Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Any of you in the media clearly missed the art
Speaker 2: of the deal. You clearly failed to see what President
Speaker 2: Trump is doing here. You tried to say that the
Speaker 2: rest of the world would be moved closer to China,
Speaker 2: and in fact we've seen the opposite effect.
Speaker 1: That's the White House press spokesman explaining yesterday why Trump
Speaker 1: that was the plan all along. It was the art
Speaker 1: of the deal, the pullback on the tariffs away he did.
Speaker 1: And then but Trump shortly thereafter talking to a reporter
Speaker 1: to markets that persuaded you to reverse. I was watching
Speaker 1: the bottom market that the bond market is very tricky.
Speaker 1: I was watching it. But if you look at it now,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. The bond market right now is beautiful. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw last night where people were getting a little queasy.
Speaker 1: I think everything had.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: The big move wasn't what I did today. The big
Speaker 1: move was what I did on Liberation Day. We had
Speaker 1: Liberation Day in America. We liberated from all of the
Speaker 1: horrible deals that were made, all of the horrible trade
Speaker 1: deals that were made. So he basically came out and said,
Speaker 1: I was watching the financial returns and people were getting scared.
Speaker 1: So and the reporting is that the Secretary of the
Speaker 1: Treasury was sitting there with him saying, dude, dude, just
Speaker 1: getting too bad. And that's when Trump put out the
Speaker 1: truth social yesterday, right right after we got off the air.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the timing, mister Trump. Couldn't you have done
Speaker 1: it a half hour earlier. It have been so exciting
Speaker 1: to talk about in real time, as the stock market
Speaker 1: skyrocketed immediately as soon as he said ninety day pause
Speaker 1: on the tariffs, freaked out by the bond market. Jack
Speaker 1: all about the bond market. No, I was not was
Speaker 1: the art of a Neil? Was the plan all along? Oh?
Speaker 4: Sorry, I stand corrected. So Scott Besant came out and
Speaker 4: further explained the White House's policies. Why don't we just
Speaker 4: start with number fifty, Michael, as.
Speaker 3: I told everyone a week ago there in this very spot,
Speaker 3: do not retaliate and you will be rewarded. So every
Speaker 3: country in the world who wants to come and negotiate,
Speaker 3: we are willing to hear you we're going to go
Speaker 3: down to a ten percent baseline tariff for them, and
Speaker 3: China will be raised to one five due to their
Speaker 3: insistence on escalation.
Speaker 1: Is Secretary think so?
Speaker 4: And then the market skyrocketed and then they plunged. As
Speaker 4: we speak on Thursday, they are down around five percent,
Speaker 4: depending on which one you're looking at.
Speaker 1: It's a huge drop. Wow, I see the Dow is
Speaker 1: down trade war with China sixteen hundred as everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because the whole China thing, that's a big deal. What
Speaker 1: is it, one hundred and twenty five percent tariff on China?
Speaker 1: Now all those Chinese firts coming in. Whatever it is,
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five, three hundred percent, I don't know.
Speaker 1: As we learned yesterday, it can all change pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: It's funny in a way to have heard for ages,
Speaker 1: if you're paying any attention, that we've got to couple
Speaker 1: with China.
Speaker 4: They've been exploiting us. They've been erecting barriers to our goods.
Speaker 4: They've been stealing our intellectual property. They've been cheating in
Speaker 4: a hundred different ways. They've been flooding the world with
Speaker 4: cheap crap and predatory you know, exploiting of markets to
Speaker 4: put their competition out of business. Blah blah blah. We've
Speaker 4: got to decouple. And now that the decoupling is maybe beginning,
Speaker 4: it's like.
Speaker 1: What are we doing? Why is this? What a And
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 4: Saying it's good or it's going to be easy, but uh,
Speaker 4: here we go, right, how does this play out?
Speaker 1: Well? My characterization that I mean, because it looks to
Speaker 1: me like from the reporting that Trump got some reactions
Speaker 1: in the stock market that were beyond what he thought
Speaker 1: would happen and he had to pull the plug on
Speaker 1: this earlier than he thought. Or are you going with
Speaker 1: the this was the plan all along?
Speaker 4: No, I'm going with the bond market specifically, which is
Speaker 4: different from the stock markets the markets in general. But yeah,
Speaker 4: because the numbers in the bond market suggested people were
Speaker 4: really taking a dim view of the United States economy
Speaker 4: and debt in the long term.
Speaker 1: But he was, and that's no good. But he wasn't
Speaker 1: planning twenty four hours earlier to do that.
