February 27, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Jack has Ebola, Gene Hackman passed away & Elon at the cabinet meeting
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Apple's "racist" to "Trump" glitch
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Caddy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and Jackie and he arm Draw get it.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Live from my home office. It's clearly a bola. And
to find out that Elon and Doge cut a bola
funding is bad news for those.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Of us with with obola ebo. Oh the irony, I know,
isn't it. I was pro Doge he cuts ebola. I
get a bola. That's how the wife works.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I noticed you were bleeding from the eyeballs. Didn't want
to bring it up. You know, you thought it was
my other thing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Live from wherever we all are all collectively in the
Armstrong Young getting the communications compound. And today what counts
exactly and today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm torn, Jack, I'm torn. Number one.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I despy celebrity worship number two. I have said a
thousand times I don't care about an actor's opinion on
anything more than I do an orthodonist or truck driver.
On the other hand, the many performances of the great
Gene Hackman have brought a hell of a lot of
joy and thought and the rest of it enjoyment through
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the years.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So Gene Ackman has passed. He is our honorary general manager.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Passed in an odd way. So he and his wife
and dog found dead in their home. But no suspicion
of foul play. What's your guest there. I think everybody's
mind is going to the same thing, some sort of
carbon monoxide problem or similar phenomenon. So not suicide, you know,
I think it's some sort of that would be foul play.
(01:54):
Even if you kill yourself, it's foul play. Well, the
dog didn't kill him, or maybe he did. It's not
a crimeal he was then dog. No, No, it's just
all the accounts I've read. If it had been a murder, suicide,
or even a multiple suicide, it would have made that clear.
She was in her early sixties, he was in his
(02:15):
early nineties. Sixty five, ninety five, I believe. If they're
both in their nineties, was seventy four. If they're both
in their nineties, then you might think, well, you know,
they're at the end of their lives, and they thought,
but no, she's only like sixty two or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So you think some sort of gas leak. Yeah, yeah,
very similar, one hundred percent. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Well, aside from the strangeness around the death, which I'm
sure they'll announce today, he's my all time favorite actor.
I mean back in the day, I would go to
any movie that hadn't Gene Hackman in it.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, not a bad maneuver. He was absolutely fantastic. But
he's yead. His time was long ago.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
The movie they keep mentioning, the French Connection, which he
won his first Oscar for, was nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Good god, that's.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Fifty four years ago, so right, right, And as we've discussed,
I think picking a single favorite anything's a little silly,
but as a topic why not. I've often cited, unforgiven,
the Clint Eastwood Western is my all time favorite movie
and Gene Hackman was a huge part of that and
won a Best Supporting Actor for that.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, my favorite Gene Hackman role is Mississippi Burning. Got
his goal so good? Oh man, man.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I was watching some highlights last night after I heard
the news on YouTube. Anyway, so you got that news.
Have you watched any of the videos of Elon at
the cabinet meeting yesterday?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes? Oh yeah, Well, what's your take on that.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I don't I want to say what I think until
I hear you say what you think, because I don't
want to prejudice anybody.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But it struck me a certain way. Yeah, yeah, it's funny.
I found myself speculating what you're gonna say. My reaction
to it was it seemed lighthearted.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I was in favor of of all of it. It's
in the imperfect process. But I came away cheery.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I felt like the cabinet, the actual cabinet, the strict
structure of our government cabinet, really wasn't digging it. I
mean I rewatched, I went back and watch it over
and over again, watching individual faces hegg Zeth Rubio, RFK Junior.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
They didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
There was not a moment of light hearted amusement on
their faces at any point during any of it.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
How interesting, huh?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And I you know, I don't know. I'm only seeing
clips of a multi hour meeting. You catch me in
a multi hour meeting, I'm gonna look pretty sour. I
guarantee it. I mean, you know you want to most
of the time I've been in those meetings with you, Yes,
And you could draw all kinds of conclusions from that,
And it's really just that I hate long meetings and
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wouldn't have anything to do with the content. But I
could absolutely see a Marcu Rubio thinking, I'm Secretary of
freaking State, I'm trying to negotiate an end to the
bloodiest war since the end of World War Two?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Who's this freaking guy.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Over in the corner and the base Or even if
it is an overtly hostile you're taking on an enormous
new job. You're managing upward as a cabinet secretary constantly
it's a difficult task to you know, stay on the
right side of the president, You do what needs to
be done, blah blah blah, and then you've got, you know,
a third poll of power, Elon Musk, who's laughing and
(05:31):
joking and dressed with his hat and all I could
see it being even if you didn't hate it, it
would be a swirling waters to kayak through, if you
know what I mean. And I knowing the support Musk
has from the President, yeah, I'm pro.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Elon pro doge, But I just I don't think the
rest of the cabinet was digging it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
And well, I don't know if you saw this clip.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
But at one point Trump cut him off and said, Okay,
that's enough. Elon, the rest of the cabinet has to
speak at some point. And then there is some and
no smiles from the people in the cabinet when he
said that either and and he said if he goes
on too long, should we kick him out or what?
And people then kind of laughed. Yeah, but that was
a big laugh. Come on, that was he killed with
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that line. That was his baffo mic drop line.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
But he was.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I mean, so that was the President recognizing that maybe
you've gone on long enough.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's gotta be tough. I mean, you talk about managing
egos and personalities.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Oh yeah, Elon stands up.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
He expects to command a room.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Why wouldn't he, especially presbe well his resume and his personality.
I mean, if you were if you had Jeff Bezos
in a similar role, for instance, it would be And
again kudos to mister Bezos for his fabulous tweet the
other day explaining how the Washington Post editorial board is
now going to be all about free people in free markets,
which is stealing the Wall Street Journal editorial board anyway. Ah,
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there's their slogan.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
But it would be a very different experience have Jeff
Bezos in that role as opposed to Elon Musk, who
is a loose cannon and an incredibly utter, energetic, scattered,
autistic genius.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
So yeah, I just I didn't. I didn't take that seriously.
It's just it's it is odd. I'm not taking it seriously.
I don't think it's a problem. I just thought it
was interesting. I thought those guys were not digging it
at all. I I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Dig the We've got certain ways we do things around here,
and you're not doing it the usual way. I'm not
a fan of that ever in any in any setting.
So you know, whatever, get over it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And and the more I look at it, and I've
spent a good bit of time getting ready for the
show looking at this specific thing, the knee jerk often
just silly and idiotic. We must oppose everything, everything they
do at every moment. We must be in opposition to.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
If Trump picks up a pen we must screech that
pencils are being oppressed. If Trump looks out the window,
we need the curtain lobby to to weive us a contribution.
