Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty and know He Armstrong and Getty. A woman recently
Speaker 1: won a video game tournament in Florida just five days
Speaker 1: after giving birth, And frankly, I'm more impressed that someone
Speaker 1: who's that good at video games had sex.
Speaker 2: It's interesting that that joke continues given the fact that, like,
Speaker 2: practically every young man plays video games, the lowest number
Speaker 2: of them are having sex ever, right, true, true, but
Speaker 2: there's a lot of like. But anyway, don't want to
Speaker 2: get off on that. Well, whose voice was that? I've
Speaker 2: been working solo for several hours. Look at who's at
Speaker 2: the door.
Speaker 1: It's Joketty.
Speaker 2: Cold Warriors be Cold Warrior. I love that so much.
Speaker 2: He's a shiver and some level of arousal. So you
Speaker 2: went to breakfast story, Why did you leave for several hours?
Speaker 3: Yes, I had a hankering for eggs, Benedict, No, I
Speaker 3: had to have some skin cancer cut off. It's the
Speaker 3: non scary kind, the most common, the easiest to cure.
Speaker 3: Your basil cell carcinoma right on the bridge of my nose.
Speaker 3: So I went and got hacked, but it went fine.
Speaker 3: It's one of those deals where they remove some tissue,
Speaker 3: they excize it and send it to the lab real quick,
Speaker 3: and they look at the margins and say, yep, you're clear,
Speaker 3: or at you got to take more.
Speaker 1: Tissue, and I know you've had the second answer.
Speaker 3: It just got to be very dissappoint We've got to
Speaker 3: go deeper.
Speaker 1: Knock me out now, if it takes a hammer, do
Speaker 1: it right.
Speaker 3: But no, I actually, and I don't want to dispense
Speaker 3: anything within one hundred miles of medical advice, but for
Speaker 3: reasons of scheduling and traveling stuff like that, I ended
Speaker 3: up at a plastic surgeon and not a quote unquote
Speaker 3: Moe's surgeon, which is a certain procedure that they do.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Really happy that happened. Oh interesting, really happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But again that's not to impugne anyone in their
Speaker 3: medical practice or blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: So what's the kind that I'm always amazed when I
Speaker 2: go to the doctor and say, look at this, doesn't
Speaker 2: this look scary? And I'm like, no, that's nothing to
Speaker 2: worry about. My ability to identify what's the scary one?
Speaker 2: And what's not is not very good.
Speaker 3: Apparently, especially as you past sixty years old. Yes, and
Speaker 3: your skin thinks, why am I hanging around here? You've reproduced,
Speaker 3: you've raised your kids, Get the hell out of the way.
Speaker 3: The young people need to take over, and funky stuff
Speaker 3: starts to happen.
Speaker 1: But what are you going to do? I know a
Speaker 1: woman who a shewed the sunlight for most of her
Speaker 1: adult life? Would that be the right use of that.
Speaker 2: Term, and now is really really happy about it, and
Speaker 2: her friends are like, why didn't I do that? Because
Speaker 2: they were they looked tan and good when they were younger,
Speaker 2: and she did not. But man, you get older, it
Speaker 2: makes it.
Speaker 1: It pays off. I didn't do well. I've got way
Speaker 1: too much sun when I was young.
Speaker 3: And you're hyper tanning types. Yeah, I mean, man, you are.
Speaker 3: You are trading your youth for well looking like a catchersmith.
Speaker 3: I hate to be unkind.
Speaker 1: It ages the heck out of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does well and h rmatologists I think, or
Speaker 3: somebody pointed out to be all right, look at the
Speaker 3: top of your arm. Now look at the bottom, the
Speaker 3: bottom of your forearm, the part that's shielded from the sun. Yeah,
Speaker 3: a look at your ass if you're that flexible, Yes,
Speaker 3: own a couple of mirrors, whatever it takes looking at
Speaker 3: your ass.
Speaker 1: Yes. But anyway, so that is behind me delightfully.
Speaker 3: And I'll have a couple of black eyes, I think,
Speaker 3: and I've got a big white bandage on my nose.
Speaker 3: But you to thank God for living a time where
Speaker 3: they can find that stuff for early detect it, remove
Speaker 3: it with the you know, relative comfort and it doesn't
Speaker 3: turn into something nass here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when we were talking about this a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago, would you what period of time would you
Speaker 2: like to go back to in history and live where
Speaker 2: you think would be you know, the golden age of
Speaker 2: being alive or what like that.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't want to go back very far or a
Speaker 1: lot of us would be dead.
Speaker 2: I'd have been dead from the cancer I had ten
Speaker 2: years ago, or you know, you'd be hobbled around because
Speaker 2: you can't get a new shoulder or something like that,
Speaker 2: or all the different medical advances to gazillion skin cancer deads.
