WEBVTT - Sparkly & Tight 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.800 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:19.849 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:19.930 --> 0:00:36.019 and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. We have 0:00:36.060 --> 0:00:38.769 the same two rules for the Armstrong and Getty show 0:00:38.850 --> 0:00:42.830 that Dolly Parton had for clothing, she said. Sparkly and tight. 0:00:43.229 --> 0:00:46.250 That's what we are. Sparkly and tight. Welcome to another 0:00:46.690 --> 0:00:49.470 live presentation of the Armstrong and Getty program, deeper than 0:00:49.490 --> 0:00:53.410 the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compound. And 0:00:53.430 --> 0:00:55.810 today we're toiling under the title of the show. I 0:00:55.850 --> 0:01:03.880 struggled with how to express this most succinctly and persuasively. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:09.540 Title number one. Mom, the flag, apple pie, and Dolly. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:17.240 On a less life-affirming note, I hate politics. Oh, I 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.780 hate politics so much. I'm sure we'll get to that 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.780 soon enough and for the next however many years. As 0:01:23.819 --> 0:01:27.420 long as we live in this godforsaken system. So what's 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.940 your explanation? I can't wait. I'm going to go through 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:37.650 all of the different people and entities. That came out 0:01:37.730 --> 0:01:41.919 with their, you know, tip of the hat to Dolly Parton. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.990 I mean, they vary more than any crowd I've ever 0:01:45.030 --> 0:01:49.490 seen in my life. Agreed. It's unbelievable. Like, from the 0:01:49.650 --> 0:01:54.420 Parliament of Ireland to Eminem to, I mean, it's just incredible. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.820 What's your explanation for that? And I feel like I 0:01:56.860 --> 0:01:59.500 haven't heard that discussed much. People keep talking about how 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.180 many hits she had. Okay, fine. And she was a 0:02:03.180 --> 0:02:05.340 good musician, no doubt about it. But there's lots of 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:09.070 good musicians that pass along, and they don't get a 0:02:09.210 --> 0:02:15.750 hundredth of this sort of attention. So what was her thing? Yeah, accepting, stipulating, 0:02:15.790 --> 0:02:18.209 as they say in the courtroom, that she was a 0:02:18.350 --> 0:02:23.769 very well-known and successful entertainer. I think it was that 0:02:23.870 --> 0:02:28.590 she radiated goodness and kindness. I think so, too. And 0:02:28.669 --> 0:02:33.489 people respond to that, even as they go about their 0:02:33.590 --> 0:02:37.870 cynical lives in their snarky 21st century ways. There is 0:02:37.910 --> 0:02:40.970 something called riz, charisma, and maybe she just had it 0:02:41.150 --> 0:02:44.399 on a level that one and a two billion have 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.239 as opposed to just like lots of charisma she was 0:02:47.340 --> 0:02:52.330 utterly disarming yeah it's hard to imagine the kind of 0:02:52.370 --> 0:02:59.190 human being that wouldn't like her right she was just 0:02:59.270 --> 0:03:05.350 so about kindness and generosity and and and an enormous 0:03:05.950 --> 0:03:10.269 star while being completely unassuming i mean if that doesn't 0:03:10.310 --> 0:03:12.369 appeal to humans you have a different point of view 0:03:12.389 --> 0:03:16.570 than me And we cannot be friends. I mean, she 0:03:16.610 --> 0:03:20.050 gave away hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of 0:03:20.090 --> 0:03:23.050 dollars to charity over the many, many years. She'd be 0:03:23.070 --> 0:03:25.590 a billionaire if she hadn't given away so much money 0:03:25.630 --> 0:03:28.880 to charity. So that'll buy a lot of goodwill. And 0:03:29.419 --> 0:03:33.080 I don't mean that in a cynical way. That just 0:03:33.100 --> 0:03:36.780 makes people happy. Sure, fair enough. A great deal of 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:41.440 it devoted to childhood literacy, which is... It's difficult to 0:03:41.500 --> 0:03:44.180 surpass as a wonderful idea, given that if a child 0:03:44.380 --> 0:03:47.640 learns to read, A, and B, becomes capable at it, 0:03:47.690 --> 0:03:50.910 that changes their life. Unfortunately, as a nation, we've decided 0:03:50.950 --> 0:03:54.390 to give up on that. But, yeah, well, she's old. 0:03:54.570 --> 0:03:58.690 So she grew up in a time and place where 0:03:58.710 --> 0:04:00.600 that was really a big thing. I mean, her dad 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:07.980 couldn't read or write. One of 12 in a one-bedroom shack? 