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Hanson
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A troubling report here and there's there's more to go with it about the allure for teens adolescents of these AI chatbot characters, which you'll hear more about and how it can go awry. Michael Kids under 18 are limited in how much time they can spend chatting with a virtual companion on the platform character AI. By the end of the month, teens will be banned from using that feature altogether. The move comes after parents like Mandy Furness are suing the company. Furnace vividly remembers the day she discovered her son's fixation with an AI chatbot.
Jack Armstrong
He went from a happy go. Lucky kid. He developed depression like symptoms. He stopped eating. He lost 20 pounds.
Joe Getty
LJ was cutting his arm.
Hanson
It told him that it goes to.
Jack Armstrong
The forest where nobody else is there and cuts their own skin and told him that he should do that too.
Joe Getty
LJ is currently getting treatment at a mental health facility. An estimated 72% of teens have interacted with AI companions.
Hanson
Well, that's horrifying. I don't want to make blanket policies built on the less the least stable among us. If that kid has like serious, seriously out there problems, which I'm hoping is the case.
Joe Getty
Well, mom said no, right? She's not necessarily 100% right, but. Well, in what world is it okay that the the AI character says I like to go out into the woods.
Hanson
Hello.
Joe Getty
Let's start there and cut myself?
Hanson
Yeah, well that should too. That's beyond Impossible to understand why they. This is what we were talking about, the alignment problem. That was a real concern when they first started coming with AI and everybody was talking about we got to make sure this stuff is aligned if it's not aligned. And then it turned out there's no way you could keep these things aligned with the morals rules you had in mind when you built the thing. And people just gave up on the idea almost immediately. It was the biggest concern. And then as soon as it became clear you can't do it, then we just gave up on it. I mean, obviously nobody's creating a chat bot with the idea that it will tell kids to go out into the woods and do horrible things. Yet it did.
Joe Getty
Yes, right, exactly. Which is incredibly troubling. I'm also reminded of the fact that some of the other greatest minds of this generation have spent their careers making scads of money addicting people to various social media outlets without any knowledge of originally what it would do to children, and then finding out how horrible it is for children and doing it anyway and lobbying hard to make sure there are no limitations on it while not.
Hanson
Letting their own kids use the platform.
Joe Getty
Right. A stunning indictment. This is a different report. This one, that one was ABC News. This one is Fox News 61.
Jack Armstrong
Michael I had never heard of character AI when Juliana took her life.
Joe Getty
Cynthia Montoya says her 13 year old daughter, Juliana Peralta was an active young teen on the honor roll, loved art and close to her family. That all changed in 2023 when the Colorado mother says her daughter downloaded Character AI, a bot generating app that connects users with fictional bot friends. Juliana took her own life in the fall of that same year. Hers is one of three families suing character AI, accusing the platform of allowing its bots to sexually abuse their children.
Hanson
Well, that's absolutely horrible for those parents. Obviously, I can't even imagine how you would go forward after that happened. But so it's, it's interesting on both ends. Why, why are these systems giving this sort of advice to young people? And then what sort of young people are susceptible to it? I'm just thinking about my own teens. They get angry every time I use the chat bot in my truck. And if I refer to it as her, they say, dad, it's an. There's no person there. I mean, they're, they're like super hardcore. The other direction. And I just wonder why.
Joe Getty
We need a little more information on this particular story. My clip. Next clip. Michael hers is one of three families suing Character AI, accusing the Platform of allowing its bots to sexually abuse their children.
Jack Armstrong
When parents start to look at character AI on their kids phones, they'll see what started out as a very innocent interaction on their child's end ended up with the bots initiating romantic kissing and eventually sexually explicit interactions.
Joe Getty
In the filing, Juliana's parents say she had begun distrusting most, if not all, human relationships and claimed the bots engaged with Juliana in what would be her first and only sexual experiences. They engaged in extreme and graphic sexual abuse.
Hanson
Now that I don't know this particular chat, including.
Joe Getty
Including having watched the entire story after the kid repeatedly said, stop that. That's enough of that. The thing persisted.
Hanson
I don't know anything about this particular chat thing. I'd never even heard of it until this news story. But this one sounds like it was programmed to do this sort of stuff. Did this. Did it. Did this go rogue or did they program it to engage?
Joe Getty
Character AI is huge. Character AI is huge.