Speaker 3: That right right well, And I'm just thinking if you could,
Speaker 3: like and nobody has this good of memory, at least
Speaker 3: I don't, but if you could like put in everything
Speaker 3: that has happened to you in your life. Then they
Speaker 3: run a simulation. All right, here's a simulation from eighteen sixty.
Speaker 1: Here's it.
Speaker 3: Well, I probably would have been killed in the Civil War.
Speaker 3: But here's a simulation from nineteen hundred, nineteen fifty and
Speaker 3: so on and so forth. I mean, they might say, hey,
Speaker 3: do you remember, like I've got a couple of dental
Speaker 3: implants because my teeth cracked or whatever.
Speaker 1: They went, heywhere and I had to get him?
Speaker 3: But they would look at that dad and run it like,
Speaker 3: well a war game like they do on computers now,
Speaker 3: and say, hey, do you remember when you had that
Speaker 3: really bad toothache and they had to extract your tooth
Speaker 3: or whatever. That would have been sepsis. You'd have died
Speaker 3: from it at age twenty three or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: I mean, if they could do that signed a kind
Speaker 3: of computer model, and I think if you ran those
Speaker 3: models for people a few times, they'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm staying in the twenty first century, thank you.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Remember when I snagged myself on the barbed wire fence
Speaker 2: when I was drunk trying to climb over it. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: that would have killed me if I had couldn't have
Speaker 2: got went and got a tennis shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, Well, and I have it on pretty good authority.
Speaker 3: My wife and first child probably would have died in childbirth.
Speaker 3: They were the classic died in childbirth, impossible labor and
Speaker 3: difficult delivery and.
Speaker 1: Stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm here, I'm queer, and I have no
Speaker 3: time machine or something.
Speaker 2: I was at a NASCAR race. A friend of mine
Speaker 2: was working one of the beer booths and could get
Speaker 2: me free beer. Oh so you add those two things
Speaker 2: together and you are inebriated age place. I was thirty one,
Speaker 2: good enough, so then walking, not twenty five, but it's
Speaker 2: good enough. Walking to the car. I was a passenger.
Speaker 2: It was parked in a field and I had to crawl.
Speaker 2: I took a shortcut to crawl through this barb wire
Speaker 2: fence in a field, and it was really hammered drunk,
Speaker 2: and I lost my balance and I slipped and my
Speaker 2: leg got caught up on the barbed wire fence with
Speaker 2: one of the barbs jammed into my leg and it
Speaker 2: just kind of sliding down my leg. Oh, bar separating
Speaker 2: me open, And I couldn't feel it because I was
Speaker 2: so hammered and I was actually thinking to myself, this
Speaker 2: is not good.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be feeling this.
Speaker 2: And then when I got into the car with the passenger,
Speaker 2: me and a couple other people, we convince the driver
Speaker 2: to pick up aig.
Speaker 1: Gets better and better. I remember that story. This holeless
Speaker 1: dude in the back seat with me bleed. That's a
Speaker 1: good time. Huh. It was quite a crue you were
Speaker 1: running back in those days.
Speaker 2: Jeez.
Speaker 1: It happened to me once.
Speaker 3: I was fairly inebriated and reached behind a guy's couch
Speaker 3: because I dropped something or whatever and pulled it back
Speaker 3: and felt just kind of a scratching on my arm,
Speaker 3: but didn't pay attention to it. And we went back
Speaker 3: to doing what we were doing. And at some point
Speaker 3: he said, where's all that blood color from?
Speaker 1: Oh? Oh, yeah, I'd rake.
Speaker 3: Like a nail all the way down by Oh yes, beautiful.
Speaker 3: Oh but I was up on my Titanu's shot. And
Speaker 3: that's a tip for you folks that you take away
Speaker 3: from this segment. Get up to date on your Teennis.
Speaker 1: Shot unless RFK Junior says it gives you autism or something.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, speaking of the twenty first century, we got
Speaker 3: this great email in which Diane kind of summarized an article.
Speaker 1: Do you remember seeing that headline, I don't.
Speaker 3: Know, a couple of weeks, a couple of months ago,
Speaker 3: Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified. There
Speaker 3: are a couple of different versions of that story. I
Speaker 3: think it may have been the Big Auto executives. But
Speaker 3: she sent along a little commentary. And the first thing
Speaker 3: this guy says is, and this is an interesting angle.
Speaker 3: He's talking about how badly the left has lied for
Speaker 3: decades about how China took over manufacturing. And I've never
Speaker 3: thought of this as a left right thing. But anyway,
Speaker 3: just to read what he says, how liberals swore it
Speaker 3: was just because China has cheaper labor, all those rice
Speaker 3: farmers willing to work for slave wages.
