April 18, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G includes...
- Joe's deep concern for our country...
- Banking heavyweight Jamie Dimon's Ai prediction...
- Midwits...
- Some 24K gold Bull-S...
- Final Thoughts.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Taco Bell's chief marketing officer has revealed that he eats
at the chain every other day. Plans Taco Bell's new
marketing campaign, Help my blood feels thick?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
What help my blood feels thick? Too much? Caso? Tell
you what it must be genetic. My brother and I
we have the same. If you get us started eating
the spicy caso, just cheese and chips from various Mexican
(00:46):
Mexican quote eater, we can't stop. It's fantastic. My daughter
makes fun of my brother for his caso lost, but
I shouldn't talk about that. I just figured something out
earlier today. There are a handful of stories that I've
got me near despair for the country. And it's not
(01:07):
like there's no hope, because there's always hope, and the
story of Americas is reinventing itself and rising to challenges
and overcoming them and the rest of it. Counterpoint, there
is no hope, fair enough, But it finally the emotion
that I'm feeling crystallized in my head and it has
to do with the story we did earlier that nearly
(01:30):
twenty five thousand Chinese nationals have crossed the US border
in the last six months. That's a thirty seven thousand
percent increase in three years. Gee, I wonder how that happened.
Couldn't possibly be intentional by the Communist Chinese and the
Biden administration in Congress if you want to blame them
to are permitting it to happen. Twenty five thousand nationals
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of our greatest geopolitical adversary crossing the border in the
first six months of.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
This Yeah, I'm sure we have spies in China, but
we have to get them in through like normal means
and like be undercover, and the Chinese government's tracking them
everywhere they go and know where they live and listening
to their phones. We got all these people coming across
the border, we have any idea where they are not
hearing anything they.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Say and we don't care. And I just part of
my feeling is why am why am I bothering to
care so deeply about the situation the country, immigration these
issues If as quote unquote a country, nobody gives a
damn and the idea of importing that many nationals of
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our greatest geopolitical adversary and thinking something terrible isn't going
to happen. I mean, it's beyond idiotic. It's I can't
even I lack the vocabulary to describe how obvious it
is that, of course, something Dad's going to happen. It
has to.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I wonder if I just an isis K is going
to blow up something and the Chinese spies are going
to say, damn it, we were gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Gonna blow that up it. Finally, the right metaphor dawned
on me. I was talking about a loved one or
a friend who just kept going back on drugs. No,
it's the situation where you've got a buddy who jumps
off of cliffs in those squirrel suits. Oh, and he
does it over and over again. When you call me
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and tell me he died, I'm not going to say,
oh no, no, I'm gonna say, of course he did.
I'm at that point, right, Yeah, you're gonna be that stupid, unpatriotic, selfish,
short sighted, greedy whatever's motivating all this crap. Of course
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you're gonna perish in your squirrel suit. And I'm not
gonna grieve. I'm gonna miss you maybe, but I'm not
gonna act like it's a tragedy. It was you invited it,
and I'm talking about my own beloved country here. I
don't know. I don't know whether to stand on my
head and poop wood Nichols, or or move into the
woods and like a bear. I just don't know. I
don't know what to do. That first trick would be cool.
(04:03):
I'd pay to see then, if only all right, I
got to change the topic or I'll go nuts. I
found this so.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Interesting nineteen twenty. There's a whole dollar count in the
wooden Nickels.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Course. Keep in mind, folks, they're worth listen, they're made
of wood. Let's see where were we? Ah separate occasions
and reasons, but the same week, both Elon Musk no
introduction required and Jamie Diamond, the head of JP Morgan Chase,
who they both made statements about AI and what they
thought AI was going to do or be or what
(04:38):
have you. And I guess Jamie Diamond puts out this
yearly newsletter that's super anticipated, anticipated by everybody on Wall Street,
and the Diamond mines. I don't know that it has
a clever name. But Jim he writes about all debts,
and that one's not bad spelled differently, but that's what
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makes it clever anyway. So they both put out statements
about AI that I found to be intriguing. So Musk
said in an interview, quote, my guess is that we'll
have AI that is smarter than any one human, probably
around the end of next year.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
What yeah, well, ye, smarter than any individual human by
the end of next year.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yes, there are caveats, there are parentheses involved, but there
are a number of quotes here, Jamie Diamond said. Quote.
He said that AI could be as transformative as some
of the major technological inventions over the past several hundred years.
He said, think the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, computing,
the Internet, among others.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Wow, electricity, because it was who was it that said
it's bigger than fire or electricity?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I think Sundar Chai, Google CEO. Who will get to
in a second? Holy crap? He said. AI might lead
future generations to work only three and a half days
a week if they do with the rest of their
time and their purposes.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I don't know how you toss off those statements like that.
When I hear people toss off those statements, what you
can't not follow that up with which is going to
be the biggest disruption to humankind in world history, and
we need.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
To figure out how we're going to handle that. You
can't just say that it's a complete restructuring of human life. Yes,
but people don't say that, at least saying I think
people will be invisible by next year. In other news,
right a confront is moving through. Yeah. Yeah, The AI
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race to build the next big thing is sparked a
talent war in Silicon Valley. They get into how salaries
are soaring and that sort of thing. Then they quote
vinad Coslo, who's the founder of a venture capital firm
that is involved in AI ventures. He says, within ten years,
AI will take on eighty percent of eighty percent of
the jobs that exist today. I thought that was interesting.
(07:09):
That's a more nuanced take, and I appreciate it that
eighty percent of the jobs you can picture, a significant
chunk of the work will be taken on by AI,
and you will have a person who manages the AI
doing eighty percent of the product a.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Couple hours a week. So if he's wrong by double.
If his forty percent of the jobs, it would be
human changing.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
It would disrupt societies to an extent we can't even picture. Yeah, well,
because if the number of humans it takes to achieve
a certain level of productivity becomes that small. And yes,
we are more than familiar with the history of predictions
of the cottingin will cause mass unemployment or whatever jobs.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And I read all those predictions about jazz was going
to ruin the world.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And it has. We both happen to think AI is
fundamentally different because of it's not a technology, it is intelligence.
But anyway, even if it's half that, it'll be incredibly disruptive.
And then you will have the wealth produced by that
productivity in fewer and fewer hands, and to feed and
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clothe the masses of people for whom there is no
work to do. I actually think reproductive rates will fall
off even further in the developed world and the third
world will take over with guns and knives and period.
