Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and know He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're already seeing the effects of Trump's tariffs announcements speech.
Speaker 4: The stock market was affected, prices on good goods of
Speaker 4: heights and also we had.
Speaker 2: A viral remix out of it. Yeah, check this out.
Speaker 2: Many of these biggest, the biggest companies in the world.
Speaker 2: They've committed to build, build, build. We're gonna build bil Milcher, Bilcher, build, build, build,
Speaker 2: We're gonna build Bill Bilcher Milcher. They were wrong about Navda.
Speaker 4: They were wrong about China China.
Speaker 2: They were wrong about Navada. They were wrong about China China.
Speaker 2: Thank you everybody, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Very.
Speaker 4: Down.
Speaker 2: That's kind of fun. They're eating the cats. Ai is
Speaker 2: going to take all of her jobs and ruin humanity.
Speaker 2: But that was amusing.
Speaker 6: Sure, So you haven't heard the Democrats. Usually when Trump
Speaker 6: does something, Democrats are blasting them, but they haven't been.
Speaker 6: You haven't heard anything out of Bernie and Elizabeth Warren
Speaker 6: and a lot of people over the whole tariff thing. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's true because a lot of Democrats have been saying
Speaker 6: the same sort of thing for years as part of
Speaker 6: the reason. So we got a little Nancy Pelosi on
Speaker 6: the House floor, a much younger Nancy Pelosi. I think
Speaker 6: she was only seventy in this one. This is nineteen
Speaker 6: ninety six.
Speaker 1: In terms of tariffs, it's think it's interesting to note
Speaker 1: that the average US MFN tariff on Chinese goods coming
Speaker 1: into the United States is two percent, whereas the average
Speaker 1: Chinese MFM tariff on US goods going into China is
Speaker 1: thirty five percent. Is that reciprocal in terms of jobs?
Speaker 1: This is the biggest and cruelest folks of all.
Speaker 2: Go on, Nancy.
Speaker 1: Not only do we not have market access, not only
Speaker 1: do they have prohibitive tariffs. Not only are our exports
Speaker 1: not let in very specifically, but China benefits with at
Speaker 1: least at least ten million jobs from US China trade.
Speaker 1: China trade supports one hundred and seventy thousand jobs in
Speaker 1: the United States one hundred and seventy thousand jobs, whereas
Speaker 1: our imports from China support ten million jobs at least.
Speaker 6: So Trump today would love to have that Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 6: on the cable news channels arguing since it's a lot
Speaker 6: about China today, since they hit us back with the
Speaker 6: thirty four percent and announce that now, she's not getting into.
Speaker 2: Why we need to hit Canada so hard, Samoa or.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, yeah, fence off China.
Speaker 2: For the moment. That's you know, for the purposes of
Speaker 2: the discussion.
Speaker 4: I agree with her completely, and at that time the
Speaker 4: report publican party and actually Bill Clinton for quite a while,
Speaker 4: we're selling everybody on the idea that no, no, no,
Speaker 4: we're going to engage with China and as they get
Speaker 4: more free trade, they'll become more free is then more
Speaker 4: politically liberalized and become our buddy and part of the
Speaker 4: world community, and blah blah blah, and don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: Some of those jobs may go away, but they'll come back.
Speaker 4: And Nancy Pelosi was one hundred percent right about that stuff.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent. How does that make you feel? Kind
Speaker 4: of odd, isn't it? Well?
Speaker 6: How about this one in the whole politics makes strange bedfellows.
Speaker 2: Here's Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 7: Tariffs can be a really valuable tool in the economic toolbox.
Speaker 2: So think of it this way.
Speaker 7: You have a prescription filled right now, in America. You
Speaker 7: realize it has a nine out of ten chance that
Speaker 7: that medication was manufactured somewhere overseas, most likely Asia. The
Speaker 7: materials came probably from China. Putting a tariff in place
Speaker 7: to get more manufacturing of our antibiotics and other prescription
Speaker 7: drugs here on shore makes perfect sense. It's targeted, you
Speaker 7: know what you're trying to ascoulish.
Speaker 2: So I just I find it.
Speaker 6: And Bernie's been talking about this his whole life, you know,
Speaker 6: it's just it's it's interesting. If Trump proposes it, a
Speaker 6: lot of people will are you know.
Speaker 2: I'm with you and vice versa.
Speaker 6: Of course, absolutely absolutely, one hundred percent. But if if
Speaker 6: Trump wasn't into this and Biden had proposed.
Speaker 2: This, yeah, yeah, I know. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Some of the gripes about Trump's move right now is
Speaker 4: it's so blanket and doesn't take into account, you know,
Speaker 4: the various factors that are so important for trade.
Speaker 2: It's just it's way too big.
Speaker 4: And like blunt and instrument and sloppy and fast, and
Speaker 4: I just I don't think it's going to stick around. Honestly.
Speaker 4: I think you were quoting someone earlier last hour.
Speaker 2: I think it was that.