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:16.520 Holy crap. No electricity or running water. To global superstardom 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.250 and stayed normal. Yeah, that's not easy. And got there 0:04:21.270 --> 0:04:25.070 pretty fast. So when she was graduating high school, she 0:04:25.130 --> 0:04:28.430 says right before they left. And the day she graduated 0:04:28.470 --> 0:04:32.920 high school, she moved to Nashville. But before she graduated 0:04:32.950 --> 0:04:35.600 high school, like right before they did the whole, you know, 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:37.200 What do you want to be when you grow up? 0:04:37.260 --> 0:04:39.200 She said, I'm going to be a star, very matter-of-factly, 0:04:39.230 --> 0:04:42.090 and everybody laughed. She's just one of those people that 0:04:42.110 --> 0:04:44.590 just knew, you know, that's what I'm going to do. 0:04:44.610 --> 0:04:47.089 I'm cut out for that sort of thing, you see. 0:04:47.930 --> 0:04:48.110 Yeah. 0:04:48.610 --> 0:04:51.770 As a hack musician, and I don't want to focus 0:04:51.830 --> 0:04:57.600 on this, but her public image with the rhinestones and 0:04:57.620 --> 0:05:02.110 the hooters and all that, And the Hooters. Well, that's 0:05:02.150 --> 0:05:08.170 the first not completely respectful comment of the Dolly Parton Memorial. 0:05:08.990 --> 0:05:12.050 Nor was she. I'm echoing her feelings. I just, I 0:05:12.110 --> 0:05:13.750 always found it. She used the term Hooters, though. It's 0:05:13.790 --> 0:05:16.540 the term. It's not the body part. Half the world 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.320 has the body part. All right, breasts, for God's sake. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:25.020 Memory glands. What do you want? I like the term figure. Oh, bosom. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:32.540 Her prodigious bosoms. is. No, I always found it mildly 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:37.740 annoying because I thought she was so wonderful. And, you know, 0:05:37.779 --> 0:05:41.500 as a songwriter, as a musician, as a thinker and 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.530 a businesswoman and the rest of it, I was like, 0:05:45.610 --> 0:05:49.910 you could be wearing anything, looking like anything. But, you know, 0:05:50.110 --> 0:05:52.720 she had her thing. She had her her, her, uh, 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.320 you know, her groove and she stuck with it. So 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.300 I got to read from one of the New York, 0:05:57.420 --> 0:06:00.060 the New York times articles that I got into because 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.690 they kept hyperlinking to various things. And one of them 0:06:02.730 --> 0:06:06.770 was about her look and how they, uh, tried to 0:06:06.830 --> 0:06:10.450 change her look and it became a real problem. Like it, um, 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.089 she had to break with, uh, the management company that 0:06:15.130 --> 0:06:17.830 was launching her. She said, I'm not, I just can't, 0:06:18.100 --> 0:06:20.820 I can't. Cause she, she kind of broke right when 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:25.990 the woman thing was changing to like tight slacks and 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.370 a different kind of shirt and flat hair and just 0:06:28.410 --> 0:06:30.570 a different look. And she did that for like a day. 0:06:30.630 --> 0:06:32.430 And so I, this is not me. I can't do this. 0:06:32.490 --> 0:06:33.790 And went back to the giant hair and they said, well, 0:06:33.810 --> 0:06:35.510 we can't market you that way. And okay, I guess 0:06:35.529 --> 0:06:37.310 we're not, I guess we have to agree to disagree. 