Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm
Speaker 1: Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: The media has brought bought into this industry, canard this
Speaker 2: mythology that we're Jesus anymore autism because we're noticing it more,
Speaker 2: we're better recognizing it, or there's been changing diagnostic criteria.
Speaker 2: There is study after study in the scientific literature going
Speaker 2: back decades it says that's not true.
Speaker 1: In fact, California.
Speaker 2: Legislator in twenty thirteen asked the Mind Institute of you
Speaker 2: See Davis to look exactly at that topic. They said,
Speaker 2: is it real or we justn't noticing it more? And
Speaker 2: the Mind Institute came back and said, absolutely, this is
Speaker 2: a real epidemic.
Speaker 1: This is something we've never seen before.
Speaker 3: It occurs to me something I was saying the other
Speaker 3: day about this to researchers I know who work at
Speaker 3: the Mind to Institute that he was quoting right there
Speaker 3: where people somebody brought it up.
Speaker 1: We were at dinner.
Speaker 3: The idea, well, they just they just it's always been around,
Speaker 3: just noticing more and they got like angry at that suggestion.
Speaker 3: You know, I just feel like intuitively, I mean, I've
Speaker 3: known lots of families my whole life, as you have,
Speaker 3: and they didn't all have one kid who has clearly.
Speaker 1: Had a certain thing. Right. Yeah, Yeah, it's undeniable that
Speaker 1: diagnosis and awareness have increased. But as I said the
Speaker 1: other day, is that five percent of their eyes fifty
Speaker 1: percent of it? How much? I agree completely? And if
Speaker 1: there were a shadow of a doubt as to whether
Speaker 1: it's on the increased autism and related problems, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's a humanitarian crisis that ought to be an enormously
Speaker 1: high priority in my opinion. Anyway, a couple of things
Speaker 1: on the way this hour. We'll try to squeez him
Speaker 1: in this hour. If not, we'll you know, do one
Speaker 1: in hour four. Partly because it's Friday and night. Just
Speaker 1: don't feel like substance all day long. Just let's have
Speaker 1: a little fun. Number One, Science has come up with
Speaker 1: the formula for having the perfect day.
Speaker 3: Okay, perfect, I'm gonna write this down.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. You don't need to think about it,
Speaker 1: you don't need to meditate, pray.
Speaker 3: Science will tell you how to have the perfect day
Speaker 3: before you go to work or before you go to
Speaker 3: bed somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yes, well it's funny they don't touch on that. And
Speaker 1: also a list of some of them fairly recently declassified
Speaker 1: unbelievable operations the CIA has carried out through the years
Speaker 1: just for fun. You've heard of Castro's exploding cigar plays.
Speaker 1: That's just the beginning. All sorts of good stuff. But first,
Speaker 1: before your dessert, perhaps a delicious marshmallow peep. So we're
Speaker 1: discussing last hour. You you it's a delicious treat and
Speaker 1: it's Easter Jack. Anyway, Oh, I.
Speaker 3: Heard that tone of voice, like I'm not being reverent
Speaker 3: toward the Lord and Savior if I don't like beeps.
Speaker 3: That makes sense?
Speaker 1: Is that what you took from my tone? I'm so sorry. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I wanted to get through this just because I found
Speaker 1: it so enlightening and interesting, and I think you will too.
Speaker 1: Talking about Medicaid just just briefly, and I came across
Speaker 1: this headline, the six hundred billion dollar Medicaid maneuver on
Speaker 1: the chopping block. Republican budget cutters are are looking at
Speaker 1: cutting this and this is interesting in itself, but it
Speaker 1: also points out how so many of these gigantic government
Speaker 1: expenditures are built to be exploited in ways we and
Speaker 1: the public never hear about, or the super smart people
Speaker 1: figure out how to exploit them in ways that were
Speaker 1: never intended. Here you go. An obscure set of state
Speaker 1: taxes on hospitals and other health providers is in the
Speaker 1: crosshairs of congressional budget cutters because it can lead to
Speaker 1: higher federal spending on Medicaid. It's they're known as provider taxes.
Speaker 1: States impose them on hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities
Speaker 1: that provide healthcare. The taxes boost the state's budget for
Speaker 1: funding Medicaid, and then they spend it on Medicaid, which
Speaker 1: in turn attracts more matching federal dollars to fund the program,
Speaker 1: money that is ultimately directed back to the hospitals and clinics.