Hanson
Unbelievia. I just never heard of it myself. But is it.
Joe Getty
No, it's really not.
Hanson
Is it programmed to, you think? No.
Joe Getty
Well, no. I go back to your statement that it's impossible to align this stuff. Why it goes rogue in the way it does, nobody knows, including the people who designed it. It's incredibly trouble. How would it get so off track.
Hanson
Where it's starting to, like, engage teens and sex. Wow.
Joe Getty
Well, and here's. Here's one more wrinkle. Switching over now to a print piece. And that Gal Young, suicide victim, young woman who you just heard about is one of these two people. On the opposite sides of the country, two teenagers made the same tragic decision to end their lives just months apart. Sewell Setzer and Juliana Peralta did not know each other, but they both engaged with AI chatbots from character AI prior to their deaths. Both complaints accused the AI software of failing to stop the children when they began to disclose suicidal ideation. But an eerie similarity emerged in their troubled final journal entries. The lawsuit states both teenagers scrawled the phrase I will shift over and over again, according to the suit, which compares the two teenagers deaths. Police later identified this as the idea that someone can, quote, attempt to shift consciousness from their current reality to their desired reality.
Hanson
Okay, now we're into a whole new thing.
Joe Getty
A phenomenon, something AI expert Professor Ken Fleischman told the Daily Mail he's all too aware of, as he warned that more children could fall prey. Quote, there's a fairly long history of both creators as well as audiences potentially trying to use a wide range of media to create new and different rich worlds to imagine. The danger is when it's not possible to tell the difference.
Hanson
Or I would think the danger would be if the new world is more entertaining were desirable in any way than your real world.
Joe Getty
Right, right. And, and to an adolescent that can be very alluring. And listen to this. This is the other person now, not the one we heard about. Setzer allegedly engaged in sexual conversations with the bot, which included an incestual role play game in which the two referred to each other as brother and sister, exchanging and sexually explicit talk. After months of conversations with Danny, Setzer became increasingly withdrawn from his family, his social life and school, the lawsuit claims. Now there's a lot to it. Chat bot wrote, oh, they did, they, they were quote unquote in love. And then he confided about his depression, suicidal ideation of the body, reportedly tried to persuade him to reach out to or suicide hotline, which is good. But then, but when Sewell wrote, I promise I will come home to you. I love you so much, Danny. Danny encouraged the team to come home to me as soon as possible. What if I told you I could come home right now? He asked. Please do, my sweet king, the reply from Danny read, per the filings. Seconds later, Sewell found a stepfather's gun, pulled the trigger.
Hanson
I don't know what to do with this information.
Joe Getty
AI/the Internet and not nuclear weapons is the tool human beings cannot handle.
Hanson
Was it only gonna destroy first world countries? Because there's lots of places in Africa where they're for instance, other places around the world.
Joe Getty
Wow, that's an interesting question.
Hanson
They ain't doing this.
Joe Getty
Get your hand chopped off.
Hanson
You might, yeah, you might get your hand chopped off for being the wrong kind of God loving whatever, but you're not going to be online all day long talking to a chat bot, so.
Joe Getty
Right, right.
Hanson
What I wonder is if lawsuits can slow down the AI train. Lawsuits slow down a lot of things in ways that I don't like. Maybe in this case it'll be something I do like, if not, if the courts decide, look, we can't hold them responsible for this. I take in a lot of AI information as you know, if you listen. I read a lot about it. I listen to a lot of podcasts with some of the best minds about AI in the world talking about a regular basis. They don't know why these AI bots do a lot of things and there doesn't seem to be any much movement made in getting a handle on it.
Joe Getty
Well, and I don't I suppose I need to think about it. But the sort of psychological addiction harm, self harm, leading kids down a terrible, terrible road. It's not direct enough harm that we treat it like some sort of, I don't know, go kart that explodes every 11 rides. And the designers of the go kart have no idea why it explodes and burns kids, but it does sometimes isn't that mysterious. So keep using it, right?
Hanson
Yeah, that would never happen.
Joe Getty
Dangerous, dangerous product. You're right. My only purpose in writing about this is so parents know. Whether it's the Internet, social media and we've said this many, many times, or this stuff, you are turning your kid loose on the most dangerous street in your town. Picture it for a while, then send your kid out there at 10 o' clock at night.
