He Needs To Be Dragged Out By His Beard & Abused By Crowds

0:00This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center. Yeah, Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm Strong and Getty. And now he is Armstrong and Getty. Today will be yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran. The most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes, intelligence more refined and better than ever. So that's on one hand. On the other hand, the last 24 hours have seen Iran fire the lowest number of missiles. They've been capable of firing yet. So that's almost hard to believe that it's going to be the most number of strikes today. Whatever we are, 10, 11, 12 days into this thing.

1:02That's Pete Heggzitz, the Secretary of War going to hear from Trump. That was this morning. We'll hear from Trump yesterday here just a little bit. Joe is going to tell us about the new weird beard. Yeah, weird beard, Jr. Controversial character, Jack, as you might guess. And controversial moment in Iran's history for reasons I will explain. Okay. Looking forward to that. Also, forgot what was the thing I wanted to talk about getting too later. Now I've flitted out of my mind because it doesn't be an old and whatnot. Things split out of my mind. That's a drag. What are you going to do? I should write down everything. I should carry on notepad in a pen just constantly. Like for thoughts I'm going to have in two minutes. You're going to go into the laundry room and get a pair of socks. Oh boy. You're going to full Bruce Willis over here. That would be exhausting. Yeah. Here's a little Trump from yesterday. No, I don't want to brag. But you know they said this about a lot of things. No other president could do some of these s**t I'm doing.

2:02No other president. That from the Republican. The things I'm doing. Nobody else was going to do it. I say, they say it all the time, sir. Could you do this? You're the only one could do it. That was a long form. That was fabulous. That was at the Republican retreat where they're trying to figure out how the hell to not lose the midterms. Yeah. Play 55 for me. This is the one that's getting all the attention because it's all about the timeline, which I think he was trying to bring down the oil prices. On Iran, you called it an excursion. You said it would be over soon. Are you thinking this week it will be over? No question. I think so. Look, everything they have is gone, including their leadership. In fact, there are two levels of leadership, and even actually, as it turns out, more than that. But two levels of leadership are gone. Most people have never even heard about the leaders that they're talking about. So it's obviously been very, very powerful, very effective.

3:02So yesterday I was talking about, there's a lot of chatter among the sort of people who chatter maybe Trump's going to pull the plug on this thing with oil prices going up and decide, you know, that's good enough. We've made our point. And then just stop. Sometimes he does with things. Major tariff war with a major country. And then a couple days in because the bond market does something, you just stop. And you don't really have to explain it. You just do. Then because of modern world, everybody just moves on to something else and doesn't even remember to happen. I really don't know how far he plans to prosecute this. I don't know. Here's him talking about his bow and stuff up. The Navy has gone. It's all lying at the bottom of the ocean. 46 ships. Can you believe it? In fact, I got a little upset with our people. I said, what quality of ship? Excellent, sir. Top of the line. I said, why did we just capture the ship? We're going to use it.

4:02Why did we sink them? They said it's more fun to sink them. They said it's safer to sink if I guess it's probably true. Yeah. What are you going to board them and go hand-to-hand conflict or combat? I'm sure I would have gone with that more fun line, but it was interesting. So there you go. So tell me about Weirdbeard. I'm very interested in who might be in charge, although to what extent he's going to be able to do anything. Where's he hiding right now? Yeah, I want to spend just another minute on the question of when this might end in the press conference yesterday, which was really interesting. I happen to watch the whole thing. It was long. It's obvious that they are, they are ready for a number of different outcomes, but each one of them includes Iran cannot project its power in the region. It cannot hold up shipping in the Straits of Hormuz because that's super important for global oil movement and the rest of it.

5:02They're less familiar with that. And that they can't attack our friends and allies and our bases in the region. That is like the lowest level of achievement that he will settle for. And that's still a fairways off. By the way, I was complaining about this yesterday as all the news organizations for 48 hours were talking about $100 barrel oil, $100 barrel oil, $100 or the magic number, $100 barrel oil. With nobody taking the time to say that, well, inflation over the last several years, $100 ain't the same as what $100 was just a couple of years ago. So I did the major journalistic work of asking chat GPT about inflation. So $100, Michael, Jack's going to need a frame for his Pulitzer. Can you look into that? I will check it out. So $100 oil is the same as $79 oil in 2020. $79 oil, $79 oil. Y'all didn't know one ever.