Speaker 1: Well, see, I told you so.
Speaker 3: Yesterday the Telegraph ran an illuminating story headline, Western executives
Speaker 3: who visited China are coming back terrified. If you guessed
Speaker 3: what terrified Western executives were legions of cheap Chinese workers,
Speaker 3: think again. And this guy has traveled to China, but
Speaker 3: he says, I, in the past have suggested the only
Speaker 3: real advantage that I ever had was that its factories.
Speaker 1: Were newer than ours.
Speaker 3: They invested in state of the art, they came along
Speaker 3: a lot later than we did, etc. You know, if
Speaker 3: I buy a car this year and you bought a
Speaker 3: car five years ago, I'm going to have a more
Speaker 3: up to date car.
Speaker 1: But he says no, no, No.
Speaker 3: CEO Ford CEO Jim Farley said, it's the most humbling
Speaker 3: thing I've ever seen after a recent trip touring Chinese
Speaker 3: manufacturing plants. It wasn't the slave labor conditions, it was
Speaker 3: the robots. Quote, you're walking along this alongside this conveyor
Speaker 3: and after about eight hundred nine hundred meters a truck
Speaker 3: drives out.
Speaker 1: There are no people. Everything is robotic.
Speaker 3: Wow, added another Australian billionaire who took a similar tour,
Speaker 3: and the executives described these vast dark factories where the
Speaker 3: robots do so.
Speaker 1: Much of the work. They don't even have lights on
Speaker 1: for the humans. They don't need them.
Speaker 2: Well, that's telegraphing that that is cost effective given the
Speaker 2: fact that they do have basically slave labor or people
Speaker 2: that can force into working very low wages. But it's
Speaker 2: still apparently the best bet to have a robot.
Speaker 3: Yes, both, I'm sure, it's both, depending on the sophistication
Speaker 3: of the plant.
Speaker 1: But listen to this here.
Speaker 3: This is how many new industrial robots were added last
Speaker 3: year in the UK.
Speaker 1: It was a pitiful twenty five hundred.
Speaker 3: Back to our stat yesterday, was it zero of the
Speaker 3: top fifty companies in the world are in Europe or
Speaker 3: was it twenty five? It might have been twenty five,
Speaker 3: but zero anyway, So how many robots last year? Industrial robots?
Speaker 3: Twenty five hundred in the UK, thirty four thousand in
Speaker 3: the US, twenty seven thousand in Germany so again, thirty
Speaker 3: four grand in the US, two hundred and ninety five
Speaker 3: thousand in China.
Speaker 1: Wow, So they are way ahead of US and robots
Speaker 1: and investing like maniacs in automated labor. That's something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's something they don't have, you.
Speaker 2: Know, when we had the big doc strike thing going on.
Speaker 2: They don't have unions that are going to try to
Speaker 2: fight any advancement in technology. No, no, no, we still
Speaker 2: need human beings to stand here and read the license plate.
Speaker 2: China ain't gonna do that right now.
Speaker 3: This guy then jumps to the defense of tariffs, which
Speaker 3: he says change the calculus, spurring a generation of executives
Speaker 3: to try to figure out how to build cheaper stuff here.
Speaker 1: There has been a fair amount of that.
Speaker 3: Tariffs are now the only answer since China's ten or
Speaker 3: twenty years ahead in factory buildouts. Had someone stood up
Speaker 3: twenty years ago and said the reason production is moving
Speaker 3: to Asia is only because they have newer, more efficient
Speaker 3: factories than all of this might have been avoided. But
Speaker 3: we heard, I heard, I bought. No, it's their labor's cheaper.
Speaker 3: There's labor's cheaper, over and over and over again. For
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand new industrial robots last freaking years. We
Speaker 3: have in the United States last year thirty four thousand.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is something. Dang it, dang it is right
Speaker 2: tarn to speak Mandarin. Yeah, it's my suggestion.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no.
Speaker 2: No, no, no to easily Okay.
Speaker 3: No, we gotta we gotta fire up our industrial capacity.
Speaker 3: We gotta get off, get your sweet lips off the
Speaker 3: Chinese sugar teat man.
Speaker 1: Got to rely on ourselves more on our allies.
Speaker 2: Every robot probably replaces what a couple people because they
Speaker 2: can work around the clock holidays.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting question. I would guess it's more than that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's really plus they're they're speedy. Yeah, you tell it,
Speaker 3: work faster, you tweak the little dial in its back.
Speaker 3: At least that's what I'm imagining, because probably.
Speaker 2: Work faster a hole they see. I don't say that,
Speaker 2: and I gonna say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm where fast enough already, I'm on strike.