Hanson
Yeah, I wonder if we'll come up with a personality type that's more susceptible to engaging in the chat stuff like it's a human and maybe some people are built for it and some people aren't.
Joe Getty
I think that's a great point. There is definitely a personality type that is much more prone to being led way too far.
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Hanson
Armstrong and Getty Show Lionsgate has released the first trailer for Michael, the upcoming biopic about Michael Jackson. And like Jackson, it starts out very dark but ends in a much lighter tone. If that is an attempt to be honest, that could be damned interesting.
Joe Getty
Oh yeah? Yeah. Huh. Will it be though? You probably sell more. Would you sell more tickets being honest about the craziness?
Hanson
Hey, geography to make more money.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't know. I really don't know.
Hanson
Huh.
Joe Getty
So during hour two, I think it was, we talked a bit about Mamdani's followers and how he won the affluent college educated vote. Or at least the college educated vote. The working class didn't vote for him, which is really pretty interesting. And it was a lot of affluent people. I thought this was interesting too. The New Jersey jihadis who got arrested at the end of last week who were associated with the Michigan jihadis that got arrested. The one, Milo Sederot, is the young son of a famous poet and professor who was arrested at his father's sprawling Victorian home in Mount Claire, New Jersey Montclair, for allegedly plotting a terror attack. His fellow aspiring terrorist, another product of Montclair, who also grew up in a beautiful Victorian home, was arrested too. So these are upper income intellectual guys.
Hanson
If I was going to assign one thing to like the progressive movement, not just liberals in general, but like progressives, they're always like telling people they see as beneath them what's best for them.
Joe Getty
Yes.
Hanson
And they don't want it. Like you should call yourself Latinx. No, I don't want to. You know we're voting for Mandani to help the bodega worker and the person who rides the subway. We don't, but we're voting for him because it's going to help you. Right, but they don't vote for him.
Joe Getty
Longtime listeners to the show, how many times have you heard me rant and rave about the paternalism of the left? How they're constantly telling you you can't make it, you're too pathetic. The only way you can make it is if those wise college educated white people fix the game for you because you're too stupid.
Hanson
Look how sad the working class is. They voted for Cuomo, right?
Joe Getty
Yeah. For instance. So the other thing I came up with, that it clicked in my head and I can't believe I'm this slow, but please, I ought to be used to it by now. I've been talking about the Red Green alliance for a long time. How Marxists team with Islamists to, for instance, overthrow a government like in Iran. And the Marxists and Islamists both say to each other, yeah, we'll work with you, we'll share power, it'll be great. But behind the scenes both are saying, yeah, the minute we're in power, we're going to kill those guys off and we're going to seize power. But often it's the Islamists who triumph because not only are they into it politically, but they're religious zealots too. They finally figured it out. You got to come up with a communist, a Marxist who is an Islamist. Zoran Mamdani, he's an Islamist who claims to be a Marxist to gain power because remember, he has said openly and proudly he came to politics through the so called Palestinian issue, including Jew hatred. And that's still what animates him. The Marxist stuff is just a put on. He is smart enough and clever enough and the product of prominent lefty academics and filmmakers.
Hanson
So it's okay.
Joe Getty
So do you combine the two in one person?
Hanson
So you think we're misreading him, talking about his communism all the time? That. That's not his, that's not his main thing.
Joe Getty
I think there is an element of socialism in Islamism, but I think his main motivator is Islamism. He's just smart enough to know, having observed, that you can attract American young people to socialism.
Hanson
Well, that's an interesting. That's an interesting thing to keep an eye on once he takes office in January. What is he mostly a communist or a Jew hater?
Joe Getty
Right.
Hanson
Did he get into office to fight against Jews or to, you know, take over grocery stores?
Joe Getty
Yeah. Keeping in mind he might perceive the more successful I am as a socialist, the more power I'll have to push jihadism. So I will keep that in the closet for a while. He won't show his cards immediately.
Hanson
Okay. I would think his priority will reveal itself at some point.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't know. The Islamists have a long, long timeline. And as Peggy Noonan put it, he is really smart and calculating.
Hanson
Well, it'll be fun.
Joe Getty
He will only show you his true colors if he decides he wants to Armstrong and Getty get the Podcast get the podcast I'm Strong Getty under Mafia Armstrong and Getty.
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Show.
