationship. No parent has like 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.840 on their spreadsheet or whatever. If you're the sort of 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.400 person that does this, I don't probably should where you 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.520 put all your expenses. I don't know if anybody who 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.640 like has things that they put in the what it 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.199 cost me to have a kid column to keep track? 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:22.040 Well, right, yeah, yeah, I've never having raised three kids, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.920 I had a minor child under my roof for twenty 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.640 five straight years. At no point did Judy and I 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.280 ever say, all right, we need to total up all 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.440 these expenses so we can what and then we'll grant 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:39.040 credits for lawns mode and bathrooms cleaned or whatever chores 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.800 were done, and then we'll I mean, it's just it 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:43.720 wasn't anything we ever thought about. 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.079 Yea, I'll knock off five thousand dollars for the most 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.360 satisfying thing I've ever done in life. I'll give you that, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.560 But the rest of it is just a cost. 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:55.880 It's a negative, right, and the whole I'm just it's funny. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.760 Maybe I lacked imagination as a youngster, but Judy and 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.120 I knew we wanted to have kids. Point and so 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.560 we went ahead. There was no like, long, careful, can we. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.120 Afford to or what? 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.880 No, you just do it and figure it out and 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:09.760 it goes fine. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:10.160 Yeah. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.240 Were we poor? Yes? Was it fine? Yeah? 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.320 Well, the expenses just kind of fit in with the 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.920 rest of your household expenses. I mean, I suppose you 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.760 could make the argument that your house is bigger, so 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.520 part of the house payment goes is because of them, 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.240 and you have to maybe have a bigger car and 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.400 make more trips. You figure out all the gas for 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.160 driving to pick them up at school and drop them. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:31.840 I mean, you're a nut if you do that. 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.079 Well right, yeah, and again, why are we talking about it? 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:39.079 I don't know, so you can't exactly what's the thing exactly? Yeah, well, 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:40.640 I need to put a price on each child. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:41.280 I'll tell you what. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:46.679 The boy's extra handsome, so I'll getting a discount. But yeah, 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.160 it's an odd bit of analysis. You play sports, not 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.000 dollars and cents. You play sports, so I had to 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.920 buy you more clothes for that. You don't play sports, 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.119 but you're in band, so you have a different cost. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:57.240 What the hell? 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:02.720 Yeah, yeah, I don't know, seems odd. Life is not 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.200 dollars and cents, folks, she can't take it with you. Ah, right, 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:11.640 moving along. I don't want to talk unrest anymore. I'll 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.840 tell you this. Here's a great protest for you. This 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.320 is really going to get a lot of people on 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:20.559 their side. Hundreds of flowers were vandalized at a botanical 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:25.640 Michigan garden, and the activists who did it left pro 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.360 Palestinian signs behind that said plant lives don't matter. Human 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:29.880 lives do. 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:34.800 Oh my god, glue those people to something, Let us 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.520 pelt them with rocks or fruit. 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.439 I'm in favor of all of those things. The garden 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.280 director made his heart broken tell of. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.640 The few things that falls under our strict reading of 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.240 cruel and unusual. Glue to them to something and throw 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:56.720 rocks at them is probably cruel and unusual, Barber, It's 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:01.319 a little cruel and certainly unusual. You've been sentenced to 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:06.800 be glued to something in public. Yeahan lives. You deserve 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.480 to be cared for more than these flowers. Don't waste 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.920 your tears on the flowers. They're not even dead, and 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:17.720 we'll grow again next spring. Ah. Is it even worth 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:23.160 going this far into this conversation? Do they possibly think 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.120 they did their cause any help. I almost feel like 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:31.520 if I wanted to discredit the pro Palestinian crowd, I 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.520 would do something like that. Is this like a you know, 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.840 a noose flag operation, a noose in a fraternity to 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.440 show racism, and it turns out it's the somebody put 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:41.439 it up on purpose. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:46.280 To stop the war, resist imperialism, the flowers and crazy people. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.920 I would like to give you a good thrash, glue 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:49.440 you or something. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:58.880 Jack Armstrong and Joe, the Armstrong and Getty Show, The 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:05.959 Armstrong and So Japan released their birth statistics yesterday. They 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.640 had about six hundred and eighty thousand babies in twenty 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:13.160 twenty four. That was down five point seven percent from 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.760 the previous year, which had set a record. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:16.480 Previous ye year. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.960 So this is the spiral that people talk about that 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.080 if you've ever read about it or looked at it mathematically, 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.600 there's something happens when you're when you're you know, it's 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:32.440 like compound interest. Really, it's a similar concept when you 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:36.080 stop having babies and then those people don't grow up, 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.600 so they don't have two kids, and I mean it 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.640 just exponentially shrinks and then at some point you hit 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.160 a tipping point and it just goes really really fast, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.520 and they must be there. In Japan, a drop of 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.640 five point seven percent in one year from the previous 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.960 record low in terms of babies what will be next year. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.080 It's the lowest number of babies born since they started 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:02.400 keeping data. Again, they do this fairly regularly, and the 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:07.680 now current number of live births per mom is what 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.960 I just came across it. It's incredibly low. It's well 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:15.080 below sustainable rate and will drop very very fast there 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.200 and now at I think it was one point one 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.880 point one five, it's about half. Really, it's tired than 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.560 I thought it was, honestly, but has a birth rate 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:32.160 to sustain your population and you don't allow immigration. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:36.040 Right, what the hell? I realize. I'm easily amazed, But 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.800 I want to go back to that figure. If your 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.080 birth rate dropped by five point seven percent in a decade, 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.320 that would be a huge story. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.560 It dropped in a year, yeah, I know, it's absolutely incredible. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.360 There's all kinds of fallout from this, like, for instance, 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.080 the number of vacant homes that they have in Japan. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.480 There's just lots of houses that are vacant, but there's 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.560 nobody to buy because there's just are enough people and 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.240 they're trying to figure out what to do with that. 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:09.760 The number of ikea uninhabited properties that's the term, has 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:13.880 topped nine million nationwide, with nine hundred thousand of them 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:18.720 in Tokyo alone, just uninhabited places, and there's nobody that's 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.360 gonna buy them because there's no hope of anybody buying them. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.920 Well, there's nobody to buy them because there's no body. Yeah, exactly, 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.040 I'm going ahead to Tokyo to do some prime squatting. 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.080 I'm gonna go down to Shinjuku, squatt in some apartment, 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.000 eat some sushi. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:37.920 Anyway, like I said. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:43.640 Fuji, I've never been to Japan obviously, Like I said earlier, 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.080 we get to watch the Japan's gonna be the you 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.920 know what's gonna happen to the rest of us in 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.520 Western society is our birth rates decline to and see 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:54.120 what happens. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:58.560 Of course, we allow lots of sometimes not on purpose immigration, 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.320 which is different than a lot of your Asian countries 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.320 that have zero right. 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.119 They're very very racist, uh they actually are. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:11.160 Anyway, So Japan will be a land mass with historical 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:12.920 sites and no humans. 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.680 Well, the whole country will be like the proverbial Japanese 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.000 soldier hiding out in the jungle after World War Two. 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.640 I mean, there are occasionally you'll come across the human 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:26.040 being and be like, well, hey, what the hell, it's 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.680 a whole country. Tokyo will be, you know, a post 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:44.520 apocalyptic moonscape or something arm Strong see Armstrong and Ghetti show. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.760 So I got this new talkbacked feature that we're gonna try, 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.080 and we're we're in the we're in the what do 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:55.960 they call it, the beta phase of figuring out how 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.479 we're gonna utilize this on the show or whatever. And 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.119 I threw out the first question, try this out to somebody. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.760 This is somebody called in and then we record them 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.439 or whatever, because we stopped taking calls years ago for 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:11.679 a variety of reasons that listeners would know. So I 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.160 throw out the question of what do you like about 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.919 the Armstrong and Giddy show. Hey, you could be the 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:22.400 first call it Hitler, Muslim extremist. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.160 That's good stuff, So hey, you can be the first. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.520 So solid, Okay, we don't need to hear twice. So 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.960 so we're off to a good start. And uh, I again, 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.000 do we need to reiterate why we stopped taking calls. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.359 But apparently this is some more on the question of 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.080 what do you like about the Armstrong and Giddy show? 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.879 You are my favorite people. You make me laugh in 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.200 the morning when I'm taking the train to work. 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.720 I love it. Thank you for being you. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.679 I do have to agree. Joe's looks are rough, but 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.880 then again he has as beautiful hair. Why do you lie? 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:04.639 Is it your greed? 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:09.919 The best part of Armstrong and Giddy is Katie, and 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.000 when she was gone for a week, that was like 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:13.560 a void. 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:14.920 I couldn't believe. 