0:06:37.690 --> 0:06:40.310 So she really was looking for a more Helen ready-ish 0:06:40.390 --> 0:06:43.690 approach to exactly. You're old enough to remember that. That's 0:06:43.730 --> 0:06:46.710 exactly what they're trying to do. Google it. As usual, 0:06:46.750 --> 0:06:49.790 the people that run these kinds of show business industries, 0:06:49.830 --> 0:06:53.240 having no imagination whatsoever, we'll just do exactly what everybody 0:06:53.250 --> 0:06:57.320 else is doing. I hate them, too, along with politics, 0:06:57.339 --> 0:06:59.609 but go on. And assume nobody with the talent can 0:06:59.670 --> 0:07:02.530 possibly figure this out on their own. They need the 0:07:02.610 --> 0:07:04.270 suits to tell them how to be good at what 0:07:04.290 --> 0:07:08.270 they do. Yes. Even though they've never done it. No. 0:07:08.370 --> 0:07:11.750 They've watched other people do it, so they think they. 0:07:11.590 --> 0:07:14.230 Know, but they don't. 0:07:14.740 --> 0:07:16.960 How much money do you suppose she made off of 0:07:17.140 --> 0:07:19.180 I Will Always Love You? Just that one song. If 0:07:19.220 --> 0:07:21.060 that's all she'd ever done was written that song and 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:22.860 Whitney records it, I wonder how much money she would 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.150 have made. That was back when people were still buying 0:07:25.670 --> 0:07:30.470 physical media, so zillions. She would have been insanely wealthy 0:07:30.490 --> 0:07:33.320 with just that one song. It was number one for 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.160 11 weeks, 13 weeks, something like that. It was a 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.240 number one hit for her and then for Whitney Houston, 0:07:37.260 --> 0:07:38.680 so it made a lot of money. Number one hit 0:07:38.700 --> 0:07:42.480 for her twice on the country charts. Right. Yes. And 0:07:42.500 --> 0:07:44.850 it was on the same album as Jolene. That was 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.810 a good album. She said, I must have something going 0:07:46.830 --> 0:07:49.030 that night. Holy crap. She wrote those two songs in 0:07:49.050 --> 0:07:53.210 the same night. That's funny how that works with the artists, 0:07:53.290 --> 0:08:00.210 isn't it? That's incredible. Yeah, I know it is. Yeah, 0:08:00.250 --> 0:08:02.390 but we got some more flashbacks and retrospects and all 0:08:02.420 --> 0:08:07.760 that sort of stuff. I used to say this should 0:08:07.860 --> 0:08:10.500 have a PhD-level study, but that's back when I used 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.760 to have respect for PhD-level studies of any kind. Third 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.540 thing I hate. Yes, go on. There should be some 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:23.610 sort of study on her ability to To appeal to everyone. 0:08:23.810 --> 0:08:29.410 That's an incredibly rare thing. Right, right. And I think 0:08:29.430 --> 0:08:31.450 people know this about us, but I want to make clear, 0:08:31.530 --> 0:08:37.630 as a cynic, a celebrity passes. I don't, I generally 0:08:37.710 --> 0:08:41.930 don't have all that much interest in... in showing out 0:08:42.150 --> 0:08:45.130 about that. I just, I don't. I admired their work. 0:08:45.270 --> 0:08:47.850 They lived a good life. I feel for their family. 0:08:48.030 --> 0:08:51.590 It's that. But as we started to discuss at the beginning, 0:08:52.830 --> 0:08:56.600 what it is about Dolly and her life and her 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.520 manner that was so universally beloved, I think is, I 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.460 think it's important. And I think it's worth contemplating for 0:09:06.500 --> 0:09:09.880 a minute, particularly in a world where We're surrounded by, 0:09:09.900 --> 0:09:16.150 you know, hateful, divisive politics, bizarro movements. Everybody's angry. Everybody's 0:09:16.210 --> 0:09:20.630 distracted constantly by the Internet. It's one of the few common— well, 0:09:20.350 --> 0:09:23.360 my title was— my proposed title, Mom, the Flag, Apple