From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington broadcast center.

Yeah, Armstrong and Joe Getty.

The Armstrong and Getty show.

So I was thinking I've got new family dynamics, which I've talked about, and I'm not going

to talk about much because it wouldn't be fair to people who are not on the radio.

But my biggest concern with my new family dynamics is I just, I want my kids to be involved

in extended family bigger gatherings. That sort of thing is much I hate socializing.

I do like that sort of thing. And Americans are doing it less and less just all the way around based on these statistics.

This is from an op-ed in the Washington Post. It hurts my heart. It's not surprising in the least.

I think it's going to kill off our society if not all of Western civilization, but here you go.

COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on our social lives as we all know.

You know what? It didn't. Not really. It did for me.

It did for some people. It didn't change my life really many. I don't think any.

I think there was one less visit with grandma and grandpa, but just one.

You know what? Yeah, that was the one thing. I did not get to see my mom nearly enough in the last two years of her life,

which was sad, but it is what it is. But in terms of social life, no, because as you know,

I live in the wilds of red counties and we just carried on. We tried to be reasonably safe,

but then we lived our lives.

Has watching Margaret Brennan on the fascination yesterday.

Oh my God. Is she a piece of work? She's just so COVID obsessed.

But they said in their piece, many people gathering for the first time in two years.

And they said, what? This COVID still thing last year. I don't remember it being a thing.

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