1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show. 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 2: Katty Armstrong and Gecki and no Key Armstrong and Eddy. 4 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 3: From Studio ce Sor, a dimly lit room deep within 5 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 3: the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound, kicking 6 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 3: off a brand new week, pregnant possibilities. 7 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 2: Who knows what's gonna happen with this week. 8 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: It's the week you meet mister or missus Wright. It's 9 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 1: the week you get your promotion. Oh wow, it's the 10 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: week she says I've found someone else. It's the week 11 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: all march you to your car with a cardboard box. 12 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:49,879 Speaker 3: What the what? 13 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 2: Ship flash? Life is funny that way. AnyWho. 14 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: Today we're under the tutelage of our general manager. You know, 15 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: it's got to be the NFL Playoffs. You've just been 16 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: insanely exciting but unbelievable. Before we get to that, my 17 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: other general manager nominee, maybe the NFL Playoffs will appoint 18 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: chairman of the board. Our general manager is going to 19 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: be Kayflict or Kanas. 20 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 2: You're making up words though, eitherkflict or. 21 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: Cons It's a combination of conflict and chaos and you 22 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: can you can have them in what order you want. 23 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 2: I was thinking about that. I was reading about Trump's 24 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 2: latest insane feud. 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 1: This time he and Jerome Powell, chairman of the FED, 26 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: are practically gonna draw iron on Pennsylvania Avenue and shoot 27 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: it out in the street, big new dramatic slandering each 28 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: other in the media, blah blah blah. It fits in 29 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: with the whole threatening war against Denmark. For the love 30 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: of God, Trump's comfort zone is conflict in chaos. So uh, 31 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: Joe and I are old And when kids, I was 32 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: a big NFL fan. Gladys talking about reminiscent Gladys. 33 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 2: That's when you play the harp. 34 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: When we are kids, NFL was huge, but there was 35 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,679 Speaker 1: like one exciting game a month. I mean, oh yeah, 36 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 1: I remember that was the six to three barn Burner 37 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: between the Packers and the Bears. They were rarely close 38 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: and there wasn't much scoring. It just very seldom was 39 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: a game exciting. And if a game come down to 40 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: the last like minute or something like that, oh it 41 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: stood out as just so exciting. Super Bowls were boring. 42 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: I don't know how they tweaked the rules or did 43 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: whatever they did in the the NFL over the years, 44 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: but now this weekend, the whole weekend was just nail biting, 45 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: barn burners down to the last second, stunning action if 46 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: you liked the sport, just amazing, right, this is this 47 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: is crazy and just the uniqueness of it, even if 48 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: you're not a football fan. So since the league expanded 49 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: to its current playoff system, which five years ago no 50 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: wild card round, that's what we just had this weekend, 51 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: including tonight, by the way, had ever had more than 52 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:15,079 Speaker 1: one fourth quarter lead change, never more than one. As 53 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 1: of last night it was twelve and we have one 54 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: more game to go. 55 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 2: That's it's stunning. 56 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: Just it's it's it's like the fixes in I mean, 57 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: if your conspiracy mind, it never mind that it would 58 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 1: be impossible to get this conspiracy going. But if you're 59 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 1: a conspiracy minded I would have to listen to you 60 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: seriously from one to twelve, Wait a minute, what you 61 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: took stats class, That's that's like four standard deviations or something. 62 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: Are you gonna play sixty minutes of football with all 63 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: the things going and everything like that and then coming 64 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: down to the last thirty seconds like every game? How 65 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: are you gonna do that. But that's what's impossible. And 66 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: then you have to be a sports fan to enjoy this. 67 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: Why does God hate Justin Herbert? He hates him for 68 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: some reason. He gets the but Jesus beaten out of 69 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: him every time he makes it at the playoffs. 70 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 2: Poor a guy. Jeez, that was rough. 71 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: Any rough line of work, you get paid pretty well, 72 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: but rough. AnyWho that was. That was a lot of 73 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: fun if you like the football, certainly was. I uh 74 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: in my town, USA had a decent side. Probably one 75 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 1: of the biggest protests, maybe the biggest protest I've ever 76 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: seen in that little town's history, one of the one 77 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: thousand anti ice protests that occurred across the country in 78 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: various sized towns. Because that continues to go on, it's 79 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 1: it's it's interesting that that it's become a should ice 80 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: do their job or not? Question? And what's the alternative? 81 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 2: Right? 82 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: As always with these folks, I just would like them 83 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: to spell out what they want in good adult sentences 84 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: and then we can. 85 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 2: Talk about it. Something's heated up, I go up the 86 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 2: end to oppression. Okay, all right, something is definitely heated up. 87 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 2: I got flipped off three. 