Didn't ask me about that over a drink sometime that
period in between. He's going to be really weird. Oh
you think, yeah, it's going to be absolutely crazy. A
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couple more quotes that I found intriguing. This is again,
mister Koslaw, the need to work in society will disappear
within twenty five years for those countries that adapt these technologies.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
The need to work is going to disappear within twenty
five years. So my kids will be in their thirties
forties and there will be no need to work.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Every psychologist worthy of his or her degree will tell
you living a life of purpose is the road to happiness.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, this is the break great breakdown on this whole topic,
because I have friends who believe, like some of you
jobs do in my opinion that no, that'll be the
greatest period ever for humankind will be able to flourish
with arts and literature, and that ain't. What's going to
happen is that what every rich kid who doesn't have
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to work for a living does is becomes a great
piano player or artist or poet.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Or do they greade illustration? Do they drug themselves to
death and crash a car? Yeah, they crash a BMW
indoor river? Exactly what a great illustration. Well played. One
more thought from this venture capital guy who is financing
a lot of this. Oh, I already said that, Sorry,
the technology has also led to stark warnings about the
(10:09):
future of humanity. That's funny that this Wall Street journal
writer who's doing a very nice job in this article,
and I'm sure they're a nice person. They thought that
was a change in topic to stark warnings the need
to work in society will disappear within twenty five years.
That is a warning if you understand human psychology.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
God, anybody who doesn't react to that with holy s
heeah man, you're built different than I am. Are You
have a really fanciful view of human nature.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Intelligence and wisdom are so unrelated in a lot of cases. Anyway,
I've got a few more for you. Earlier this week,
Japan's largest telecommunications company in the country's biggest newspaper, they
got together and wrote this manifesto, this editorial that cautioned
that unless AI is restrained, good luck quote. In the
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worst case scenario, democracy and social order could collapse, resulting
in wars.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, that's a worst case scenario, and social order collapses.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Some experts say productions of AI's transformative powers have been overblown.
Gary Marcus, cognitive scientists who sold an AI startup in
twenty sixteen, said AI may one day approach the level
where it can transform society. But there has to be
of vast improvements to approach the level of change people
are talking about. I hope he's right. He thinks it'll
mostly be a useful tool for a very very long time.
(11:38):
I hope he's right.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, most people don't agree with him.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes, there are more people.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
A lot of people disagree with him, and then that
crowd is split into this will be a disaster for
humankind or this will be the great flourishing of humankind
that everybody's ever dreamed of all their lives. I think
they're nuts to think that.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah. One final irony, if I might. It's so interesting
that all of the people being quoted in these articles
are so driven by a sense of purpose to develop
AI that they work ungodly amounts of time, with unimaginable
energy and harness unfathomable resources to achieve goals. And then
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they say, and when we're done, nobody will have any
goals at all, and they'll be happy. Wow, look in
the mirror, folks.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Why that is really insightful. So what gets you out
of bed every morning? Accomplishing this? You can become wealthy.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So just having.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
A enough to get by without accomplishing anything. Doesn't sound
like an enjoyable life to you, because you're killing yourself
to try to have more money and accomplish something.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Think about that for a second. These would be the
first guys who'd have a gun in their mouths, right
because they're miserable. Right, Wow, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Text Line four one te kftc Armstrong Hetty. The show
was that Monday had the coordinated protests all across the
country Pro Palestine protests, New York, Florida, small towns, big towns,
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all over the place. The one that got the most
attention with San Francisco because it took them five hours
to get people off of the Golden Gate Bridge, and
everybody in the whole country was saying, why did it's
in Florida?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I got them off there in like thirty seconds. Why
did it take five hours? You disrupted one of the
most popular bridges in America. You disrupted traffic for five hours. Well,
Katie Green's got the details is we're now learning what happened.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well, the reason it took so long is because these
jackasses ran cylinder pipes through sand barrels and then ran rebar.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Through the pipes to secure.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Them, and then poured cement over said pipes and said
sand barrels to secure it. Even more so it required
get this CHP has a disentanglement team that had to
come out with jackhammer's saws and drills to get these
guys out.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Can they work on my personal life? Hey? Now you know,
let me throw on some hiking boots and I'll be
your disentanglement team swift kick to the urse. Am I wrong?
So what you need to picture though, is that so
they stick their arms through these tubes, then they grab
onto the rebar, so they're physically holding on to the rebar.
These these idiots.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
If you're a parent, you may have had a child
do this at some point, hanging onto something and you
had to peel their fingers off.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
So you can do whatever you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Exactly all right, rying their fingers off of this rebar.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So shall we enjoy the audio and then we will
interpret it having watched the video for you, Let go
to the bar. Let go to the bar. Stop, Let
go to the bar. Let squeezing my hand inside of
my hand.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Stop the bar, stop right stop stop stop.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Let go.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
First of its pretty ingenious invention by whoever scumbag protester
came up with that barrel of cement with a hole
in it you stick your arm through grab.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I mean, that's pretty clever stuff. So two things. One,
they're barely touching him in that. Yeah, he sounds like
he's dying barely being touched, I know.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
And and then some of the time he's screaming, oh
you're hurting me. You're they're not touching him at all
at all.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
And two did you notice how he resorted to screaming
in chance, stop no squeezing my hand, stop squeezing.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Exactly the only way those people can talk to go
along with them.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Oh right, maybe that's it. You know, if you cuffed
them in the ear, he'd probably let go right on
the ear.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Kick any ass cuff in the ear. Let's not fight
over this. But there are many available methods. So this
is a great illustration of what I was talking about
the other day that these activists do. They put you
normal people's society in a situation where you have to
apply violence or something. They can portray his violence. And
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so he was screaming, oh my god, you're squeezing me,
You're hurting me, even when he wasn't being touched for
the purpose of the video, so they could make it
look like the you know, white supremacist, patriarchal cis gender
monster system was oppressing him.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
They want to make it look like Birmingham with dogs
and hoses the best they can, but they they're not
pulling it off.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
What I love about this video is that it's being
taken from the angle of the workers who are releasing
this guy's hand, so he doesn't realize that, oh yeah,
you can totally see he's not being touched at all.
Right while screaming blad So pathetic, dude.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I'm reminded of the ancient parental saying I'm going to
give you something to cry about, right Armstrong and getty.
(17:39):
Oh my god, that is so good.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That is Dicky Betts singing lead singer on a guitar
player on that Blue Sky from the Almond Brothers, and
he just died or just announced that he died at
the age of eighty.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
If you're a guitar player.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
If any Almond Brothers, oh my god, doesn't get any
better than that.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
If Dicky Betts is one of those guys, I would
listen to him sing the phone Book and I would
listen to him play Mary had a little lamb all day.
He was just so great at both.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Rank that up, Michael, that is so good. He just
played a whole song and go home, no Man. And
I saw this for some reason. I don't know if
I can make it through without tearing up. I saw
them do this song in Charlotte, and when he sang
go and do Carolina and everybody cheered him.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Just oh, what a great concert moment that was. And
his guitar playing.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
He was a jazz guitar player and he fitted into
country rock. But oh, Dwayne Almond's been dead for forty.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Years, fifty years, fifty years. Yeah, but Dicky Betts now dead.
