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- [00:02]
Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. Many of you in the media clearly missed the art of the deal. You clearly failed to see what President Trump is doing here. You try to say that the rest of the world would be moved closer to China, when in fact we've seen the opposite effect.
- [00:37]
Joe Getty
So that's the White House press spokesman explaining yesterday why Trump. That was the plan all along. It was the art of the deal, the pullback on the tariffs the way he did and then. But Trump, shortly thereafter talking to a reporter. Bond markets that persuaded you to reverse. I was watching the bond market. The bond market is very tricky. I was watching it. But if you look at it now, beautiful. The bond market right now is beautiful. But, yeah, I saw last night where people were getting a little queasy. I think everything had. Well, the big move wasn't what I did today. The big move was what I did on Liberation Day. We had Liberation Day in America. We're liberated from all of the horrible deals that were made, all of the horrible trade deals that were made. So he basically came out and said, I was watching the financial returns and people were getting scared, scared. So. And the reporting is that the Secretary of the treasury was sitting there with him saying, dude, dude, it's getting too bad. And that's when Trump put out the Truth Social yesterday. Right, Right after we got off the air. Thanks for the timing, Mr. Trump. Couldn't you have done it a half hour earlier? Would have been so exciting to talk about in real time. As the stock market skyrocketed immediately, as soon as he said 90 day pause on the tariffs.
- [02:02]
Jack Armstrong
Freaked out by the bond market. Jack. All about the bond market.
- [02:06]
Joe Getty
No, he was not.
- [02:08]
Jack Armstrong
Was the art of the deal.
- [02:09]
Joe Getty
It was a plan all along.
- [02:10]
Jack Armstrong
Oh, sorry. I stand corrected. So Scott Besant came out and further explained the White House's policies. Why don't we just start with number 50, Michael?
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Scott Besant
As I told everyone a week ago, they're in this very spot. Do not retaliate and you will be rewarded. So. So every country in the world who wants to come and negotiate, we are willing to hear you. We're going to go down to a 10% baseline tariff for them and China will be raised to 125 due to their insistence on escalation.
- [02:57]
Jack Armstrong
And then the market skyrocketed and then they plunged. As we speak on Thursday, they are down around 5%, depending on which one you're looking at. It's a huge drop. Wow.
- [03:08]
Joe Getty
Yeah. See, the Dow is down.
- [03:09]
Jack Armstrong
Trade war with China.
- [03:10]
Joe Getty
1600. Is everybody. Yeah, because the whole China thing, that's a big deal. What is it? 125% tariff on China now all those.
- [03:20]
Jack Armstrong
Chinese vers coming in, whatever it is, 175, 300%. I don't know.
- [03:24]
Joe Getty
As, as we learned yesterday, it can all change pretty quickly.
- [03:28]
Jack Armstrong
It's funny in a way to have heard for ages, if you're paying any attention, that we've got to couple with China. They've been exploiting us, they've been erecting barriers to our goods, they've been stealing our intellectual property, they've been cheating in a hundred different ways. They've been flooding the world with cheap crap and predatory, you know, exploiting of markets to put their competition out of business, blah, blah, blah. And we've got to decouple. And now that the decoupling is maybe beginning, it's like, what are we doing? Why is this happening? And I'm not saying it's good or it's going to be easy, but here we go.
- [04:06]
Joe Getty
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
How does this play out?
- [04:11]
Joe Getty
Well, my characterization that. I mean, because it looks to me like from the reporting that Trump got some reactions in the stock market that were beyond what he thought would happen and he had to pull the plug on this earlier than he thought. Or are you going with the. This was the plan all along?
- [04:32]
Jack Armstrong
No, I'm going with the bond market specifically, which is different from the stock markets, the markets in general. But yeah, because the numbers in the bond market suggested people were really taking a dim view of the United States economy and debt in the long term. But he was, and that's no good.
- [04:50]
Joe Getty
But he wasn't planning 24 hours earlier to do that.
- [04:55]
Jack Armstrong
No. As Besant said. Where does he say that. That they were talking about it on Sunday anyway, I can't find it and doesn't really matter. But no, they, you know, actually, I think this is a really good account by Annie Linsky and a couple others in the Wall Street Journal. It was a classic Trump. He took a drastic action, closely tracked the reaction, kept advisors and allies guessing, and then changed course.