Speaker 4: No, as bessn said, Uh where does he say that
Speaker 4: that they were talking about it on Sunday?
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 4: I can't find it, and it doesn't really matter. But
Speaker 4: now they you know, Actually, I think this is a
Speaker 4: really good account by Annie Lensky and a couple others
Speaker 4: in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: It was a classic Trump.
Speaker 4: He took a drastic action, closely tracked the reaction, kept
Speaker 4: advisors and allies guessing, and then changed course.
Speaker 1: You're judged by the results, and we were.
Speaker 4: Getting screwed by China, but it was such crack the
Speaker 4: Chinese market, and they're cheap manufacturing. We just didn't want
Speaker 4: to get off the crack, even though we knew it
Speaker 4: was horrible.
Speaker 1: And now maybe we're starting.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I have no problem with the result we've gotten. I
Speaker 1: think it's kind of hilarious that the people that were,
Speaker 1: you know, Trump hating crowd how how you know? Dogmatic
Speaker 1: he is, and he's an idea law and he won't
Speaker 1: bend and he refuses to face reality and he's crazy.
Speaker 1: And and then when the bond market does whatever he
Speaker 1: doesn't like and he changes course, then he's criticized for
Speaker 1: going back on his what he had said before. Well,
Speaker 1: which do you want? M You know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if we have the clip yesterday where he was talking
Speaker 1: about sometimes you gotta go, you know, you want to
Speaker 1: be on the other side of that wall. You try
Speaker 1: to go through the wall. You try to go through
Speaker 1: the wall, it won't work, so you gotta try to.
Speaker 1: Then you decide, well, maybe I got to go over
Speaker 1: it or around it or under it, but I got
Speaker 1: you know, got to you gotta change your plan. But
Speaker 1: that's things. That's what he said yesterday for his you know,
Speaker 1: dropping the tariffs. But it's a very sort of thing.
Speaker 1: He was being criticized for that. He wouldn't do that
Speaker 1: sort of thing, you know, an hour earlier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry that the quote I was looking for
Speaker 4: is actually in print. Beson To explained the move to
Speaker 4: pause some of the tariffs was discussed Sunday when the
Speaker 4: two men met. He and I had a long talk.
Speaker 4: This was his strategy all along. Now I can believe
Speaker 4: that Trump said, yeah, I threw all that permanent trade
Speaker 4: barriers talk out there because I wanted people to come
Speaker 4: to the table in a serious way and we got
Speaker 4: to restructure our international trade.
Speaker 1: I can believe that was his plan all long.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't necessarily think that technique is great
Speaker 4: as the leader of the free world, but you know,
Speaker 4: that's everybody can have their own opinion.
Speaker 3: On it.
Speaker 1: It would be technically true to say if you're playing
Speaker 1: all along is if the bond market does this, I'll
Speaker 1: have to end it. Yeah that he could have said
Speaker 1: that out loud behind closed doors long time. Sure as possible.
Speaker 4: About a little let's let's hear a little more Scott
Speaker 4: Bess into fifty one.
Speaker 3: Michael, your ponies fine bargle to China tradeing marble. Well,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what you mean by the word in
Speaker 3: bargo one.
Speaker 1: Isn't any always eighty four percent?
Speaker 5: Is any?
Speaker 1: Barber? Well, it's it's good.
Speaker 3: It's China's decision that we have the deficit with them.
Speaker 3: They sell us almost five times what we sell them.
Speaker 3: So again, I think it's an.
Speaker 1: Own goal by China, and he expands on that thought
Speaker 1: in the next clip. But what I am certain of.
Speaker 3: What I'm certain of is that what China is doing
Speaker 3: will affect their economy much more than a will ours,
Speaker 3: because they have an export driven flood the world with
Speaker 3: cheap export models. And the rest of the world now
Speaker 3: understands because when we put our barterre fall, those exports
Speaker 3: are already flowing to the rest of the G seven
Speaker 3: and to the global South.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you like March Madness or the NBA
Speaker 1: playoffs are starting. You want to see two giant titans
Speaker 1: going at it. The biggest economy in the world and
Speaker 1: the second biggest economy in the world are now officially
Speaker 1: in a trade war. That's pretty exciting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know both know's going to try out
Speaker 4: in neither side is the sort of guy or in
Speaker 4: the sort of situation where backing down is going to
Speaker 4: be very easy.
Speaker 1: I don't think Trump should back down. How it's thinness,
Speaker 1: you know, there are a thousand opinions on that.