If you're not an aficionado, listen to uh rambling Man.
That's another Dicky song that he sang played lead on.
Of course. Yeah, wow wow wow wow wow. Uh dedicate
the rest of the day to trying to learn how
to sing like Dicky beats. It's going to be annoying
(19:03):
to anyone who comes anywhere near me. But he had
some good solo stuff too, with great southern I need
to look into that. Yeah, this is the funniest thing
I've come across in a while polling. There's all that this.
I don't know who did this poll.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
They've got all the regular questions between Biden and Trump,
and then silly ones. They've got all the regular questions,
and you know we won't worry you with those. You're
gonna hear those plenty between now and November.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Uh. Polling data suggests that voter sink Donald Trump would
outperform Joe Biden in a game of monopoly.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Okay, and that one is I would agree, sober question
compared to this one.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Of course, Donald Trump wouldn't pay the guy who sold
them Park Avenue until he was so sued. You'd have
to have a new lawyer card or something. What is
this little green or red hotel? I want a gold hotel.
You don't have gold hotels. A majority of voters think
(20:06):
Donald Trump would do better than Joe Biden in a
fight against a medium sized dog. Well, that's clearly true.
I mean I don't love either of their chances, but yes,
Trump clearly well.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
As they said here in the Dispatch, Joe Biden's had
more experience with fighting medium sized dogs, though, as he said.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Several right, certainly, but Trump could whip off his tie
and fashional leash real quick in a hot dog eating contest.
Fifty eight percent of voters say Donald Trump would perform better,
only thirteen percent for Biden. Yeah, that's no place. Scooping
and a vanilla scoop of chop, those are all. There
are those questions. But that seems like playing.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
The medium sized dog is the best one I've ever
heard that. I haven't thought about that with me or
any of my friends, or like any famous people who
would win a fight with a medium sized dog?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You know, who wants to get into a fight with
a dog anyway? Well, right, right, I assume they asked
on all sorts of dog categories. But let's not get
bogged down, right. You know, it's important you laugh to
keep from going crazy during these troubled times. Found that
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somewhat distracting that poll. We got a number of texts.
I wanted to get to a couple of them.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
First of all, the term midwit came up earlier that Yeah,
it's an actual word in the urban dictionary. Someone who
is around average intelligence but is so opinionated and full
of themselves that they think they're some kind of genius.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
That's a midwit. I love that word. I'll start using it. Yeah,
basically a pseudo intellectual plagued by imposter syndrome like that
the mar woman, the new woke neo Marx's CEO of
my name is Katherine mar and pr who use the
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word uh what was the word that got me?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Intentionality twice like in sixty seconds. Who uses that word
at all? A midwit does? Yeah, we got this.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I've been complaining for a couple of days with the
media's need to call people like Marjorie Taylor Green ultra
conservatives or the very conservative Marjorie Taylor Green will not
support this Ukraine funding.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
She's not conservative. I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I don't know what the right label is for her,
but quit portraying that as conservative, and the more you
are of that, you are more conservative.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
That is not what it means, right, That's absurd. Chip
Roy is a conservative, Marjorie Taylor Green is not, for instance.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
And it's not doing as any favors to allow that
to happen or to go along with it.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Do you think that's just the standard sloppiness or do
you think they are taking glee at portraying the nuttiest
members of Congress as the most conservative.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well, I can tell you I've listened to some pretty
high level these are not midwich like high level intellectual
polypytype people discussing this. And the terms liberal and conservative
have moved so much over the centuries in lots of
different directions, as you know. And you know, when when
people use the word liberal back at the Founding Fathers days,
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that meant property rights, you know, personal freedom. That's what
liberal meant. When if you just you said liberal. Now
if somebody just says liberal, you mean probably transgender bathrooms
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
The last thing progressives are is liberal, so you mean
to be fair. The words do change a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And I heard Jonah Goldberg and somebody else discussing on
a podcast to how conservative has changed and so we
need to stop using it because it has become the
way liberal has become about nutty stuff. Conservative has become
about nutty. I don't know what word we should use,
but that word is done. It's been ruined or something.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I don't know. I don't know if I agree with that,
but most of the times when it's used talking about
somebody who's ultra conservative or very conservative, that's the last
thing they are, I'd say, like always when I hear it. Yeah, yeah, Well,
so you've got the difficulty of the changing of meanings
and times coupled with the utter dishonesty and no lack
(24:29):
of desire to be honest of the major media, which
is one of the themes of that monster. Ilse she
Wolf of the SS character is now running npr is.
She has openly stated, Look, the truth is just inconvenient.
Stop looking for it. We're not here for that.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Well, you know, all these words have always had problems,
and labels get very, very difficult. And if you want
to learn more about this or like get confused really fast,
look up conservative in Wikipedia or libertarian or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
See the eighty different flavors.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Of each that you can come up with a name
for if you want to, and then try to decide
what you are or what you want to call yourself.
I'm a fan of George Will of the Washington Post,
who's always been really big on calling himself an American
conservative because of what he's What you're conserving is the
American founding and those particular ideals, as opposed to Putin's
a conservative in Russia. Am I in favor of Putin
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being a he wants to conserve what was the Soviet Union.
I'm not for conservative. The people in Tehran they're conservatives.
They want to conserve the theocracy. I'm not for conserving that.
Either depends on what you're trying to conserve. Oh, well said, yeah,
I love that term American conservative.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I will use that. I will adopt that.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Anyway, we got this text. You're being upset about Marjorie
Taylor Green being labeled conservative is the same thing as
the Libs of TikTok being and calling every radical crazy
ass who supports Amas a liberal when all real liberals
understand what Hillary and Bill said about Hamas and that
the people in the streets are just a really bad word.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I'm not going to say not liberal. So yeah, it
does work both ways. Uh yeah, granted, granted, I am.
It's funny if I'm of two minds on this or
rather eggheaded discussion. On the one hand, I've always believed
that labels are for soup cans and generally are used
more to attack people than to describe people. At the
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same time, though I can't like if I'm describing the
woman from NPR, I can't give a ten minute summary
of reviews every time she comes up. Yeah, you have
to have labels.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
So yeah, anytime somebody says I don't believe in labels, okay, well,
then how are we gonna have a conversation? I mean,
this is gonna be really, really difficult. Well, it's gonna
be like the Lincoln Douglas debates.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
It's gonna be I talk for three hours, then you
talk for three hours, then we each get a two
hour rebuttal.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
But I don't like anybody to refer to me as
a conservative because I feel like, depending on the audience,
a whole bunch of baggage comes with that that you
can't ascribe to me.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Some of it you can.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well, we need to get into the particulars, right, So
it's difficult from that standpoint. I had another ultimate point
about this, but I don't remember what it was. Maybe
I'm a midwit. Maybe that's my problem.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
You know, I was just going to say, those of
you busily crafting texts and emails, Yeah, you two jackasses
want to talk about midwits. You auto don't just don't
don't bother. We already know all you're going to write.
