WEBVTT - Chasing My Intellectual Tail 0:00:01.830 --> 0:00:05.670 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.710 --> 0:00:07.710 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.750 --> 0:00:12.040 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now, 0:00:12.420 --> 0:00:17.200 here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.300 And for the conspiracists out there, just to be clear, 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:27.540 we have been there before. 0:00:27.660 --> 0:00:30.780 We absolutely have been to the moon. We went there 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:31.320 in 1969. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.779 You know, people ask, why is it that it's so 0:00:33.830 --> 0:00:35.339 hard for us to do if we did it way 0:00:35.380 --> 0:00:38.410 back in 1969? And what you have to know is 0:00:38.909 --> 0:00:43.710 we spent 3% of GDP when we did it in 1969, 0:00:43.710 --> 0:00:45.229 almost 3% of GDP. 0:00:45.250 --> 0:00:47.150 So it was very expensive. 0:00:47.409 --> 0:00:49.610 Today, we're going to do it at much lower cost, 0:00:49.650 --> 0:00:50.990 and we're going to this time go to the moon 0:00:51.010 --> 0:00:51.510 to stay. 0:00:51.909 --> 0:00:54.380 It won't just be a mission and leave. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.570 It'll be a real sustainable lunar base. And that's how 0:00:57.610 --> 0:00:59.910 we'll really explore the moon and find interesting things. 0:01:00.550 --> 0:01:03.170 Brett Baer on Special Report last night did an extended 0:01:03.210 --> 0:01:07.600 interview from the Blue Origin headquarters near Cape Canaveral with 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:09.800 Jeffrey Bezos. 0:01:10.340 --> 0:01:15.030 Oh, that's the fella. Exactly. 0:01:15.750 --> 0:01:19.729 The founder of Amazon.com, Blue Origin, and Prometheus, which is 0:01:19.750 --> 0:01:21.090 an interesting company, too. 0:01:22.310 --> 0:01:22.910 I tell you what. 0:01:24.450 --> 0:01:27.289 Jeff Bezos needs to do more long-form interviews like that, 0:01:27.370 --> 0:01:31.590 maybe podcasts, maybe the Armstrong and Getty show, and fewer 0:01:31.780 --> 0:01:35.880 photo ops on his yacht with his enhanced-lipped trophy wife. 0:01:35.900 --> 0:01:36.449 And his shirt off. 0:01:37.190 --> 0:01:39.780 Because, well, he had a tight black t-shirt on because 0:01:39.810 --> 0:01:43.580 of course he did, Jack. The aging man who hits 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.240 the gym a lot, outfit of choice. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:46.800 What's the point of hitting the gym if you're not 0:01:46.819 --> 0:01:48.780 going to let people know you're hitting the gym? You're 0:01:48.820 --> 0:01:51.480 not wrong. You are not wrong. But he should do 0:01:51.500 --> 0:01:52.320 more interviews. 0:01:52.580 --> 0:01:56.200 He came off as the sort of guy who invents 0:01:56.410 --> 0:02:03.910 amazingly new, efficient, innovative things. He's relentlessly positive about super imaginative. 0:02:04.430 --> 0:02:07.430 And while he certainly seems to enjoy his wealth, he's 0:02:07.490 --> 0:02:10.440 a perfect example of what Elon Musk talks about. Yeah, 0:02:10.500 --> 0:02:12.020 I made a ton of money. Now I'm planning and 0:02:12.060 --> 0:02:14.180 now I'm plowing it all into all this stuff. And 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:19.830 this stuff's amazing. I mean, his enthusiasm for exploring and 0:02:19.870 --> 0:02:21.510 learning and innovating is just. 0:02:21.730 --> 0:02:23.670 It's awesome to be old, honestly. 0:02:23.770 --> 0:02:26.790 It is kind of interesting, the hatred toward the super-rich, 0:02:27.100 --> 0:02:30.900 when you've got Elon and Bezos, and you could use 0:02:30.940 --> 0:02:33.639 Warren Buffett as an example, lives in his tiny house and. 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:34.480 Drives an old car. 0:02:34.860 --> 0:02:35.100 I mean. 0:02:35.750 --> 0:02:38.109 The crowd that hates on the billionaires, a lot of 0:02:38.150 --> 0:02:41.630 the most prominent billionaires are so not the kind of 0:02:41.750 --> 0:02:44.270 people that you portray them to be. They're giving back 0:02:44.330 --> 0:02:45.990 to the world in all kinds of different ways. But 0:02:47.030 --> 0:02:49.549 I thought that was interesting. I didn't know we spent 3% 0:02:49.550 --> 0:02:51.090 of our GDP to get to the moon. 0:02:51.290 --> 0:02:52.859 Wow. Yeah, yeah. 0:02:53.180 --> 0:02:55.400 And to your point, while he certainly seems to enjoy 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:59.540 his wealth, he's also put $ 23 billion of his own 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:04.060 money into Blue Origins. Because he's so excited about space travel. 