- [05:29]
Joe Getty
Hmm.
- [05:30]
Jack Armstrong
You're judged by the results. And we were getting screwed by China, but it was such crack, the Chinese market and their cheap manufacturing. We just didn't want to get off the crack, even though we knew it was horrible. And now maybe we're starting.
- [05:47]
Joe Getty
Well, I have no problem with the result we've gotten. I think it's kind of hilarious that the people that were, you know, the Trump hating crowd. But how, how, you know, dogmatic he is and he's an ideologue and he won't bend and he refuses to face reality and he's crazy. And, and then when the bond market does whatever he doesn't like and he changes course, then he's criticized for going back on his, what he had said before. Which, which do you want? You know, I don't know if we have the clip yesterday where he was talking about, sometimes you got to go, you know, you want to be on the other side of that wall. You try to go through the wall, you try to go through the wall, it won't work. So you got to try to. Then you decide, well, maybe I got to go over it or around it or under it, but I got, you know, got to, you got to change your plan. But that's the, that's what he said yesterday for his, you know, dropping the tariffs. But it's a very sort of thing. He was being criticized for that he wouldn't do that sort of thing, you know, an hour earlier.
- [06:43]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I'm sorry that the quote I was looking for is actually in print. Besant explained the move to pause some of the tariffs was discussed Sunday when the two men met. He and I had a long talk. This was his strategy all along. Now I can believe that Trump said, yeah, I threw all that permanent trade barriers talk out there because I wanted people to come to the table in a serious way and we got to restructure our international trade. I, I can believe that was his plan all along. I don't, I don't necessarily think that technique is great as the leader of the free world, but, you know, that's, everybody can have their own opinion on.
- [07:14]
Joe Getty
That or it'd be technically true to say if your plan all along is if the bond market does this, I'll have to end it. Yeah, that he could have said that out loud behind closed doors a long time ago.
- [07:23]
Jack Armstrong
Sure, it's possible. How about a little, let's, let's hear a little more. Scott Bessant 51. Michael, you call this uniform to China trading variable?
- [07:33]
Scott Besant
Well, they, I'm not sure what you mean by an embargo.
- [07:38]
Jack Armstrong
100, 125% terrorist like those and then impose 84%. Isn't this an embargo?
- [07:46]
Scott Besant
Well, it's not, it's, look, it's China's decision that we have the deficit with them. They sold us almost five times what we sell them. So Again, I think it's an own goal by China, Mr. Secretary Meredith.
- [08:00]
Jack Armstrong
And he expands on that thought in the next clip.
- [08:03]
Scott Besant
But what I am certain of, what I'm certain of is that what China is doing will affect their economy much more than it will ours because they have an export driven flood the world with cheap export models. And the rest of the world now understands because when we put up our tariff wall, those exports were already flowing to the rest of the G7 and to the global South.
- [08:30]
Joe Getty
Well, you know, you like March Madness or the NBA playoffs are starting. You want to see two giant titans going at it. The biggest economy in the world and the second biggest economy in the world are now officially in a trade war. That's pretty exciting.
- [08:45]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
I don't know.
- [08:46]
Jack Armstrong
Both.
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Joe Getty
I don't know how it's going to turn out.
- [08:49]
Jack Armstrong
And neither side is the sort of guy or in the sort of situation where backing down is going to be very easy. I don't think Trump should back down. How it's finessed. You know, there are a thousand opinions on that. How do we decouple with China? How quickly? Where do we start? How do we deal with the pain of it? I mean, that's super crazy complex. But the fact that it's happened, it has to happen.
- [09:13]
Joe Getty
He could end up taking the. Trump could end up taking the blame for something that was inevitable anyway. That was going to happen more in drips and drabs because the rupture had to happen at some point between us and China. It just can't continue.
- [09:33]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Your biggest business partner. Well, one of the biggest is a evil regime bent on world domination.
- [09:40]
Joe Getty
Right.
- [09:41]
Jack Armstrong
That's not very convenient.