Pie, 0:09:23.380 --> 0:09:26.900 and Dolly. This is one of the few commonalities we 0:09:26.940 --> 0:09:27.559 have left. 0:09:28.260 --> 0:09:28.439 Yeah. 0:09:29.030 --> 0:09:30.990 And it's worth, anytime we run into one of those, 0:09:31.070 --> 0:09:34.400 it's worth everybody saying, I like that, and you like that, 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.800 and I do too. Let's think about that. That's exactly 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.079 why I wanted to get into that. That is a 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:44.780 very unique thing. Katie is nodding her head along. I'm 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.750 glad to hear we have your agreement, Katie. She was 0:09:46.780 --> 0:09:49.130 a woman. I think that helps. If we're having the 0:09:49.190 --> 0:09:52.670 argument about what a woman is, Dolly Parton. Oh, I see, yeah. 0:09:52.710 --> 0:09:54.369 You know what? I love that, Cause you know, a 0:09:54.390 --> 0:09:57.250 guy I'll say, no, that's a man or, or in 0:09:57.429 --> 0:10:00.750 a Yiddish slash German mensch means that's a complete man. 0:10:01.050 --> 0:10:05.100 That is, that is somebody worth admiring. Yeah. Yeah. She, 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:10.680 she went with that cartoonish hair and, uh, breast augmentation, 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:15.300 but she started from a base of Very attractive. But 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:19.620 through all of that, she remained classy. Yeah. How she 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:25.310 did that without ever being smutty, slutty, trashy, how do 0:10:25.350 --> 0:10:29.570 you pull off that line? We've left out her fantastic 0:10:29.610 --> 0:10:33.410 sense of humor and her refusal to take herself overly seriously. 0:10:34.429 --> 0:10:38.160 Which helps a lot. Wisdom, in short. She had a 0:10:39.059 --> 0:10:43.340 ridiculous smile, so that helps, too. That helps. And looked 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.140 sincere to me. Yeah. Yeah. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:45.360 Yeah. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.040 I think she's just like really digging, you know, whatever 0:10:49.110 --> 0:10:51.550 she was doing or whoever she was talking to, which 0:10:51.590 --> 0:10:54.490 I never worked a day in her life. Right. I 0:10:54.510 --> 0:10:57.750 can't pull off for an hour enjoying who I'm talking 0:10:57.790 --> 0:11:00.940 to her. If you don't look homicidal for five minutes, 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:01.560 it's a victory. 0:11:01.580 --> 0:11:02.040 Yeah. 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.309 Um, Yeah, well, if you look at where she came 0:11:05.350 --> 0:11:08.380 from and what she went through, that will give you wisdom. 0:11:08.550 --> 0:11:10.679 That will give you perspective. Do we know anything about 0:11:10.700 --> 0:11:14.260 her other 11 brothers and sisters? Are they all really cynical, angry, 0:11:16.100 --> 0:11:20.640 troll-like people? Exactly. She got all the joy. All the 0:11:20.660 --> 0:11:23.980 joy went to Dolly. That's right. Well, let's start the 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.320 show officially. Got to get a clip for you. I'm 0:11:26.350 --> 0:11:28.690 Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. On this, it is Wednesday, 0:11:28.750 --> 0:11:31.849 August 26th, the year 2026. We're Armstrong and Getty, and 0:11:31.870 --> 0:11:34.450 we approve of this program. Let's begin the show officially then, 0:11:34.490 --> 0:11:38.880 according to FCC rules, regs at mark. Okay, the category tonight, 0:11:38.900 --> 0:11:41.080 top ten Dolly Parton pet peeves. Dolly, are you all set? 0:11:41.100 --> 0:11:45.370 Here we go. Number three. Okay, smart-ass emcees who introduced 0:11:45.410 --> 0:11:48.050 me by saying, and now here they are, Dolly Parton. 0:11:52.700 --> 0:11:57.260 Number two. When the Super Bowl is over, winner never says, hey, 0:11:57.380 --> 0:11:58.099 I'm going to Dollywood. 0:11:58.140 --> 0:11:58.900 That's right. 0:11:58.940 --> 0:12:04.679 And now, the number one Dolly Parton pet peeve. Nobody 0:12:04.740 --> 0:12:12.610 notices I've got a great ass, too. Wow. That is 0:12:12.710 --> 0:12:15.950 not a person who takes herself overly seriously. How do 0:12:15.970 --> 0:12:20.230 you get a shout out from John Fogerty and Eminem? 