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3:08Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty. I'm Strong and Getty. And now he is Armstrong and Getty. So unbelievable and terrifying story in 60 minutes last night is they've been covering this for a decade. The whole Havana syndrome brain attack thing that we've been trying to figure out for a very, very long time. Here's one guy describing what the attack was like when it happened to him. Very first incident occurred in August of 2020. And what it felt like was that someone punched me in the throat and my left ear was clogged. And I started to get sharp shooting pains going down my left arm. The third attack towards the end of September, I was sitting in our living room

4:10and instantaneously all of the muscles within my spine immediately cramped much like a Charlie horse and my spine felt like it was on fire so very hot and sharp. The fifth one was by far the worst and that was early December. And I woke up with a full body convulsion. The worst pain I have ever felt, it felt like a vice gripping my brainstem was there. Okay, that's one of many descriptions of how this affects you and it's a permanent effect. This guy was being attacked not only at work originally but then at his home there in the DC area. And his wife was getting it too, I guess because she was close enough to him or whatever in their apartment. And there's still on medication and doing all kinds of rehab and everything like that to try to live anything like an enjoyable life. It's pretty awful. So we're going to go through these stories. It's people describing what it's like to get attacked with this way, where this way came from,

5:13what we know about it at this point. Here's a guy former CIA dude who for whatever reason the CIA, it seems like tried to cover this up or pretended it wasn't happening or whatever. Here's a little ham on 60 minutes last night. There's a part of the Scott that has to do with moral injury and that's the idea of betrayal. I worked for 26 years for the CIA, I think I was involved in every covert action program in the Middle East. I did some very interesting things for the US government always with the idea that they would have my back if I got jammed up. I just needed to get medical care when I came back and they wouldn't even do that. So there's moral injury, the sense of betrayal is so acute with me. That's something that I can never forget them for. So I don't know if one of these clips is going to get into that or not. But at one point, one of the guests said we have to pretend it didn't happen or it is an announcement of an act of war because it's probably the Russians. It's the announcement that they committed an act of war against this and it puts us in a political position.

6:14By the way, this isn't gone on during the Biden administration and the Trump administration. She can't lay it at the foot of either party really. Both, I mean, this bunch of other guys went to the Biden White House and told Joe Biden about it. Just two months before he left office, he met a bunch of the people. So it's been around for a long time. Why the CIA tried to put a combination of things they said. And again, maybe one of these clips is going to get into it. But one, it would be saying, yeah, Russia committed an act of war against this and we've ignored it. Two, the CIA being locked into this can't possibly be true. I mean, we've done all the research. There is no such thing as this ability. These microwaves can't travel that far. They can't do this sort of damage. It can't be carried in a piece of equipment. It can't be small enough that it's portable. It's just not possible. Right. They believe. So it's a little bit of, we're the experts here and this can't be true. I, you know, that seems crazy unless you've dealt with the government before.

7:16I've got to admit, I had assumed all along and we've been on this story for years now. I just assumed that it was like getting tased, that it's horrible while it's happening. Then you're rattled for a while, but then you're fine. But no, these people are saying it causes serious long-term damage. Well, yeah. And one of the interesting things is it seems to be that people describe it in quite different ways. He's horrific, but quite different ways. Let's go with that next clip then. This is the same CIA dude explaining his situation. Mark Polymeropolis rose to an executive level at the CIA about the equivalent of a three-star general. He was awarded a top decoration for service. In 2017, he says he was overwhelmed in a hotel room in Moscow. I woke up in the middle of the night. No, I didn't hear any sound, but I woke up with an incredible vertigo. The room was spinning.

8:16I had a blinding headache. I had tonight just ringing in my ears and I felt like I was going to be physically sick. It was the terrifying feeling where I lost control. You know, something that seriously happened to me and I remember feeling that this is so unusual. I'd been shot at in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. I'd been in physical danger. But this was terrifying. Yeah, so let's skip ahead to where they talk about. A little bit of 60 minutes last night was a recap of something they had last year that we played lots of clips of, in which our government bought one of these from some underground Russians. And so then we get to study the dang thing and see what it was like and everything like that. And they kind of recap that on 60 minutes last night. But here is a guy explaining how the Russians had been building this for a while. Pulseed microwave radiation. Just what Dr. David Rellman's investigations predicted. He wouldn't talk about classified information in our interview. But his research found that Russian scientists had been perfecting the concept for decades.