88 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 1: Times this weekend in my cyber truck three times, and 89 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: those were your close friends. Uh yeah, it's amazing. I 90 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: mean and with the angry face too. Woman in her 91 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: car yesterday, both fingers just oh, her. 92 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,479 Speaker 2: Face was just as she's so mad as a mentally 93 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 2: ill person. That's nuts. Yeah, that's nuts. 94 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 1: You shouldn't encounter people like that very often, who are 95 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 1: that angry about when someone else drives. 96 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 2: I know, it's that's crazy. I was. 97 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: I tweeted about this on Friday, the first time I 98 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: got flipped off over the weekend. 99 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 2: A guy in a motorcycle, he's riding a mean, he's. 100 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: Just flipping me off, riding with one hand and uh, 101 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: and I thought, all right, I tweeted it. I've known 102 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: that most people in a Subaru or a Vovo or 103 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: a progressive for decades. It's never cry I don't agree 104 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: with their politics. It's never across my mind. 105 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 2: To flip them off. Would make you an angry crazy 106 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 2: That would. 107 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: Make me crazy, right, actually nuts. 108 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm not trying to be funny. 109 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: I'm they have a mental imbalance that's significant, and I 110 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: guarantee you it affects their lives and I guess my 111 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: point is, how are there that many people that are 112 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: mentally ill? And how much it just I know, I 113 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: know I'm biased on this, but it really seems to 114 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: me like there's more take their politics to the point 115 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:30,679 Speaker 1: of being crazy on the left. 116 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 2: Than there are in the right. 117 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: I guarantee you that's true. By the numbers. I absolutely 118 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 1: guarantee you. Yeah, it's not unknown on the right. But please, please, 119 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: I know so many staunch conservatives from the like boardroom 120 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: country club type to the redneck they go hunting every 121 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: weekend type at all points in between, and not a 122 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 1: single one of them sees a liberal and. 123 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 2: Says, god, dad makes me shall agree. They just roll 124 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 2: the rise and chuckle. 125 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: If you think about it at all, it's something and 126 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: it's not good. It's not a minor things. It's not good. 127 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 2: I was trying to think. 128 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: I wonder if this was like I'm not really old 129 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: enough for this, but like way back in the day, 130 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: when right wingers would beat up hippies just you know, 131 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: just that they saw them, I wonder if this is 132 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: the reverse of that. Now it's now it's on the 133 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: lefty side where you you're so angry at the mere 134 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: existence of the other side. M You've bought the the 135 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: worst descriptions of your own side, and it become convinced, Yeah, 136 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,239 Speaker 1: that they're evildoers amongst us. It's not good girl Nazis. 137 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: It's not gonna help us solve anything. And you know 138 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: it fits in with the with the whole Minnesota thing 139 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: and everything wild I'm royal times. It's all the kafflict 140 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: or kanas. Yeah, and then yeah, I got the problem 141 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: of our politicians think this is awesome and stoke it 142 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: on a regular basis on both sides because there's no 143 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: more money to be made in it. 144 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 2: That doesn't help either, right, And. 145 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: Occasionally you get the grown up in the room it says, hey, 146 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: can everybody calm down, Let's talk about this like adults. 147 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: You know how much they raise Having said that, Jack's 148 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: quatah nothing, it's fever, pitch, anger and angst. 149 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 2: That's what sells baby. 150 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: Yes, Michael, No, I'm just thinking when I'm driving, I'm listening, 151 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: you know, to music, or I'm thinking about what my days. 152 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 2: It never occurs to me. 153 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: You're letting into the Armstrong You Getty podcast. It's in 154 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: your contract, nothing but that. But it never occurs to me, 155 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 1: what politics is a person in front of me driving? 156 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 2: I know, and I was thinking about this yesterday too. 157 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 2: Joe mentioned boardrooms. 158 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: I thought, okay, so this is all based on the 159 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: who's the largest shareholder in the car company for the 160 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: car that I drive? I'm thinking because a lot of 161 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: business people lean right, are conservative. 162 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 2: I'm thinking a lot of the people at the top running. 163 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: Super rud Toyota Ford, whoever the hell are probably conservative 164 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 1: and you would hate their politics. 165 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 2: They're just not out there talking about it. 166 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: No, they keep a low profile because they saw what 167 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: hav an old elon. 168 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 2: Do you think all these. 169 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: Businessmen who run all these companies are progressives? You nut jobs? 170 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 2: Right? 