6:02Which wouldn't have gotten hardly any attention. But that's what oil actually is based on 2020 dollars, which is just five years in a couple of months ago. Folks, I think we all need to together. Take a moment to slap our foreheads and think about how stupid our news media is and how ill-served we are by their weak efforts. Could lower it again and enjoy your Pulitzer. Well, part of it is nobody wants to tamp down an exciting story. That you don't get readers eyeballs and listeners by tamping down, here's why this story actually isn't there as exciting as you think it is. You just, you know, it's not the best way to get attention. Yeah, I guess we're not. Got in the endless, the dumbest journalism on them in the world and they're doing it again last night. But again, the night on the evening news, they're at a gas station talking to a soccer mom or a guy, you know, driving to a construction site. Yeah, it cost me almost $120 to fill my tank.

7:02I don't know how long I can keep this up. That man is troubled. Yes, we know. We owe people dislike high gas prices. We owe gas prices. This is their second coming together moment for all of us in one segment. You've got to vow if you're ever interviewed at a gas station like that, by some local reporter, you've got to say something really perverse or just say, you know, I enjoy paying more for gas. I think everyone should pay more for gas. Or just looking up. Wait, no, I need footage of somebody audio, somebody saying that they can do. Oh, no, I like it. We got to put the camera on the thing scrolling to a higher number and then we need you to say, I don't know how I'm going to afford this. And then I'll say, as you can see, Jim, people are troubled by the prices of gas. No, I'm going to say, I blame the French. How long are we going to put up with the French? Well, some of it I put in my car and some of it I drink in the morning. Right.

8:02Right, spend a couple of minutes thinking about it and having have it in your holes to ready to go. I can't say just humbly. We actually break semi on time. And I'll tell you about Weirdbeard, Jr. and how this is a major moment in Iranian history and not just in the obvious ways. But it worked from our friends at Rough Greens first. Man, we love our dogs, don't we? We really do. And we want to help them live a longer, healthier, happier life. And Rough Greens can be a great way to enhance your dog's diet and his health. Or her health. Them, they, them's health. What are your dog's pronouns? We didn't look into that. Yeah, live vitamins, minerals, minerals, probiotics, digestive enzymes and omega oils with the Rough Greens that you put on your dog's food. You're not changing your dog's food. That's a big deal as we all know. So you just put this on top of the food. And all you got to pay is the shipping right now. Rough Greens is offering a free jumpstart trial bag. You just cover shipping. Use the discount code armstrong to claim your free jumpstart trial bag at roughgreens.com. We're talking about natural antioxidants

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10:03Nice job of learning to pronounce that guy's name there. Yeah, trade inks, the fabulous trade inks on Fox News. So the new guy, beard junior, a weird beard junior. Who is he? What does this all mean? Super interesting. First of all, this guy is a nothing. And we'll get into that more. He's got like no respect as a religious scholar. He may or may not have showed up at the end of the Iraq war, Iran, Iraq war to burnish his credentials for, you know, his future and that sort of thing. But they're desperately now trying to pitch the idea that his father was a martyr. The big announcement offered condolences on the martyrdom of your beloved father who is a model of jihad and martyrdom. And that in their weird mystical, clerical, religious, fascist society gives the guy more legitimacy because he's the son of a martyr. In the 53? Something like that, yeah. He couldn't have fought in the Iran walk rock war

11:03unless he was a child. In the 80s, he'd have been pretty young. I mean, because we were young and he's significantly younger than us. Please don't make me do mathematics. I'm told that he went to the front lines at the end of the conflict. I might have been 18. Somebody do the math. Anyway, do the math. Interestingly, the weird beard juniors' mother, wife, and son were also killed during the recent air strikes. So anyway, in the weird way that this sort of society operates, this Iran expert at the University in Scotland says, much tabo will be helped by the fact that his father was killed by Netanyahu and Trump. You can already see the mythology being built because martyrdom is a central concept in Shiite Islam, Islam, he's working back to the death of the Imam Hussein, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, killed in the seventh century blah, blah, blah, blah, the split with the Sunnis. Anyway, so they're trying to build this guy up, but interestingly,

12:05came across this in the New York Post. Nobody wanted impotent, nepo baby, much tabo kamehni to be Iran's next supreme leader, not President Trump, and not even Kamehni's own father who held the job until he was blown up by air strikes earlier this month. But the IRGC had other ideas, and I think I underplayed when he forged connections with the IRGC, starting with his youthful service, quote unquote, at the end of the war, he was their guy in the White House as it were. He had been 15 when the war ended. What can I tell you? All right. Anyway, so he had important connections with the revolutionary guard, and he was their contact, their lobbyist, their connection to the old man who ruled Iran as the supreme leader, so that's his power center. But he's so unimpressive, and impotent is unfortunately both