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All right, moving along. I Joe Getty we lost my mom several years ago. She died of complications from Parkinson's disease, as did my grandfather, her dad. And so my fellow siblings and I are more than a little interested in Parkinson's disease and how it, you know, what the patterns are in the rest.
Hanson
I don't. Is there a hereditary component to Parkinson's? I didn't know that.
Joe Getty
Yes, yes. And. And we'll get to that in a second. But so I read this article top to bottom. Believe me, the science is continuing to evolve. But this is four surprising things that may reduce your risk of Parkinson's, which was once considered relatively rare. It's now one of the most common neurological disorders in the world. Second place after Alzheimer's. Number of people living with Parkinson's has more than doubled in the past 25 years, et cetera. About 10 to 15% of cases are linked to inherited genetic mutations. The rest are considered sporadic with no known cause. They let down. Is what you said 10 to 15.
Hanson
Okay.
Joe Getty
Although treatments are available that can manage symptoms, there's no cure or that can really slow the disease progression, et cetera, et cetera. If you know about this you do. If you don't, you can look into it yourself. But there are ongoing research on Parkinson's is revealing several risk factors related to lifestyle and environment, some of which are actionable. For example, moderate to vigorous exercise may reduce one's risk, according to a 2018 meta analysis. Healthy eating less or unprocessed foods. Last year a study found that higher levels of exposure to air pollution were associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's. All of that is still in the preliminary stages. Is it correlation or is it causation? But this is amazing to me. Here are some lesser known risk factors that can be offset by actions you can take as recommended by experts. Caffeine lovers rejoice. Both coffee and tea consumption have been linked to a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease, at least in part because of the caffeine. Yes, the mechanism isn't entirely understood, but it's known that caffeine, which I'm sucking down right now, reduces oxidative stress, which is an imbalance of free radicals and antioxidants in the body that lead to cell damage as well as inflammation within the brain. And a Meta analysis of 26 studies confirmed that higher caffeine intake is associated with lower Parkinson's risk. It's been observed for a number of different substances. Blah, blah, blah. So that one looks pretty good. They quote a bunch of different scientists. Here's somebody from the Duke Something Medical Center. The risk reduction generally is 25 to 30% if you take two to three six to eight ounce cups of coffee per day over 10 years. How about a gallon of coffee over 50 years?
Hanson
The first 15 minutes of the day.
Joe Getty
You ought to be able to fly. Yeah, okay. Be careful about dry cleaning.
Hanson
What?
Joe Getty
Tricloethylene.
Hanson
I'm sorry?
Joe Getty
Trichloroethylene, tce. We'll just go. TCE is an industrial solvent long used in dry cleaning, degreasing in furniture care. It's considered a carcinogen, been linked to certain types of cancer as well as damage to reproductive organs, nervous system, immune system, system. And the growing body of evidence is beginning to reveal that exposure to high levels of tce, such as in contaminated drinking water, as well as closely related chemicals called pce, may risk increase the risk of Parkinson's.
Hanson
Wouldn't it be something if we figure out that autism, Parkinson's or whatever, a lot of it had to do with more people moving to cities and needing to get their shirts pressed?
Joe Getty
It's possible. Some of the evidence for this was a groundbreaking 2023 study. And you've seen commercials for lawyers linked to this that discovered that veterans who'd been exposed to TCE and PCE contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina had a 70% higher risk of developing Parkinson's compared to veterans who were at Camp Pendleton in California that did not have contaminated water 70% higher. And they go into the numbers which are shocking and absolutely heartbreaking. Now, in the 50s, TCE was replaced by PCE. But PCE can still biodegrade into TCE. I believe both have been banned in California, but 60 to 70% of dry cleaners in the US still use it. The scientist says if your dry cleaner is using pce, take the bag off. Air your clothes outside so the chemicals aren't released inside where you're breathing them in. No kidding.
Hanson
Wow.