0:03:04.100 --> 0:03:08.420 You know, one thing I've never completely understood, and maybe 0:03:08.460 --> 0:03:11.980 he speaks to this, maybe he doesn't. So, is he 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.940 in contact with Elon and his plans for the base 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.280 on the moon and getting to Mars? Or NASA? Or 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:21.389 any of the other entities? Are they all doing this independently? And, 0:03:22.250 --> 0:03:24.470 you know, somebody lands there. Hey, wait a second. I 0:03:24.510 --> 0:03:25.410 was going to land there. 0:03:25.970 --> 0:03:28.350 Yes, did you? Well, right. 0:03:28.389 --> 0:03:28.609 Yeah. 0:03:28.690 --> 0:03:31.330 And it's funny. I kept waiting for Brett to ask him. 0:03:32.669 --> 0:03:35.490 Talk about what SpaceX and Elon Musk are doing and 0:03:35.930 --> 0:03:37.560 what you think of it and how it meshes with 0:03:37.590 --> 0:03:38.220 what you're doing. 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:39.900 Or are you coordinating in any way? 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:44.480 Yeah, it's all centered around and coordinated with NASA. They 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.890 have different parts of the puzzle that they're working on, 0:03:46.930 --> 0:03:49.190 from what I understand. But, yeah, I was surprised they 0:03:49.230 --> 0:03:50.570 never got to that because it was the first thing 0:03:50.610 --> 0:03:52.950 that popped into my mind. But, anyway, back to the 0:03:52.970 --> 0:03:57.500 interview with Bezos. We'll play clip number 30. Brett is asking, hey, 0:03:57.540 --> 0:03:58.960 we've been to the moon before. 0:03:58.980 --> 0:03:59.460 Why bother? 0:03:59.940 --> 0:04:03.120 Well, I'm really glad to see the country put their 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.200 energy behind the moon. Look, it's not good to skip steps. 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.600 In general, you don't want to skip steps. And we'll 0:04:08.620 --> 0:04:10.800 go to Mars. We'll do all the other things. But 0:04:10.820 --> 0:04:12.530 we need to go to the moon first. The moon 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.550 is a gift. It's only three days away from Earth. 0:04:15.570 --> 0:04:17.310 You can get there in three days, and you don't 0:04:17.350 --> 0:04:20.110 need to wait for special launch windows. And it has 0:04:20.130 --> 0:04:24.040 all these resources that we can utilize. And it takes 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:28.099 28 times less energy to lift something off the moon 0:04:28.140 --> 0:04:30.850 because of its lower gravity than it does to lift something. 0:04:30.630 --> 0:04:31.170 Off the Earth. 0:04:31.690 --> 0:04:34.729 So the resources, you know, we're working on, for example, 0:04:35.150 --> 0:04:37.469 building solar cells. We here at Blue Origin are building 0:04:37.529 --> 0:04:40.450 solar cells out of lunar regolith, out of the dirt 0:04:40.490 --> 0:04:44.560 that's on the moon. It's 20% silicon. It's very easy 0:04:44.620 --> 0:04:47.020 to do this. So we can make solar cells on 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.000 the moon. We can make liquid oxygen on the moon, 0:04:49.020 --> 0:04:52.200 which is a rocket propellant. We can find water on 0:04:52.220 --> 0:04:54.320 the moon. There's all sorts of things. And it's a 0:04:54.339 --> 0:04:56.220 natural body, so when we go explore it, there are 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:57.680 going to be positive surprises. 0:04:58.380 --> 0:05:00.239 So, yes, we should be going to the moon. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:04.810 I'm glad to see that happening, and I'm glad everybody's coming. 0:05:05.810 --> 0:05:08.990 Regolith is a word I became aware of fairly recently. 