171 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: Exactly? Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's 172 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: Joe Getty on this. How in the world did it 173 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: get to be already? We're halfway through the month, practically Monday, 174 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: January twelfthy or twenty twenty six, where I'm strong and 175 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: getting we approve of this program. 176 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 2: Wow, let's swing in action now. 177 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: According to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at 178 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: mark that small population out there that's already half nuts. 179 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 2: They hear this reddit the. 180 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 4: Iss racist and they're Nazis and they're disappearing people. 181 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:47,439 Speaker 2: That empowers them to do stupid things. This is true. 182 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: Tom Holman is the voice of calm and compromise. He's 183 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: the adult in the room. That's interesting. Not a lot 184 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: of that though. No, No, this is, this is it's 185 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: gonna end. Well, nothing ever ends. The history just continues. 186 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: But this is going to peak with a really violent 187 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: scene at some point. I think, yes, really gets everybody's attention. 188 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: Although you know, the president almost had his head blown off, 189 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 1: So I don't know what it would take to get 190 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:22,439 Speaker 1: us all to think, okay, I think maybe we've gone 191 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: too far. Nothing seems to do it well. And then 192 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: you get to like the top of the crazy pyramid. 193 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: There's no reaching those people anyway, and so if they 194 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,559 Speaker 1: are willing to, you know, commit an active violence like 195 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: trying to blow the president's head off, for instance, and 196 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: then that just steams things up again. I don't know 197 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: where it ends unless there's by popular acclaim, just a 198 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: cultural norm that comes in and it exists actually in 199 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,559 Speaker 1: some cultures. Hey, no, you make it a big loud 200 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: display over there. That's uncool. We don't we're not those 201 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: people around here, but we are unfortunately. Yeah, we're a 202 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 1: long way from that one. Okay, we got the headlines 203 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: on the way and more news of the day. Are 204 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: we going to war with Iran? Trump's talking pretty tough 205 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: and maybe rightfully so, so lots today stay with us 206 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 1: text line four one nine KFTC so Trump said, Iran 207 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: is close to crossing his red line. You don't like 208 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: to draw red lines as a president or a parent 209 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: or a boss and let people go by them, because 210 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: then your future red lines and to not have a 211 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: lot of meaning. But Trump day, Trump said, you start 212 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: killing protesters, and you've crossed my red line. He said 213 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 1: that what a week ago. There are quite a few 214 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: dead people in Iran after this weekend? Uh yeah, one 215 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: hundreds or thousands, depending on who you believe. It's difficult 216 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 1: to get I curate numbers end. Frankly, you know, if 217 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 1: I want to overthrow the mullas and Trump says, if 218 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: a thousand people die, I'm coming in. I'm saying that 219 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: a thousand people are dead. Their intentions are good, but 220 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: who knows how true. It is a lot to talk 221 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: about today. As always, let's figure out who's report what's 222 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:02,239 Speaker 1: the leak? Starting with Katie Green, Katie. 223 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 4: Well, that exact topic is at the top of the 224 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 4: alphabet network. 225 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 2: So here we go. ABC. 226 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 4: Iranian leader and Trump trade threats as activists say protest. 227 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 2: Deaths are rising. NBC. 228 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 4: Trump says Iran wants to negotiate ways quote strong options 229 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 4: to respond to deadly protest crackdown and CNN Iran quote 230 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 4: prepared for war but open to US talks as hundreds 231 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 4: reported killed. 232 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 1: They're prepared for war in the same way I'm prepared 233 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: to fight the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. 234 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 2: Please. 235 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: Hey, Ron, Aron says, our military bases are targets if 236 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: we attack them. Okay, yeah, sure, Look, I'm sure there 237 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: were targets after we blew them with Jesus out here 238 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: last year and you didn't do anything. Not only have 239 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 1: they killed who knows five hundred, one thousand or more, 240 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: they've detained many, many, many thousands, or snatching amount of 241 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: hospitals as we talked about last week. Send them off 242 00:12:57,679 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: the prisons to be tortured and dies. 243 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 2: Oh yeah. 244 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 1: Trump's got some big decisions to make, and he's meeting 245 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 1: with his advisors tomorrow about the whole military reaction. 246 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 4: From The New York Times, Federal prosecutors open investigation into 247 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 4: fed FED chair heal. 248 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 2: I don't like this story. It's ridiculous, honestly, come on, 249 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 2: Donald J. Focus focus. 250 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 4: From Fox, Trump says Greenland's defense is quote two dog 251 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 4: sleds as he pushes for US acquisition of territory. 