13:06Jack and the New York Post feel necessary to point out. He was the hospital for two months for lack of erection, that in Kamehni's wills. Oh, weird beard senior. He explicitly asked that his son not be named a successor. Oh, wow, oh, wow. This is a classic linen Stalin sort of thing. What did they say on the dead bed, deathbed that Lenin say, don't let Stalin take over, or not? This is one of those. Right, exactly. So here is a quote from a guy who's close to Iranian intelligence, but we got wind of the quote anyway through means that aren't worth describing. But much of it is an impotent young cleric who has achieved nothing in terms of political life said this insider explaining that the late Kamehni felt his son lacked the experience or capability to run Iran. All these years he has been nothing without his father's name. And they mentioned that the old man was like, well, Kamehni, the original guy

14:06was like super revered religious scholar, right? Yeah. Kamehni, more of a lightweight religiously, but a master of details in organization. He was a very capable administrator. This youngster's got nothing, but the name. So he has got the problem of if he sticks his head up out above ground, he'll be killed by us or Israel, and underground, he might be killed by military leaders who have no respect for him. Yeah, although he's got the IRGC in his corner because they know he'll continue to steer enormous profits and powered their way. Here's another interesting aspect of this. In the Islamic Revolution of 1979, it was made infinitely clear, like in your top three or four principles. That genetic succession of this sort, what, there's a different term for that. What do you call it? You know, the hereditary succession is strictly forbidden. That is anti-Islamic.

15:06It is the no way will we ever do that again because they didn't want the Shahs and stuff like that. Oh, okay. So they've utterly betrayed that principle because this seems to be the obvious guy to pick, the IRGC, which still has a triggers and fingers to pull them. Another interesting factoid, because I've been digging deep into the history of Iran lately, which I knew a little about, but not a lot. Do you remember the coup in 19, was it 53, 54? It kind of unfolded over that period. That everybody says, oh, bomb on, and you know, all your academics, I always say, and then the US helped start a coup that overthrew a popularly elected government and they draw a direct line from that to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, as if we caused it. Well, I did some digging over the last couple of days into this and it is so much more interesting than that. The popularly elected Prime Minister at the time, number one, the Shah had the constitutional right to remove him

16:06if he saw fit to do that. Number two, this guy's, and his name, I can never remember this, the Western standards, but the Prime Minister at the time. He had lost virtually all of his support because he'd gone dictator. He'd betrayed all of his popular democratic principles and he had banned the free media. He had cleansed out the judiciary, including the entire Supreme Court, and everybody from the clerics to the communists turned against him and they came to the US and said, can you help this rid of this guy? We stayed out of it for a long time, but then they said, look, he's totally lost his mind. We can either do it with your help or without your help. And so we said, yeah, all right, we'll help and try to get a more reasonable system in there. Then, of course, and this is repeated over and over again in Iranian history. The Shah started out pretty reformist and pretty benign,

17:06but then started ruling with an iron hand and killing people and head secret prisons and weapons over and over. But the idea that we went in and they were just having an Iran-style garden party, full of democracy and joy, utterly false. So we have hit, according to Pete Hegseth this morning, we have hit 5,000 targets. Israel has hit 3,000 targets. 8,000 targets have been struck with bombs from the air. Since the beginning of the war, yeah, that's hard to imagine. Yeah, it is. How's there anything left to hit? And today is supposed to be the biggest day yet. According to Sec Def Pete, Sec War Pete. Yeah, yeah. Country rather of 93 million people. So plenty of targets. And as we reviewed the other day, they have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of men under arms. So it's a big military. Yeah, interesting to see how it turns out today. They got to get that oil flowing through the

18:06door moves though. Oil prices have settled down today pretty well, but they got to get them. The tankers going through the street somehow. Market bounce back yesterday too. So a lot on the way. If you miss anything, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. Armstrong and Getty. On a third inning. Line drive. Face hit right field. And so after the first phase, they get their first hit. The big stars. Yes, the big stars. A lot of these sorts of things where you know your big stars don't play. I was watching Japan show, Hey, Tonny's just laying waste to various teams. Oh, yeah. And it's really some good stuff. And then you had air and judge there are biggest stars. waste of various teams. Oh, yeah. And it's really some good stuff. And then you had an air and judge there, our biggest star probably of the American,