Speaker 4: How do we decouple with China? How quickly? Where do
Speaker 4: we start? How do we deal with the pain of it?
Speaker 4: I mean, that's super crazy complex. But the fact that
Speaker 4: it's happened, it has to happen.
Speaker 1: He could end up taking the Trump could end up
Speaker 1: taking the blame for something that was inevitable anyway that
Speaker 1: was going to happen more in drips and drabs, I mean,
Speaker 1: because the the the rupture had to happen at some
Speaker 1: point between US and China. It just it can't continue.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're your biggest business partner, Well, one of the
Speaker 4: biggest is a evil regime bent on world domination.
Speaker 1: That's right. That's not very convenient building up their military
Speaker 1: every single day to try to take us over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say that I put it too neutrally. No,
Speaker 1: they're bent on crushing us as an economy, as a
Speaker 1: political system, and a species. If they can. We want
Speaker 1: to stamp out the American ideal as fast as they should,
Speaker 1: they would actually ensla They would have no problem with that.
Speaker 4: I understand because the racist too, that's often left out
Speaker 4: of the discussion.
Speaker 1: You're right, I don't understand why more people don't understand this.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it is a very very big deal.
Speaker 4: It's like because because so many people were making so
Speaker 4: much money, nobody had any interest in explaining it.
Speaker 1: God. I was listening to the Tom Cotton podcast the
Speaker 1: other day. His book out about Seven Things you Can't
Speaker 1: Say about China, But he was talking about when China
Speaker 1: finally decides to take Taiwan, and nobody has any idea
Speaker 1: if that's going to be this afternoon or never, or
Speaker 1: any time in between, and it's up to President she
Speaker 1: because that's the way their system worked. But as Tom
Speaker 1: Cotton pointed out, like the military exercise they did a
Speaker 1: week or so ago. If they just announced this is
Speaker 1: no longer an exercise, Taiwan is ours. What is anybody
Speaker 1: gonna do about it? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 4: At that point, right, Tom, we ought to talk to
Speaker 4: Tom Cotton if since he's making the rounds, his book
Speaker 4: sounds terrific and man, he is the finest and smartest
Speaker 4: of the China Hawks.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And he makes the point that a lot of
Speaker 1: the world said, no, no, Hong Kong is independent. You
Speaker 1: can't take Hong Kong. Okay, you've taken Hong Kong. You
Speaker 1: shouldn't have done that. And you know, time just goes by,
Speaker 1: and Hong Kong belongs to China. Now it's just like
Speaker 1: any other part of China. Yep. And I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen with Taiwan too, which will really affect chipping
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah blah. This trade war is gonna
Speaker 1: be fun to watch. Well.
Speaker 4: And one final thought, the reason for his title seven
Speaker 4: Things you Can't Say about China, it's just not like
Speaker 4: a provocative title. He's making the point that China has
Speaker 4: so much power, so much influence over various areas of business,
Speaker 4: especially financial, for financial reasons that nobody's willing to call
Speaker 4: them on some of the horrors of the way they
Speaker 4: do business, the way they treat people, just a dozen
Speaker 4: different things. And we've got to stop being afraid of
Speaker 4: offending the Communist Chinese.
Speaker 1: Starting with when we were kids, every scary international movie,
Speaker 1: the bad guys were Russian Soviet Union. The spies were
Speaker 1: from the Soviet Union. You know, World War three was
Speaker 1: going to be Soviet Union. Never never Chinese spy, bad
Speaker 1: guys from China in any movie ever. Right, And that's
Speaker 1: what said. Isn't that odd? I wonder if that'll change. Ever,
Speaker 1: we've got more in the way. I hope you can
Speaker 1: stick around. I got something I think it's unintentionally hilarious.
Speaker 1: It seems to be serious. It's from a website that
Speaker 1: helps with careers Career Guide Career Development thirty alternatives to
Speaker 1: hope all is well to use in work emails. I
Speaker 1: need from the Indeed editorial team. I need the editorial
Speaker 1: team of a website around business to help me with
Speaker 1: things to say other than hope all is well. Anyway.
Speaker 1: I'll get into those at the bottom of the ear.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I lean on that phrase a little bit in
Speaker 4: my correspondence. I need some alternatives excellent.
Speaker 1: But don't we under well? I'll talk about it when
Speaker 1: it's time to talk about it.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, please Michael five. The Jimmy fallon bits sounds amusing?