Speaker 4: The shakeup will last for a little while, and then
Speaker 4: most of it will be retracted and there will be
Speaker 4: some wins. Trump will identify those wins and they will
Speaker 4: be wins, and then we'll go back to much closer
Speaker 4: to trade a week ago, especially with our allies for
Speaker 4: goodness sake.
Speaker 2: So but we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 4: I'm reading one of my favorite down to earth. Trump
Speaker 4: is right when he's right, guys, and he's saying, this
Speaker 4: is loney tunes.
Speaker 2: It can't work.
Speaker 4: So and you know, those of you who believe Trump
Speaker 4: is right every single time on every single thing, you know,
Speaker 4: I don't mean to offend you or anything. And we
Speaker 4: can still be friends, absolutely, but we'll just have to see.
Speaker 4: It could be he has a goal in mind that
Speaker 4: I don't get. That's frequently the defense. It's, however, many
Speaker 4: dimensions of chess you'd like to describe, and I'm just
Speaker 4: too simple minded to grasp these sophistic sophisticated strategies at work.
Speaker 6: Maybe well, here's Howard Lutnik, Trump's guy on all the channels,
Speaker 6: Yesterday's cheerful Yep.
Speaker 3: This is the reordering of fair trade. And what happens
Speaker 3: is people think it's all about tariffs, it's about those
Speaker 3: non tariff trade barriers. The United States buys everybody's products.
Speaker 3: They buy, We buy everybody's goods. You just have to
Speaker 3: treat us fairly.
Speaker 6: So here's something cool for you. Here's a little montage
Speaker 6: of Trump in the eighties, the eighties. That's forties years ago.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's a long time ago. And but so
Speaker 6: he's believed this is whole adult business life.
Speaker 2: He's he's going with what he believes. I guess the
Speaker 2: fame developer Donald Trump of New York.
Speaker 8: The fact is that you don't have free trade. We
Speaker 8: think of it as free trade, but you right now
Speaker 8: don't have free trade. And I think a lot of
Speaker 8: people are tired of watching other countries ripping off the
Speaker 8: United States. This is a great country. They laugh at
Speaker 8: us behind our backs, they laugh at us because of
Speaker 8: our own stupidity, and we let Japan come in and
Speaker 8: dump everything right into our markets and everything.
Speaker 2: It's not free trade.
Speaker 8: If you ever go to Japan right now and try
Speaker 8: to sell something, forget about it.
Speaker 2: Open, just forget about it. It's almost impossible.
Speaker 9: They are ripping us like we've never been ripped before.
Speaker 9: If you look at Japan, if you look at China,
Speaker 9: where we lose one hundred billion dollars a year with China.
Speaker 6: He was saying the same thing to Larry King and
Speaker 6: Oprah Winfrey in the nineties.
Speaker 4: Is he saying, yeah, Yeah, I think it'll shake out
Speaker 4: and everybody will be fine. I don't like the current
Speaker 4: implementation of it, but there's there's It's not like it's
Speaker 4: completely untrue what he's saying. There's plenty of truth there.
Speaker 4: What was I going to say, Well, yeah, predatory trade
Speaker 4: we put up with for a very long time as
Speaker 4: a country because the Republican Party in Wall Street and
Speaker 4: the big money donors said, yeah, a lot of American workers.
Speaker 2: And consumers are getting screwed a.
Speaker 4: Little bit, but we're making money hand over fist, and yeah,
Speaker 4: we would prefer that Japan loosens up their trade, but
Speaker 4: they've told us they're not going to, and we don't
Speaker 4: want to ruffle their feathers. And we're still doing really,
Speaker 4: really well. So we're standing up for us and what
Speaker 4: works for us, and good luck y'all.
Speaker 2: And that was.
Speaker 4: Certainly, in the nineties a pretty good description of the
Speaker 4: Republican Party, at least at times. So the predatory trade
Speaker 4: has to end. One hundred percent. Yeah, it ought to
Speaker 4: be more fair. Whether this is the way to get
Speaker 4: there or not, we'll all find out together. But yeah,
Speaker 4: this is so complicated. There are aspects of what the
Speaker 4: White House is doing that I think are absolutely great,
Speaker 4: and there are aspects of it that I think, why
Speaker 4: are you bothering doing that? You're just messing everything up.
Speaker 4: But again, not only am I not expert enough to
Speaker 4: predict how this ends up, neither is anybody else.
Speaker 2: Right, a lot of moving pieces.
Speaker 4: It's like when you go back in time and step
Speaker 4: on an ant, you have no concept of how you've
Speaker 4: changed history.
Speaker 6: Before we take a break, Kanye West is crazy, yes,
Speaker 6: and he says his wife has left him.
Speaker 2: He's clan robe didn't help Kanye.
Speaker 6: Know, and that tweet burst he had a week or
Speaker 6: so ago just endless. Damn right, I'm hitler and it's
Speaker 6: the Jew's fault and all that I mean, just endless,
Speaker 6: all caps. He's screaming out for attention as a guy
Speaker 6: who's actually meant leal, which he admits out loud. Anyway,
Speaker 6: he said yesterday that Bianca Sensorry, his always naked wife
Speaker 6: and high heels left him after trying to get him committed.
