January 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Monalisa news & the amendment tweet
- Jim Acosta's vomit inducing goodbye announcement
- China's DeepSeek AI & the Apple Vision Pro
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty Armstrong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
South Dakota Governor Christy Noan was sworn in on Saturday
as the Homeland Security Secretary, and she hasn't been this
happy since the end of Marley and Me.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That's a pretty good joke.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I disagree with the knocking of her for shooting those animals,
but I thought that was a funny joke.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I would agree.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We have breaking Mona Lisa news, breaking Mona Lisa news.
So the most visited and largest museum in the world
is the Louver in Paris, France. I've never been there.
I hope to attend to someday. I will not see
the Mona Lise I've known for my entire adult life.
I will never see the Mona Lise. And that's fine,
because there ain't no frequent way. I'm standing in line
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for two hours for one painting with a bunch of
numb nuts who want to get a selfie with it
so they can put on their Instagram.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I just wait in line for two days to see
it because I've heard of it before, and I could
then tell people I.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Saw it right.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Eighty percent of the people who go to the Louver
and what did I just read? Three million people a
year due again, the largest most attended museum in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Eighty percent of those go for the Mona Lise.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Okay, wow, fine, fine, But so they've been talking about
this for years and now they're going to do it,
and Emmanuel mcrone made an announcement today standing in front
of them Mona Lisa. I'm going to move it into
a separate room. It's kind of adjacent to the Louver,
its own room with its own entrance and its own
line and its own ticket, and then the rest of
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us who want to go see the other gazillion things
that are perfectly fantastic don't.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Have to wade through that crowd to try to see it,
which just seems like a good idea.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I could see going on like a cold, rainy day,
just because it's so iconic. I'd think, oh, wow, that's wild, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Not actually anti looking at it, But I ain't standing
in the line for two hours for it. When you
only have a limited time to look at every standards,
it's just dumb. But I will say this which argues
against me. I've seen two paintings in the last two
years that are iconic that I'd never seen in person,
and they looked much different person, strikingly impressive in person
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in a way that they never had in any photo
I'd ever seen, the Irises from Van Go and then
the one I saw in DC. Just recently, one of
Monet's Impressionist paintings, one of his most famous ever, leaves France,
but they made some sort of special deal with the
National Gallery for an Impressionist exhibit, so it just was
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there briefly. It's already gone, and seeing that in person
and seeing the way it was painted was like I'd
never I would have never been able to pick that
up from any picture. It's more impressive than it was.
So maybe the Bona Lease would be that way. I
don't know, But again, I'm not waiting in line with
a bunch of numbnuts. It's like I was saying when
I came back from Washington, DC, why are most of
the people there. It seems pretty clear to me walking
around museums and monuments, very few people want to be there.
(03:32):
None of the kids want to be there, and very
few of adults even seem to want to be there,
So why.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Are you there?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Why did you do something else for those of us
that want to be there so it could just be quieter.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, that is an interesting phenomenon. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Or maybe it's that they just they don't enjoy it
nearly as much as you do, and so they behave
very different.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I really think there's just a lot of I need
to tell people I've seen this. I think I don't know.
And my favorite example of being annoyed by crowds is
being at the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in Rome.
You know, the big Michelangelo painting over your head with
God reaching out to Adam or whatever, and they're trying
to touch fingers of that whole thing over your head.
(04:12):
I mean, it's absolutely amazing, but it was so packed
in there and so loud, and every couple of minutes
an announcement would come on.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Please, this is a church, this is a place of worship.
If you could be quiet, please please, this is a
place of worship. And then the crowd would get down
to fairly quiet, but then it would go cack cooffey again.
Then the announcement.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Come on, this is a church, this is a place
of worship, please because and then it get a little quiet.
But then within and I mean in seconds, not over
a half an hour, in seconds, after people had heard that,
listen to it. There's something important about what this is
about mankind.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I think I just wish God would reach his mighty
hand down from the ceiling and do some smiting.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Enough giving the spark of life? How about your whoop?
Some mess?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Two seconds, people say, oh, we probably should be quiet.
This is a church and everything other people are talking.
I guess if other people are talking, it's okay for
me to talk.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I don't carry more. I don't carry more. Oh, there's
the announcement again. I guess I should be calling. I
really don't like human beings making me insane.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, and that's why deface didn't ended up in a
Roman prison for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Wow. Wow, you ever been in a Roman prison? Johnny?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
So this bears one more tip of the cap. Joe Biden, or,
accordington Nelly Bowles of the Free Press, whoever was wearing
his skin.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Suit last week.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
That would be a week before whoever was running the
White House, decided that he would simply unilaterally ratify an
amendment to the United States Constitution. He would add an
amendment via tweet, as outlined by the framers, and you
do it right before he leaves office, no warning and
(05:58):
no follow up. Today I'm quoting today, I'm affirming what
I've long believed in what three fourths of the states
have ratified, the twenty eighth Amendment is the law of
the land, guaranteeing all Americans egal rights and protections under
law regarding their regardless of their sex.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So a number of people have speculated that those pardons
that he pushed through not the ones of his family,
but the pardons of all some of those horrifying worst
people on earth, criminals that he let loose. People put
that in front of him, like you were saying yesterday,
people with people with an agenda they're Marxists or somebody
(06:35):
bribed them or whatever, and he didn't really know what
he was signing. Do you think that's the case with
this thing. Some people that had esteem for the er
Amendment just put it in front of him and convinced
the doddering old man to tweet it out.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, because Joe Biden, even in his prime, had no
principles and was just a backslapping and fairly verbal phony.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But he generally.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Didn't do Oh well, let's say he did say some
crazy stuff. But this, I mean, to declare an amendment
to the Constitution is hereby enacted. Is I mean, that's
that's like mental illness stuff. That's like, you know, declaring
yourself emperor and annexing the guy's house next door.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's almost crazier in that than fact that he didn't
come out and give a speech or anything. I mean,
that would have been right to make his argument. And
here's why. No, he tweets it out, doesn't say a
word about it, and then leaves office.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And the twenty eighth Amendment in clace you're not aware
of it is the so called Equal Rights Amendment, which
makes men and women equal there can be no discrimination
on the block at all, which is a terrible idea. Oh,
it's it's it's a horrible idea because I mean, there
are all sorts of laws that protect women and deal
with you know, pregnancy and all sorts of things. And
with all due respect none to the people who use
(07:52):
terms like birthing people, what we're talking about is women.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, and it would be endless lawsuits at every level
of life.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But anyway, Nelly points out, but regardless, this amendment has
not been ratified. The three fourths number is wrong. Some
states ratified then rescind to the ratification. For example, it's
not in any way the law of the land. But
Kamala Harris also posted quote, the Equal Rights Amendment is
the twenty eighth Amendment.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And it is the law of the land.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
My thing, missus veep, Now let's get you back to
the residence for your.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Facial okay again, they tweeted it out.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
They didn't like do any They didn't have any press
around to answer any questions, to explain what they were
trying to do or whatever. They just tweeted it out
and then never said a word about it. My favorite
part was that within minutes the official archivists, who are
actually the people that keep track of this sort of.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Thing, they put the note on there right away. So
I mean it got shot, got it right here.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah, So to confirm that the twenty eighth Amendment is
certainly not the law of the land, we turned to
the archivist of the United States, doctor Colleen Shogun. Anyway,
apparently this anyway they put out as Archivist and Deputy
Archivist of the United States, and this is our responsibility
to uphold the integrity of the constitutional amendment process and
(09:10):
assure the changes to the Constitution are carried out in
accordance with the law. At this time, the Equal Rights
Amendment cannot be certified as part of the Constitution. In short,
nothing has been done. It's not even within a million
miles of being the law of land. So but here's
where it gets even weirder. It's a weird moment, Nelly writes,
(09:31):
because half the country is now pretending like this amendment
is real when it's not at all real. Georgetown Law
is taking a victory lap congratulating one of their professors
for her work advocating for the era quote, which President
Biden this morning said should be considered the law of land.
