Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Getty, en He Armstrong and Getty. According to The
Speaker 1: New York Times.
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick used to make his girlfriend Jordan Hudson wear
Speaker 2: red pants so he could spot her in the crowd.
Speaker 2: No wonder he kept trying to have sex with Travis.
Speaker 1: Kelcey Man, never ending jokes. You're an old, fat rich man.
Speaker 1: You date a girl fifty years younger than you, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're a sport for people's comedy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cruelty, you know, Just get alive. Now.
Speaker 3: She is told at least a couple of people Jack
Speaker 3: that they are engaged.
Speaker 1: Do we have? And has that been substantiate? It has
Speaker 1: not been.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: They confirmed it on Thursday last time we're on the
Speaker 1: air on CNN, But I don't. I haven't followed up
Speaker 1: because who cares.
Speaker 3: But of course, if I was an attractive young woman
Speaker 3: who was a precious metal extractor sometimes called a gold digger,
Speaker 3: I could absolutely see saying to people were practically engaged, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're it's definitely we're unofficially engaged and stuff, just trying
Speaker 3: to sink the claws.
Speaker 1: In a little deeper. Everybody said it wants preying up?
Speaker 1: Who wants preying up?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So Kanye, Kanye, who's in rehab by the way, We
Speaker 1: got to talk about that later. Kanye ended a rehab
Speaker 1: over the weekend, apologized never endingly on Twitter, to the
Speaker 1: point that Elon kicked him off Twitter again. But to
Speaker 1: eat Kanye's at one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a month rehab something like it. I don't know an
Speaker 1: iota about it. I will bring you up to speak completely, don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know where to get better Kanye coverage here,
Speaker 3: I guess so I thought this was interesting. There are
Speaker 3: a couple of Oh, stay tuned. In just a few minutes,
Speaker 3: I'll reveal to you who will be running for president
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty eight on both.
Speaker 1: Sides, Yes, I do so, stay tuned. Is Trump beautiful?
Speaker 3: But it's just absolutely beyond question that the Democratic Party
Speaker 3: is in hell of a state. They don't know who
Speaker 3: they are, they don't know who to follow. For a
Speaker 3: third time, I don't know if the nation can handle that.
Speaker 3: The three peat? Good lord, what a nightmare, that would be,
Speaker 3: but they are their leader. Listen Rudderless. The only energy
Speaker 3: in the party is the Bernie aoc wing, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: They're running away from a lot of the policies that
Speaker 3: again have provided the energy. Defund the police, dei, anti white,
Speaker 3: anti mail, the rest of it. They're in a hell
Speaker 3: of a state. So a couple of things. Number one,
Speaker 3: this from the New York Times. Six months later. Democrats
Speaker 3: are still searching for the path forward, and they talk
Speaker 3: to a variety of experts, including this one gal who
Speaker 3: runs focus groups, which may be one of my least
Speaker 3: favorite aspects of modern society. That leaf blowers, focus groups
Speaker 3: and leaf bears both horrible. God, I got my son
Speaker 3: started on this now the other.
Speaker 1: But but what was one of the morning's beautiful day
Speaker 1: We're sitting out in the backyard, the palm tree in
Speaker 1: the pool, and it couldn't be it's like a resort, beautiful.
Speaker 1: It couldn't be leaf blower down the street, right, And
Speaker 1: so like fifteen houses have to be subjected to this.
Speaker 1: And I always want to say, I just want to say,
Speaker 1: if you turn that off, I can't hear you can
Speaker 1: speak up. If you turn that off so I can
Speaker 1: enjoy the piece and quiet. I'll come over and rake
Speaker 1: your leaves. It'll take me like twenty minutes. I'll come
Speaker 1: out and rank your leaves later. I love you. Watch this.
Speaker 1: The guy standing there, got one leaf on the lawn.
Speaker 1: Just looking at that leaf.
Speaker 3: He's gonna stand there and they will read that things
Speaker 3: one stage.
Speaker 1: To get that one.
Speaker 3: He could bend over and pick it up. He could
Speaker 3: rake it, he could kick it. He could do but no,
Speaker 3: but no, he's gonna stand there with his freaking blower.
Speaker 3: Is there anything in society so ubiquitous and so ubiquitously
Speaker 3: hate it as the leaf blower? I despise them. You
Speaker 3: know it'll never get done. But in our just in
Speaker 3: our neighborhood, our development, two days a week, even three
Speaker 3: days a week, I'll settle. I'll start it to I'll
Speaker 3: settle for three three days a week. You can freaking
Speaker 3: blow leaves all right. The other four days.