- [09:43]
Joe Getty
Building up their military every single day to try to take us over.
- [09:46]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I was going to say that. I put it too neutrally. No, they're bent on crushing us as an economy, as a political system and as a species, if they can. Yeah, they would. They want to stamp out the American ideal as fast as they can.
- [09:58]
Joe Getty
They would actually enslave us. They would have no problem with that.
- [10:02]
Jack Armstrong
I don't understand why. Because we're inferior. Yeah, the racists too. That's often left out of the discussion.
- [10:06]
Joe Getty
You're right. I don't understand why more people don't understand this. It's, it's, it's, it, it is a very, very big deal.
- [10:12]
Jack Armstrong
It's like because, because so many people were making so much money, nobody had any interest in explaining it.
- [10:19]
Joe Getty
God. I was listening to the Tom Cotton podcast the other day. His book out about seven Things you can't say about China. But he was talking about when China finally decides to take Taiwan. And nobody has any idea if that's going to be this afternoon or never or any time in between. And it's up to President Xi because that's the way their system works. But as Tom Cotton pointed out, like the military exercise they did a week or so ago, if they just announced this is no longer an exercise, Taiwan is ours, what is anybody going to do about it?
- [10:53]
Jack Armstrong
Right. Yeah.
- [10:55]
Joe Getty
At that point.
- [10:56]
Jack Armstrong
Right. We ought to talk to Tom Cotton if we can, since he's making the rounds. His book sounds terrific. And man, he is the. The finest and smartest of the China hawks. Yeah.
- [11:07]
Joe Getty
And he makes the point that a lot of the world said, no, no, Hong Kong is independent. You can't take Hong Kong. Okay, You've taken Hong Kong. You shouldn't have done that. And, you know, time just goes by and Hong Kong belongs to China now. It's just like any other part of China.
- [11:19]
Jack Armstrong
Yep.
- [11:20]
Joe Getty
And I think that's going to happen with Taiwan, too, which will really affect shipping and blah, blah, blah. But this trade war is going to be fun to watch.
- [11:29]
Jack Armstrong
Well, and one final thought. The reason for his title, seven things you can't say about China, is just not like a provocative title. He's making the point that China has so much power, so much influence over various areas of business, especially financial, for financial reasons, that nobody's willing to call them on some of the horrors of the way they do business, the way they treat people. Just a dozen different things. And we've got to stop being afraid of offending the Communist Chinese.
- [11:59]
Joe Getty
Starting with when we were kids, every scary international movie, the bad guys were Russian, Soviet Union. The spies were from the Soviet Union. You know, World War 3 was going to be Soviet Union. Never, never Chinese spy. Bad guys from China in any movie ever.
- [12:20]
Jack Armstrong
Right.
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Joe Getty
And that tweets. Isn't that odd? I wonder if that'll change ever. We've got more on the way. I hope you can stick around.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
- [12:29]
Joe Getty
I got something. I think it's unintentionally hilarious. It seems to be serious. It's from a website that helps with careers. Career guide, career development. 30 Alternatives to Hope all is well to use in work emails. I need a. From the. Indeed editorial team. I need the editorial team of a website around business to help me with things to say other than hope all is well. Anyway, I'll get into those at the.
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Jack Armstrong
Bottom of the hour. Yeah, I lean on that phrase a little bit in my correspondence. I'm. I need some alternatives. Excellent. But don't we under.
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Joe Getty
Well, I'll talk about it when it's time to talk about it.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes. Yes, please. Michael 5. The Jimmy Fallon bit sounds amusing. Is it amusing? Let's hear that. Trump's trying his best to ease everyone's concerns about the economy. This morning he posted be cool. Everything is going to work out well. Be cool isn't what you say to fix the economy. It's what you say when you and your friend are trying to sneak outside food into a movie theater. You're walking weird, dude.
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Joe Getty
You're walking weird.
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Jack Armstrong
Why are you walking sideways? My mom used to sneak in like a 2 liter bottle of soda and just open it slowly. It's the longest I go.
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Joe Getty
Just open it fast.
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Jack Armstrong
If we get it over with, it sounds like a grilling hamburger. Yeah.