The School Rights and the leftist Center for American Progress
(09:52):
celebrated this is the most substantive advancement of women's rights
in this country since the nineteenth Amendment, which gave women
the constitutional right to vote in nineteen twenty? Is it?
Did we just have a moment on par with getting
the right to vote? Can I also pee?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Standing? Nothing up?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Now, Nelly writes, no one seems to mind the constitutional crisis.
The response was basically, maybe we just ignore it and
pretend Biden didn't do this, or let it slide. Now
this one at the bottom reel small, like who cares
to the Maybe we'll pencil it into the constitution real quick.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Well, the first part is absolutely true, though everybody just
pretended like the doddering old president didn't just tweet out
a constitutional amendment because that would be nuts. And nobody's
taking this seriously other than you know, activists, law professors
are trying to score some points, but nobody's actually taking this.
So that's a pretty Can you imagine if Trump did that?
If Trump tweeted out an amendment to the Constitution, it
(10:45):
would be endless jokes on the late night shows on
Saturday Night Live about how crazy he.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Is and stupid.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yeah, indeed, on that point, to quote Sarah Isger, imagine
if Donald Trump just declared that he had amended the
Constitute despite every court in the archive is denying its legitimacy.
All right, of course, and Nelly finishes up instead, there
was a collective shrug. So the twenty eighth Amendment can
be real in your heart or not, whatever, it's not
(11:15):
a big deal.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Don't be weird about it. It's real in your heart.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And there's also the fact that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who
was a staunch supporter of that amendment, said, Nah, it
didn't get ratified because the number of states didn't come
through in time, and then since then it doesn't count
if you do it afterwards. And then some of the
ones that ratified it originally have gone backwards and unratified it.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
So it's just not a thing.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it was ridiculous back when
she was alive.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah. Yeah, that's the nuttiest thing.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's not the most important thing or the most evil
thing Biden did, but it's the nuttiest thing he did.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Right, crazy, just.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Bat ass crazy, yes, and almost completely ignored. I remember
I watched the news that night. It wasn't even on
the evening newscats. We just added an amendment the Constitution.
We almost never do that, it seems like unilaterally.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah. Yeah, in a day.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
If Trump did that, that would have been the lead
story ever reware for days.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Oh, would be the punchline of all the late night
jokes and the rest of it. I think that's a
measure of how clearly senile, useless, and spent Joe Biden was.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Everybody's like, wow, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I about their business words, which is gonna judge.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You, donnas.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
One of most significant contributions has been in bade by
all of America.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
What I'll mark them, I can't understand them more on
the way.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I was just reading the article Many York Times about
moving the Mona Lisa to its own room and how
currently it's how miserable it is for people. The jostling
and the anger and the hour's long wait to have
like forty five seconds to glance from a distance sounds horrible.
Oh makes me miserable just reading about it. Do you
(13:10):
remember Jim Acosta If you're following the Trump thing in
the news, he even if you don't want CNN, he
would get a lot of attention because he would he
would bait Trump into arguments and they both benefited from it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
True.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah, he was in the early days of the first
Trump administration kind of your your lead candidate for I'm
the resistance reporter who really mixes it up with him.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Which I hate to give it away. I guess it
doesn't matter now he got elected again. It helped Trump.
You idiots, being an easy foil for him to call
you the mainstream media and the enemy of the people,
and you coming off as a jackass helped him get elected.
You numb nuts. Anyway, Jimmy Cossa didn't care about that.
He was a show voter, grand standard, just trying to
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become famous.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Anyway, didn't become famous enough. CNN has no ratings this show.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I had no ratings. They offered him a show at
two in the morning. He said no, that's so he's leaving.
But here he is with some of his goodbye speech.
I guess that Hansen claims is going to be entertaining.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Let's see, I've always believed it's the job of the
press to hold power to account. I've always tried to
do that here at CNN, and I plan on going
doing all of that in the future. One final message,
don't give into the lies. Don't give into the fear.
Hold on to the truth and to hope, even if
you have to get out your phone, record that message.
(14:30):
I will not give into the lies. I will not
give into the fear. Post it on your social media
so people can hear from you too. I'll have more
to say about my plans in the coming days, but
until then, I want to thank all of you for
tuning in. Has been an honor to be welcomed into
your home for all these years. That's the news reporting
from Washington.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'm Jim Acosta. You are welcomed into my home the
way others are welcome to my home.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Not yeah, unless you're literally stopping by my home. Your
plans don't concerned made, don't bother.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
But I would just like to raise my hand when
you're talking about the importance of speaking truth to power
and how you continue to do it and other should
How many shows did you do about Joe Biden's obvious
mental decline over the last several years and how he
clearly is not a person in position to be president again.
You do a lot of spend a lot of time
on that. A lot of panels were discussing that I'm.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Sick and un American. It is just stifled dissent During
COVID perhaps did that come up?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You spend a lot of time on the eight million
illegals that came across and how this is untenable and
something needs to be done, and the laws being broken
or any of that, and then you speak truth to
the fifty one powerful intelligence guys who said Hunter's laptop
was fake. No, I realized this happens on both sides,
but the speaking truth to only the power on the
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other side is not exactly what that phrase is supposed
to mean.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Don't give into the lives, don't give into the fear,
all right, hold on to the truth and to hope.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah, okay, all right, you know he's not even worth
my breath. Correct, this is correct.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
John Stewart took on the whole Chinese AI thing last
night on The Daily Show, which will be a good
way to get back into the conversation about that.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Does China have a better, cheaper, faster.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
AI than we do now, or at least one as
good as ours that they built for a lot less
money and don't need our super fast chips. If so,
that's a little disturbing, And I hope it's not true.
If they were able to build for five million dollars
what it's taking us a couple hundred million dollars to build,
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I'd be bad.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well, that's why I stay away from those high flying
tech stops. I own GM and IBM. If it was
a good stock in nineteen seventy, it's a good stock now.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That's my philosophy.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
IBM and the Standard Oil, yes, that's your other stock
and Woolworth's. This new AI is the number one app
being downloaded and bought on Apple's platform and Google's platform
right now. So maybe some of you have tried it.
If you have text line four one, five, two nine, five,
k FTC, Armstrong.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
And Getty, you know those companies are singing billions of dollars,
tons of years and lots.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Of development into this space.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Deep seekd it for cheaper in a matter of months.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Who would have expected the Chinese to do it cheaper?
