The A&G Replay Friday Hour Three

Published May 24, 2024, 4:47 PM

Hour 3 of the Friday May 24, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay features...

  •  Anti-Work Movement
  • Saudi Arabia modernizing its cites
  • AI Predictions
  • Fake AI Porn, Marijuana Use and Addiction

From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio and the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.

So I've got some interesting stuff here, kind of on taxes, capitalism, socialism, possible revolution coming our way.

I was up lately, Wait a minute, that last one.

I was having trouble sleeping last night, so I went to one of my favorite Reddit threads, which is anti work. It's got millions of followers. We've talked about it over the years. It's unintentionally hilarious the millions of people who don't believe in work.

I'll talk more about that in a second, but first this tax thing. This is a guy who wrote a piece about taxes.

I had never heard this before and explained something that I've wondered about for a long long time.

His name is Brian Mitrovic.

With his explanation of the convoluted taxation system that made the nineteen fifties materialism possible, we continue to hear a drum beat for higher tax rates, in particular on high earners and corporations, on the grounds that we used to have higher rates and we did just fine. An essential aspect of the fiscal structure of post World War II prosperity was the high tax rates. And you hear about that if you're anti if you want to bring the tax rates down, you hear about all time.

Well you used to have a tax rate much higher than this. Blah blah blah blah blah. I've always been kind of ouch.

You know, I don't have an argument against that. But that doesn't see, it doesn't fit right somehow, Well it doesn't. Here's why the federal government objectly declined to collect taxes at posted rates because of the deduction culture. High tax rates existed as a holdover of Herbert Hoover FDR and World War Two. But the public, especially it's rising and affluent and members, made clear it was not going to comport with them, and the government obliged and did not enforce the rates and instead offered massive suites of legal tax avoidance opportunities.

Everybody went along with this.

We did not get this halcyon days while in any material way having.

High tax rates.

We got this while not enforcing high tax rates due to high deductions any of the stuff. Because when I was young and started paying tax rates, there was all this tuxa talk about deduct this, deduct that, and I never could whenever i'd look into it. That was the older generation who grew up at a time where you could deduct all this different stuff, And that's what explains those high tax rates from back today. You could deduct all kinds of stuff. The car you drove is a business expenseer. Just all these different things that went away and we don't have anymore with the current high tax rates.

Just like this so called rack rate that you sometimes see on the door of your hotel room that nobody ever pays. It's a legal maximum, or like the actual tuition at your state university. Only Chinese nationals actually pay that. Yeah, nobody paid those rates.

Right, so I did.

And that also explains why my whole life, especially from older people, is always but you got to do that, And I think I've looked into that. They say no, and I always had, ama chump, Do I have a bad tax attorney?

What? No?

That was just a previous era where the government is all about all these different deductions for people to figure out how to get out of that high tax rate.

That explains a lot to me.

The word chump is underappreciated in the modern day. In my opinion, you'd go fine and non obscene insult.

Yeah, you don't want to be one?

No, So I believe a couple of months ago I was advocating for both Chump and Sucker to reappear on the scene.

So do I have time here? Yeah? I got a little time for sure.

So the anti work reddit thread, which we've talked about before, has several million people on it. And here's the description of what it is. It's a subreddit for those who want to end work. Okay, let's stop right there. The hell does that mean?

I love that? What the hell does that mean?

There are millions of people following a subreddit that's premises we want to end work.

Anyway, I'm gonna start a Twitter thread that advocates for.

The end of aches and pains, good luck, or the inability of people to fly with by flapping their arms.

Yeah. Oh, I had, like for the second or third time in my life, a dream where I could fly the other night.

Oh, I used to have those all times, I really had. They're awesome all there. So did you have really good control? I was always a little out of control in a little wall. Did you have good control while you were flying around.

No, it was funny.

I had concern because I thought that I'm not sure I get the aerodynamics of this, but it seems to be going pretty well, and I don't need I don't want to stall out over this river. But it wasn't like fear. It was just let's see, if I have to ditch, I'll ditch over there. But then I came in for a nice soft landing.

