It's Called "Beige Eating."

Summary

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Episode: "It's Called 'Beige Eating.'"

Date: October 28, 2025
Podcast Host: iHeartPodcasts
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty

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Episode Overview

In this lively and wide-ranging episode, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty dive into major current events, from global trade deals and US-Asia relations to America’s role in the world. They unpack a viral Matt Taibbi commentary on the American left, analyze the real goals behind government spending, and discuss how to live longer, healthier lives with insights from Dr. Peter Attia. The episode is laced with their trademark wit and skepticism, taking aim at bureaucracy, political theater, and the tendency of government programs to prioritize spending over real solutions.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Global Politics: US, China, and Japan Trade Deals

[03:02–15:19]

• Armstrong and Getty break down the US administration’s new framework agreement on fentanyl, tariffs, and China’s pledge to resume buying American agricultural products.
• Discussion of Japan's first female prime minister, Sanae Takaishi, maintaining a $550 billion investment deal with the US.
• Trump’s showman entrance on an aircraft carrier in Asia, setting the tone for diplomatic meetings.
• Analysis of US “spheres of influence” in Asia and historical enmity between Japan and China.
• The delivery of advanced missiles to Japan and its implications for US commitment to Asia.
• The strategic role of Venezuela’s rare earth minerals: Is US engagement a signal to China?
• The perennial “Taiwan Question.” Will the US defend Taiwan if China invades, or is military intervention unlikely? They reference expert panels and military war games suggesting China could take Taiwan with little US resistance.

Notable Quotes:

• “There’s no chance they’re going to invest 10% of their GDP in the United States...They’ll drag their feet. It’s like slave reparations. They’ll form commissions about how to do it and when to do it till the cows come home.”
  — Jack Armstrong [04:58]

• "Trump has reportedly said, if they decide to take Taiwan, they're going to get Taiwan. Nobody’s going to be able to stop them."
  — Joe Getty [09:00]

• “Our appetite for having soldiers die in great numbers is not the same as China’s.”
  — Joe Getty [14:41]

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2. Matt Taibbi on the American Left and National Exceptionalism

[19:51–23:37]

• Praise for Matt Taibbi’s takedown of the “limousine prep school elite university angry Lefty crowd.”
• Taibbi’s response to a critic, listing American achievements in science, innovation, culture, and humanitarian action, in contrast to Marxist systems.

Notable Quote:

• "Defeating the Nazis and Imperial Japan. Accepting more refugees from Nazi Germany than any other country. Inventing polio vaccines, chemotherapy, the internet, nuclear power... Free speech, freedom of religion... Mounds bars, Cheerios, and football. But what do I know?"
  — Quoting Matt Taibbi [21:18]

• "If you want to shorten that list, free speech, free press and freedom of religion is a pretty good place to start."
  — Jack Armstrong [22:47]

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3. Modern Aging, Longevity & Dr. Peter Attia's Advice

[27:21–36:47]

• Armstrong & Getty reflect on Dr. Peter Attia’s appearance on 60 Minutes about extending high-quality years, not just total lifespan.
• The central idea: At 75, people’s physical and cognitive capacities typically fall to 50%. Attia’s goal is to push that “off a cliff” moment later via strength, flexibility, and cardiorespiratory fitness.
• Emphasis on training like athletes for advanced age: “Life is a sport.”
• They discuss the ineffectiveness of fad diets and quick fixes, poking fun at extreme biohacking (e.g., infusions abroad with young blood or exotic substances).
• Personal reflections: Joe works out daily, feels 20 years younger than his age, while Jack jokes about future laziness.

Notable Quotes:

• “It's called beige eating. Only eat things that are beige.” (in jest)
  — Joe Getty [28:30]

• “I didn’t hear anything that he said that contradicted things I’ve learned through the years about how to age well... The guy just struck me as a really high-end, extremely thorough personal trainer with a medical background.”
  — Jack Armstrong [31:31]

• “You are an animal. You are a biological being. No different than beavers...Beavers don’t have long, happy retirements.”
  — Jack Armstrong [34:08]

• “I go to the gym every single day. I feel better now than I felt when I was 40. I’m 20 years older than that.”
  — Joe Getty [35:03]

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4. Government Spending, the Homelessness Industrial Complex & Mismanagement

[43:00–50:07]

• Jack highlights reporting on LA’s Project Home Key — a taxpayer-funded program to convert hotels into homeless housing. The city grossly overpaid for properties that then sat largely empty.
• The program, enabled by emergency funds during the pandemic, bypassed public scrutiny and competitive bidding, benefiting politically connected developers and real estate firms.
• Comparison to similar failed attempts in other cities (e.g., Torrance), where local officials stopped overblown purchases, only to be accused of being insensitive to homelessness.
• Connection to waste in other government programs, such as post-pandemic universal school meals, resulting in massive food waste.