Speaker 2: No, your mother was working faster last night.
Speaker 1: You don't have this or my sweaty Wait a minute
Speaker 1: of pushback from robots. Okay, we got moral, stay here, strong, hetty.
Speaker 1: I liked you.
Speaker 3: I like this.
Speaker 1: Some people say, very nice, but go ahead, I'm just
Speaker 1: speaking fact. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Kamala Harris was doing an interview somewhere. She's still
Speaker 2: promoting that stupid book. Some people say I was the
Speaker 2: most qualified person ever run for president? How I mean?
Speaker 2: I realized politicians say amazingly over the top things all
Speaker 2: the time, But that is how do you get those
Speaker 2: words to come out of your mouth?
Speaker 3: Well, hubris and lack of self awareness, I get, But
Speaker 3: what about all the folks in the crowd are just
Speaker 3: shrieked with delight, Yeah, and happiness when she said that,
Speaker 3: Good lord, you know, when when when my guy's a
Speaker 3: bit of a you know, half assed candidate, but he's
Speaker 3: better than the alternative.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna if he's doing his.
Speaker 3: Book tour, which has been widely mocked after he loses
Speaker 3: the election. So, you know, some people think I would
Speaker 3: have been the greatest president in the history of the world.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to yell and cheer. I'm like, yeah, well, you're.
Speaker 3: The best we could vomit up the last election cycle.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend you're a saint. What sort
Speaker 1: of cultists through out there yelling and screaming and delights
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, some people say a lot of crazy crap,
Speaker 3: but that's near the top.
Speaker 2: But when Trump says they say, I'm the healthiest person
Speaker 2: that's ever been president, I laugh, I don't cheer.
Speaker 3: Oh right right, yeah, oh, speaking of the last election cycle,
Speaker 3: we just got hold of this or were reacquainted with
Speaker 3: it. It happened, you know, a few weeks ago, several weeks ago.
Speaker 3: But it's Democratic strategist Liz Smith and Scott Jennings on
Speaker 3: CNN talking about the trials, literally the trials of Trump
Speaker 3: sixty three.
Speaker 4: Michael, I think democrats are learning and I'm going to
Speaker 4: agree with you that Democrats cannot only be the party
Speaker 4: of resistance. We cannot like we resisted so hard between
Speaker 4: twenty seventeen and twenty twenty four, we impeached the guy,
Speaker 4: like if we've prosecuted him, convicted him of thirty four
Speaker 4: felony accounts, and guess what, he still got elected.
Speaker 5: So I don't know how much harder we can resist, right?
Speaker 5: Are you admitting that the case against Trump in New
Speaker 5: York was part of the organized Democratic Party resistance?
Speaker 4: It was a Democratic prosecutor and at the time, okay,
Speaker 4: at the time I thought it was unwise. I went
Speaker 4: on Fox News and said this at.
Speaker 1: The time, there were a lot just to be clear,
Speaker 1: this wasn't.
Speaker 5: Just to be clear, everybody who now touts the thirty
Speaker 5: four felonies, take it from Liz.
Speaker 1: This was not a real case.
Speaker 5: This was a plot to up in the presidential campaign,
Speaker 5: which I just think it was.
Speaker 4: A boneheaded moved by Alvin Bragd.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I didn't need confirmation from Liz Smith. I
Speaker 3: already knew it one percent. But the cynicism in politics,
Speaker 3: actually inside politics, I don't think it's possible for the
Speaker 3: layman to picture it.
Speaker 2: Now, No normal people, and I mean normal, normal people
Speaker 2: couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: One of the most you know, communicative and devastating lines
Speaker 3: of all time from Mark Liebovich's This Town is two
Speaker 3: of those consultant hacks. We're on a talk show in
Speaker 3: the green room laughing about Uh, they don't the viewers
Speaker 3: don't get the joke. They're not in on the joke,
Speaker 3: And Leibovich had to ask him a couple of times,
Speaker 3: what's the joke, Come on, what's the joke?
Speaker 1: And the guy finally answered that we're patriots. That's rough.
Speaker 1: I think we're all better off knowing it.
Speaker 2: Ma'm Danny is in a debate tonight that I'm sure
Speaker 2: we'll have some highlights from tomorrow, as they're going to
Speaker 2: grill him on his communist anti Jew tendencies.
Speaker 3: Disarm the police, release all the prisoners, and all the
Speaker 3: program for the bright kids in schools.
Speaker 1: Sounds great government run grocery stores.
Speaker 2: I assume it'll be pressed on all these things.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Brewers at Dodgers tonight with the Dodgers leading to nothing,
Speaker 2: Blue Jays at Mariners with Seattle leading to one likely
Speaker 2: headed toward a Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Mariners world series. So there you go, West Coast Special.
