the

Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington broadcast center

Armstrong and Joe getty Armstrong and getty show

we're just talking about van go the artist because a big van go thing is coming through town

and I read the most recent definitive biography on van go and the one take away was that

I don't care what your artistic abilities are what your dreams have been you wouldn't

trade places with him for any amount of money and that is so true of so many

really successful people and I think about that a lot of them raising my kids you

know and trying to don't try to raise my kids

man you want you want people to have a shot at being happy

fame wealth all that sort of stuff does not equate to happiness

at all boy is that wrong it can make a tighter a tiger mom look like the fat

gal from honey booboo I mean I just I drive my guy's always driven my kids

nothing matters but money and fame kids money and fame they can go together and sometimes

I do like Tom Hanks seems to be perfectly happy

for instance but uh van go is a miserable son of a bitch most of his life and I just did the miles

Davis autobiography spent most of his life as a miserable drug addict

in a hotel surrounded by a horse and garbage so I mean that's that's not you know

I'd rather not have the garbage

I mean he was he was running the hose he was the

Pimp Miles Davis oh yeah he spent a good chunk of his life as a Pimp

really running really low-level streetwalking hose oh boy that's a little

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