9:22And what the Russians spoke about was the importance of the energy being pulsed in order to have biological effects on humans. When you produce pulses like this, you can actually stimulate electrically active tissue like brain tissue and the heart for that matter, mimicking what the brain normally does, but now you're driving it with your pulses from the outside. An ideal stealth weapon. Ideal. Ideal. Because literally the person feels as if this is in my head. Our confidential sources tell us the still classified weapon has been tested in a US military lab for more than a year. Tests on rats and sheep show injuries consistent with those seen in humans. Wow. So 60 minutes kind of went back and forth between just describing the horror of this weapon and the fact that it exists on planet Earth and then the cover up.

10:24Frankly, I'm not as interested in the cover up part. It's terrific if we're not taking care of these people like booting them out and not taking care of calling them liars or acting like they're crazy. Especially, okay, ranked as high as the one day. That is awful. But I'm just interested in the fact that this weapon exists on the planet. The Russians apparently have it. We're trying to perfect it ourselves. Here's another portion of the show in which they described people being attacked with this ray gun. This is a separate part of the investigation. Security camera videos have been collected that show Americans being hit. The videos are classified, but they were described to us. In one, a camera in a restaurant in Istanbul captured two FBI agents on vacation sitting at a table with their families. A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone at the table grabs their head as if in pain.

11:25Our sources say another video comes from a stairwell in the US Embassy in Vienna. The stairs lead to a secure facility in the video. Two people on the stairs suddenly collapse. Wow. Yeah. Wow. So let there be no further discussion of whether this is real or not. Oh, it's clearly real. It's a day you get into at all whether we use this in Venezuela. No. No, no, no. We're still testing audio. How do you listen chickens or whatever? Well, wait a minute. Trump himself was referring to the discombobulator, right? There are all sorts of accounts from Venezuelans saying something came over me. I couldn't even get up. Yeah. There are two different things that is the discombobulator. One of them they're talking about our ability to jam their weapon systems. They weren't able to fire back at our planes or all that sort of stuff.

12:25Everything went in operative, all the electronics. There's that piece of equipment. That's what Trump was referring to. The brain scrambler, I don't believe, has been admitted to. Even though people, there are some reports of Venezuelans saying that happened to them. Similar accounts. Yeah. Well, if we have the weapon and we've used it, I don't imagine it's probably a good idea to talk about it. I don't know where this falls under any terms of what's fair gamer, what's not. I think it's going to end up going to have to end up being in the classification of like chemical warfare, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. It's so horrifying. It is horrifying. A bullet hitting you in the chest ain't a bargain either, but yeah, this is extra horrifying for some reason. Well, at least that guy would have to get within a certain distance with a gun and have a beat on you. With this thing, you can carry it in a backpack. You can be hundreds of feet away. It'll go through walls and cement and everything else.

13:26That is just as horrifying as about anything could possibly be. So we got this. You were talking about we've gotten too smart for our own good, whether it's this stuff or AI. We got this text. I guess it's from a tool song. I don't know the group tool that well. Silly monkeys give them thumbs. They make a club to beat their brother down. That's from tool, I guess. Correct. The Russians have it. They perfected it. We probably have it now. Does China have it or they're going to have it or rain is going to have it or just, you know, random bad guys will have it. And you can you discombobulate the brain of the person at the bank vault and go in and take money. I just horrifying horrifying development. Well, if we bought it from a Russian arms dealer, maybe it was that Victor boot character. Whatever before he was in custody, although we had to trade him back. Yeah, right. We gave him back to get the get the basketball player, didn't we? Oh, Lord.

14:26Anyway, monsters like that are running around the world selling whatever they can get their hands on. So yeah, God knows what hands this will get into. Just I found the story so disturbing. Again, I was more disturbed by the presence of the weapon of its existence on earth than the cover of the cover of his bad too. And very complicated. Why are we covering it up? Are there are there good reasons for covering it up? Well, yeah, I could speculate. I think you hit on some of the main ones. Yeah, so troubling. I just thought it just occurred to me. I was about to say something that I say semi frequently and I thought to myself, you know, the high got to keep track. I could have like a tote board. And the 100th time I say this, I'm going to retire and never be seen again. And that is good luck, y'all. I'll be in the woods if you need me. The world ain't getting purdier. If Russia attacked our diplomats with this and ruined their brains, why do you not treat it like an act of war since it is an act of war?