Speaker 2: We talked about this a little bit earlier, but I
Speaker 2: want to get into more of the specifics because I
Speaker 2: find this really interesting.
Speaker 1: The headline sort of.
Speaker 2: Hides a lot of the really good stuff, the headline
Speaker 2: being that you reach your functional peak as a human
Speaker 2: later than they had previously thought. Now functional functional is
Speaker 2: what we're going to get into defining here that word
Speaker 2: as they use sixteen different dimensions. This is a serious,
Speaker 2: like university study. This is not I don't know, so
Speaker 2: many studies and you should look out for this. It's
Speaker 2: fun to talk about him. So many studies that you
Speaker 2: hear that are you know it turns out, you know,
Speaker 2: it's paid for by the pudding corporation, and it turns
Speaker 2: out you'd be better off eating more pudding in your
Speaker 2: life or whatever, right exactly, Yeah, yeah, just dumb stuff
Speaker 2: like that. But it turns out that people reach their
Speaker 2: functional peak in their late fifties early sixties, decades later
Speaker 2: than most people assume when you figure in all these
Speaker 2: different things. So physical strength obviously, and certain cognitive abilities
Speaker 2: like processing speed decline steadily after your mid twenties.
Speaker 1: And I think we.
Speaker 2: All canna test Yes, oh, if you're past your mid twenties,
Speaker 2: you're aware of that, But a whole bunch of other
Speaker 2: things you get stronger at for quite some time, but
Speaker 2: they all.
Speaker 1: Diminish it eventually.
Speaker 2: Intelligence, personality, emotional eligence, decision making, overall functioning continues developing
Speaker 2: through midlife, reaching its apex at around sixty years old.
Speaker 2: A twenty five year old can process information faster, hold
Speaker 2: more items in their working memory, and solve abstract reasoning
Speaker 2: problems more quickly than someone decades older. So that stuff,
Speaker 2: you're better at twenty five than you are later. And
Speaker 2: that's who was I talking to the other day. They
Speaker 2: were younger than me, and they're talking about how they
Speaker 2: forget stuff now, and I said, yeah, I finally had
Speaker 2: to give in and start like leaving myself notes because
Speaker 2: I used to just I used to be very proud
Speaker 2: of I just I could remember everything I needed to
Speaker 2: do and how I was going to do it, this
Speaker 2: and that I just knew I was going to remember.
Speaker 1: That worked for a while and then it until it didn't.
Speaker 2: Fluid intelligence, because we were talking about working memory there,
Speaker 2: holding information.
Speaker 1: In your head and all that sort of stuff peaks.
Speaker 2: Around twenty five fluid intelligence, the ability to think on
Speaker 2: your feet and solve novel program problems, peaks at twenty
Speaker 2: and declines after that. Wow, isn't that something? Oh huh, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's probably good for uh, you know a lot of
Speaker 2: your military age people and the kind of decisions they
Speaker 2: got to make really quickly on their feet and they're
Speaker 2: around twenty years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, there's a lot to this. Yeah, other terms
Speaker 1: to understand and subtleties and the rest of Yeah.
Speaker 2: Other advantages emerge with age that younger adults haven't had
Speaker 2: time to develop. Crystallized intelligence, which is not a term
Speaker 2: I'd heard, but it means accumulated knowledge and vocabulary obviously
Speaker 2: keeps rising well into your sixties, right that you can
Speaker 2: call it wisdom if you wanted to. Financial literacy, for
Speaker 2: some reason, improves into your late sixties early seventies. It
Speaker 2: goes beyond that, It goes beyond other kinds of intelligence
Speaker 2: and that something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then dig this one.
Speaker 2: Moral reasoning, because it's all comes under the category of
Speaker 2: you being able to function. So some of then drop
Speaker 2: off early, some of them go later. Moral reasoning tends
Speaker 2: to rise through most of adulthood, and research indicates that
Speaker 2: it reverses very late in life. Your moral reasoning will
Speaker 2: reverse very late in life. It's all rob a bank
Speaker 2: and have an affair or what's what's that all about.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to ask my slaves if they agree
Speaker 1: very late in life, you're a little late in life.
Speaker 1: I think. I think you're just a bad person if
Speaker 1: you got slaves at this point, well guilty. Yeah, isn't
Speaker 1: all this rings true?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's interesting that they came up with different terms,
Speaker 3: or more specific terms for the aspects of wisdom. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure we need all of them, but it's interesting
Speaker 3: to hear it broken out. I mean, you just you
Speaker 3: have so many case studies, not only your own, but
Speaker 3: those of close friends and relatives, and they're experience eriences,
Speaker 3: and you just here, you're like a much more experienced surgeon.