I can't believe it. It's as though when you don't
have labor laws or right by the way.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I do know this is back to just financially.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
But is anyone else somewhat excited that AI had its
job replaced by AI?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Okay, well, go ahead, one more John's and then we'll
make some points. I'm sure it's not going to be
that bad.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Has Chinese AI put American AI out of the job?
I mean, I'll find out, Siri, how bad is it?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Tom? Check out my only sends force send me a link.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
To go skank if we can be serious for a second.
Mark Andresen, who's one of your top tech people around,
an advisor to the Trump people, said this about China's
new AI.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
App us investors realizing now that the AI race is
on and China is hard at work. Silicon Valley advisor
to President Trump, Mark Andreason said this on x deep
seek R one is one of the most amazing and
impressive breakthroughs I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
So the question I guess is did they actually do
it as far as cheap as they did and using
chips that aren't as whippy. We don't know that, but
apparently the actual thing having used it because it's out
there and you can buy it right now.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
It's the number one app.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Who are all you people that immediately jump on some
Chinese app that's going to steal all your information and
don't care, But it's the number one selling app in
Apple and Google.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I didn't download TikTok. I'm not going to download this.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I think people are just curious to see how it works.
And again, one of my tech guru friends said the
fact that it's open source code makes it much less
insidious Chinese spy wise.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
But I did see the agreement that includes they get
to look at all your keystrokes. I don't download apps
that get to do that, especially if it's going to China.
All right, So actually, if it's going anywhere, but any who,
if you download that particular app and enjoy it a
textas because I'd be interested if you're impressed with it.
Four one, five, nine FTC. Let's hear one more here,
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because I think this is seventy two there, Michael.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
So if this is all true, if is again the keyword.
It's a major development that's making investors rethink their holdings
of text docs and what it takes to be really
competitive when it comes to artificial intelligence. The keyword again
is if we're not one hundred percent sure if this
was independently developed by a hedge fund, as the claims
Arthur was really done in just two months, and if
they really didn't have access to advanced and video.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Ships and Mark Andresen yesterday said it is a spotnik moment.
This is a oh my god, they're ahead of us,
like happened with the Soviet Union back in the fifties
in the space race. And Trump said yesterday this should,
you know, cause us to be laser focused and wake
us up out of our sleep and really get more aggressive.
So maybe that'll be the ultimate what comes out of us. Sure,
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that'd be positive. I'm personally more worried about the South
China Sea and the militarization of those islands and interfering
with the you know, free navigation of the seas.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
But they're both biggies.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Both back to the tech thing briefly different tech. I
I'm thinking about buying the Apple Vision Pro VR headset
for myself for my birthday.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Because I came across you can buy them used for
like half.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
What they calls it's a very expensive setup new it's
like thirty five hundred to four thousand dollars. You can
get like for half as much used, barely used it all,
which says something about the VR thing. I remember when
the Apple Vision Pro first came out, all the reviews
were talking about the six month problem with VR. People
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that go out and buy these things six months later
they're in a drawer. And apparently that is a case
with a pheromen number of them, because it's easy to
buy them used. AnyWho, I was really impressed with the
damn thing. I thought it was amazing. Have you tried
one out yet? No?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Mean, you know, you should make an appointment at an
Apple store near you just to go. It's mind blowing,
and I mean it really opens your eyes to what
things could be if they ever whenever they get this
all dialed in. I mean, it's just it's unlike anything
I've ever done in terms of technology.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And what was the full retail of them?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Or?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Is about four grand? Yeah? No, it's super expensive.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
But it's also because you know, it's so far beyond
anything else you've ever done. That's you know, I've done
the my kids have the Oculus Zuckerberg's thing, and I've
done various VR stuff various places. This is a completely
different world of that. There's still the nausea problem. About
a third of us get nauseous nauseous from VR A third.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That's a lot, one out of three. I'm one of them.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And so you know, if you're immediately wanting to throw up,
it kind of takes the fun out of it. What
sold me on want to maybe own it this time
around is the update that Apple just did that I've
been reading about so you can take VR three D
spatial photos now with your phone, or you can take
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them with the VR, and then when you look at
those photos, it's almost disturbing, as we all know that
something goes on with a two D photo. I mean,
it's nice to look at a picture of your kid's
fifth birthday party and now they're you know, college kids.
It's cool to have that picture, but there's something that's
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lost with the two D nous of it or something
like that. The photos in the VR headset are as
if you're sitting there and it screws with your head.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Man, it really does.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
But I guess with the new technology, the latest technology,
they do a pretty good job of that with all
your old photos from your phone, of turning it into
three D and having the feeling of you're actually there.
I don't even know if I can handle it emotionally
to look at some of those photos, to be back
in the room when they're born, or their second birthday party,
or the videos. Oh my god, I don't even know
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if I could handle it. I don't know if human
beings can handle it. Can you handle being right back
in that moment where it completely fools your brain, like
you're there.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh my god, my kids are two again. I just just.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Thinking about it gives me the gets me all excited.
Is just so I'm going to try that out and
see what that's like.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, that's a really intriguing question though, because you know,
something that left in my mind immediately was there were
no photographs at all until fairly recently. And I mean
a tenth of a blink of an eye on the
evolutionary scale, how far back do you have to go? Really,
anything that happened anything more recent than two hundred years
(24:38):
ago is obviously clearly indisputably something we're not designed for.
It might be harmless, or it might be good. I
mean like antibiotics for instance, thumbs up ontic.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Wow, you're not RFK Junior. But no, the.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Idea of pictures of your kids so you can permanently
remember how they looked at it at a certain age
is something that was unknown on Earth until.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Very very recently.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
How about if you can get it still kind of
you can be there. I don't know, I don't know
if we're built that way. I saw an example when
I did the the demonstration at the Apple Store of
a kid's birthday party, recorded on that device, and it
was like I was sitting at that birthday party. Yeah,
and man, ah, your your wedding, your your people who
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people who have passed, Mom and dad you know, no
longer alive, and here you are sitting at the dinner
table talk. You can't talk to them, obviously, but it's
it's as if for your brain that it's real.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
All right, which sounds great in a way and utterly
unnatural in a way.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I wonder if it's too much for us, But I
don't want to run. Do you have something to say,
Katie for a move on?
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Just for some fun and a funnier angle of this,
if you go to Armstrong and Getty dot com. I
just put an eight minute video up of VR fails,
just to show you how real these things are. If
people just running full force into their TV screens and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Some comic.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Well, the thing that impacted me the most on the
Apple Vision Pro when I tried it out because a
friend of mine had it, was the full immersion sitting
by a lake in the woods. Was I had the
one feeling you get when you're standing by a lake
in the woods, sitting there in their living room. Wow,
not just oh that's a cool picture, just oh my god,
(26:27):
all the relaxation that comes over you when you're doing that,
because it's just, I don't know, it's hard to describe
unless you've tried it.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
But I don't want to leave out time. I don't
want to run out of time for this.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
So I was reading about the reviews before I drop
a fair amount of money on this thing and everything
like that, and there was there was a link on
there about the advances they've made in what do you guess?
Pophyg on the VR thing? And I had to click
on that, and I almost wish I hadn't. Now I
haven't seen what that would be like in a vision pro,
and I won't because I'm not going to try that.