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Joe Getty
When I. When I would bring beers into the movie theater, you gotta wait for like an explosion or something loud to happen. Then you can open your beer.
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Jack Armstrong
Shameful. I thought this was interesting. According to new research, your mind wandering isn't always harmful to learning. You know how it is. You suddenly realize you've spaced off and haven't heard a word for the last two minutes or something like that.
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Joe Getty
It's okay with like audiobooks and stuff like that, podcasts, because I can rewind them. But if it's your boss or a professor and you can't rewind it, it's disappointing.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. I will tell you this. I'll jump to a bit of a caveat to the science, which is really interesting, but depends the setting and what's being said and how boring are they. But for decades, whether it's an educator or employer, they've treated mind wandering as the enemy of productivity and learning. But according to new research published in the journal. Hello, I need to read the Journal of saying the word correctly. New research published in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that minds wandering isn't just harmless. It might actively boost our ability to pick up on subtle patterns in the world around us.
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Joe Getty
That's interesting.
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Jack Armstrong
Your brain saying, give me a second. I've got to shake all of that out, file it and understand the relationship between those ideas. Okay, I'm good.
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Joe Getty
It's.
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Jack Armstrong
It's doing the making the connections that give you actual knowledge and wisdom.
- [15:34]
Joe Getty
I'll bet that's true sometimes or maybe even most of the time. But yes, not always.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. The study conducted by researchers found that the that when participants minds drifted during a computer task, they became better at detecting hidden statistical Patterns even though they weren't consciously trying to find them. Mind wandering occupying 30 to 50% of our waking time remains an enigmatic phenomenon in cognitive neuroscience. The researchers noted. Given how much of our mental life around such wandering thoughts involve such wandering thoughts, seems unlikely they serve no purpose. I would argue that that is also another reason not to stare constantly at your phone and always engage your mind with inputs. It needs time to not be doing anything specific. I both for your cognitive function and your sanity.
- [16:30]
Joe Getty
I've always known I've been listening to audiobooks back to when they were cassettes you got at the library. But I've always noticed, like when I'd go on trips, I couldn't get into it right away. I'd keep spacing off and I'd have to rewind. Space off, rewind. But once I got in a groove, then I could, then I could focus. So I don't know what that is, that it just like had to train my brain a little bit to be able to focus.
- [16:53]
Jack Armstrong
Right. And they point out that the mind wandering people missed and made more errors overall during their periods of mind wandering, but they became much better at detecting certain subtle things that were like below the surface. So spacing off and daydreaming is incredibly important, as is sleep.
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Joe Getty
Hope you are well or all not.
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Jack Armstrong
On Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
So we've got an internal thing to clean up here on the Armstrong and Getty show.
- [17:23]
Jack Armstrong
I would say so, say the least.
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Joe Getty
Joe.
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Jack Armstrong
33 years of working together, this is the low moment, right?
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Joe Getty
So at the end of the last segment, you're about to hear it. I struggled. Joe said it was off the air. He said during the commercials. That is the worst moment in 30 years of doing this show.
- [17:44]
Jack Armstrong
Yes, it is.
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Joe Getty
Katie's already laughing.
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Jack Armstrong
She was laughing. Will not soon be cleared.
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Joe Getty
I can't wait to hear it again. I'm not looking forward to hearing it again. I can explain myself, I think. Well, I can't really explain it, but I know what happened. Anyway, this is how it sounded. What you're about to hear happen like six minutes ago.
- [18:04]
Jack Armstrong
Spacing off and daydreaming is incredibly important, as is sleep.
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Joe Getty
Hope you are well or all.
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Jack Armstrong
No Armstrong and Getty. Oh, beautiful, beautiful.
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Joe Getty
Again. Michael.
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Jack Armstrong
Spacing off and daydreaming is incredibly important, as is sleep.
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Joe Getty
Hope you are well or all.
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Jack Armstrong
No on the Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
So I was try, I was in my mind what I was going to say. And usually as a person who speaks for a living, what, what I have in my mind can Come out of my mouth quite quickly eventually. Or an alternative version. And I've never felt physically this. I've never felt this before. My tongue, it felt like it was three times its normal size or something happened with my jaw and my tongue. I hope it's not the beginning of a horrible disease or something that I'm about to find out I have.