Speaker 6: She tried to get him committed, right. I'll bet it's
Speaker 6: not easy to get a billionaire was not currently hurting
Speaker 6: himself for others committed.
Speaker 4: Well, he is, certainly financially he is, but not physically.
Speaker 4: You're allowed to be stupid, evidently, Jack. Her wisdom is
Speaker 4: as impressive as her bosoms. As she realized her man
Speaker 4: was going to crack up or die if she didn't
Speaker 4: get him help, which.
Speaker 2: Is kind of where Kim Kardashian, I think.
Speaker 4: Was also can go, Yeah, Wow, it's too bad, because
Speaker 4: he really is a brilliant young man.
Speaker 6: I wonder if when he's not in his crazy mode,
Speaker 6: he's just like pretty decent to be around.
Speaker 4: I wonder how often those periods of lucidity are these days.
Speaker 2: I have no idea. What he needs is more sleep.
Speaker 6: And we've been talking a lot about sleep lately because
Speaker 6: I went through a period of time where I really
Speaker 6: struggling to sleep and kept waking up. I think I
Speaker 6: figured it out around melatonin thanks to one of you
Speaker 6: Texters who'd done a bunch of research and some other
Speaker 6: ideas we could at you with if you got anything
Speaker 6: text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 10: Prce Springsteen revealing a treasure I never before heard songs.
Speaker 10: I'm also released seven so called lost albums in June.
Speaker 10: The collection includes eighty three songs he woke between nineteen
Speaker 10: eighty three and twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: Springsteen's going to release seven lost albums. Where'd you see
Speaker 2: him last, Bruce?
Speaker 6: They were lost because you didn't think they were worth
Speaker 6: putting out at the time. That's how they got lost.
Speaker 6: You put them in a drawer metaphorically because there wouldn't
Speaker 6: seem to be any reason to not because.
Speaker 4: He didn't want to saturate the market with your work,
Speaker 4: you know, and dilute how much she sold.
Speaker 6: Combined with that didn't stand out enough, is like, this
Speaker 6: is the greatest thing I've ever done that you thought
Speaker 6: you had to have it out right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, eighty percent of unreleased stuff is unreleased because it
Speaker 4: didn't quite work well.
Speaker 6: I've gone through tons of Bob Dylan albums that were
Speaker 6: unreleased stuff and like one out of ten songs like, wow,
Speaker 6: this is freaking fantastic, but nine out of ten are like, well,
Speaker 6: I can see why this was a work in progress.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm old and I'm rich. I'm just putting out
Speaker 2: everything I got. I don't give a crap anymore.
Speaker 6: Yes, Katie didn't he just sell his entire music catalog? Yeah,
Speaker 6: for half a billion dollars. That's why he's on the
Speaker 6: billionaire list now.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I don't know what the putting out so is.
Speaker 6: So is whoever bought his catalog putting it out? I'll
Speaker 6: bet that's what it is. They think, Okay, we just
Speaker 6: bought this. We got to make some money off of it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'd almost have to see the contract because you could
Speaker 4: retain rights to unreleased stuff depending on how it was
Speaker 4: structured out.
Speaker 6: Eighty through eighty three through twenty eighteen. Okay, there was
Speaker 6: a lot of stuff in the eighties and nineties I liked,
Speaker 6: not so much in the last however many years.
Speaker 4: I just hope the newer stuff is really really political,
Speaker 4: right exactly, That's what I'm looking for. So, how you
Speaker 4: sleep and you want to take the sleep quiz along
Speaker 4: with us, Well, it'll be tough because you won't be
Speaker 4: able to answer it, but we'll go through that. We've
Speaker 4: got some good information on sleep coming up.
Speaker 6: Hmm. Okay, sleep quiz? Do I need a quiz to
Speaker 6: let me know if I'm not sleeping. Well, I feel
Speaker 6: like I know that.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. That's an excellent point. No, the sleep quiz
Speaker 4: is designed to help you figure out what style of
Speaker 4: sleeper you are, OK, and try to craft your life
Speaker 4: around it, because we can all just completely restructure our
Speaker 4: lives to suit our sleeping style.
Speaker 6: Did you at least you'd understand it. So every country
Speaker 6: got a tariff pretty much, Yeah, including British Indian Ocean Territory.
Speaker 2: They got a ten percent tariff yesterday.
Speaker 6: Yes, this is a seven little islands less than twenty
Speaker 6: four square miles in area. The largest one consists almost
Speaker 6: entirely of a joint US United Kingdom military base. Yes,
Speaker 6: we're gonna soak them. The seven atolls collectively sent the
Speaker 6: US an entire three hundred and thirty thousand dollars worth
Speaker 6: of expert exports in the last year. We have numbers
Speaker 6: for a that ten percent tariff, and maybe they'll come around.
Speaker 4: Trump administration announced a twenty nine percent tariff on all
Speaker 4: goods from Norfolk Island, a thirteen square mile remote island
Speaker 4: territory of Australia with about two thousand people. According to
Speaker 4: the island's administrator, they don't have any.