Speaker 1: So it's like this perpetual motion taxation and grant machine
Speaker 1: so that they can artificially inflate spending so they can
Speaker 1: spend more and the hospitals and clinics get it back anyway.
Speaker 1: But it's the taxpayers who end up paying for this loaded,
Speaker 1: you know, steroid fed spending.
Speaker 3: As I've said many times, I would like to run
Speaker 3: an experiment where I lived my life over and starting it.
Speaker 3: Like the age of eighteen out of high school. I
Speaker 3: just dedicated my life to trying to figure out how
Speaker 3: to gain the system to get tax payer mooney.
Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of people that do that.
Speaker 3: There's so much money sloshing around, there's so many opportunities
Speaker 3: to figure out a way to get chunks of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and putting aside except for this brief mention, the
Speaker 1: fact that our entire healthcare system is built on lies
Speaker 1: and fraud, in that the compensation rates for doctors and
Speaker 1: hospitals and all for Medicaid patients and Medicare patients and
Speaker 1: are artificially crazy low because politically they don't want to
Speaker 1: raise taxes enough to actually pay for this, So people
Speaker 1: with private insurance or paying cash pay exorbitant rates for
Speaker 1: healthcare to support the government scam. Anyway, that's enough of that.
Speaker 1: The state governors and legislators despise this idea because hospitals
Speaker 1: often ten to get back more in payments than they
Speaker 1: shelled out for the original tax, which shows up their
Speaker 1: ability to care for Medicaid patients who normally they'd say,
Speaker 1: we're not seeing these people and getting paid eleven cents
Speaker 1: on the dollar to treat their broken lag or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then the governor say, well, wait, wait, wait, how
Speaker 1: about this backchannel of funds will tax you and then
Speaker 1: give you back a dollar thirty for every dollar in
Speaker 1: tax you pay. So anyway, not to you know, borrior,
Speaker 1: make your head spin. But all of this stuff is
Speaker 1: just so so corrupt. Where there's money slashing around, there
Speaker 1: is corruption. But that's kind of just lead up to
Speaker 1: this story. The moral case for reforming medicare. This is
Speaker 1: from the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. Republicans
Speaker 1: in Congress are they passed the budget outline last week.
Speaker 1: That's an ongoing fight, will be for a long time.
Speaker 1: We haven't talked much about it, but I wanted to
Speaker 1: mention this. It's a once in a generation chance to
Speaker 1: reform the government, but it will be squandered if the
Speaker 1: GOP shrinks from difficult policy fights. Exhibit A is Medicaid,
Speaker 1: the fast growing entitlement that now spends more than eight
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty billion dollars a year while delivering subpar
Speaker 1: healthcare for the poor. And the left in the press
Speaker 1: are trying to intimidate the GOP from addressing the program's failures,
Speaker 1: saying that they're trying to cut it and get rid
Speaker 1: of it, and people will die in the streets. Now,
Speaker 1: medic I'm paraphrasing.
Speaker 3: Medicaid is the one that studies have shown you have
Speaker 3: worse outcomes than if you didn't get involved at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some studies have showed that. Yeah, But Republicans can
Speaker 1: win the medicaid argument if they understand how the program
Speaker 1: has gone wrong and make the case, make their case
Speaker 1: in the moral terms it deserves. Here's here's the important part.
Speaker 1: New research and pulling on Medicaid work requirements help to
Speaker 1: clarify the stakes. More than six in ten able bodied
Speaker 1: adults on Medicaid reported no earned income, according to report
Speaker 1: from the Foundation for Government Accountability of think tank, and
Speaker 1: six and ten able bodied adults on Medicaid get no income.
Speaker 1: Voters tend to think of Medicaid as a safety net
Speaker 1: for low income, pregnant women and disabled Americans, which is
Speaker 1: how it started.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not been that for so long, as our
Speaker 3: friend Craig has pointed out over and over again. It's
Speaker 3: amazing its reputation lives on for its original intended purpose.
Speaker 1: But Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act expanded the program into
Speaker 1: a permanent titlement for childless men in prime working age. Wow.
Speaker 1: Also worth mention a news seeking loser.
Speaker 3: I want this message to reach those of you who
Speaker 3: are able bodied and don't work and live off the government.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 3: I despise you. You're pathetic. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Speaker 3: All your friends should be ashamed of you. Nobody should
Speaker 3: be friends with you.
Speaker 1: Wow. That's very judgmental.
Speaker 3: Damn right it is. We need more shame. You should
Speaker 3: be ashamed of the fact that you live off people
Speaker 3: that go to work. Can I get memen shame or
Speaker 3: a shame? Yes, thank you, thank you shame bell lady.