15:31Why would you ignore it? Well, maybe not ignore it, but keep it quiet because you don't want a nuclear holocaust. So you might say once you had reasonable evidence that what happened to happen, you would contact the the Kremlin under cover. And say, hey, we know what you're doing. We will go ape-ass if you do this again. We are on to you. Don't do it again. Try to limit the, you know, the spreading of the hostilities. Why hasn't Russia used it in Ukraine? I haven't heard reports out of Ukraine of people getting their brains scrambled. Because we told them, don't do that or we will, you know, I don't know. We'll unleash our disembowler ray in Moscow and the streets will run with poop. I don't know. I take that one, yeah, yeah, I can recover from that. But the scrambled in your brain permanently, that ain't any good. That's just awful. Oh my god.

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20:36Are you guessing? Yeah, we're partners, but we're not in lockstep. Mark Halpern's predicting the big split between BB and Trump coming this week. Oh, really? That's funny. I'd assume they could mend fences and figure out a way to go forward together. We'll see. It's me against Mark Halpern. Head to head. We know how Trump can turn on those parties. You know, all of a sudden, you're the dumbest person he's ever met or whatever. Oh, surely not BB Netanyahu, though. Because he's a super tough guy and Trump wants to be seen with tough guys and as a tough guy. Trump's more popular than in Israel than BB is. So speaking of the Pentagon and conflict, that sort of thing, if I were to text Michael, boy, that jack's a stupid piece of ass, and I actually texted you, Jack. I said, oh, I'm sorry, I texted that.

21:36That would be fine, right? Well, I'm learning more about the conflict between the Pentagon and anthropic old Dario Amote. So we've been following the whole, it's about laws and use and the Pentagon says, we ought to be able to use AI for any legal use. And Amote and anthropic are saying, well, no, you can't use it for mass surveillance or fully autonomous killing machines. We won't have our technology used to that. That's a problem as a Pentagon supplier and it's gotten out of hand. But what I had missed was that somebody leaked a memo that Amote sent the anthropic staff saying the administration is just targeting us because I haven't given dictator style praise to President Trump and essentially because that's what he wants. And I get it, I get what he's saying. But he also criticized, criticized open AI, who you may, it's great rival,

22:38who you may remember, agreed to, hey, we're good with the Pentagon, blah, blah, blah, allegedly. Amote wrote that open AI CEO Sam Altman was attempting to quote, spin and gaslight by claiming to support anthropic's position while hurrying to sign its own pact. But it is working on some Twitter morons, which doesn't matter. But my main worry is how to make sure it doesn't work with open AI employees, he wrote, due to selection effects, they're sort of a gullible bunch. So then this gets leaked and he says, it was a difficult day for the company and I apologize for the tone of the post. It does not reflect my care for considered views. I was also written six days ago and it's an out of date assessment of the current situation. God, I've got a handful of texting the wrong people stories that still make me cringe. I need to stay in the habit most of the time I do of always checking where it's going. But sometimes you get into conversation with two people and you're just responding back and forth and you lose track. It's so dangerous. So terrible. I'd say, I'd say,

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27:44Why was Joe Biden talking about his stutter at Jesse Jackson's Memorial? I mean, I don't, was there context for that that made it make sense? Don't know, don't care. Joe Biden rambling. And think of Jesse Jackson's funeral. If he had run and be, listen to how all these sounds now. If he had run and be reelected, he would just barely be a year into this term. The topic that we were going to be addressing here over the next several minutes, i, we had decided to pass on last week. Yeah, let's just let it go. Because there's way more to talk about than we can squeeze in at every show. But then Jesse Jackson was lying in state in South Carolina's home state. And the big giant gala funeral was held. Or do you say gala over the weekend in which two ex presidents? Or three spoke. Well, you had Obama, Biden, and Hillary Clinton, who was Hillary president speaking. Right.

28:44Yeah, very nearly the president. Oh, and Bill Clinton spoke also of you. Yeah, okay, yeah. I couldn't remember if he had or not. Anyway, so you got the president's speech to find. We'll give you a little sample of Barack Obama in which he charmingly appropriates a special accent for his speech. Every day you wake up to, to things you just didn't think were possible. Each day we're told by those in office to fear each other and to turn on each other. And that some Americans count more than others. What? And that some don't even count it up. I don't recall hearing that. Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated and bullying. Holy irony. And mockery masquerading as strength. You were focusing on the words, which is probably appropriate. I didn't hear the words. I only heard the weird affectation. What was that? I've never heard him sound like that before. He's trying to sound extra, extra southern, extra black.