252 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: Oh my god, now we're threatening our allies. O my god, 253 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: you've got one at least dog sleds. 254 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 2: Oh jeez, that is horrible and funny. 255 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:52,079 Speaker 4: From Reuters, Besant says US may lift more Venezuela sanctions 256 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 4: this week. 257 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, how this goes forward is anybody's guess. I've never 258 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: even heard, like, you know, some sort of theoretical, you know, 259 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: paper in a polycide class, how this relationship is going. 260 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 2: To go forward. The whole oil company question is a 261 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 2: big one too. 262 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:14,719 Speaker 1: How are you gonna get the oil companies in there 263 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: and make sure that we don't get some oil company 264 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: execs snatched or stuff blown up. 265 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 2: Or whatever, and then we're really in it all. 266 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: Right, and the commedies are still in charge. And you know, 267 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: Trump was making me insane over the weekend. So one 268 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: of the they had that big meeting with the oil execs, 269 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: and the guy from Exxon was especially skeptical about Look, 270 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: we've had our entire operation confiscated twice in Venezuela. 271 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 2: I just I don't see it happening again. 272 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: And so Trump now is pissed and says, yeah, we're 273 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: not gonna let Exxon in. The Other oil companies can 274 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: go in because the guy expressed skepticism. 275 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 2: Come on, Financial Times. 276 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 4: Can battery powered skis do for ski touring what e 277 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 4: bikes did for cycling? 278 00:14:57,880 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 2: What now battery powered? 279 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: Now you're talking gravity is what takes you down a 280 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: hill on skis? Is this to get you to go 281 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: up the hill? Or is this for cross country skiing? Well, 282 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: you got your cross country and then you got your 283 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: your flat land and uphill for downhill skiing? Tell you 284 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: what I ski downhill and I get the lifts over there. 285 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: I got to do that whole awkward I'm skating on 286 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: skis thing, or my power skis. 287 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 2: Can take me there. 288 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: Make sure I get as little exercise as bob, which 289 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: is the goal. 290 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 2: Apparently, right from the. 291 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 4: New York Post, the latest gen Z term chopple ganger 292 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 4: is an insult. 293 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 2: Okay, tell me what it means in case somebody throws 294 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 2: it at me. 295 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 4: I means you're an ugly doppelganger. Apparently being chopped today 296 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 4: means ugly. 297 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: Oh so you're a doppelganger for somebody, like an uglier version. 298 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're an uglier version of someone that's there's 299 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: no need for that at all, the body of ugly 300 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: in the world. 301 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 4: Yikes, study fines young Americans are unplugging and it's making 302 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 4: them happier. 303 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, no joke, you think. Yeah, there's some new science out. 304 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: What's the headline? Three arguments from science, three science factorisons 305 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: to put on your phone in daydream instead. 306 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 2: I want to talk about that later. 307 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 4: And finally, the Babylon b NFL announces each quarter of 308 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 4: the playoff games will be broadcast on different streaming. 309 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 2: Services, no kidding, no kidding. And to the first quarter. 310 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: If you want to get to the thinker quarter, you 311 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: need to go over to peacock Hulu if you subscribe 312 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: to that, I mean, try to figure out where it is. 313 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: That's pretty funny. We'll get to some of the news 314 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: of the day. If you miss a seconment, get the 315 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: podcast Armstrong and Getty on the Man and our friend 316 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: Tim Sanderfer sent the proofs yesterday of his brand new 317 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: book on the Declaration of Independence that is coming out 318 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: in April, and I started reading it last night, and man, 319 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: was it entertaining. 320 00:16:57,920 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 2: I can't wait to get through this whole thing. 321 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: Wow, fantastic. I should have the name of it. Proclaiming 322 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: Liberty is the name of the book comes out in April. 323 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: Really good stuff about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 324 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 1: the writing of the Declaration. And this our anniversary year, 325 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: you know, twenty twenty six, one hundred and fifty years ago. 326 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 1: I just happened to prouse a very brief a long article, 327 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: but very briefly about Thomas Paine and the character that 328 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: he was, and how he'd come to America penniless and 329 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 1: had had to sell everything he owned in London to 330 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:33,479 Speaker 1: escape debtors prison, and as you know, he's a bit 331 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:37,640 Speaker 1: of a firebrand in half a nut. And in January 332 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: of seventeen seventy six he was yelling for independence when 333 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: very very few people were, and how that became more 334 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: and more influential. I'm looking forward to all of the 335 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: founding stuff that we're going to hear about this year. 336 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:52,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I am too. 337 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: Welcome to what I'm going to call Joe Getty's The 338 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 1: Amazing Brain. That's our feature. Joe Getty's the Amazing Brain, 339 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: The Amazing Brain. I was boring our daughter and her 340 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: man with various descriptions of birds and natural phenomenon near 341 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: our house and realized, my dream, really, my dream career. 