Speaker 3: Also worth mentioning that Gaviy Newsom of cal Unicorny is
Speaker 3: desperately trying to borrow billions of dollars to pay for
Speaker 3: the state's callicade or whatever it's called, because he has
Speaker 3: extended so many billions of dollars of care to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 3: Remember Joe Wilson when Barack Obama said this will not
Speaker 3: go to pay for illegal immigrants. Wilson said, you lie,
Speaker 3: which may have been inappropriate and rude at the time.
Speaker 1: What was true. He was absolutely right. Anyway, Democrats claim
Speaker 1: those on Medicaid or working, you'll hear statistics like this
Speaker 1: one from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Ninety two percent of
Speaker 1: able bodied medicaid adults under age sixty five worked fuller,
Speaker 1: part time, or were indisposed for a good reason, such
Speaker 1: as caring for a relative or attending school. But that
Speaker 1: figure is derived from government survey data, which are self
Speaker 1: reported and rely on sample sizes as small as a
Speaker 1: few dozen people FGA. The think tank I studied earlier,
Speaker 1: by contrast, obtained administrative records from state medicaid agencies in
Speaker 1: twenty three states a far more complete picture of earnings
Speaker 1: for nearly twenty one million able bodied adults on Medicaid.
Speaker 1: It found that millions are declining to work at all,
Speaker 1: which of course is terrible for the country economically, culturally,
Speaker 1: in all sorts of ways, Democrats invariably paint this ordering
Speaker 1: Americans back to work is indentured servitude unfair. But the
Speaker 1: GOP's proposed Medicaid work requirements back in twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: were extremely modest twenty hours a week, which could include
Speaker 1: training for a job or volunteering at your local library.
Speaker 1: Just do something or and Democrats portray that as some
Speaker 1: sort of you were sending them into the salt mines
Speaker 1: to be whipped.
Speaker 3: Right, And you probably only need to claim that you're
Speaker 3: volunteering at the library, don't need to actually show up
Speaker 3: and doing you volunteering.
Speaker 1: So and and Republicans, by the way, and their cruel
Speaker 1: plan offered exemptions for nearly anyone with applausible reason, pregnant,
Speaker 1: have children, caring for an incapacitated relative, You're exempt. Got
Speaker 1: a doctor's note saying you're unfit for exempt, you're enrolled
Speaker 1: in school, getting help for drug or alcohol abuse, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're exempt. That was the cruel Draconian.
Speaker 3: Are so much more socialists than people realize. It reminds
Speaker 3: me of when I couldn't couldn't get any childcare. None
Speaker 3: of these people that I would, you know, contact on
Speaker 3: these various websites to try to connect you with people
Speaker 3: who want to be sitters. They would never never call
Speaker 3: me back or show up or whatever. And somebody explained
Speaker 3: to me, how, no, no, no, no, that those sites are
Speaker 3: for you can show that you're making the effort to
Speaker 3: look for a job so you can stay on your
Speaker 3: government benefits because they actually are going to.
Speaker 1: Take the job. Yeah, oh wow. So coming up Science
Speaker 1: tells you how to have the perfect day and wacky
Speaker 1: CIA schemes through his I guarantee you will be amused
Speaker 1: and amazed.
Speaker 3: And one of my favorite headlines I've seen recently, do
Speaker 3: you know child star Hailey Joe Osmond? He was a
Speaker 3: kid from six cents who said I See dead people.
Speaker 3: He had a rough week, good headline for the New
Speaker 3: York Post.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned.
Speaker 4: Thanks to massive new proposed budget cuts and Health and
Speaker 4: Human Services, the FDA may have to stop routine inspections
Speaker 4: at food facilities, so look out for exciting new products
Speaker 4: like Tyson's tangy buffalo beaks and thumbs. Yeah enough sauce,
Speaker 4: you'll never.
Speaker 3: Know bees and thumb thumbs chicken thumbs. Do you know
Speaker 3: who Hailey Joel Osmond Is?
Speaker 1: I'd heard name.
Speaker 3: I knew was somebody when I saw the picture. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: so he was the kid in the sixth cent Sense
Speaker 3: with Bruce Willis. He's a little kid says I See
Speaker 3: dead people. So he's a child star. Child stars have
Speaker 3: a history of their lives not going that well. It's
Speaker 3: a shocking to Joe and I and always has been
Speaker 3: that people continue to try to get their kids to
Speaker 3: become stars, even though like ninety five percent of the
Speaker 3: time they end up in jailer dead like at a
Speaker 3: young age, no.