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Jack Armstrong
That would be unfortunate. And I'd feel bad about my giggling.
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Joe Getty
I just. All of a sudden, my mouth would not work.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, see, I thought it was because if we're up against a hard break, which means there's no flexibility, we have to take it at that very second. Michael will count us down the last 10 seconds. And I could see you looking down at your phone or notes or something like that as Michael was counting down and as he got down to 3, 2, 1, I could tell you weren't aware of it and you looked up mid sentence with one second left and I assume your brain just locked up.
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Joe Getty
Or all. No, I don't think that was it.
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Jack Armstrong
Or olnar.
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Joe Getty
Because I was. I don't think that was it because I was read. Trying to read what? It was alternative. I was trying to read and it just. My tongue expanded. Words are hard. Exactly. Hope you are well or all. No. Oh, no. Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, yeah. That's what it is.
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Joe Getty
No, I have been making my car payment or house payment as a broadcaster for 41 years and that is the worst moment I've ever.
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Jack Armstrong
It was a good run.
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Joe Getty
That was my worst moment right there.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, that reminds me. Didn't get to this, but I'd like to maybe. Maybe another time. But it's absolutely clear. Dr. Jill was, as you said, forever. When you could be understood that she was the. The prime moving evildoer behind the scenes. Anyway, back to you.
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Joe Getty
Yes, Michael, just so you know, Chance.
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Jack Armstrong
Is putting plans together to hide your cognitive decline. Exactly.
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Joe Getty
Commercials. Michael said, would you like me to drive you home after work?
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Jack Armstrong
Wow.
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Joe Getty
Geez. So what I was trying to say is, from this business magazine, 30 Alternatives to Hope all is well to use and work emails. Kind of weird that this is coming up because I've got a bit of a problem in my personal life happening right now where I had hit somebody with basically, I hope all is well. And they really feel like it was a slight or, you know, like, okay, great. Well, you know, best wishes to you two or something. It was just like it was too.
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Jack Armstrong
I'm totally unaware of this.
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Joe Getty
Who wrote to, like, no feeling or care in it. I don't know.
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Jack Armstrong
No specifics. Maybe.
- [21:50]
Joe Getty
Well, I don't know exactly.
- [21:52]
Jack Armstrong
Wow. I feel bad about this because I lean on that a bit. I'm a bad person, apparently.
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Joe Getty
I'll tell you the way I take it, because I get hope all is well or hope to see you soon or whatever. You know those trite phrases. I take them the way I think they're intended or the way I intend them. They're like a handshake. They're a we're friends, I like you, you know, Till next time. It's not a if I use the same one five times in a row. It's not a you're meaningless to me gesture. I don't think.
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Jack Armstrong
But yeah, that's funny because there's part of me that thinks we're into the zone of hey, how's it going? You don't care? How's it going? You're just doing that as a traditional greeting. Yeah, that's. That's the custom of my people. Sorry.
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Joe Getty
Anyway, this business website indeed.com said, here are some all alternatives. That's a tough word for me. Other options. I'll go with I'll never say that word again in my life. Here are some other options to hope all is well as a professional email greeting so that you don't look like you're God. It says a polite greeting. That's a polite greeting. I don't care if it's trite. I don't care if everyone. I don't get. Anyway, the recipient of an email might appreciate your interest in their well being in the workplace. Here's some questions you can use early in an email and stuff. Instead of hope all is well and they're all as stupid as you would think. And I don't understand why they're better. How are things?
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Jack Armstrong
Your jock itch is healed.
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Joe Getty
No, how are things going with you? Why is how are things going with you? Significantly better than hope all is well, just less trice. This is from a serious publication. How is your family? How is name of a specific pet? Okay, that shows your, I guess that you're thinking about them specifically and their lives. But I don't know. Like I said, I don't feel slighted when somebody says hope all is well or have a good day or anything like that. But I mean, I guess if, I.