We got this text earlier.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
A libertarian is a conservative without a moral compass, which
is a common thing.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You hear people say, I don't agree, but I understand
the point. You know, that's that's one. Well, never mind,
now I'm really getting egg headed. Sometimes the best thing
you can do is hear something you don't agree with
because it's another side. It's going to the other side
of your beliefs to take a look, and it strengthens
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them that it fortifies them, it changes them sometimes. But
the idea that this monster, and I am not kidding,
I am not trying to be exciting or hyperbolic, this
monster at NPR who is insisting that there can be
no truth, and so we will tell you what the
truth is seeking. The truth gets in the way of
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accomplishing things. She is as an apostle for not examining
ideas and merely sucking down propaganda. And it's horrible. Nothing
could be worse without free speech. May we be swept
taken like as sheep to the slaughter, said George Washington.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
We kind of have some breaking news on a story
that I misunderstood earlier. So as of yesterday, seven jurors
had been seated in the stormy Daniel's hush money case
seven to twelve, and the judge said, going to start
the trial on Monday.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
We're now down to five.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
When I mentioned earlier that someone had been dismissed, it
was one of the seated jurors who said, I'm afraid
they're going to put my name out there. So that
person was dismissed. Now they've just dismissed a second one.
I don't know why yet, but so now you're down
to five seated jurors. I'm thinking the trial ain't starting
on Monday. The longer it's drug out, the longer Trump
has to sit in that courtroom.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I do know that. Yeah, they're looking for twelve plus twelve,
aren't they twelve chers and twelve alternates? Yeah? Oh they
got five total. Ain't gonna make it, no WAYO. I
wouldn't think so Thursday. According to my calendar, they don't
go through the weekend, do they. No, No Justice is
a Monday through Friday, proposition Jack, No justice. On Saturdays.
(29:37):
Justice goes to its Sun's soccer game on Saturday, and
church to pray on Sunday. Right, maybe drinks a little.
It's a pizza. That's what Justice does. On the Saturday night,
Lady Justice has a couple of pops and lifts that
robe up shows a little knee. What hey, she's got
to live a little.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Maybe you put the blindfold on her because it turns
you on for some reason.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I don't know. Maybe you take the blindfold whatever. Hey,
it's none of our business, but anyway, Yeah, so just
just takes a break. On the weekend, we will finish
strong Neck, Strong and getty.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Updating my car. By the way, it's been updating for
the past thirty minutes. It says it's only supposed to
update for twenty four minutes. And when your car is updating,
you are stuck in your car if you activate it
when you're in here. So I did that, and now
I'm stuck in my car, literally dripping sweat inside my car.
It's one hundred and three degrees. So I'm slightly freaking out.
(30:40):
I hope I don't like run out of air. I
can't open up the doors through the windows otherwise I
could potentially damage my car. So I'm just stuck in here,
roasting like a freaking chicken. So yeah, I will be
stuck in my car until further notice.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Freaking Chicken is the new Dicky Bett's style tribute instrumental
I'll be writing later today.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
She got stuck in Tesla updating the software. We don't
do that while you're in the car trying to drive,
I guess, but I think you can just X out
of it if you want.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Maybe you can't. I don't know. I wouldn't want to
roast in my car and not be able to open
the doors like a frickin' chicken. Right.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Somebody said they're seating six alternates in the Trump trial.
So but then you got to get clarification. You still
got to come up with eighteen and they got five
so far. Ian Bremmer tweeted out something, I just found
a music I'd like to know what this was from,
but he said, surely the most annoying people you meet.
One of the reasons I like to read the New
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York Times. The news is good, but you get in
some of the lifestyle stuff is just unintentionally hilarious. Maybe
the lifestyle of some of the rich elite in Manhattan
is just the level.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Of self satisfaction is astonished. Well, right, And some of
the head lines and the things they talk about. I think.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Nine of your readers are mocking this and think you're pathetic.
I mean, I realize some of your Upper West Side
people agree with you how to handle when your favorite
restaurant closes or something, you know, something like that.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
But this one is pretty good. Stop going there, I
start to.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
This one's pretty good, and it's got a picture of
this really nice looking place. They loved their fourteen point
nine to five million dollar Hampton's house.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The problem their dog hates it. Good, you're kidding. I
almost used a truly unfortunate expression that includes an obscenity,
and they're oh good.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
And then and underneath it, the little subheadline is Brian
Grabel and Daniel Docus. Okay, so I wouldn't want my
names attached to this. Two dudes, a couple of gay guys.
Okay fine. Brian Grabil and Daniel Docus built their dream
home in sag Harbor, but are now selling it because
their golden Dudal Rufous gets poudy when he's there.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Oh that is art, indeed, making this upstf You come on,
admit me quotas to this history. Who prologue like your
humble patients pray gently to hear kindly to judge the
final thoughts of Armstrong and Getty. They built their dream home,
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but their dog hates it. Boy, don't let him read that.
In Ukraine, that is twenty four carrot Gold bull Less.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get
a final thought from everybody on the crew. To wrap
things up for the day. There is our technical director,
Michael Angelo.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Michael, the most troubling thing we heard today was that
AI might be smarter than humans within a year. That
means a lot of low level jobs are going to disappear,
and they're disappearing really fast.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah, absolutely true, Katie Green or esteem Muswoman. As a
final thought, Katie, I.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Just got Disregarding the protesters on the Golden Gate Bridge,
s FDA Brook Jenkins is asking those who were trapped
on the bridge to come forward and help her file
false imprisonment charges.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
No no ever, No doomed Jack. Final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
My final thought is around the one Michael mentioned that
AI will be smarter than the smartest human within a year.
Somebody pointed out the text line we're racing toward each other.
People are getting dumber while I get smarter, and we'll
meet at some point.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, good point. My final thought is I don't care
if you're a liberal or progressive, conservative or democrat, whatever.
If your uncle was eaten by cannibals, you have my
sympathy and I grieve with you.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Don't let your dog decide whether or not your new
dream house is okay.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That headline slash subhead was exquisite. It was the Mona
Lisa of that sort of thing. Armstrong and getting wrapping
up another grueling four hour workday. I don't know whether
to vomit or dance with delight. So many people thanks
a little time, got armstrong getty dot com for the hotlings.
Drop is the line, pick up some swag? Huh, we
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will see you tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong and
Getty stop stop.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Okay, it's so interesting and so vicious and horrible, and
it's so beautiful, so bad it's almost good.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
You know what I'm saying. I can undershare the word,
So let's go with a bang. I don't know whether
to stand on my head and poop wood Nichols, or
or or move into the woods and live like a bear.
I don't know what to do. That first trick would
be cool I'd paid to see then that I know.
