WEBVTT - Weird & Rambley 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:06.480 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.840 I'm strong and Getty enough he. 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:26.200 Armstrong and yetty counties. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.600 El said one of the primary zero of fifteen, zero 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.440 of fifteen with the lowest share of college degrees. Ergo, 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.960 he did not win in those working class areas. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:37.120 Where he did win. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.839 He won thirteen of the fifteen counties with the highest 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.960 share of college degrees. So you're thinking about Democrats having 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.440 real trouble amongst the working class. Else had support came 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.920 dramatically from those areas. In fact, not where there is 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.920 working class folks, but where there are highly educated folks, 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.640 more from elite circles than from the working class circles. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.600 And I think there's real worries among Democrats. Well, will 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.960 that answer over to the general election and ELSA continue 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:04.880 to have the problems that prior Democrats have had with 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:05.559 the working class. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.600 Wow, that is pretty darned interesting. So you're out there 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.000 with the whole affordability people can't afford the rent thing, 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.480 and you win the most educated counties and lose the 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.880 working class. As el sayad up there in Michigan. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:25.000 Who's full most a clean sweeping both directions, that's striking. 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:29.679 The full title is doctor Abdullah Rahman Mohammad el Sayad. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.160 That's his full name. That's quite a name. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.080 Sorry I got your name wrong, Mohammad and uh yeah. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:40.920 So is that the downwardly mobile, over educated affordabilities of 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.920 the issue because they thought their fancy degree was going 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.240 to open up the door to a life of pleasure 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:48.040 and it has not. 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.000 I think that's a lot of it. It's funny we 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.600 kicked off the earth. We ended our one of the 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.400 show with a quote from C. S. Lewis from That 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.640 Hideous Strength about how if you're trying to start a 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.520 ratic gly ideology, you're not gonna get the working people. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:08.000 Their lives are much more practical and they're worried about, 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.400 you know, the basics of life. It's the intellectuals, the 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.959 educated that you can get with your crazy ass ideas. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.680 They're reading the highbrows stuff. They'll believe anything, So. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.320 I was asking I mentioned earlier in the show. Listen 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.040 to hour one of the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:26.600 I spent a fair amount of time watching one of 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.359 those Assan Piker twitch casts last night and figuring out 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.720 what his whole deal is. He's got it, He's got 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:38.440 the entertainment gene, there's no doubt about it. And he's 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:43.760 a super smart guy. His politics are really inflammatory, which 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.200 a lot of people really really like. But anyway, so 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.000 I was wondering, is this LSI ED guy gonna have 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.040 to disston him, distance himself from asan piker. He was 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.400 on stage with him the night before the election, but 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.160 I thought, when the general election comes, he can't be 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.720 anywhere near this guy. Well, so far that doesn't seem 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.440 to be the case. And then I thought, are any 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.000 of the other major Democratic candidate's gonna want to stand 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:10.240 on stage with else? Iad Gavin Newsom signed up immediately. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:15.040 As soon as the dust settled. Wednesday morning, Gavin Newsom 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.520 amount announced he's prepared to head to Michigan for a 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:22.320 multi day campaigning swing supporting the Democratic ticket. Like today, 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.400 response to that in The New York posts from John Fleischman, 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.600 who writes, Gavin Newsham's gazz. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:38.960 It having an or Gavin, you can do it. You 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:39.600 can do it? 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.560 Not sure again. You should see his face, folks, he's 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:48.000 given up. That was the face of despair, he laughed. 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:48.880 I laughed. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.160 I got that feeling. I figot that feeling like when 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.080 you're on the golf course some days and you think 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.360 maybe I should just go home, try again tomorrow. 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.200 You're not even mad, not right, Yeah, you just. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.360 You know what, am I gonna put another ball down 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:07.800 and jack another one out of the bounce of this? Okay, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:12.200 here we go. Gavin Newsom's rush to embrace abdul l 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.000 Saad makes me sick to my stomach, wrote John Fleischman 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.159 in his New York post piece, because of all the 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:22.640 things that this guy has said. And Kim Burley Strassele 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:28.320 of The Wall Street Journal also writing about this today, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.680 can Democrats resist socialism? And she she says this, I 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.039 don't know if it's true or not, though she said 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.320 behind the scenes, the Democrats' biggest names are now fully screwed. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.400 That's what I thought too, But I'm afraid that might 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.480 not happen. They all need to go to Michigan now 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.160 and through the fall to campaign for the whole ticket, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.920 including in the governor's race. But when they show up, 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.520 what if fact clown Hassan Piker is there. Can you 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:55.520 imagine Michelle Obama or Bill Clinton in the backstage green 0:04:55.600 --> 0:05:01.359 room before a rally with Hassan Piker and Abdul Piker's 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.360 live streaming some of his crazy stuff, he says over 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.440 in the corner, which he does. He live streams live 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.839 from green rooms. He did that just the other n eye. 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:13.880 We all get the test of it this weekend when 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.440 Gavin Newsom is supposed to campaign throughout a Wolverine state 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.200 with the Democrats. Is do you think El Saad's gonna 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.839 say to Piker? I mentioned this yesterday, Like, dude, we 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.040 all know we got to tone it down just a 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.359 little bit now for the general election. So don't be 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:28.880 on stage, don't be in the green room, and then 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.440 you and I back together as soon as we win 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.320 this thing. Do you think it's gonna be that? Because seriously, 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.640 Michelle Obama can't be in a room with the guy 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.039 standing over in the corner. I watched him last night. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:39.200 I know the sight of stuff. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:40.680 Welcome to the home of. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.919 Antifa, you m Effers. I mean, she can't be hanging 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:45.760 around that guy. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:47.599 Well, probably not. 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.279 But the one thing they can count on is the 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:54.680 blind eye being turned by the media because they start 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.400 with conclusions and then pick evidence as opposed to real 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.840 journalism either way. I winted out that halfwin running for 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.880 governor of Wisconsin. The fact checker at one of the 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:09.120 major Milwaukee journal or one of your major news guys 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:14.440 in Wisconsin responded to the fact that she said disband 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.040 the Senate or end the Senate when her campaign said 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.440 she's never said that. He said, nah, I'm not going 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.760 to fact check that because it was only once, and 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:27.760 you know, so, yeah, you cannot underestimate their willingness to 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:29.480 ignore the truth. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.520 Another little bit and then I will shut up. This 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.719 is from Mark Alprin's newsletter today, fits exactly with my 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.200 experience last night watching a Son Piker. I thought, no 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.720 country for old men. My time is past. I don't 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:48.400 even understand the way this new young generation of socialists 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.760 communicates to each other. I was watching his podcast and 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:55.159 it's just a different animal than anything I've ever been around. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.800 And so in Mark Alprin writing today, I've been studying 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.360 these folks. Socialism's most enthusiastic promoters are quick and clever, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:07.520 comparatively well educated, very online. Their talent lies primarily in media, 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.920 having been immersed in it from birth, which you know 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.800 nothing I can do about that. I wasn't obviously the Internet. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.240 It's apps, it's entertainment, it's information flow. They know all 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.720 about how people get and absorb a feeling and impression. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.920 They know how to produce a sensation as opposed to 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.960 a thought. One of the great tricks in life is 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.960 to have a talent suited to your times. And they do. 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.000 Wow, that's good, good writing. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.280 Damn right. It is well described. And that's what I 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.720 got from er right, that's what I got from Piker vibes. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:42.520 A sensation. That's what they're good at communicating. And that 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.520 crowd that takes in all that stuff, they don't even 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.520 that's all they care about. How do you combat that? 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:53.480 I don't know. Oh boy, oh boy. All right. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.960 So on a practical level, here's what Gavin Newsom is thinking. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:03.480 He's absolutely turgid the presidency, absolutely hot to trot for 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.280 the White House. He wants the White House way more 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.440 than he's ever wanted, say his best friend's wife, so 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:13.040 want too soon. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:17.560 So we're all human, we all fall short sometimes. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.120 You know, you're right, Kevin, You're right. I shouldn't have 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.680 gone there. I apologize. So anyway, he sees the young 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:29.360 energized college socialist Hassan Piker crowd as part of the coalition, 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.920 he has to have to be the president probably, so 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.959 he's going to and this is politics ABC one two three. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.160 I have a slightly more interesting point to come, so 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:41.240 stay tuned. So you know he's trying to capture that energy, 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.560 be seen as part of it, and then when he 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.200 feels like those people are more or less in his pocket, 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.199 he'll be more serious about courting other parts of the 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.920 coalition without offending them. I mean, what does he have 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:59.080 in common with Hassan Piker and Abdul Mohammad al Saied, 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:04.080 Actually nothing but the lust for power. More interesting, though, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:08.000 I think, is what the mainstream Democrats are thinking about 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.480 this guy else I had and people like him. I 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.840 remember talking to a couple of different I think they 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:21.480 were both Congress people about during the Tea Party movement 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:27.000 where some of them, not the dopes that got nominated, 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:32.480 that really really just ruined a lot of things, including conservatism, 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.760 but some of the really good legit. I'm a fiscal conservative. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.320 I'm riding this energy. I'm going to get to office 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.800 and I'm going to fix our screwed up spending and 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.200 our deficits and our entitlements and stuff. 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.679 When they got to Washington, d C. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:52.959 The actual power there neutralized them, co opted them, and 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.760 tried to neuter them, tried to tame them, turn them 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.079 from a you know what would the analogy be, from 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.439 an attack dog to a fat labradoritory for laying around 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.760 the sofa. And that's what the Democrats are desperate to 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:10.120 do with these jazzed up socialists is get them elected, 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.520 get the state, then co opt them. And if they 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.720 can't co opt them, they'll decap them. They'll they'll find 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.240 a way to get rid of them, or undermine them more, 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.400 or what have you. It's like Kamala's great skill is 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.959 stabbing people on her side in the back, and they're 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:27.719 pretty good at that. So I have a feeling that's 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.280 what the mainstream is thinking about these people. But you know, 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.560 that mistake has been made many times. I gave the 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.480 example of Germany, you know, between the World Wars, the 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.360 conservatives thought, yeah, those Nazis are nut chobs, but man, 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.120 they've got a lot of folks on their side. 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.360 Let's go ahead and bring them under the tent and 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:45.800 then we'll co opt them. 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.600 We know how that one This Piker dude and his 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:53.800 talents that match the times for a certain crowd that 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.240 I don't understand. I don't know if he has any 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:02.480 interest in toning it down to help people get elected. 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.600 He might just be I'm in it for me. My 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.960 crowd loves me throwing out crazy crap, and I'm going 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:10.400 to keep. 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:11.600 Doing it, I suspect. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.920 So, yeah, then how are you Barack Obama on stage 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.839 with Hassan Piker standing ten feet away from me? 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.520 Again, You'll never hear about it except on the right 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.080 side of the aisle, So you're immune. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:24.080 It's like a superpower. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.320 Speaking of which, a quick word from our friends at Incogny. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.360 I knew there were data brokers online that had like 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:35.280 all of my information from address to kids' names, to 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.040 you know, medical conditions, how you vote, I mean, but 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.960 I didn't realize there are thousands of them and getting 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.079 all of them to take your injury, your I'm reading 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.760 while I'm talking, to take your information off their sites? 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.760 Would he just mind bogglingly time consuming. 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They send the legal removal requests, 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.920 they follow up and keep monitoring so your info stays 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.200 off the lists. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.400 Yeah, yep, it's really a good service and it's affordable too. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.720 Go to in cognity dot com slash armstrong right now 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.080 for sixty percent off. That's in cognity dot com slash armstrong. 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.640 I n cog n I in cognity dot com slash armstrong. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.600 Take your private life off the market. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:38.360 I have been in the entertainment business my entire adult life, 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.400 and I watch the new modern entertainment for young people 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.320 and I just try to figure out what's the appeal here. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.160 People I know my age just that sucks. Okay, well 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.160 it doesn't suck to them. They like it, and I'm 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.360 trying to figure out what the appeal is and I 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.000 just can't. I mean, my kids show me means sometimes online. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:05.000 That was fifteen seconds of nothing. I can't even imagine 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:07.400 what grabbed you there. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:13.800 I have a theory. Some might call it hair brained. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.679 But I will share it with you after the break. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.640 I think, I know, I'd love to know, and I 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:19.840 think it explains a lot. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.800 Okay, that and other stuff on the way, stay here, 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:31.840 you're just tuning in very short version. I watched some 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.839 of Hassan Piker's Twitch feed last night. He's the young 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.920 influencer that's played such a big role in lefty politics 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:43.800 right now, and not the politics of it, just the 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.520 style of entertainment is like a lot of young stuff 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:51.040 out there now. It's just I don't get it at all. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:52.920 I don't understand how it works, but the young crowd 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.160 loves it. It's like the way my kids love all 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.880 this different meme stuff and joke stuff they show me, 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.320 and it's all super fast and banged bang and and 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.599 just seems so all over the place to me. I 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.160 don't even know how you're up your head around it. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.320 Yeah, I think part of the reason for that. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.440 And Pike here, if you don't know, he's a blood 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:19.480 thirsty communist, Islamist, populist shock jockey presence. But yeah, the 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.200 structure I've seen just a couple of that sort of thing. 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.280 And and the structure of it's so weird, because as 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:30.160 Jack described it earlier, it's very like unstructured and rambling, 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.680 and sometimes they're off mike or don't say much at 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.200 all for a while, or look at comments and just 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.880 read them, or just respond to them without reading them. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:40.280 And it's very weird. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.280 With the sense that the audience is doing the same thing, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.640 that you're all just kind of staring at screens, hanging 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.360 out together in different yas. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.680 I think that's that's the most of the answer is 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:55.760 nobody in that generation is in the moment. They're always 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.640 doing multiple things at once. The two screen experience, whatever 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.760 we've we've talked about it made me insane at first. 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:06.160 My daughter would be visiting us and we'd decide to 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:10.480 watch a beloved movie together and I'd look over and like, 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.120 immediately from the beginning, she's on her phone doing something. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:14.960 I'm like, I thought we were gonna watch the movie, 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.120 and I am. I am watching it. And so the 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.840 structure of the show, or the lack of structure, really 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.000 lends itself to I'm looking at two or three screens, 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.520 I'm scrolling, I'm flipping I'm texting, and during the lulls, 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.040 I'm doing activities B and C. When you start screeching 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.600 about the efing blood of fing capitalists running through the streets, 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:38.600 now I'm on you. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.520 Wow, Yeah, that's good stuff. And then you know, then 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:42.720 I go back to the other thing. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.280 Yeah, And I don't want to be knee jerk. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.720 Oh, and it's making them insane and anxious, by the way, too, I. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.520 Don't want to be knee jerk critical of that lifestyle 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:58.080 because you know, times change, I guess. But the I 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.360 don't go out with my friends, I don't need to 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:07.680 because I get that Maslow's hierarchy of needs belonging thing 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.560 filled by having my screen open, a loan in my 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.960 apartment and a bunch of people on there. So that 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.560 fills that need for me. So it doesn't force me 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.160 drive me like it did me as a young person 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.400 out of my apartment to a bar or a golf 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.760 place with friends or whatever, because you needed the companionship 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.840 and you couldn't get any other way. Now everybody just 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.600 hangs out together in screens in different rooms, and that's 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.560 what that a guy like a san piker does, And 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.080 then you know, throws off the occasional political blast, and 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.840 people think it's funny or interesting, right, right, right. 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.000 And I get you're not wanting to be knee jerk 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.520 about these sort of things. I'm much more interested in 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:49.960 understanding things than merely judging them. But that doesn't mean 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.520 you have to suspend your judgment completely. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.680 If something's unhealthy. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:55.960 It's unhealthy, so it's definitely bad. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.160 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, And I wasn't accusing you of that. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:00.560 I was just kind of new to it through. 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.240 I just don't know if there's any stopping it or changing. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.159 All there is is influencing the people close to you, 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.879 helping them understand what their choices are doing to them, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.080 you know, until they're fully emancipated and older. Then if 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.080 they come to you and ask, you might tell them, 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.320 or if you'd like to drive a wedge between you 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.840 and them, you'll just keep it going as when they're adults. Anyway. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.879 That's I was on a walk with my sixteen year 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:26.400 old the other night and I said one more thing 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.600 that I promise I'll start stop lecturing, because we were 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.879 on a walk and I was on like topic three 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.160 of dad advice. 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:36.800 Yeah yeah, yeah, well, you know. 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.160 You get their ear not that often, So I got 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:39.560 your ear. 