Notable Quotes:

• “The spending is the point, not fixing your causes that you care about.”
  — Jack Armstrong [47:27]

• “Every wasted dollar is one that could have gone toward mental health treatment, addiction recovery, job training, new housing construction. Instead, those dollars flowed to brokers, bureaucrats, and Blackstone's balance sheet.”
  — Quoting Steve Williams, RedState [48:36]

• “Invent an emergency. Appropriate, just wildly excessive amounts of money, and then accuse anybody who calls you on it of being anti-child or anti-homeless or Islamophobic or whatever else.”
  — Jack Armstrong [49:33]

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5. Sports Banter and Cultural Observations

[15:19–17:07], [42:03–43:00]

• Light commentary on baseball (e.g., Shohei Ohtani’s performance, a marathon 18-inning game) and other sports headlines.
• Ongoing jokes about mundane things, like the number of pitches in a game and celebrity players’ hair routines.

Notable Quote:

• “Freaking Shohei Ohtani got on base nine times. He spends more time trying to fix his hair just the way he wants it than most athletes.”
  — Joe Getty [42:45]

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Memorable Moments

• Trump’s “WWF-style” arrival on an aircraft carrier — Armstrong and Getty riff on the spectacle and showmanship. [05:33–06:35]
• Beige Eating Joke — Getty invents a “revolutionary” one-color diet as satire. [28:30]
• Taibbi’s tongue-in-cheek defense of America — listing inventions and pop culture as evidence of greatness. [21:18]
• “The spending is the point” — The hosts repeatedly underscore this as the underlying truth of many wasteful government programs. [47:27–50:07]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• US-Asia Politics & Trade: [03:02–15:19]
• Matt Taibbi & Leftist Critique: [19:51–23:37]
• Dr. Peter Attia on Longevity: [27:21–36:47]
• Government Spending & Scandals: [43:00–50:07]
• Banter on Sports & Culture: Various spots (e.g., [15:19–17:07], [42:03–43:00])
• Closing Reflections: [50:07–end]

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Tone & Style Notes

• Conversational, sardonic, and skeptical.
• Frequent reference to listeners’ everyday experiences—aging, health fads, government waste.
• Blend of humor, pop culture, and serious political analysis.

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For listeners interested in geopolitics, government accountability, and living well longer—delivered with a side of irreverence—this episode is a can’t-miss.

Transcript

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[Joe Getty]

The administration says they've reached the framework.

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Of an agreement that covers fentanyl and.

[Jack Armstrong]

Tariffs and includes a pledge by China to resume buying American agriculture like soybeans and to loosen restrictions on their sale of rare earth minerals, critical for making smartphones and cars.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I got a theory about the whole rare earth minerals thing and what might be we might be doing in Venezuela. But I'll talk about my wild conspiracy theory later.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm going to double down on the soybeans. But you do you.

[Joe Getty]

Trump is in Asia and he's visited all the countries you visit over there, ending with China, which is of course the biggest relationship for planet Earth, the relationship between China and the United States. Here's a little more for from Jackie Heinrich, who did Trump called a bad reporter the other day, doesn't like her.

[Jack Armstrong]

For some reason, said you're bad at your job because she asks actually difficult questions on Fox News. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway, here's her report on what happened yesterday.

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Yeah, if you're Japan, you're pretty happy with how things have gone so far. Japan's first female prime minister, Sanae Takaishi, who just came into office a week ago, does not have a long standing relationship with President Trump. And she was now navigating this deal that was arranged by her predecessor to spend $550 billion in the U.S. that is about a tenth of Japan's economy. All that on projects chosen by Washington in order to avert tariffs that were higher than 15% for a period of time. It was unclear whether she would uphold this deal as it was written by her predecessor. But she is, of course, Shinzo Abe's protege and she sought to use that connection to establish a strong relationship with President Trump. She gifted him one of Abe's golf, golf clubs that he used when they played together in 2017. And that set the tone. Things really took off from there.