I mean, just every single little thing has got to
be opposed to the point of ridiculousness.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I don't understand why.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
The left, the Democrats, don't take a little more of
James Carville's advice.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And just lay weakly. You've got something good to take
a shot at.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I mean, because you're you're absolutely You're just there's so
much noise. You're becoming increasingly easy to ignore. One of
my least favorite symptoms that I've ever ever get in
my life, I've got right now, clammy. I don't like clamming. Oh,
Clammy's not a good feeling. No, No, Clammy's one of
my least favorite feelings. Well, especially because it's related to
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several other words that are at the top of polls
for people's least favorite words, including moist or damp. A man,
when you're clammy, I got parts of me that are damp,
parts of me that are moist.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, stop it.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I see every everybody listening, including me, is recoiling right now.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Isn't that funny? Well you can guess which parts are which.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yes, Katie, I was gonna tell Hanson to just turn
your microphone off and stop you immediately.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I am il, So you have to take me to
it's his disarming honesty, Katie, it's his trade.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
We'll stop it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I got a new trademark, tim me boy Blamy. So
we have an interesting thing to talk about. I hadn't
actually heard the audio. I had just heard about it
that Donald Trump Junior said we should have armed a
Russia and he said it on a podcast or something
or other. Turns out later in the day everybody realized, Okay,
that was Ai, that wasn't really him, and a bunch
(09:38):
of organizations pulled it down. But was this the first
pretty major we all got fool by AI.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
That happened yesterday? I believe so.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, it was a shocking and troubling glimpse of the
world to come.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, we'll have to play that for you.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
A little bit later that said that's going to be
constant in the near future, I think. Anyway, let's start
the show officially as Moist and Clammy as I am,
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this at his
Thursday February twenty seventh, yere twenty twenty five, where I'm
strong and getting.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
We approve of this program. I am, the other hand,
well powdered and fragrant. Let's begin the show officially now
according to FCC rules.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Raggs at Mark. You see, mister beausham, this is the
kind of tras I need to get on. You find
this kind of all smooth and all your posperous communities,
(10:36):
which it tall over in Cheyenne. Oh jeez, family, Holy.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Crap, you won't find him in a town of big whiskey.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
One of our more violent opening clips.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Mmmm, Flora Clinton. He was ailing with the flu or
something too at the time.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I guess if you don't know the movie Unforgiven, you
don't know how gruesome that was.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
And there's you're probably better for it.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
But that was the great Gene Hackman who passed because
he didn't get his radon detector batteries put in.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
When he was supposed to do, or something something like that.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I wonder what kind of odds I could get from
the London bookies that he and his wife.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And his dog all passed from natural causes at the
same time. Exactly what are the odds? Probably significant, just
an accident.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I just heard something this morning. I heard something this
morning I'd never heard before. He thought Hoosiers was a disaster.
He thought it was going to be a career ender.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, in the midst of it, he told Dennis Hopper,
who was also in the movie, he said, I hope
you saved your money because we're done after this.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
That's something.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, that's crazy. I talk about that maybe later. I'm
always amazed by those stories. How does well?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
We got mail bag later, we got Katie's headlines coming
up next.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
More news of the day. Zelensky, it looks like it's
coming to Washington, d C. That's gonna be quite the
deal to sign the minerals right contract whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's gonna be maybe lots of stuff to talk about.
I hope you can stay here. How y'all doing.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
So, Zelenski said, at some point yesterday he might not come.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
So I don't know what that's all about. Part of
the negotiating, I guess.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, and m Also part of the negotiating from Trump's
A side is he often offers up the presumptive clothes, saying, yeah,
we've got a deal, We've absolutely got a deal. We're
ninety percent of the way there, so come on in,
let's sign it. Because he knows if he puts the
other person in the position.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of backing out, he has leverage.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh, yeah, you travel all the way over here and
the press is all gathered around everything like that, and
then you're gonna read over the deal and say, well,
this is not what I want. I mean, the Palestinians
do it, but that late in the game.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But it's not easy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, I just came across some really interesting pullingon to
talk about, but we need to leap into Katie's headlines.
It's a leaf story with Katie Green and Katie starting with.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
The pre Beacon State Department completes foreign funding review, identifying
fifteen thousand grants worth sixty billion.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Dollars for elimination I hope. So there's a lot of
noise flop float around.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Oh hold on, oh boy, clammy moist and sneezing very good,
and it's the ebola.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, I got a yeah, so what did you Oh,
there's a lot of noise floating around about various things
that DOGE has announced that turn out not to be
as much as they said or not exactly what they said,
And then I don't know who to believe, and it's
it's very messy the accounting on how much money is
being saved currently directionally, I love it. What's actually happening.
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I'm not short.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Right from Breitbart, NSA employees tied to explicit chat rooms
to be terminated, security clearance revoked.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, gender bending madness, weirdo sickos, just wasting government time
and resources on their perversity.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
From CBS, Hama's hands over bodies of four hostages as
Israel releases hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, there were some news outlets that merely said that
Israel received the hostages back, not mentioning they'd been murdered.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Right from ABC.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
US threatens permanent visa bands on trans athletes based on
sex markers. So if you're traveling here, if you're trans
and you're traveling to the United States to play sports,
you can't. Now you're not getting that visa.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Okay, just got to have on your passport. See or
no c bow.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Wow, what if they're playing in a trans league.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
From CNN, Taiwan says China.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Set up quote live.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Fire training zone off its coast without warning.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
No man, China is on the march, no question about it.
It gets buried because the domestic news is so hot
these days. But China is intent on standing astride the globe.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
From the Associated Press, Apple will fix iPhone glitch that
suggests replacing the word racist with the word Trump.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, did you hear this story yesterday? What the heck?
How's that accidentally happen? That's a funny coincidence. There is
a glitch. Elon actually had testing or something algorithms.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Elon had some interesting commentary on that, and Ai and
Wolkeness still have to get to later.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I found it quite fascinating.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
From the Hill, South Carolina Republican wants to put Trump
on new two hundred and fifty dollars bill.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
That's what I was talking about yesterday, the various resolutions
to put him on Mount Rushmore or name it works
after exactly right.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It just don't that visibly kissing ass? Isn't that humiliating?
Apparently not. It seems like a little bunch. From the
New York.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Post, Michael Moore says deported migrants could have cured cancer
and stop the asteroid that's gonna hit us in twenty
thirty two.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Right whatever.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
And finally the Babylon Bee, Gavin Newsom launches true crime
podcast about how we killed California.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, well, we got to talk about Gavin's new podcast,
and these guys so clearly running for president. I mean,
it's not like it's that's news breaking for me to
say that, but right right, he's auditioning.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
He's gonna spar with Maga Personalities evidently on this podcast
and show how good he is. It Just get kicking
those damn right wingers down and leading the way to
a progressive future.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
All right, we got more news on the leg yet.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
The company is saying, essentially that the AI system behind
its voice to text feature can occasionally type an incorrect
word with phonetic overlap, essentially a word that sounds similar
to what a user was trying to say before quickly correcting,
which is what we see happened here. A user would
say racist, the thing would type trump and then quickly
correct to racist. But you know, I think users can
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decide how much phonetic overlap they think there is between
the words racist and trump. Apple says this was a
glitch and it's working on a fix.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
What was arity that that had? Where did that come from? Hanson?