Wow, I don't think I've had a pleasant dream in thirty years. Really yeah, Wow, that can't be good, right.

No, So anyway, I need to crack your head open try to figure out what's going on.

Anti work.

It's a subredit for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work free life, want more information on anti work ideas, and want personal help with their own jobs work related struggles. And people bitch about their jobs and what they're getting paid. And then the comments are just priceless from all these people who think this is a thing. But anyway, so here's just one of the posts and the reactions that I was reading last night. I'm doing ten times more work at the office than people in the nineteen eighties. Why in the hell do I still have to work forty plus hours a week. Here's the explanation. With computers and emails and Xcel and word and PDF and Adobe and snipping tool, etc. I'm doing about ten times or work at the office than people before computers. If you need a report, instead of going to the archives searching for numbers, blah blah blah, I can do it in like twenty minutes with emails and teams messages.

I can spam thousands of people with information.

But instead of working less, I worked the same hours as people forty years ago, despite getting ten times more work done.

We are being exploited.

Either we should be working one tenth the hours or a page should be ten times higher.

I have a hilarious argument.

Wow, I would actually enjoy engaging with this person because the explanation's pretty ABC one two three, it's easy to understand.

But right on, well, I'd like to just adopt his argument and going onto you know, just say hey, back when they had to do this with a horse, it would have taken a week. I did it like fifteen minutes. So either I need to get off work now or get paid nine hundred times more.

Uh. And then so here's some of the responses.

And then they have the audacity to tell us that we're not working enough and have no work ethic. Hey, mister delusional rich guy, I'm doing ten times amount of work for nearly the same pay as forty people forty years ago.

It's not a wonder. I don't want to work that much.

And then another response, have you seen the costs involved in being a rich guy lately? Imagine staying in the Barcelona Harbor on your thirty million dollar yacht, feeling like a peasant while the real olive arts casually discuss whether to buy another island or travel to space.

Wow, this is like a trip to the zoo. I'm fascinated by these beasts.

Correct, we still spend way too much time in corporate office? Is enough time and not enough time at homer or enriching our lives. If you do the slightest amount of research, you'll find you have way more free time than your parents' grandparents than their parents did by far, because it doesn't take you. For instance, speaking of being able to do more work faster, it doesn't take you seven hours to do laundry, for instance.

Yeah, sure, yeah, here's one.

They haven't shortened it because from the employer's point of view, why should they. You want to not start to death or freeze in the streets. Here's what I'm offering. Don't like it, just dive in essentially, Yeah, thank you. There's somebody who at least grasps it partly and then and then tons of these no matter what the topic is on the anti work is because you haven't organized with your peers to overthrow the system that exploits you. Yet they get into capitalism a lot that this is how they always keep socialism for flourishing the way it should and lots of revolution. We need a revolution, we need a revolution, We need a revolution. Who's with me? It's gonna happen. I'll bet you within ten years. I'll bet you within five years. I don't know what Briton. This is all anecdotal, but there are millions of followers on this thread. It's it's nonsensical in its premise for people who don't want to have to work. And what percentage of people think a revolution needs to happen because are our awful capitalist system?

I don't know.

And the notion well that I mean we could spend the next three and a half hours exploding that notion. But as the free market to capitalism has brought wealth, health, and longevity to the entire human population, unevenly, certainly.

But I mean the.

Idea that greater productivity is somehow a theft from you is really a head scratcher for me.

Here's one more on like it.

You go ahead, Your boss can skim ten times the value out of you. Back in the eighties, boss man needed to exploit ten people to get his new Porsche. Now he gets that out of just you, and a mansion out of the other nine. All of these bosses have yachts and Porsches and mand islands in islands.

Yes, Jesus probably would have killed you himself. Yep, I hear you.