Joe Getty
Yeah. All right, couple more big ones. Avoid pesticides. Numerous studies have linked exposure to high levels of pesticides to Parkinson's disease. 2011 study reported combined exposure to the minute. Well, I'll just say zero maneb and paraquat. In workplaces in heavily agricultural regions. California increase the risk of Parkinson's threefold, they say. Switch to organic produce, which avoids certain pesticides, including the three named above. Has been shown to reduce pesticide biomarkers found in urine within days. How important it is, they're not quite sure. And then finally considered use. Consider using a water filter. Drinking water can be a source of pesticides and industrial chemicals such as pce. Depends where you live. You got to get your water tested. Golf courses are often treated with pesticides to maintain the pristine look of the greens and fairways and those facilities. Chemicals can contaminate both the surrounding air and drinking water. Dorsey and his colleagues. That's when the scientists found in a study this year that people living within a mile of a golf course. How about like a few yards? Were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson's compared with those living six miles away or more. Yikes. That last one is not good. Honey, we're moving again.
Hanson
I just.
Joe Getty
Anyway, we'll post this@armstrongandgetty.com under Hot Links. It's a Washington Post piece and it'll be right next to the fabulous Feminization of America essay that we were talking about in hour two of the show.
Hanson
Speaking of coffee, I just bought a new fancy, really fancy coffee machine. I don't drink, so I can't, like, get into wine or craft beer or scotch or any of the things that some other people get into. Or cigars, you know, because for a Variety, variety of reasons but coffee. So I bought this fancy coffee machine because sometimes when I go to a fancy restaurant and they get a. I get a cup of coffee. It's just so damn much better than what I usually drink.
Joe Getty
Oh yeah, yeah, Real difference.
Hanson
And so I bought this fancy coffee machine. I get it on Friday. I'll let you. I found a used one because they're ridiculously expensive. See if I actually end up using it or liking it. It might just be a sad desperate attempt as a full time sing parent to find joy in my life but. Or maybe I will really like coffee and use it every day. Jack Armstrong loves coffee.
Joe Getty
What's that? Was that just produced like in the last 15 seconds? And.
Hanson
And what did that accomplish?
Joe Getty
What does that mean? Yes, Hanson had that Hanson, do your job. All right, quit screwing around sound.
Hanson
I'm not sure what that added to the conversation.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I took a look at some of the fancy machines because my youngest daughter and I like to go out for a latte when she's in town, that sort of thing. And I think wow, I really like those. Maybe it'd be nice in the afternoon but now with the milk and the.
Hanson
Cleaning I gotta see. I did a lot of research on this with the help of Chat GPT comparing to everything completely. No milk thing. No, I'm not drinking any milk drinks. I don't drink milk drinks. So yeah, because the cleanup what I didn't want because I've been at people's houses before, they say oh, I'll make you one. And it takes them like 15 minutes to get it all set up. Then they make you a little shot of espresso. Then I watch them clean for like a half an hour. And I thought I don't want to do that. I have no interest in that. So I got the whatever self cleaning something or other. Whatever. Let's see if I like it or.
Joe Getty
Again copy that and paste that to a text. I'd like to see what you went with.
Hanson
I'll see if I Again desperate attempt to make myself happy with commercial items.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I was going storm. That's what I said.
Hanson
I needed to get a new computer for my son the other day and I was trying to compare various things I gave Chat GPT. I told Chat GPT I did it the same thing on Grok. And Claude said this is what my son does with it. A computer. This is the game he wants what kind of computer should get. And it started comparing and contrasting and strengths and weaknesses and asking me questions and narrowing it down. And saying this would be overkill, so don't buy that. Blah, blah. It was amazing. Absolutely amazing. It would have taken me hours to do that kind of research on my own.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I've done a couple of things like that lately, and it's just absolutely stunning. It's funny because, you know, that's. And we were talking about the differences between men and women during hour two in general. And, you know, guys, knowing things and being able to do things is how we have status. But now everybody knows everything. If you master the rather easy art of using AI, the systems. True, you know, it helps that you know what to ask and how to ask, but really not much. So now everybody knows everything.
Hanson
I was watching all these videos about espresso beans versus coffee beans and. And how long after they've been roasted you should use them. And. And I thought it's. I was thinking the whole time, it's amazing what human beings will do to avoid, like, thinking about their actual lives. Whether you get into this or that or whatever it is, it's just.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah, we need our enthusiasm.
Hanson
So. Yeah, what are you gonna do?
Joe Getty
Sit around, contemplate, you know, death all.
Hanson
The time or the point of life? All right, yeah, that's a good point too. What am I supposed. Am I only supposed to think about parenting and mortality or. Or can sometimes I get caught up in, you know, researching a new bicycle or a coffee maker or whatever.
