WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Friday Hour Four 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:14.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:18.919 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:32.800 Jetty and He Armstrong and Getty Strong and the Independence Day. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:34.879 It's the fourth of July and it's the Armstrong and 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.120 Getty replay featuring bits and pieces of our podcast, Armstrong 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.160 and Geddy. One more thing, don't miss a single moment. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.640 Get every episode on the iHeart app and wherever you 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:48.120 get your podcasts. Don't Happy Be Worried. It's one more thing. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:59.280 What I was reminded of the Bobby McFerrin classic Don't 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.880 Worry Be Happy the other day as it was listed 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.600 on the Worst Songs of the nineties. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.360 I guess something that very popular. It was a cute 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.880 little ditty. It's fine. I don't know, it's fine. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:16.440 People love, you know, slamming other people's choices in music 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:16.840 too much. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.800 I gotta hate on being happy? Yeah, right, exactly. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.560 But don't Happy Be Worried is the theme kind of 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.280 sort of a really interesting study that's out. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:28.800 Researchers from the. 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:33.720 University of Toronto, Scarborough and University of Sydney, the Canuckers 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:38.959 joining up with the Australians. Trump will be you know, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.880 annexing them both soon. But anyway, for now, we'll let 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.600 them have their cute little universities. 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:46.120 But they they right. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.960 We live in a happiness obsessed world. Self help guru's 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:53.080 promise paths to Bliss, Instagram influencers pedal. Happiness is a lifestyle, 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.960 and corporations build marketing campaigns around the pursuit of positive emotions. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.000 But new research suggests, say surprising twist. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.320 I doubt yeah exactly. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.680 Trying to art to be happy might make you miserable. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.040 The researchers that the aforementioned universities found that actively pursuing 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.200 happiness drains our mental energy, the same energy we need 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.800 for self control, among other things. Says the researcher, the 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.960 pursuit of happiness is a bit like a snowball effect. 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.440 You decide to try making yourself happier, but then that 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.880 effort deplete your ability to do the kinds of things 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.399 that actually make you happier. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.480 All right, Well, there's the key right there. What kind 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:31.799 of things actually make you happy? 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.200 So among my favorite books I've ever read in my 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.280 life the Art of Happiness by the Dali Lama, which 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:43.240 he says, your goal every morning when you wake. 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.880 Up should be to make yourself happy. You should spend 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:48.960 all your time trying to make yourself happy. That's what 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:49.560 you should do. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:54.079 But it gets down to the data on what makes 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:59.280 you happy and what doesn't. And many, many of the 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:03.040 things we all do every single day don't make us happy. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.840 They've never made us happy. We have ample evidence from 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.320 our own experience, let alone other people's experience, that it 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.400 doesn't make us happy, yet we continue doing it, like 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.160 eating bad food or buying stuff, or promiscuous sex or 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.440 whatever it is. It has never made us in the happy, 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.960 It doesn't make other people happy, yet we keep thinking 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.720 that's what's gonna make us happy. So pursuing happiness every 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.880 day is okay. You just need to define what makes 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.680 people actually makes people happy. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.440 Maybe this is the key. Pleasure is not happiness. Fun 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.720 is not happiness, right, it can be part of it. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.440 We mentioned all them. No life of purpose is what 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:47.160 makes people happy? Yeah? Yeah, happy happy. You wake up 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:48.240 determined to have a great day. 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.720 You plan mood boosting activities and work hard to stay positive, 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.160 but by evening you're ordering takeout instead of cooking. Mindlessly 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.160 scrolling social media and snapping at your partner, while your 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:03.000 pursuit of happiness might be the problem. The scientist marketing 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.320 professor puts it bluntly. Quote, the more mentally run down 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.360 we are, the more tempted will be to skip cleaning 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.320 the house and instead scroll social media. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.840 And they're saying the same thing as the Dalai Lama says, 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.480 I just I like the way he words it. It's 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.960 a little more positive. Pursue happiness all day, every day. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.680 That should be your goal in life, that should be 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.840 everybody's goal. But now let's break down what actually makes 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.320 people happy, as opposed to saying don't pursue happiness, because 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.120 then it seems like it's a gotta eat my vegetables, 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.040 gotta you know, all negative stuff and maybe there'll be 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:33.920 a payoff. 