[Joe Getty]

So that was pretty clever of her. Although world leaders do that sort of thing all the time. Give each other gifts, tokens of a we're friends.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. There's no chance they're going to invest 10% of their GDP in the United States based on this agreement. She's just given Trump the look at the deal I made. But they'll drag their feet. It's like slave reparations. They'll form commissions about how to do it and when to do it till the cows come home.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I heard some reporting yesterday on South Korea's pledges have not come true.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, no. And they're not going to.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. That's underreported.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

So tell me about Trump's entrance before we play these clips, because I did not see it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, it's spectacular. So you've got the. On an aircraft carrier, you got the big deck that they can lower so the fighter jets and whatever else can come down into the lower parts of the ship. And forgive me, Navy guys for using silly villain speech, but I don't know the proper terms. So they can bring them down for repair, storage and bad weather or whatever. Well, something or other. Elevator. But anyway, so the elevator starts to come down to the lower deck where all the troops are assembled and there's Donald J. Freaking Trump with his hand on a big missile. And the crowd of guys just goes crazy. And Lee Greenwood is, ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. But he gets a huge crowd.

[Joe Getty]

I gotta watch that. You don't hang around the fighter jet.

[Jack Armstrong]

And the missiles with the sky in the background. Oh, please.

[Joe Getty]

He doesn't hang around Dana White in those WWE events without learning a little something about showmanship and how you come into an arena.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

That is something, I guess, that gets referenced. Here's a couple of clips of Trump yesterday. This woman is a winner. So, you know, we've become very close friends all of a sudden because their stock market today and our stock market today hit an all time high. That means we're doing something right. But the cherished alliance between the United States and Japan is one of the most remarkable relationships in the entire world. You made a good point earlier because I'm about to talk about the whole spheres of influence thing. And China's gonna get that part of the world and we're gonna get this part of the world. And that might just be the direction history's going. Our relationship with China certainly doesn't fit in with that. I mean, with Japan.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah. And all the other Asian countries Trump went to. I mean, the President of the United States going to Malaysia, going to Korea, going to Japan, saying, hey, we're great buddies, we're great trading partners, and we're gonna stay that way. In fact, let's solidify that relationship. Unless that's some sort of weird pressure technique on China, and then he's going to say, never mind. And striking the great bargain that's being rumored about the spheres of influence thing. It just. No. A real counter to that idea.

[Joe Getty]

Well, and Japan and China are historic enemies in a way. That few countries are.

[Jack Armstrong]

No, there are no countries we hate as much as Japan and China hate each other.

[Joe Getty]

For good reason. Trump goes on, I'm delighted to report that I've just approved the first batch of missiles. You saw a couple of them coming down with me. I hugged them. We need them.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're the best in the world.

[Joe Getty]

Nobody has them like we have them. They all want our missiles. That's the problem. Everybody wants them. But it's the first batch of missiles to be delivered to the Japanese Self Defense forces for Japan's F35s, and they're coming this week. So they're ahead of schedules.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, we are not abandoning Asia, not even close.

[Joe Getty]

So this is what the New York Times wrote about Trump's meeting with President Xi of China, which happens on Thursday when China's leader Xi Jinping sits down with President Trump to address their worsening trade tensions. He will also be pursuing another, longer goal, persuading the American president to soften US Support for Taiwan. Trump has said he wants to focus on trade when he meets Xi, even if the Chinese leader presses him on Taiwan, the democratically governed island that does 100 miles off China's coast and Beijing claims belongs to China. But the diplomatic maneuvering raises a crucial question. How negotiable is our support for Taiwan, especially given Mr. Trump's sometimes dismissive comments about the island? Trump has reportedly said, if they decide to take Taiwan, they're going to get Taiwan. Nobody's going to be able to stop them. Chinese officials, analysts said, may seek this and other meetings to draw Mr. Trump out on the issue, to have him clarify his position on Taiwan. Xi probably wants Trump to state that the United States does not support independence for Taiwan, saying that would echo what previous US Administrations have said. That's what we always say. It's what Obama said, is what Biden said, what Bush said. We've been saying it for many, many, many years that we don't advocate for independence of Taiwan, while at the same time sort of insinuating that if you try to take Taiwan, we're willing to go to war with you over it anyway.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? It's. It's really silly diplomatic speak.

[Joe Getty]

A clear statement of that by a US President would be welcomed by Beijing, which for his years has accused Washington of encouraging Taiwan toward independence. Earlier this year, the State Department altered a web page about Taiwan, removing the phrase we do not support Taiwan independence, drawing loud complaints from China.

[Jack Armstrong]

That was so odd. They are freaking independent. Well, I don't have your political system. They don't Follow your laws. They are independent.