Speaker 1: No, or everybody time the gardeners the same day, which
Speaker 1: would be roughly what you're doing. But it seems like
Speaker 1: now people go out of their way to time it.
Speaker 1: Let's make sure there's a leaf blower going on one
Speaker 1: of these houses every day, right, and like, and.
Speaker 3: You've got an hour shift, You've got eight to nine am. Mondays,
Speaker 3: all right, let's take it nine to ten am on Monday.
Speaker 1: Who's okay? Excellent?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know it's just a scene. So anyway,
Speaker 3: this woman does not run a leafblower. She runs focus groups,
Speaker 3: and after about two hundred and fifty of them of
Speaker 3: swing voters, some patterns have emerged. She likes to ask
Speaker 3: the folks to compare the major parties to animals. What
Speaker 3: animal is the Republican Party? Most like, how about the Democrats?
Speaker 3: And she said Republicans are seen as apex predators like lions,
Speaker 3: tigers and sharks, beasts that take what they want when
Speaker 3: they wanted. Democrats are typically tagged as tortoises, slugs or sloths, slow, plotting,
Speaker 3: and passive. One guy said, yeah, more like a deer
Speaker 3: in the headlights. But I thought that was an interesting
Speaker 3: method of trying to figure out what was going on.
Speaker 1: But it goes on and on, various study groups and
Speaker 1: experts and.
Speaker 3: All trying to figure out why the Democratic Party is
Speaker 3: so lost.
Speaker 1: Yes, Democrats got to be a scavenger of some sort.
Speaker 1: You're eating off of something that somebody else hunted and killed. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a good one. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, and they talk about the trends of working class folks, men,
Speaker 3: white people, whatever, going away from the Democratic Party and
Speaker 3: it becoming just a cluster of hyper educated women and
Speaker 3: in a way that I think we've all noticed, fear
Speaker 3: and anxiety. There's one more thing I wanted to mention, Oh,
Speaker 3: the gender gap. It's swinging more and more in the
Speaker 3: favor of Republicans.
Speaker 1: For your ideological.
Speaker 3: Debates over policies, whether to push for a stricter stand
Speaker 3: on immigration, defend transgender rights less forcefully, or embrace anti
Speaker 3: corporate populism, are already playing out on Capitol Hill, et cetera.
Speaker 3: So they just they have no idea what they're doing.
Speaker 3: They're gathering at luxury hotels and spending tons of money
Speaker 3: trying to figure out how to win back working class voters. Oh,
Speaker 3: here it is. I knew there was one more thing.
Speaker 3: And one of the things that they're pitching, I'll tell
Speaker 3: you how it get back working class voters. Use the
Speaker 3: latinex a lot or Hertstree, Hertstree. Talk about Hertstreet, you
Speaker 3: know in our nation's Hurtstree, and teach little girls they
Speaker 3: can become boys. With just a little bit of surgery
Speaker 3: and some powerful hormones. We will carve up your body
Speaker 3: and turn you into a boy. Keep preaching that anyway.
Speaker 3: So various people were pitching various projects. One was a
Speaker 3: new twenty million dollar effort aimed to have reversed the
Speaker 3: erosion of democratic support among young men, especially online. It
Speaker 3: is coded code named SAM, short for Speaking with American Men,
Speaker 3: a strategic plan and promises investment to quote study the syntax,
Speaker 3: language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fancy words and
Speaker 1: smart people who couldn't pick up on young men don't
Speaker 1: dig the whole trans restrooms thing or constantly being blamed
Speaker 1: for everything that's wrong.
Speaker 3: Ah, they do mentioned quote above all. We must shift
Speaker 3: from a moralizing tone, no way. Yeah, browbeating people constantly
Speaker 3: that they're bad unless they go along with your ridiculous
Speaker 3: radical ideology.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that tends to piss people off. It wears them out.
Speaker 3: So here you go. Red and Wall Street Journal a
Speaker 3: profile of a man who is so clearly posturing himself
Speaker 3: to run for president. It is unmistakable not Gavy Newsome,
Speaker 3: not Josh Shapiro. Very very smart, very savvy, very moderate
Speaker 3: Ram Emmanuel hm Obama's former chief of staff, mayor of Chicago.
Speaker 3: He is very very smart, and he has been unmistakably
Speaker 3: anti woke, right, and he has the spine and the
Speaker 3: verbal talents to take on the AOC crowd and put
Speaker 3: him in their place, and would have no trouble doing it. Yeah, lost,
Speaker 3: he lost his finger at an RB's. I feel like
Speaker 3: that's a strike against him. But he's going to have
Speaker 3: to explain that to America because he was working. He
Speaker 3: was a young, hard working teenager trying to get ahead
Speaker 3: in this great country.