Speaker 2: Trade with the United States.
Speaker 6: So what were all the penguin memes yesterday? Did you
Speaker 6: find that endless penguin memes?
Speaker 2: No, I missed completely.
Speaker 6: So, yeah, you go on to Ian Bremmer or lots
Speaker 6: of different people, and it's people who don't like what
Speaker 6: Trump's doing. But so there must have been a tariff
Speaker 6: on someplace that's mostly penguins, because it was and they
Speaker 6: were very funny. Yeah, it was endless. It was endless
Speaker 6: memes about penguins reacting to the tariff. My favorite one
Speaker 6: was it was the Oval Office from the famous meeting
Speaker 6: from a couple of weeks ago, and he got vance
Speaker 6: with his hand in the air and Trump with his finger.
Speaker 2: This penguins sitting on the chair and Trump is saying
Speaker 2: cards and the penguin's just sitting there, white eyes. Sorry,
Speaker 2: that's funny.
Speaker 4: I don't care who you are, how you vote, that's funny.
Speaker 4: I gotta get to the end of the penguin man.
Speaker 4: I was foolishly hanging out with friends and talking about life.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, wow, wow, okay, all right, we'll see how
Speaker 4: this all shakes out. I'm hoping it is one of
Speaker 4: those little whoop says that you know, just don't even matter.
Speaker 4: In a few weeks, we won't even think of it again.
Speaker 4: I certainly hope that's the.
Speaker 6: Which could be similar to like the Columbia thing a
Speaker 6: couple of weeks ago, when he threatened Columbia with something
Speaker 6: if you don't take back the criminal immigrants, and then
Speaker 6: there's like a university not the country you mean, right, uh,
Speaker 6: no country, he told the country Columbia.
Speaker 2: Right, flying the immigrants over there.
Speaker 4: It's funny, kind of the same thing with the university, Right,
Speaker 4: you don't rain in the scumbags, We're gonna punish you.
Speaker 6: But it was a really big deal of the threat,
Speaker 6: and then they caved and then it was over. So
Speaker 6: I don't know if all these countries are gonna cave,
Speaker 6: but yeah, hopefully, well whatever, Yeah, after years of woke shows,
Speaker 6: Maga comes for the Smithsonian is the very positive article
Speaker 6: in the National Review.
Speaker 2: I was just there a.
Speaker 6: Couple of weeks ago with my kids, and it was
Speaker 6: so annoying Henry. It was driving Henry crazy. He's really
Speaker 6: highly tuned into woke stuff. It drives him nuts. God,
Speaker 6: can we see one animal on display without being lectured
Speaker 6: about climate change one?
Speaker 2: Or how evil man?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 1: It?
Speaker 2: Just constant.
Speaker 4: Can we see one display of the nineteen tens with
Speaker 4: how white people were this, that and the other, and
Speaker 4: that has its place in history, but not everything all
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 6: Well, and that's presentism because you know you're judging those
Speaker 6: people by today's standards.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I read a great think piece several months ago I
Speaker 4: never brought to the air, we just didn't have time.
Speaker 4: But it was explaining how Trump can rain and woke,
Speaker 4: and a lot of it was exactly what you're seeing,
Speaker 4: the funding of universities and research grants. And there was
Speaker 4: one other big aspect to it. It'll pop it into
Speaker 4: my head. But one that I thought was interesting was
Speaker 4: get hold of our museums. We are indoctrinating our people
Speaker 4: to hate our country through our museums, including the smithsonially.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe next hour we can get into exactly how
Speaker 4: they're twisting arms. But twisting arms they are, and is
Speaker 4: about damn time everything woke turns to amen to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I don't need one of the great museums in the
Speaker 6: world lecturing me on a political issue. Every display I
Speaker 6: see so annoying. More on the way I stare sleep
Speaker 6: arm strong and.
Speaker 5: People should be able to drive whatever car they want
Speaker 5: without fear of going into the store and someone scratching
Speaker 5: their car or uh, people yelling at them because of
Speaker 5: the car that they choose to drive. A time for
Speaker 5: all of us, you know, just to start getting along
Speaker 5: and knock this stuff off.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: People should be able to be left alone.
Speaker 6: The source on that is worth mentioning the police chief
Speaker 6: there in Minneapolis, which is one of the most woke
Speaker 6: cities in America, saying let people drive whatever they want to.
Speaker 2: Drive for crying out loud, kidding.
Speaker 4: The religious fervor around politics, calm down.
Speaker 6: So I've been talking about sleep a lot, as is
Speaker 6: going through a really bad stretch of being able to
Speaker 6: get to sleep mostly to stay asleep, and it's horrible.
Speaker 6: I'd never really had that in my life. I know
Speaker 6: a lot of you have had it your whole life.