19:06of the Yankees. So we've got everybody's looking to go. Looking forward to U.S. Japan, the Dominican Republic is a power as well. My favorite factoid from the WBC is that Italy has an espresso machine in their dugout. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I'm watching a guy using it right now. Just getting a nice espresso as you're watching the volume game is great. I tell you what, another factor is caffeine, speed, super popular among baseball players. Because you, you, you, you don't stand still. You try to keep moving. But man, there's in action. But then when the action comes, you got to be instantaneous. So you got to be super twitchy. So speed really helps. So that's one of the reason the Italians who are swigging down the espresso. So a lot of your old timey baseball players were on some sort of drug of a day, right? Yeah, well, yeah. It was like the speed a trucker would take to not fall asleep at the wheel. That sort of thing's been popular for ages.

20:08It's like ultra high doses of caffeine. I did it once as a ball player. And then decided, I don't want to be that guy. But it was the best game I ever played. Really? Yeah. Wow, three hits and five scoreless innings on the mound. Wow, I can't believe you didn't go back to the well since it worked so well. I know, I'm suffocatingly principled. It's disgusting. I guess we have a joke about the espresso machine. Let's do it. The Italian team in the world baseball classic has gained attention online because they have an espresso machine in their dugout, which explains why one of their players bunted a triple. That's wild. Yeah. That America had a much difference. The Budweiser tap. Well, I know I was a pretty good ball player. I mean, it's not like I was hitting 120 and couldn't fit. I know it was the best game of your life, though. Well, yeah, it was, but not by like 50%. By like, you know, 20%. That's a lot. That's enough.

21:08Yeah. So shifting gears completely. This is a representative up in Minnesota. Mocking the fact she's coming out of, she's coming out of the room where all the legislators had been talking about their bills and laws and things they want to study and whatnot. And she comes out and she talks to the press about how crazy one guy's idea was. This is all around the Somali fraud that they have going on in Minnesota. This is Republican woman. Go ahead. Hey, Minnesota State Representative, Christa Knutson. So today in the labor committee, Representative Dave Pinto requested a study for the benefits of shoplifting. There are no benefits to shoplifting for the people that are being shoplifted from. I have no idea what else to say.

22:09I'm shocked, actually. I don't even know what to say. Who? I don't know what to say. Who benefits from shoplifting? The criminals. Once again, the criminal's benefit. I like her style. She's got to like sitcom sort of delivery as a state representative probably from some small area in Minnesota. Yeah. I don't even know what to say. The benefits of shoplifting. Here's a little bit of the guy. I don't know if I need the whole thing or not. Representative Dave Pinto with his idea. It is an intriguing line of questions. Several of us are on the public safety committee. Yesterday, there was a presentation of a group seeking to change how we address organized retail theft. And it actually had not occurred to me to ask. It probably would have been good to make sure that they would study sort of the benefit of shoplifting and of retail theft. And because perhaps people are relying on that and sort of using that, maybe it's assisting them in some way.

23:11I mean, these folks were describing people violating the law. But I suppose it could be useful to look into that. But ultimately, it's a policy question, right? We do want to make sure when we have a law in place where we're enforcing it. There's a techno crap for you. Organized retail theft equals it. And it must be benefit them in some way. Yeah. Yes, if I go down to the parking lot right now and smash hope on somebody's window and take the purse out of there, there's a benefit to me. I now have her purse. There are some ideas so ridiculous. Only an intellectual could hold them. What the hell? Well, I want to hear that, Kristen Nudson here. I don't know what to say. Well, boy, we were talking yesterday about how the Democratic Party has a favorability net rating below like everything but a ran. They're lower than ice. Do you have any questions now after hearing that? Any questions why that might be? No, okay, everybody's satisfied. That is effing ridiculous. We did that at the very cow. We did that at the very end of the show.

24:11So I should mention that again. Yeah, latest NBC poll. And they do the whole your favorability and then your unfavorability and what's your net rating? Like if you got more people like you than or not, it's a plus if more people dislike you, you know, it's a negative obviously. The Democrats overall are minus 22 because 52% have a very or somewhat negative view of Democrats versus only 30% positive. They're minus 22. Even ice is only minus 18. Yeah, after all the coverage. After all the coverage nationwide. They're behind the Democrats are behind Trump. They're behind the Republicans. They're behind ice only a ran at a minus 53 as a lower rating according to NBC's poll. Oh, hey, and Michael, I need 32. Another reason we got a, well, we're in favor of crime. How about this? This is James Telleriko, the great white hope in Texas