Speaker 1: Is it amusing? Let's hear that Trump's trying his best
Speaker 1: to ease everyone's concerns about the economy. This morning he.
Speaker 4: Posted be cool, Everything is going to work out well.
Speaker 1: Be cool isn't what you say to fix the economy.
Speaker 1: It's what you say when you and your friend are
Speaker 1: trying to sneak outside food into a movie theater. So
Speaker 1: you're walking weird? Dude, you're walking weird? Why are you
Speaker 1: walking sideways? My mom is just sneaking like a two
Speaker 1: liter bottle of soda and just open it slowly. It's
Speaker 1: the longest. I just open it fast if we can
Speaker 1: get it over with it. Sounds like you're grilling. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When I would bring beers into the movie theater, you
Speaker 1: gotta wait for like an explosion or something loud to happen,
Speaker 1: then you can open your beer. Shameful. I thought this
Speaker 1: was interesting.
Speaker 4: According to new research, your mind wandering isn't always harmful
Speaker 4: to learning. You know how it is you suddenly realize
Speaker 4: you've spaced off and haven't heard.
Speaker 1: A word for the last two minutes or something like that.
Speaker 1: It's okay with like audiobooks and stuff like that podcast
Speaker 1: because I can rewind them. But if it's your boss
Speaker 1: or a professor, you can't rewind it. It's disparting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will tell you this.
Speaker 4: I'll jump to a bit of a caveat to the science,
Speaker 4: which is really interesting but depends the setting and what's
Speaker 4: being said and how boring are they But for decades,
Speaker 4: whether it's an educator or employer, they've treated mind wandering
Speaker 4: as the enemy of productivity and learning. But according to
Speaker 4: new research published in the Jural journal, Hello, I need
Speaker 4: to read the Journal of Saying the word correctly. New
Speaker 4: research published in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that minds
Speaker 4: wandering isn't just harmless, it might actively boost our ability
Speaker 4: to pick up on subtle patterns in the world around us.
Speaker 1: It's your brain saying, give me a second.
Speaker 4: I've got to shake all of that out, file it
Speaker 4: and understand the relationship between those ideas.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm good.
Speaker 4: It's doing the making the connections that give you actual
Speaker 4: knowledge and wisdom.
Speaker 1: I'll bet that's true sometimes or maybe even most of
Speaker 1: the time, but yes, not always. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The study conducted by researchers found that when participants' minds
Speaker 4: drifted during a computer task, they became better at detecting
Speaker 4: hidden statistical patterns, even though they weren't consciously trying.
Speaker 1: To find them.
Speaker 4: Mind wandering, occupying thirty to fifty percent of our waking time,
Speaker 4: remains an enigmatic phenomenon and cognitive neuroscience. The researchers noted,
Speaker 4: given how much of our mental life around such wandering
Speaker 4: thoughts involves such wondering thoughts, it seems unlikely they serve
Speaker 4: no purpose. I would argue that that is also another
Speaker 4: reason not to stare constantly at your phone and always
Speaker 4: engage your mind with inputs. It needs time to not
Speaker 4: be doing anything specific I both for your cognitive function
Speaker 4: and your sanity.
Speaker 1: I've always known I've been listening to audiobooks back to
Speaker 1: when they were cassettes you got at the library. But
Speaker 1: I've always noticed, like when i'd go on trips, I
Speaker 1: couldn't get into it right away. I'd keep spacing off,
Speaker 1: and I'd have to rewind, space off, rewind, But once
Speaker 1: I got in a groove, then then I could focus
Speaker 1: so I don't know what that is that it just
Speaker 1: like had to train my brain a little bit to
Speaker 1: be able to focus right.
Speaker 4: And they point out that the mind wandering people missed
Speaker 4: and made more errors overall during their periods of mind wandering,
Speaker 4: but they became much better at detecting certain subtle things
Speaker 4: that were below the surface. So spacing off and daydreaming
Speaker 4: is incredibly important, as is sleep.
Speaker 1: Hope you are well or on the Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: So we've got an internal thing to clean up here
Speaker 1: on the Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: Show, I would say so to say the lace Joey
Speaker 4: three years are working together.
Speaker 1: This is the low moment, right, So at the end
Speaker 1: of the last segment, you're about to hear it. I struggled.
Speaker 1: Joe said it was off the air. He said during
Speaker 1: the commercials, that is the worst moment. And thirty years
Speaker 1: of doing this show this Katie's already laughing. She will
Speaker 1: not soon be cleared. I can't wait to hear it again.