0:05:09.029 --> 0:05:11.289 That's a big word in the world of getting to 0:05:11.310 --> 0:05:11.570 the moon. 0:05:12.380 --> 0:05:13.400 Yeah, yeah. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.080 It means just like the dusty. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:16.350 Dirt, right? 0:05:16.910 --> 0:05:20.530 Sharp little dusty rock dirt, yeah. 0:05:20.890 --> 0:05:22.830 Okay, fair enough. I call it gravel on earth. 0:05:22.970 --> 0:05:26.089 But a lot of it is really, well, it's so fine. 0:05:26.150 --> 0:05:28.670 I guess it's a pretty big problem. It's so fine 0:05:28.690 --> 0:05:35.620 to keep it from gunking up everything all the time, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.240 but it's full of a lot. 0:05:37.100 --> 0:05:37.440 Of your dirt. 0:05:37.860 --> 0:05:40.720 The minerals that we're mining here on earth that we 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.940 need to, you know, become super wealthy. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.860 Excellent, regular knowledge. So a couple of things. 0:05:46.900 --> 0:05:49.640 Number one, the whole, you don't want to skip steps 0:05:49.700 --> 0:05:52.109 was a veiled shot at Elon Musk, I believe, and 0:05:52.150 --> 0:05:54.270 his constant talking about going to Mars. 0:05:54.490 --> 0:05:55.150 But very veiled. 0:05:55.690 --> 0:05:59.099 Second, Elon will challenge to fight him. Jeff, you're one 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.100 of the richest people on earth. Join me in my 0:06:01.140 --> 0:06:08.840 crusade against effing, expressing fractions as multiples. It's 28 times lighter. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:16.159 Do you mean 1 28th? I despise that. All right. 0:06:16.460 --> 0:06:20.560 What would be if it's weightless? How would you express that? 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.810 Oh, my God. It's just it's idiotic. The things that 0:06:23.850 --> 0:06:24.410 work you up. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.980 Anyway, at least I can order my liquid IV and 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:29.060 get it like the next day. 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:30.779 Let's see. 0:06:30.820 --> 0:06:32.960 Then he talks about how their goal is to fly 0:06:33.110 --> 0:06:35.610 every day and make this a super regular thing. All 0:06:35.690 --> 0:06:39.230 reusable components are to the extent that that's conceivable. And 0:06:39.330 --> 0:06:42.130 Brett then asks him about flying constantly. 0:06:42.210 --> 0:06:44.670 So it will happen in our lifetimes where there's just 0:06:44.830 --> 0:06:48.440 there's spaceships taken off every single day, maybe multiple times. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.760 They maybe it's like Southwest out of Burbank. Going to 0:06:51.779 --> 0:06:53.700 the moon and back. And if you're rich, you can 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.540 go sometime if you want. How cool would that be? 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:56.660 Yeah, yeah. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.880 Here he's talking about the question of making lots of 0:07:00.020 --> 0:07:04.120 money and why billionaires are demonized in today's society. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:04.940 33, Michael. 0:07:05.260 --> 0:07:09.050 One thing to really think about is that all civilizational wealth, 0:07:09.110 --> 0:07:13.510 draw the box very big, all civilizational wealth comes from invention. 0:07:14.550 --> 0:07:17.950 So 6,000 years ago, somebody invented the plow. And when 0:07:17.970 --> 0:07:20.860 they did, we all got wealthier. And then much later, 0:07:20.940 --> 0:07:23.400 somebody invented the steam engine. And when they did, we 0:07:23.540 --> 0:07:27.700 all got wealthier. And that cycle has continued. And what 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.020 we want to do is speed that up, speed up 0:07:30.060 --> 0:07:33.760 the rate of invention. So use AI to make physical things. 0:07:33.820 --> 0:07:35.500 And we're going to make the tools so easy to 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.120 use that anyone will be able to be an engineer. 