29:46Who knows? I don't know. What was that? It was ridiculous. That's what it was. Barack Obama, although I tell you what, the gulf between the political talent of Joe Biden, certainly at this point in Barack Obama is like the gulf between me and Joe A. O'Connor. Just not even on the same track. We got to do the headline, because I think people will listen to this different, that Jesse Jackson, Jr., very angry after his dad, Memorial, that these presidents came out and turned it into a political, take political shots at Trump thing. Exactly where I was going. That's the next clip. But you need to know that ahead of time to appreciate what Obama just said. What are you up there talking about? The past and what's going on now in this country when you're there to memorialize Jesse Jackson. I don't get it either. If I was the son, I'd have been unhappy too. How about you stick with what my dad accomplished and not take shots at the current administration? What is that? Yeah. Wow. That's, it's an interesting take in Jesse Jr., the convicted criminal certainly has a right to that opinion.

30:47It's a convicted criminal. The idea that you get to a civil rights leader's funeral and you don't go into the whole pitch, that would seem weird to me honestly. I don't know where he's coming from, because they all turn into that. And maybe they should. It's about the message, not the corpse, for say. But anyway, here's Jesse June. That's a rough term. I'm sorry. The dearly departing has probably more delicate time. I'm so sorry. You know a funeral and you say, where's corpse? I want to go check out the corpse. No, I don't. And I take your criticism, you know, in a manly fashion. Thank you. Anyway, here's Jesse Jackson. Jr. expressing his displeasure. Yesterday. Oh, can you stop it, Michael? Hansen executive producer Hansen pointed out that everybody's like standing in support of what Jesse Jr. is saying. And Al Sharpton halfway through starts to get a weird look on his face and he sits down like him. I'm not down with this exactly.

31:47So just keep that at visual in mind. Yesterday. I listened for several hours of three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson. Wow. He maintained a tense relationship with the political order, not because the presidents were white or black. But the demands of our message, the demands of speaking for the least of these, those who were disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected, demanded not democratic or Republican solutions, but demanded a consistent, prophetic voice

32:47that at no point in time ever sold us out as a people. Jesse hated Obama in short. Oh, really? Yeah, that's what I've heard. Okay. I didn't know that. So you got, you heard what Obama said talking about. You wake up every single day and hear things you never thought you'd ever hear. Biden claimed the Trump administration doesn't share any of the values that we have. And God, Joe Biden is just the worst. Or is he? Then Kamala Harris said because it's a tough set to make work. So they had comedy, huh? She bragged that she predicted a lot of what's happening right now. I told you this was going to happen. So let me make sure I don't get into any sort of territory where I act like the Jackson family aren't scam artists who have been shaken corporations down around the country for decades. Which is where this is going. So was Jesse Jr. only unhappy because yet democratic presidents come in and take shots at the current Republican

33:53because he doesn't want their organization to get pigeonholed as one of the other. I mean, I want to be able to shake down all of America. I don't want to be a democratic thing or a Republican thing. I want to be a both thing. I don't know that that's true, but I appreciate your shot. That's what it is. So, so here's the thing. Like I said, I was going to pass on this because there's other more urgent stuff to talk about. But watching the funeral and the lauding of the great, great man that Jesse Jackson is and the rest of it, I'm like, no, all right, that's it. That's it. I get the whole don't speak ill of the dead for a little while thing. But seriously, if like a, I don't know, a Steve Jobs had invented the iPhone, then used it to scam old people for the rest of his life. And you had a funeral where he said Steve Jobs, he invented this innovative product that everybody enjoyed so much. And he was a real saint. And enjoyed, and I'm sorry, I'm trying to read while I talk, and ignored the rest of his life.