0:12:21.900 --> 0:12:25.319 Heavy D and Steven Pinker. I mean, the list I've 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:30.120 got here is absolutely amazing. Heavy D and Steven Pinker. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.140 That may be the first time those two have ever 0:12:32.179 --> 0:12:36.100 been mentioned in the same sentence. Wu-Tang Clan and Larry Gatlin, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.120 for those of you who know who that is. I mean, 0:12:38.140 --> 0:12:45.829 it's just, it's insane. Wow. Robert Reich and every living president. 0:12:47.770 --> 0:12:52.630 I don't know. There's something going on there. The only 0:12:52.690 --> 0:12:55.790 time you will hear this sort of outpouring again from 0:12:55.809 --> 0:12:58.329 the world of music, well, from the entire world, will 0:12:58.370 --> 0:13:01.870 be when Paul McCartney passes. But he was a foreigner. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.780 On the other hand, you know, he had similar attributes 0:13:06.059 --> 0:13:10.320 of just disarming, you know, not taking himself seriously, etc. 0:13:12.210 --> 0:13:16.150 And monumental talent. What Dolly Diab? I didn't get into that. 0:13:16.170 --> 0:13:17.850 I didn't read or watch any of this stuff where 0:13:17.870 --> 0:13:21.010 they got into the last days. Officially a brief bout 0:13:21.050 --> 0:13:24.250 of cancer. Okay. We got headlines on the way and 0:13:24.270 --> 0:13:26.500 lots to talk about today. Lindsey Graham's sister. I hope 0:13:26.530 --> 0:13:28.640 she's smarter than I think she is. And I hope 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:29.840 she is willing to learn. 0:13:30.059 --> 0:13:30.400 Hater. 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.620 You hate her? You hate her. You're a hater. I 0:13:34.380 --> 0:13:36.720 don't hate her. I just don't think she probably should 0:13:36.740 --> 0:13:37.179 have been a U.S. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:37.460 Senator. 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.700 But she's going to be. So let's get over it. 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:47.890 Headlines on the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. Shaboozy, 0:13:48.490 --> 0:13:51.630 Brook Shields, and Motley Crue all weighing in with their 0:13:51.690 --> 0:13:57.450 tributes to Dolly Parton. I mean, what? Never thought I'd 0:13:57.470 --> 0:14:00.630 hear that combo. I know. I got many of those. 0:14:00.710 --> 0:14:05.380 It's unbelievable. Well, I'm going to that festival, by the way. Yeah, 0:14:05.420 --> 0:14:07.370 I know. And then outside the world of music, like 0:14:07.380 --> 0:14:12.650 you said, Steven Pinker, the great defender of enlightenment and humanism, blah, blah, blah. 0:14:12.690 --> 0:14:14.530 More to come on a million different topics, but let's 0:14:14.550 --> 0:14:16.750 figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with 0:14:16.850 --> 0:14:17.550 Katie Green. 0:14:17.610 --> 0:14:20.950 Katie. So, not to waste time, all the Alphabet Network's 0:14:20.970 --> 0:14:21.590 Dolly Parton. 0:14:22.890 --> 0:14:23.470 Non-stop. 0:14:23.830 --> 0:14:28.630 Yeah. Apparently, a brief battle with cancer. Man, it seemed 0:14:28.650 --> 0:14:31.989 to happen fast, which is... Well, you know what? She 0:14:32.010 --> 0:14:35.230 canceled a bunch of shows, like... Six months ago? 0:14:36.630 --> 0:14:41.210 Well, yeah, but they put together that whole residency thing 0:14:41.250 --> 0:14:44.590 in Vegas, which she would have been huge. And, you know, 0:14:44.610 --> 0:14:47.970 they booked that. She booked that thinking she was healthy, obviously. 0:14:47.990 --> 0:14:48.970 And it wasn't that long ago. 0:14:50.510 --> 0:14:54.490 From the Wall Street Journal, years late, billions over budget. 0:14:55.650 --> 0:14:58.840 California's high-speed rail hasn't laid a track. 0:14:59.610 --> 0:15:02.710 Who's reporting on that? Wall Street Journal. Yeah, we'll get 0:15:02.750 --> 0:15:07.530 into that. Get another. I mean, it's like retrying John 0:15:07.570 --> 0:15:11.610 Wilkes Booth for killing Lincoln. There's no need. The state 0:15:11.670 --> 0:15:15.250 is guilty of enormous theft, and yet the punishment is 0:15:15.330 --> 0:15:18.430 not forthcoming. USA Today. 