Speaker 1: Everybody else was running the sliced beef machine and didn't
Speaker 1: lose their fingers. But hey, you live and you learn.
Speaker 3: So he is direct about what he thinks Democrats need
Speaker 3: to win the national elections.
Speaker 1: Again. Party wrong. When you point the finger at someone else,
Speaker 1: he got three and a half fingers pointing back at you. Wow,
Speaker 1: just let me know when you're done.
Speaker 3: I'll continue on with some solid analysis America's electoral politics.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: He he called the party's brand toxic and weak and woke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: He'll be the headliner at a September fish fry for
Speaker 3: Democrats in Iowa.
Speaker 1: I'd be rooting for him. He must really like Iowa fish.
Speaker 1: I hope he runs at the very least in the
Speaker 1: nomination fight to take on you know, Gavin Newsom in
Speaker 1: his crap.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be Rama Manuel versus. And I'm less
Speaker 3: certain about this one. Marco Rubio, who I believe will
Speaker 3: be more appealing to the American people than JD. Vans
Speaker 3: because the band is my prediction. People mark my words,
Speaker 3: mark them. People can't vote for a president with a beard.
Speaker 1: Uh No.
Speaker 3: I think the beard's fine, and the whole mangled finger
Speaker 3: is also fine. It's it's a question of policy and
Speaker 3: connecting with people.
Speaker 1: But it would be got Cham.
Speaker 3: I'm not freaking Gavin, although watching him torn apart by
Speaker 3: the electorate and the media will be great fun.
Speaker 1: So there's a big Supreme Court breaking news story right now.
Speaker 1: We're headed into the time of the year, you know,
Speaker 1: in June, where they announce all their big cases and
Speaker 1: then run out the door so nobody can ask him
Speaker 1: any questions. But we've we've got one ruling that has
Speaker 1: come down today. I want to get back into Russia, Ukraine.
Speaker 1: At some point Wall Street Journal editorye with the big statement,
Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham with a major statement about it. And this
Speaker 1: could be a turning point in the whole war. Lots
Speaker 1: of stuff to talk about. Hope you can stay here.
Speaker 5: Video of President McCaw and his wife Brigitte pushing his
Speaker 5: face as they land in Vietnam is going viral. Later,
Speaker 5: mccaorn appears to offer his arm, but Francis first Lady
Speaker 5: wants to hold the railing instead. The ADZ Palace initially
Speaker 5: denied anything unusual had happened, calling it a moment of
Speaker 5: togetherness and playful teasing in a statement.
Speaker 1: See I bought that originally when I watched the video
Speaker 1: the door opens on the plane. You got the President
Speaker 1: of France, McCrone getting shoved in the face by his wife,
Speaker 1: and you see it, and then he sees that the
Speaker 1: doors open the cameras on a big smile. I originally
Speaker 1: bought the idea because I've known people who are like that.
Speaker 1: I've not been in that relationship, but I've known people
Speaker 1: who like she might playfully push him like that. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's no big deal. The fact that he offered
Speaker 1: her his arm as they headed down the stairs, and
Speaker 1: she just stared straight ahead and didn't take it. That
Speaker 1: means that was not some sort of playful push. They
Speaker 1: were actually having an argument.
Speaker 3: To me body language segment, Yeah, absolutely true.
Speaker 1: I watched it. I had no doubt. Yeah, she was pissed.
Speaker 1: She has pissed off at him. Yeah, how very French
Speaker 1: of him surrender to his old wife. Anyway, this headline
Speaker 1: last week, I was worried about reading. It turned out
Speaker 1: to be a nothing jurors a ditty trial, learn of
Speaker 1: the disgusting way he likes his burgers. Ex employs testify,
Speaker 1: and given everything that has come out of the ditty trial,
Speaker 1: I thought, oh my god, what does he put on
Speaker 1: his burgers? What does he make people do? And then
Speaker 1: the the Levins, I thought this is gonna be this
Speaker 1: is gonna be so gross. But no, he likes apple
Speaker 1: sauce on his burgers, which is kind of weird and
Speaker 1: I've never heard of that. I wouldn't call it. Given
Speaker 1: the context of the trial and some really disgusting things
Speaker 1: that are happening, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Call it a smon beating rapist. That's the The apple
Speaker 3: sauce is not the disgusting poll.
Speaker 1: On their yurinination has played a role. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: all lots of disgusting things in this trial. Apple sauce
Speaker 1: in your burgers doesn't count as disgusting in that context.
Speaker 1: It's odd. I haven't tried it. I'm not like it.