Speaker 1: I'm not looking forward to hearing it again. I can
Speaker 1: explain myself, I think, well, I can't really explain it,
Speaker 1: but I know what happened anyway, This is how it
Speaker 1: sounded what you're about to hear happened like six minutes ago.
Speaker 4: Spacing off and daydreaming is incredibly important as a sleep.
Speaker 1: Hope you are well or all no on the artrong
Speaker 1: and Getty, Oh beautiful, beautiful again, Michael.
Speaker 4: Spacing off and daydreaming is incredibly important as a sleep.
Speaker 1: I hope you are well or all no on my
Speaker 1: arm strong And so I was trying. I was in
Speaker 1: my mind what I was going to say, and usually,
Speaker 1: as a person who speaks for a living, what I
Speaker 1: have in my mind can come out of my mouth
Speaker 1: quite quickly eventually or an alternative version. And I've never
Speaker 1: felt physically this. I've never felt this before. My tongue
Speaker 1: it felt like it was three times its normal size,
Speaker 1: and it just or all nor something happened with my
Speaker 1: jaw in my tongue. I hope it's not the beginning
Speaker 1: of a horrible disease or something that I'm about to follow.
Speaker 1: That would be unfortunate. And I feel bad about my giggling.
Speaker 1: I just all of a sudden my mouth would not
Speaker 1: work or well. See.
Speaker 4: I thought it was because if we're up against a
Speaker 4: hard break, which means there's no flexibility, we have to
Speaker 4: take it at that very second, Michael will count us
Speaker 4: down last ten seconds, and I could see you looking
Speaker 4: down at your phone or notes or something like that
Speaker 4: as Michael was counting down, and as he got down
Speaker 4: a three to one, I could tell you weren't aware
Speaker 4: of it, and you looked up mid sentence with one
Speaker 4: second left, and I assume your brain just locked up.
Speaker 1: Or all on the I don't think that was it
Speaker 1: all because I was I don't think that was it
Speaker 1: because I was trying to rea what it was alternative.
Speaker 1: I was trying to read and it just hung out.
Speaker 1: Words are hard exactly A well or all on the Wow,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's what it is. I have been making
Speaker 1: my car payment or house payment as a broadcaster for
Speaker 1: forty one years, and that is the worst moment I've
Speaker 1: ever was. It was a good run. That was my
Speaker 1: worst moment right there.
Speaker 4: Okay, reminds me he didn't get to this, but I'd
Speaker 4: like to maybe maybe another time.
Speaker 1: But it's absolutely clear doctor Jill was, as you said,
Speaker 1: forever when you could be understood that she was the
Speaker 1: prime moving evil doer behind the scenes. Anyway, you Michael,
Speaker 1: just so you know, Hanson's putting plans together to hide
Speaker 1: your cognitive decline exactly commercials. Michael said, would you like
Speaker 1: me to drive you home after work? Wow? Jeez. So
Speaker 1: what I was trying to say is from this business
Speaker 1: magazine thirty alternatives to hope all is well to use
Speaker 1: and work emails. Kind of weird that this is coming
Speaker 1: up because I've got a bit of a problem up
Speaker 1: in my personal life happening right now where I had
Speaker 1: hit somebody with basically a hope all is well, and
Speaker 1: they really feel like it was a slight or a
Speaker 1: you know, like okay, great, well, you know, best wishes
Speaker 1: to you too or something. It was just like it
Speaker 1: was too too wrote to like no feeling or care
Speaker 1: in it. I don't know specifics. Maybe well, I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly how I feel bad about this because I
Speaker 1: lean on that a bit. I'm a bad person. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you the way I take it, because I get
Speaker 1: hope all is well or hope to see you soon
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, those trite phrases. I take them
Speaker 1: the way I think they're intended or the way I
Speaker 1: intend them. They're like a handshake, They're a we're friends.
Speaker 1: I like you, you know, till next time. It's not a
Speaker 1: if I use the same one five times in a row.
Speaker 1: It's not a you're meaningless to me gesture. I don't think.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that's funny because there's part of me that
Speaker 4: thinks we're into the zone of, hey, how's it going.
Speaker 1: You don't care how's it going. You're just doing that
Speaker 1: as a traditional greeting. Yeah, that's that's the custom of
Speaker 1: my people. Sorry, anyway, this business website, indeed dot com said,
Speaker 1: here's some all alternatives. That's a tough word for me.
Speaker 1: Other options I'll go with. I'll never say that word
Speaker 1: again in my life. Here's some other options to hope
Speaker 1: all is well as a professional email greeting so that
Speaker 1: you don't look like you're it says a polite greeting.