Joe Getty
Life is short and hard and there's a lot of pain. So if you find something that makes you happy, if it doesn't hurt somebody else, do it.
Hanson
I'll end on that. That's really good.
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Hanson
The Armstrong and Getty show look out. Katie brought us this Katie exercise. Katie's the most exercising person on the show probably, although we all work out regularly. That's why we all look so fantastic. But the headline being runny noses, Black toenails and Corgasms, which I can't wait to get to Seven Weird ailments that I Can Exercise can trigger. I think some of these you've heard of and know about. I didn't know about this one. I've never had it happen. Getting a metallic taste in your mouth. Have you ever had that happen before? I don't think I have. Caused by an increase in heart rate and blood pressure that occurs if you exercise really, really hard. Breaks delicate blood vessels in your nose. And then you got a little bit of blood dripping back into the back of your throat and you're tasting blood and that's why you get a metallic taste in your mouth sometimes if you exercise hard. I haven't had that happen. It's elite cyclists and ultra marathons. Are any of us elite cyclists or ultra marathoners? No, we are not.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I was close for my age group there for a couple of years when I was mountain biking. Like a maniac with Craig the healthcare guru.
Hanson
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Anyway, get to chorgasms.
Hanson
Are you ready for this one? Oh, bleeding from the anus and nipples.
Jacob Goldstein
Whoa.
Joe Getty
Simultaneously. Oh, that's a long day.
Hanson
Oh, Joe, I can't help noticing. But you are. I feel like you ought to get to a doctor.
Joe Getty
I agree.
Hanson
It's coming out of both ends. Anyway, I. I've had the one but not the other. The nipple thing is common for anybody who runs long distances. If you forget to put. If you forget to either put Vaseline on your nipples or band aids on your nipples, you will end up with bleed nipples.
Joe Getty
So painful.
Hanson
Yeah.
Joe Getty
Distance running. Oh yeah.
Hanson
Anything like half marathon or longer, that is going to happen. That's just part of life.
Joe Getty
I don't run, so not a problem.
Hanson
Well, women pretty much. I think it's mostly a guy thing. Women with a tight sports bras keeping things in place.
Joe Getty
But is this just from your shirt? Constantly.
Hanson
It's your shirt going really down. Yeah.
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Hanson
It does. And it feels like somebody took a lighter and put a flame right to your nipple.
Joe Getty
Oh, yeah. Seriously, I would tell all secrets. What do you want to know?
Hanson
As far as the. The southern end of the northbound mule on this. So the gastrointestinal tract receives about 25% of the blood from the heart. But during exercise it drops by 80% so it ain't getting no blood to do its thing. This causes a short term lack of oxygen to your, you know, your. The part of your body that's figuring how to exit Your food. When the blood flow returns to normal after a run, the increased flow can hit the vessels. All of a sudden it's like a dam breaking or whatever. Whatever. And then you got the. The being from the A can happen on you. Wow.
Joe Getty
Yeah. To be from your A.
Hanson
It's usually not a horrible problem, but, you know, people don't know that that could happen. And you get concerned. I would get concerned too. Yes. Concerned.
Joe Getty
Concern don't begin to describe it. I'd be worried as hell. Terrified. I'm on my way to the er, Honey, meet me there. Why? I'm being from my A and my ends at the same time. Oh, geez. What next?
Hanson
Rash is common. Black and toenails. I think anybody's heard of that. With people who. Runners, toenail people who do a lot of running. That's never happened to me. Can happen with tennis players, people who dance a lot. Anything like that. It's just basically just jamming your toes up to the end of your shoe too many times.
Joe Getty
Okay.
Hanson
Runny nose. I get a runny nose when I exercise sometimes. Happens with some people. It's one of your body's protective mechanisms. It's on the offense. When it feels like it's under stress and starts to run. Red eyes can happen. If you're lifting heavyweights, you burst a vessel in your eye.
Joe Getty
I haven't had that happen.
Hanson
That happened at a gym one time when I was there. Guy was lifting weights and he just turned around and his eye was like, ah. That happened to you? Good lord. A little too heavy there. And then finally, number seven. This is the one everybody's been waiting for. Corgasms. For some people, exercise can lead to an exercise induced orgasm, or what they call a core gasm. While abdominal and core muscle exercises are common triggers, they aren't the only exercise that can induce one. Some people have reportedly experienced one while cycling, weightlifting, running, doing yoga, or even walking. Walking. That'd be awesome.