Speaker 1: Matter no matter what is offered, no matter how it
Speaker 1: gratifies your ego or the child's don't don't don't, which
Speaker 1: I used to think was primarily the whole.
Speaker 3: Being rich and famous things such a you know, a
Speaker 3: swirl of ugliness to get caught into. That was before
Speaker 3: Harvey Weinstein, and you know, we realize the underbelly of Hollywood.
Speaker 3: I mean it's worse than that. I mean, you don't
Speaker 3: need to just throw money and fame at a kid
Speaker 3: to have their lives be ruined.
Speaker 1: They're surrounded by awful, awful people their whole lives.
Speaker 3: They're going to abuse them.
Speaker 1: Add some attention and flattery to that and becoming addicted
Speaker 1: to the attention with even without the molesters and all.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a terrible idea.
Speaker 3: Haley Joel Osmond I see Dead People's now thirty seven
Speaker 3: years old, and he had a rough goal of it
Speaker 3: at the ski slopes Mammoth Lakes where I've been in California.
Speaker 3: The other day This is not a good headline, Haley.
Speaker 3: Joel Osmond hurls Jewish slurs at cops, almost loses pants
Speaker 3: and arrest video.
Speaker 1: I hate to almost lose your pants while hurling, you know,
Speaker 1: anti Semitic slurs at law enforcement.
Speaker 3: Almost loses pants?
Speaker 1: How does that happen?
Speaker 3: He called an officer an anti Semitic slur and a
Speaker 3: Nazi while he was being arrested for public intoxication, which
Speaker 3: I kind of assumed that. Yeah, anti Semitic slurt and Nazi.
Speaker 1: I just I don't know.
Speaker 3: You gotta pick one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, confusing, really confusing. You get you to have a
Speaker 1: theme and you gotta stick with you gotta build a narrative.
Speaker 1: You're not building a narrative here, although Jews across America
Speaker 1: have kind of getten used to this. You're the Nazis
Speaker 1: further Israel.
Speaker 3: So you had assumed the intoxication, Yeah, yeah, I assume
Speaker 3: that was a factor.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He was taken into police custody at Lakes, California, after
Speaker 3: law enforcement received a call shortly before two pm for
Speaker 3: an alleged intoxicated person at Mammoth Mountain Resort. Now, I'm
Speaker 3: guessing you have to be pretty darn intoxicated for somebody
Speaker 3: called the cops on you at a ski resort because
Speaker 3: there are quite a few people there that are drunk, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, late late morning, early afternoon at a.
Speaker 1: Indoor stoned or whatever. Yes, that was the plan. That's
Speaker 1: why we're here, That's.
Speaker 3: Why I went.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In body Cambridge bodycam footage, which The New York Post
Speaker 3: has looked at, Osmond called a police officer an antivis
Speaker 3: Semitic slur and a Nazi. As we mentioned, at one
Speaker 3: point he shouted, I've been kidnapped by an effing Nazi.
Speaker 3: He also claimed he was what a night merce scenario.
Speaker 1: I mean, not only have you been abducted against your will,
Speaker 1: but it turns out to be a member of the
Speaker 1: National Socialist Party. He's perpetrated the crime.
Speaker 3: What a nightmare scenario in a beautiful afternoon. He also
Speaker 3: claimed he was being attacked and accused officers of torturing me.
Speaker 3: In the video, Ozma was her telling police you're effing
Speaker 3: with my life. Is also caught on camera saying officers,
Speaker 3: you'll wish you treated me nicer, which is a.
Speaker 1: Version of do you know who I am? I see
Speaker 1: people which.
Speaker 3: Were big fans of you're gonna see a lawyer soon,
Speaker 3: so you'll wish you treated me nicer. I'm a former
Speaker 3: child star, don't you know?
Speaker 1: That? Is what he's sort of saying.
Speaker 3: I was decent to you, and you're effing you're an
Speaker 3: effing kike.
Speaker 1: It looks like is what he said. Yes, yes, terrible,
Speaker 1: I'm an old timey Jewish s Yeah, hard to imagine
Speaker 1: thinking that was appropriate in this scenario. And calling him
Speaker 1: a Nazi again, but again, if you're being abducted by
Speaker 1: national socialists, you're gonna be rattled. You're gonna say things
Speaker 1: you don't mean.