Speaker 6: Yes, Michael, maybe that's why so many old people say
Speaker 6: whatever's on their mind, because they have no more moral reasoning.
Speaker 2: I don't know, is a case of the efforts the
Speaker 2: same as moral reasoning, yeah, or you.
Speaker 1: Know, combines in some cases.
Speaker 2: But yeah, well, Katie and I were talking earlier when
Speaker 2: you were gone. Just some of this stuff really flies
Speaker 2: in the face of why do we have eighty year
Speaker 2: olds running the country.
Speaker 1: Oh on, some of these, some of these, but right, I.
Speaker 3: Got a bunch of old guys running the country, and
Speaker 3: their financial literacy appears to be there is none.
Speaker 2: Emotional intelligence climbs through midlife before tapering off. Based on
Speaker 2: research comparing age groups older adults, this is a financial one.
Speaker 2: I guess older adults are about twice as likely as
Speaker 2: younger adults to avoid the sunk cost fallacy, the habit
Speaker 2: of throwing good money after bad hmmm, twice as likely
Speaker 2: at like you would be at thirty of understanding. Now,
Speaker 2: you know this turned out to be a bad idea,
Speaker 2: Let's just move on, as opposed to well we've come
Speaker 2: this far, we better keep spending more.
Speaker 1: Money, right, Yeah, yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 3: Again, it's a question of having lived through that sort
Speaker 3: of thing a couple of times and realizing, Okay, this
Speaker 3: is really disappointing, but we have to admit it's a
Speaker 3: loser and move on.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's interesting that they that they separate out financial intelligence,
Speaker 2: where it might just be all wisdom there, it's just
Speaker 2: accumulated knowledge, and yeah, personality also matures with age. Conscientiousness
Speaker 2: and emotional stability, which are the two traits that are
Speaker 2: most strongly linked to career success and life satisfaction according
Speaker 2: to this study.
Speaker 1: I have to say that again.
Speaker 2: So the two traits most strongly linked to career success
Speaker 2: and life satisfaction. Which I don't know about you, but
Speaker 2: having a satisfying life is way up on my list
Speaker 2: of priorities.
Speaker 1: Who's ass you kiss? That's the most It's not who
Speaker 1: you know, it's who you be. Wow.
Speaker 2: Conscientiousness and emotional stability are the two traits you need
Speaker 2: for life satisfaction. That makes sense, But both increase from
Speaker 2: early adulthood well into your fifties and sixties, so that's good.
Speaker 2: Researchers waited these various dimensions and created a composite intexs
Speaker 2: tracking overall functioning and overall functioning peaks between fifty five
Speaker 2: and sixty, with clear declines emerging about sixty five to seventy.
Speaker 2: So I got a few years left before, I mean,
Speaker 2: because I'm barely functioning now, I got a few yearly
Speaker 2: chairs left before it really starts to crash.
Speaker 1: True pressure, You don't You don't get much time to
Speaker 1: enjoy your peak, do you.
Speaker 2: No, Well, we're not designed to live past that right,
Speaker 2: really conscientiousness and emotional what was it stability?
Speaker 1: Stability? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Can that be translated as being beaten down or emotional stability? No,
Speaker 3: I'm fine, I've been kicked before. Well, it is true
Speaker 3: you get emotional stability.
Speaker 2: But I remember, God, quite a few years ago, I
Speaker 2: was proud of some reaction I had to something, and
Speaker 2: you said, it's just because you have lower testosterol. I
Speaker 2: fully admit that, which took all the fun out of it.
Speaker 2: But there is you do also gain emotional stability. Don't
Speaker 2: you think it isn't just low.
Speaker 1: Tea because a game.
Speaker 2: Again, because you've been through these situations before. This isn't
Speaker 2: the first time you've had a boss shoot off about
Speaker 2: something dumb or whatever situation, or you you get something
Speaker 2: in the mail from the tax board that's going to
Speaker 2: be a pain in the ass. It's not the first
Speaker 2: time any of these things have happens. You don't right
Speaker 2: quite get as crazy. Well, please if anybody disagrees with this.
Speaker 2: By the time you're playing in your third Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: you're focused on the game. You're focused on doing your
Speaker 2: job and a way you can't be the first times
Speaker 2: think about raising kids. The second kid versus the first kid.
Speaker 2: I mean think about share. Yeah, the just the you know,
Speaker 2: the first time your first kid falls down and binks
Speaker 2: their head versus when you get into the second kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they dout there, They're fine.
Speaker 3: Getting back to the testosterone thing, though, What what you
Speaker 3: need to remember, I think, or maybe you don't, I
Speaker 3: don't know, is that virtually everything we think, everything we
Speaker 3: do is chemicals slashing around in our brain and the
Speaker 3: spark of the divine.