342 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 2: Is to be the American David at Edinborough. 343 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: You know, the Canada goose with its plaintive cry in 344 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: the fall moves south for you know. I haven't written 345 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 1: it out, but you know, I think I could do 346 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 1: that well because I really like nature, so I could 347 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: really take like describing different sorts of pine cones very serious. 348 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: Well anyway, ah, so the amazing Joe Getty's the Amazing Brain. 349 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: Why you should put your phone down in daydream instead. 350 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: People consistently underestimate how much they would enjoy just thinking. 351 00:18:58,720 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 2: I thought about this yesterday. 352 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: I was I don't remember what I was about to do, 353 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: maybe take a shower or something like that. I listened 354 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: to books when I'm showering, and I enjoy it. But 355 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: I have cut out almost all time where I'm not 356 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: taking in content. It's good content, it's easily defendable content. 357 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: It's not crap that I'm taking in, but there's not 358 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 1: a lot of downtime for my brain. 359 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 2: Right. 360 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 1: So they mentioned that daydreaming has been the subject to 361 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: scientific research for decades and we I don't know if 362 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: this is still currently true, but spend as much as 363 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: half of our awake time daydreaming or listening to our 364 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:37,439 Speaker 1: own thoughts. 365 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 2: Not always pleasant. 366 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 1: And one famous study which I didn't dig into, but 367 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,919 Speaker 1: participants preferred to get an electric shock rather than sit quietly. 368 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 2: With their own thoughts. 369 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 1: Oh boy, go ahead and shocked me, just so I 370 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 1: know I'm alive. I can't sit here and listen to 371 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: my own thoughts. Yes, So this, one professor at University 372 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: of Florida said, compared to idly scrolling on the phone 373 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: to cognitive junk food, meaning you might feel good in 374 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: the moment, but really doesn't do it much for us. 375 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,360 Speaker 1: So much of what we've accomplished as humans come from 376 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,239 Speaker 1: higher order thinking. So here are three reasons to leave 377 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: your phone in your pocket let your mind wander instead. 378 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: Number one, you'll probably enjoy it more than you think. 379 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two study researchers found that people consistently underestimated 380 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: how much they would enjoy just thinking. They were asked 381 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 1: to predict how they would feel, and then afterward they 382 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: were asked how it went. I know my kids who 383 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,439 Speaker 1: have been trained by this their whole lives, you know, 384 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: the bondered world find it just intolerable, absolutely intolerable. You 385 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,479 Speaker 1: would think that that wouldn't be a natural response. If 386 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: it's so good for us. 387 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 2: Of course, how quickly could you undo it? Though? Is 388 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 2: my devil's advocate question. I have no idea. I don't know. 389 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 2: They've never known a different thing though. 390 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,959 Speaker 1: I mean, anybody younger than when the iPhone came out 391 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, so everybody under what forty 392 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: five or something like that, I never never done any differently, 393 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,640 Speaker 1: can't even imagine. It seems so strange that you would 394 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: just have your own thoughts. But arguing with myself, as 395 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: I said, you would think, if it's good for us, 396 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: we would be more inclined to enjoy it and want 397 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: to do it. But potato chips are horrible for us, 398 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: you'd think would be less inclined to eat potato chips. 399 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 3: If or not. 400 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, funny you should bring that up anyway. So this 401 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: one scientist said, the ability to go elsewhere in our 402 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: minds is what makes us human, and I find myself wondering, 403 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: you know, because chimps. 404 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 2: I was gonna make a joke about it. 405 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: Must mate, must eat, must mate, must eat my thoughts, 406 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: must mate. 407 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 2: Homer j Armstrong. 408 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: But then you know, when chimps are resting and they're 409 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: glancing around, they gotta be thinking about something, right, are 410 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: their minds just completely blank? 411 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 2: And man is her ass red? She must want that? 412 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 2: That's baboons all right. Number two reason. 