Rob Armstrong

And this, you know, this was maybe an acceptable situation 20 years ago for me physiologically.

But I've got to be short it now.

And like drinking more is not a money saving strategy, as it turns out.

Is it?

God, that was all worth it.

I was like, where's Katie going with this?

But we got to stagflation.

You can't lean on it too often, but once in a while you can slip that by the desk.

Hello.

Should I do a Norwegian accent today, then?

Well, I do it because I love it.

I mean, I am, as you repeatedly point out, a massive nerd about these things.

So I just love it for its own sake.

I just think it's fascinating.

But like you say, we do learn a lot from the past.

You can choose the George Santayana quote or the Winston Churchill quote or even go back to Edmund Burke.

But, you know, those that don't learn from the past usually kind of repeat some of the scripts in the future.

Well, essentially in the 19th century, there was this gargantuan, and I mean it, you know, that's, I'm not exaggerating.

It was a gargantuan buildup of railways around the world.

It was, you know, even the AI boom today, it looks like a tiny little gnat on the ass of an elephant compared to the railway boom.