Thank you all very much, Armstrong and Getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Taco Bell's chief marketing officer has revealed that he eats
at the chain every other day. Plans Taco Bell's new
marketing campaign, Help my blood feels thick?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
What help my blood feels thick? Too much? Caso? Tell
you what it must be genetic. My brother and I
we have the same. If you get us started eating
the spicy caso, just cheese and chips from various Mexican
(00:46):
Mexican quote eater, we can't stop. It's fantastic. My daughter
makes fun of my brother for his caso lost, but
I shouldn't talk about that. I just figured something out
earlier today. There are a handful of stories that I've
got me near despair for the country. And it's not
(01:07):
like there's no hope, because there's always hope, and the
story of Americas is reinventing itself and rising to challenges
and overcoming them and the rest of it. Counterpoint, there
is no hope, fair enough, But it finally the emotion
that I'm feeling crystallized in my head and it has
to do with the story we did earlier that nearly
(01:30):
twenty five thousand Chinese nationals have crossed the US border
in the last six months. That's a thirty seven thousand
percent increase in three years. Gee, I wonder how that happened.
Couldn't possibly be intentional by the Communist Chinese and the
Biden administration in Congress if you want to blame them
to are permitting it to happen. Twenty five thousand nationals
(01:55):
of our greatest geopolitical adversary crossing the border in the
first six months of.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
This Yeah, I'm sure we have spies in China, but
we have to get them in through like normal means
and like be undercover, and the Chinese government's tracking them
everywhere they go and know where they live and listening
to their phones. We got all these people coming across
the border, we have any idea where they are not
hearing anything they.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Say and we don't care. And I just part of
my feeling is why am why am I bothering to
care so deeply about the situation the country, immigration these
issues If as quote unquote a country, nobody gives a
damn and the idea of importing that many nationals of
(02:39):
our greatest geopolitical adversary and thinking something terrible isn't going
to happen. I mean, it's beyond idiotic. It's I can't
even I lack the vocabulary to describe how obvious it
is that, of course, something Dad's going to happen. It
has to.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I wonder if I just an isis K is going
to blow up something and the Chinese spies are going
to say, damn it, we were gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Gonna blow that up it. Finally, the right metaphor dawned
on me. I was talking about a loved one or
a friend who just kept going back on drugs. No,
it's the situation where you've got a buddy who jumps
off of cliffs in those squirrel suits. Oh, and he
does it over and over again. When you call me
(03:20):
and tell me he died, I'm not going to say,
oh no, no, I'm gonna say, of course he did.
I'm at that point, right, Yeah, you're gonna be that stupid, unpatriotic, selfish,
short sighted, greedy whatever's motivating all this crap. Of course
(03:42):
you're gonna perish in your squirrel suit. And I'm not
gonna grieve. I'm gonna miss you maybe, but I'm not
gonna act like it's a tragedy. It was you invited it,
and I'm talking about my own beloved country here. I
don't know. I don't know whether to stand on my
head and poop wood Nichols, or or move into the
woods and like a bear. I just don't know. I
don't know what to do. That first trick would be cool.
(04:03):
I'd pay to see then, if only all right, I
got to change the topic or I'll go nuts. I
found this so.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Interesting nineteen twenty. There's a whole dollar count in the
wooden Nickels.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Course. Keep in mind, folks, they're worth listen, they're made
of wood. Let's see where were we? Ah separate occasions
and reasons, but the same week, both Elon Musk no
introduction required and Jamie Diamond, the head of JP Morgan Chase,
who they both made statements about AI and what they
thought AI was going to do or be or what
(04:38):
have you. And I guess Jamie Diamond puts out this
yearly newsletter that's super anticipated, anticipated by everybody on Wall Street,
and the Diamond mines. I don't know that it has
a clever name. But Jim he writes about all debts,
and that one's not bad spelled differently, but that's what
(05:00):
makes it clever anyway. So they both put out statements
about AI that I found to be intriguing. So Musk
said in an interview, quote, my guess is that we'll
have AI that is smarter than any one human, probably
around the end of next year.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
What yeah, well, ye, smarter than any individual human by
the end of next year.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yes, there are caveats, there are parentheses involved, but there
are a number of quotes here, Jamie Diamond said. Quote.
He said that AI could be as transformative as some
of the major technological inventions over the past several hundred years.
He said, think the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, computing,
the Internet, among others.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Wow, electricity, because it was who was it that said
it's bigger than fire or electricity?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I think Sundar Chai, Google CEO. Who will get to
in a second? Holy crap? He said. AI might lead
future generations to work only three and a half days
a week if they do with the rest of their
time and their purposes.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I don't know how you toss off those statements like that.
When I hear people toss off those statements, what you
can't not follow that up with which is going to
be the biggest disruption to humankind in world history, and
we need.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
To figure out how we're going to handle that. You
can't just say that it's a complete restructuring of human life. Yes,
but people don't say that, at least saying I think
people will be invisible by next year. In other news,
right a confront is moving through. Yeah. Yeah, The AI
(06:45):
race to build the next big thing is sparked a
talent war in Silicon Valley. They get into how salaries
are soaring and that sort of thing. Then they quote
vinad Coslo, who's the founder of a venture capital firm
that is involved in AI ventures. He says, within ten years,
AI will take on eighty percent of eighty percent of
the jobs that exist today. I thought that was interesting.
(07:09):
That's a more nuanced take, and I appreciate it that
eighty percent of the jobs you can picture, a significant
chunk of the work will be taken on by AI,
and you will have a person who manages the AI
doing eighty percent of the product a.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Couple hours a week. So if he's wrong by double.
If his forty percent of the jobs, it would be
human changing.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
It would disrupt societies to an extent we can't even picture. Yeah, well,
because if the number of humans it takes to achieve
a certain level of productivity becomes that small. And yes,
we are more than familiar with the history of predictions
of the cottingin will cause mass unemployment or whatever jobs.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And I read all those predictions about jazz was going
to ruin the world.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And it has. We both happen to think AI is
fundamentally different because of it's not a technology, it is intelligence.
But anyway, even if it's half that, it'll be incredibly disruptive.
And then you will have the wealth produced by that
productivity in fewer and fewer hands, and to feed and
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clothe the masses of people for whom there is no
work to do. I actually think reproductive rates will fall
off even further in the developed world and the third
world will take over with guns and knives and period.