Speaker 1: That's a polite greeting. I don't care if it's trite.
Speaker 1: I don't care if everyone I don't get anyway, the
Speaker 1: recipient of an email might appreciate your interest in their
Speaker 1: well being in the workplace. Here's some questions you can
Speaker 1: use early in an email and stuff instead of hope
Speaker 1: all as well. And they're all as stupid as you
Speaker 1: would think, And I don't understand why they're better, your
Speaker 1: jocketch is healed? No, how are things going with you?
Speaker 1: Why is how are things going with you? Significantly better
Speaker 1: than hope all as well? Just less trying. This is
Speaker 1: from a serious publication. How is your family? How is
Speaker 1: name of a specific pet? Okay? That shows your a
Speaker 1: guess that you're thinking about them specifically and their lives.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Like I said, I don't feel
Speaker 1: slighted when somebody says hope all is well, or have
Speaker 1: a good day or anything like that. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess if I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm picturing the sort of person that I would say
Speaker 4: hope all is well with you? Obviously I'm not in
Speaker 4: very regular touch with them. Then saying how's Rex your cat?
Speaker 4: That doesn't seem better than hope all.
Speaker 1: Is well with you? It's just general good wishes. But
Speaker 1: you would never says an expression of affection, would you ever? Well,
Speaker 1: you probably don't email your wife. Do you ever email
Speaker 1: Judy and say hope all is well? No? No, certainly
Speaker 1: not no, because.
Speaker 4: You know if things are well, because you're Yeah, she
Speaker 4: was at a singing contest recently. I'd say, hey, how
Speaker 4: are things going there so far?
Speaker 1: You know? But I think this is a little picky,
Speaker 1: but go on, So how is name of specific pet? Yes?
Speaker 4: Rex as well, thanks for asking. How is how about
Speaker 4: the million dollar deal we're working on? No kidding, Rex
Speaker 4: as Fleas, Thanks for asking? How is weather in their location?
Speaker 1: I appreciate you putting in their location as opposed to
Speaker 1: just randomly somewhere else. How do you suppose the weather
Speaker 1: is in Mumbai? Well, wait a minute, I can check
Speaker 1: the weather every corner of the Earth. It's right at
Speaker 1: my fingertips twenty four hours a day. That seems this
Speaker 1: whole thing seems crazy. How is weather in their location?
Speaker 1: Talking about the weather is a classic question to ask
Speaker 1: in a work email situation. This question shows that you're
Speaker 1: familiar with the recipient's location. It also shows you're interested
Speaker 1: in the details of their day to day life. See
Speaker 1: I think this is a load to ass but yes, Katie.
Speaker 4: Now, if you were to say something like, I mean,
Speaker 4: for instance, you know Sacramento, California, where the show is based,
Speaker 4: gets crazy hot in the summertime. If you were to say, hey,
Speaker 4: thing's gotten crazy hot yet they're okay, how is the
Speaker 4: weather there?
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem like an improvement on anything. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: hope you're well.
Speaker 5: As a closer, asking someone if it's crazy hot is
Speaker 5: opening for a second for the conversation to continue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't understand. Maybe maybe I'm just heartless. And again,
Speaker 1: this is a touchy situation because I'm.
Speaker 4: Critically do you have an opinion on that, whether Jack
Speaker 4: is heartless or not you'd.
Speaker 1: Like to address. I think he is because I'm currently
Speaker 1: in a bit of a situation with somebody whose feelings
Speaker 1: were very hurt by me using basically a whole ball
Speaker 1: as well, or have a nice day or something like this.
Speaker 1: Is this personally sensitive? No, not generally, how is your weekend?
Speaker 1: As an alternative, According to this business magazine, asking about
Speaker 1: the recipient's time away from work can give them a
Speaker 1: chance to share any fun or interesting activities. No, I
Speaker 1: went bowling anyway, back to the million dollar deal, right,
Speaker 1: I just that's a different thing.
Speaker 4: Maybe, and this is entirely up to you, obviously, but
Speaker 4: maybe we need to know more about the correspondence with
Speaker 4: the person you're you're talking about, I mean, because the
Speaker 4: the indeed dot Com seems to be presenting it in
Speaker 4: a work this is a work, colleague, associate, customer, client, whatever,
Speaker 4: how was your weekend?
Speaker 1: What if I say, you've got to answer that then? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: which you're creating work for them? What if I hit
Speaker 1: him with you.