Speaker 3: Anyway, He's apologized and is embarrassed by his behavior, and
Speaker 3: he is looking at going to rehab and all the
Speaker 3: things that these sorts of people always do to try
Speaker 3: to get out of trouble with very expensive lawyers.
Speaker 1: Probably well, I wish him well. I hope he gets
Speaker 1: clean and has a long, happy life. Again, almost lost
Speaker 1: his pants, didn't lose his pants? Almost lost his pants?
Speaker 1: How to have the perfect day, according to Science and
Speaker 1: the CIA's Wild History. Next half hour, don't miss it,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: What's the proper thing to say? I want to say?
Speaker 3: The proper thing do you say happy good Friday.
Speaker 1: I do not. I never have.
Speaker 3: I think, even like very solid Christians say happy good Friday.
Speaker 1: Don't. Oh yeah I don't. I'm just saying I don't
Speaker 1: and take you know, quite in contrast to the completely phony.
Speaker 1: If I'm offended, I'm right culture of universities. I've always
Speaker 1: believed in Hey, if somebody means it as a kind
Speaker 1: and friendly greeting, take it that way. Sure of course, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the day that Jesus was tortured to death
Speaker 1: on the cross and killed. But yeah, if somebody says
Speaker 1: happy good Friday, take it in the spirit it's intended.
Speaker 1: I just tend not to. But anyway, best wishes and
Speaker 1: a most respectful good Friday and Easter weekend to all
Speaker 1: of our friends. So how to have a perfect day
Speaker 1: according to science? I just I wanted to mention this
Speaker 1: real quickly. Had a conversation yesterday, actually had a couple
Speaker 1: in a row last couple of days with a young man.
Speaker 1: Brief bit of background, My sweet wife and I are
Speaker 1: expanding our back patio, so we have some screened in
Speaker 1: place to hang out when the bugs are bad and
Speaker 1: it's we're on a gentle slope and so it's kind
Speaker 1: of high off the ground and it's supported by bricks.
Speaker 1: It's a brick house anyway, and so there's got to
Speaker 1: be a pretty substantial foundation poard to support all the
Speaker 1: bricks and cinder blocks and stuff to build up to
Speaker 1: the level of the patio anyway. So the foundation people
Speaker 1: have been in our backyard now for several days doing
Speaker 1: what they do, which includes digging rather a deep ditch
Speaker 1: and then this incredibly complex web of rebar bent to
Speaker 1: custom shapes and then cinder blocks in a particular pattern.
Speaker 1: And I've been asking the guys the foreman because oddly enough, Jack,
Speaker 1: a number of the fellows involved don't speak English, but uh,
Speaker 1: the foreman Yeah, I know, it's crazy, but the foreman do.
Speaker 1: And French exactly. They're all Frenchmen. They're all working like crazy,
Speaker 1: and they're berets, smoking their smelly cigarettes. It's wonderful to watch.
Speaker 3: And they're tight striped shirts like Pablo exactly.
Speaker 1: Anyway. But No, in talking to these guys, it is
Speaker 1: absolutely striking a how much they like what they do,
Speaker 1: and b because I'm fascinated by it, and I think
Speaker 1: they like that they're proud of what they do. Absolutely
Speaker 1: they're very bright, very conscientious, and and and actually kind
Speaker 1: of charming too because they're so you know, enthusiastic about
Speaker 1: what they do and want to do a good job
Speaker 1: and pick your own path in life. And everybody needs to.
Speaker 1: And I don't judge anybody who does. You know, what
Speaker 1: they think is right, as long as you know you
Speaker 1: don't hurt anybody. But the idea that those guys are
Speaker 1: somehow lesser than somebody with some dopey degree who's in
Speaker 1: a cubicle doing something that makes them miserable is practically
Speaker 1: obscene to me. To look down on those guys, Well,
Speaker 1: it's obscene and it's just flat wrong. Even even if
Speaker 1: that's not your thing. Different people like different things. It's
Speaker 1: funny you bring this up. I got angry listening to
Speaker 1: a podcast here day. I was listening to Jonah Goldberg
Speaker 1: of The Dispatch. Maybe you see him on CNN now
Speaker 1: and then, but he grew up in New York, so
Speaker 1: he doesn't have this point of view. But he was.