Where's the CNN it's the lead? Yeah? No, yes, no again,
I say yes, Well.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Let me read you so you fully understand what's going
on here. This is the New York Times version of
the story. Apple's dictation system transcribes the word racist as
trump from so the New York Times they they they
replicated it several times. Them sol elves and investigating this
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and say it provoked controversy after appearing on a viral
TikTok post raising questions about apples artificial intelligence capabilities.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I don't know about its capabilities.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Rather than there somebody messing with the you know, the
algorithm or something.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I don't understand what you're saying. I mean, they're so similar.
You have like.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Green and great great great Trump racist, See it's a
rhyme and Apples. An Apple spokesman blamed the issue on
phonetic overlap as you just heard between the two words,
and said the company was working on a fix. I'm
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a generally an Apple fan, but that's obviously horse dung.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
You've got to come out, as Tim cooks, you got.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
To come out, I think immediately yesterday and say we
got somebody in the company who obviously doesn't like Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
This isn't cool. We will root them out.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
They will be on This is not the way our
AI is going to work or screw you Apple.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Right, if there is some sort of award for somebody
standing up and saying with a straight face, the sunrises
in the west and I am a talking elephant, I
mean just just saying that, which is completely ridiculous, that
Apple spokeshole needs to win that award.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And then who is that on CNN Claire Duffy. Claire
Duffy ought to be the co winner. We'll let viewers
a praise whether there was phonetic overlap.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, okay, I have appraised. So here's some word.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Here's some AI expert with a different intelligent startup who
said to The New York Times it was unlikely the
data that Apple has collected for its AI offerings was
causing the problem, and the word correcting itself was likely
in indication that the issue was not just technical. Why
are you beating around the bush and not just saying no, no,
somebody somebody did this on purpose, He later said, rollery
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at Apple, He later said, oh, and asked more questions
by The New York Times, this smells like a prank
to mere obviously, obviously here's and you know the particulars
of it.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It's outrageous. It's stupid.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I'm much more interested in the story behind the story. Sure,
why in the twenty first century would a spokesperson for
Apple think it's better to say something as plainly ridiculous
as they did, as opposed to what is plainly true?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
And why would CNN think it's a good idea to
not guffaw at Apple's explanation because they're pandering dumbasses who
deserves their awful ratings. So then that gets to Elon's
response to this when he saw this float around yesterday,
I'm sure this will be measured and gentlemanly. No, it's
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actually really interesting. You know. He's a big proponent of AI,
and also a big proponent of the idea that AI
is something we got to keep our eye on and
could be very, very dangerous, which is his point. He
tweeted out yesterday, this is what I mean by the
woke mind virus. The more I learned, the more insidious
and deadly it appears. Maybe the and this is a
heck of a sentence, Maybe the biggest existential danger to
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humanity any sentence it starts that way out to get
your attention. Maybe the biggest existential danger to humanity is
having it programmed the the woke mind virus programmed into AI,
as is the case for every AI I know of,
except for Groc that's Elon's own. Even for Groc, it's
tough to remove because there's so much woke content on
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the internet. You know, these learning language models, they pick
up their stuff from the Internet or from the world,
and there's so much woke crap in the world, he said.
Elon tweeted for example, when other AIS were asked whether
global thermonuclear war or misgendering was worse, they picked the latter.
The existential the existential problem with that is that a
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super powerful AI could decide that the only one certain
way to stop misgendering is to kill all humans.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
That's what Elon said yesterday.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Wow, I'm used to the whole They decide we're causing
too much environmental damage and they kill all humans.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Argument, but they're going to do it for misgendering.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Well, if AI thinks misgendering is worse than thermonuclear war, sure,
then that the stakes are as high as they can get,
and AI could determine, well, we've got to stop misgendering.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
How can we do it? That's so crazy?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I don't think we can handle this, and I don't
mean you and me or even the folks listening. I
don't think humankind is going to do well handling this,
you know, and I could be wrong, but I'm not.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Well. Do you think this is an overreaction to discuss
this sort of stuff, that this is like fantasy land
stuff where this is a real problem.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
The whole.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Therefore, I will snuff humanity thing is a bit of
a stretch, I guess, but there are many, many less
horrific sure harms that will be done following exactly the
same pattern.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
That person misgendered someone, and misgendering is worse than thermonuclear war.
So we're going to disable all their computers, their phone
and their home computer and everything.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Recommend them for dismissal from their job, eviction from their
their apartment, to ejection from school whatever. Yeah, and it's
one of the most insidious things to me. This is
already just going forward one hundred miles per hour. Is
it makes it that much easier to indoctrinate our young
people if while looking for an article on photosynthesis, they
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always come across neo Marxist climate change information or misgendering,
crap or whatever I mean, because that's the goal of
the neo Marxist They've they've stated it out loud. You
see it in universities, you will incorporate the principles of
DEI in every class, including quantum mechanics and physics and biochemistry.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So this is a dream way to be able to
do that. Well, I've got a perfect example of that.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Let me bring up my notes here, I'll find them
from yesterday.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It was a one of your schools. Ah, I'll find
it anyway.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It was an example of what you were saying that
college universities have to work in this sort of crap
into everything. It was a I think it was a
math class. No, it was an astronomy class. That item
one for the students was recognizing the dangers of climate
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change and everything that goes with it. And and somebody
complained in the university actually made them take that out
of astronomy. What's what the hell is? You know, looking
at the moon and the stars got to do with
climate change? But that had to be number one item
agenda to work into the class.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Somehow, that makes me so insane, but it motivates me
to do what we do that is so ugly and
stupid and obviously bent on controlling society. It needs to
be in everything. They must hear it everywhere. Every topic
must be about equity. Wh Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
For instance, the London School of Economics hosting an event
today called Understanding Hamas and Why that Matters. In its description,
it says Hamas has been subjected to intense vilification, branding
it is a terrorist or worst worse, and this is
why the London School of Economics, what are the most
respected learning institutions around economics in the world, is gonna
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spend the day convincing Hamas isn't bad.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah. Yeah. The fact that AI could that any AI.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Even like some weird offshoot minor AI let alone, almost
all of them say misgenering is worse than thermonuclear war.
You gotta unplug it or do whatever you to stop AI.
I don't I stop it, but I don't know. Put
lay down a tax strip in the road or something.