413 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: To put down your phone and just daydream. Daydreaming may 414 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 1: help you solve problems. One of the most important reasons 415 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 1: our mind's wander is that this kind of free association 416 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 1: thinking is effective for problem solving, often more than sitting 417 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: down with the intention of figuring out a solution. People 418 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,400 Speaker 1: do this a lot when they're driving. And you know what, 419 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: I am willing to bet every single person listening to 420 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 1: these words is going to think, oh, yeah, that's true 421 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 1: when I say this, showering, putting on makeup, all of 422 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:34,959 Speaker 1: these kinds of things. When you're doing something in the 423 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: external world, it's sort of automatic. Your thoughts are free 424 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: to wander, and that's when you have great thoughts. I 425 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 1: used to joke during the show that it's when I 426 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: ran to the bathroom that I would have these great 427 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 1: either ideas or put things together or. 428 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 2: Come to a realization or what have you. It's just 429 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 2: this undeniable. I don't know. 430 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: I can't answer your question because I haven't done it 431 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: in so long. I haven't taken a shower or gone 432 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 1: to the gym and lifted weights or anything without listening 433 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: to a podcast or something in a very very long time, 434 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: so I don't remember what that's like. 435 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, Well, keep torturing your poor brain. 436 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: Research suggests people are more likely to solve a problem 437 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: after a period of mind wandering if they weren't consciously 438 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: thinking about the issue at all. 439 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that. 440 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 1: I used to do that with turn papers worked for 441 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: me all the time through high school and college. I'd 442 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: get stumped and I'd just think, I'm gonna go to bed, 443 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: and when I wake up, I'll I'll have an idea. 444 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: And I would wake up with an idea and what's 445 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,719 Speaker 1: not like I was pondering it. My brain would work 446 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,880 Speaker 1: on it while I was asleep. A few weeks ago, 447 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: some of you good folks with fabulous memories might be 448 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: able to refresh mind, But we had a handful of 449 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: quotes from the great thinkers of history talking about how 450 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: a long walk was utterly just indispensable to them doing 451 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: what they do. 452 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 2: Let's see how Elon does it. 453 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: Because he he's really big into like taking in information 454 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 1: and podcasts and all that sort of stuff and things, 455 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: we can do it, you know, two times the speed 456 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: if we practice, and all that sort of stuff. I 457 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: don't get the sense that he does a lot of 458 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: mind wandering, yet he comes up with all kinds of things, 459 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: So I'd love to know how he approaches it. Yeah, 460 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: although that would be interesting, but he is absolutely an 461 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: outlier of logic to the rest of us, no doubt, 462 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: So I'm not sure what it would have to do 463 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:23,439 Speaker 1: with me. Finally, daydreaming makes you feel closer to people. 464 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: I did not see this one coming. This Other researchers 465 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: spent much of her research time exploring daydreaming, and imagination 466 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: has found surprising social and emotional benefits. In one study, 467 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,679 Speaker 1: participants were asked to imagine either a pleasant interaction with 468 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 1: a loved one or another positive but non social event, 469 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: like getting a good grade. The people imagining time with 470 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: a loved one felt more connected to that person. 471 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 2: Blah blah, blah. 472 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: You think about the people in your life and it 473 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: makes you feel closer to them. Hanson and I have 474 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: both had this experience recently with kids where they lost 475 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: their screen time privileges and you notice a positive change 476 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: in their demeanor very quickly. Wow, that is interesting. I 477 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 1: was surprised that it happened so fast. One of my 478 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 1: kids lost all his screen time and he is clearly 479 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 1: calmer and just I don't know, like just seems freer 480 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: more easily in the world without any screen time. And 481 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 1: actually I don't doubt that for a second. 482 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 2: Don't either. 483 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: So there's more to Joe Getty's The Amazing Brain. I 484 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: found this actually oddly disturbing or something. You know, when 485 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: your mind goes blank temporarily. Yeah, scientists think consciousness may 486 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 1: actually pause while you're awake. The brain patterns during mind 487 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: blanking resemble the Marker scene in deep sleep or anesthesia, 488 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: I think, but occur as brief lapses during otherwise normal wakefulness. 489 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 1: I think that happened to Justin Herber three times in 490 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: the last two minutes of the game Last. 491 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 2: Night, Where Is Mine? Oh jeez, it happens what you 492 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 2: might think. 493 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 1: People experience complete mental blankness about sixteen percent of the 494 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: time during simple tasks, nearly half as often as mind wandering. 495 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,679 Speaker 1: So I wonder if that varies person a person that 496 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 1: their mind just goes completely blank and with their drool coming. 