25:11who's going to take the Senate seat and turn Texas blue again. Dig this exchange. Something that you love that's not family or friends. I love and just say this because it's on my mind. The trans children who showed up yesterday at the state capital to advocate for their humanity. They shouldn't have to, but it was an inspiration to watch. Hey, anybody need anything else? There's some mainstream opinion. What do you love outside of family and friends? Trans kids, poor children. My God, I feel bad for them. So this Joseph Mengele style experimentation on them. Yeah, I feel bad for them. A completely different way than you do, sir. I can. I like the guy in Minnesota calling shoplifters organized retail theft. And then we need a specific thing. I know, but I feel like it's an antiseptic. You're going out of your way to use the most antiseptic term

26:14for what's happening in our stores while everything's locked up. Well, I got to get somebody with a key to get my deodorant and then to talk about the benefits. We need to study the benefits. That's that is either a soft head or a dedicated Marxist. He's part of the Democratic farm labor party in Minnesota. I mean, because the idea of decriminalizing crime and overloading the system and breaking it, blah, blah, blah, straight out of Marxism and, you know, cloud-piven blah, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, he's a dedicated Marxist. See, if I was in any Congress, I would not be saying organized retail theft. I'd be saying the scumbags who rob us blind. So I have to find someone with a key so I can get deodorant at the CVS. That's what I would be saying. They're locked, they're not coupes. I know Reverend L. It's incredible. And like, yeah, play her again just a little bit. We don't have to hear the whole thing, but her, she's a guest. Oh, play. Hey, Minnesota State Representative Krista Kanuten. So today in the labor committee,

27:15Representative Dave Pinto, requested a study for the benefits of shoplifting. There are no benefits to shoplifting for the people that are being shoplifted from. I have no idea what else to say. I'm shocked, actually. I don't even know what to say. Who? I don't know what to say. Yeah, I don't know what to say. Who benefits from shoplifting? The criminals. Once again, the criminals benefit from shoplifting. Dave Pinto needs to be dragged out of the chamber by his ears and abused by crowds. Good Lord. He's advocating for lawlessness. He needs to be dragged out by his ears and abused by crowds. Smart Barric.

28:18Speaking of an antiseptic way to present something. Yeah. Abused by crowds. Great history podcast where they use terms like and then they were ill-used by the mob. Ill-used. Do you mean that the crap beaten out of them? Oh, these are odd times, folks. If somebody had told me about them like in another country at another time, I would have thought, wait a minute, there are like representatives arguing that well, crime has its upsides because people get free stuff. I think you're come on, you're making this up. Yeah, so we got a couple other stories that we need to check in on. Oh, I'll have the quick, what you do if your TV is laggy. I helped me out. I read it in the New York Times and pass that along to you because once you have your smart TV for a while, just like with your phone, it gets guked up with all the memory stuff. And then it doesn't work quite as well. So got that for you. Among other things on the way, stay here. Armstrong and Getty. The Iranian women's national team

29:18had come to the Gold Coast to play in the AFC Women's Asian Cup. Their tournament had barely begun when the team made a decision to stand in silence as their national anthem played. Back in Tehran, state TV's reaction was swift. This host calling the move a pinnacle of dishonor, saying they were traitors during wartime who must be dealt with more severely. Three days later, something had changed. Before their second game in Australia, the players sang the anthem and saluted, prompting fears of coercion by traveling Iranian minders. Earlier Monday, news that five women had fled the team hotel and are now seeking asylum under the protection of Australian police. And we mentioned yesterday that Trump called the prime minister, president of Australia and said, can you do something to help these girls out? But then the problem is they're worried about their family back home, although I think that ship has sailed. I mean, they can't go back and their family's probably gonna get the brunt of their actions

30:18whether they go back or not. Oh, of course that math has changed with the war, but yeah, what a awful, unthinkable position to be in terrible. Oh, God, yes. That is always so tough for those countries like Iran, North Korea, Russia, where you might be brave. I mean, I could bravely, especially as a young person decide, you know what? My country, I'm not saluting or standing for the national anthem. But I'm gonna have to come for me. I'll go down guns blazing. Yeah, but how about your mom, dad back home? That's a little different situation. You're siblings. That sucks. Yeah. It's a sucky country. It's a miserable, fascist autocracy, yes. I just got into this article about this AI startup. I want to finish this before I talk about it more. I didn't reel about, it turns out they were lying about the revenues so they're not as successful as they want, but their pitch was that they were going to be the AI that helps you cheat at everything.