Wow Wow that Gallagan, Uh wow, that is something. I mean, I knew that those people still existed, but who don't get how markets work at all. And again, the idea that, Okay, I'm going to show up for eight hours a day, you got a new machine that makes me more productive, Well, that old level of productivity was obviously God's own level of productivity, and anything in excess of that is it left from me.

I mean it's alert.

Well, now we have that taken care of by a machine. Now I need to hire somebody to do this. Would you like to do this for this amount of money as opposed to that for that amount of money.

You either do or you don't.

So when AI comes along and you just show up for one minute a day to hit the start button, as if you know that'd be necessary, you need you deserve a full salary because that's the same productivity as the nineteen eighties, where you know, forgive me as a gray headed gentleman. I worked in the nineteen eighties and we worked plenty hard.

Yeah, that was kind of funny, as I am old enough to know some of the errors that they're talking about. I was working myself and it wasn't quite what you were picturing.

Yeah, yeah, I just I'm sorry. I just find that so cute. I know, well, yeah, I find it troubling.

Yeah, all the revolution stuff, and I'll read I can read some more that later on different topics that came up, But all the revolution stuff is highly troubling. And again I don't know if that's a half a one percent of people, you know, because this is a big country. You can have several million people on one following and it's still if that's all there is.

But I don't know.

And I fitted in with the tax rates because I think a lot of that, you know, yachts islands, porsches talk, is what allows taxes to be what they are because of that ridiculousness going on.

You know, I keep threatening to write a book. I might write a book on.

The the effect the Internet has had on.

Fertilizing stupidity in.

That obviously, and we've discussed this on many occasions. You can have a truly idiotic idea and you kick around your town bringing up your truly idiotic idea, like some of those we just heard, for instance, and people.

Will say, no, Joe, you can't. That's not how it works.

It's the productivity blah blah blah, the free market blah blah blah. Oh all right, I'm either talked out of it or just realized nobody agrees with my student idea. But now with the Internet, I can find ten thousand a million people, maybe ten million worldwide, which is a vanishingly small number of people, but who agree with my stupid, stupid idea.

And I start to think my idea is not stupid. It's a good idea. Look at all these people who agree with me, right, and we've got to take a break.

But a lot of the posts that were just nonsensical between the way they were written in the vocabulary. People are clearly educated and not bilm So they got this at college or something. And then I remembered I've got this. I'll get to more later. Only a third of people in this poll say, or a third of people in this poll say they learned nothing at all about finances in school, sing yeah, well, that's how you end up with these conversations. I guess what a bunch of numbskulls arm shrong.

The Armstrong seven.

Are you hip to Saudi Arabia's GNEM project? I think that's how you pronounce it. It's a MSB's insane development that's going to turn Saudi Arabia not into an oil desert shake them, but like a modern twenty second century hub of all sorts of stuff. His idea is a skyscraper, and I can't remember how high is it supposed to be. It's taller than the Empire State Building, and it's going to be one hundred and five miles wide, taller.

Than the Empire State Building, but one hundred and five miles wide or one hundred and five miles long, if you would like to describe it like that.

It's going to house nine million people.

It's what it's known as the Line, and it's the flagship of this unimaginably ambitious know him project.

So I know he's big on as a guy who's in his early thirties, he's big on the the US being rich because oil ain't gonna last forever.

Have you heard of electric cars?

We got to come up with a new way to be you know something, or we're going to we're doomed. So that's pretty smart right right now.

The first phase by twenty thirty, was supposed to be ten miles of this Empire State Building.

How do you get your wall of China thingy? How do you get your camel in the elevator? Oh? Unfortunate.

But now they're realizing that the country is spending far more than it's taking in costs of explode did because building costs are up like forty percent globally, and so now they're just gonna build one point five miles of the structure by twenty thirty, which is I mean, that's, you know, a sixth of what they were talking about.

But wait a minute.

You got a skyscraper a mile and a half long, and that's the scaled back not as ambitious.

Excuse me, first step. Joe brought us the story last week of the snowfer.

That's right. It's not a sneaker, it's not a loafer. It's a snowfer.