Speaker 1: Also breaking news last week, the penny is finally going
Speaker 1: away sometime next year. The penny they will make the
Speaker 1: last penny at the us Men. The us Men has
Speaker 1: placed its final order for penny blanks will stop producing
Speaker 1: the coin when those run out early next year, marking
Speaker 1: the beginning of the end of the oldest continually printed
Speaker 1: money piece in America, the Treasury announced last week. I
Speaker 1: just think this is such a good example of why
Speaker 1: can only Trump do some things like this? Why is that.
Speaker 3: He just lacks everybody else's tendency toward inertia. Inertia plays
Speaker 3: a huge role in government. You know, we've talked about it.
Speaker 3: You start a program, it's forever. But we start a bureaucracy.
Speaker 3: All it does is grow.
Speaker 1: But whether it's something important, like now, Jerusalem is a
Speaker 1: capital of Israel. Everybody treats that's in the capitol. From
Speaker 1: now on, it's the capital. Whether it's that that every
Speaker 1: president in my lifetime has said they were gonna do
Speaker 1: but didn't because focus groups are think tanks or whatever.
Speaker 1: He doesn't. And then the penny, which is not important,
Speaker 1: but just everybody's talked about it. But what are you
Speaker 1: afraid you'd be blamed by history or something. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It just seems so crazy to me, or that, you know,
Speaker 3: commerce would come to a halt or something. It's absurd
Speaker 3: when you think about it. I mean, because way back
Speaker 3: in the day in England they had the haypenny frequently
Speaker 3: or probably featured in the Christmas is Coming the Goose
Speaker 3: is Getting Fat song, know that one. There's no hay
Speaker 3: penny anymore. You know why, because that's an absurdly small
Speaker 3: denomination of money. Given the current value of the pound
Speaker 3: or the dollar in this.
Speaker 1: Case, there's no reason for it. Likewise, the penny.
Speaker 3: If the penny existed when a dollar could buy you
Speaker 3: a horse, the penny.
Speaker 1: Should not exist.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: It's an absurdly small denomination, sure, obviously, and has been
Speaker 1: for quite some time. And then with the most recent
Speaker 1: inflation it just took it to the next level. Plus
Speaker 1: you got the fact that it costs three cents to
Speaker 1: make a penny, which is dumb. It makes it costs
Speaker 1: like seven cents to make a nickel. There's talk of
Speaker 1: doing away with the nickel. I don't know, yeah, boy,
Speaker 1: nickels probably what a penny was not that long ago.
Speaker 3: If you were to start right now and say to people,
Speaker 3: all right, here's what you can buy for a dollar,
Speaker 3: you know, various examples of it, and it wouldn't be much,
Speaker 3: and said, the smallest increment we're going to have is
Speaker 3: a tenth of a dollar.
Speaker 1: So what can it dollar buy? It like a candy bar?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't often have a dollar in my mitt
Speaker 1: looking to buy something, So I don't know if I
Speaker 1: go to the dollar store a fair amount because my
Speaker 1: son really likes him. So give me, give me an example.
Speaker 1: What can you buy for a dollar? A variety of cheap, plastic,
Speaker 1: crappy things that are worth while.
Speaker 3: Ye, So the smallest denomination we're gonna have is one
Speaker 3: tenth of what it takes to buy a cheap, crappy
Speaker 3: plastic whatever. People will say, Yeah, that's that's plenty small,
Speaker 3: that's plenty fine enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the dime is where, Yeah, the dime should probably
Speaker 1: be the smallest denomination, and we actually do okay on
Speaker 1: the dime in terms of it's about a break even
Speaker 1: of what it costs to make a dime, right. And
Speaker 1: I was shocked the other day.
Speaker 3: I did an inflation calculator from I think was the
Speaker 3: eighties to the present day, and it was I don't
Speaker 3: remember the number, and I don't want to mislead, but
Speaker 3: it was multiples. It was not like, wow, this is
Speaker 3: a third or less everybody's more expensive. No, it's like quadruple.
Speaker 1: Everybody should do that to have a really realistic view
Speaker 1: of what your salary is or what your house costs
Speaker 1: or whatever, compared to like when you were a kid
Speaker 1: and aware of those things.
Speaker 3: It's shocking coming up some impactful, important stories about the world. Plus,
Speaker 3: is it better to shower in the morning or at night?
Speaker 3: There is a clear answer from science. Okay, Well, that
Speaker 3: was us MIT talk. We'll see you next two day.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: Of US high school students reported feeling sad or hopeless
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty three, and twenty percent had seriously considered
Speaker 6: attempting suicide.