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Jack Armstrong
Don'T know, I'm picturing the sort of person that I would say hope all is well with you. Obviously I'm not in very regular touch with them then saying, how's Rex, your cat? That doesn't seem better than Hope all is well with you. It's just general good wishes, but you would never say it's an expression of.
- [24:21]
Joe Getty
Affection, would you ever? Well, you probably don't email your wife. Do you ever email Judy and say hope all is well?
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Jack Armstrong
No, no, certainly not. No.
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Joe Getty
Because you know, if things are well because you're.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, she was at a singing contest recently. I'd say, hey, how are things going there so far? You know, but I think this is a little picky, but go on.
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Joe Getty
So how is name of specific pet?
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Jack Armstrong
Yes, Rex as well. Thanks for asking.
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Joe Getty
How is.
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Jack Armstrong
Now about the million dollar deal we're working on?
- [24:53]
Joe Getty
No kidding.
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Jack Armstrong
Rex has fleas. Thanks for asking.
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Joe Getty
How is weather in their location? I appreciate you putting in their location as opposed to just randomly somewhere else. How do you suppose the weather is in Mumbai?
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Jack Armstrong
Well, wait a minute. I can check the weather. Every corner of the earth. It's right at my fingertips 24 hours a day. That seems.
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Joe Getty
This whole thing seems crazy. How is weather in their location? Talking about the weather is a classic question to ask in a work email situation. This question shows that you're familiar with the recipient's location. It also shows you're interested in the details of their day to day life. See, I think this is a lot of s. But yes, Katie, now if.
- [25:31]
Jack Armstrong
If you were to say something like, I mean, for instance, you know, Sacramento, California, where the show is based, gets crazy hot in the summertime. If you were to say, hey, things gotten crazy hot yet there? Okay, how is the weather there? That doesn't seem like an improvement on anything. Yeah.
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Joe Getty
But hope you're well. As a closer, asking someone if it's crazy hot is opening for a second for the conversation to continue. Yeah, I don't understand why any. Maybe. Maybe I'm just heartless. And again, this is a touchy situation because I'm currently.
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Jack Armstrong
Do you have an opinion on that? Whether Jack is heartless or not, you'd like to address.
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Joe Getty
I. I think he is because I'm currently in a bit of a situation with somebody whose feelings were very hurt by me using basically I hope all is well or have a nice day or something like that. Is this person highly sensitive? No, not generally. How was your weekend? As an alternative, according to this business magazine, asking about the recipient's time away from work can give them a chance to share any fun or interesting activities. No, I went bowling. Anyway, back to the million dollar deal.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. I just. That's a different thing maybe, and this is entirely up to you obviously, but maybe we need to Know more about the correspondence with the person you're. You're talking about. I mean, because the. The indeed.com seems to be presenting it in a work. This is a work colleague, associate, customer, client, whatever. What if I was your weekend. What if I. They've got to answer that then, right?
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Which you're creating work for them.
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Joe Getty
What if I hit him with how.
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Jack Armstrong
Do you care what. How my weekend was? I need 50,000 widgets by Thursday.
- [27:21]
Joe Getty
I'll leave him a voicemail. I'll hit him with this. Hope you are well or all. No, that'd leave him confused. Here's some.
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Jack Armstrong
How do you spell that?
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Joe Getty
Here are some other alternatives. How about those local sports team. I mean, this is. This is an actual business article.
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Jack Armstrong
Katie, you're gonna go blind if you roll your eyes like that. You're trying to see my brain.
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Joe Getty
See my example. I'm using where I've got somebody with hurt feelings is. Is not a business relationship. It's a personal relationship. And apparently, I don't know. I feel like I've been doing this my whole life.
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Jack Armstrong
Like have a good day or personal relationship. I can see you should never say.
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Joe Getty
Have a good day. It's too. It's too.
- [28:11]
Jack Armstrong
Well, no, not that it's the. The hope all is well if it's a personal relationship. Yeah. Not even, you know, hope Lisa's doing good or whatever. I'm thinking of a friend of mine I need to reach out to. Yeah. I don't know. I may be switching sides on this. Although I'm also. I believe firmly in not looking for reasons to be offended. Everybody else is having a hard day too.
- [28:40]
Joe Getty
I went.