Yeah, I'm looking at the picture of it. I hadn't seen a picture of it. It's coming out in the spring. It's from New Balance. I think it's a particularly ugly shoe, but we'll see if it catches on. It's the foot The Wall Street Journal did a review of this. It's the footwear equivalent of a spork, and no one knows what to make of it. Like the Liger combination lion tiger, that's right, Napoleon Dynamite's favorite animal.

It's probably my favorite animal.

Like the Liger, the cronut and the true before it. What's a cronut is a croissant and a donut. But what's a chortle?

A sure anybody know what that is?

No, this shoe is a confounding hybrid released in August.

I think it's ugliness is going to be part of its ironic appeal.

Why do we need a sneaker loafer combo.

So you can step out of church and mow your lawn in the same footwear?

Yeah, it really is. I don't know, yes, Katie Green. Look, what can you tell us about the chortle?

The chortle is the cross between a chuckle and a snort. Well, okay, so it is actually the the laugh. Oh okay kind of laugh. But that's way different than liger or cronut. I would not have included that it's a distraction.

No bad journalism.

Uh, how's America doing? The Pentagon wanted to find out. They paid a think tank to come up with the answer. We've got that for you, coming up from the Rain Corporation, and it's it's. First of all, you're not going to disagree with any of their conclusions exactly, it ain't good. Can we just whistle past the graveyard please and pretend everything's fine? That might be the best way to approach it. That might be the best way to That might be my new attitude on life. What's you know not I can do about it? Give up is that giving up.

I don't know. It's a lot like giving the Armstrong and Getty show.

Yeah, your show podcasts and our Hot Lakes and the arm Strong and Getty Show.

Toyota has a new patent for a new technology that would allow drivers.

To freely change the color of their car.

It's great if you and your family love wandering the airport parking lot for days.

So what, you can change the color of your car. Yeah, there are a couple of different things happening here. The one Toyota's working on is the less interesting to me. It's essentially the the coating on the car is affected by heat and light. So you can go to a facility and go through this weird tunnel the car can and and they will manipulate the heat and light in a way that makes well, that's pretty cool. So much faster, I'm assuming cheaper than like a rap like I did. Oh yeah, or getting it repainted or don't have paints anymore.

It's wraps. All about the wraps. That's excellent, I do not doubt it. So that's one thing.

But BMW at the latest Consumer Electronics Show, I'm sorry it was actually two years ago, unveiled the the BMW i X Flow featuring e Ink a little lengthy if you ask me, But it's capable of changing the color of the car at the click of a button. It's it's so super high tech and cool. But you can not only change your car from black to white and back again, but it has flow mode where it like has it's you know, to ten, twenty percent of the car is black, the twenty percent is white, twenty percent is black, twenty percent of white around that and it flows. The color flows around the car in motion. Well yeah, yeah, you can't have bunches of cars with animated crap roll on because people are wreck all the time.

Oh that's a cool car crash. Okay, Well, I don't know. That's a horrible idea. What about car theft? Somebody steals a blue car, they change the color and lays red.

All right, yeah the coppers. As if the cops look for stolen cars, yeah, they'd be looking for the wrong color.

This.

There's a great article with some embedded video about this under yesterday's hot links at Armstrong and geddy dot com.

Interesting.

I wonder if that's just the future and a lot of your a lot of cars you just you know, whatever mood you're in her and to match your outfit, I don't know.

I suspect pretty strongly that will be possible. Yeah, awesome, or patterns maybe fourth of July you have a red way right right right right, Christmas time you go red and green.

Yeah, that sort of thing.

To throw on a little camo for Veterans Day or something like that, to tip your cap to our veterans.

Speaking of the wonderful technological future that can only be good. More technology, smarter computers can only be good. Ian Bremer, friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show, is featured on a PBS special that I think airs tonight that I would like to watch, called A Brief History of the Future. Anyway, he's featured on there talking about AI, and here's one of the quotes from it. We are now at the beginning of a new globalization in ways that even a year ago, never mind twenty, seemed inconceivable.