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.400 You make me laugh, you make me cry, you make 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.679 me mad, But in the end, you make the first 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.359 three or four hours of my day at least a 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:32.240 good informative. You make these guys. 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:32.520 Have a good one. 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.080 What do I like about the Armstrong and Gutty show. 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:37.880 I like the fact that you don't take calls. 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:39.160 We'll see how. 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:44.400 This little experiment goes, but I'm not optimistic. Don't let 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:44.960 your meat. 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:50.720 Loaf, don't let your hot dogs dand don't let your wristwatch. Okay, 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:55.120 that made me incredibly uncomfortable? Me too, Why why did 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:55.840 that make me thinky? 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.359 Did you ask that question? All right, we have tomorrow 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.080 you you come up with the question, Yeah, we'll try 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:02.640 it again. 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:03.800 Better than that. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.840 So I just I wanted something I knew people to 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.280 respond to to get the first one. So this was 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:11.639 in the New York Times the other day. It was 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.080 an opinion piece, but a lot of fact built into it. 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:18.200 The question was American men are getting worse at maintaining friendships. 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.520 I think have I actually heard this before? Just heard 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.360 people in real life mention it to me? Anyway, American 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:27.560 men are getting worse at maintaining friendships. Is it a 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.280 lack of time or energy or is it something else? 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.280 And then getting into some of the details that this 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.879 person writes, what I didn't know is that American men 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.120 are getting significantly worse at friendship. A study in twenty 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.520 twenty four by the Survey Center on American Life found 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.679 that only a quarter of men reported having six or 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.000 more close friends. That seems like a lot to me. 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.920 Pulling a similar question in nineteen ninety, Gallup had put 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:58.919 this figure at over half of men had six or 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.280 more close friends. The same Survey Center found that seventeen 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.560 percent of men had zero close friends. That was a 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:11.360 fivefold increase from nineteen ninety, the zero crowd went from well, 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:16.120 it increased five times. Yeah, probably roughly three to seventeen. 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:19.560 It's awful. I agree, six seems like a lot, but yeah, 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:21.040 zero is too few. 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:25.320 The lack of intimacy among male friends may seem normal 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:28.080 because it's what we're accustomed to, but it isn't. Until 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:32.440 the twentieth century, it was not uncommon for men in 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:36.760 this country to openly hold hands, sit on each other's 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:39.320 lapse in public party any. 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:41.639 Wait, whoa whoa, Wait a minute, Yeah, that happened all 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:43.640 the time. Wait a minute. 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:48.120 I don't know if I believe this. Until the twentieth century, 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:49.960 it was not uncommon for men in this country to 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.159 openly hold hands, sit on each other laps in public parts, 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:57.040 and write each other passionate, platonic love letters. You know 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:00.919 my desire to befriend you is everlasting, Abraham Lincoln. I 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:06.199 have wrote to his friend Joshua Speed and blah blah blah. 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:08.880 Herman Melville, who wrote Moby Dick, once wrote to yes, Katie, 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:10.200 you already have a comment. I can tell. 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:12.080 I'm just gonna say, if this is true, you guys 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:17.520 should bring that back each other's thing. I've ever heard 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:20.200 in my life. 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:21.119 Kill me? 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:30.000 Oh my god, so is it? Herman? Melville once wrote 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:33.720 to Daniel Hawthorne, what's he famous for? Red badge of courage? 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:41.280 Not Stephen Crane? What Hawthorne? Anyway? The scarlet letter might 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:46.720 be Crane, two famous authors from the eighteen hundreds. Melville 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:51.840 wrote to Hawthorne that Hawthorne's heart beat in my ribs 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:54.680 and mine in yours, and described their friendship as an 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:57.520 friendship as an infinite fraternity of feeling. That is not 0:22:57.600 --> 0:22:59.280 the sort of thing I would write to a friend 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:01.720 of the yod you see that game last night would 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:03.680 be closer to it. Can I sit on your lap 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:04.240 in the park? 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:07.520 Hey, when we played golf, that was an infinite what 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:08.120 did you say? 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:10.639 Fraternity of feeling? 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:15.159 Yeah? Today, dude, it was fun. Thanks for writing. 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:18.080 I gotta know this, Katie. Who's Nathaniel Hawthorne? What did 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:21.840 he write? Scarlet letter? Scarlettletter? Joe's right congratulates got it? Yes, 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:25.000 today we may see these gestures as homo erotic, but 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:27.760 men at the time, gay and straight talk to one 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:32.879 another in this way. I don't know that we have 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:34.840 to go back to holding hands as we walk down 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:38.440 the street are sitting on each other's laps. But I 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:42.679 don't know. You don't even see grown women sitting on 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:45.679 each other's laps, So it's not a male thing. What 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:46.280 the hell is that? 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:48.480