Whatever you do to slow down AI needs to happen immediately.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
It is a computer system.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Obviously it's not a person, but well it's it's more
than it's just a technology that even the guys behind
it don't understand correct. One is reminded of Maya Angelou's
famous statement that when someone tries to tell you what
kind of person they are, believe them. When AI tries
to tell you how dangerous it is, believe it. What
do we do about it?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And your example, so the really obvious ones, of course
we'll catch. You know, the idea that misgendering is worse
than a nuclear holocaust is ridiculous. Uh, if you type
the word trump and it changes it into racist is
easy to catch and ridiculous. But what about all the
way more subtle versions of that that will just be,
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you know, running through all of our lives, in schools
and at home and in business, anything you do. You're
an eighteen year old college student who can spell, which
is a rarity. But you type in capitalism versus socialism
advantages and disadvantages.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That would be so easy to shade I mean way
over into the capitalism is evil side of things? I mean,
or the founding of our country and how it would
be you know, push this direction or that it'd get
way closer to sixteen nineteen project than you know, what
we grew up learning that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Of course it will sure.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, yeah, highly troubling, i'd say, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh, and again your.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Point maybe the most troubling that Apple thought that was
the way to handle it.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah, this one's a lot easier for me to deal
with because I understand pr and in corporate spokespeople and
shaping public opinion a lot than I understand AI. I
just and you know, there are plenty of folks at
Apple listening right now. Thank you for listening, and feel
free to be anonymous. Seriously, now, why in the world
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would you so be clown yourself when the idea that
there was a troll or two at a Silicon Valley
operation and they thought it would be funny. Is that's
the modern world. We'd all be fine with it. I'm
not gonna take a baalpen hammer to my iPhone over this.
It's actually, you know, it's frustrating because that whole Trump
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racist thing is such a worn out trope.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
But no, it's you know, it's almost funny. It's fine.
But instead you go with that bizarre, hilariously disingenuous explanation.
Why would you do that? Mail bag it?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Armstrong in geddy dot com and Apple spokeswoman blame the
issue on phonetic overlap between.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
The two words. Right right, there isn't really any I've.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Written many songs. Let me, let me see if I
can make this work. I went to d C to
talk to Trump, but it left me wanting to take
a racist.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Is that a good good rhyme? There? Who's any other
songwriters out there like to comment?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Come on, Apple, be better than that. Mailbag is coming
up in moments. Stay with us, so I.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Know for some of you this is a really big day.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Pam Bondi says she's going to release the Epstein information,
the Epstein list, travel logs, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
We can talk more about that maybe an hour or two.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, indeed, everybody's looking forward to that in a weird,
purient way. Mostly I think, hmm, well, we can discuss
and certainly share those names with you.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Oh I feel a little weird about it. I don't know,
that's that's not what most people are all jazzed up about. Well,
we'll talk about it next hour.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Okay, here's your freedom loving quote of the day from
George Washington. We should not look back unless it is
to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the
purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. That reminds me
of a nietzschee quote I heard yesterday about how nations
need to be able to forget certain things and remember
(30:19):
certain things to survive. And I don't think he meant
forgets in like bury your history, but like not dwell
on right certain things you've done wrong, what you know
it'd be like in your marriage or your you know,
your relationship with.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Your boss or your kids or whatever. Sports is the
same way sports psychology.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
You can't agonize over your mistakes while you're doing the
next play. Yeah, anyway, Yeah, an interesting thought. More could
be said, certainly on that point. You know, the one
thing about being young, and I was as guilty of
it as anybody is. Since you are young and have
quickly arrived at your decision on what the world must
(31:00):
to do. Now that you've taken one college class, you
assume everybody else has done the same, including the older generation,
and that the world that exists was just arbitrarily and
hastily designed. As opposed to, as Washington said, you're profiting
by dearly bought experience. Things are the way they are
because we've tried a thousand different things, some of them
(31:22):
several times, and we're going with what works.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Anyway, mailbag, what drops not? Mail bag at Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
In giddy dot Com, Eric new to Florgan writes, your weight,
it's just a number.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I often hear you and Jack say you have a
negative relationship with your body and the scale. I too,
was once concerned about my own half until I used
this weird trick. Convert your pounds to stone like you're
an Englishman, so simple. You're slapping your forehead right now
with this painfully simple solution. Per instance, I e. Weigh
two hundred and forty five pounds. This is not good.
But after a simple conversion, divide by fourteen and now
(32:01):
only way seventeen and a half stone. That's a much
smaller number by anyone's reckoning. That's an excellent diet. Hint there, Eric,
and I would say, if you're not ready to lose
that much weight, that quickly go with Kilo's divide by
two point two. Moving along, Chris in Visalia writes, Trump's
outrageous executive orders.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Have gone too far. Did you hear about this? He's
changed Taco Tuesday to Taco Wednesday. He's renamed Canadian Bacon
to Montana Ham. He's changed the name of the Montezuma's
Revenge to the Biden Trots. He's renamed the Democratic Party
the Donkey Show.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
That's not good, not at all, And as a final
act of narcissism, he has ordered McDonald's to drop the
Mick and simply become Donald's.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Oh boy, you're right, that's executive overreach.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I see yesterday changing the name of Canada to gay
North Dakota.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I don't know what that is. Wow. Uh pissed off.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Pete in in Salt Lake City, Utah rights Oh on
the doctor questioning you and your son, and you know
when sometimes you get ordered out of the room so
they can question your son.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
To prevent a single case of child abuse anyway, he says,
I agree with Jack. Let's see if the doctor's qualified
and safe. Let's ask these questions doctor, before you take
my child beyond closed doors outside of my presence. I'd
like to talk to your wife and children have a
few questions for them without you being around.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
That's a good one. That is a good one. Pete
Scott and pleasant Hill. The justification of the physician who
texted Jack his defensive the did your father stop beating
you yet? And where does he keep his guns? Questions?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
As the same justification, they would also do away with
our right to remain silent, to have a lawyer against
self incrimination, to possess a firearm, on and on if
it saves one innocent life.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Argument could easily be used to.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Take away all of those rights, and has been used
that way and throughout history. Oh yeah, I mean, if
you're going to use that philosophy, you need to search
every car at to various checkpoints and every home.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Certainly you know. But this is to me, this is
not a your evil and I'm good thing that one's
clearly wrong, one's clearly right.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
It is competing interests.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
It is good against good, seeking a balance, which is
exactly what we do when we design and run governments
theory theoretically.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Let's see, we're pressed for time.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Oh, the first Circuit Court of Appeals case that says
parents have no right to hear about their child's mental
health issues at school. I will be going into depth
with that, But several people said, I totally agree. I
will bury anyone who tries to mess with my family FAFO.
I'm not a tough guy, but don't f with my family.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
The Left is messing with the family, or effing with it,
if you prefer, in a very primal, fundamental way, and
they are going to find out.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I think more on that next hour.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Many of these people who have these views have no children.