0:07:38.770 --> 0:07:40.410 You know what I wish we had the clip of? 0:07:40.870 --> 0:07:43.540 He was talking about how you become a billionaire, and 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.680 he gave the example of the Cane's Chicken people. And 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.280 he said, look, they started a chicken restaurant people really liked, 0:07:49.340 --> 0:07:52.020 so they opened up another one, and they really loved that. 0:07:52.060 --> 0:07:55.760 Now they're employing 300 people, and they opened 10 more, 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.250 and people still really love the chicken. 0:07:57.290 --> 0:07:58.850 Now the guy's a billionaire. He says, what in the 0:07:58.950 --> 0:08:02.830 world is wrong with that? Yeah, no kidding. Why would 0:08:02.850 --> 0:08:04.190 you demonize that? 0:08:04.630 --> 0:08:07.990 You're demonizing coming up with chicken people really like to eat? 0:08:08.330 --> 0:08:12.290 What the hell? Well, it's envy. It's the politics of envy. 0:08:12.330 --> 0:08:15.190 And opening stores and paying taxes and hiring people and, 0:08:15.250 --> 0:08:18.250 you know, buying chicken and chairs and paint. 0:08:18.510 --> 0:08:21.130 Yeah, it's ridiculous to be against that. 0:08:21.670 --> 0:08:24.690 Yeah, you want to start a charity that feeds, clothes, 0:08:24.770 --> 0:08:28.100 and medicates hundreds of families for decades? 0:08:28.540 --> 0:08:30.500 Start a successful business. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.990 Anyway. I want to know, Jack, if you find this 0:08:35.070 --> 0:08:38.850 at all compelling or comprehensible. Brett is asking him about 0:08:38.950 --> 0:08:41.850 will AI create a labor shortage? 0:08:41.850 --> 0:08:42.150 35, Michael. 0:08:42.650 --> 0:08:45.210 You said AI is going to create a labor shortage. 0:08:45.510 --> 0:08:45.650 Yes. 0:08:45.670 --> 0:08:46.989 I heard you talk about this a lot. 0:08:47.030 --> 0:08:48.710 Yes, I feel this very strongly. 0:08:49.170 --> 0:08:50.829 What I would say about AI is what's going to 0:08:50.870 --> 0:08:54.050 happen is, again, it's because of the productivity. So because 0:08:54.070 --> 0:08:57.250 of the productivity in the economy, many people are going 0:08:57.270 --> 0:09:00.970 to decide, let's say you have a two-earner income household. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:03.930 One of those people is likely, you're not going to 0:09:04.090 --> 0:09:05.829 need to have a two-earner income household. 0:09:05.850 --> 0:09:07.840 If you want to have it, fine, you'll have it. 0:09:08.050 --> 0:09:09.589 But if you don't want to have it, one of 0:09:09.610 --> 0:09:12.550 the people might drop out. Some people will also decide, 0:09:12.570 --> 0:09:14.370 you know what, I can support my family working three 0:09:14.390 --> 0:09:16.739 days a week. That's what productivity in the economy means. 0:09:17.179 --> 0:09:18.520 And so people, I think you're going to have a 0:09:18.740 --> 0:09:21.460 labor shortage. It's going to actually be difficult to hire 0:09:21.500 --> 0:09:24.339 people because the productivity in the economy is going to 0:09:24.380 --> 0:09:26.360 make it so that if people don't want. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.270 To work two jobs, they won't have to. You hear 0:09:29.290 --> 0:09:30.980 the fear out there, though. Oh, yes. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:31.819 On a number of fronts. 0:09:31.940 --> 0:09:32.400 Oh, yes. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.560 The fear about AI and the fear about jobs. Of course. 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.359 And I understand it because a lot of smart people 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.059 are prognosticating that. I just happen to disagree with those 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:41.660 smart people. 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:42.780 Yeah. 0:09:43.820 --> 0:09:49.699 That goes against what society has done over the last 0:09:50.540 --> 0:09:51.540 half century or more. 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.060 We're all living.... 0:09:56.900 --> 0:10:01.430 Most everybody's living much wealthier lifestyle. than our parents and 0:10:01.470 --> 0:10:07.380 grandparents did. We didn't decide, you know, a thousand square 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:13.320 feet and a kind of car ago that this is enough. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.319 Only one of us will work now. We decided we 0:10:16.380 --> 0:10:18.839 want more. We want a bigger house. We want more cars. 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.040 We want nicer vacations. 0:10:21.100 --> 0:10:23.500 So I don't understand. A lot of people have, yeah. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:24.200 Most people. 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.440 There's plenty of people that could live the way you 0:10:28.460 --> 0:10:30.939 and I, our parents, lived if they wanted to have 0:10:31.140 --> 0:10:32.020 one parent working. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:33.900 But they don't want to live that way. So I 0:10:33.940 --> 0:10:35.400 don't know why Jeffrey Bezos. 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:36.760 Thinks we're going to all of a sudden change into 0:10:36.780 --> 0:10:38.020 human beings where we decide. 0:10:37.820 --> 0:10:40.200 We've got enough. I don't know why that would happen. 0:10:40.740 --> 0:10:42.780 You know, that's a really interesting philosophical point. 0:10:42.820 --> 0:10:45.380 I think it's kind of beside his point, though, which 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.340 is that you'll have that option. 0:10:49.300 --> 0:10:50.800 Well, I'm saying you got that option now. 0:10:51.140 --> 0:10:55.910 No, as opposed to massive society ruining unemployment, which is 0:10:55.950 --> 0:10:57.229 what we're always talking about. 0:10:57.270 --> 0:10:57.870 That's interesting. 0:10:57.910 --> 0:10:58.069 Yeah. 0:10:58.370 --> 0:11:01.339 So that on its own, the fact that you've got 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.660 several of the smartest people in the world. Their guesses 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.160 about this and they are guesses are that wildly different 0:11:10.140 --> 0:11:12.620 that there will be nobody will have a job or 0:11:12.850 --> 0:11:14.770 there'll be there won't be enough people to hire. 0:11:14.790 --> 0:11:17.890 There'll be so many jobs. So, yeah, I mean, that's 0:11:18.270 --> 0:11:23.390 somebody's right. Somebody's wrong. Brett asks him about government regulation, Michael, 0:11:23.429 --> 0:11:26.420 in 36. So what do you think should happen? 0:11:27.429 --> 0:11:30.020 Well, look, let's back up a bit and look at 0:11:30.059 --> 0:11:35.569 this thing. Regulation is very useful. Government regulation can be 0:11:35.650 --> 0:11:37.930 very useful if it's done in a light way and 0:11:37.970 --> 0:11:42.240 done in a smart way. And where sometimes regulation goes wrong, 0:11:42.290 --> 0:11:43.370 especially when people are. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:49.300 Scared, you know, reacting emotionally and so on, is they 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.859 want to try to regulate the underlying thing instead of 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.350 the applications of the thing. And so, you know, the 0:11:54.630 --> 0:11:57.150 simple example I could give you would be, you know, 0:11:59.030 --> 0:12:03.090 you don't want to regulate knives, you want to regulate murder. So, 0:12:03.130 --> 0:12:05.090 you know, you can use a knife to murder somebody, 0:12:05.110 --> 0:12:07.800 but You don't want to say the solution to that 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.620 is to eliminate knives. You want to say let's make 0:12:10.700 --> 0:12:13.900 murder illegal. And the same thing is true with AI 0:12:13.940 --> 0:12:14.820 and its applications. 0:12:15.860 --> 0:12:18.179 Well, I wish everybody believed you. They do regulate knives, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:23.360 which is dumb. Yeah, certainly in some settings, yeah. 0:12:23.460 --> 0:12:27.560 So anyway, he said build orbital data centers if people 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.540 don't want them in the suburbs and that sort of thing. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:30.820 He addresses a lot of different things. Yeah, I want 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.280 to hear more of that stuff actually later. 0:12:32.980 --> 0:12:36.490 Yeah, Hanson, find the in defense of billionaires part, if 0:12:36.510 --> 0:12:39.250 you would. I characterized it reasonably well, but not perfectly. 