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Now broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Welcome to Replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show.
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We are on vacation but boy do.
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We have some good stuff for you.
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Yes, indeed we do. And if you want to catch up on your ang listening during your travels, remember, grab the podcast Armstrong and Yeti on demand. You ought to subscribe wherever you like to get podcasts. Now on with the infotainment. The story is entitled the Bride of Chinese Frankenstein. I mean you got Chinese Frankenstein, of course, you got to have his bride. And in the race to make designer babies, some great coverage in the free press about a very very odd story. This guy's name is he Jiang Kyu. I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that this guy is semi infamous. You may actually recall the story that he, he actually was a brilliant student, left China, went to Stanford and went back to China and he ultimately got arrested and jailed for three years for illegal medical practices. He was, he had. He announced in 2018 that he had created the world's first gene edited babies, twin girls. He said he designed to have a trait very few humans are born with immunity to hiv. They called me Chinese Frankenstein. He told me.
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I didn't know journalist, I didn't know what you were going to say. They were edited to have a trait no human beings have had if they could fly or see through walls or what it was going to be.
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No, turns out it's immunity to hiv, which is, you know, certainly lovely. So anyway, but China jailed him partly because it was so incredibly controversial. Now though, he is still in China, not supposed to leave, he's getting together financing to open a lab in Austin, Texas. There he said he would do Alzheimer's research on monkeys and non viable human embryos in hope of figuring out how to one day edit human embryos in order to prevent the disease. His great competitor in this field, weirdly enough, is his ex wife. They appear to have been married for about three months.
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By the way, I took a pass on going into some sort of monkeys with Alzheimer's bit. I decided it was distasteful but good.
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Thank God. Enter Kathy.
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Is that banana? I had it.
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I had it just as. Oh no, no, no. It's not funny. There's no humor there. You're right. Enter Kathy Tai, a 29 year old Chinese born Canadian Thiel fellow. Last year she co founded a genetic engineering company in the US that's trying to create. All right, there is humor to be had here. Just everybody feel free to join in. She's co founded a genetic engineering company that's trying to create the next generation of pets, including dragons, unicorns and Glow in the Dark Rab.
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Well, finally, the long desired need not satisfied for so many glowing rabbits.
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Tired of misplacing your rabbit at night? Can't tell you how many times I've stepped on a rabbit in the dark. Right, right. Dragons, unicorns and Glow in the Dark rabbits. But this week she unicorns interview.
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What sort of sad, inbred, genetically modified pet is going to be the unicorn that comes out of this plant? Good lord, you're going to give that to your daughter for her sixth birthday and she's going to shriek in horror.
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Well, they're specially designing tanks where narwhals can mount female donkeys until they get it right.
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Oh.
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Anyway, let's see. Oh, so she gave an interview with NPR this week, I guess, and she said, yeah, we're going to do that and we will explore how to do gene correction in human embryos more safely. We want to be the company that does this in the light, with transparency and with good intentions. So.
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Which is interesting because how many companies around the world, whether it's in Russia, China, North Korea, or maybe in our own labs in the United States, are doing this secretly?
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Probably a lot of people are. So the fact that you got a guy who has been called Chinese Frankenstein and the bride of Chinese Frankenstein is in the same field is just a little too much.
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Hey, that's hurtful.
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According to these people, they call what they're doing the man a Manhattan Project. The stakes, to be fair, writes the journalist, the stakes here are existential. According to their defenders, designer babies, as they're colloquially, colloquially known, are a way to fast track evolution. To that end, different publication, the Wall Street Journal. Inside Silicon Valley's growing obsession with having smarter babies. Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high IQ embryos. They want to raise high performing children.
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Why is it always that? How come they're not looking for a surly bald man?
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I can provide that. So they mentioned this mathematician who spent seven years researching how to keep an advanced form of artificial intelligence from destroying humanity before he declared, concluded that stopping it was not possible, at least anytime soon.
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I agree with that part. I do agree with that last part.
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Well, yeah, and oddly enough, I think this story is proof of it because I remember in the early days of gene splicing. People were like, now we need to be very careful because we're playing God here. And what if people decided and it's like, yeah, they're doing it now full speed ad they're spending tremendous amounts of money. And our best brightest minds are 100% dedicated to that. But anyway, so this AI doomsday guy said he's now considered turned his considerable brain power to promoting cutting edge technology to create smarter humans who will be up to the task of saving us all. And Silicon Valley. Evidently interest in breeding smarter babies is peaking.