Didn't ask me about that over a drink sometime that
period in between. He's going to be really weird. Oh
you think, yeah, it's going to be absolutely crazy. A
(08:48):
couple more quotes that I found intriguing. This is again,
mister Koslaw, the need to work in society will disappear
within twenty five years for those countries that adapt these technologies.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
The need to work is going to disappear within twenty
five years. So my kids will be in their thirties
forties and there will be no need to work.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Every psychologist worthy of his or her degree will tell
you living a life of purpose is the road to happiness.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, this is the break great breakdown on this whole topic,
because I have friends who believe, like some of you
jobs do in my opinion that no, that'll be the
greatest period ever for humankind will be able to flourish
with arts and literature, and that ain't. What's going to
happen is that what every rich kid who doesn't have
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to work for a living does is becomes a great
piano player or artist or poet.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Or do they greade illustration? Do they drug themselves to
death and crash a car? Yeah, they crash a BMW
indoor river? Exactly what a great illustration. Well played. One
more thought from this venture capital guy who is financing
a lot of this. Oh, I already said that, Sorry,
the technology has also led to stark warnings about the
(10:09):
future of humanity. That's funny that this Wall Street journal
writer who's doing a very nice job in this article,
and I'm sure they're a nice person. They thought that
was a change in topic to stark warnings the need
to work in society will disappear within twenty five years.
That is a warning if you understand human psychology.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
God, anybody who doesn't react to that with holy s
heeah man, you're built different than I am. Are You
have a really fanciful view of human nature.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Intelligence and wisdom are so unrelated in a lot of cases. Anyway,
I've got a few more for you. Earlier this week,
Japan's largest telecommunications company in the country's biggest newspaper, they
got together and wrote this manifesto, this editorial that cautioned
that unless AI is restrained, good luck quote. In the
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worst case scenario, democracy and social order could collapse, resulting
in wars.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, that's a worst case scenario, and social order collapses.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Some experts say productions of AI's transformative powers have been overblown.
Gary Marcus, cognitive scientists who sold an AI startup in
twenty sixteen, said AI may one day approach the level
where it can transform society. But there has to be
of vast improvements to approach the level of change people
are talking about. I hope he's right. He thinks it'll
mostly be a useful tool for a very very long time.
(11:38):
I hope he's right.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, most people don't agree with him.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes, there are more people.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
A lot of people disagree with him, and then that
crowd is split into this will be a disaster for
humankind or this will be the great flourishing of humankind
that everybody's ever dreamed of all their lives. I think
they're nuts to think that.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah. One final irony, if I might. It's so interesting
that all of the people being quoted in these articles
are so driven by a sense of purpose to develop
AI that they work ungodly amounts of time, with unimaginable
energy and harness unfathomable resources to achieve goals. And then
(12:26):
they say, and when we're done, nobody will have any
goals at all, and they'll be happy. Wow, look in
the mirror, folks.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Why that is really insightful. So what gets you out
of bed every morning? Accomplishing this? You can become wealthy.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So just having.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
A enough to get by without accomplishing anything. Doesn't sound
like an enjoyable life to you, because you're killing yourself
to try to have more money and accomplish something.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Think about that for a second. These would be the
first guys who'd have a gun in their mouths, right
because they're miserable. Right, Wow, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Text Line four one te kftc Armstrong Hetty. The show
was that Monday had the coordinated protests all across the
country Pro Palestine protests, New York, Florida, small towns, big towns,
(13:29):
all over the place. The one that got the most
attention with San Francisco because it took them five hours
to get people off of the Golden Gate Bridge, and
everybody in the whole country was saying, why did it's
in Florida?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I got them off there in like thirty seconds. Why
did it take five hours? You disrupted one of the
most popular bridges in America. You disrupted traffic for five hours. Well,
Katie Green's got the details is we're now learning what happened.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well, the reason it took so long is because these
jackasses ran cylinder pipes through sand barrels and then ran rebar.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Through the pipes to secure.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Them, and then poured cement over said pipes and said
sand barrels to secure it. Even more so it required
get this CHP has a disentanglement team that had to
come out with jackhammer's saws and drills to get these
guys out.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Can they work on my personal life? Hey? Now you know,
let me throw on some hiking boots and I'll be
your disentanglement team swift kick to the urse. Am I wrong?
So what you need to picture though, is that so
they stick their arms through these tubes, then they grab
onto the rebar, so they're physically holding on to the rebar.
These these idiots.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
If you're a parent, you may have had a child
do this at some point, hanging onto something and you
had to peel their fingers off.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
So you can do whatever you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Exactly all right, rying their fingers off of this rebar.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So shall we enjoy the audio and then we will
interpret it having watched the video for you, Let go
to the bar. Let go to the bar. Stop, Let
go to the bar. Let squeezing my hand inside of
my hand.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Stop the bar, stop right stop stop stop.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Let go.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
First of its pretty ingenious invention by whoever scumbag protester
came up with that barrel of cement with a hole
in it you stick your arm through grab.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I mean, that's pretty clever stuff. So two things. One,
they're barely touching him in that. Yeah, he sounds like
he's dying barely being touched, I know.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
And and then some of the time he's screaming, oh
you're hurting me. You're they're not touching him at all
at all.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
And two did you notice how he resorted to screaming
in chance, stop no squeezing my hand, stop squeezing.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Exactly the only way those people can talk to go
along with them.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Oh right, maybe that's it. You know, if you cuffed
them in the ear, he'd probably let go right on
the ear.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Kick any ass cuff in the ear. Let's not fight
over this. But there are many available methods. So this
is a great illustration of what I was talking about
the other day that these activists do. They put you
normal people's society in a situation where you have to
apply violence or something. They can portray his violence. And
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so he was screaming, oh my god, you're squeezing me,
You're hurting me, even when he wasn't being touched for
the purpose of the video, so they could make it
look like the you know, white supremacist, patriarchal cis gender
monster system was oppressing him.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
They want to make it look like Birmingham with dogs
and hoses the best they can, but they they're not
pulling it off.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
What I love about this video is that it's being
taken from the angle of the workers who are releasing
this guy's hand, so he doesn't realize that, oh yeah,
you can totally see he's not being touched at all.
Right while screaming blad So pathetic, dude.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I'm reminded of the ancient parental saying I'm going to
give you something to cry about, right Armstrong and getty.
(17:39):
Oh my god, that is so good.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That is Dicky Betts singing lead singer on a guitar
player on that Blue Sky from the Almond Brothers, and
he just died or just announced that he died at
the age of eighty.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
If you're a guitar player.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
If any Almond Brothers, oh my god, doesn't get any
better than that.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
If Dicky Betts is one of those guys, I would
listen to him sing the phone Book and I would
listen to him play Mary had a little lamb all day.
He was just so great at both.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Rank that up, Michael, that is so good. He just
played a whole song and go home, no Man. And
I saw this for some reason. I don't know if
I can make it through without tearing up. I saw
them do this song in Charlotte, and when he sang
go and do Carolina and everybody cheered him.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Just oh, what a great concert moment that was. And
his guitar playing.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
He was a jazz guitar player and he fitted into
country rock. But oh, Dwayne Almond's been dead for forty.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Years, fifty years, fifty years. Yeah, but Dicky Betts now dead.
If you're not an aficionado, listen to uh rambling Man.
That's another Dicky song that he sang played lead on.