0:12:39.790 --> 0:12:42.709 Speaking of hardworking folks who accumulate a little bit of 0:12:42.750 --> 0:12:45.500 wealth because they've been busting their ass their whole lives long, 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:51.410 you're looking for financial advice, but you're not... You're not 0:12:51.470 --> 0:12:53.870 a fancy Wall Street type, right? 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Dodgers one step away from another World Series. 0:14:04.490 --> 0:14:07.710 So is it Dodgers-Brewers for the NLCS? 0:14:07.809 --> 0:14:10.300 That's what we got going on here? Indeed, yeah. Yeah, 0:14:10.340 --> 0:14:14.160 that'll be a fun series. And then Ray's, it's going 0:14:14.179 --> 0:14:17.710 to be Ray's who? White Sox. Oh, no, that series 0:14:17.730 --> 0:14:19.190 is not over yet, right? 0:14:19.350 --> 0:14:19.670 I don't know. 0:14:19.790 --> 0:14:20.830 I haven't really been following it. 0:14:20.890 --> 0:14:22.650 White Sox are the best story out there. If they 0:14:22.690 --> 0:14:24.690 end up going further, we'll have to talk about that. 0:14:26.210 --> 0:14:28.420 So I got on this topic last night. I've mentioned 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:33.020 before that I lost my ability to taste sweet because 0:14:33.060 --> 0:14:33.780 of COVID. 0:14:35.070 --> 0:14:36.640 My kids believe. 0:14:36.410 --> 0:14:38.340 I'm lying about this for some reason. I don't know 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:39.900 why I would make this up. I feel like that 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.000 would make me a crazy person. Seems like an odd 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:43.830 lie to bother with. 0:14:43.890 --> 0:14:44.650 Yeah, I know. 0:14:44.870 --> 0:14:47.610 I don't, I don't know why, but, uh, For instance, 0:14:47.650 --> 0:14:49.890 last night we're at the dinner and my son ordered 0:14:49.930 --> 0:14:54.290 something called dragon fruit punch or something like that to drink. 0:14:54.750 --> 0:14:55.960 And he said, oh, this is one of the best 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:57.400 drinks I've ever had in my life. And I took 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.500 a sip of it. And he said, it's so sweet, though. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.760 And I said, wow, it's got it's sweet because I 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.720 didn't taste any sweet whatsoever. And it just reminded me 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.580 that I that I can't taste sweet. So I did 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.980 a little research on that. For those of you out 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.760 there who maybe have lost some taste or all of 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.970 your taste. About a third of people who got COVID 0:15:18.150 --> 0:15:20.590 experienced some change in taste. 0:15:20.710 --> 0:15:21.430 About a third. 0:15:21.450 --> 0:15:25.050 Yeah, I lost my taste in art. I just watched 0:15:25.090 --> 0:15:28.390 McHale's Navy all day long. Hey-o! 0:15:31.980 --> 0:15:32.700 Oh, boy. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:36.720 That's right. You only listen to Britney Spears now. That's right. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.480 So about a third of people had some effect of 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.220 their taste when they got COVID, and then about half 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:42.730 of those. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:44.700 Uh. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:46.860 had a comp uh. 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:47.640 uh. 0:15:48.100 --> 0:15:50.350 it continued it didn't go away so about half of 0:15:50.390 --> 0:15:52.770 those it stayed and then of those that it stayed 0:15:52.850 --> 0:15:56.830 it's it's different There's complete loss, like you can't taste anything, 0:15:57.350 --> 0:15:58.910 which was about 28%. 0:15:58.910 --> 0:15:59.710 That would suck. 0:15:59.830 --> 0:16:01.750 I can't even imagine what it would be like to 0:16:01.770 --> 0:16:02.930 not taste anything. 