[Joe Getty]

Well. And we have war games all the time and so does Taiwan about keeping them independent. And Japan participants. And Australia participates.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

So all the diplomatic language is something. Well, how about that? That we took one phrase off of a website and China, who probably has some guy whose job it is to monitor that website, notice the phrase is missing. The phrase is missing. And then throws a big fit about the fact that we took that one phrase off the website.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

I mean, how about that sort of thing?

[Jack Armstrong]

They've so hacked into all our systems, they probably get an alert whenever anything like that happens. Yeah, I know, I know. It's. It's have to. Does it have to do with Asians saving face or something? I don't get their obsession with that. Who's that for? We do not advocate for Taiwanese independence.

[Joe Getty]

What is that just like me saying.

[Jack Armstrong]

I do not advocate for the state of Indiana. But it's there. It's already there.

[Joe Getty]

So I didn't realize until 60 Minutes brought it up the other night about Venezuela. One, they've got the world's largest oil reserves and they have a lot of the rare earth stuff that China has the world market cornered on. Is there any chance that some of this sending aircraft carriers and marines and everything to Venezuela is a signal to Xi that we're going to get our rare earth stuff one way or another? So don't think that we're completely beholden to you and you can just rake us over the coals on any deal. You might want to get something for this because we've. We have other options and I'm willing to do it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. We just signed a giant deal with the Australians, too. And there's been enormous piles of investment on rare earth development in the US and amongst our allies. So, yeah, I think that's a great point. And exactly what he's doing.

[Joe Getty]

And President Xi probably thinks I could see Trump taking Venezuela. He probably. He probably believes that's on the table as a possibility. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Some sort of regime change is a lot more likely with our backing. But that's a tough nut to crack, too.

[Joe Getty]

The.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would love to see it. I just don't know how it would happen.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. The other thing I wanted to mention. What's the other thing I want to mention?

[Jack Armstrong]

Just real, real quickly, while you're thinking about that. The problem is there's been zero sign of any cracks in support from Maduro among the military. And unless you have that, and maybe our spooks have information that I don't certainly. But if you don't have that, you're really, you're up against it. You're going to be fighting a war for a long time.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, I know. The other thing I wanted to bring up, I remember listening to a National Review podcast year or so ago, and all of the hosts on there, they were asked the question, and the National Review is a right wing publication, conservative publication, whatever you want to call. Some people get really worked up about these terms, but Republican publication, and pretty hawkish, usually. And the question was, if China decides to move on Taiwan, will we go to war to stop that from happening? And every single person on the panel said, no, no, we're not going to get involved in a war to stop Taiwan from being taken. And that changed my mind on it because I thought we were thoroughly committed as a country to know that ain't gonna happen. But between like that point of view from some of the biggest Republican thinkers in America and Trump supposedly saying, if China wants Taiwan, they're gonna get Taiwan, nobody can stop them. Which I think he's probably realistically true. He got the. One of the biggest military powers on the planet, an island 100 miles from its shore. If it really wants to take it, how's the rest of the world gonna stop him?

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, we've both read pieces about simulations, computer simulations of how the battles would unfold and that sort of military is run. And the best we can do is slow them down a bit and assemble a giant multinational force and hope it gets there in time. Because this is China's backyard. It's their front yard. Well, right.

[Joe Getty]

And our appetite for having soldiers die in great numbers is not the same as China's. If they lost 5,000 guys in the pursuit of Taiwan, that'd be nothing. If they lost 50,000 guys, President Xi wouldn't blink an eye. We lose 5,000 guys defending it, that would be the biggest crisis in forever.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, agreed. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. So I'll be interesting to see how that plays out or if Trump gives any English. According to the New York Times, she's going to try to make Taiwan a topic. Trump's going to try to make it not a topic. So we'll see how that plays out. Yeah. Interesting stuff.

[Jack Armstrong]

May you live in interesting times. Spicy times, no doubt.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. Did I need to watch all 609 pitches last night?

[Jack Armstrong]

Probably not, but I enjoyed so many pitches.