(26:57):
I don't want it on my computer. I don't want
to link to whatever site you get it. But I
was looking at the videos, and since I've had the
experience of the sitting at the kids' birthday party or
sitting by the lake and knowing how real that was,
looking at the VR video even in two D and thinking,
oh my god, if that was in full three D,
(27:19):
like I'm in the room, how would any man ever
leave their house I mean, seriously, it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Take a break on Sunday afternoons to watch football. We
already have a problem with internet porn.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yes, I'm asking, is the human brain ready to you know,
relive your kids to year old birthday party? Is a
human brain ready to be completely fooled, completely fooled by
a sexual interaction?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
No, No, is the answer to your question. No.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
It will decimate humankind or whatever part of it has that.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
God. Yeah, we have.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Invented pleasures we are not meant to have as human
beings that we can't handle. That a lot of people
can't hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it will do us
in Yeah, we're in to bring new world territory there.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Whether you know us on an individual level or as
a civilization or as a species, it's it's, without a question,
not good. Just because something can exist doesn't make it good.
I mean, people need to get through that. Just because
the society is doing something, just because your next door
neighbors are doing something, just because on the Internet people
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say this is.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Cool, does not in any way make any of it cool.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
You really, you know, I'm sure there's some brilliant philosopher
who's been more eloquent on this than me. But you
need to decide what sort of life you want to
live independent of what you're being told by people making
money or telling you what your lifestyle should be, or
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you will be swept up by people who do not
have your best interest in mind, and you will crash
on the rocks of pleasure.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Crash on the rocks of pleasure.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I think a lot of people would sign up for that,
even as described the way it was just described.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
That was a rough draft.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I'd hate for the metaphor police to come and arrest
me for mixing too many of them together.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
But if you have any thoughts, you can text us.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
We have some breaking RFK junior news because he is
going to be grilled tomorrow in a congressional hearing. More
of that coming up. We'll get to this RFK Junior
breaking news.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
In a moment, I was just.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Thinking about the incredibly effective Apple Vision pro is that
what it's called where the immersive thing where you gave
the example of sitting in a mountain lake and it
was utterly convinced, Yeah, that sounds really really cool in
a lot of ways. So I just quick off the
top of my head thought all right, top three choices
to be immersed in. Now, the lack of smellovision is
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a factor here. If they could get that in, you
would fully freak out smells and tastes.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
If somehow they could get the it would be the
end of humanity.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
The VR ride at Universal like the Simpsons VR Ride,
you get smellovision, You smell popcorn, you smell you smell
all kinds of different things.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Wow, all right, So, in no particular order, off the
top of my head, Number one, be in the middle
of the Battle of Gettysburg. I think you would have
to reassure yourself over and over again, this is not real,
This does not real. Do not be terrified, do not
wet your pants. But just to experience the noise and
chaos of the battle, I think would be important understanding.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Or any battle that would be that would be good.
Any like real warfare in that sort of setting would
be good for people. I think you might lose your mud.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
But yeah, you and I both talked to combat veterans
who often the first thing they say is you have
no conception of how loud it is anyway, and how confusing.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
That would be. Number two just it popped into my head.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I don't know why, sitting on like steps in a
Harlem street in nineteen sixty one. Oh cool, have the
people coming and going, smell the cooking from the windows,
listening to the music coming from radios, and just listening
to the folks talking. I don't know why, just popped
into my head. And third, gotta go with the Apollo
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eleven capsule and take off.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
As a guy who's a little claustrophobic, I would again
have to fight a freak out the whole time.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
But how incredible would that be?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Applevision pro head said, If the only thing you try
on it is the a Solar system.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh my god, it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You're in the solar system and you can like move
it around if you're hands, getting an idea of the
space and the sides, and bring in a planet look
at from different directions. It's Oh, it's so cool, the coolest.
I hope that's in school soon. Anyway, here's your breaking
RFK Junior News. He's supposed to start his confirmation hearings tomorrow.
Caroline Kennedy, she's the one actually, uh that Neil Diamond
(32:21):
wrote the song about right.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I believe that.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Sweet Caroline bo bo Bah came out today and blasted
her brother.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Is a nut job. So good, so good, so good.
Oh boy.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Caroline Kennedy today Warren senators about her brother, her cousin
actually now Trump's pick to lead the HHS, as a
predator whose victims have ranged from family members to parents
of sick children. And a copy of a letter obtained
by The Washington Post and sent to lawmakers ahead of
the hearings tomorrow, she said her cousin is addicted to
attention and power. Well, he's a Kennedy, isn't that what
(32:58):
you all do is addicted to attention and power. Has
given hypocritical, hypocritical advice by discouraging parents from vaccinating their
children while vaccinating his own children. She alleged that his
crusade against vaccination has also served to enrich him.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I've known Bobby my whole life. We grew up together.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
It's no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as
pets because he himself is a predator. She goes on
to claim that through the strength of his personality, other
family members have followed Kennedy Junior down the path of
drug addiction. Not a whole bunch of other things she
says about him that are not nice. So that's an
attempt to derail him tomorrow by someone on the left.
(33:37):
And I think there's gonna be plenty of Republicans enators
attempting to derail him from the right tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Gently but yes, without question yep.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Jack Clark, kiss Tom stop, Jack and Jose go.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
And if they don't give can they'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Here's your host, always a big gift. Here's your host
for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew,
wrap things up for the day. There is our technical director, Michaeligelow.
Michael final thought.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
My final thought is very simple. VR porn will be
the end of society. If it's good. Yeah, the birth
rate will go down.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You can't get much Lord, that might not be overstated
at all, Michael.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That might be the end mankind.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
And when the Third World armies sweep across our planes,
we won't notice, never mind being able to fight back.
Katie Green are Esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Not interested in the porn, but I am interested in
checking out the Apple VR because I tried the one
from meta and it gives me a headache.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
See that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
About a third of us get motion sickness from them,
and they're almost unusable.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I was sure that was going to happen to me
when we tried one out years ago, but it didn't.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Were lucky ones, Yeah, Jack. Final thought, if we could.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Keep the Apple Vision pro out of the hands of
our people, but drop them in some of the you know,
drop them in afgame a Stanner, the Pashtoon.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Area of Pakistan or whatever.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Let all those young men with AK forty seven's get
swallowed up into VR stupidity, and maybe that's the way
to dominate the planet.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
My final thought, my fourth brilliant idea for how to
use the VR set. I would be right here, right now.
Wouldn't it be weird? Then you take it off and
still right here right.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Armstrong and Getty repiga But other grueling four hour workday, so.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Many people, thanks a little time, go to Armstrong and
Getty dot com. We got some great links for you.
You already have a bunch of great stuff to talk
about tomorrow. Drop us a note which if there's something
we ought to be jabbering about. Mail bag at Armstrong
and Getty dot com. You got no opinion, Keep it shortest,
but we'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Cool and we'll have a lot tomorrow, the hearings and whatnot.
See then, God bless America.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I'm strong and Getty up the place in this world.