Speaker 1: I appreciated that Meet the Press on Sunday did not
Speaker 1: go with the usual news of the day, particularly around
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. They went with the crisis that we've talked
Speaker 1: about a lot and should be treated like a crisis,
Speaker 1: that people are lonelier than ever, young people are killing
Speaker 1: themselves and taking medications to deal with anxiety, and all
Speaker 1: of the blah blah blah. We know all this stuff
Speaker 1: as being like a lead story, which it is should
Speaker 1: be a lead story, the lead story every week. B
Speaker 1: this is what Trump did yesterday for the cynical about
Speaker 1: these people.
Speaker 3: I wonder whether they're doing that for the right reason
Speaker 3: or if their ratings are just dropping off with never
Speaker 3: ending Trump hysteria. But anyway, back to the very very
Speaker 3: important topic.
Speaker 1: Let's hear a little more from Christian Walker of Meet
Speaker 1: the Press laying out some of the facts here.
Speaker 6: The mental health crisis in America is impacting young people
Speaker 6: in profound ways, and public health officials say it is
Speaker 6: an emergency. Two thirds of gen z report feelings of loneliness,
Speaker 6: and half of young adults report symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Speaker 6: Youth suicide rates are climbing. It is now one of
Speaker 6: the leading causes of death in adolescents and young adults.
Speaker 6: Almost one in five young adults report rarely or never
Speaker 6: receiving the social support they need. In our super connected times,
Speaker 6: over fifty five million US adults report frequent loneliness. The
Speaker 6: smartphones and social media apps that connect us to the
Speaker 6: world are also accelerating the crisis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all know that. That's one thing about this story.
Speaker 1: I feel like every single time we quickly get to smartphones,
Speaker 1: social media and everybody's aware of this already, there's a
Speaker 1: lot like there's not like the next sentence or the
Speaker 1: next whatever comes after that. So we should what make it?
Speaker 1: Have Superman fly around the world where really fast and
Speaker 1: turn back time to be four smartphones. If that were possible,
Speaker 1: I'd be all for it.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm trying to remember there was a great phrase
Speaker 3: by Caitlin Flanagan I think who wrote that we're drowning
Speaker 3: in the stuff.
Speaker 1: It's killing us, but we like it under the water. Ahh,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good. Now, combining a
Speaker 1: couple of things that are related and not related, I guess.
Speaker 1: So this Netflix show Adolescence that's getting a tremendous amount
Speaker 1: of attention. It's already got one hundred and fourteen million views,
Speaker 1: which is a lot compared to like regular TV shows,
Speaker 1: it's based on a horrifying story of a middle schooler
Speaker 1: boy who murdered his classmate girl. And one of the
Speaker 1: reasons it's getting a fair amount of attention by The
Speaker 1: New York Times, and Gavin Newsom talked about how he
Speaker 1: had to turn it off was horrifying, is because they
Speaker 1: present a lot of it as right wing, toxic masculinity
Speaker 1: that is caught on on social media and the Tate
Speaker 1: Brothers and that sort of stuff. But and it goes
Speaker 1: too far. All of that stuff is true, but it
Speaker 1: leaves out, you know, there's plenty on all sides of
Speaker 1: what's wrong with social media and what it's doing to
Speaker 1: people and their worldviews, especially young men. And then this
Speaker 1: story worry that also fits into what I think is
Speaker 1: this thing it became a TikTok craze, but the I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of truth in it. It's the
Speaker 1: idea of men calling each other at night and saying, hey,
Speaker 1: just want to say good night to you. You know
Speaker 1: you're a good friend, and saying good night. And I
Speaker 1: thought that's because that's a thing that usually gets taken
Speaker 1: care of by having a girlfriend or wife or boyfriend
Speaker 1: or husband if you're gay, but you you have a
Speaker 1: relationship of somebody that's going to text you goodnight, call
Speaker 1: you good night, or is in bed next to you,
Speaker 1: and so many people don't. Now it was kind of
Speaker 1: presented as like a joke, but I could see how
Speaker 1: that could be a thing. I'm not going to do it,
Speaker 1: but I could see how that could be a thing
Speaker 1: because you're lacking that in your life. Nobody at the
Speaker 1: end of the day that says, yeah, I'm thinking about you, goodnight,
Speaker 1: miss you, something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, these are all very troubling elements. Right right, I'm
Speaker 3: struck by and I'm trying to find the right words.
Speaker 3: How much of this stuff is antiseptic is the closest
Speaker 3: I'm getting. What I'm what I'm driving at is online interaction,
Speaker 3: including everything that we've described so far.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna make fun of this, but go ahead.
Speaker 3: First they laugh at you, then they laugh at you more,
Speaker 3: then they really really laugh at you, but then they Hailey,
Speaker 3: who's a genius. I think that's how it ends anyway,
Speaker 3: an online relationship, porn, social media, online quote unquote friends.