497 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 2: Out of their lips or what. 498 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: But I don't know that I drool very often, but 499 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 1: my mind does go blank occasionally. So your brain shows 500 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: opposite patterns for each of those two things. Mind wandering 501 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: makes people faster and more impulsive their minds. Mind blanking 502 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: slows responses and creates absences where people miscues entirely as 503 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 1: if mentally checked out. Well, like we've talked about many times, 504 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 1: it's possible that staring at your phone is going to 505 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: be looked at the same way we look at smoking 506 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: now and people look back and say, like we do now, 507 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 1: doctors used to recommend smoking take the edge off after 508 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: a long day. 509 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:03,399 Speaker 2: How crazy is that? 510 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: And maybe you know, twenty years from now, look back, 511 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:07,919 Speaker 1: people used to walk around stair at their phone all 512 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: the day, all day long, without any limits, and nobody 513 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: thought there was anything wrong with that. 514 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 2: How crazy is that? 515 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: I wonder if people will start to look at it 516 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: like you look at somebody who watches the view there's 517 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 1: a dullard with nothing else to do or think about it. Right, 518 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 1: they're just taking in mental anesthesia till the day they die. 519 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: Or it will be more like eating healthy where there 520 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 1: are pockets cities states families where you you exercise and 521 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,479 Speaker 1: eat better, and then pocket city states families where you 522 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 1: take in all the crap and everybody is overweight, out 523 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: of shape. Correct with smartphone usage? That one, that one, Yeah, 524 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: that's pretty interesting. Yeah, I don't think. I don't feel 525 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: like we need any studies our own life. My own 526 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: life experience seems to make it pretty clear. Unlike smoking. 527 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: It'd be like if smoking, you smoke your first pack 528 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 1: of cigarettes and got a tumor grown out of your neck. 529 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: That's the way they having smartphones is, it's like immediately 530 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: I can't read books, right, That's that's why I'm such 531 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 1: a zealot for it. What's happening in my own brain. 532 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: I don't need anybody. I'm not trying to tell anybody 533 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 1: how to live. But I'm just in you and everybody 534 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,360 Speaker 1: else is just being honest about what they've observed them themselves. 535 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: Just because a giant corporation thinks I had to do 536 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: something because they make more money. If I do, doesn't 537 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,919 Speaker 1: mean I wanna. I'm not gonna eat it. I'm not 538 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: gonna dwell. In some cases, I am gonna eat it, 539 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:34,239 Speaker 1: but we're talking aspirational here. I'm not gonna eat it. 540 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna watch it. I'm not gonna stare at 541 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 1: it just because it's been offered to me. I am 542 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: twelve days with no desserts on my New Year's Eve, 543 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: my new Year's resolution. 544 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 2: So I'm pretty happy about that. We got mail bag 545 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 2: on the way, a lot of other stuff. Stay here. 546 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 2: How are you feeling about life? Pretty good? Huh? 547 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: A couple of weeks into the new year, feeling good 548 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,719 Speaker 1: about things personally speaking. 549 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 2: I'm just asking those the listener, Yeah, okay, I'll wait 550 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 2: till I answered. 551 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 1: Somebody texted Elon lays down on his back in a 552 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: dark room to daydream without stimuli. I don't know if 553 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: that's turnout, but sounds like something he might do. Yeah, 554 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: it sounds like a good idea. I'd probably not off. 555 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 1: But you you do you in whatever matter. 556 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 2: You wouldn't design a new rocket. You would just fall asleep. 557 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, dream of stupid stuff. 558 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 2: Probably. Yeah. I need I need something. 559 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: I actually I seriously I love sitting out back and 560 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: just watching nature go by. That's how I daydream love it. 561 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: Here's your freedom hating quote of the day. We're back 562 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: to that from the great dictators and fiends of history, 563 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: shining a light from the other side of liberty to 564 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: understand it's threats and what keeps it safe. I've got 565 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:55,000 Speaker 1: a series from Vladimir Lenen that will chill you to 566 00:29:55,040 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: the bone. Tomorrow's especially, but today's is a classic repeated 567 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 1: by other fiends throughout history. A lie told often enough 568 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: becomes the truth. Seems to be the case. 569 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, I know. 570 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 1: Tomas Soel has a version of that that I found very, 571 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: very persuasive. I wish I had in front of me 572 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: because he is a gifted, gifted wordsmith, and I am 573 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: not worthy to lick his boots. 574 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 2: It's hard to understand. I imagine why he would want 575 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 2: me to do that. 576 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: But he said, essentially, the people mistake familiarity for truth. 577 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 1: They just heard something a bunch and figure it must 578 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 1: be true anyway. Mailbag, you know Mailbag at Armstrong and 579 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: getdy dot com. The phrase you're looking for rights Diane 580 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: in Beautiful Chico, California, last week we were discussing how 581 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: sometimes the craziest, wildest thing you can do is nothing. 