The fact that globalization through.

AI is going to happen in a way that was inconceivable a year ago. I don't even know where to start with that, so I won't. I will just leave that alone and recognize I'm not prepared for the future. Yeah, I've got this piece I read I was talking about briefly yesterday. I guess it was Jamie Diamond and Elon Musk both given their opinions on what AI is going to do, and they both have a very very cautious view, a concerned view of what's probably.

Coming down the road. And then they quoted a computer expert who is much less worried about it. But the problem with his quote, and I don't have it in front.

Of me, but did he work in is Google or Microsoft or any of the other companies that are spending billions of dollars to get this going.

He may well be involved in some level. I thought he was an academic. But what he said was essentially, I don't really see anything coming in the near future that I'm concerned about. But if you're in the business, you've got to understand that's the whole point of this thing. Nobody knows what it's going to look like. Like I was about to say a year, never mind that in a month.

God, I think the chances that it's a big nothing burger are almost zero.

Well, part of his contention, maybe I had to just dig up the article, is that it's so glitchy and prone to making mistakes and so mockably inaccurate. At this point, people are going to trust it at this point, but.

For a long time. Two months.

If Bean Bremner, who does this for a living and he tries to stay on the cutting edge of everything, says things are happening that were unimaginable a year ago, well then you have no idea where we're going to be a year from now. Anyway, moving on from that, we knew this was going to happen, But all school districts are grappling with the challenges and impact of AI in a couple of different ways. So it started last year by the sudden popularity of chatbots, chat GPT and all that sort of stuff. We're schools all across the United States. We're scrambling to try to figure out how to contain text generating bots cheating papers that the kids didn't write. And nobody's gotten their arms around this yet, obviously, and there may never, may never.

There just may be.

No way to stop my kid from saying, hey, chat bot, write me a paper about the Battle of Gettysburg that sounds like a sophomore and it does. Yeah, then you turn it in and there might not be any stopping that. In fact, I don't think there probably is any stopping that. But now onto the more alarming thing for now, which we all knew is coming. AI image generating phenomenon is shaking schools all across the country, and it's happening at the same time in all kinds of districts.

We had a local story here, but it's happening all over the place.

Boys in several states have used widely available, widely available neutification apps.

I like the fact that that's the name of the appttles.

You let you know right there what it is, right, neuification apps to pervert real identifiable photos of their clothed female classmates shown attending events like school proms, into graphic, convincing looking images of girls. Well, this is one of my favorite lines from the article. Convincing looking images of girls with exposed breasts and genitalia.

Oh you mean naked?

Oh? Thanks than body parts that would be included in the nudity.

For those unfamiliar with the genre, right, oh nude. In some cases, boys shared the faked images in the school lunch room, on the school bus, or through group chats.

Thanks once again for mentioning the lunch room and the.

Bust oh right, different places that where school boys might interact.

Yes, boy, that is some good writing.

So first you had to describe to me what nude means, and then you had to give me a little primer on where kids hang out in school.

Settings, students who are described as looking at the images with their eyes and then talking about them with their mouths.

Right, But getting away from the hilarity of the writing, this has exploded at schools all across the country at the same time. So they haven't even wrapped their heads around how they're gonna do with cheating and well, a number of things I've read is papers are just gonna have to go away. There's gonna have to be a lot of oral tests to figure out if you if you know things or do it college style.

You you got to do me three pages, you have an hour do it sit down? Right?

Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that kind of test in Yeah, yeah, almost guaranteed.

That's what's going to have to be.

I can't imagine any way around it, which might be fantastic from a learning standpoint, but so they don't know how to get their arms around this and this. I just don't think you can. I think this is just like the papers. There's no getting around it.