Speaker 6: And it turns out, after doing a little research, half
Speaker 6: of Americans have sleep problems. And so we just I
Speaker 6: won't repeat all the stuff we've discussed because maybe you've
Speaker 6: heard it already. This person texted today about how they
Speaker 6: started on ammit trip to Leen, which I'd never even
Speaker 6: heard of. It's something you take as nanodepressant. Small amounts
Speaker 6: as great change their life. So ask your doctor about
Speaker 6: amit tripleen? But we got a long I'm going to
Speaker 6: try the ice bath tomorrow, as recommended by one of
Speaker 6: our best clients, super smart guy. He started jumping into
Speaker 6: an ice bath in the morning, and he says it
Speaker 6: changed his sleeping situation. We recorded it so we'd know
Speaker 6: what it sounded like. I don't know if I can
Speaker 6: do it. It sounds horrible, he says.
Speaker 8: It's horrible.
Speaker 2: Ah, oh my god.
Speaker 6: When is it ever going to seem like a good
Speaker 6: idea to get up in the morning? And it'd be
Speaker 6: so easy. I'll start tomorrow. Tomorrow, I'll jump in the
Speaker 6: ice bath first thing out of bed.
Speaker 2: You see.
Speaker 4: That's the thing. I might believe it like I know
Speaker 4: my own name. Just complete confidence. It's a brilliant idea,
Speaker 4: the best idea. In day two I'd be like, no.
Speaker 6: Well, And the theory says behind it is that it
Speaker 6: kicks in your fight or flight and it's good for you.
Speaker 6: Fight or Flight's not everybody's favorite feeling, you know, right right,
Speaker 6: especially if you get a bad ticker or what have you.
Speaker 6: Here's the headline for you.
Speaker 4: A freezing fountain of youth, just one week of cold
Speaker 4: plunges could slow aging at oh cellular level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm mostly worried about sleep.
Speaker 6: But there's a bunch of studies out right now and
Speaker 6: saying it helps all kinds of different things. Although I
Speaker 6: was told by someone who keeps their finger on the
Speaker 6: pulse of what's cool and hot in LA that the
Speaker 6: whole ice bath thing is super popular in LA right now,
Speaker 6: and everybody's getting the you know, six to ten thousand
Speaker 6: dollars ice bath thing in their house, and oh, anything
Speaker 6: that becomes a popular trend in LA, I tend to think, damn,
Speaker 6: maybe maybe not well.
Speaker 4: And the other thing I'm looking at this study, It's
Speaker 4: not like I've examined the methodogy or whatever, But I
Speaker 4: can cite a hundred different cures and revitalizings and the
Speaker 4: youthification to whatevers that cite some study, and the study
Speaker 4: is either entirely fictional or the fix was.
Speaker 2: In or and I don't know which one this is.
Speaker 2: This might be a great idea. It makes sense.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of an intuitive level, because we walk out
Speaker 4: into and those of us who haven't lived in a cold,
Speaker 4: cold climate for a long time, maybe you don't remember
Speaker 4: you don't know this or you don't remember it, but
Speaker 4: you walk out into a really cold day and you
Speaker 4: suddenly feel more alive than you've felt in years.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, And I say that to my kids all the
Speaker 6: time when, like if we're back in Kansas for Christmas
Speaker 6: or something, when it's cold like it was this last time,
Speaker 6: Oh my god, you just well, I'm ready to go. Yeah,
Speaker 6: just whatever happens to your body when you get cold
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 4: You know, it's funny. It's bothered me for years. I
Speaker 4: won't bother slagging a particular book. I've slagged many times.
Speaker 4: But people have all these complicated sociological colonialist depressor style
Speaker 4: theories of why the northern why away from the equator
Speaker 4: developed so much industry and science and technology and the
Speaker 4: really hot parts of the world didn't still true, and
Speaker 4: everybody has these like I say, you know, well, because
Speaker 4: of the exploitation of colonialism, blah blah blah, Well how
Speaker 4: those colonial powers get advanced enough to be colonial powers.
Speaker 4: I've lived in cold places, I've lived in hot places,
Speaker 4: and when it's cold you feel like doing stuff, and
Speaker 4: when it's hot, you feel like laying around.
Speaker 2: It's as simple as that.
Speaker 4: It might be it might be, and you want to
Speaker 4: do this, it's too hot, that is the answer.
Speaker 6: So I want quickly on the melatonin thing, just because
Speaker 6: I wanted to throw that in. Lots of you tried melatonin.
Speaker 6: Every store in America now has melatonin. Lots of us.
Speaker 2: Give it to our kids, for better or worse.
Speaker 6: I worry about changing the brain chemistry so your brain
Speaker 6: doesn't pre melatonin anymore, and all those sorts of things.
Speaker 2: But anyway, how much do you take? Well?
Speaker 6: I was as a good alcoholic. If five is good,
Speaker 6: ten's got to be better. So I was taking ten
Speaker 6: to get to sleep, and then then a ten laying
Speaker 6: there if I woke up to take again.
Speaker 2: And it wouldn't really do anything.
Speaker 6: Well, we got a text from somebody who had done
Speaker 6: a bunch of research, talked to a bunch of doctors
Speaker 6: and said, weirdly enough, if you take more than like
Speaker 6: five or ten, it goes the other direction.