Speaker 1: But and I believe in free will.
Speaker 3: I believe we have a certain amount of control over
Speaker 3: how we're.
Speaker 1: Going to react, and you work to develop that.
Speaker 3: But I mean, yeah, so of course different levels of
Speaker 3: different chemicals is going to affect the way.
Speaker 1: You approach life. It's it's it's obvious, it has to be.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I'm just trying to claim that any any
Speaker 2: growth I've had is not all because I have lower Tiptoughton.
Speaker 1: No, not at all. I would never say credit for
Speaker 1: some growth.
Speaker 3: Right. Well, I think that that discretionary part I was
Speaker 3: talking about that absolutely grows because you've gone through it
Speaker 3: once when you lost your head, you've gone through it
Speaker 3: another time where you didn't lose your head, and you're thinking, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm staying calm again this time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then when he leaves for the day, I'll
Speaker 1: take a poop on his desk and whatever it takes. Vengeance.
Speaker 1: Vengeance is fine. A little sugar in the gas tank,
Speaker 1: take care of that probably. Yeah, served cold, right, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Huh, good luck breaking down on the freeway on the
Speaker 2: way home.
Speaker 1: That's why you had it.
Speaker 2: When you get older, the fact that you're like super
Speaker 2: quick thinking cognitive reasoning drops after twenty Wow, that's early
Speaker 2: in life. Yeah, yeah, so kind of wrapping enough studies.
Speaker 2: Studies cited by the authors show that people typically earn
Speaker 2: their highest salaries and reach peak occupational prestige between fifth
Speaker 2: in fifty five. It's not just because you've been around
Speaker 2: the company for a long time or blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: It's actually when you've got the most accumulated knowledge and
Speaker 2: emotional stability.
Speaker 1: And all those sorts of things. Yeah, and shirt you're
Speaker 1: most likely to do a good job at it. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Now, the fact, as it says here, that the leaders
Speaker 2: of many political countries are in their seventies or eighties,
Speaker 2: is not Yeah, these are all averages, though, of course,
Speaker 2: I mean just flat out on the face of it. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's brain is different than Joe Biden's brain.
Speaker 3: Flat absolutely true. Yeah, And it strikes me that in
Speaker 3: a lot of your tech industries, for instance, your tech companies,
Speaker 3: they're run by vunderkins, these young phenoms who are not
Speaker 3: fifty five years old when they have their greatest success.
Speaker 3: Is that because there is no accumulated knowledge to be.
Speaker 1: Had in their fields socific to that field.
Speaker 3: I mean, management is management, dealing with people is dealing
Speaker 3: with people. But maybe energy and willingness to work eighty
Speaker 3: hours a week and not being tied to any sort
Speaker 3: of quote unquote accumulated wisdom, maybe that explains it.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, because you'd think it a Sam Altman, for instance,
Speaker 3: would hire a gray haired CEO and say, I'll just
Speaker 3: worry about the innovation stuff you're on the company.
Speaker 2: But that's not the way it goes. The fifty five
Speaker 2: year old CEO would say, what are we doing? What's
Speaker 2: the point of this?
Speaker 1: What is this?
Speaker 3: I keep telling you it's AI AI Artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1: All right, robots.
Speaker 2: The fact that my moral compass may go south on
Speaker 2: me and my old age, that's got me a concerned
Speaker 2: one the sort of high jinks I'll be up to.
Speaker 1: How bad could it get? How far off the rails
Speaker 1: will I get exactly?
Speaker 2: If you have any thoughts on any of that, you
Speaker 2: should text her email interesting stuff.
Speaker 1: We'll finish strong next arm Strong. Hey, Yetti.
Speaker 7: One thing you could say about Donald Trump, though he
Speaker 7: has a vivid imagination, he has created a dangerous organization
Speaker 7: to get the old people excited and fired up, a
Speaker 7: super villain called Antifa.
Speaker 1: And we are going to.
Speaker 5: Find and charge all of those people who are causing
Speaker 5: this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across
Speaker 5: our country.
Speaker 7: And if we can't find them, we're gonna pretend we did.
Speaker 7: Antifa is just short for anti fascists.
Speaker 1: It's not a club you can join. There are no
Speaker 1: membership dues.
Speaker 7: There's no chaos in Portland, none. There is no chaos
Speaker 7: in Chicago. There was no chaos in Los Angeles. They're
Speaker 7: pretending there's chaos as a pretense for a military takeover.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, that's comedian Jimmy Kimmel. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now I'll admit that chaos in Portland is fairly you know,
Speaker 3: tight geographically. Yeah, I mean, there's this sort of chaos
Speaker 3: that rampant crime and drug abuse and bums and junkies brings.