- [28:40]
Jack Armstrong
Don't take stuff personally.
- [28:42]
Joe Getty
Here's one of them that caused great pain. I hope you're doing okay. Too. Too generic. How well does this person know you?
- [28:53]
Jack Armstrong
This just sounds well, like how you text regularly. It's. It's a little generic. Ish. But I just.
- [29:01]
Joe Getty
I could be. I'm willing to admit that I'm 100% wrong on this. I just have been for. If I am. I have been for a very, very long time. I didn't know that. That everybody else was customizing these to hope you're doing well since the Kings lost last night or you know, something.
- [29:19]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I. Given those humidity today, obviously I'd have to walk a mile in their shoes. And if I did, I would keep the shoes because I'm a mile away and I have their shoes.
- [29:30]
Joe Getty
I just don't want to be a.
- [29:31]
Jack Armstrong
Jerk goes no, no, none of us wants that.
- [29:34]
Joe Getty
Now, unless that's a personal relationship stuff, that's a different thing. The business thing. I have no need for you to put in, for instance, suggestion number nine. Any fun plans this weekend? I don't need that at all. All you've done is what you just said. All you've done is create a little extra work for me as I'm going through emails and I'm trying to get back to everybody before close a business.
- [29:57]
Jack Armstrong
And not or you are nakedly faking intimacy.
- [30:02]
Joe Getty
Yeah, but yeah, yeah, both ends of it are bad, so I don't think you actually care. And now I've got to respond and take up another 15 seconds of my life for this.
- [30:14]
Jack Armstrong
When. When a cashier says to you and I'm talking to everybody here, When a cashier says, got any fun plans this weekend? Do you react with, oh, this is a person I can chat with. This is great. Yes, we're planning to blah, blah. Or do you think, oh my God, we're not friends. Stop.
- [30:30]
Joe Getty
This is one of the most hilarious articles I've ever read. Suggestion number 11. Did you see the latest episode of the show you both watch? Well, if you've got the kind of relationship where you watch a show that you talk about, then feel free to throw that in. Yeah, exactly. Do you not know how to be a friend? I mean, that's just weird. How is life sense event you attended together?
- [30:57]
Jack Armstrong
This is jackassery.
- [30:59]
Joe Getty
I like this one. I read the book you recommended and I really enjoyed the part where specific part.
- [31:05]
Jack Armstrong
Oh, gee, this is hurting me.
- [31:11]
Joe Getty
Oh, my God.
- [31:13]
Jack Armstrong
What? What's that feeling? How do you describe that feeling when, like, uncomfortableness flows through your body? Some people refer to it as your skin crawling or I was just flooded with some chemical out of my brain. When you said that of like, phoniness and annoyance exhaustion and I don't know how to describe that feeling, that nausea.
- [31:34]
Joe Getty
That turns me off fast. Like people who try to act like we're like real friends and we can have this kind of communication when we don't.
- [31:41]
Jack Armstrong
That.
- [31:42]
Joe Getty
That's a. You did more harm than good with me anyway in a business setting.
- [31:47]
Jack Armstrong
Hope all is well with you for a friend. Yeah, that's too formal, huh? It's not trying. Well, it's lax effort.
- [31:55]
Joe Getty
That's exactly what I was told. Okay.
- [31:58]
Jack Armstrong
But again, again, I don't know what kind of day you're having or what. Well, you've run your own relationships. I can barely run mine.
- [32:08]
Joe Getty
We'll finish strong.
- [32:09]
Jack Armstrong
Next, Armstrong and Getty Pizza Hut today.
- [32:13]
Joe Getty
Launched a limited edition pizza caviar bump box.
- [32:16]
Jack Armstrong
So if you like Pizza Hut and.
- [32:18]
Joe Getty
You like caviar, I'm guessing you're recently rich.
- [32:26]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. So a quick tease, which we never do, to the Armstrong and Getty One More Thing podcast. I think we've decided we're going to clean out the sound fridge today. Got a bunch of really interesting, amusing, thought provoking audio that we didn't get to during the radio show. And we'll play it for the One More Thing podcast and talk about it. So anyway, this is. This is not funny in the least. It's rather heavy. A little compare and contrast for you. For the third week in a row, hundreds of Palestinians in northern Gaza are rallying against him. Hamas chanting slogans, labeling the group a terrorist organization and demanding an end to its rule, even though the leader of the last protest got tortured to death.