Yeah, and I have a bunch of stuff including we're going to feature some of the brand new Jonathan hype book The Anxious Generation, and it's getting so much attention next hour, but a bunch of different issues affecting kids, whether it's the AI nude stuff or what have you. And I'm just afraid there are going to be adults who see the the gravity of the issue, and it is very, very significant, but they're going to like try to ruin the lives of thirteen year old boys who behave exactly like thirteen year old boys always have behaved and always will behave. Is it uncool that they're doing this? It's extremely uncool. But a lack of judgment is what children have. Don't treat them like adults. They're not Rvy Weinstein, right.

They use an example of one high school near Seattle, but police detectives started investigating fourteen and fifteen year old boys who had been showing the pictures around and then grabbing their computers from home and all these different sorts of things.

First of all, once.

This is exploded, and it may have all read I mean, by the time adults are reading about it in the New York Times, it's probably so prevalent all over the place. What are you going to have law enforcement going into homes and grabbing computers in every town in America over this? It just seems unrealistic.

The phenomenon is trading them as if they're child pornographers.

They're not. There's something fundamentally different.

The phenomenon has come on very suddenly and maybe catching a lot of school districts unprepared and unsure what to do. Well, you can try to get prepared, but I don't know what it would be, And yeah, there's nothing you can do. It's like you've said before, And I think you're absolutely right. People are just going to get used to it and ignore it, and then I think a lot of the excitement will go away.

I think, yeah, you can certainly have regulations within a school saying, you know, you're not allowed to trade or view or whatever nude images on school grounds or it's part of the student code of conduct, but it's got to be dealt with societally as opposed to through law enforcement. You know, sixteen year olds giggling over a picture of a classmate attached to a nude body. Essentially, it's rude, it's uncool. I get how it hurts the girls, but we've got to get past it somehow, and like draconian prison sentences for children is not the way to go.

Well, I'm not for it, but is it going to hurt the girls eventually?

I mean when everybody's doing it with everyone, I mean the pictures, making the pictures with everyone. Yeah, just okay, so you got eighteen different fake pictures of the Jenny naked.

Okay, who cares? It's not real? Right exactly?

The appeal will go away and the revulsion will go away to a large extent.

I think it'll be like you're an idiot. But it's so effortless from what I understand.

So all you've got to do is have ap picture of any classmate and with the neuification app just tell you know, make your naked ride a horse and there you got it.

That's how hard it was.

This is half a tangent, but got this note from Marina and San Diego talking about some of your comments, and then are subsequent follow up on therapy. Really appreciate the point made about ruminating on the problem. That's never good. But isn't that what the Dei folks are doing rather than finding solutions that work that Joe often points out I try like better education, early childhood, more business mentorship programs. They harp on the past, which cannot be changed. No amount of money can erase the stain. They want to focus on the trauma rather than take steps to heal. Shortening this up a little bit, but yeah, and that is one of my major major gripes with whether it's the Dei stuff, which is neo Marxism anyway, and so they have every interest in really really throwing fuel on the fire of grievance as opposed to a solution. But even like the Me Too movement, a lot of these modern movements that identify victims and try to get changes because the victims have been so victimized to exactly what Jonathan Heighte again and Greg luke Yanoff wrote about in previous books, and that is that they fixate on the trauma and they roll it over and over and over again, and they catastrophize everything to the point of saying a microaggression is violence and you should treat it like violence, and the person who the person who is mildly insulted by somebody who's mildly and sensitive should fall to their knees weeping.

Otherwise, you've let the racist patriarchy get away with their sins.

So they've encouraged catastrophizing the smallest of the slings and arrows we all deal with in life. And that's, you know, with all due respect to the humiliation right now of a teenage girl who all of a sudden there are pictures kicking around that appear to be of her nude, I do not minimize that at all. Let's not catastrophize it, because that's the tendency in modern society, and I don't think it's healthy.

Especially since there's no stopping it. Right to come to a way to accept it?

Yeah, I say, you know, obviously this is is oversimplified, but hey, this is a talk radio show. We need a hell of a lot more of you must be I'm sorry, we need a hell of a lot less of you must be devastated, and a whole hell of a lot more of.