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.760 In the end. Right. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.080 It's like the difference between pursuing money and pursuing the 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:43.919 skills that will make you money. In a way, Katie, 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:45.400 do you have something you want to jump in with? 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:46.320 You look thoughtful. 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:51.120 I I'm kind of overthinking this, I think Okay, to 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:52.960 be honest, Well, it's. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.479 It's amazing that human beings do things that make themselves 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.600 unhappy all the time, all the time. It's just like 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.560 one of the most common things we do is do 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.919 things that make us unhappy. Eat stuff that's gonna make 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.200 us either feel bad in the moment or make us 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:10.880 feel bad long term, or you know, pursue relationships that 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:16.760 we know aren't good. But there's either sex, prestige, whatever 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.320 that that makes you do it. Just we regularly chase 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.520 things that we know are bad for us, right right. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.240 My brain was going with, like, things you don't want 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.800 to do, but the payoff in the end is good. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.640 Oh, the simplest one is the stirring at your phone. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.320 Nobody ever, at the end of the day says I'm 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.559 sure glad I spent that much time scrolling on my phone. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.120 Nobody ever, not even for one day, right right. 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.240 I was just going to contrast doom scrolling on Twitter, 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.240 which I have the compulsion to do and I resist 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:52.880 pretty well most times, versus the other day. I mean, 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.720 this is as mundane as can be. I cleaned out 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.600 my closet. I went through it thin, the herd of clothing, 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.560 you know, shoes that don't where, etc. It's neater, it's 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:07.159 better organized. It's just it's better. And that made me happy, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.280 right Like happy. Yeah, like today, I was not pleasurable. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.279 I would love to lay on my couch all day, 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.280 but I know I have laundry to do, and when 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:16.800 I get it done, I'm going to be happy that 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:17.400 it's done. 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.200 Yeah, Okay, I. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.159 Was just reading an obituary of a fella that I 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:27.400 barely knew, and it was post retirement, I'm pretty sure. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:31.440 But he filled his life with the Boys and Girls 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:37.240 Club of the area where he lived, and it was 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.280 really pivotal in guiding them through difficult financial times and 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.600 growing the programs and stuff like that. I'll bet there 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.680 was very little of that that was pleasurable. Some of 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:51.039 it was because watching kids learn and grow is immensely satisfying, 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.799 but there's a hell of a lot of work there, 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.960 and I guarantee that made him happy to his soul. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.800 I think the best happiness comes from accomplishments. It could 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.520 be like mowing the grass. Like you're pushing the mower 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.480 and you look back and you see what you've done, 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.960 and then when you're all finished, you look at and you think, hey, 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:12.440 I'm really feeling happy. 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:19.080 So why then, evolutionary speaking, why are we is our 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.840 body screaming out to now mow the lawn tomorrow, lay 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.600 on on the couch watching this football game is what. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.960 It's going to make me happy. Even though you're absolutely right. Afterwards, 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:29.480 I think, why did I watch? I don't even care 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.560 about these two teams as opposed to you'll feel happy 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:33.400 after you all the one. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.560 Well, the greatest minds of our time are devoted toward 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.440 getting you to do things for pleasure for their profit 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:42.239 in a way. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:43.000 That didn't exist. 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.480 I mean even two hundred years ago there's advertisement, but 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:50.760 it was not nearly as effective, manipulative and scientifically based 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:55.920 as modern you know, like like Facebook, TikTok. My god, 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.640 we as a species don't stand a chance against that 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.680 sort of neurological manipul. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:06.720 Yeah, I've noticed recently. I don't know if my well, 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.280 I just I guess I just started doing the Instagram 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.560 reels thing. I'd never done it beforeth It's kind of 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.920 the American version of TikTok, I guess. Anyway. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:19.800 What's disappointing to me is it's not like doom scrolling 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.480 or something where I think why did I do that? 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.920 Or it's pretty good, it's pretty enjoyable. It feeds me 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:26.600 lots of stuff. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.680 I really like, I mean like really like, here's some 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.480 rare concert footage that it figured out i'd be into 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.440 that I've never seen before and stuff like that. But 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.400 it kills a freaking hour where I should either been 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:45.920 sleeping or exercising or whatever. So it's actually it's actually enjoyable, 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.000 like really enjoyable in the time. So that's what I 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.240 got to fight now is not even start. I am 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.040 going to further parse language. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:59.240 You got pleasure, you got happiness, and Michael, to your point, 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.280 you have satisfaction. Maybe that's another word to think about 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.680 happiness and satisfaction as opposed to pleasure. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.079 If you don't say you're retired and you don't really 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:13.800 need to accomplish anything. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.360 That's when it's the most important, according to everybody I've 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.920 talked to, to have some purpose. 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.160 You don't think you could just look at Instagram reels 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.760 feeding your stuff that you actually enjoy and be okay, 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.200 or would you be miserable. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:35.000 You'll be dead soon. I don't know. I can't state 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:36.600 that you know with confidence, but. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.560 I've read a fair amount about retirement, which is funny 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:43.640 because I don't know. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:45.520 Probably like my job too much. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.480 But yeah, if you're the sort of person who just 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.240 retires and you have nothing to do. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.679 It makes people miserable even if you have things to do. 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.480 You have TikTok. You have something to do. And the 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.720 golf course, I just play golf. I look at TikTok 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.559 Cup of the morning. I go play golf again that 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:02.440 I look at TikTok. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:09.960 Yeah, I've since I started on Instagram reels. It's in 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:14.679 the TikTok algorithm. Scares me if it's substantially better. Like 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.240 I was listening to Sarah Iger of The Dispatch saying, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.160 if you think Instagram reels is addictive, you have no idea. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.440 Because she got sucked into TikTok and then got it 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.800 off her phone. She says, just so good. It's just 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.480 every day stuff. I love that. I'm super into. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.200 My daughter did the same thing. That's why I feel 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.120 with Instagram reels, like, man, is it good? With coming 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:37.480 up stuff that I like? S and l clips, concert videos, 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.520 stuff that I just love. But you can't, you know, 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.280 want to live their life doing that. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.240 Yeah, it's you know, Lord knows, I've lived a checkered life. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.480 But one gift that I got somehow or other, And 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.160 this may shock you folks. I used to take walks 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:55.960 on the wild side now and again, not in the 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.360 lou reads and it's not gender bending madness, but you know, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:00.920 occasionally in the I could roll a world of the 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.200 eighties and nineties, there were substances about and there are 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:05.959 a couple of experiences I had where I thought, no, 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:07.040 I like this too much. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.680 Yeah, and so it is with the tickety talk. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.600 From what I've heard, you realize I am powerless against this. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.440 Yeah, it is like an endless. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.760 They provide you endless entertainment on there, especially when they 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:23.960 figure out what you like. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:25.360 I mean, you could do that. 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.880 For hours that I wonder if that's what happened. I 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.440 wonder if I spend enough time on Instagram that it 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.000 was able to Okay, now we know we got him 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.920 figured out. Yeah, because it just seems like in the 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.520 last week or so, it's like really grabbed me. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.280 Well, And what sucks about that is because I thought, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.200 I I'm a dumb ass. I thought I could outsmart 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.559 the algorithm because I thought, maybe if I don't interact 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.760 with any posts, you don't like anything. 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.120 I don't interact with any of them, but it picks 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.800 up your eyeballs or no, it picks up your watch time. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.640 So if you so like let's say you're scrolling, you 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.800 stop on a video and you spend the time to 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.480 watch that video, the algorithm goes, Okay, we kept him 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:01.719 here for such and such a. 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.480 Second because I didn't click on it. I didn't do anything. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:07.319 It was just part of a stream. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.360 It's just because you watched it. I am going to 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.960 rewatch on YouTube. The social dilemma. The thing is so 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.600 good documentary, Jack, you gotta watch that. You got it, 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:18.679 You just gotta. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.120 Can They put it in twenty second chunks on a 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:22.120 Instagram reel. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:27.959 Jeez, we can't save him? Was I gonna say? I 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.400 had one more thing to say about this. It's just 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.080 how good it is at figuring out stuff that you 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:39.840 really really like. It's it's troubling, actually, and there's stuff 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:41.360 that it would have been hard for me to find, 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.360 like on my own. Oh I was. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:47.400 I was thinking about they fixed what used to be. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.080 I don't know if you're old enough for this or not. 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:49.439 Katie. 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.480 You probably are back when you used to. You want something, 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.200 You sit down, you think, how do I have one 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.480 hundred and twenty channels and there's nothing I like? Here 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.120 you click through and there's nothing you like. They fixed that. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.120 It's the opposite. Now you like every single thing on 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.800 every channel. They know exactly what you're into. They got 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.160 your sports thing, your music thing, your kid's thing. You're 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.000 just every every channel is something you love as you 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.600 click through. It's the exact opposite of what he used 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:14.840 to be. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:23.000 Right, Leggy blonde guitar players playing golf, constant videos, sexy 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.760 golfing guitarists giving me lessons. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.760 With a dog doing something funny and a kid doing 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.840 something cute. Yes, yes, see. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.640 If you guys agree with this, false happiness comes immediately, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:36.720 Real happiness comes later. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.360 You have to wait for real happy. Pretty much always 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.520 is the case. You The Armstrong and Getdy Show. Yeah, 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:49.480 more Jack, your show podcasts and our Hot Lakes The 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.160 Armstrong and Getdy Show. 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.680 I'm thinking of doing a feature. Maybe I'll do it 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:01.760 on Twitter someplace called did you eat worse than me today? 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:02.960 Wow? Yeah? 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.480 Actually my brother might be even better at that. Put 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:06.959 up against that, like take it at the end of 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.200 the day, take a look at what he ate. See 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.760 if anybody ate worse that? But like yesterday, here here's 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:13.600 what I ate yesterday. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:14.120 I had. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:19.280 Uh well, I had like through almost four hours of 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.040 zoom calls with various doctors and therapists after working in 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.360 a variety of other things. So it's just constantly running 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.240 around stressful pain and the ass. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:33.040 Stuff and to make a person completely insane. But anyway, 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:34.920 so I just running from one thing to another thing 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:36.720 to another thing and having to make major decisions of 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.600 this or so. But so I went through drive through, 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.760 got four cheeseburgers and McDonald's and then I went home 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.640 and washed that down with some chocolate birthday cake. So 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.520 that was like the major portion of my eating yesterday. Wow. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.480 And uh, I just I thought, does anybody, especially my age, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.400 eating as poorly as me? And how is my body 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.720 just not stopped? Just said, all right, if you don't care, 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:03.360 we don't care. Drop dead. You know, there's probably somebody 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.480 out there that can best you. But you know, I'm 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.000 guessing there like a six hundred pound trucker or something 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.480 like that. I can't beget us. I tell you what 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:12.760 I was thinking to you yesterday. 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:17.920 I was fighting through one of those miserable situations where 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.840 the tax guy says, you've got to have this form 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.280 I tind to do with a health savings account. 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.800 Oh ah, and the. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.280 Benefits people at the one of the fabulous and patriotic 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:36.640 American corporations that we're associated with. Theoretically they have this 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.520 form theoretically, but you got to get signed in. I 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.120 sign in two accounts that have that same user ID 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.600 every day, every day. But apparently for this sub account, 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.240 that user that password does not count. So it was 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.200 a back and forth with Benefits and HR with various 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.640 double authenticated signing codes and the rest of it. And 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:04.600 it was my brilliant wife, myself, my iPhone, my iPad, 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.680 and my MacBook. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.320 All involved in an all ferens. It's like a Mike 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.400 Lyons is always talking about how you have to have 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:15.440 the infantry and air support and artillery and tanks and 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:21.040 logistics to win the war of getting this heffing form. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.640 And I thought, there you are trying to deal with 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.160 the fellas, and I salute you. You scrambling parents everywhere. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:28.360 It's not easy, you know. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:29.760 Yeah, God dang it. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.280 So I mentioned the other day about trying to get 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:32.640 my son on the Hot Lunch. You finally want to 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.400 eat the hot lunch. And it's a different website that 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.760 uses a different log in that has a different password, 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:39.080 that is. 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.560 A it has a different log in, because you can't 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.800 have the Russians stealing the secrets of. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.840 Our fish stack. But I'm surprised, no what he's made 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:49.760 the argument, maybe I'll do this because maybe it would 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.480 help that this has got to be especially tough on 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.640 people with lesser education and lesser resources, people that don't 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.560 have iPads and iPhones and college degrees in everything like that. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.240 How are they supposed to navigate this crap. 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.280 To take advantage of, you know, your various things that 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.640 you can do in the modern world. You gotta throw 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:10.720 in people of color. If you don't, you're a fool. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.560 Whatever it would take to try to streamline this stuff. 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.800 Our native peoples have been shown to have seventy eight 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.240 percent more trouble finding their password yes than white people. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.520 Throw that nobody will check it. Nobody checks any of 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.080 this crap. I love that angle. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.119 I'm gonna start working that angle to see if I 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:28.840 can get things fixed. 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:34.240 Armstrong and get you you you, what the hell are 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.920 you talking about? Well, pressure, this is the Armstrong and 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:44.480 Getty Show, the Armstrong and Getty Show. What. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.119 Yeah, you know, I've got a pretty good immune system 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.920 for stuff like normal diseases that go around. I usually 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.320 don't get them. What would it be like if I 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.840 ate better? I might be impenetrable. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.960 You could be well, you're you're just at the tail 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.320 and raising little kids. Now you have teenagers, so you 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.960 have been enrolled in the marine boot camp right of 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:12.480 immune systems raising children. So I've got a number of 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:15.119 people in my orbit who take nothing when they get 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.760 a cold. They don't they believe it's all bs, and 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:19.960 they don't take anything. I take a few things. 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.960 Do you take anything? Do you think anything works? Katie's 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.800 nodding her head. We'll start with you. I take theraflu. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.560 You take theraflu. I have found that to work. I 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:33.040 don't care if it's PLACEBIA. If I suffer from PLACEBIA, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.160 doesn't matter to me. As long as I feel better. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.320 I don't need anybody to tell me it doesn't. Actually, 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.720 I don't care. I feel better. Do you take anything 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.679 like tile and all or I view profen. At one 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.399 point I was down with the zinc. 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.119 Yeah, but I couldn't figure out what form, and I 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.640 just kind of remember when nobody got a cold during COVID. Yeah, 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.760 I've fallen out of I don't remember what to do anymore. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.280 I got a bottle of uh, it's you know something 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.399 or other they say take when a cold first you 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.719 first start to get the symptoms of a cold, and 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:03.440 it's zinc and a couple other things. And I don't 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:05.600 know if they do anything, but I feel like if 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.440 I take that, if I do get the cold, it's 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:08.840 much milder. 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:11.560 Again, might be in my head, I don't care. I 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.720 also use zycham, yeah, which is awesome. I've heard people 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:17.760 recommend sinuses and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:19.960 I tend not to trust my own experience because the 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.280 data set isn't big enough. 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:22.879 But I don't I don't know. 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.080 I have no information that there's anything wrong with taking 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.200 that stuff, and what the hell it worst is harmless? 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.480 But you're not a take nothing guy or no, I am, 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.879 pretty much, although I'm thinking now that you mentioned it, 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:36.720 maybe I'll take some tile and all or something. I 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.680 actually my symptoms aren't that bad other than just overwhelming 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:40.920 fatigue at this point. 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:42.679 Now, do you guys take niq will And that's what 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.760 I do, and I go to sleep afraid of it. 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:49.120 You're afraid of night time niquil? Yeah, Well, with our hours, 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:49.560 I don't. 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:54.840 If I wake up groggy or oversleep, that's not good. 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:55.680 Yeah, I can't. 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:58.159 Alcoholics are not supposed to take NyQuil because it's basically 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.760 taken a shot alcohol to help sleep. 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.960 Yeah, I don't for the reason Katie cided. I just 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:05.480 it's hard enough to get up in the morning and 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.679 be semi sharp. Yeah, listeners of the first hour of 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:10.919 the radio showing not very sharp. 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:15.800 One thing with giving your kids stuff, you kind of 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.320 have a better gauge of whether it's actually doing anything 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:20.359 or not, especially when they're little. They're too young to 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.760 like and uh, most stuff I don't think does much. 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:27.480 All right? Oh yeah, absolutely. 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.199 Remember when that one thing that was ubiquitous on the 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.320 still it drug store shelves of America. 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.680 It's still in every freaking drug I buy, Every cold 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:38.960