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So many pitches. 19 pictures. That's crazy. We got more on the way. Stay here.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. Why stop it. So I love Matt Taibbi. I'm a big fan even when I disagree with him. His writing is terrific and he is definitely a man of the left. He's a liberal as opposed to a progressive. And he's like Bill Maher who understands that conservatism is not going to be ruined by the commies. It's going to be, you know, center leftism in America. And so he's like a real battler against it, which is kind of cool. He wrote this great piece the other day and I want to get to a response to it but he's talking about how the upper class lefties are going for philosophies that are just suicidal and to quote him and that will act force actual working class Americans to vote them out and vote against them out of self preservation that the limousine prep school elite university angry Lefty crowd is the last thing the actual working class in America needs. It's a great piece. It's long. As always. Matt is a man of many words, not few. But he got a response to that column. Are you a card carrying exceptionalist, Matt, that you believe this capitalist whorehouse of a country to be the most benign system for its citizens? Do you really believe the vitriol you pour on Marxism and its tenets and how terrible its effects have been in the world? Never mind that it has never once been implemented anywhere? Oh, that old argument. We haven't really tried real communism. Do you believe America's been a great force for good in the world? If so, where? And Taibi, man of the left says, let's see. Defeating the Nazis in Imperial Japan. Accepting more refugees from Nazi Germany than any other country. Inventing polio, vaccines, chemotherapy, the Internet, nuclear power, cars, airplanes, movies, radio, electric light, frozen food, the phonograph, both the telephones, cell phones, rock and roll, jazz and hip hop, tv, the transistor, the pill, basketball and volleyball, Star Trek and Star Wars. 425 Nobel laureates. Free speech, free freedom of religion. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Moby Dick, the Invisible Man, Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, the Panama Canal, Transoceanic communication, the poems of Frost, Poe, McLeish and Emily Dickinson. Personal computers, the assembly line, landing on the moon, Rebuilding Europe. Off the top of my head. I also like Mounds, bars, Cheerios, and football. But what do I know?

[Joe Getty]

I get it.

[Jack Armstrong]

You read Howard Zinn once. But if we, quote, if we did, what has America done for the world besides X for real, Blah, blah, blah.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I like. I mean, that's entertaining. I'm not sure that my argument for why America's good would include Emily Dickinson's poems. I think it's more about keeping the world, keeping the world order what it has been since the end of World War II. Because somebody has to be the world's policeman, biggest, biggest bully on the block, whatever, to keep the World Order going.

[Jack Armstrong]

So billions of people could get lifted out of poverty because of the functioning of free markets. Yes, that and, you know, if you want to shorten that list, free speech, free press and freedom of religion is a pretty good place to start.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, because it would be, if not us. And we might get to live to see this. If not us, it'll be one of your big communist countries deciding what the rules for the world are.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and Paul Edwards, the reader who is questioning Matt Taibbi. Hey, dude, in your system there will be no free speech, no free press and no freedom of religion.

[Joe Getty]

Idiot.

[Jack Armstrong]

Not to mention no innovation, no prosperity, no upward mobility.

[Joe Getty]

Idiot.

[Jack Armstrong]

Good God.

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[Dr. Peter Attia]

Both men and women fall off a cliff at 75. At the population level, it's unmistakable what happens at the age of 75, that's what we're up against. That's what I'm thinking about in the practice is how do I create an escape velocity that gets somebody another 15 years there?

[Joe Getty]

Dr. Peter Attia, Attia, however you pronounce his name, was on 60 Minutes on Sunday night. He's very well known for some of you because he's written some books that have sold millions and millions of copies about how to get a little more enjoyment years out of your life, right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Not just prolonging life, but prolonging quality years.

[Joe Getty]

I immediately put my hand over my watch in my wallet when anybody ever starts talking about health stuff because there's just a lot of, you know, very few people ever want to come out and just say, well, you got to eat less and exercise more would be the main way to lose weight as opposed to, I've got a new way that nobody's ever thought of before.

[Jack Armstrong]

You eat only things that match this paint chip from Lowe's.

[Joe Getty]

It's called beige eating. Only eat things that are beige.

[Jack Armstrong]

The monochromatic diet.

[Joe Getty]

But this guy, I thought that was interesting. Of course, your, your mileage may vary. It happens a little earlier for some people, a little later, like my dad for Some people, but in general, at 75, you just go off a cliff. And he wants to extend that out a little further. Not your lifespan, but the years that you can actually do stuff and enjoy yourself. Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I'll hold my takeaway from that segment back. I don't want to steal anybody's Thunder.

[Joe Getty]

Here's Nora O' Donnell from 60 Minutes talking to the doctor.

[Commercial Narrator]

And so is your goal to minimize or essentially erase that marginal decade?

[Dr. Peter Attia]

The marginal decade's not going anywhere. We will all have a final decade of life. My goal is to make the marginal decade as enjoyable as possible. The way I explain it to my patients is that last 10 to 15 of your years, if you don't do anything about it, you will fall to a level of about 50% of your total capacity cognitively, physically.

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And when people hear that, you're like, I don't want to be that.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's right.

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[Dr. Peter Attia]

A lot of people respond that way as though they're hearing this for the first time. Although if you ask them, haven't you seen people in this state? They'll say, well, yeah, I guess I have.