Speaker 4: How do you care how my weekend was? I need
Speaker 4: fifty thousand widgets by Thursday.
Speaker 1: I'll leave him a voicemail. I'll hit him with this,
Speaker 1: hope you are well or on the God? Leave him confused.
Speaker 1: Here's some how do you spell that? Here are some
Speaker 1: other alternatives. How about those local sports team? I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this is an actual business article, Katie. You're
Speaker 1: gonna go blind if you roll your eyes like that,
Speaker 1: you see my brain? See my example I'm using where
Speaker 1: I've got somebody with hurt feelings is not a business relationship.
Speaker 1: It's a personal relationship. And apparently I don't know. I
Speaker 1: feel like I've been doing this my whole life. Have
Speaker 1: a good day or m personal relationship? I can see.
Speaker 1: You should never say have a good day. It's it's
Speaker 1: too well. It's not that it's the well. If it's
Speaker 1: a personal.
Speaker 4: Relationship, yeah, not even you know, hope Lisa's doing good
Speaker 4: or whatever. I'm thinking of a friend of mine I
Speaker 4: need to reach out to. Yeah, I don't know, maybe
Speaker 4: switching signs on this, although I'm also I believe firmly
Speaker 4: in not looking for reasons to be offended. Everybody else
Speaker 4: is having a hard day too. Don't take stuff personally.
Speaker 4: Here's one of them that caused great pain. I hope
Speaker 4: you're doing okay, too.
Speaker 1: Generic? How well does this person know you?
Speaker 5: This just sounds well like how you text regularly.
Speaker 1: It's it's a little generic ish, but I I could be.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to admit that I'm one hundred percent wrong
Speaker 1: on this. I just have been for if I am,
Speaker 1: I have been for a very very long time. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that that everybody else was customizing these to
Speaker 1: hope you're doing well since the King's loss last night
Speaker 1: or you know something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well I don't know if you're sitting today.
Speaker 4: Obviously i'd have to walk a mile in their shoes,
Speaker 4: and if I did, I would keep the shoes because
Speaker 4: I'm a mile away and I have their shoes. I
Speaker 4: just don't want to be a jerk, joke goes No, No,
Speaker 4: none of us wants that.
Speaker 1: Now. That's a personal relationship stuff. That's a different thing.
Speaker 1: The business thing. I have no need for you to
Speaker 1: put in. For instance, Suggestion number nine, any fun plans
Speaker 1: this weekend? I don't need that at all. All you've
Speaker 1: done is what you just show. All you've done is
Speaker 1: create a little extra work for me as I'm going
Speaker 1: through emails and I'm trying to get back to everybody
Speaker 1: before close a business. And now you are nakedly fake
Speaker 1: king intimacy. Yeah yeah, yeah, both ends but are bad,
Speaker 1: so I don't think you actually care. And now I've
Speaker 1: got to respond and take up another fifteen seconds of
Speaker 1: my life for this. When a cashier says.
Speaker 4: To you, and I'm talking to everybody here, When a
Speaker 4: cashier says, got any fun plans this weekend? Do you
Speaker 4: react with, Oh, this is a person I can chat with.
Speaker 4: This is great. Yes, we're planning to bubbah. Or do
Speaker 4: you think, oh my god, we're not friends.
Speaker 1: This is one of the most hilarious articles I've ever read.
Speaker 1: Suggestion number eleven. Did you see the latest episode of
Speaker 1: the show you both watch? Well, if you've got the
Speaker 1: kind of relationship where you watch a show that you
Speaker 1: talk about, then feel freedom. I suggestion yeah, exactly. Do
Speaker 1: you not know how to be a friend? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just weird. How has life since event you attended together.
Speaker 1: This is jack Cassery like this, And I read the
Speaker 1: book you recommended, and I really enjoyed the part where
Speaker 1: specific part Oh geez, this is hurting me out. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, what's that feeling?
Speaker 4: How do you describe that feeling when like uncomfortableness flows
Speaker 4: through your body. Some people refer to it as your
Speaker 4: skin crawling or I was just flooded with some chemical
Speaker 4: out of my brain when you said that, of like
Speaker 4: phoniness and annoyance and exhaustion, And I don't know how
Speaker 4: to describe that feeling.
Speaker 1: That turns me off fast, Like people who try to
Speaker 1: act like we're like real friends and we can have
Speaker 1: this kind of communication when we don't. That bad that's
Speaker 1: a you did more harm than good with me anyway
Speaker 1: in a business setting. Hope all is well with you
Speaker 1: for a friend. Yeah, that's too formal, it's not trying well,
Speaker 1: it's lax effort. That's exactly what I was told. Okay,
Speaker 1: but again again, I don't know what kind of day
Speaker 1: you're having.