34:54And what he did after, it just doesn't make any sense. I mean, if the family wants to do that, okay. But if you have US presidents and the media, including Fox News, for instance, just going along with, oh, he was a brave and courageous civil rights leader. Yes, he was. That's exactly what he was. You're fools and liars. I don't appreciate it because, and this was brilliantly put together by Rod Dreyer in the free press. Jesse was the architect of the modern racist racial shakedown that we saw in Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd thing. He invented that. So in, in, he, his chief organizational base was an operation he called Rainbow Push. He had a couple of organizations that he put together, Rainbow Coalition and Operation Push. Anyway, which was based in Chicago. I grew up there. I was acutely aware of this since I was like a teenager and what they do and how they did it. So anyway, but so in 97, Rainbow Push founded the Wall Street project, a nonprofit initiative

35:59designed to promote inclusion of racial minorities in leading financial firms and to fight economic apartheid in the elite financial sectors. Jackson was a particularly important channel for Wall Street elites to the Clinton White House. Jackson started another nonprofit group, the citizen education fund, C.E.F. closely aligned with Rainbow Push. C.E.F. generally handled Wall Street project contributions. Anyway. So around this time, Jackson was separately involved in a deal with Anheuser Bush, the giant brewery, which he had targeted a couple of years earlier in a high profile boycott campaign to shame it as racist. And so he said, I'm going to do this. Unless you sell one of your incredibly lucrative Chicago distribution franchises to a group of investors led by his two sons, Yusuf and Jonathan. So his whole, we're going to call you racist, Sandhizer Bush and all the black people in America are going to stop drinking your products unless you sell a franchise to my sons.

37:01The franchise brought in tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue until Yusuf Jackson sold in 2013 for a mint. The Anheuser Bush deal classic Jesse Jackson operation. His method was to accuse a business of racism. Then after bad press and further consultations announced that the targeted agreed to Jackson's demands with this usually came a generous donation from that corporation to Rainbow Push. The real money poured in when Jackson applied the strategy systematically to top investment banks and financial brokerages. Jackson's Wall Street project was embased by financial industry titans, name some names. The Wall Street project kicked off in 1998 by asking financial firms for a $50,000 contribution to support its lobbying efforts, landing half a million dollars in donations from Wall Street immediately. And I can see how if I was running a company, I would have done that. Look, I hate this. It's ridiculous. It's it's a shake down. But we give them $50,000 and we don't have to deal with the whole mess. So it's good. I'm a jack and move on.

38:02It's like settling in nuisance lawsuit. Yeah. Also that you're inexplicably the federal housing lender Freddie Mac contributed a million dollars to rainbow push. You're marking at least some of it for the Wall Street project purposes. Let's say here's some more good stuff. Key Jackson rolls leverages Clinton administration connections and civil rights reputation on behalf of corporations seeking federal approvals for mergers. For example, despite the opposition of lesser known civil rights organizations Jackson back to 1998 merger of two banks, city corp and travelers. Why would Jesse Jackson be in the middle of that? After which city corp sent a generous $50,000 to the citizen education fund and travelers followed up with $100,000 gift. On behalf of rainbow push inexplicably Jackson came out against the proposed $81 billion merger of telecommunications giants, SBC and a Maritech calling it anti-democratic. He had particular pull at the time with the FCC was approval was necessary.

39:02It's then chairman Clinton appointee William Kenhard was the first black man to head the FCC and was a close friend of Jackson's once publicly calling Jackson his hero. A year later the civil rights leader was on the opposite side of the SBC a Maritech deal which sailed through FCC approval rainbow push emerged $500,000 richer from donations from the two companies. Having changed his mind on the merger. Oh my how interesting I got half a dozen more examples. I remember I don't know if they cover this or remember Toyota. I don't know. I went to Toyota and said look I'm going to say you you all are racist against black people unless you make monstrous contributions to my foundations and all of a sudden they weren't the racist anymore. It's wonderful. Wonderful. One final note 1987 Jackson joined a student protest at Stanford University demanding an end to its mandatory Western culture humanities course. You need to end the humanities and studying the great works of Western civilization.

40:07Hey, hey, Ho Ho Western cultures got to go the protesters chanted and they won with Jesse Jackson's affectionate support. Again, I've got millions of dollars worth of examples many more. Yeah, okay. Maybe early on. Maybe early on. He was a sincere and energetic fighter for civil rights. I'm sure he was. God bless him for that during those years. He became a scammer and a blackmailer. Pretty obviously I thought but not obvious enough for anybody in the media to talk about it over the last two weeks. End of screen. Whatever. Yeah. I don't know if I heard it anywhere other than here. Oh, and I'm sorry. I said this at the outset, but the torch was passed to the Black Lives Matter scam. Oh, absolutely. Alicia Garza, Patrice Colors, Opal, Opal, Tometi, Founders of Black Lives Matter. Yeah, that's how they written so much money. You figured out pretty quickly that you innocently yourself against being called racist by donating a certain amount of money.