582 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: The most ify chancy long shot that it'll work out 583 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 1: thing you can possibly do is not to make a choice, 584 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: she said. The phrase you're looking for is not to side, 585 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: is to decide definitely, And Dave and all my fellow 586 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 1: Rush fans, if you choose not to decide, you still 587 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: have made a choice. The same idea my crazy liberal sisters, 588 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 1: writes Anonymous. Here's a picture my crazy liberal sisters, twins, 589 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: college educated, completely moronic protesting in Washington, d C. One's 590 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: got to no Ice signed, the other has a sign 591 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: that says abolish Ice. 592 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 2: Well, what do you suggest we not. 593 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 1: Have immigration law in customs law? Or do we not 594 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 1: enforce them having passed them, or put it in the 595 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: hands of. 596 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 2: The park service? What's your solution? Anyway, these people are fools. 597 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: Let's see Tony wants to know the answer to this question. 598 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: Trump says, to walk peacefully and patriotically to the capitol. 599 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: Walt says, we're at war with the federal government. Who 600 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: is the insurrectionist? 601 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 2: Now? Yeah, et cetera. But I see your point. 602 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 1: Let's see Kevin the Texas Marine with a question about 603 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: the clearly not a DEI hire in Philadelphia. Oh, that's 604 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 1: the reference to the sheriff who announced that they will 605 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: be arresting any ICE agents who come to Philadelphia. We 606 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: will play that back and forth for you presently, he says. 607 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: She called Ice Trump's wannabe army. Does she realize that 608 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: his commander in chief Trump actually has an army, an 609 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: actual army, a navy and air force, even my beloved 610 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: Marine Corps. Perhaps someone could pass that on to her 611 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: as she may not be aware. Yeah, that could be 612 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 1: the big showdown if they're serious. If surely no police 613 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: chief is going to start arresting ICE agents. But that's 614 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 1: what they said, and we'll get into that in now 615 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: or two. And unrelated, Today is National hot Tea Day. 616 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: Former producer of Positive Sean would approve, I may enjoy 617 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 1: a nice cup of Earl grad this afternoon to celebrate 618 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 1: National hot Tea Day. 619 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 2: What how did you put that in mail? By lead? Well, 620 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 2: it was in the Texas Marine through then. I like Kevin, 621 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 2: but you mock the idea of national this in that 622 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 2: day all the time I do constantly. Yes, Oh I'm sorry, 623 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 2: I got these out of order. No, I didn't. That's right. 624 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 2: I interrupted my own flow with the tea thing. 625 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: Let's see, Rich says, I asked my cousin in Philadelphia 626 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: about their sheriff and he said, oh, you mean our 627 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: sheriff with no authority, no education. 628 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:25,400 Speaker 2: And no clue. 629 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: Hey. 630 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, she did not strike me. 631 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 1: As somebody referred to as a DEI sheriff. 632 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 2: I guess that was Kevin. 633 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 1: And then this is interesting from Ryan in Houston, who 634 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 1: has always thought provoking. The worst things that happened to Congress, 635 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 1: dear cold warrior, are old fancy Jack. The worst things 636 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,880 Speaker 1: that happened to the legislative branch was number one. Hillary 637 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: Clinton lost to Barack Obama in part because she voted 638 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 1: for the Iraq war. And second, the Supreme Court decided 639 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: gay marriage was legal. The first show that you can 640 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 1: lose your job as an elected drifter if you put 641 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,040 Speaker 1: your name to any controversial bill, and second shows but 642 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: if you don't vote, the Supreme Court will eventually get 643 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: to it. 644 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,560 Speaker 2: That means you can fundraise on what the Supreme Court 645 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 2: is ruled on. 646 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 1: So we have an entire legislative branch that is afraid 647 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 1: to actually do anything and has an incentive not to, 648 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,240 Speaker 1: but isn't afraid to say anything. 649 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:15,800 Speaker 2: So this is correct. 650 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 1: That is the correct dynamic, and I don't know how 651 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:22,759 Speaker 1: we break out of it. The legislative branch, which used 652 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,920 Speaker 1: to jealously guard its constitutional prerogatives, is now more than 653 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: happy to give them away. They can't wait to give 654 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,799 Speaker 1: them away to the executive branch because then they never 655 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,799 Speaker 1: have anything to answer for and they can fundraise like 656 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:34,399 Speaker 1: crazy and. 657 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,759 Speaker 2: Stay in office, which was ends up being the goal 658 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:37,480 Speaker 2: of many people. 659 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, that controversial for arresting ICE agents will get to 660 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:40,920 Speaker 1: an hour 661 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,920 Speaker 2: Or two if you miss a get the podcast and