0:15:19.130 --> 0:15:23.260 Shopping malls are charging for prime parking, and it's not 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:23.900 going well. 0:15:28.540 --> 0:15:30.640 All right. First of all, shopping malls are still open 0:15:31.180 --> 0:15:34.460 in various places, apparently. Are they talking about big box 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.479 hell shopping malls or traditional malls? 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:40.410 Like traditional malls. But I know that a lot of 0:15:40.430 --> 0:15:43.870 people use them as a safe place to walk. Right. 0:15:43.970 --> 0:15:46.730 Yeah, true. That's what my parents used to do. That's 0:15:46.750 --> 0:15:49.880 the fact that they're charging us now. Park farther away, 0:15:49.890 --> 0:15:55.400 you numbskulls. Heartless Joe. What? New York Post. 0:15:55.740 --> 0:16:01.420 Chucky Masked Sicko, who terrorizes Philadelphia citizens, is captured in Vegas. 0:16:01.660 --> 0:16:05.260 Oh, they caught him in Vegas. Wow. After a two-week manhunt. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:06.640 I don't know if you saw in those videos. They 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:10.000 were chilling. Just a sick effort. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.070 Thought he was being funny or something. Well, as someone 0:16:13.090 --> 0:16:15.780 who loves horror, did not love this. 0:16:15.870 --> 0:16:18.870 No, no, no. Nobody loves that stuff in real life. Right. Right. 0:16:20.140 --> 0:16:21.940 Study finds, had a sleepless night? 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.750 Study suggests that exercising protects your memory as much as 0:16:26.810 --> 0:16:27.270 a nap. 0:16:28.930 --> 0:16:33.000 Hmm, cool. Babylon B. 0:16:33.710 --> 0:16:39.150 Apocalypse draws near as last remaining universally loved human passes away. 0:16:39.350 --> 0:16:42.720 Yeah, I wonder about that. Was she the last universally 0:16:42.770 --> 0:16:46.800 loved human? We'll see. We ain't gonna have many more. 0:16:48.470 --> 0:16:50.369 I was thinking about various titles we could give the 0:16:50.410 --> 0:16:53.360 show today, and one I was toying with the idea of, 0:16:53.450 --> 0:16:55.950 here comes the Civil War. The last thing that held 0:16:56.030 --> 0:16:57.390 us together has passed. 0:16:57.730 --> 0:16:58.090 Yeah. 0:16:59.090 --> 0:17:02.600 Thank God she never weighed in on Trump or anything. No, 0:17:02.670 --> 0:17:05.919 she was too smart for that. Yes, she was. I 0:17:05.940 --> 0:17:08.460 sure would love to have seen her behind closed doors 0:17:08.500 --> 0:17:11.840 making business decisions. There had to be that side of her. 0:17:12.780 --> 0:17:13.040 Oh, yeah. 0:17:13.060 --> 0:17:14.520 You don't become a billionaire by accident. 0:17:15.619 --> 0:17:15.840 Nope. 0:17:16.580 --> 0:17:19.000 Nope. Um, we got a lot of the news of 0:17:19.020 --> 0:17:20.540 the day that we need to get into and some 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.890 other interesting stuff about Dolly Parton that is worth talking 0:17:22.910 --> 0:17:24.730 about too. Um, if you miss a segment, get the 0:17:24.750 --> 0:17:32.410 podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. Armstrong and Getty. What 0:17:32.430 --> 0:17:35.570 would you tell your younger self? Well, that's a tricky question. 0:17:35.750 --> 0:17:37.880 It was my dream to do it. But I would 0:17:37.890 --> 0:17:40.420 just probably, looking back, I would just say, girl, you 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.159 better buckle up because you're in for the ride of 0:17:43.180 --> 0:17:45.270 your life. You're going to have to take a lot 0:17:45.290 --> 0:17:46.970 of stuff. You're going to have to give a lot 0:17:47.010 --> 0:17:49.870 of stuff. And you're going to have to stand by 0:17:49.910 --> 0:17:52.770 your guns, believe in yourself, stay true to yourself. I 0:17:52.810 --> 0:17:54.770 heard some interview, this just popped into my head, where 0:17:54.810 --> 0:17:57.890 she's talking about, I created a persona which is mostly 0:17:57.950 --> 0:18:01.460 not me. And I thought, well, that's really interesting. Because 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.859 one of your appeals is coming off so insanely genuine. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.699 And you're saying your persona is mostly not who you are. 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.620 I'd love to know more about that. 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:10.720 Yeah. 0:18:10.740 --> 0:18:17.909 Yeah. Anyway, we can talk more about that later. We 0:18:17.930 --> 0:18:20.649 got a couple of texts, a conversation about the passing 0:18:20.670 --> 0:18:25.389 of Dolly Parton and the amazing variety of different people 0:18:25.470 --> 0:18:28.800 that spoke out about that yesterday in positive ways. And 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.979 somebody texted, don't forget big boobs. Everyone likes those. So 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.070 thanks for that. That's a good point, yes. But we 0:18:35.109 --> 0:18:36.590 got this. You have any idea what this is about? 0:18:38.020 --> 0:18:40.379 The Hooters comment was not even close to the holy 0:18:40.460 --> 0:18:44.020 crap moment. You're a seriously disgusting person, Jack. I hope 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.680 you get to taste holy C word. And for that matter, 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.030 you have no idea what the word holy means or 0:18:51.090 --> 0:18:53.119 what holy is. I hope you get a mouthful of 0:18:53.140 --> 0:18:59.470 holy C dot dot dot. You jerk. I think they're 0:18:59.490 --> 0:19:04.390 accusing you of being blasphemous by saying holy crap. What? 0:19:04.790 --> 0:19:09.500 As far as I can tell. I don't know. The 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:13.720 rantings of the kooky are often difficult to interpret. If 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.900 I'm going to spend eternity in hell with a mouthful 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.690 of holy sea, I should know why. Probably burning hot, 0:19:19.750 --> 0:19:21.629 holy crap, yes. I should know why. 0:19:22.109 --> 0:19:22.369 Right. 0:19:22.450 --> 0:19:24.270 Yeah, well, that would be nice. Maybe it's on the 0:19:24.310 --> 0:19:28.470 forum somewhere. Also, let the revolution begin, or not the revolution, 0:19:28.490 --> 0:19:31.450 the Civil War, as our old friend Mike the Attorney 0:19:31.490 --> 0:19:34.970 points out, when Trump posted that the flags would be 0:19:35.050 --> 0:19:38.850 flown at half-mast in honor of Ms. Parton. And her life, 0:19:40.300 --> 0:19:44.580 the online world exploded with anger. What? Of course, because 0:19:44.619 --> 0:19:48.659 it was Trump, I guess. But online anything It's a 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:54.700 cesspool of radioactive effluvium. What a way to spend your life. 0:19:55.790 --> 0:19:58.750 Flaming sewage. How about the fact that the Empire State 0:19:58.790 --> 0:20:01.490 Building turned itself whatever color in honor of Dolly Parton 0:20:01.510 --> 0:20:04.850 last time? I like that. Rhinestone-y. Yeah, that's amazing. So 0:20:04.970 --> 0:20:08.690 on a slightly more serious note, golly gee, this is something. 0:20:09.109 --> 0:20:15.070 Bill Gates... has issued the occasional messages on how he 0:20:15.150 --> 0:20:18.760 sees AI and its development and what it might bring 0:20:18.780 --> 0:20:23.320 in the future. And his latest is a 12-page humdinger, 0:20:23.380 --> 0:20:27.760 by golly. Gates issued a stark warning about AI's risks 0:20:27.820 --> 0:20:31.100 to employment in the human condition, saying that companies were 0:20:31.140 --> 0:20:34.260 barreling ahead with the technology and with no larger plan 0:20:34.300 --> 0:20:37.930 for the massive upheaval it would cause. Quote, even under 0:20:37.950 --> 0:20:41.050 the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era 0:20:41.070 --> 0:20:43.430 will be one of the most turbulent times in human history, 0:20:43.490 --> 0:20:46.590 he wrote in a 12-page essay. Right now, we are 0:20:46.609 --> 0:20:49.230 not preparing for it. I don't see evidence that leaders, experts, 0:20:49.290 --> 0:20:52.760 and communities are confronting the challenges adequately. One of the 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.740 most turbulent times in human history is a heck of 0:20:55.760 --> 0:21:00.790 a thing to throw around. Mm-hmm. He decided to weigh 0:21:00.850 --> 0:21:03.830 in now, apparently, because he believes that there is not 0:21:03.930 --> 0:21:06.990 much time to prepare for the transition. That's what I 0:21:07.030 --> 0:21:10.320 was wondering when he says that. What's he feel like 0:21:10.460 --> 0:21:16.460 the horizon is? I don't think he was very, very specific. 