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Likely their own relatives.

[Dr. Peter Attia]

Sure. Their own parents, even.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, I'm fairly functional on my best day. So, you know, 50 of that. Oof.

[Joe Getty]

That's getting down there. Yeah. Yikes. That is a funny aspect of human beings that even though we, most of us experience it with family members or whatever, we feel like it's not gonna happen to us or something.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. Yeah. I don't. I don't have that old guy attitude. I'm not going to be somewhat stooped over and complain about arthritis or we're.

[Joe Getty]

And this is a slightly different topic, but not completely. I was talking to a guy last night who's a friend of mine, and he's dealing with his mom's final years and how they're going to deal with it. And just that stat that I always think about where, like, 98% of people say they want to die at home. 98% of people don't die at home.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

And, yeah, for a variety of reasons. But anyway, let's hear a little more to this before we discuss. Go on.

[Dr. Peter Attia]

I think this is the neglected part of medical testing is how fit are you? How strong are you?

[Joe Getty]

All right.

[Dr. Peter Attia]

How well do you move?

[Joe Getty]

And up overhead?

[Dr. Peter Attia]

And in many ways, these tests are even more predictive of how long you're going to live than what I might get out of your blood work.

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[Dr. Peter Attia]

The data are pretty clear. When you look at things like cardiorespiratory fitness, when you look at muscle mass, when you look at strength, they have a much higher association than things like even cholesterol and blood pressure.

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You think Anyone, whether they're 45 or 65, should be training like athletes, not for the Olympics, but essentially for advanced age.

[Dr. Peter Attia]

Absolutely. Life is a sport.

[Joe Getty]

What do you think of that idea?

[Jack Armstrong]

I didn't hear anything that he said that contradicted things that I've learned through the years about how to age well, having to do with strength and flexibility and various measures. The guy just struck me as a really high end, extremely thorough personal trainer with a medical background. I hear a lot of faux medical crap and that seemed to be just. I mean, essentially he's going to turn you into an Olympic athlete. Some of the exercise regimens and tests they were going to do and all, how could they not help you live longer? It looked like an enormous amount of work.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. One of the reviews of one of his books. His work has exploded in popularity amid the longevity boom. But he stresses evidence over hype, urging people to train seriously for vibrant old age rather than chasing quick fixes, which was what I was talking about earlier, the crawl like a dog exercise or whatever the hot new thing is.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. And I know a couple of people who fly to like South American capitals to get various infusions.

[Joe Getty]

You know people who do that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Infusions of what?

[Jack Armstrong]

One guy in particular. I can't remember exactly.

[Joe Getty]

How young do they go? Blood of a 13 year old, blood.

[Jack Armstrong]

Of a 10 year old bone serum? I don't know. The plasma of the Jaguar? I don't. I don't know exactly.

[Joe Getty]

Do you know people who fly to other countries? Yes, to get infusions.

[Jack Armstrong]

The guy is super into the anti aging thing. Like you know less about Dr. Attia, who again struck me as a lot more legit than 90 of what I hear about this stuff. But yeah, he's super into it. He believes it. He's a very smart guy. He's been very successful. Although, you know, one sort of success doesn't necessarily translate to good judgment in another way. But he's a lovely guy.

[Joe Getty]

But if you got a lot of money, what are you going to spend your money on that's better than trying to have more enjoyable years of your life? And you know, if there's a 5% chance it works, if you got a lot of money, it makes more sense to do that than Couch. We were talking about earlier.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly. We were talking about this $456,000 chair and a. What was the name of that again? You can take the boy out of the working class, but you can't take the working. Oh, here it is. A Jean Reair type sofa for a million dollars.

[Joe Getty]

It makes sense to me completely that we are designed to continue to work our minds and bodies. And then as soon as we stop, they just decide, well, I guess. I guess we're done. Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. I think it just. It helps to remind yourself over and over again. You are an animal. You are a biological being. No different than beavers. Beavers don't have long, happy retirements.

[Joe Getty]

Look at my teeth.

[Jack Armstrong]

Were that where they sit? Are those dentures? Beaver dentures. They look totally natural. They don't look natural.

[Joe Getty]

I brought down a sapling yesterday.

[Jack Armstrong]

Good man. You gotta stay in shape. No, but the invention of a. I have reproduced. I have raised my young. I have functioned as the village elder. And now I'm just. I play golf and I watch movies. That doesn't exist in the animal world. We invented that.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

So you gotta think about. All right, what. What is every other beast doing while it's alive? It stays active. You've got to stay active. I believe that. Absolutely.