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You know, what an interesting side to that. I don't know if they've thought this through. What's your experience with super smart people? A lot of them are miserable and nuts. In my experience.
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Yeah. There's a pretty good share of either miserable. So antisocial they can't get along with anybody. Mental illness problems because they're so isolated and they just see the world so differently than everybody else. And, or, and I read this at an early age and it made. It was. Was it Edison? Somebody had this wonderful quote about what tools don't bring you success? That it's all about hard work. And one of them was intelligence. Unfulfilled genius is a cliche. And so, you know. And we're kind of jumping to the end here, which is fine. She describes all of the tech CEOs that prefer Ivy League. They're charging them up to a half million dollars trying to get them the smartest woman they can or just her embryos and blah blah, bl. So they can have the smartest kids they could possibly have.
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That's so wild. If I was given the choice. And I would never want to play God like this with my kid anyway. But if I was given the choice between a kid with 160 IQ or.
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Average, I'd go average.
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Because I think I'd be like just committing a kid to a lifetime of misery.
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In large. Yeah. In large percentages. Yeah, Absolutely true. Well, and then, you know, the, the lack of insight and intelligence and wisdom are separate traits. I become completely convinced of that anyway. Not curiosity.
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Absolutely.
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You're not breeding for curiosity or capacity.
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For hard work or morality, if that's.
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Genetic morality or dedication to a cause. I'm just thinking from the perspective of these tech geniuses. Wait a minute. It was a lot more than intelligence that made you what you are today. It's all sorts of traits. God, it's probably intelligence.
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Probably way down the list of the reason Elon Musk. Elon Musk Or Thomas Edison, or pick your person was able to do what they did. Like you said, unfulfilled genius is a cliche. I mean, just there's so many other pieces of the puzzle you got to have.
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And I remember there was a study came out, made a hell of an impression on me. And I'm sure there's a whole field of this that I'm just not familia with. But the different sorts of intelligence, and I think they separated it into seven different sorts at the time that ranged from like mathematical, musical intelligence, emotional intelligence, athletic intelligence because it's your brain directing your muscle fibers. Athletics and learning and adapting and perfecting a skill. How is athletic prowess not a form of intelligence since it's all driven by your brain? Anyway, I had an ultimate point of just that.
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The sort of raw, too dumb to remember it.
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That's, that's a big part of it. Yeah, but how many of those different aspects of intelligence are necessary or even more important than just raw computing power? So, I mean, because IQ on one level, which is impossible to measure, you could describe as just chip speed.
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Yeah.
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How fast, how effectively does your brain function, how fast does it learn? But that's just one of a number of qualities that I think lead to success. Even in a field like tech, where.
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Everybody'S a super genius and the history of the world is all technology is co opted by the military for military use. Or porn. I don't know how this is going to be affected by porn, but one of the rare cases where I can't see a porn application for this, but obviously a military application. I mean, see all the Marvel movies. If you could actually breed a super soldier like Bucky and Captain America are in those movies. China's doing that right now.
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Yeah, Silicon Valley, they love iq. Said Keon Sedegi, founder of Nucleus Genomics. But again, what is your life experience that leads you to believe that extra.
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Smart people are who you want around you?
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But that's not necessarily what parents elsewhere value most. Said this guy who's running one of these companies, you talk to mom and pop America. Not every parent is like, I want my kid to be, you know, a scholar at Harvard. Like, no, I want my kid to be like Lebron James. Wow.
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Okay.
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All right.
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How much you want your kid? I want my kid to be happy. I want my kid to be, you know, own a house, be married, have a couple of kids, make a living and be happy. That's what I want.
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I say, why don't we pluck this fruit from the Tree of Knowledge and wolf it down and then enjoy its delicious taste.
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Liz Warren fell down on the Senate floor yesterday, and to everyone's surprise, didn't even yell Geronimo. Her new Indian name is fall on ass.
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Oh, that's pretty funny. How y' all doing? So we got some good newsy stuff for you. We talked about this expensive bed on the One More Thing podcast a while back. This really expensive mattress, which.
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Oh, I remember that. Yeah.
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I'll hit you with the price here in a moment, because if you haven't heard about this, it's shocking. We actually walked by one of these stores. It's Hostins. I don't know how you pronounce it. H A S T E, N, S. It's Scandinavian, so I don't know how they pronounce it, but they don't have many stores. The beds are ridiculously expensive. And we walked by one of the stores on Park Avenue in New York. We were leaving Central park and I was walking. We were walking along all these ridiculously expensive stores and, oh, my God, it's one of those bed stores. But you had to have an appointment, and we were not dressed for people to go in and look at these kind of mattresses. I would have loved to have laid down one. I don't even know if they'd have let us.