By the way, if you miss an hour podcast Armstrong,
you Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and Jackie and he arm Draw get it.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Live from my home office. It's clearly a bola. And
to find out that Elon and Doge cut a bola
funding is bad news for those.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Of us with with obola ebo. Oh the irony, I know,
isn't it. I was pro Doge he cuts ebola. I
get a bola. That's how the wife works.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I noticed you were bleeding from the eyeballs. Didn't want
to bring it up. You know, you thought it was
my other thing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Live from wherever we all are all collectively in the
Armstrong Young getting the communications compound. And today what counts
exactly and today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm torn, Jack, I'm torn. Number one.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I despy celebrity worship number two. I have said a
thousand times I don't care about an actor's opinion on
anything more than I do an orthodonist or truck driver.
On the other hand, the many performances of the great
Gene Hackman have brought a hell of a lot of
joy and thought and the rest of it enjoyment through
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the years.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So Gene Ackman has passed. He is our honorary general manager.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Passed in an odd way. So he and his wife
and dog found dead in their home. But no suspicion
of foul play. What's your guest there. I think everybody's
mind is going to the same thing, some sort of
carbon monoxide problem or similar phenomenon. So not suicide, you know,
I think it's some sort of that would be foul play.
(01:54):
Even if you kill yourself, it's foul play. Well, the
dog didn't kill him, or maybe he did. It's not
a crimeal he was then dog. No, No, it's just
all the accounts I've read. If it had been a murder, suicide,
or even a multiple suicide, it would have made that clear.
She was in her early sixties, he was in his
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early nineties. Sixty five, ninety five, I believe. If they're
both in their nineties, was seventy four. If they're both
in their nineties, then you might think, well, you know,
they're at the end of their lives, and they thought,
but no, she's only like sixty two or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So you think some sort of gas leak. Yeah, yeah,
very similar, one hundred percent. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Well, aside from the strangeness around the death, which I'm
sure they'll announce today, he's my all time favorite actor.
I mean back in the day, I would go to
any movie that hadn't Gene Hackman in it.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, not a bad maneuver. He was absolutely fantastic. But
he's yead. His time was long ago.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
The movie they keep mentioning, the French Connection, which he
won his first Oscar for, was nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Good god, that's.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Fifty four years ago, so right, right, And as we've discussed,
I think picking a single favorite anything's a little silly,
but as a topic why not. I've often cited, unforgiven,
the Clint Eastwood Western is my all time favorite movie
and Gene Hackman was a huge part of that and
won a Best Supporting Actor for that.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, my favorite Gene Hackman role is Mississippi Burning. Got
his goal so good? Oh man, man.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I was watching some highlights last night after I heard
the news on YouTube. Anyway, so you got that news.
Have you watched any of the videos of Elon at
the cabinet meeting yesterday?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes? Oh yeah, Well, what's your take on that.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I don't I want to say what I think until
I hear you say what you think, because I don't
want to prejudice anybody.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But it struck me a certain way. Yeah, yeah, it's funny.
I found myself speculating what you're gonna say. My reaction
to it was it seemed lighthearted.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I was in favor of of all of it. It's
in the imperfect process. But I came away cheery.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I felt like the cabinet, the actual cabinet, the strict
structure of our government cabinet, really wasn't digging it. I
mean I rewatched, I went back and watch it over
and over again, watching individual faces hegg Zeth Rubio, RFK Junior.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
They didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
There was not a moment of light hearted amusement on
their faces at any point during any of it.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
How interesting, huh?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And I you know, I don't know. I'm only seeing
clips of a multi hour meeting. You catch me in
a multi hour meeting, I'm gonna look pretty sour. I
guarantee it. I mean, you know you want to most
of the time I've been in those meetings with you, Yes,
And you could draw all kinds of conclusions from that,
And it's really just that I hate long meetings and
(04:54):
wouldn't have anything to do with the content. But I
could absolutely see a Marcu Rubio thinking, I'm Secretary of
freaking State, I'm trying to negotiate an end to the
bloodiest war since the end of World War Two?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Who's this freaking guy.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Over in the corner and the base Or even if
it is an overtly hostile you're taking on an enormous
new job. You're managing upward as a cabinet secretary constantly
it's a difficult task to you know, stay on the
right side of the president, You do what needs to
be done, blah blah blah, and then you've got, you know,
a third poll of power, Elon Musk, who's laughing and
(05:31):
joking and dressed with his hat and all I could
see it being even if you didn't hate it, it
would be a swirling waters to kayak through, if you
know what I mean. And I knowing the support Musk
has from the President, yeah, I'm pro.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Elon pro doge, But I just I don't think the
rest of the cabinet was digging it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
And well, I don't know if you saw this clip.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
But at one point Trump cut him off and said, Okay,
that's enough. Elon, the rest of the cabinet has to
speak at some point. And then there is some and
no smiles from the people in the cabinet when he
said that either and and he said if he goes
on too long, should we kick him out or what?
And people then kind of laughed. Yeah, but that was
a big laugh. Come on, that was he killed with
(06:13):
that line. That was his baffo mic drop line.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
But he was.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I mean, so that was the President recognizing that maybe
you've gone on long enough.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's gotta be tough. I mean, you talk about managing
egos and personalities.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Oh yeah, Elon stands up.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
He expects to command a room.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Why wouldn't he, especially presbe well his resume and his personality.
I mean, if you were if you had Jeff Bezos
in a similar role, for instance, it would be And
again kudos to mister Bezos for his fabulous tweet the
other day explaining how the Washington Post editorial board is
now going to be all about free people in free markets,
which is stealing the Wall Street Journal editorial board anyway. Ah,
(06:53):
there's their slogan.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
But it would be a very different experience have Jeff
Bezos in that role as opposed to Elon Musk, who
is a loose cannon and an incredibly utter, energetic, scattered,
autistic genius.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
So yeah, I just I didn't. I didn't take that seriously.
It's just it's it is odd. I'm not taking it seriously.
I don't think it's a problem. I just thought it
was interesting. I thought those guys were not digging it
at all. I I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Dig the We've got certain ways we do things around here,
and you're not doing it the usual way. I'm not
a fan of that ever in any in any setting.
So you know, whatever, get over it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And and the more I look at it, and I've
spent a good bit of time getting ready for the
show looking at this specific thing, the knee jerk often
just silly and idiotic. We must oppose everything, everything they
do at every moment. We must be in opposition to.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
If Trump picks up a pen we must screech that
pencils are being oppressed. If Trump looks out the window,
we need the curtain lobby to to weive us a contribution.