41:10Thanks to the George Floyd video and really no other reason. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation raised a staggering $90 million in donations from terrified corporations and foundations in a single year beggaring Jackson's lifetime honey pot. $90 million, wow. And they, man, as scammers go, they are all timers. They got some nice houses out of it though. Cool cards. A lot of trips. See American Dream. We got a lot more on the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help. Weather Bug is easy to use and provides forecasts for your every need. From storm warnings to pollen levels, right at your fingertips. Get the fastest local alerts and comprehensive 10-day forecasts wherever you are. It's hyper-local, real-time, customizable alerts. Make sure the weather never takes you by surprise so you can plan every day with confidence. Download the free weather bug app from the app store today and start getting accurate weather forecasts 24-7.

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45:12And over the weekend, the Israelis launched a series of strikes against Iran's oil infrastructure on the outskirts of Tehran. Hitting four separate storage facilities. You can see black smoke rising from the horizon in Tehran. People on the ground, even describing it as raining oil as these droplets that were taken up into the air, came back down from the atmosphere. Americans already grappling with spiking prices at the pump. Gas prices now up almost 50 cents since the war in Iran began with no engine sight. Yeah, first of all, if you haven't seen those videos out of terrain, it looks like it's something from a movie. You can't even hardly believe it's real. That orange sky and flames and oil coming down and everything like that. Man, oh man, the evening newscast last night with their pain at the pump, which a term they've been using my whole life. I don't know, it might have started in the thirties for all I know. Pain is probably. And just always has been the dumbest journalism. Who was that for? You talked to one massacre mom next year event.

46:12I don't know, I got $40 with a gas on. Hardly got anything. I can't believe what it costs to fill my carnivore. Who was that for? That needs to hear an individual describe their single situation. Like you haven't grasped that on your own. I know. Who watches that and thinks, wow, that's a good one. Oh, gas is higher. So yeah, it'll cost more to fill up. You make a good point, soccer mom. Or have less money for other things, right? Yeah, I know. It is the laziest, crappiest sort of cliché journalism. It really is. Yeah, people don't know what they like, but they like what they know. Yeah. Play the hits. Give me a weather forecast. Give me pain at the pump. Line 50 cars long at Starbucks with people wanting to pay $9 for a coffee drink they shouldn't have complaining about gas going up.

47:12I have never quite understood the fascination with gas prices over all other prices, but that's just the way people apparently are built. I was looking to, I mentioned this last week, I was looking at a couple of things on Facebook Marketplace, which I'd never really used that much in the past. It's going to get a different motorcycle, my son turned 16 over the weekend. I was going to get something. He's big enough for us so we could go dirt bike riding and that sort of stuff. I had five different deals fall through on Facebook Marketplace with people just flaking. Just flaking out. Just flaking out. Yeah, just not responding and all that sort of stuff, I was like, this is really a drag. I don't know if that's it. Was there an initial contact? Yeah. I reach out and say, hey, I'm really interested in this and then they get back and say, oh, cool. And then, you know, what kind of time can I meet you at two o'clock and then they just, they aren't there or they don't get back to you or whatever. And I feel like that sort of thing didn't used to happen to me really hardly at all with, you know, going way back to classifieds in the newspaper or even Craigslist.

48:13So I don't know if we just have gotten flakier as a people. I don't know. Well, yeah, I think so. I'm reminded of a great piece of writing I saw why Gen Z is unprepared for the workplace. And this is not like a shaming boy, young kids today are stupid type. It's more like a doctor's diagnosis and advice for companies on, okay, here's how you have to deal with this. But it is, it is striking and troubling the extent to which interpersonal interaction is a problem for young people. You think that's some of it in my head a couple of, I've got the money in my pocket. I will drive to you right now. What is going on here? And just like no response. Wow. Is it that they sell it and I don't have the courtesy to say, hey, it's sold. I do not know. If you miss an hour, get the podcast. It's Armstrong and Getty on demand more to come an hour or four. Armstrong and Getty. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help. Weather bug is easy to use and provides forecasts for your every need.

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