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Sorry, poor people, we can't allow you in here.
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So I. I don't remember how I came across this over the weekend and reignited my interest in this sort of thing, that it exists, but. So I went on ebay, and there's one available on ebay that's used, so they only want $48,000 for it. This used mattress comes with the box spring. So it's mattress and box spring for $48,000.
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There you go. Yeah.
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And the owner of it, since I put it on my watch, sent me an offer yesterday, took $4,000 off. They're only asking $40,000 now for this mattress and box spring. This mattress is made of horse hair and some particular rare kind of horse and cotton. It's all natural materials. It is said by reviewers. I remember when I talked about this on our podcast, the person who reviewed it, I think, for the New York Times, said it's ridiculously overpriced and nobody is ever going to buy one of these. But it is unlike sleeping on anything you've ever slept on. It's as if you're suspended. You're just floating. You can't even tell or any. There's any pressure on any of your body. You're just kind of floating there. And it's amazing. But the original price on this particular mattress and box springs that I'm, you know, I'm trying, I'm deciding whether or not to pull the trigger at 40 grand was $84,000. 83, 980, please. $84,000 for a mattress and box spring?
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Look, if you fly private all the time, go ahead and buy the horse hair mattress. We prefer sex workers hair, by the way. Jack these horse.
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The beast of burden.
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Oh, I apologize. I'd misunderstood. But if that's your lifestyle, go ahead. If not, that's insane. Don't you remember that email we got from a Galaxy? She said, yeah, we bought one of these things and you've got to like have the horrors hair massaged every two weeks. The most uncomfortable thing ever, though.
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That's part of the upkeep. Yes. You have to have its. What is it called, a rejuvenation or something like that. Somebody needs to come into your home at least once a year and re massage it to make it. But I was just reading a review from somebody who's got one on Reddit. They said if you have the person come and rejuvenated all the time, it feels they've had it for four years. Feels exactly like it did on day one. If you don't get it rejuvenated, you have a very expensive sack of garbage. They said. But wow, I would like to lay down on one. There's a store in Silicon Valley. No surprise. I might, I might have to go over there sometime and I'll wear my suit jacket and try to look like I belong there and make an appointment and lay down on one so I can report back. Isn't it amazing though that anybody would ever pull the trigger on a 4, $84,000 mattress and box spring?
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Like a lot of things, I think it exists so you can mention that.
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You have it, but I can't believe they sell enough of them to be able to even be a company. You wouldn't think you'd sell two a year.
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There are thousands of billionaires. And how every day, I don't know.
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The bed's supposed to last longer.
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I don't know. Maybe they get you. They sleep very. You know, I would think if I.
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Walk into this, I would think if I'd have walked into that store in Park Avenue, I'd been the first customer in six months. You saw one I don't know.
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Anyway. You here on purpose, sir? Oh, yes, yes. Oh, my Lord. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Okay, okay, okay. It'll be okay. All right. Here we go.
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All right.
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Yeah. You know, it's funny, I was just reading that according to several organizations, companies, people that would know, American consumers are going way towards thrifty now. A lot of luxury buying is down, generics are up. Bulk buying is on the rise. Even your fancier burritos are going unordered in your eateries.
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Your fancier burritos.
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Yeah. Well, trust me when I tell you, like Chipotle, they keep very, very careful track of what is being ordered and what's not. And they're seeing a trend toward lower dollar.
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Wow. So maxed out credit cards, student loan payments coming back, probably a certain amount of uneasiness about the future. That'd be.
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I mean, I would never buy that.
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Bed anyway, but I would never be able to sleep because I'd be thinking, God, if the economy really crashes, I'm going to feel like an idiot.
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On this $83,000 bet, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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The Armstrong and Getty show.
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The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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I saw some of the pushback there in Venice about the Bezos and his wife wedding. There's a lot of protesters. They unfurled a giant sign in the middle of whatever square that was there.
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Did it say how much work is too much with a picture of her face? No.
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That was a giant sign that said if you can afford this wedding, you can afford to pay more taxes.
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Okay, all right. Anyway, so some fairly shocking economic numbers out about the purchasing the spending of 18 to 24 year old adults. It fell 13% year over year. 13%'s a lot. It's a huge drop. Spending by older groups is still on the rise but has slowed significantly. They mentioned a combination of economic challenges. Young grads are having a much tougher time finding jobs. Student loan payments are restarting for millions.