Speaker 3: I remember railing about the term friends. Yeah, when Facebook
Speaker 3: first caught on, I was ahead of my time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right about that. The Yeah, the porn chick
Speaker 1: you're looking at is not going to text you miss
Speaker 1: you good night at the end of the day.
Speaker 3: But here's what just dawned on me is you're going
Speaker 3: through these things, all of those quote unquote relationships or
Speaker 3: being with those people. They have no smell, they have
Speaker 3: no taste, they have no feelings, physical sensation until the
Speaker 3: love bots come along and the rest of it. They
Speaker 3: are incredibly antiseptic, and they lack all of the like downside.
Speaker 3: All right, So you're with a girl, maybe she's got
Speaker 3: bad breath. Porn doesn't have bad breath, for instance.
Speaker 1: It all is so.
Speaker 3: Lacking in the rough and tumble of real life that
Speaker 3: I think people can no longer tolerate the rough and
Speaker 3: tumble of real life of a lover who's occasionally insensitive
Speaker 3: or has bad breath or is sweating from the gym
Speaker 3: or whatever, and friends who annoy you and stuff.
Speaker 4: Don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if those are the examples that are
Speaker 1: keeping people. I think it's the but it's easy, it's
Speaker 1: all so, I think it's the emotional effort is a
Speaker 1: is a problem. If if if there's a crowd out there,
Speaker 1: and we know that it's true. I've seen this with
Speaker 1: my own eyes, and it horrifies me. They like draw
Speaker 1: straws to see who's going to call to order the
Speaker 1: pizza because it's so intimidating that crowd's not going to
Speaker 1: ask somebody out and make the emotional risk that is
Speaker 1: getting into her relationship. I mean, I think pretty clearly true.
Speaker 3: Or fight through the inevitable part of the relationship where
Speaker 3: you realize, Okay, this person is fully human and has
Speaker 3: flaws and annoys me at times, and there are.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we're going to have to do stuff that they
Speaker 1: want to do and not just stuff I want to do.
Speaker 1: I think that's a big part of it. To go
Speaker 1: back a second, and I don't want to get a
Speaker 1: hung up on this, because the point is not any
Speaker 1: of this. The whole point is not any of the
Speaker 1: sex stuff. But apparently because I've read about this, I
Speaker 1: think I was out in the New York Post. You can,
Speaker 1: like a lot of these OnlyFans women, you can get
Speaker 1: some sort of set up with them where they text
Speaker 1: you throughout the day how's your day going, and text
Speaker 1: you at night to fulfill that particular desire. That desire
Speaker 1: is strong enough that dudes are not doing it with
Speaker 1: each other, at least according to a TikTok trend. You know,
Speaker 1: just thinking to you good night, you can pay somebody
Speaker 1: to do that. How would that look? I can't imagine
Speaker 1: getting any satisfaction from that whatsoever. Hey, you've got to
Speaker 1: delude yourself. You'd have to delude yourself. The person I'm
Speaker 1: paying just texted me to say good night. Hi, good
Speaker 1: night everybody. John Fetterman, he's mine. Yeah, uh god, that
Speaker 1: is horrifying. But I had another prink. Oh. So, the
Speaker 1: lead on Meet the Press was the Surgeon General saying
Speaker 1: a while back that we have a loneliness epidemic. It's
Speaker 1: cutting years off people's lives. It's a leading killer because
Speaker 1: because because it's all kinds of different problems. So do
Speaker 1: you think it's just flat loneliness because of all the
Speaker 1: stuff where you've just described.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think it's a it's a vicious circle
Speaker 3: of loneliness for the reasons we've been discussing. You have
Speaker 3: this antiseptic uh simulacrum, a faux relationship with various people
Speaker 3: from you know, and that you have your OnlyFans, girl,
Speaker 3: texts you thinking of you.
Speaker 1: And then you begin to think.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's the stripper saying, oh you're handsome
Speaker 3: on steroids, and people are primed to actually believe it.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, falling in love with a damn robot.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's it's awful.
Speaker 1: God. I would say so if we're at the loneliness
Speaker 1: epidemic right when AI is taking off, and like only
Speaker 1: Fans has only been around for a few years, it
Speaker 1: just seems like the timing is the cures are coming. Cures.
Speaker 1: I guess I'll use my finger quote because it's not
Speaker 1: curing the underlying problem, but the the ointment or the
Speaker 1: sav for the problem.