Get out of here.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
One final message, don't give into the lies, don't give
into the fear fecal, hold on to the truth and
to hope.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
That was even dumber and more annoying than usual.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
So sorry, you made it right riding along the arm
Strong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty Armstrong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
South Dakota Governor Christy Noan was sworn in on Saturday
as the Homeland Security Secretary, and she hasn't been this
happy since the end of Marley and Me.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That's a pretty good joke.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I disagree with the knocking of her for shooting those animals,
but I thought that was a funny joke.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I would agree.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We have breaking Mona Lisa news, breaking Mona Lisa news.
So the most visited and largest museum in the world
is the Louver in Paris, France. I've never been there.
I hope to attend to someday. I will not see
the Mona Lise I've known for my entire adult life.
I will never see the Mona Lise. And that's fine,
because there ain't no frequent way. I'm standing in line
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for two hours for one painting with a bunch of
numb nuts who want to get a selfie with it
so they can put on their Instagram.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I just wait in line for two days to see
it because I've heard of it before, and I could
then tell people I.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Saw it right.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Eighty percent of the people who go to the Louver
and what did I just read? Three million people a
year due again, the largest most attended museum in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Eighty percent of those go for the Mona Lise.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Okay, wow, fine, fine, But so they've been talking about
this for years and now they're going to do it,
and Emmanuel mcrone made an announcement today standing in front
of them Mona Lisa. I'm going to move it into
a separate room. It's kind of adjacent to the Louver,
its own room with its own entrance and its own
line and its own ticket, and then the rest of
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us who want to go see the other gazillion things
that are perfectly fantastic don't.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Have to wade through that crowd to try to see it,
which just seems like a good idea.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I could see going on like a cold, rainy day,
just because it's so iconic. I'd think, oh, wow, that's wild, that's.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Not actually anti looking at it, But I ain't standing
in the line for two hours for it. When you
only have a limited time to look at every standards,
it's just dumb. But I will say this which argues
against me. I've seen two paintings in the last two
years that are iconic that I'd never seen in person,
and they looked much different person, strikingly impressive in person
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in a way that they never had in any photo
I'd ever seen, the Irises from Van Go and then
the one I saw in DC. Just recently, one of
Monet's Impressionist paintings, one of his most famous ever, leaves France,
but they made some sort of special deal with the
National Gallery for an Impressionist exhibit, so it just was
(03:08):
there briefly. It's already gone, and seeing that in person
and seeing the way it was painted was like I'd
never I would have never been able to pick that
up from any picture. It's more impressive than it was.
So maybe the Bona Lease would be that way. I
don't know, But again, I'm not waiting in line with
a bunch of numbnuts. It's like I was saying when
I came back from Washington, DC, why are most of
the people there. It seems pretty clear to me walking
around museums and monuments, very few people want to be there.
(03:32):
None of the kids want to be there, and very
few of adults even seem to want to be there,
So why.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Are you there?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Why did you do something else for those of us
that want to be there so it could just be quieter.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, that is an interesting phenomenon. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Or maybe it's that they just they don't enjoy it
nearly as much as you do, and so they behave
very different.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I really think there's just a lot of I need
to tell people I've seen this. I think I don't know.
And my favorite example of being annoyed by crowds is
being at the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in Rome.
You know, the big Michelangelo painting over your head with
God reaching out to Adam or whatever, and they're trying
to touch fingers of that whole thing over your head.
(04:12):
I mean, it's absolutely amazing, but it was so packed
in there and so loud, and every couple of minutes
an announcement would come on.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Please, this is a church, this is a place of worship.
If you could be quiet, please please, this is a
place of worship. And then the crowd would get down
to fairly quiet, but then it would go cack cooffey again.
Then the announcement.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Come on, this is a church, this is a place
of worship, please because and then it get a little quiet.
But then within and I mean in seconds, not over
a half an hour, in seconds, after people had heard that,
listen to it. There's something important about what this is
about mankind.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I think I just wish God would reach his mighty
hand down from the ceiling and do some smiting.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Enough giving the spark of life? How about your whoop?
Some mess?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Two seconds, people say, oh, we probably should be quiet.
This is a church and everything other people are talking.
I guess if other people are talking, it's okay for
me to talk.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I don't carry more. I don't carry more. Oh, there's
the announcement again. I guess I should be calling. I
really don't like human beings making me insane.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, and that's why deface didn't ended up in a
Roman prison for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Wow. Wow, you ever been in a Roman prison? Johnny?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
So this bears one more tip of the cap. Joe Biden, or,
accordington Nelly Bowles of the Free Press, whoever was wearing
his skin.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Suit last week.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
That would be a week before whoever was running the
White House, decided that he would simply unilaterally ratify an
amendment to the United States Constitution. He would add an
amendment via tweet, as outlined by the framers, and you
do it right before he leaves office, no warning and
(05:58):
no follow up. Today I'm quoting today, I'm affirming what
I've long believed in what three fourths of the states
have ratified, the twenty eighth Amendment is the law of
the land, guaranteeing all Americans egal rights and protections under
law regarding their regardless of their sex.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So a number of people have speculated that those pardons
that he pushed through not the ones of his family,
but the pardons of all some of those horrifying worst
people on earth, criminals that he let loose. People put
that in front of him, like you were saying yesterday,
people with people with an agenda they're Marxists or somebody
(06:35):
bribed them or whatever, and he didn't really know what
he was signing. Do you think that's the case with
this thing. Some people that had esteem for the er
Amendment just put it in front of him and convinced
the doddering old man to tweet it out.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, because Joe Biden, even in his prime, had no
principles and was just a backslapping and fairly verbal phony.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But he generally.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Didn't do Oh well, let's say he did say some
crazy stuff. But this, I mean, to declare an amendment
to the Constitution is hereby enacted. Is I mean, that's
that's like mental illness stuff. That's like, you know, declaring
yourself emperor and annexing the guy's house next door.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's almost crazier in that than fact that he didn't
come out and give a speech or anything. I mean,
that would have been right to make his argument. And
here's why. No, he tweets it out, doesn't say a
word about it, and then leaves office.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And the twenty eighth Amendment in clace you're not aware
of it is the so called Equal Rights Amendment, which
makes men and women equal there can be no discrimination
on the block at all, which is a terrible idea. Oh,
it's it's it's a horrible idea because I mean, there
are all sorts of laws that protect women and deal
with you know, pregnancy and all sorts of things. And
with all due respect none to the people who use
(07:52):
terms like birthing people, what we're talking about is women.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, and it would be endless lawsuits at every level
of life.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But anyway, Nelly points out, but regardless, this amendment has
not been ratified. The three fourths number is wrong. Some
states ratified then rescind to the ratification. For example, it's
not in any way the law of the land. But
Kamala Harris also posted quote, the Equal Rights Amendment is
the twenty eighth Amendment.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And it is the law of the land.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
My thing, missus veep, Now let's get you back to
the residence for your.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Facial okay again, they tweeted it out.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
They didn't like do any They didn't have any press
around to answer any questions, to explain what they were
trying to do or whatever. They just tweeted it out
and then never said a word about it. My favorite
part was that within minutes the official archivists, who are
actually the people that keep track of this sort of.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Thing, they put the note on there right away. So
I mean it got shot, got it right here.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah, So to confirm that the twenty eighth Amendment is
certainly not the law of the land, we turned to
the archivist of the United States, doctor Colleen Shogun. Anyway,
apparently this anyway they put out as Archivist and Deputy
Archivist of the United States, and this is our responsibility
to uphold the integrity of the constitutional amendment process and
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assure the changes to the Constitution are carried out in
accordance with the law. At this time, the Equal Rights
Amendment cannot be certified as part of the Constitution. In short,
nothing has been done. It's not even within a million
miles of being the law of land. So but here's
where it gets even weirder. It's a weird moment, Nelly writes,
(09:31):
because half the country is now pretending like this amendment
is real when it's not at all real. Georgetown Law
is taking a victory lap congratulating one of their professors
for her work advocating for the era quote, which President
Biden this morning said should be considered the law of land.