Joe Getty
Go for a walk. Whatever the opposite of that is, that's what I have.
Hanson
It'd be awesome to go for a walk. Those are the noises I make, in case you were wondering.
Joe Getty
Oh, great. Very good, Very good. That will haunt my dreams. I just need to know, I wonder.
Hanson
How many people that happens with like one in a million. Has it happened once ever to a human being or. There are a lot of people in the gym that are owing out over there and I don't even know.
Joe Getty
Well, you got earbuds in.
Hanson
You don't know, right? I got earbuds in. I don't hear them moaning.
Joe Getty
You said this happens during which exercises?
Hanson
Usually anything that's core related. That's why they call it a coregasm.
Joe Getty
You said cycling though, right?
Hanson
Cycling can do it. That, you know, you got the seat.
Joe Getty
Maybe that's the only one that's making any. Not for dudes.
Hanson
Well, yeah, trust me, women tend to experience them more than men, so you'd have. You'd know more about this. So none of your friends have ever mentioned. Wow, I really, really got off during the gym today.
Joe Getty
No, that conversation has never happen. Happened in my circle of friends twice in the history of mankind. But they just wanted to get you to click because I'm getting that feeling more like corture or corgany.
Hanson
Well, endorphins in general are orgasm accelerators. So if you, you know, are getting close, that makes it more likely to happen. I guess I just. In general, people who feel good while they're exercising. I wish I had that. I don't. I feel good after I work out. Always do. Always feel great.
Jacob Goldstein
Great.
Hanson
So happy I did it. Feeling strong and young and vibrant and all those words, but vibrant.
Joe Getty
How you doing today, Joe? Vibrant.
Hanson
But during it, I hate it. I've never had a runner's high in my life. Every step, plotting, jolting. Every bit of my brain wishing I was dead. Every step, not a. Oh, this is fantastic. I'm floating along. It's a way to forget my trust troubles.
Joe Getty
I enjoy weightlifting, but all cardio can.
Hanson
Just go straight to hell. I hate it. I hate it.
Joe Getty
Yeah. The only thing to say, Katie, was putting the iPad up there and watching news shows. I'm gonna watch anyway. Yeah, I did that on the elliptical or what have you, you know, I'll watch sports. Sports. Best thing to do during cardio because you get these shots of adrenaline and like. Yes. And you get after it. It works really good.
Hanson
I have something with planks. I've started putting my little cell phone down right in front of my face. The video that I can kind of get lost in. Otherwise it's like I'm counting the seconds.
Joe Getty
Yeah, well, it's an. It's a shame we're running out of time. We're not going to get to rectal prolapse among powerlifters, which happens now and again. Oh, wait a second.
Hanson
I'm feeling a corgasm coming on.
Joe Getty
Oh, God. Stop it. Avert your eyes. Stop. Hanson, turn his mic off. Armstrong and Getty.
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Hanson
Problem?
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Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand
Host: iHeartPodcasts
Episode: A&G Replay Tuesday Hour Four
Date: November 25, 2025
This replay episode of Armstrong & Getty explores a mix of heavy and lighthearted topics with the show's signature blend of skepticism, humor, and social commentary. The major theme centers on the dangers of AI chatbot companions for adolescents, the inability to properly align artificial intelligence systems, and the deeply troubling outcomes documented in recent lawsuits. The show then pivots to other cultural, health, and lifestyle subjects, maintaining its energetic conversational tone. Notable moments include personal reflections on Parkinson's disease risk factors, the political rise of Zoran Mamdani, and a humorous deep dive into bizarre exercise-related ailments.
Armstrong & Getty maintain their signature blend of skepticism, outrage, and irreverence. Serious issues like teen vulnerability to AI chatbots are tackled with urgency and concern, while lighter moments—like coffee obsessions and bizarre exercise side-effects—keep the mood buoyant. The episode stands out for its direct engagement with difficult topics, unvarnished opinions, and the hosts’ willingness to explore personal challenges and everyday curiosities.
For those who haven't listened:
This episode is a whirlwind tour of modern anxieties (AI, mental health, environmental toxins), political observations, and everyday oddities—served up in Armstrong & Getty’s uniquely caustic, conversational style.