Speaker 4: Smell IDEs is you run your own relationships. I can
Speaker 4: barely run mine.
Speaker 1: We'll finish strong. Next. Pizza Today launched a limited edition
Speaker 1: pizza caviar bump box. So if you like Pizza Hut
Speaker 1: and you like caviar, I'm guessing you're recently rich. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So a quick tease which we never do to
Speaker 4: the Armstrong and Getty One More Thing podcast. I think
Speaker 4: we've decided we're going to clean out the sound fridge today.
Speaker 4: I got a bunch of really interesting, amusing, thought provoking
Speaker 4: audio that we didn't get to during the radio show
Speaker 4: and we'll play it for the One More Thing podcast
Speaker 4: and talking about it. So anyway, this is not funny
Speaker 4: in the least. It's rather heavy. A little comparing contrast
Speaker 4: for you. For the third week in a row, hundreds
Speaker 4: of Palestinians in northern Gaza are rallying against him Hamas,
Speaker 4: chanting slogans labeling the group a terrorist organization and demanding
Speaker 4: an end to its rule, even though the leader of
Speaker 4: the last protest got tortured to death.
Speaker 1: How many did you say? How many hundreds? Hundreds? Is
Speaker 1: that one hundred and ten or nine hundred and eighty,
Speaker 1: idn't either way, that's a small enough group that you
Speaker 1: are being insanely brave. Well, I shouldn't say insanely, because
Speaker 1: it's not insane at all. It's you are being incredibly patriotic,
Speaker 1: is what you're doing. You're caring more about your people
Speaker 1: and the future than yourself because you're likely to disappear
Speaker 1: in a horrible way. And I see a crowd.
Speaker 4: I can see at least fifty people in this photograph,
Speaker 4: many of them like on other people's shoulders, out and proud.
Speaker 4: Not a single mask.
Speaker 1: You freaking college weenies, mask yourself when you're completely safe
Speaker 1: on your college campus. These people are protesting HAMAS faces bear,
Speaker 1: knowing they're likely to be ortuned to death, will probably
Speaker 1: start hearing those stories like toy.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, here's a d c rally honoring one of the
Speaker 4: leaders of HAMAS, and all the college dumb asses are
Speaker 4: wearing masks and all it's too much.
Speaker 1: Final. Here's the thoughts, final it like it. Here's your
Speaker 1: host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 4: There is Michael Angelo in the ConTroll room.
Speaker 1: Michael. My email to the new salesperson, Dear John, how's
Speaker 1: your cholesterol? Any chance you can send me to the audio?
Speaker 1: Michael Angelo. That's good, That's very good. Michael.
Speaker 4: Our steam did use woman Katie Green As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 5: Jack, I just want to say thank you for that
Speaker 5: or ours moment earlier, because I have not laughed that
Speaker 5: hard and I don't know.
Speaker 1: How long they all need a lift. That's facous Jack.
Speaker 1: Your final thought, this is my final thought. Hope you
Speaker 1: are well or all on the come man, I don't
Speaker 1: know for those words.
Speaker 4: My final thought is m. Scottie Scheffler is gonna win
Speaker 4: the Masters. I'm off to an exciting one day attendance
Speaker 4: at the greatest golf tournament on Earth tomorrow. I apologize
Speaker 4: for missing the show, but frankly, I've chosen the Masters
Speaker 4: over my job, so suck it.
Speaker 1: She'll be there Friday, but not Saturday and Sunday. There's
Speaker 1: separate tickets. Uh yeah.
Speaker 4: I was very lucky to get some all week passes
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Not this time. I just got one day, but I'm thrilled.
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Speaker 1: Will you be wearing all white straw hat? I don't
Speaker 1: expect to nothing tomorrow, God blessing. I'm strong and Getty
Speaker 1: exert enormous influence and that has got to change. Ok. Look,
Speaker 1: I think the sort of deeper problem here is.
Speaker 3: They have shown themselves to the world to be the
Speaker 3: bad actors.
Speaker 1: We're happy the way we are for all. You're not
Speaker 1: going to hear much about that on corporate television. You
Speaker 1: should be really pissed. But this is the plan. We
Speaker 1: will not be silent. So stop yelling at me. Once
Speaker 1: you gain pretty please you shut your own top. Oh,
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