Speaker 2: It keeps you awake. You want to take like one
Speaker 2: or two, And I thought, I don't know why that
Speaker 2: would work, but I started.
Speaker 6: I got some of the low dose ones, like the
Speaker 6: two and a half, so and I've been breaking them
Speaker 6: in half and taking one and sleeping soundly on ten
Speaker 6: percent of the melatonin I was taken before. So give
Speaker 6: it a whirl. See if at work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, clearly biochemistry, more is not always better. Uh
Speaker 4: So I'm trying to decide if there's any value when
Speaker 4: is more not better?
Speaker 6: More pie, more booze, more money, more sex, everything you
Speaker 6: need more of.
Speaker 2: It's a good point.
Speaker 4: So I'm not sure if this has any value to
Speaker 4: do on the air for folks.
Speaker 2: Maybe it does.
Speaker 4: It's the sleep Doctor Sleep quiz, which a beloved listener
Speaker 4: or doctor oz thing maybe Alisa suggested, and they go
Speaker 4: into the different styles of sleep, your chronotype, and you
Speaker 4: can be a bear or a lion, or a wolf
Speaker 4: or a dolphin. And she thinks, which one is the
Speaker 4: one that's probably a dolphin? Jack is a wolf? For
Speaker 4: a dolphin, which one's the one that lays there regretting
Speaker 4: their past?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Boy, So the bear is the most common human chronotype,
Speaker 4: found in roughly fifty five percent of the population. People
Speaker 4: with a bear chronotype, like bears in the wild, essentially
Speaker 4: follow the sun, waking up when the sun rises in
Speaker 4: the early morning and retiring as darkness falls in the
Speaker 4: early evening. It's my dad, Their peak productivity hours are
Speaker 4: ten am to two pm.
Speaker 2: That's something.
Speaker 6: Your peak hours are ten to two that's my I'll
Speaker 6: be lucky if I don't crash my car or fall
Speaker 6: out of my chair hours.
Speaker 4: Right right, Oh my god, he's got slack jawed, watery eyes.
Speaker 6: Hours one o'clock in the afternoon. I've always wondered, how
Speaker 6: does anybody do anything this time of day.
Speaker 2: It's the worst time of day. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I find myself wondering whether that's because, believe it or not,
Speaker 4: this show is kind of tiring to do, and at
Speaker 4: the end of it, I'm at least mentally exhausted.
Speaker 2: I wonder if that's why that I always been that way.
Speaker 6: I remember in high school alright after one o'clock math
Speaker 6: class and just like I'm gonna die. I don't know
Speaker 6: if I can stay upright.
Speaker 4: And fall asleep and break my teeth on my desk
Speaker 4: as my head falls anyway. People with the lion chronotype
Speaker 4: tend to wake up early, often around five am, and
Speaker 4: feel most energetic and productive before noon. There was a
Speaker 4: time I crafted my life intentionally like that. I woke
Speaker 4: up on the weekends at like four point thirty in
Speaker 4: the morning, same time. I got up for work and
Speaker 4: I would write early in the morning. I was incredibly productive.
Speaker 4: But then around three o'clock in the afternoon, I mean
Speaker 4: I had to like, well, I won't say do a
Speaker 4: giant line of cocaine because I don't, but I was
Speaker 4: so damn tired.
Speaker 2: I was tempted anyway, line that I.
Speaker 6: Would do a giant line of cocaine and me and
Speaker 6: the kids would go into the park.
Speaker 2: With my fellow lions. That's right.
Speaker 4: Lions tend to feel the most accomplished when they tackle
Speaker 4: their daily to do list as soon as possible, as
Speaker 4: energy levels begin to fall in the early afternoon. Lions
Speaker 4: typically wind down in the early evening and fall asleep
Speaker 4: no later than ten pm. Roughly fifteen percent of people
Speaker 4: have the lion chronotype. I might be that, but I
Speaker 4: likesm a cocktails, so sometimes.
Speaker 2: You're a lion who drinks.
Speaker 4: I'm a drinking lion, so so yeah, sleeping in a
Speaker 4: little bit sometimes feels good. If you know someone who
Speaker 4: is not a morning person, chances are they are a wolf.
Speaker 4: About fifteen percent of the population as this chronotype. Wolves
Speaker 4: wake up later in the day feel most productive between
Speaker 4: ten am and four PM. They'll also get bursts of
Speaker 4: energy in the evening. Midnight or later is common bedtime
Speaker 4: for wolves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's funny. I don't know. I'm pretty good at that.
Speaker 6: But when I wake up in the morning, I'm as
Speaker 6: alert as I get all day long, immediately, thank God.
Speaker 6: And I have one kid that's like that, and another
Speaker 6: kid who's like his mom wakes up and it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 6: don't talk to me.
Speaker 2: I need like a half hour to ease into the day.
Speaker 2: I just barely know my name. Maybe you're a lion.
Speaker 2: You just need to admit it. I don't know.