Of course. Yeah, wow wow wow wow wow. Uh dedicate
the rest of the day to trying to learn how
to sing like Dicky beats. It's going to be annoying
(19:03):
to anyone who comes anywhere near me. But he had
some good solo stuff too, with great southern I need
to look into that. Yeah, this is the funniest thing
I've come across in a while polling. There's all that this.
I don't know who did this poll.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
They've got all the regular questions between Biden and Trump,
and then silly ones. They've got all the regular questions,
and you know we won't worry you with those. You're
gonna hear those plenty between now and November.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Uh. Polling data suggests that voter sink Donald Trump would
outperform Joe Biden in a game of monopoly.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Okay, and that one is I would agree, sober question
compared to this one.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Of course, Donald Trump wouldn't pay the guy who sold
them Park Avenue until he was so sued. You'd have
to have a new lawyer card or something. What is
this little green or red hotel? I want a gold hotel.
You don't have gold hotels. A majority of voters think
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Donald Trump would do better than Joe Biden in a
fight against a medium sized dog. Well, that's clearly true.
I mean I don't love either of their chances, but yes,
Trump clearly well.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
As they said here in the Dispatch, Joe Biden's had
more experience with fighting medium sized dogs, though, as he said.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Several right, certainly, but Trump could whip off his tie
and fashional leash real quick in a hot dog eating contest.
Fifty eight percent of voters say Donald Trump would perform better,
only thirteen percent for Biden. Yeah, that's no place. Scooping
and a vanilla scoop of chop, those are all. There
are those questions. But that seems like playing.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
The medium sized dog is the best one I've ever
heard that. I haven't thought about that with me or
any of my friends, or like any famous people who
would win a fight with a medium sized dog?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You know, who wants to get into a fight with
a dog anyway? Well, right, right, I assume they asked
on all sorts of dog categories. But let's not get
bogged down, right. You know, it's important you laugh to
keep from going crazy during these troubled times. Found that
(21:21):
somewhat distracting that poll. We got a number of texts.
I wanted to get to a couple of them.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
First of all, the term midwit came up earlier that Yeah,
it's an actual word in the urban dictionary. Someone who
is around average intelligence but is so opinionated and full
of themselves that they think they're some kind of genius.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
That's a midwit. I love that word. I'll start using it. Yeah,
basically a pseudo intellectual plagued by imposter syndrome like that
the mar woman, the new woke neo Marx's CEO of
my name is Katherine mar and pr who use the
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word uh what was the word that got me?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Intentionality twice like in sixty seconds. Who uses that word
at all? A midwit does? Yeah, we got this.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I've been complaining for a couple of days with the
media's need to call people like Marjorie Taylor Green ultra
conservatives or the very conservative Marjorie Taylor Green will not
support this Ukraine funding.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
She's not conservative. I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I don't know what the right label is for her,
but quit portraying that as conservative, and the more you
are of that, you are more conservative.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
That is not what it means, right, That's absurd. Chip
Roy is a conservative, Marjorie Taylor Green is not, for instance.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
And it's not doing as any favors to allow that
to happen or to go along with it.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Do you think that's just the standard sloppiness or do
you think they are taking glee at portraying the nuttiest
members of Congress as the most conservative.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well, I can tell you I've listened to some pretty
high level these are not midwich like high level intellectual
polypytype people discussing this. And the terms liberal and conservative
have moved so much over the centuries in lots of
different directions, as you know. And you know, when when
people use the word liberal back at the Founding Fathers days,
(23:27):
that meant property rights, you know, personal freedom. That's what
liberal meant. When if you just you said liberal. Now
if somebody just says liberal, you mean probably transgender bathrooms
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
The last thing progressives are is liberal, so you mean
to be fair. The words do change a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And I heard Jonah Goldberg and somebody else discussing on
a podcast to how conservative has changed and so we
need to stop using it because it has become the
way liberal has become about nutty stuff. Conservative has become
about nutty. I don't know what word we should use,
but that word is done. It's been ruined or something.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I don't know. I don't know if I agree with that,
but most of the times when it's used talking about
somebody who's ultra conservative or very conservative, that's the last
thing they are, I'd say, like always when I hear it. Yeah, yeah, Well,
so you've got the difficulty of the changing of meanings
and times coupled with the utter dishonesty and no lack
(24:29):
of desire to be honest of the major media, which
is one of the themes of that monster. Ilse she
Wolf of the SS character is now running npr is.
She has openly stated, Look, the truth is just inconvenient.
Stop looking for it. We're not here for that.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Well, you know, all these words have always had problems,
and labels get very, very difficult. And if you want
to learn more about this or like get confused really fast,
look up conservative in Wikipedia or libertarian or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
See the eighty different flavors.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Of each that you can come up with a name
for if you want to, and then try to decide
what you are or what you want to call yourself.
I'm a fan of George Will of the Washington Post,
who's always been really big on calling himself an American
conservative because of what he's What you're conserving is the
American founding and those particular ideals, as opposed to Putin's
a conservative in Russia. Am I in favor of Putin
(25:22):
being a he wants to conserve what was the Soviet Union.
I'm not for conservative. The people in Tehran they're conservatives.
They want to conserve the theocracy. I'm not for conserving that.
Either depends on what you're trying to conserve. Oh, well said, yeah,
I love that term American conservative.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I will use that. I will adopt that.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Anyway, we got this text. You're being upset about Marjorie
Taylor Green being labeled conservative is the same thing as
the Libs of TikTok being and calling every radical crazy
ass who supports Amas a liberal when all real liberals
understand what Hillary and Bill said about Hamas and that
the people in the streets are just a really bad word.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I'm not going to say not liberal. So yeah, it
does work both ways. Uh yeah, granted, granted, I am.
It's funny if I'm of two minds on this or
rather eggheaded discussion. On the one hand, I've always believed
that labels are for soup cans and generally are used
more to attack people than to describe people. At the
(26:22):
same time, though I can't like if I'm describing the
woman from NPR, I can't give a ten minute summary
of reviews every time she comes up. Yeah, you have
to have labels.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
So yeah, anytime somebody says I don't believe in labels, okay, well,
then how are we gonna have a conversation? I mean,
this is gonna be really, really difficult. Well, it's gonna
be like the Lincoln Douglas debates.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
It's gonna be I talk for three hours, then you
talk for three hours, then we each get a two
hour rebuttal.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
But I don't like anybody to refer to me as
a conservative because I feel like, depending on the audience,
a whole bunch of baggage comes with that that you
can't ascribe to me.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Some of it you can.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well, we need to get into the particulars, right, So
it's difficult from that standpoint. I had another ultimate point
about this, but I don't remember what it was. Maybe
I'm a midwit. Maybe that's my problem.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
You know, I was just going to say, those of
you busily crafting texts and emails, Yeah, you two jackasses
want to talk about midwits. You auto don't just don't
don't bother. We already know all you're going to write.