31:18That was gonna be like, they're gonna do it on purpose as opposed to all these other AI's that, you know, their alignment is going to be, you know, try to not have kids right their term papers or cheat on their taxes. Or something. Yeah, that you can't go on there and say, hey, hey, chat GPT, what's the easiest way to cheat on your taxes and not get caught? This AI was gonna be all about it. It's all about cheating. How to get out is, you know, how to avoid speeding tickets out of cheat on your taxes. But like you just said, it's all there anyway. You just have to word it the right way. Yeah. That's the future though. That's it. We're all living in Lala land to pretend but that's not going to be the dominant AI at some point. Wow. Wow. I remember bringing you the story about cheater stuff, the kids, I'm sorry, kids using AI to cheat in school and how some of the big platforms market aggressively to students with thinly veiled messages that, hey, we can help you totally write a paper and all. Meanwhile, putting out public statements and responding to pressure from school saying,

32:19oh, we are an instituting new policies and safeguards. Then marketing more to the kids. Hey, no, don't worry about it. Just come in. That one will notice. It's inevitable though, right? That there'll be an AI company where it's like, if you want to go there and ask, how do I do drugs without my parents finding out? Or I mean, whatever it is, they got the answer for you. They don't care about the alignment problem. Right. How do I cheat my way to a victory in the Omani camel pageant? Scamble rocking the Middle East details to come live team coverage. That's right, camel beauty pageants, hello. You come. The CBPs more than anybody else I know. They're a window into Middle Eastern society, Jack. Camel beauty pageants. So I came across this on the near times I'd never thought about this before. If you ever get a new smartphone like a new iPhone, every time I get a new iPhone, I open it up and I'm like, oh yeah, that's the way my phone used to work. Everything just moves around so smoothly before it gets all messed up with apps you download

33:21or whatever happens. Well, if you're brand new technology, it's always so nice to use. If the smart TV you bought a few years ago has gone from snappy and responsive to lagging and slow, there's a reason for that. Like smartphones, TVs run out of storage space, become bogged down with cache sizes and require updates to continue running smoothly. We all know about the update. So you're not imagining this, but the quickest way to do it is you turn it on and off doesn't help. You got an unplugged and I didn't know you unplugged it for this long. I thought everything you unplug it for like 30 seconds or a minute, it's fine. Unplugged your TV for 15 minutes. I've never heard that before. Unplugged your TV for 15 minutes, then plug it back in and that should get it back to running like when you got it new. So wow, interesting. I did not know that. The whole down updating your software, go to watch a TV show, go to use my microwave to cook an egg and you gotta update your app or whatever, what the hell, I hate all that. Yeah. It's all just to steal your info, right?

34:22Right. Right, it was steal, you signed it. So I'm by your side. I signed it. You clicked. Good, I have an option to not sign it. In the real world, no, of course not. Of course not. Also coming up as quickly as we can get to it, Camel Beauty Pageants and Billy Idol claim smoking crack helped him quit heroin. So there you go. If you got a heroin problem, the smoke crack. Take it from Billy Idol. Rock the cradle of love, friends. I heard a tease on NPR today that intrigued me. Musicians who are out and proud saying that they thought they played better, drunk or stoned and now fully believe that they did not. And it's like a message to young people or musicians or something. Happen to hear an interview with the great Joe Walcy other day in which he was saying that very thing. He had to rebuild himself emotionally because he had been sucking down vodka so long. He didn't know if he could play record, perform right.

35:24If he wasn't drunk and he took him wild to figure out, yeah, not only can I, but I'm better. Lots, I wonder if he's part of that group. Lots of your drunk drug addict to guitar players, particularly Eric Clapton's TV Revan got sober and say that, no, I always thought that I had to be, but I'd play better sober. But you also kind of have to convince yourself with that to stay sober. So I'm not, I'm not sure. I think it's probably true. I mean, your brain certainly functions better. I think there's probably an optimal level. It's like the game of golf. Everybody knows it. If you've got just a teeny little buzz going turns off that your cerebral cortex or whatever that part of your brain is that tells you, oh, something might go wrong. Didn't you tell it shut up with a couple of drinks? Didn't you say the other day that two drinks you could beat completely sober you? Oh, like a drum. Yeah. That's interesting. That is 10 times out of 10. Wow. Yeah, I know. But I'm trying desperately to learn to do that sober. I'm now about eight years into that experiment. It's not going well. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

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