[Joe Getty]

I don't want to be annoying. Works out guy. So I probably shouldn't say this very often, but I go to the gym every single day.

[Jack Armstrong]

Feel better.

[Joe Getty]

I feel better now than I felt when I was 40. I'm 20 years older than that. I'm way more in every way. Feel better from exercising regularly. I hope I can keep it up. I probably can't. Like I said earlier, I'm doing it only out of vanity.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, but it can't hurt.

[Joe Getty]

No, it can't hurt. I'm just worried about when, you know, like I said, I finally get a mate, I'll just become a. A Jim Schmim.

[Jack Armstrong]

Huh?

[Joe Getty]

Let's watch TV and eat this bowl.

[Jack Armstrong]

Of pudding that's all the way over on the other side of the living room.

[Joe Getty]

I'm gonna immediately go from going to the gym every day to watching tv, eating bowls of pudding. It's like the transition will be very seamless.

[Jack Armstrong]

Riding around the grocery store on a Rascal, Right?

[Joe Getty]

Exactly. Didn't I used to see you at the gym? Maybe I did. All my way.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. No.

[Joe Getty]

I'm predicting my future there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Your new bow is going to sue you for fraud.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway, I thought that was. I thought that was a damn interesting story. Just the idea of looking at extending the enjoyable years the whole your your body and mind drops off 50% after 75.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow. And in a similar vein, the one medical story that's caught my ear lately and really made an impression is study after study is coming back saying staying physically active is good for your brain.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

Prevents Alzheimer's and that sort of thing. It's just, it's undeniable.

[Joe Getty]

Jerry Seinfeld's big on that. He says that's why he lifts weights is because all the studies that show how what it does for your brain. So that's good too because my brain ain't so hot. I got.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm so damn lazy. I got to get Anyway oh so word from our friends had Prize picks. Is there a more or less on the number of innings they're going to play tonight?

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Week 10 Bajan Robinson and the Falcons take on Daniel Jones and the Colts in Berlin.

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Fireworks in the fourth quarter.

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Then in week 11, Jaden Daniels and the Commanders touchdown once again. Face Tua and the Dolphins in Madrid.

[Jack Armstrong]

Snooze off.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Swing and a high fly ball center field Varsho. Back near the wall at the track.

[Joe Getty]

Gone Freddy Freeman. A home run to center field. Freeman walks it off in the 18th.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

One of the reasons the announcers didn't get immediately excited like you usually hear when there's a big hit. Cuz there'd been like five hits that got caught at the wall as everybody is waiting for that game to end. It's deep. It's deep. And they catch it with six inches to go. They waited to see if it actually left. Freaking Shohei Ohtani got him base nine times. He spends more time trying to fix his hair just the way he wants it than most athletes.

[Jack Armstrong]

You see, I've noticed it's very boyish and teen dreamy.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, he gets it just right. Maybe that's the key to his success.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, well, it doesn't hurt. And he's pitching nine times and he's the starting pitcher tonight.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's just incredible.

[Jack Armstrong]

They're gonna have to wheel him out in a wheelchair. He's so tired. Unbelievable. Anyway, so wanted to get to this. Squeeze it in. Almost forgot. Great reporting by Steve Williams. He Posted [e-mail] We can't get to the whole thing, so we'll post it at Armstrong and getty.com under Hot Links. LA's latest housing scandal, the homeless industrial complex. Unbelievable, he writes. The recent federal arrests tied to a senior housing project have exposed a pattern in a series of earlier transactions quietly approved by the city of LA. Key to this scheme is the 2022 purchase of four Extended Stay America hotels from Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm. These acquisitions, totaling more than $180 million, were financed through Project Home Key, Gavin Newsom's California Pandemic Era program to convert hotels into homeless housing. But analysis shows the city was not addressing homelessness. They sit almost empty. Instead, it created a real estate windfall for politically connected developers and one of Wall Street's most powerful landlords. The four extended state properties were sold for staggering amounts far, far above market value.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Each was bought from Blackstone, which had acquired the Extended Stay America brand in 2021 through a venture. Blah, blah, blah. Less than a year later, Blackstone was cashing out of its LA holdings, not to private investors, but to City hall, flushed flush with emergency homeless funds. According to records, each purchase included architectural fees, zoning, CEQA reviews, environmental assessments, and a 2% administrative fee, all billed to taxpayers, totaling more than $4.2 million in added costs. Besides the incredibly bloated prices, three years later, most of these hotels remain largely empty. They're part of a growing portfolio of Home Key funded properties that have failed to house significant numbers of homeless residents despite costing taxpayers billions. Then he writes, sound familiar? Because it is. Back in August, I reported how Torrance officials stopped LA county from spending $30 million on a hotel valued at just 10 million. A near copy of the scheme the city of LA ran three years earlier. The steps were nearly identical. Find a hotel, inflate its value, declare an emergency purchase using homelessness funds, move taxpayer money quickly before anyone asks questions. But the problem was the city of Torrance is run by Republicans. And suspecting that the county's price was inflated, the city commissioned an independent third party appraisal which confirmed that the true value was not, not $30 million, it was $10 million under public scrutiny. The deal collapsed with the Republican led city government preventing another multi, multi million dollar misuse of public funds. And he goes into describing of how it's all built on secrecy. Secrecy. Everything moves quickly. The figures are never known to the public. Project Home Key was designed for speed, not scrutiny. Cities are allowed to bypass competitive bidding in public hearings if they label their purchases emergency acquisitions. God dang it.