We got this text earlier.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
A libertarian is a conservative without a moral compass, which
is a common thing.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You hear people say, I don't agree, but I understand
the point. You know, that's that's one. Well, never mind,
now I'm really getting egg headed. Sometimes the best thing
you can do is hear something you don't agree with
because it's another side. It's going to the other side
of your beliefs to take a look, and it strengthens
(27:52):
them that it fortifies them, it changes them sometimes. But
the idea that this monster, and I am not kidding,
I am not trying to be exciting or hyperbolic, this
monster at NPR who is insisting that there can be
no truth, and so we will tell you what the
truth is seeking. The truth gets in the way of
(28:13):
accomplishing things. She is as an apostle for not examining
ideas and merely sucking down propaganda. And it's horrible. Nothing
could be worse without free speech. May we be swept
taken like as sheep to the slaughter, said George Washington.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
We kind of have some breaking news on a story
that I misunderstood earlier. So as of yesterday, seven jurors
had been seated in the stormy Daniel's hush money case
seven to twelve, and the judge said, going to start
the trial on Monday.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
We're now down to five.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
When I mentioned earlier that someone had been dismissed, it
was one of the seated jurors who said, I'm afraid
they're going to put my name out there. So that
person was dismissed. Now they've just dismissed a second one.
I don't know why yet, but so now you're down
to five seated jurors. I'm thinking the trial ain't starting
on Monday. The longer it's drug out, the longer Trump
has to sit in that courtroom.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I do know that. Yeah, they're looking for twelve plus twelve,
aren't they twelve chers and twelve alternates? Yeah? Oh they
got five total. Ain't gonna make it, no WAYO. I
wouldn't think so Thursday. According to my calendar, they don't
go through the weekend, do they. No, No Justice is
a Monday through Friday, proposition Jack, No justice. On Saturdays.
(29:37):
Justice goes to its Sun's soccer game on Saturday, and
church to pray on Sunday. Right, maybe drinks a little.
It's a pizza. That's what Justice does. On the Saturday night,
Lady Justice has a couple of pops and lifts that
robe up shows a little knee. What hey, she's got
to live a little.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Maybe you put the blindfold on her because it turns
you on for some reason.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I don't know. Maybe you take the blindfold whatever. Hey,
it's none of our business, but anyway, Yeah, so just
just takes a break. On the weekend, we will finish
strong Neck, Strong and getty.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Updating my car. By the way, it's been updating for
the past thirty minutes. It says it's only supposed to
update for twenty four minutes. And when your car is updating,
you are stuck in your car if you activate it
when you're in here. So I did that, and now
I'm stuck in my car, literally dripping sweat inside my car.
It's one hundred and three degrees. So I'm slightly freaking out.
(30:40):
I hope I don't like run out of air. I
can't open up the doors through the windows otherwise I
could potentially damage my car. So I'm just stuck in here,
roasting like a freaking chicken. So yeah, I will be
stuck in my car until further notice.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Freaking Chicken is the new Dicky Bett's style tribute instrumental
I'll be writing later today.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
She got stuck in Tesla updating the software. We don't
do that while you're in the car trying to drive,
I guess, but I think you can just X out
of it if you want.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Maybe you can't. I don't know. I wouldn't want to
roast in my car and not be able to open
the doors like a frickin' chicken. Right.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Somebody said they're seating six alternates in the Trump trial.
So but then you got to get clarification. You still
got to come up with eighteen and they got five
so far. Ian Bremmer tweeted out something, I just found
a music I'd like to know what this was from,
but he said, surely the most annoying people you meet.
One of the reasons I like to read the New
(31:44):
York Times. The news is good, but you get in
some of the lifestyle stuff is just unintentionally hilarious. Maybe
the lifestyle of some of the rich elite in Manhattan
is just the level.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Of self satisfaction is astonished. Well, right, And some of
the head lines and the things they talk about. I think.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Nine of your readers are mocking this and think you're pathetic.
I mean, I realize some of your Upper West Side
people agree with you how to handle when your favorite
restaurant closes or something, you know, something like that.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
But this one is pretty good. Stop going there, I
start to.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
This one's pretty good, and it's got a picture of
this really nice looking place. They loved their fourteen point
nine to five million dollar Hampton's house.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The problem their dog hates it. Good, you're kidding. I
almost used a truly unfortunate expression that includes an obscenity,
and they're oh good.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
And then and underneath it, the little subheadline is Brian
Grabel and Daniel Docus. Okay, so I wouldn't want my
names attached to this. Two dudes, a couple of gay guys.
Okay fine. Brian Grabil and Daniel Docus built their dream
home in sag Harbor, but are now selling it because
their golden Dudal Rufous gets poudy when he's there.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Oh that is art, indeed, making this upstf You come on,
admit me quotas to this history. Who prologue like your
humble patients pray gently to hear kindly to judge the
final thoughts of Armstrong and Getty. They built their dream home,
(33:24):
but their dog hates it. Boy, don't let him read that.
In Ukraine, that is twenty four carrot Gold bull Less.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get
a final thought from everybody on the crew. To wrap
things up for the day. There is our technical director,
Michael Angelo.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Michael, the most troubling thing we heard today was that
AI might be smarter than humans within a year. That
means a lot of low level jobs are going to disappear,
and they're disappearing really fast.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah, absolutely true, Katie Green or esteem Muswoman. As a
final thought, Katie, I.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Just got Disregarding the protesters on the Golden Gate Bridge,
s FDA Brook Jenkins is asking those who were trapped
on the bridge to come forward and help her file
false imprisonment charges.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
No no ever, No doomed Jack. Final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
My final thought is around the one Michael mentioned that
AI will be smarter than the smartest human within a year.
Somebody pointed out the text line we're racing toward each other.
People are getting dumber while I get smarter, and we'll
meet at some point.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, good point. My final thought is I don't care
if you're a liberal or progressive, conservative or democrat, whatever.
If your uncle was eaten by cannibals, you have my
sympathy and I grieve with you.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Don't let your dog decide whether or not your new
dream house is okay.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That headline slash subhead was exquisite. It was the Mona
Lisa of that sort of thing. Armstrong and getting wrapping
up another grueling four hour workday. I don't know whether
to vomit or dance with delight. So many people thanks
a little time, got armstrong getty dot com for the hotlings.
Drop is the line, pick up some swag? Huh, we
(35:10):
will see you tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong and
Getty stop stop.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Okay, it's so interesting and so vicious and horrible, and
it's so beautiful, so bad it's almost good.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
You know what I'm saying. I can undershare the word,
So let's go with a bang. I don't know whether
to stand on my head and poop wood Nichols, or
or or move into the woods and live like a bear.
I don't know what to do. That first trick would
be cool I'd paid to see then that I know.
Thank you all very much, Armstrong and Getty
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