Speaker 4: And about ten percent of people have the dolphin chronotype,
Speaker 4: which is the hardest to form a schedule around. Pardon me,
Speaker 4: they got a bull hole without sacrificing sleep quality. This
Speaker 4: chronotype gets its name because dolphins in the wild remain
Speaker 4: alert while sleeping to evade predators. People with this chronotype
Speaker 4: tend to be sensitive to light and noise while they
Speaker 4: sleep that's me for sure, and prone to fragmented sleep patterns.
Speaker 4: Many are considered insomniacs. However, dolphins have a strong productivity
Speaker 4: window between ten am and two pm.
Speaker 2: I'm a dolphin. You're sensitive to light, for sleeping.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I need, you know, like a pillow over my head,
Speaker 4: or eye shades or white noise. I used to do earplugs,
Speaker 4: but now I just use my phone for the noise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I use a fan.
Speaker 6: I could lay down on the floor right here and
Speaker 6: go to sleep right now, and you guys could keep
Speaker 6: doing the show with the lights on and the noise,
Speaker 6: and I'd be fine.
Speaker 2: And clearly mocking you while we did it.
Speaker 6: And then you get a magic marker and draw things
Speaker 6: on my face. Oh, of course we do. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Do you want to hear some behavioral protocols to help
Speaker 4: you optimize sleep and quality and duration? Yes?
Speaker 2: Please? Morning sunlight exposure is good. It's oh, it's great.
Speaker 4: Get outside within thirty to sixty minutes of waking up
Speaker 4: to view natural sunlight for five to twenty minutes longer
Speaker 4: on cloudy days.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. Wow.
Speaker 4: Sets your circadian rhythm by triggering cortisole release and suppressing melatonin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad naturally has always lived that way. Limit
Speaker 2: bright light at night. Uh huh.
Speaker 4: Similar note consistent sleep schedule. We all know that, right,
Speaker 4: It's all about your circadian rhythms.
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, I don't know between I don't know having
Speaker 6: kids that consistent life.
Speaker 2: The sleep schedule has always been hard.
Speaker 4: But yeah, let's see there are a few more. They're
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Speaker 6: The one thing I still have never heard anybody address
Speaker 6: around sleep and some people nap and some people don't.
Speaker 6: I'm a napper, or just like I'm built to nap.
Speaker 6: I don't get to nap that often, but I'm built
Speaker 6: for it. And I can just fall right asleep and
Speaker 6: it doesn't matter how much screen time I got, or
Speaker 6: eating or whatever, all the things that they claim ruin
Speaker 6: your sleep. I'll sleep like the dead if it's one
Speaker 6: o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: So why what is that? I don't know. I've never
Speaker 2: heard anybody address that. Maybe you're a dolphin.
Speaker 4: Temperature control keep the bedroom cool to facilitate the natural
Speaker 4: drop and core body temperature needed for sleep. I hate
Speaker 4: sleeping if it's hot, Oh, colder the better, Yeah, worm
Speaker 4: bad on a cold atmosphere is the best thing I.
Speaker 2: Want to hear. The most disturbing thing I know about
Speaker 2: Joe Katie.
Speaker 6: Oh lord, he sleeps with socks on what I know,
Speaker 6: like a psychopath.
Speaker 2: Well that's fair.
Speaker 6: Oh, I would go I would lose. I would. I
Speaker 6: would give you the nuclear codes or whatever you need.
Speaker 6: Better socks would I would? I would give you any
Speaker 6: information you want to get these socks off.
Speaker 2: Me so I can go to sleep. Oh no, keeps
Speaker 2: your feet nice and warm. Oh, the blankets are four
Speaker 2: let's see.
Speaker 4: A warm bath or shower one to two hours before
Speaker 4: bed can also help by causing a rapid cool down afterward,
Speaker 4: signaling sleepiness.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 6: Jumping on ice baths your fight or flight kicks in.
Speaker 6: You're afraid you're gonna die, and then slip better.
Speaker 4: Uh. Engage in physical activity during the day, ideally in
Speaker 4: the morning or afternoon. Exercise raises body temperature and boosts alertness.
Speaker 2: Don't do it before bed. Who exercises before bed? Really?
Speaker 2: Stop it? You're a weirdo.
Speaker 6: You haven't hit a caffeine one yet. Don't drink caffeine
Speaker 6: after whatever time?
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Food timing and type. Finish eating two to three hours
Speaker 4: before bed. Caffeine management. Limit caffeine in the morning, blah
Speaker 4: blah blah, avoid it eight to ten hours before bed.
Speaker 4: Caffeine blocks a deno zine jag a sleep promoting chemicals.
Speaker 2: So timing matters.
Speaker 6: I was talking to somebody about this the other day
Speaker 6: who had this experience for the first time drinking coffee
Speaker 6: late in the day. The feeling you get if you're
Speaker 6: caffeinated when you're trying to sleep, your legs it's like
Speaker 6: you can't. I can't get my legs to stay still
Speaker 6: if I've drank caffeine doo late in the day. Oh boy,
Speaker 6: it's just such an uncomfortable, restless leg syndrome, such a
Speaker 6: horrible feeling.
Speaker 4: Alcohol avoidance, get me shut up, paunch and shut up.