[Joe Getty]

How, how, how did the Bernie crowd get away with the tax? The rich rich not paying their for fair share all the time without ever getting into this stuff. This is where the money is, Bernie. Aoc. You want more money for all the stuff you care about? This is where it is.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? Right. Absolutely true. And you know what really pisses me off is that the, the media, they have completely lost their taste for finding and disclosing government waste or lavish programs like this because they're all generated by the left. And so they think, well, homelessness is a terrible problem. I don't want to be seen as criticizing. I mean, they may have overpaid a little, but it was an emergency.

[Joe Getty]

After all, after all, architect fees. It's already existed for a very long time. I'm sure it's fine.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, and hacla, which is the acronym for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, acts as broker administrator. It handles all the transactions internally, then builds the city for staffing and overhead. Millions and millions of dollars.

[Joe Getty]

You know, this reminds me of how much time I got, Michael. Depends on how you keep eating. Now, we got three minutes. Okay, so similar to this, I heard this story twice over the weekend, just coincidentally from people that work in schools in California, how much food they're wasting at their school. Somebody brought it up and then another person, because during the pandemic, somebody was able to jam through the. No, no, everybody should get breakfast and lunch. It used to be just like need based. And then somebody decided the crisis. Now everybody. And so it continued after the pandemic's over, as these programs always do. And these teachers, who I assume are probably lefties, were horrified by how much food they're throwing away every day. They said, like, half the kids bring their own lunch or don't eat lunch or breakfast or show up. They don't eat breakfast at home. And they make all of these meals for every single kid in the school, breakfast and lunch. And most of them they throw away. And I wanted to say to them, but I didn't want to jump into the story. The spending is the point. It's not about anybody getting any food. It's about spending money. And it's the same with this homeless thing. When will liberals understand the spending is the point, not fixing your causes that you care about.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know Steve Williams, who wrote this article, you read his mind. Or vice versa. He writes, every wasted dollar is one that could have gone toward mental health treatment, addiction recovery, job training, new housing, construction. Instead, those dollars flowed to brokers, bureaucrats, and Blackstone's balance sheet. And then, then he points out, to your point, when the leaders of Torrance rejected the $30 million extended state proposal, they were immediately hammered with accusations being anti homeless.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Or insensitive to the homelessness problem mean conservatives.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, Like I assume these teachers could come up with all kinds of places that money ought to be spent, whether it's books or whatever the hell, tutors to make education better. Raise your hand and say, hey, we're throwing away food like crazy. This program was designed probably by the department of agriculture just to get money flow various places. It had nothing to do with feeding anybody. How do you not get this right?

[Jack Armstrong]

Invent an emergency. Appropriate, appropriate, just wildly excessive amounts of money and then accuse anybody who calls you on it of being anti child or anti homeless or Islamophobic or whatever else.

[Joe Getty]

The first person I heard say this, Nora Rothman wrote this in the National Review. It's such a great line. The spending is the point.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

With all of these things you get so far off track if you start thinking about solving a problem. There is no problem. The spending is the point, people. Get this money, please.

[Jack Armstrong]

Stacey Abrams getting $1.8 billion or whatever it was for green inner city initiatives. My ass was just a handout.

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Fireworks in the fourth quarter.

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Then in week 11, Jaden Daniels and the Commanders touchdown. Walking down face Tua and the Dolphins in Madrid.

[Jack Armstrong]

Snooze off.

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Game on. It's Sunday morning Football continues November 9th at 9:30 Eastern only on NFL Network.

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