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Of borrowers for that crowd. I know a few people in that situation and it has been quite the shock to their system because I know some people with some pretty big nuts, if you'll pardon the expression that they've got to be able to meet. And all of a sudden you have a 500amonth bill that you didn't have before and you somehow were convinced by an ancient president you were never going to have to pay.
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Right. Little AOC and the mummy president convinced you that you shouldn't have to pay those. It's unjust. Yeah. People, they believe that stuff. Which is why I warned my kids. Don't believe it, man.
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This could be.
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That could be a lot of it.
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You are not spending money on going out to eat and concerts and maybe travel if all of a sudden you're paying an extra 500 to $1,000 a month.
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No need to speculate. I have those numbers. You're absolutely right. Plus over the roughly the past year credit card delinquency rates have risen to the highest points since pre pandemic levels. Highest for those 18 to 29 years of age. They quote a bunch of experts and economists. Expenditures. This is among 18 to 24 year olds on video games is down 24%, 23% year over year. Where are the rest of those numbers? Apparel is down 11%. Accessories is down 18%. They don't get how important it is to accessorize accessories. I technology is down 14%. Small appliances down almost 20%.
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I was going to get a toaster, but I guess I won't. Small appliances. I like those kind of statistics. But like my own anecdotal evidence, and this is completely anecdotal. I live in a wealthy college town. The goddy's college kids are out to eat all the time, dressed cool, talking on thousand dollar phones. That's not what I was doing when I was in college. I was eating beanie weenies. Five cans for a dollar from the food club to get by. I wasn't going out to eat Every day at expensive restaurants, which is what happens in my college. But again, that's anecdotal.
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But yeah, I would say that is. That is the anecdote that misleads, honestly.
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Well, you can't deny that there are a lot of people living lifestyles you shouldn't lead at that age or income level, and that's why you're in financial trouble.
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Hence the credit card link. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely true. Yeah. It's all part of the same. Stu. I was just thinking about the shocking number of foreign students paying full tuition and snapping up spots that American students could have in university after university. I saw some of those statistics recently and they're unbelievable. Anyway, so take a look. Look for that as a continuation.
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Maybe I should add into my commentary. I know, and this is taking anecdotal to another level, but I know at least a half a dozen people that are in that group who tell me how broke they are all the time or how they could use more hours if they could get them because they're really in tough financial straits. I think you live like you're a 45 year old with a really good job and you're 20.
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Yeah.
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So maybe you wouldn't be in a bind if you didn't.
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Yeah. Actually, that is the part of the article I should have told you. The headline is goodbye fancy bar, hello at home pizza party. Young Americans cut back.
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Yeah. Okay.
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Yeah. And they have to, obviously. So let's talk about the super rich, Jack. The other end of the economic scale. The rich and their prenuptial agreements. Attorneys say prenups are only becoming more common for people of all wealth levels. But for those with net worths that are nine figures or larger, that would be 100 million bucks. Right? Nine figures.
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Wow. Okay.
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Those agreements become sophisticated legal instruments to protect assets, business empires, and finally, family dynasties.
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I don't know what I think about prenups. I really don't. I've gone back and forth on my, my. I personally would be much better off if I had done it, but I don't ever really think that I wish I had. So I don't. I don't know. I don't know.
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So I. I know a little bit about prenups, but not very much, having been married since we were 11 years old. But here's some examples. Prenups can dictate who gets.
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That's Kanye.
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Ah, yes, the great philosopher Kanye. Prenups can dictate who gets access to the private jet, how the thoroughbred horses are cared for, and who Gets to say what about the divorce on social media, the embedded confidential reality agreement can even prohibit disclosing the ex of the prenup itself.
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Well, that's funny. You have to have a prenup that includes who gets to say what on social media. As Kanye would say, because when she leaves your ass, she's going to leave with half.
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Oh, well said, gay ultra wealthy. Prenups must address assets that can't be easily split or sold. Don't worry, we'll get catty in a second. Such as startup equity that can't be traded in public markets, carried interest in private equity funds, royalty streams from intellectual property, and family trusts with complex distribution rules. And if you don't have like crazy planning the distributing those assets can lead to painful trade offs, financial trade offs, not to mention years, if not decades long legal battles and everybody in the family ending up hating each other. It's tough to generate too much sympathy for the ultra wealthy. But what are you going to do?
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She says she's going to buy Tycho with your money, but she only gets lipo with your money. Money, money. Who has listened to to gold digger 1,000 times? I have, that's who.