0:21:16.540 --> 0:21:18.580 If he has been, I haven't come across it. But 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.510 he's going to D.C. like now. He says he wants 0:21:22.570 --> 0:21:24.669 to talk to lawmakers. Quote, you have a chance to 0:21:24.790 --> 0:21:28.629 act now. Before unemployment rises sharply, communities are hurting and 0:21:28.690 --> 0:21:34.510 public trust has eroded. Eroded further? Yikes. That's interesting what 0:21:34.570 --> 0:21:40.080 he said there about the companies having no plan. That's 0:21:40.220 --> 0:21:49.240 not really their job? Or arena? I mean, how could they? So... 0:21:50.609 --> 0:21:53.060 I'm trying to think of an example, but when the 0:21:53.100 --> 0:21:57.040 car industry came along, when cars became really popular, there 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.760 was a very big concern that all of a sudden 0:21:59.780 --> 0:22:02.080 we had mobile bedrooms and people were going to be 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:04.300 able to make out and have sex in cars. For 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:06.219 the first time ever, you got a mobile bedroom. You 0:22:06.290 --> 0:22:07.949 used to have to either get a hotel or be 0:22:07.970 --> 0:22:11.010 at home. That was just like swept the nation. I've 0:22:11.030 --> 0:22:12.610 read a bunch of articles about that from way back 0:22:12.770 --> 0:22:14.830 in the 40s and 50s. It's really kind of hilarious 0:22:14.869 --> 0:22:18.590 in retrospect. But it wasn't the car industry's duty to 0:22:18.650 --> 0:22:21.520 come up with a plan for that. That was a 0:22:21.580 --> 0:22:25.199 byproduct of this new invention. Isn't it the same with AI? Yeah, 0:22:25.220 --> 0:22:28.840 I'm vending this AI. It's a computer thing. It can 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:30.500 learn itself, whatever like that. What's it going to do 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:34.359 to people working? I don't know. You figure it out. Right. 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:38.869 And boy, this leads to an incredibly important tangent that 0:22:38.900 --> 0:22:41.090 I'll try to keep kind of brief. But yeah, let 0:22:41.270 --> 0:22:46.090 the companies pursue their self-interest because it's when government gets 0:22:46.150 --> 0:22:51.119 involved and mixes some politician's view, opinion on what the 0:22:51.180 --> 0:22:53.820 public interest is with the private interest, that all of 0:22:53.859 --> 0:22:57.830 a sudden the free market gets completely skewed, government itself 0:22:57.930 --> 0:23:02.550 becomes screwed up, and you're better off letting the free 0:23:02.609 --> 0:23:07.450 market function and then government stepping in where government should. Yeah, 0:23:07.570 --> 0:23:09.310 I like Bill Gates weighing in on this because I 0:23:09.350 --> 0:23:11.540 think we've all gotten bamboozled a little bit on this, 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:16.760 including myself. Like the AI, the people making these things, 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:21.320 like Altman and Elon and Emoti, it's their job to 0:23:21.380 --> 0:23:24.439 figure out how humanity is going to adjust to it. No, 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:29.050 it's not. Right. And the only reason they're spinning it 0:23:29.109 --> 0:23:33.730 positively is so people will continue to invest and support it. Right. 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:35.340 But they don't need to come up with a plan. 0:23:36.130 --> 0:23:39.669 A few more specifics, because it's good to start the 0:23:39.710 --> 0:23:43.690 day with existential angst. Much of his essay focused on jobs, 0:23:43.750 --> 0:23:46.520 noting that entry and mid-level jobs are most at risk 0:23:46.540 --> 0:23:49.640 of being eliminated. He argued that AI will soon also 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:53.139