Speaker 3: He was talking about manufacturing jobs coming back and everything
Speaker 3: like that, and it became very clear to me, as
Speaker 3: a guy who's lived the way he's lived, he doesn't
Speaker 3: know there are lots of people who would hang themselves
Speaker 3: if they had to live in New York City. I
Speaker 3: know tons of people who would rather be dead than
Speaker 3: live the rest of their lives in a place like
Speaker 3: New York City. And he just didn't seem to grasp it. Now,
Speaker 3: there are a lot of people that want to live
Speaker 3: in a rural, cold place and work outside. They prefer that,
Speaker 3: Like everybody I grew up with prefers that. And you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of your elite can't imagine that that's true,
Speaker 3: and so they think it's just horrible that somebody is
Speaker 3: doing certain kind of jobs in certain kind of places.
Speaker 1: That's meaning to me. Yeah, yeah, So anyway, tip of
Speaker 1: the cap to all you fellows and gals who do
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. And you're certainly respected around here.
Speaker 1: So this is really an interesting story.
Speaker 3: So much better for the country if we could break
Speaker 3: out of that, so much better for the country.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The whole university mill of.
Speaker 3: And it gets more expensive, and then the kids come
Speaker 3: out and they don't have anything to do anyway, and.
Speaker 1: Just the whole thing it's like a scam designed to
Speaker 1: make zillions of dollars. Huh. Anyway, and again the judgment
Speaker 1: of good, hardworking people is what makes me angry anyway.
Speaker 1: Ah so, how to have the perfect day? How what
Speaker 1: if you could engineer the perfect day, not by luck
Speaker 1: or with crystals, but actual science. That's exactly right. The
Speaker 1: University of British Columbia analyzed data from the American Time
Speaker 1: Use Survey, which recorded how thousands of people spent their
Speaker 1: time across more than one hundred activities. By comparing these
Speaker 1: patterns with whether participants rated their day is better than typical,
Speaker 1: they were able to pinpoint the building blocks of an
Speaker 1: exceptionally good day.
Speaker 3: Okay, now we're searching the I'm guessing most people are
Speaker 3: like me. They're thinking right now, what would be my
Speaker 3: perfect day.
Speaker 1: This is not some sort of mountaintop. I'm with a
Speaker 1: guru in a Paul sipping Margarita's and I have sex
Speaker 1: with a supermodel. It's not that sort of thing. It's
Speaker 1: a formula for having a great day or the BD
Speaker 1: the best day ever. And I'm gonna get to the
Speaker 1: end of this and you're gonna yell at me saying
Speaker 1: I can't don't have time for that. You're yelling at science.
Speaker 1: I represent science for the next two minutes.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna yell at science.
Speaker 1: Right exactly, that would make you a maniac. Here it
Speaker 1: is the best day ever. And we will repost this
Speaker 1: under hot links at armstrong and giddy dot com today
Speaker 1: so you can find it. Six hours with family plus
Speaker 1: two hours with friends, one and a half hours of
Speaker 1: extra socializing. Wow, so you start? Would you like to
Speaker 1: start yelling? Now? This is a lot of time with
Speaker 1: other people? Keeping in mind these things can overlap. Two
Speaker 1: hours of exercise to all it physical physical activity, one
Speaker 1: hour of eating and drinking, and less than six hours
Speaker 1: of work, indulging in only one hour of screen time,
Speaker 1: and at most of fifteen minute commute.
Speaker 3: That is happiness right there, the commute, I buy.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: First of all, there aren't very many people who live
Speaker 3: a day like that, right yeah, And just the exercise alone,
Speaker 3: there are very many people who exercise.
Speaker 1: Two hours a day. Sure again, you know, I think
Speaker 1: they would include taking a walk with one of the
Speaker 1: fforementioned friends or family members, that sort of thing. Catchyard.
Speaker 3: I'm more of a loner than the average person, so
Speaker 3: that's too much time.
Speaker 1: With other people for me. But that doesn't mean that's right.
Speaker 1: And the gall wrote the follow up article to this
Speaker 1: is a single gas without family in her city, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, obviously spending six hours of family, it's going
Speaker 1: to be difficult. But you know, if you boiled it
Speaker 1: down and again, we'll post this so you can look
Speaker 1: at it again, it's about Pee Paul in the person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's a good point. I easily spend six
Speaker 3: hours with family every day, just the way my life
Speaker 3: is structured. So I'm thinking it would be cool if
Speaker 3: like a fit bit or an Apple Watch or something
Speaker 3: like that could give you, at the end of the
Speaker 3: day how you spent your day, as opposed to just
Speaker 3: you know, steps and an average heart rate or whatever. I'll
Speaker 3: bet it'd be pretty depressing if you got to the
Speaker 3: end of like a month, do a whole month, and
Speaker 3: like you spent an average of two hours a day
Speaker 3: staring at your phone, you spent an hour watching TV
Speaker 3: that you weren't really that interested in, a sporting of
Speaker 3: it you don't care about, or a TV show you
Speaker 3: don't even really like, you spent this many hours in
Speaker 3: your car and traffic, you spent this many hours you
Speaker 3: know whatever. I'll bet it'd be pretty damn depressed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the readout on me would be you
Speaker 1: spent X number of hours trying to motivate yourself to
Speaker 1: do the things you really care about, right, which is sad.