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Oh, wow. It's a catchy tune. I understand the appeal. So where is the. Where's my favorite part? Oh, here you go. Prenups can lay out. Who in a divorce supervises the packing of personal belongings? Wow.
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God, that would be awful. Can you imagine anything worse than getting down to those details of argument Or.
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Or require a spouse to move out within 30 days. So before your nuptials, you are saying you're negotiating? All right, look, when and if we get divorced, I will be in charge of hiring the company that packs up all of your belongings to move them out. Because I don't want you stealing anything.
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Right, and you're gonna have that conversation while you're all in love.
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Right? Right.
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Oh, I love you. I love you too. Let me look deep into your eyes while you look deep into my. You know, if we ever split up, and I think there's a decent chance we do, I think you'd probably steal. So I got this piece of paper that says somebody needs to watch you.
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And I'll need you to move out within two weeks. Two weeks? Come on, I gotta find a place to live. All right, four weeks. Look, make it a month. Make it 30 days. All right?
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I know.
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All right, you gotta be out within 30 days.
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Here's a good one. I know someone who got hit with the prenup, like just two Weeks before the wedding had never come up in conversation before the idea of it. And then they got. I'm going to want you to sign this. And then it was, like, too late to pull the plug. I mean, you could, obviously, but it's a lot harder to.
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Sure. Yeah. Some clients demand that their prenups. Here we go. Stipulate that a spouse maintain a specific weight.
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Yes.
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Say within 20 pounds of what it was on the wedding day.
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Oh, that's fantastic. A prenup weight agreement.
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Honey, I'm gonna need you to come on and step on the scale. Looking like you might be breaking some rules here.
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An excellent point, Katie. To enforce the prenup, if anybody's getting close, somebody's got to say, all right, we need to have a way. You, I'd put in the prenup. I would never do this. But if you were going to. The only way to make this less contentious was. Part of the prenup is we have to have weekly weigh ins. Both of them.
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Us. Right. Well, one guy's thing is you go ahead.
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Otherwise you end up in a situation like Katie's talking about. Hey, I just noticed when we were at the pool on vacation, you look like.
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You look a little porky there, sweetheart. Yeah. One common thing is you've got to stay within 20 pounds of what you are on the wedding day or what? I don't know.
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I saw you come out of the sauna, and if you're not 210. My name's Marco Rubio. I mean, so I think we should get the scale out.
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Well, and if you're looking for a trophy wife or husband or something, I mean, that just. That ends. Is she just. Or is he just marrying me because I'm young and hot? Well, yes, yes. It's being made very, very clear here. If you gain 21 pounds, you're in violation of the prenup and you lose your rights to, God knows, I don't know, the house, the car, money, whatever. Or it says you've got. Well, for instance, here's another one, a prenups. There's one prenup says you agree to exercise four times a week during the marriage.
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That one seems hard to enforce.
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There's gotta be a subclause about if you have the flu or a similar disease. Others want financial penalties for cheating. One attorney described a client seeking a million dollar payment for each affair.
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See, that's. You know, some states have that. That's one of the problems with the. Get into the so. So if one person cheats and then you go through the divorce laws the way they are and you're going to get lose half your stuff. For somebody who violated the vows, that just seems so incredibly uncool to me.
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But on the other side of it, here's an Atlanta attorney. Well, go ahead. Did you have one more point on that?
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Well, I'm not a misogynist like you, so I wanted to point out that it could be the other direction for the weight gain. I've known a number of women who are very unhappy that they got married and their husbands gained like 50 pounds.
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And what are you going to do? Anyway, here's an Atlanta based divorce attorney. He recounts a professional basketball player client who insisted his prenup acknowledged that, quote, NBA players are known to have affairs, so cheating could not trigger costly penalties. It was a get out of jail free or, you know, I'm going to have affairs clause in the prenup. Well, why even get married?
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I know I got no success to lean on as a. But I just. Yeah, I, I can't imagine you get all that taken care of and now you're walking down the aisle starry eyed and happy with each other. Happiest day of my life. Now that we've worked out that you can't gain more than £10 or I'll put you on the scale and hold you to it, or, you know, all these other different things. I need to be watched while I pack boxes if we do split up because I can't be trusted. I mean, where's the magic?
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Nothing says love like getting the lawyers involved. And here's a New York deforest attorney, a woman who says every prenuptial agreement is a power play. It's exciting for them to have this control, but the leverage goes to whoever cares less about the marriage. If you're willing to walk away, you hold all the cards. Wow. Wow.