I mean, just every single little thing has got to
be opposed to the point of ridiculousness.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I don't understand why.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
The left, the Democrats, don't take a little more of
James Carville's advice.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And just lay weakly. You've got something good to take
a shot at.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I mean, because you're you're absolutely You're just there's so
much noise. You're becoming increasingly easy to ignore. One of
my least favorite symptoms that I've ever ever get in
my life, I've got right now, clammy. I don't like clamming. Oh,
Clammy's not a good feeling. No, No, Clammy's one of
my least favorite feelings. Well, especially because it's related to
(08:40):
several other words that are at the top of polls
for people's least favorite words, including moist or damp. A man,
when you're clammy, I got parts of me that are damp,
parts of me that are moist.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, stop it.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I see every everybody listening, including me, is recoiling right now.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Isn't that funny? Well you can guess which parts are which.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yes, Katie, I was gonna tell Hanson to just turn
your microphone off and stop you immediately.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I am il, So you have to take me to
it's his disarming honesty, Katie, it's his trade.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
We'll stop it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I got a new trademark, tim me boy Blamy. So
we have an interesting thing to talk about. I hadn't
actually heard the audio. I had just heard about it
that Donald Trump Junior said we should have armed a
Russia and he said it on a podcast or something
or other. Turns out later in the day everybody realized, Okay,
that was Ai, that wasn't really him, and a bunch
(09:38):
of organizations pulled it down. But was this the first
pretty major we all got fool by AI.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
That happened yesterday? I believe so.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, it was a shocking and troubling glimpse of the
world to come.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, we'll have to play that for you.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
A little bit later that said that's going to be
constant in the near future, I think. Anyway, let's start
the show officially as Moist and Clammy as I am,
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this at his
Thursday February twenty seventh, yere twenty twenty five, where I'm
strong and getting.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
We approve of this program. I am, the other hand,
well powdered and fragrant. Let's begin the show officially now
according to FCC rules.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Raggs at Mark. You see, mister beausham, this is the
kind of tras I need to get on. You find
this kind of all smooth and all your posperous communities,
(10:36):
which it tall over in Cheyenne. Oh jeez, family, Holy.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Crap, you won't find him in a town of big whiskey.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
One of our more violent opening clips.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Mmmm, Flora Clinton. He was ailing with the flu or
something too at the time.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I guess if you don't know the movie Unforgiven, you
don't know how gruesome that was.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
And there's you're probably better for it.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
But that was the great Gene Hackman who passed because
he didn't get his radon detector batteries put in.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
When he was supposed to do, or something something like that.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I wonder what kind of odds I could get from
the London bookies that he and his wife.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And his dog all passed from natural causes at the
same time. Exactly what are the odds? Probably significant, just
an accident.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I just heard something this morning. I heard something this
morning I'd never heard before. He thought Hoosiers was a disaster.
He thought it was going to be a career ender.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, in the midst of it, he told Dennis Hopper,
who was also in the movie, he said, I hope
you saved your money because we're done after this.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
That's something.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, that's crazy. I talk about that maybe later. I'm
always amazed by those stories. How does well?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
We got mail bag later, we got Katie's headlines coming
up next.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
More news of the day. Zelensky, it looks like it's
coming to Washington, d C. That's gonna be quite the
deal to sign the minerals right contract whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's gonna be maybe lots of stuff to talk about.
I hope you can stay here. How y'all doing.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
So, Zelenski said, at some point yesterday he might not come.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
So I don't know what that's all about. Part of
the negotiating, I guess.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, and m Also part of the negotiating from Trump's
A side is he often offers up the presumptive clothes, saying, yeah,
we've got a deal, We've absolutely got a deal. We're
ninety percent of the way there, so come on in,
let's sign it. Because he knows if he puts the
other person in the position.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of backing out, he has leverage.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh, yeah, you travel all the way over here and
the press is all gathered around everything like that, and
then you're gonna read over the deal and say, well,
this is not what I want. I mean, the Palestinians
do it, but that late in the game.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But it's not easy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, I just came across some really interesting pullingon to
talk about, but we need to leap into Katie's headlines.
It's a leaf story with Katie Green and Katie starting with.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
The pre Beacon State Department completes foreign funding review, identifying
fifteen thousand grants worth sixty billion.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Dollars for elimination I hope. So there's a lot of
noise flop float around.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Oh hold on, oh boy, clammy moist and sneezing very good,
and it's the ebola.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, I got a yeah, so what did you Oh,
there's a lot of noise floating around about various things
that DOGE has announced that turn out not to be
as much as they said or not exactly what they said,
And then I don't know who to believe, and it's
it's very messy the accounting on how much money is
being saved currently directionally, I love it. What's actually happening.
(13:54):
I'm not short.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Right from Breitbart, NSA employees tied to explicit chat rooms
to be terminated, security clearance revoked.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, gender bending madness, weirdo sickos, just wasting government time
and resources on their perversity.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
From CBS, Hama's hands over bodies of four hostages as
Israel releases hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, there were some news outlets that merely said that
Israel received the hostages back, not mentioning they'd been murdered.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Right from ABC.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
US threatens permanent visa bands on trans athletes based on
sex markers. So if you're traveling here, if you're trans
and you're traveling to the United States to play sports,
you can't. Now you're not getting that visa.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Okay, just got to have on your passport. See or
no c bow.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Wow, what if they're playing in a trans league.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
From CNN, Taiwan says China.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Set up quote live.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Fire training zone off its coast without warning.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
No man, China is on the march, no question about it.
It gets buried because the domestic news is so hot
these days. But China is intent on standing astride the globe.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
From the Associated Press, Apple will fix iPhone glitch that
suggests replacing the word racist with the word Trump.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, did you hear this story yesterday? What the heck?
How's that accidentally happen? That's a funny coincidence. There is
a glitch. Elon actually had testing or something algorithms.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Elon had some interesting commentary on that, and Ai and
Wolkeness still have to get to later.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I found it quite fascinating.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
From the Hill, South Carolina Republican wants to put Trump
on new two hundred and fifty dollars bill.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
That's what I was talking about yesterday, the various resolutions
to put him on Mount Rushmore or name it works
after exactly right.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It just don't that visibly kissing ass? Isn't that humiliating?
Apparently not. It seems like a little bunch. From the
New York.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Post, Michael Moore says deported migrants could have cured cancer
and stop the asteroid that's gonna hit us in twenty
thirty two.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Right whatever.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
And finally the Babylon Bee, Gavin Newsom launches true crime
podcast about how we killed California.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, well, we got to talk about Gavin's new podcast,
and these guys so clearly running for president. I mean,
it's not like it's that's news breaking for me to
say that, but right right, he's auditioning.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
He's gonna spar with Maga Personalities evidently on this podcast
and show how good he is. It Just get kicking
those damn right wingers down and leading the way to
a progressive future.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
All right, we got more news on the leg yet.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
The company is saying, essentially that the AI system behind
its voice to text feature can occasionally type an incorrect
word with phonetic overlap, essentially a word that sounds similar
to what a user was trying to say before quickly correcting,
which is what we see happened here. A user would
say racist, the thing would type trump and then quickly
correct to racist. But you know, I think users can
(17:22):
decide how much phonetic overlap they think there is between
the words racist and trump. Apple says this was a
glitch and it's working on a fix.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
What was arity that that had? Where did that come from? Hanson?