The School Rights and the leftist Center for American Progress
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celebrated this is the most substantive advancement of women's rights
in this country since the nineteenth Amendment, which gave women
the constitutional right to vote in nineteen twenty? Is it?
Did we just have a moment on par with getting
the right to vote? Can I also pee?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Standing? Nothing up?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Now, Nelly writes, no one seems to mind the constitutional crisis.
The response was basically, maybe we just ignore it and
pretend Biden didn't do this, or let it slide. Now
this one at the bottom reel small, like who cares
to the Maybe we'll pencil it into the constitution real quick.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Well, the first part is absolutely true, though everybody just
pretended like the doddering old president didn't just tweet out
a constitutional amendment because that would be nuts. And nobody's
taking this seriously other than you know, activists, law professors
are trying to score some points, but nobody's actually taking this.
So that's a pretty Can you imagine if Trump did that?
If Trump tweeted out an amendment to the Constitution, it
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would be endless jokes on the late night shows on
Saturday Night Live about how crazy he.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Is and stupid.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yeah, indeed, on that point, to quote Sarah Isger, imagine
if Donald Trump just declared that he had amended the
Constitute despite every court in the archive is denying its legitimacy.
All right, of course, and Nelly finishes up instead, there
was a collective shrug. So the twenty eighth Amendment can
be real in your heart or not, whatever, it's not
(11:15):
a big deal.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Don't be weird about it. It's real in your heart.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And there's also the fact that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who
was a staunch supporter of that amendment, said, Nah, it
didn't get ratified because the number of states didn't come
through in time, and then since then it doesn't count
if you do it afterwards. And then some of the
ones that ratified it originally have gone backwards and unratified it.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
So it's just not a thing.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it was ridiculous back when
she was alive.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah. Yeah, that's the nuttiest thing.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's not the most important thing or the most evil
thing Biden did, but it's the nuttiest thing he did.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Right, crazy, just.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Bat ass crazy, yes, and almost completely ignored. I remember
I watched the news that night. It wasn't even on
the evening newscats. We just added an amendment the Constitution.
We almost never do that, it seems like unilaterally.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah. Yeah, in a day.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
If Trump did that, that would have been the lead
story ever reware for days.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Oh, would be the punchline of all the late night
jokes and the rest of it. I think that's a
measure of how clearly senile, useless, and spent Joe Biden was.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Everybody's like, wow, that's weird.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I about their business words, which is gonna judge.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You, donnas.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
One of most significant contributions has been in bade by
all of America.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
What I'll mark them, I can't understand them more on
the way.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I was just reading the article Many York Times about
moving the Mona Lisa to its own room and how
currently it's how miserable it is for people. The jostling
and the anger and the hour's long wait to have
like forty five seconds to glance from a distance sounds horrible.
Oh makes me miserable just reading about it. Do you
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remember Jim Acosta If you're following the Trump thing in
the news, he even if you don't want CNN, he
would get a lot of attention because he would he
would bait Trump into arguments and they both benefited from it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
True.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah, he was in the early days of the first
Trump administration kind of your your lead candidate for I'm
the resistance reporter who really mixes it up with him.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Which I hate to give it away. I guess it
doesn't matter now he got elected again. It helped Trump.
You idiots, being an easy foil for him to call
you the mainstream media and the enemy of the people,
and you coming off as a jackass helped him get elected.
You numb nuts. Anyway, Jimmy Cossa didn't care about that.
He was a show voter, grand standard, just trying to
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become famous.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Anyway, didn't become famous enough. CNN has no ratings this show.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I had no ratings. They offered him a show at
two in the morning. He said no, that's so he's leaving.
But here he is with some of his goodbye speech.
I guess that Hansen claims is going to be entertaining.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Let's see, I've always believed it's the job of the
press to hold power to account. I've always tried to
do that here at CNN, and I plan on going
doing all of that in the future. One final message,
don't give into the lies. Don't give into the fear.
Hold on to the truth and to hope, even if
you have to get out your phone, record that message.
(14:30):
I will not give into the lies. I will not
give into the fear. Post it on your social media
so people can hear from you too. I'll have more
to say about my plans in the coming days, but
until then, I want to thank all of you for
tuning in. Has been an honor to be welcomed into
your home for all these years. That's the news reporting
from Washington.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'm Jim Acosta. You are welcomed into my home the
way others are welcome to my home.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Not yeah, unless you're literally stopping by my home. Your
plans don't concerned made, don't bother.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
But I would just like to raise my hand when
you're talking about the importance of speaking truth to power
and how you continue to do it and other should
How many shows did you do about Joe Biden's obvious
mental decline over the last several years and how he
clearly is not a person in position to be president again.
You do a lot of spend a lot of time
on that. A lot of panels were discussing that I'm.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Sick and un American. It is just stifled dissent During
COVID perhaps did that come up?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You spend a lot of time on the eight million
illegals that came across and how this is untenable and
something needs to be done, and the laws being broken
or any of that, and then you speak truth to
the fifty one powerful intelligence guys who said Hunter's laptop
was fake. No, I realized this happens on both sides,
but the speaking truth to only the power on the
(15:47):
other side is not exactly what that phrase is supposed
to mean.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Don't give into the lives, don't give into the fear,
all right, hold on to the truth and to hope.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah, okay, all right, you know he's not even worth
my breath. Correct, this is correct.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
John Stewart took on the whole Chinese AI thing last
night on The Daily Show, which will be a good
way to get back into the conversation about that.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Does China have a better, cheaper, faster.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
AI than we do now, or at least one as
good as ours that they built for a lot less
money and don't need our super fast chips. If so,
that's a little disturbing, And I hope it's not true.
If they were able to build for five million dollars
what it's taking us a couple hundred million dollars to build,
(16:41):
I'd be bad.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well, that's why I stay away from those high flying
tech stops. I own GM and IBM. If it was
a good stock in nineteen seventy, it's a good stock now.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That's my philosophy.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
IBM and the Standard Oil, yes, that's your other stock
and Woolworth's. This new AI is the number one app
being downloaded and bought on Apple's platform and Google's platform
right now. So maybe some of you have tried it.
If you have text line four one, five, two nine, five,
k FTC, Armstrong.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
And Getty, you know those companies are singing billions of dollars,
tons of years and lots.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Of development into this space.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Deep seekd it for cheaper in a matter of months.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Who would have expected the Chinese to do it cheaper?
I can't believe it. It's as though when you don't
have labor laws or right by the way.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I do know this is back to just financially.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
But is anyone else somewhat excited that AI had its
job replaced by AI?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Okay, well, go ahead, one more John's and then we'll
make some points. I'm sure it's not going to be
that bad.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Has Chinese AI put American AI out of the job?