Speaker 4: Minimize or avoid alcohol, especially close to bedtime. It does
Speaker 4: affect your ram sleep, leading to poor arrests. Blah blah.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, my problems, what problems, I don't
Speaker 4: remember them. Have a wine down routine, and how to
Speaker 4: handle wake up. If you wake up at night and
Speaker 4: can't fall asleep within twenty to twenty five minutes, get
Speaker 4: out of bed and do a relaxing activity like reading
Speaker 4: with dim light to avoid associating your bed with wakefulness.
Speaker 2: Just don't believe that almost that would have been funny.
Speaker 2: It was close. Good catch.
Speaker 4: You don't believe that this is science, you really, I'm
Speaker 4: awake now, socks of science.
Speaker 6: You associate your bed with sleeping, so don't do other
Speaker 6: things in your bed because your brain will think where.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that at all.
Speaker 6: It's like last night, I woke up three times in
Speaker 6: exactly an hour between each.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get up and go do something. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: deny science, then go ahead. Gave more of the way.
Speaker 2: So did the NCAA Women's go all four number one seeds?
Speaker 2: Also don't know that four teams all right?
Speaker 6: Number one ranke during the season. Who wins the NCAA
Speaker 6: Women's basketball national title. I don't know if those are
Speaker 6: separate questions or not. Huh topics, But I've seen so
Speaker 6: many news outlets trying to jam in lots of women's
Speaker 6: Final four stuff, NWNBA stuff to try to, you know,
Speaker 6: to be fair and equity, and I just don't think
Speaker 6: there's an audience for it.
Speaker 4: Not the w NBA so much, but the women's NCAA
Speaker 4: tournament was higher ratings last year because of Caitlin Clark
Speaker 4: than the men's.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I watched South Carolina Duke the other day, the gals game,
Speaker 4: and it was I was on an airplane, so it
Speaker 4: was kind of captive, but it was a really good
Speaker 4: game entertaining anyway, So I wanted to just touch on
Speaker 4: this again real briefly. The president reforming the Smithsonian Institution
Speaker 4: are trying to because it's so damned woke, and it's
Speaker 4: worth reviewing the Museum of the American Latinos first exhibition
Speaker 4: it hasn't actually opened yet.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: So there's the other part of it is, when I
Speaker 6: was searching which museums were open, a whole bunch of
Speaker 6: identity politics museums now that I didn't even know exist.
Speaker 4: Right well, it's on view in the American History Museum
Speaker 4: right now until the American Latino Museums, no new home
Speaker 4: is finished. All of this is ridiculous. Every ethnicity gets
Speaker 4: their own museum. That's not the idea of this country.
Speaker 4: It's already happened, I know. But anyway, the their first
Speaker 4: exhibition present day was so conceited, dumb, pious, dopey and deceitful.
Speaker 4: I'm quoting who is this, Brian Allen? And I remember
Speaker 4: reading about this at the time that even Latino people
Speaker 4: were like, this is awful. It portrays us as just poor,
Speaker 4: pathetic victims. And so the funding was threatened to be yanked,
Speaker 4: and everybody hated it. It was so woke, which in
Speaker 4: retrospect should have been a message that hey, the woke
Speaker 4: crowd is losing latinos because they were House Appropriations Committee
Speaker 4: voted to defund the museum. Understanding it present day is
Speaker 4: a taste of things to come.
Speaker 6: I was looking through a bunch of therapists the other
Speaker 6: day for a family member and reading all the little
Speaker 6: bios of these different therapists. One thing that COVID brought
Speaker 6: us that good is so many people normalized zoom therapy,
Speaker 6: so it like opens up the whole mostly state because
Speaker 6: you have to be state licensed, but anyway, you're not
Speaker 6: just relegated to your own town anymore.
Speaker 2: Any who.
Speaker 6: I was looking through all these little blurbs and the
Speaker 6: number of them that would mention latinx oh, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 6: you're out.
Speaker 2: Immedia, yes, one hundred percent. Now are you at this
Speaker 2: point not aware that that's a joke?
Speaker 4: So one more thing I want to squeeze In Trump administration,
Speaker 4: the Executive Orders cited the horrifying twenty twenty talking about
Speaker 4: race portal in talking about how they're going to reign
Speaker 4: in the Smithsonian that anchors the youth education program at
Speaker 4: the Museum of African American History and Culture.
Speaker 2: This is what they teach youth.
Speaker 4: In a section called Aspects and Assumptions of White Culture,
Speaker 4: the museum said that whiteness bad includes objectivity, rational, linear thinking,
Speaker 4: along with self reliance, independence, hard work is the key
Speaker 4: to success, planning for the future, respect for the law
Speaker 4: and property, good grammar, marriage, and most of all, bland food.
Speaker 2: What that was in the museum.
Speaker 4: Yes, that was the center of their youth education at
Speaker 4: the Museum of African American History and Professional Museum. Yes,
Speaker 4: that is incredible, hard work, independence, planning for the future.
Speaker 2: Are white supremacy and they're bad?
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