0:16:03.210 --> 0:16:05.650 I don't know. Maybe it wouldn't suck. I have no idea. 0:16:06.050 --> 0:16:08.870 But it would be weird. Can you imagine putting food 0:16:08.890 --> 0:16:10.980 in your mouth and it has no flavor or anything 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.680 you drink? It would just be weird. 0:16:13.020 --> 0:16:15.140 To lose any of your senses does not sound like 0:16:15.180 --> 0:16:15.640 a good thing. 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:16.720 Uh. 0:16:17.890 --> 0:16:19.810 And then about a third of those, this is of 0:16:19.950 --> 0:16:22.370 people who lost taste, which is a third. And then 0:16:22.410 --> 0:16:24.460 about half of those, it was permanent. And then, so 0:16:24.580 --> 0:16:29.540 it goes down there. And so distorted versus losing it completely. 0:16:29.980 --> 0:16:34.940 And then only about half of those, you're breaking it 0:16:34.980 --> 0:16:37.810 down even further, ever get it back. And the doctor 0:16:37.850 --> 0:16:39.450 told me I'm probably never going to get it back. 0:16:39.490 --> 0:16:43.530 I'll never taste sweet again in my life. 40% lost sweet. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:52.310 This doesn't add up right, but 71% lost salty. That 0:16:52.330 --> 0:16:54.010 was a more common one. 0:16:54.010 --> 0:16:54.630 32% lost bitter. 0:16:54.630 --> 0:16:57.860 22% lost sour. And we got into a discussion last night. 0:16:57.890 --> 0:17:02.040 What would be the worst or the least bad? I 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:07.180 think losing salty would be horrible. First of all, what 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.560 I have learned from losing sweet, everybody tells me, oh, 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:10.419 I wish that would happen to me. 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.280 Yeah, I thought that too, but it's the opposite. You 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:14.960 eat more sweets. 0:17:15.180 --> 0:17:18.780 Your brain wants sweet or we need sweet or something 0:17:18.820 --> 0:17:21.140 like that. And my brain doesn't feel like I'm getting 0:17:21.180 --> 0:17:23.480 any sweet. So I eat more. I want more donuts 0:17:23.550 --> 0:17:25.290 and stuff like that than I ever did before. Would 0:17:25.310 --> 0:17:27.530 that happen with salty? Probably the same. You need a 0:17:27.550 --> 0:17:30.230 certain amount of salt. You'd just be eating bags of 0:17:30.270 --> 0:17:31.230 potato chips or whatever. 0:17:31.770 --> 0:17:34.310 Wow, that wouldn't be great. No, no, no, no, no. 0:17:35.090 --> 0:17:40.149 Which would your least? Sour, bitter, salty, or sweet? How 0:17:40.170 --> 0:17:43.710 about umami? Because that's one of the tastes, isn't it? 0:17:43.990 --> 0:17:46.130 They now say. I don't know what that is. Gosh, 0:17:46.190 --> 0:17:46.439 I don't know. 0:17:46.470 --> 0:17:49.320 I've never thought about it. It's a strange question and off-putting. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:50.420 I refuse to answer. 0:17:50.980 --> 0:17:55.859 That's an odd stance. I don't have the slightest idea. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.990 I think loose and salty would be horrible. Yeah, would 0:18:00.030 --> 0:18:02.689 probably lead to bad things, I would guess. Just have 0:18:02.730 --> 0:18:04.970 a mound of salt on top of everything you eat, 0:18:05.070 --> 0:18:06.090 trying to get some salt. 0:18:06.730 --> 0:18:09.230 This segment brought to you by Dr. Fauci's House of 0:18:09.310 --> 0:18:12.310 Gain of Function. If you need a virus altered, call Dr. 0:18:12.369 --> 0:18:13.869 Fauci. Excellent point. 0:18:15.730 --> 0:18:16.869 Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:16.890 --> 0:18:20.670 So I heard the tease of this story last night. 0:18:20.690 --> 0:18:23.630 I haven't actually heard the story. So that scumbag woman 0:18:23.690 --> 0:18:27.780 in Tennessee who they tried to euthanize, but. 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:33.580 Didn't pull it off. Execute. Yeah. And she's still alive. 0:18:34.540 --> 0:18:36.760 She woke up and she spoke her first words. And 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:40.379 I can only assume her first words were, where's that phlebotomist? 0:18:40.450 --> 0:18:41.109 I'm going to kill him. 0:18:42.410 --> 0:18:42.690 Yeah. 0:18:43.850 --> 0:18:46.590