Where's the CNN it's the lead? Yeah? No, yes, no again,
I say yes, Well.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Let me read you so you fully understand what's going
on here. This is the New York Times version of
the story. Apple's dictation system transcribes the word racist as
trump from so the New York Times they they they
replicated it several times. Them sol elves and investigating this
(18:02):
and say it provoked controversy after appearing on a viral
TikTok post raising questions about apples artificial intelligence capabilities.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I don't know about its capabilities.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Rather than there somebody messing with the you know, the
algorithm or something.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I don't understand what you're saying. I mean, they're so similar.
You have like.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Green and great great great Trump racist, See it's a
rhyme and Apples. An Apple spokesman blamed the issue on
phonetic overlap as you just heard between the two words,
and said the company was working on a fix. I'm
(18:42):
a generally an Apple fan, but that's obviously horse dung.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
You've got to come out, as Tim cooks, you got.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
To come out, I think immediately yesterday and say we
got somebody in the company who obviously doesn't like Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
This isn't cool. We will root them out.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
They will be on This is not the way our
AI is going to work or screw you Apple.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Right, if there is some sort of award for somebody
standing up and saying with a straight face, the sunrises
in the west and I am a talking elephant, I
mean just just saying that, which is completely ridiculous, that
Apple spokeshole needs to win that award.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And then who is that on CNN Claire Duffy. Claire
Duffy ought to be the co winner. We'll let viewers
a praise whether there was phonetic overlap.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, okay, I have appraised. So here's some word.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Here's some AI expert with a different intelligent startup who
said to The New York Times it was unlikely the
data that Apple has collected for its AI offerings was
causing the problem, and the word correcting itself was likely
in indication that the issue was not just technical. Why
are you beating around the bush and not just saying no, no,
somebody somebody did this on purpose, He later said, rollery
(20:00):
at Apple, He later said, oh, and asked more questions
by The New York Times, this smells like a prank
to mere obviously, obviously here's and you know the particulars
of it.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It's outrageous. It's stupid.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I'm much more interested in the story behind the story. Sure,
why in the twenty first century would a spokesperson for
Apple think it's better to say something as plainly ridiculous
as they did, as opposed to what is plainly true?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
And why would CNN think it's a good idea to
not guffaw at Apple's explanation because they're pandering dumbasses who
deserves their awful ratings. So then that gets to Elon's
response to this when he saw this float around yesterday,
I'm sure this will be measured and gentlemanly. No, it's
(20:50):
actually really interesting. You know. He's a big proponent of AI,
and also a big proponent of the idea that AI
is something we got to keep our eye on and
could be very, very dangerous, which is his point. He
tweeted out yesterday, this is what I mean by the
woke mind virus. The more I learned, the more insidious
and deadly it appears. Maybe the and this is a
heck of a sentence, Maybe the biggest existential danger to
(21:11):
humanity any sentence it starts that way out to get
your attention. Maybe the biggest existential danger to humanity is
having it programmed the the woke mind virus programmed into AI,
as is the case for every AI I know of,
except for Groc that's Elon's own. Even for Groc, it's
tough to remove because there's so much woke content on
(21:33):
the internet. You know, these learning language models, they pick
up their stuff from the Internet or from the world,
and there's so much woke crap in the world, he said.
Elon tweeted for example, when other AIS were asked whether
global thermonuclear war or misgendering was worse, they picked the latter.
The existential the existential problem with that is that a
(21:55):
super powerful AI could decide that the only one certain
way to stop misgendering is to kill all humans.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
That's what Elon said yesterday.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Wow, I'm used to the whole They decide we're causing
too much environmental damage and they kill all humans.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Argument, but they're going to do it for misgendering.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Well, if AI thinks misgendering is worse than thermonuclear war, sure,
then that the stakes are as high as they can get,
and AI could determine, well, we've got to stop misgendering.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
How can we do it? That's so crazy?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I don't think we can handle this, and I don't
mean you and me or even the folks listening. I
don't think humankind is going to do well handling this,
you know, and I could be wrong, but I'm not.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Well. Do you think this is an overreaction to discuss
this sort of stuff, that this is like fantasy land
stuff where this is a real problem.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
The whole.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Therefore, I will snuff humanity thing is a bit of
a stretch, I guess, but there are many, many less
horrific sure harms that will be done following exactly the
same pattern.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
That person misgendered someone, and misgendering is worse than thermonuclear war.
So we're going to disable all their computers, their phone
and their home computer and everything.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Recommend them for dismissal from their job, eviction from their
their apartment, to ejection from school whatever. Yeah, and it's
one of the most insidious things to me. This is
already just going forward one hundred miles per hour. Is
it makes it that much easier to indoctrinate our young
people if while looking for an article on photosynthesis, they
(23:44):
always come across neo Marxist climate change information or misgendering,
crap or whatever I mean, because that's the goal of
the neo Marxist They've they've stated it out loud. You
see it in universities, you will incorporate the principles of
DEI in every class, including quantum mechanics and physics and biochemistry.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So this is a dream way to be able to
do that. Well, I've got a perfect example of that.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Let me bring up my notes here, I'll find them
from yesterday.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It was a one of your schools. Ah, I'll find
it anyway.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It was an example of what you were saying that
college universities have to work in this sort of crap
into everything. It was a I think it was a
math class. No, it was an astronomy class. That item
one for the students was recognizing the dangers of climate
(24:45):
change and everything that goes with it. And and somebody
complained in the university actually made them take that out
of astronomy. What's what the hell is? You know, looking
at the moon and the stars got to do with
climate change? But that had to be number one item
agenda to work into the class.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Somehow, that makes me so insane, but it motivates me
to do what we do that is so ugly and
stupid and obviously bent on controlling society. It needs to
be in everything. They must hear it everywhere. Every topic
must be about equity. Wh Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
For instance, the London School of Economics hosting an event
today called Understanding Hamas and Why that Matters. In its description,
it says Hamas has been subjected to intense vilification, branding
it is a terrorist or worst worse, and this is
why the London School of Economics, what are the most
respected learning institutions around economics in the world, is gonna
(25:39):
spend the day convincing Hamas isn't bad.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah. Yeah. The fact that AI could that any AI.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Even like some weird offshoot minor AI let alone, almost
all of them say misgenering is worse than thermonuclear war.
You gotta unplug it or do whatever you to stop AI.
I don't I stop it, but I don't know. Put
lay down a tax strip in the road or something.
Whatever you do to slow down AI needs to happen immediately.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
It is a computer system.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Obviously it's not a person, but well it's it's more
than it's just a technology that even the guys behind
it don't understand correct. One is reminded of Maya Angelou's
famous statement that when someone tries to tell you what
kind of person they are, believe them. When AI tries
to tell you how dangerous it is, believe it. What
do we do about it?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And your example, so the really obvious ones, of course
we'll catch. You know, the idea that misgendering is worse
than a nuclear holocaust is ridiculous. Uh, if you type
the word trump and it changes it into racist is
easy to catch and ridiculous. But what about all the
way more subtle versions of that that will just be,
(26:59):
you know, running through all of our lives, in schools
and at home and in business, anything you do. You're
an eighteen year old college student who can spell, which
is a rarity. But you type in capitalism versus socialism
advantages and disadvantages.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That would be so easy to shade I mean way
over into the capitalism is evil side of things? I mean,
or the founding of our country and how it would
be you know, push this direction or that it'd get
way closer to sixteen nineteen project than you know, what
we grew up learning that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Of course it will sure.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, yeah, highly troubling, i'd say, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh, and again your.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Point maybe the most troubling that Apple thought that was
the way to handle it.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah, this one's a lot easier for me to deal
with because I understand pr and in corporate spokespeople and
shaping public opinion a lot than I understand AI. I
just and you know, there are plenty of folks at
Apple listening right now. Thank you for listening, and feel
free to be anonymous. Seriously, now, why in the world
(28:13):
would you so be clown yourself when the idea that
there was a troll or two at a Silicon Valley
operation and they thought it would be funny. Is that's
the modern world. We'd all be fine with it. I'm
not gonna take a baalpen hammer to my iPhone over this.
It's actually, you know, it's frustrating because that whole Trump
(28:33):
racist thing is such a worn out trope.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
But no, it's you know, it's almost funny. It's fine.
But instead you go with that bizarre, hilariously disingenuous explanation.
Why would you do that? Mail bag it?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Armstrong in geddy dot com and Apple spokeswoman blame the
issue on phonetic overlap between.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
The two words. Right right, there isn't really any I've.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Written many songs. Let me, let me see if I
can make this work. I went to d C to
talk to Trump, but it left me wanting to take
a racist.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Is that a good good rhyme? There? Who's any other
songwriters out there like to comment?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Come on, Apple, be better than that. Mailbag is coming
up in moments. Stay with us, so I.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Know for some of you this is a really big day.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Pam Bondi says she's going to release the Epstein information,
the Epstein list, travel logs, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
We can talk more about that maybe an hour or two.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, indeed, everybody's looking forward to that in a weird,
purient way. Mostly I think, hmm, well, we can discuss
and certainly share those names with you.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Oh I feel a little weird about it. I don't know,
that's that's not what most people are all jazzed up about. Well,
we'll talk about it next hour.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Okay, here's your freedom loving quote of the day from
George Washington. We should not look back unless it is
to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the
purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. That reminds me
of a nietzschee quote I heard yesterday about how nations
need to be able to forget certain things and remember
(30:19):
certain things to survive. And I don't think he meant
forgets in like bury your history, but like not dwell
on right certain things you've done wrong, what you know
it'd be like in your marriage or your you know,
your relationship with.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Your boss or your kids or whatever. Sports is the
same way sports psychology.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
You can't agonize over your mistakes while you're doing the
next play. Yeah, anyway, Yeah, an interesting thought. More could
be said, certainly on that point. You know, the one
thing about being young, and I was as guilty of
it as anybody is. Since you are young and have
quickly arrived at your decision on what the world must
(31:00):
to do. Now that you've taken one college class, you
assume everybody else has done the same, including the older generation,
and that the world that exists was just arbitrarily and
hastily designed. As opposed to, as Washington said, you're profiting
by dearly bought experience. Things are the way they are
because we've tried a thousand different things, some of them
(31:22):
several times, and we're going with what works.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Anyway, mailbag, what drops not? Mail bag at Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
In giddy dot Com, Eric new to Florgan writes, your weight,
it's just a number.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I often hear you and Jack say you have a
negative relationship with your body and the scale. I too,
was once concerned about my own half until I used
this weird trick. Convert your pounds to stone like you're
an Englishman, so simple. You're slapping your forehead right now
with this painfully simple solution. Per instance, I e. Weigh
two hundred and forty five pounds. This is not good.
But after a simple conversion, divide by fourteen and now
(32:01):
only way seventeen and a half stone. That's a much
smaller number by anyone's reckoning. That's an excellent diet. Hint there, Eric,
and I would say, if you're not ready to lose
that much weight, that quickly go with Kilo's divide by
two point two. Moving along, Chris in Visalia writes, Trump's
outrageous executive orders.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Have gone too far. Did you hear about this? He's
changed Taco Tuesday to Taco Wednesday. He's renamed Canadian Bacon
to Montana Ham. He's changed the name of the Montezuma's
Revenge to the Biden Trots. He's renamed the Democratic Party
the Donkey Show.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
That's not good, not at all, And as a final
act of narcissism, he has ordered McDonald's to drop the
Mick and simply become Donald's.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Oh boy, you're right, that's executive overreach.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I see yesterday changing the name of Canada to gay
North Dakota.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I don't know what that is. Wow. Uh pissed off.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Pete in in Salt Lake City, Utah rights Oh on
the doctor questioning you and your son, and you know
when sometimes you get ordered out of the room so
they can question your son.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
To prevent a single case of child abuse anyway, he says,
I agree with Jack. Let's see if the doctor's qualified
and safe. Let's ask these questions doctor, before you take
my child beyond closed doors outside of my presence. I'd
like to talk to your wife and children have a
few questions for them without you being around.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
That's a good one. That is a good one. Pete
Scott and pleasant Hill. The justification of the physician who
texted Jack his defensive the did your father stop beating
you yet? And where does he keep his guns? Questions?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
As the same justification, they would also do away with
our right to remain silent, to have a lawyer against
self incrimination, to possess a firearm, on and on if
it saves one innocent life.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Argument could easily be used to.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Take away all of those rights, and has been used
that way and throughout history. Oh yeah, I mean, if
you're going to use that philosophy, you need to search
every car at to various checkpoints and every home.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Certainly you know. But this is to me, this is
not a your evil and I'm good thing that one's
clearly wrong, one's clearly right.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
It is competing interests.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
It is good against good, seeking a balance, which is
exactly what we do when we design and run governments
theory theoretically.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Let's see, we're pressed for time.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Oh, the first Circuit Court of Appeals case that says
parents have no right to hear about their child's mental
health issues at school. I will be going into depth
with that, But several people said, I totally agree. I
will bury anyone who tries to mess with my family FAFO.
I'm not a tough guy, but don't f with my family.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
The Left is messing with the family, or effing with it,
if you prefer, in a very primal, fundamental way, and
they are going to find out.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I think more on that next hour.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Many of these people who have these views have no children.
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