I mean, I'll find out, Siri, how bad is it?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Tom? Check out my only sends force send me a link.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
To go skank if we can be serious for a second.
Mark Andresen, who's one of your top tech people around,
an advisor to the Trump people, said this about China's
new AI.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
App us investors realizing now that the AI race is
on and China is hard at work. Silicon Valley advisor
to President Trump, Mark Andreason said this on x deep
seek R one is one of the most amazing and
impressive breakthroughs I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
So the question I guess is did they actually do
it as far as cheap as they did and using
chips that aren't as whippy. We don't know that, but
apparently the actual thing having used it because it's out
there and you can buy it right now.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
It's the number one app.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Who are all you people that immediately jump on some
Chinese app that's going to steal all your information and
don't care, But it's the number one selling app in
Apple and Google.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I didn't download TikTok. I'm not going to download this.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I think people are just curious to see how it works.
And again, one of my tech guru friends said the
fact that it's open source code makes it much less
insidious Chinese spy wise.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
But I did see the agreement that includes they get
to look at all your keystrokes. I don't download apps
that get to do that, especially if it's going to China.
All right, So actually, if it's going anywhere, but any who,
if you download that particular app and enjoy it a
textas because I'd be interested if you're impressed with it.
Four one, five, nine FTC. Let's hear one more here,
(20:02):
because I think this is seventy two there, Michael.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
So if this is all true, if is again the keyword.
It's a major development that's making investors rethink their holdings
of text docs and what it takes to be really
competitive when it comes to artificial intelligence. The keyword again
is if we're not one hundred percent sure if this
was independently developed by a hedge fund, as the claims
Arthur was really done in just two months, and if
they really didn't have access to advanced and video.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Ships and Mark Andresen yesterday said it is a spotnik moment.
This is a oh my god, they're ahead of us,
like happened with the Soviet Union back in the fifties
in the space race. And Trump said yesterday this should,
you know, cause us to be laser focused and wake
us up out of our sleep and really get more aggressive.
So maybe that'll be the ultimate what comes out of us. Sure,
(20:48):
that'd be positive. I'm personally more worried about the South
China Sea and the militarization of those islands and interfering
with the you know, free navigation of the seas.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
But they're both biggies.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Both back to the tech thing briefly different tech. I
I'm thinking about buying the Apple Vision Pro VR headset
for myself for my birthday.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Because I came across you can buy them used for
like half.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
What they calls it's a very expensive setup new it's
like thirty five hundred to four thousand dollars. You can
get like for half as much used, barely used it all,
which says something about the VR thing. I remember when
the Apple Vision Pro first came out, all the reviews
were talking about the six month problem with VR. People
(21:38):
that go out and buy these things six months later
they're in a drawer. And apparently that is a case
with a pheromen number of them, because it's easy to
buy them used. AnyWho, I was really impressed with the
damn thing. I thought it was amazing. Have you tried
one out yet? No?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Mean, you know, you should make an appointment at an
Apple store near you just to go. It's mind blowing,
and I mean it really opens your eyes to what
things could be if they ever whenever they get this
all dialed in. I mean, it's just it's unlike anything
I've ever done in terms of technology.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And what was the full retail of them?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Or?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Is about four grand? Yeah? No, it's super expensive.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
But it's also because you know, it's so far beyond
anything else you've ever done. That's you know, I've done
the my kids have the Oculus Zuckerberg's thing, and I've
done various VR stuff various places. This is a completely
different world of that. There's still the nausea problem. About
a third of us get nauseous nauseous from VR A third.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That's a lot, one out of three. I'm one of them.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And so you know, if you're immediately wanting to throw up,
it kind of takes the fun out of it. What
sold me on want to maybe own it this time
around is the update that Apple just did that I've
been reading about so you can take VR three D
spatial photos now with your phone, or you can take
(23:04):
them with the VR, and then when you look at
those photos, it's almost disturbing, as we all know that
something goes on with a two D photo. I mean,
it's nice to look at a picture of your kid's
fifth birthday party and now they're you know, college kids.
It's cool to have that picture, but there's something that's
(23:24):
lost with the two D nous of it or something
like that. The photos in the VR headset are as
if you're sitting there and it screws with your head.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Man, it really does.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
But I guess with the new technology, the latest technology,
they do a pretty good job of that with all
your old photos from your phone, of turning it into
three D and having the feeling of you're actually there.
I don't even know if I can handle it emotionally
to look at some of those photos, to be back
in the room when they're born, or their second birthday party,
or the videos. Oh my god, I don't even know
(23:56):
if I could handle it. I don't know if human
beings can handle it. Can you handle being right back
in that moment where it completely fools your brain, like
you're there.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh my god, my kids are two again. I just just.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Thinking about it gives me the gets me all excited.
Is just so I'm going to try that out and
see what that's like.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, that's a really intriguing question though, because you know,
something that left in my mind immediately was there were
no photographs at all until fairly recently. And I mean
a tenth of a blink of an eye on the
evolutionary scale, how far back do you have to go? Really,
anything that happened anything more recent than two hundred years
(24:38):
ago is obviously clearly indisputably something we're not designed for.
It might be harmless, or it might be good. I
mean like antibiotics for instance, thumbs up ontic.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Wow, you're not RFK Junior. But no, the.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Idea of pictures of your kids so you can permanently
remember how they looked at it at a certain age
is something that was unknown on Earth until.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Very very recently.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
How about if you can get it still kind of
you can be there. I don't know, I don't know
if we're built that way. I saw an example when
I did the the demonstration at the Apple Store of
a kid's birthday party, recorded on that device, and it
was like I was sitting at that birthday party. Yeah,
and man, ah, your your wedding, your your people who
(25:29):
people who have passed, Mom and dad you know, no
longer alive, and here you are sitting at the dinner
table talk. You can't talk to them, obviously, but it's
it's as if for your brain that it's real.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
All right, which sounds great in a way and utterly
unnatural in a way.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I wonder if it's too much for us, But I
don't want to run. Do you have something to say,
Katie for a move on?
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Just for some fun and a funnier angle of this,
if you go to Armstrong and Getty dot com. I
just put an eight minute video up of VR fails,
just to show you how real these things are. If
people just running full force into their TV screens and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Some comic.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Well, the thing that impacted me the most on the
Apple Vision Pro when I tried it out because a
friend of mine had it, was the full immersion sitting
by a lake in the woods. Was I had the
one feeling you get when you're standing by a lake
in the woods, sitting there in their living room. Wow,
not just oh that's a cool picture, just oh my god,
(26:27):
all the relaxation that comes over you when you're doing that,
because it's just, I don't know, it's hard to describe
unless you've tried it.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
But I don't want to leave out time. I don't
want to run out of time for this.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
So I was reading about the reviews before I drop
a fair amount of money on this thing and everything
like that, and there was there was a link on
there about the advances they've made in what do you guess?
Pophyg on the VR thing? And I had to click
on that, and I almost wish I hadn't. Now I
haven't seen what that would be like in a vision pro,
and I won't because I'm not going to try that.