Speaker 3: They're getting they're getting better. Yeah, the band aids over
Speaker 3: the gaping wound are getting better. That's the metaphor I
Speaker 3: would go with. Oh, yes, yes, here's a really nice
Speaker 3: band aid. Look it completely covers the gaping wound.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm telling you the human kind is doomed.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what this is gonna sound like. Let's
Speaker 1: jam this in real quick. This is from the TikTok trend,
Speaker 1: which I think is a combination of kind of funny
Speaker 1: and silly and a serious underlying problem.
Speaker 4: I'll just call and tell you good night, sleeep dreams.
Speaker 4: I'm about to lay down. I'm not get in the
Speaker 4: bad I just want to call tell you good night, bro,
Speaker 4: sleep dreams.
Speaker 1: Why are you doing? I hope you sleep tight? Bro?
Speaker 1: What do you have? What sweet drink? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Bro? I just I can't wish did you sleep good tonight?
Speaker 3: Which mean.
Speaker 1: I was just calling to say tonight. Well thanks man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I don't remember the lost of time
Speaker 1: someone say good night.
Speaker 4: I just want Colin say you good night, sweet dreams.
Speaker 4: I just want Colin say you good night, bro. If
Speaker 4: you sleep tight tonight, I think we get it.
Speaker 1: So, whether it's just it's just TikTok silliness, somebody trying
Speaker 1: to go viral, but it's calling.
Speaker 3: People, if guys, to freak him out and then post
Speaker 3: it on them, but it reeks of a need, I
Speaker 3: think that is well.
Speaker 1: I don't think I guarantee it's out there. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess the loneliness epidemic, which is well Joe. Joe always
Speaker 1: said we're doomed, so there's no point in going on
Speaker 1: with the conversation. Humanity is doomed. I think he's right.
Speaker 1: We love it here under the water. That's the problem. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't really have any answers on meet the press either,
Speaker 1: as they went through all that stuff of social media
Speaker 1: and phones and lack of connection and blah blah blah
Speaker 1: and all these different sorts of things. Uh, they didn't.
Speaker 3: They didn't really have an answer. Turn the effing thing off,
Speaker 3: leave it behind. People aren't gonna do that though. Hang
Speaker 3: out with your friends, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: And you know it. People.
Speaker 3: I'm not concerned with people, Jack, I'm not concerned with
Speaker 3: solving the problem.
Speaker 1: Quote unquote.
Speaker 3: I'm throwing starfish back in the water. If I listen
Speaker 3: to me and one other person does, that's great. I
Speaker 3: can't save society, forget it.
Speaker 1: It's doomed. I just want to save as many people
Speaker 1: as I can, including me and the people I love.
Speaker 1: We got like two generations left, and there'll be no
Speaker 1: more human beings. On earth Land of the Beavers. Yeah
Speaker 1: and thoughts. Text line is four one, five two nine
Speaker 1: five kftc.
Speaker 2: An overturned truck covered a Texas highway an eight million dime,
Speaker 2: sparking a wild frenzy of drivers picking up like three
Speaker 2: dimes and saying, this is actually hard.
Speaker 1: Let's just go.
Speaker 3: The dimes should be the smallest denomination of American coinage
Speaker 3: that has been decided.
Speaker 1: Surprising number of texts from your teas of is it
Speaker 1: better to shower in the morning or at night? Hmmm?
Speaker 1: I would like to know the answer according to science, Yes,
Speaker 1: I've I was always a morning guy. I have become
Speaker 1: a night guy. I shower at night. Yeah, well I
Speaker 1: stay too. If you work out during the day, what
Speaker 1: are you going to get in You're gonna get into
Speaker 1: bed with your sweaty body.
Speaker 3: Grows you shower again, play golf, workout, whatever, double shower. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 3: So it's the question is.
Speaker 1: Long better debate? Better shower in the morning or night.
Speaker 3: Of course, morning shower enthusiasts say that's the obvious winner.
Speaker 3: It helps you wake up start the day fresh, Absolutely true.
Speaker 3: Night shower loyalists, on the other hand, will argue it's
Speaker 3: better to wash the day away and relax before bed.
Speaker 1: You get into bed nice and clean. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: like into getting into bed not clean. Also, you know,
Speaker 1: getting back to our previous conversation, I got no companionship
Speaker 1: and that plays a role. I would be showering more
Speaker 1: often if I did well.
Speaker 3: The microbiologist who wrote this says, there is actually a
Speaker 3: clear answer to the question. This part is really interesting,
Speaker 3: and their perspective is mostly about body odor. Many of
Speaker 3: us think body odor is caused by sweat. It is
Speaker 3: kind of indirectly, but it's actually produced by bacteria that
Speaker 3: live on the surface of the skin. Fresh sweat is odorless,
Speaker 3: but skin dwelling bacteria, specifically staphlocaci, use sweat as a
Speaker 3: direct nutrition source. When they bring down the sweat, it
Speaker 3: releases as a sulfur compaining containing compound, which is behind
Speaker 3: pungent boh.