Speaker 1: I remember one of the best things you've ever brought us,
Speaker 1: I think it was you brought us this is the
Speaker 1: idea that your priorities are what you do, not what
Speaker 1: you say they are. That's a good one. Yeah. Ooh, sobering,
Speaker 1: and it's Friday. I don't want to be sober. So
Speaker 1: coming up unbelievable operations the CIA actually carried out since
Speaker 1: its birth.
Speaker 3: You spent four hours last month trying to get the
Speaker 3: password to work that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Oh, very depressed. Yeah, it's an angering and maybe, but
Speaker 1: honestly it might make you reorder your life absolutely absolutely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good stuff.
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Speaker 3: thing that can happen in any given day. Last night
Speaker 3: is when you can't stop coughing and you're trying to
Speaker 3: go to sleep, and you just got that never ending
Speaker 3: like tickle on the back of your throat, just like
Speaker 3: you just feel like one more cough and you'll be done.
Speaker 3: But you just and it lasted to like two am miserable.
Speaker 1: Oh I hate that. You gotta have that that in medicine.
Speaker 1: I recommended to you that the has a cough suppressant
Speaker 1: in it. The only way I'd survived those things. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I can't I can never remember the name of it anyway,
Speaker 1: So this is absolutely crazy. Some of this stuff is
Speaker 1: fairly recently declassified. Some of it's been known for a while,
Speaker 1: but it's examples of some of the CIA's most audation
Speaker 1: missions since it was formed in the twentieth century, in
Speaker 1: the fifties in particular, and you may have heard some
Speaker 1: of these. Some of them are new. This. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't start the show with the show stopper, but this,
Speaker 1: this is probably better off as the punchline. In the
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties, the CIA dropped millions of anti communist pamphlets
Speaker 1: from weather balloons flying over the Soviet controlled part of Europe,
Speaker 1: but there was an idea that they worked to develop.
Speaker 1: They drew up a plan to also have packets of
Speaker 1: extra large condoms dropped on Communist nations, but the extra
Speaker 1: large condoms would be labeled small or medium. The strategy
Speaker 1: was to lower the morale of male citizens by suggesting
Speaker 1: that they were physically inferior to their well endowed Western counterpart.
Speaker 3: This is not true. Those are somebody's idea and we
Speaker 3: actually did it. No, it never came to fruition, but
Speaker 3: it was game planned out.
Speaker 1: There are records.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, that seems dumb.
Speaker 1: I wish I had somehow found my way into that
Speaker 1: line of work, dreaming up ridiculous plots for the CIA
Speaker 1: to consider. How about this one, much more recent, The
Speaker 1: CIA once hatched a plan to make an Osama Bin
Speaker 1: laden action figure to distribute to children in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: But here's the deal. When the action figure was exposed
Speaker 1: to the sun, the face would peel off to reveal
Speaker 1: a demon like character with red skin, green eyes, and
Speaker 1: black markings, who accidentally bears an uncanny resemblance to Star
Speaker 1: Wars character Darth Maul, which is neither here nor there.
Speaker 1: And they actually made several prototypes before it was reject
Speaker 1: did uh you know, to be implemented.
Speaker 3: So you're playing with your Osama bin Laden Kendall. You're
Speaker 3: out in the sun and all of a sudden he
Speaker 3: looks like a red skull from the Avengers movies.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Yeah, and it freaks you out and you think
Speaker 1: he's the devil, and you do something and then you're.
Speaker 3: Up with invading Iraq or something something.
Speaker 1: That's probably where the plant the plan went to side
Speaker 1: base with. What then, Jim, what are the kids going
Speaker 1: to do that?
Speaker 3: I'm trying to stay Osamas like us, play it out
Speaker 3: for me here, and what happens that?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, they like think Osama's the devil? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so they actually created three they think three
Speaker 1: individual action figures prototypes. Oh what, I'd love to have
Speaker 1: one of those. Yeah. Yeah, And honestly, it when his
Speaker 1: face melts off. I'm looking at the picture right now.