(26:57):
I don't want it on my computer. I don't want
to link to whatever site you get it. But I
was looking at the videos, and since I've had the
experience of the sitting at the kids' birthday party or
sitting by the lake and knowing how real that was,
looking at the VR video even in two D and thinking,
oh my god, if that was in full three D,
(27:19):
like I'm in the room, how would any man ever
leave their house I mean, seriously, it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Take a break on Sunday afternoons to watch football. We
already have a problem with internet porn.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yes, I'm asking, is the human brain ready to you know,
relive your kids to year old birthday party? Is a
human brain ready to be completely fooled, completely fooled by
a sexual interaction?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
No, No, is the answer to your question. No.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
It will decimate humankind or whatever part of it has that.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
God. Yeah, we have.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Invented pleasures we are not meant to have as human
beings that we can't handle. That a lot of people
can't hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it will do us
in Yeah, we're in to bring new world territory there.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Whether you know us on an individual level or as
a civilization or as a species, it's it's, without a question,
not good. Just because something can exist doesn't make it good.
I mean, people need to get through that. Just because
the society is doing something, just because your next door
neighbors are doing something, just because on the Internet people
(28:42):
say this is.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Cool, does not in any way make any of it cool.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
You really, you know, I'm sure there's some brilliant philosopher
who's been more eloquent on this than me. But you
need to decide what sort of life you want to
live independent of what you're being told by people making
money or telling you what your lifestyle should be, or
(29:09):
you will be swept up by people who do not
have your best interest in mind, and you will crash
on the rocks of pleasure.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Crash on the rocks of pleasure.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I think a lot of people would sign up for that,
even as described the way it was just described.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
That was a rough draft.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I'd hate for the metaphor police to come and arrest
me for mixing too many of them together.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
But if you have any thoughts, you can text us.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
We have some breaking RFK junior news because he is
going to be grilled tomorrow in a congressional hearing. More
of that coming up. We'll get to this RFK Junior
breaking news.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
In a moment, I was just.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Thinking about the incredibly effective Apple Vision pro is that
what it's called where the immersive thing where you gave
the example of sitting in a mountain lake and it
was utterly convinced, Yeah, that sounds really really cool in
a lot of ways. So I just quick off the
top of my head thought all right, top three choices
to be immersed in. Now, the lack of smellovision is
(30:17):
a factor here. If they could get that in, you
would fully freak out smells and tastes.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
If somehow they could get the it would be the
end of humanity.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
The VR ride at Universal like the Simpsons VR Ride,
you get smellovision, You smell popcorn, you smell you smell
all kinds of different things.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Wow, all right, So, in no particular order, off the
top of my head, Number one, be in the middle
of the Battle of Gettysburg. I think you would have
to reassure yourself over and over again, this is not real,
This does not real. Do not be terrified, do not
wet your pants. But just to experience the noise and
chaos of the battle, I think would be important understanding.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Or any battle that would be that would be good.
Any like real warfare in that sort of setting would
be good for people. I think you might lose your mud.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
But yeah, you and I both talked to combat veterans
who often the first thing they say is you have
no conception of how loud it is anyway, and how confusing.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
That would be. Number two just it popped into my head.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I don't know why, sitting on like steps in a
Harlem street in nineteen sixty one. Oh cool, have the
people coming and going, smell the cooking from the windows,
listening to the music coming from radios, and just listening
to the folks talking. I don't know why, just popped
into my head. And third, gotta go with the Apollo
(31:37):
eleven capsule and take off.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Now.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
As a guy who's a little claustrophobic, I would again
have to fight a freak out the whole time.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
But how incredible would that be?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Applevision pro head said, If the only thing you try
on it is the a Solar system.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh my god, it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You're in the solar system and you can like move
it around if you're hands, getting an idea of the
space and the sides, and bring in a planet look
at from different directions. It's Oh, it's so cool, the coolest.
I hope that's in school soon. Anyway, here's your breaking
RFK Junior News. He's supposed to start his confirmation hearings tomorrow.
Caroline Kennedy, she's the one actually, uh that Neil Diamond
(32:21):
wrote the song about right.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I believe that.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Sweet Caroline bo bo Bah came out today and blasted
her brother.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Is a nut job. So good, so good, so good.
Oh boy.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Caroline Kennedy today Warren senators about her brother, her cousin
actually now Trump's pick to lead the HHS, as a
predator whose victims have ranged from family members to parents
of sick children. And a copy of a letter obtained
by The Washington Post and sent to lawmakers ahead of
the hearings tomorrow, she said her cousin is addicted to
attention and power. Well, he's a Kennedy, isn't that what
(32:58):
you all do is addicted to attention and power. Has
given hypocritical, hypocritical advice by discouraging parents from vaccinating their
children while vaccinating his own children. She alleged that his
crusade against vaccination has also served to enrich him.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I've known Bobby my whole life. We grew up together.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
It's no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as
pets because he himself is a predator. She goes on
to claim that through the strength of his personality, other
family members have followed Kennedy Junior down the path of
drug addiction. Not a whole bunch of other things she
says about him that are not nice. So that's an
attempt to derail him tomorrow by someone on the left.
(33:37):
And I think there's gonna be plenty of Republicans enators
attempting to derail him from the right tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Gently but yes, without question yep.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Jack Clark, kiss Tom stop, Jack and Jose go.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
And if they don't give can they'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Here's your host, always a big gift. Here's your host
for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew,
wrap things up for the day. There is our technical director, Michaeligelow.
Michael final thought.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
My final thought is very simple. VR porn will be
the end of society. If it's good. Yeah, the birth
rate will go down.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You can't get much Lord, that might not be overstated
at all, Michael.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That might be the end mankind.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
And when the Third World armies sweep across our planes,
we won't notice, never mind being able to fight back.
Katie Green are Esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Not interested in the porn, but I am interested in
checking out the Apple VR because I tried the one
from meta and it gives me a headache.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
See that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
About a third of us get motion sickness from them,
and they're almost unusable.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I was sure that was going to happen to me
when we tried one out years ago, but it didn't.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Were lucky ones, Yeah, Jack. Final thought, if we could.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Keep the Apple Vision pro out of the hands of
our people, but drop them in some of the you know,
drop them in afgame a Stanner, the Pashtoon.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Area of Pakistan or whatever.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Let all those young men with AK forty seven's get
swallowed up into VR stupidity, and maybe that's the way
to dominate the planet.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
My final thought, my fourth brilliant idea for how to
use the VR set. I would be right here, right now.
Wouldn't it be weird? Then you take it off and
still right here right.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Armstrong and Getty repiga But other grueling four hour workday, so.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Many people, thanks a little time, go to Armstrong and
Getty dot com. We got some great links for you.
You already have a bunch of great stuff to talk
about tomorrow. Drop us a note which if there's something
we ought to be jabbering about. Mail bag at Armstrong
and Getty dot com. You got no opinion, Keep it shortest,
but we'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Cool and we'll have a lot tomorrow, the hearings and whatnot.
See then, God bless America.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I'm strong and Getty up the place in this world.
Get out of here.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
One final message, don't give into the lies, don't give
into the fear fecal, hold on to the truth and
to hope.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
That was even dumber and more annoying than usual.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
So sorry, you made it right riding along the arm
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