- [33:07]
Joe Getty
How many did you say? How many?
- [33:09]
Jack Armstrong
Hundreds.
- [33:10]
Joe Getty
Hundreds?
- [33:11]
Jack Armstrong
Is that 110 or 980? I don't know.
- [33:15]
Joe Getty
Either way, that's a small enough group that you are being insanely brave. I shouldn't say insanely because it's not insane at all. It's. You're being incredibly patriotic is what you're doing. You're caring more about your people and the future than yourself because you're likely to disappear in a horrible way.
- [33:35]
Jack Armstrong
And I see a crowd. I can see at least 50 people in this photograph, many of them, like on other people's shoulders, out and proud. Not a single mask.
- [33:46]
Joe Getty
You freaking college weenies. Mask yourself when you're completely safe on your college campus. These people are protesting Hamas faces bare, knowing they're likely to be tortured to death. And we'll probably start hearing those stories like today.
- [34:04]
Jack Armstrong
Meanwhile, here's a D.C. rally honoring one of the leaders of Hamas. And all the college dumbasses are wearing masks and all. It's too much. I say final, you say thoughts.
- [34:19]
Joe Getty
Final thoughts.
- [34:19]
Jack Armstrong
Final thoughts.
- [34:21]
Joe Getty
Are getting like it. Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Ugetti.
- [34:26]
Jack Armstrong
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew. There he is. Michelangelo in the control room. Michael, my email to the new salesperson. Dear John, how's your cholesterol?
- [34:35]
Joe Getty
Any chance you can send me the audio?
- [34:37]
Jack Armstrong
Michelangelo? That's good. That's very good, Michael. Our esteemed newswoman, Katie Green has a final thought. Katie.
- [34:45]
Joe Getty
Jack, I just want to say thank you for that our moment earlier because.
- [34:48]
Jack Armstrong
I have not laughed that hard and I don't know how long they all need a lift. That's Fabulous. Jack, a final thought.
- [34:55]
Joe Getty
This is my final thought. Hope you are well or all. No. Oh man.
- [35:02]
Jack Armstrong
I don't know. Were those words. My final thought is Scotty Scheffler is gonna win the Masters. I'm off to an exciting one day attendance at the greatest golf tournament on earth tomorrow. I apologize for missing the show but frankly I've chosen the Masters over my job. So suck it.
- [35:25]
Joe Getty
She'll be there Friday but not Saturday and Sunday there's separate tickets.
- [35:29]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I. I was very lucky to get some all week passes a couple years ago. Not the this time. I just got one day but I'm thrilled. Thrilled to have. Yeah.
- [35:37]
Joe Getty
That's awesome. Armstrong and Yeti wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
- [35:41]
Jack Armstrong
So many people. Thanks. A little time go to Armstrong and getty.com. we have many great pleasures there for you. The hot links Katie's corner drops note. There's something you ought to be talking about. Mailbag@armstrongandgetti.com pick up some swag. Helps to keep everybody on the payroll during these challenging times.
- [35:56]
Joe Getty
Will you be wearing all white and a straw hat?
- [35:59]
Jack Armstrong
I. I don't expect to know.
- [36:01]
Joe Getty
See you tomorrow. God bless you. Armstrong and Getty exert enormous influence and that has got to change. Okay, look.
- [36:08]
Jack Armstrong
I think the sort of deeper problem.
- [36:10]
Scott Besant
Here is they have shown themselves to the world to be the bad actors.
- [36:14]
Joe Getty
We're happy the way we are or all. No, Omar, you're not going to hear much about that on corporate television. You should be really pissed.
- [36:20]
Scott Besant
But this is the plan.
- [36:21]
Jack Armstrong
We will not be silent, so stop yelling at me.
- [36:26]
Scott Besant
Once again, pretty pleased with sugar on top.
- [36:28]
Jack Armstrong
Ozzy's crazy easy thinking. Armstrong and Gettysburg.