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.320 Wow, Yeah, I wish I'd been better at picking my 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.480 spots back in the day. Well, by the time you 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:50.400 know what you're doing, it's over anyway. Oh man, I've 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.040 got a really important and heavy topic. I'm trying to 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:54.480 decide if I can know. 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:56.720 I want to talk about today at some point maybe 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:58.920 next segment, at least a little bit, perhaps the most 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.359 important date in my life. So I will throw that 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:02.960 out there a little bit and a bunch of other stuff. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.040 Just stay here, Armstrong and getty. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.600 So today is August seventh that we're recording this. If 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.480 you're listening to the podcast, and every August seventh for 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.440 the past nineteen years, I guess would be the math. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.199 I've mentioned this because this is the twenty year anniversary 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:25.840 of me no longer drinking alcohol as an alcoholic, and 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.280 I mentioned it for a variety of reasons, including often 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.760 people reach out who say they heard that, and then 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.960 they make an effort to quit drinking and have some 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:41.479 success with it. But I was just thinking about how 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:48.679 I'm amazed that twenty years into this, I don't feel 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:53.560 like there's a whole lot more known about addiction than 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.240 there was twenty years ago when I first started thinking 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.560 about it. Wonder while we're making so little progress on that. 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:01.920 Wow, that's an interesting point. 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.840 And one of the reasons is I don't have any idea. 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:08.920 I know quite a bit about alcoholics and alcoholism. I think, 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:13.879 just from experience of being around hundreds, maybe four figures 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:18.280 worth of alcoholics, I probably spent more time this week 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.639 counseling other alcoholics who are new than I did on 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.600 my job. I do it all the time. The amount 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.119 of time I spend on the phone or in person 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.760 with people lots and lots and lots of hours. It 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.840 is a well known thing that that's the way you 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:38.199 stay sober. Helping other people try to stay sober is 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.359 what That's why you do it. It keeps you sober. 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.680 So that's the way it works. But so I spent 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.200 a lot of time talking to people, and particularly this week, 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:51.720 some people in some really bad life situations. But it's 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.720 amazing to me how little is known. Like I said, 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.520 I know something about alcoholics and alcoholism. I don't have 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:59.560 any knowledge as to whether that transfers or not to 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:05.320 overeating or gambling or being a meth head. I don't 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.119 have the slightest idea. I'm not a scientist, I'm not 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.320 anything else. All I know is this, But I'm just 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.440 surprised we haven't gotten further since it's quite a scourge, 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.920 as we've all noticed for a lot of our cities, 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:21.720 mostly drug addiction, although most drug addicts also drink. 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.840 Yeah, the only thing that pops into my mind is 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:29.760 with the GLP one drugs that eliminate the quote unquote 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.880 food noise in your head thinking yeah, I to eat, 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.719 I ought to eat have helped a lot of people 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:38.960 with alcohol noise, whether they quote unquote needed help or not. 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:40.760 Yeah. 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:41.280 The problem. 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:46.359 I wonder if we're moving toward understanding those neurological triggers better. 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:48.200 I hope so. And I don't claim to know anything, 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.560 but I do know that all the people I talk to, 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.840 almost all the people I talk to, new people different, 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.320 you're new, you're still wanting to drink. Almost everybody I 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.000 talk to on a regular basis they don't have any 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:04.160 alcohol noise at all. The problem is the reason you're 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:07.080 an alcoholic because you can't handle life and you need some 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.880 way to deal with life. It's not the craving for alcohol, 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.720 it's the I can't handle this situation, I'm gonna lose 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:17.040 my freaking mind, and so having the noise about alcohol 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:21.080 go away wouldn't make any difference to me. I still 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.880 work on my alcoholism every day. I put more time 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.199 into that than practically anything I do every day. And 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.399 it's not because I want to drink. It's because life 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.120 is difficult and I have to have a figure out 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:34.359 a way to deal with life. 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.480 I think that runs counter to what ninety percent of 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:39.520 people think. I know alcoholism is. 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:40.880 I know it is. That's why I want to talk 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:43.040 about it. Yeah, that's why I want to talk about it. 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:47.159 And it's also why I don't know how that applies 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:52.199 to heroin. For instance, the vast majority of people, like 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:56.240