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That'S rough.
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That is so foreign to my life experience.
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Yeah, I know.
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I'm. I'm so lucky. Wow. Whoever cares less about the marriage holds all the cards. Yes.
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I think.
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Disgusting. I'm sorry.
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I think, because it would. I agree. But you know, I'm not married, so I haven't pulled it off. I think you got to sneak it in. You do? Like I weighed my truck the other day. On a truck scale. I don't know if you've ever been on a truck scale, but it just, it looks like the driveway. It's just that the driveway floats and so you got to do that under their chair at the table or like Their easy chair where they watch television. You make that a scale.
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Have a digital readout on the back.
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Of it or on you, you know. Yeah. But an app on your phone. So they sit in their chair and think 195. Okay. Man, he's two pounds away. Yeah.
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A digital readout on your couch. There you go.
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You need to secretly weigh him. That's my point.
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She sits down. Oh, you know, I found the salad recipe for dinner. It's going to be great. Yeah.
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I can't believe a weight guarantee in the prenup. That's a funny one.
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Wow. Oof.
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Love More on the way Stair the.
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong.
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And Getty Shows you like me.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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So my investigative journalism has paid off. Yet another key fact that makes the hot self important drunk chicks in Rhode island story even more hilarious.
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Oh, okay.
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I wasn't sure in what order to list those adjectives. Hot drunk self important chicks.
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I think the hot part because you only get traction at all because you're a hot chick with this sort of behavior, right?
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Militant, loud, nasty looking chick exhibits this sort of behavior too in political settings. Lately it's the angry grad school lunatic screaming at the cops. What are you doing? What are you. Why are you arresting him at some, you know, pro Hamas rally or something? Something like that. It's kind Of a cousin to the drunk, self important, hot chick syndrome.
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Anyway.
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So here's a question for you. First of all, you know more about drunks in general than I do. These women, particularly the special assistant attorney general, name of Devin Hogan Flanagan, who was. Who was busted by the cops. You know what? I'll ask my question after we play the tape. Go ahead, Michael. This is what it sounded like. The cops trying to get him to leave a restaurant.
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You're trespassing. We got to leave now.
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Unless you want to be. We're not trespassing.
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You haven't notified us that we're just.
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What did I just say to you? Number one, I don't want to arrest you guys.
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You're not going to arrest us.
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Number two, we got to go.
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I'm an ag. I'm an ag.
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Good for you.
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I don't give a. Let's go. We're leaving.
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Please don't put your hands on us.
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I'm an ag.
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I'm an aggressive buddy. You're going to regret this.
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The fact that she apparently.
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Can I buy those cops a drink, please? I would like to sit down and enjoy a libation with you fellas. Well done.
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The fact that she literally seems to believe that as the attorney general.
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The top cop assistant attorney general.
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But. Well, she's saying I'm the. I'm an ag. Anyway, you're part of the top cop office. That the laws don't apply to you. I mean, that's what you're saying.
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That's a.
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It's a heck of a thing to say out loud.
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Well, and here's my favorite part of it, other than that they tried to show that they indeed were the reasonable ones by trying to kick out the windows in the cop car. The cops had told him repeatedly, I don't want to arrest you. All you have to do is go. They've asked you to leave. Just go. I don't want to arrest you. You're not going to arrest us. Okay, so let's leave. We gotta go. We gotta go. The officer replies, no, you can't make us. You can't arrest us. I don't want to arrest you. Just leave. See the. No, they had to sit there.
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The normal drunken reaction to that would be, whoa, I have really lucked out here that all they're doing is asking me to leave. I am going to get out of here to avoid any further problems.
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Well, and just to give you a sense of how it was inside the restaurant, the following exchange took place. The cop can be heard on the camera asking a restaurant employee, do you just want them out? Do you want them trespassed? The employee says, anything we can do trespass? Yes. So here's a question for you as a guy who's somewhat familiar with over in bibers. These two hotties will take complete responsibility, quote unquote, and say, I have a problem with alcohol. I am an alcoholic. It is a disease. You wouldn't, you wouldn't fire somebody for having a disease, would you? If I had Covid, would you fire me?
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No.
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It's a disease. Oh. Is the primary problem that they're drunks or is it hard to separate?
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No, no, no, it's not.
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Or is it that they're a holes?
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It's their a holes. I've known thousands of drunks. There's only a certain personality that ever.
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Acts the Armstrong and Getty show. Get more Jack, more Joe podcasts and.
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