You're gonna be fine. You're strong, you can deal with this. I'll help you.

You go to a therapist. Every therapist, not everybody. Eighty percent of the therapists are gonna tell you your parents were narcissists, or your ex wife or ex husband was a narcissist, or your boss is a narcisst. They're gonna tell you all that's just what they tell you. And you're say, that's a funny coincidence. I'm a narcissist and you're a victim of whatever, and just you know, all right, strong.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong and Getty Show.

So a couple of stories from the world of merit.

You want to Number one, cheating on the workplace drug tests has reached an all time high for folks at Quest Diagnostics.

Work quite drug tests. They're still drug testing for marijuana.

Yeah, even though it's legal, and that's all over the place, right, and the imperfections on all right, are you stoned now or were you stoned last night?

Or oh right, you're saying your system for long term? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, which is one of the other articles we're gonna get to.

But yeah, people using synthetic urine, other people's urine or urine that's been treated with drug masking agents.

But I guess the labs are getting better at better.

I gotta start selling my urine perfectly drug and alcohol free urine. You're gonna test positive for donuts, but I don't think that'll keep you out of work.

Oh, your urine is like a NAPA cab. I mean it's the finest charge, one hundred and twenty five bucks a bottle. Big piece in the Wall Street Journal. What you aren't hearing about marijuana's health effects. There's more and more science linking it to psychiatric disorders, permanent brain damage, and other serious harms. Part of the reason is you think of the brain as gray matter, right, there's also white matter. Fat fat insulates your brain. Mine in particular, I got a fat head. But the TCHC lodges in that fat and gets released over time into your brain, and they just we are at the very beginning of understanding what the strong new mind eracing pot does to young brains especially.

I think we may look back on this time.

There was the way we treat our young people as saying, oh my god, we were letting kids smoke that powerful a psychoactive drug.

Well, this has bothered me for a long time. There have been some good op eds in the New York Times about this. We got so enthused with the momentum of the hippie generation to not treat marijuana like heroin, which I understand why you shouldn't treat marijuana like heroin, but it was just all positive. This was fantastic. Everybody should do it momentum there for so long that you know, alcohol is not even that way, and everybody shouldn't do it, and certainly not to excess, and certainly not when you're young. Yeah, they're talking about this big study. It's Mass General Brigham McLain hospital. He has had enough names for you hospital anyway. The addiction potential in marijuana is higher, higher than many other drugs, especially for young people. About thirty percent of those who use cannabis have some degree of use disorder. By comparison, only about thirteen and a half percent of drinkers are estimated to be dependent on alcohol. Anybody who tells you marijuana is non addictive as a liar.

What that's interesting that you say that what percentage.

Of about thirty percent for cannabis have some degree of a use disorder? Now that might be you know, I'm in the habit I smoke it when I probably shouldn't, or it might be hardcore addiction and psychotic problems.

So that's a broad range, but that's a lot.

That's interesting that you say that, because that's always been the talking point is that it's non addictive.

It's it's addictive in kind of a different way than other drugs are. There's huge psychological addiction prime I've.

Known a couple of people like that. I mean, they were clearly addicted.

But yeah, yeah, anyway, And this is as always, this is not some sort of high and mighty kids these days with their refair. No, I just I don't want kids to do things that are terrible for the brains and hurt themselves for the rest of their lives.

I've known drug casualties. I know you have too. It's sad, it's not funny.

They will never be right, they will never have happy, productive lives because their brains are messed up. The idea that hey, I'm gonna mess with my brain chemistry, then it'll go.

Back to normal no matter how many times I mess with it, well, and that doesn't work that way.

And the pot one is it's different than like the hard drug casualty, and that I've known a few people that just they just don't get off their couch and do anything. Yeah, I mean that's its own kind of sad life.

Yeah.

So anyway, not here to lecture you, just to make good decisions, you know, honest with yourself about what you're doing and how you're doing it.

I certainly try Armstrong and Getty

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