Speaker 3: But the violent protests, yeah, are in a fairly small place.
Speaker 3: But so we let the federal courthouse or facility be
Speaker 3: burned down and all the agents beaten down by a mob.
Speaker 1: But we saw them.
Speaker 2: Chaos is chaos, Jimmy. But we saw the chaos in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles that clearly existed, and Chicago is what Chicago is.
Speaker 2: But well, that's a heck of a thing for him
Speaker 2: to say, and that whole Antifa doesn't exist theme, Yeah,
Speaker 2: what is that?
Speaker 3: They?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: I think and I've been a victim of this at
Speaker 3: times in my younger days before I developed the wisdom
Speaker 3: we're talking about last segment, where you have sources you
Speaker 3: trust and they state something unequivocally and you see he
Speaker 3: hit a handful of times and you think, you know what,
Speaker 3: that's good enough. I'm not going to acquire personal knowledge
Speaker 3: or look into it. If the New York Times just
Speaker 3: told me and MSNBC that Antifa doesn't exist, I'm going
Speaker 3: to state.
Speaker 1: It as fact as if I know it.
Speaker 3: Person.
Speaker 1: That's true. I mean, that's what we all do.
Speaker 2: And what else you gonna do independently verify every study
Speaker 2: story you come across.
Speaker 1: I mean it's hard to life every single one.
Speaker 3: Yes, but yeah, that's that's an utterly ridiculous thing to say.
Speaker 3: It just means anti fascist. It's not a club you
Speaker 3: can join. Jimmy, you're an idiot. You are funny, but
Speaker 3: you really are unqualified for what you are now doing,
Speaker 3: not not in terms of intelligence, in terms of effort.
Speaker 2: Well, what's interesting is that they, like Jimmy Fallons, decided
Speaker 2: I'm going to make my living because I can like
Speaker 2: sing and dance and tell jokes m M, and I
Speaker 2: don't need to wait into politics. But Jimmy Kimmel and
Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert who are incredibly talented, Stephen Colbert especially, uh,
Speaker 2: doesn't need to do politics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they just.
Speaker 3: Want to fix the world or I don't know what
Speaker 3: they've Yeah, they sincerely think this is really important for
Speaker 3: their time. And they're either so self righteous or you know,
Speaker 3: honestly concerned that they think, I'm going to make this
Speaker 3: part of my act and if it doesn't work, it
Speaker 3: doesn't work.
Speaker 1: But it's that important.
Speaker 2: There was no chaos in Los Angeles, I know, really crazy.
Speaker 3: Right next they're going to tell us that whole cop
Speaker 3: City thing in Atlanta where Antifa was showing up strong.
Speaker 3: There's no chaos at cop City in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Well, there's Jack again, there's Joe Man. It's time to
Speaker 1: pase the show with the help of Kadie Green and
Speaker 1: Michael Langelo. They're my friends, they're like them and then
Speaker 1: they're on our rady young So let's.
Speaker 2: They're they're finals thosk people they have to go.
Speaker 1: Well, that's creepy. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 3: to wrap up the show for the day. There is
Speaker 3: our technical director, the Buttons, Mike Langelo. Michael, what's your
Speaker 3: final thought?
Speaker 6: You know, I'm really looking forward to getting older and
Speaker 6: older and losing my morals and saying whatever I can say.
Speaker 6: I've been sitting here thinking about it and smiling and smiling.
Speaker 3: Our esteemed newswoman, Katie Green has a final thought.
Speaker 2: Katie, that clip of the airport getting hacked. I'm really
Speaker 2: glad that I was not there because that would have
Speaker 2: just scared the hell out of me. No, me too,
Speaker 2: I would have wondered what is next? Clearly something has
Speaker 2: come off the rails here?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Is there about to be a bomb go off
Speaker 1: in here?
Speaker 2: Or what? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wow? Jack, do you have a final thought you'd like
Speaker 1: to share? And it's funny.
Speaker 2: My thirteen year old regularly says, I can't wait till
Speaker 2: I'm old and can say whatever I want to people.
Speaker 1: It's like his dream.
Speaker 2: You can't wait till he's old you can finally speak
Speaker 2: his mind.
Speaker 3: You know what's sun It's every bit as good as
Speaker 3: your imagined.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 3: My final thought is I just got a little skin
Speaker 3: cancer surgery and I am going to have black eyes
Speaker 3: and some swelling stuff like that because it was right
Speaker 3: on the bridge of my nose. What is the best
Speaker 3: story I can tell about how I ended up with
Speaker 3: two black eyes? We'll take your submissions mail bag.
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