Speaker 1: It it pretty much just he looks like he's in
Speaker 1: some sort of death metal band or something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know how the average you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know Iraqi kid would take that. Here, here's another good one.
Speaker 1: We're back in between the sheets. From nineteen forty five
Speaker 1: till approximately well sometime in the seventies, the CIA ran
Speaker 1: covert operations targeting foreign leaders who were either openly with
Speaker 1: the Communists or leaning that way. There have been various viruses,
Speaker 1: exploding cigars, other spry thriller type antics. President Akamed Sukarno
Speaker 1: of Indonesia accused the US of trying to destroy him
Speaker 1: for a sympathy toward Communism with a CIA produced porno
Speaker 1: film that was referred to as Happy Days, which purported
Speaker 1: to show Sakarno in this is a quote ecstatic sexual
Speaker 1: congress with a woman, although the person involved was actually
Speaker 1: an American performer in a mask. And as I read this,
Speaker 1: I thought, what I bet everybody's thinking right now, How
Speaker 1: easy would that be to do right now? With Ai?
Speaker 1: It's effortless. Yeah. The CIA's plan was to circulate film
Speaker 1: pretending it had been secretly made by the KGB in
Speaker 1: the course of a visit by Sukarno to the Soviet Union.
Speaker 1: Like the other stuff, I don't think it was implemented. Oh,
Speaker 1: the plan backfired. So Kara was actually impressed with how
Speaker 1: he was depicted in the film because it showed him
Speaker 1: leaving his Russian girl partner a glow with fulfillment is
Speaker 1: the quote. And he reportedly ordered this distribution throughout Indonesia.
Speaker 3: Because it made him look good.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, Yeah, yeah, all right, we have time for a
Speaker 1: couple more. I like this one, if only because it's
Speaker 1: a great name for a band. Remote controlled dogs. The
Speaker 1: CIA created remote control dogs by operating on their brains
Speaker 1: during a bizarre nineteen sixty three mind control experiment. According
Speaker 1: to recently declassified documents, researchers implanted a device in I
Speaker 1: had six dogs skulls and used a remote control to
Speaker 1: guide them through an open field. Oh wow, the pooches
Speaker 1: could be made to run, turn, and stop for real
Speaker 1: as the scientists, yeah, zap the reward centers of their
Speaker 1: brains with electrical currents. According to CIA papers published in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five, I'm actually mildly surprised that we had
Speaker 1: that sort of capability to that extent in nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it did not do the dogs any good,
Speaker 1: but quote. The specific game of the research program was
Speaker 1: to examine the feasibility of controlling the behavior of a
Speaker 1: dog in an open field by means of remotely stimulated
Speaker 1: electrical stimulation, et cetera. They eventually abandoned those experiments.
Speaker 3: I don't want to torture dogs, but some of these
Speaker 3: it'd be pretty fun to have that be your job,
Speaker 3: coming up with wacky ideas and putting together protects and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Now you've probably heard about the CIA's brainwashing
Speaker 1: experiments during the fifties and sixties, experimenting with techniques designed
Speaker 1: to make a person kill someone then have no recollection afterward.
Speaker 1: Codinated mk ULTRA, the program involved some one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty nine separate experiments, many on unwitting Americans who had
Speaker 1: not consented to being guinea pigs, including a Kentucky mental
Speaker 1: patient who was dosed with LSD for one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy nine days straight. Wow. That's horrible, utterly, utterly unforgivable.
Speaker 1: It was officially launched this program to develop better interrogation techniques,
Speaker 1: as well as to explore the possibility of creating a
Speaker 1: programmable assassin. Let's see. Many of the documents pertaining to
Speaker 1: this mission mk ULTRA were destroyed in nineteen seventy three
Speaker 1: on the CIA's order. Some survived and were revealed later
Speaker 1: that decade.
Speaker 3: That was leading up to the Church Commission. That's what
Speaker 3: they're trying to avoid there. If you know anything about that,
Speaker 3: google it.
Speaker 1: Yikes. Yeah, And they go into a bunch of detail
Speaker 1: on that one and experimentations with psychics and that.
Speaker 3: Flat out human guinea pigs. You're using human guinea pigs
Speaker 3: against their will.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 3: Wow, that is something I don't have to.
Speaker 1: Really ended with the condoms, and not that this thing,
Speaker 1: the super giant condoms to make them.
Speaker 3: I haven't a schmoll schwunstucka compared to the American
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