Speaker 1: Finding this very gross, I think I almost never have
Speaker 1: the body odor. I shower enough to avoid that.
Speaker 3: So during the day, your body and hair inevitably collect
Speaker 3: pollutants and allergens, dust pollens that are alongside the usual
Speaker 3: accumulation of sweat and sebaceous oil. While some of these
Speaker 3: particles will be retained by your clothes, others will inevitably
Speaker 3: be transferred to your sheets and pillow cases.
Speaker 1: I don't want that.
Speaker 3: The sweat and oil from your skin will support the
Speaker 3: growth of bacteria that comprise your skin microbiome. They can
Speaker 3: be transferred onto your sheets. So showering at night may
Speaker 3: remove some of the allergen sweat and oil picked up
Speaker 3: during the day, so less ends up on your bed sheets. However,
Speaker 3: even if you're freshly showered before bed, you still sweat
Speaker 3: during the night, whatever the temperature. Your skin microbes will
Speaker 3: then eat the nutrients in the sweat, and you know
Speaker 3: what that means. By the morning, you'll have both deposited
Speaker 3: microbes onto your bed sheets and you'll probably wake up
Speaker 3: with some boh all right, And what particularly negates the
Speaker 3: cleaning benefits of the night's showers If your bedding is
Speaker 3: not laundered regularly, the odor causing micro present your bed
Speaker 3: sheets may be transferred while you sleep under your clean body.
Speaker 3: So I'll cut to the chase, because this is long.
Speaker 3: Morning showers help remove dead skin cells as well as
Speaker 3: any sweater bacteria you've picked up from your bed sheets
Speaker 3: during the night. Especially important if your bed sheets aren't
Speaker 3: freshly washed when you went to bed. This microbiologist says,
Speaker 3: clear winter morning showers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good for you. I'm in a shower at night,
Speaker 1: rejecting science. Mm, rejecting that scientist.
Speaker 3: You're like the priests who tortured Galileo or poisoned him
Speaker 3: or punched him in the face.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. You would have kicked Copernicus out of
Speaker 1: the temple as you reject you know, you know what
Speaker 1: I noticed coming out of my three week sickness. But
Speaker 1: usually when you're sick, it's like a week or something
Speaker 1: like that. Usually when I'm sick, I get into a
Speaker 1: habit of like not doing my normal stuff, and so
Speaker 1: like the bed sheets are all there's tissues everywhere. My
Speaker 1: room is not just when you're sick. And then finally,
Speaker 1: when I'm done being sick, it's like, okay, let's get
Speaker 1: back to real life. Let's wash all the sheets, throw
Speaker 1: all the stuff away, let's get everything straightened out again.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, so true. Yeah, Okay, So anyway, shower
Speaker 3: whenever they you want. Sarson who sleeps in socks? So
Speaker 3: why would anybody take like a cycle path? Why wouldn't
Speaker 3: anybody take any advice from you? Tell you what, there's
Speaker 3: a fire, burglary. I throw my shoes on, which are
Speaker 3: right next to the bed, next to my gun, my eyeglasses,
Speaker 3: and I'm ready to go. Somedights, I sleep in a
Speaker 3: track suit if I think, you know, there could be
Speaker 3: action tonight. Gotta be ready.
Speaker 1: Like a guy I knew in high school on the
Speaker 1: wrestling team. He would put on his socks and shoes first. Now,
Speaker 1: you younger people are going to find this shocking, like Michelangelo,
Speaker 1: as we've learned over the years, because nobody ever sees
Speaker 1: anybody naked in the modern world. But back in the day,
Speaker 1: you played sports and everybody was naked in the locker
Speaker 1: room at the same time after you showered. Anyway, he
Speaker 1: would put on his socks and shoes before anything else.
Speaker 1: And his theory was, what if there're a fire right now,
Speaker 1: I can run out the door. You your bare foot.
Speaker 3: Socks, end shoes, socks and shoe then like had to
Speaker 3: work his pants over his shoes.
Speaker 1: Now that's a psychopath. He went on to be a
Speaker 1: marine and a cop, I believe, Wow, okay, and he
Speaker 1: was always ready. Trump said the strongest things he's said
Speaker 1: about Putin yet yesterday. That's after Putin launched the biggest
Speaker 1: attacks of the entire war against Ukraine over the weekend. Yes, strong,
Speaker 1: but odd and inconclusive. We'll talk about Matt an hour three,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty