March 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Trump's speech & the democrat resistance
- DOGE Hat Wearing Katie Green's Headlines!
- AI dominance
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Caddy arm Strong and and he.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Arms get.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Somebody brought brownie as Michael, you see that. Yeah, I'm
avoiding played a brownie out the.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Regular kind or the pot kind, because I need to
battle out man the.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Regular kind, although I hear they're quite addictive.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I have not had one yet. You'll lose a foot
if you eat a brownie though, right, You don't want
to do that, Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, I'm trying to avoid him with the diabetes, so
I will not eat one either.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I will.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I will help, I will help help you shore up
against that. I will not eat one in front.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Of Wow Live's from Studio se. It has nothing to
do with the fact that the scale.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Laughed at me today.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I got on the scale that didn't give me a number,
just to please please just get off if you don't care,
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That's what the scale said to me. Wow, it gave
up on you. Tough love exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, I'm one to talk anyway, Live et cetera, Studio
c or Bunker under the tutelage of our general manager,
the soo tack, what's the stack?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
The big speech last night, the state of the ass
kicking address? Oooh yeah, mega, hell you like me? Now
I want you to define big for me.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Oh it was huge again? Define big. That was immense,
I mean just.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Really big in terms of my definitions of you know what,
in terms of entertainment, in terms of like enduring significance.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Please.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But as politics is our national pastime, now surpassing even
the mighty NFL, I tuned in to be entertained, and
by god, I was entertained.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I can only watch like ten minutes before I had
to take my son to Scouts, and then I watched
Echo Chamber afterwards.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But I remember you saying.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Priorities, you had it nailed down many years ago. And
this was before the internet the way it is now
and everything like that. It's just back in the day.
I can understand why these were a big deal. You
never heard from the president really, and so when they
gave a big speech, everybody gathered around the TV to
(02:39):
see what does this gentleman think about various things. But
ever since cable news, and then certainly since the Internet
and everything else, good God, you hear from whoever's president
all day, every day. You know exactly what they think
about everything. You've heard all the phrases about everything. Why
would you need to ever gather around for one more
instance of that. It's it's a relic of it's an anachronism.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
To get a clearer picture of the president's policy priorities,
right if you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Say so, No, it's just I'm trying to come up
with an answer.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I think it mostly exists because it's so pomp and circumstance. Yeah,
which is in the part that I'm the Washington power folks.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, absolutely right, crave. You're right, that's what keeps it going.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Uh, old media that like doesn't know how to break
out of this old stuff and cover news the way,
you know, faster, smarter, younger. You know, Joe Rogan's not
going to talk about the freaking this address on his
show and he gets gazillions more viewers than any of
the CNN shows that we'll talk endlessly, endlessly about it.
(03:45):
So dominant media is stuck in it. And then you're right,
the powerful in Washington, d C. This is there.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Look how important we are fast that they get to
do a couple of years and they're never gonna want
to let go of.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That, right right, Well, it's all durists fathering year children
stopped last night. I'm approaching it strictly from a point
of view of entertainment, and as I pointed out, it
was fine entertainment. Indeed, really certainly, as a snapshot of
the current state of party politics in the United States,
(04:19):
there was some significance to you just it was a
glimpse of the lay of the land, and it was
extremely favorable to Republicans. I know better than to think
that will last permanently or anything close to permanently, but
as a snapshot, it was further evidence of an utterly sapped, clueless,
(04:41):
and directionless Democratic party. Now well, britt Hume, Well, one
thing brit Hume said last night, it was in forty
years of covering, this is the most partisan one of
these he's ever seen. But that's just the direction. I'm
guessing the second most partisan was the last one. I mean,
we've just been annoying that direction for years and years
and year. It was a step in that direction virtually
(05:04):
exactly the same as the last four steps in that direction, right,
Just not surprising at all.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Which, yeah, my main takeaway from almost everything these days
is enough norm breaking?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Can we stop norm breaking for a while? Maybe not?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Bid luck with Brit Hume also said, if you ever
doubted that Donald Trump is the political colossus of our
time and our nation, this night and this speech should
have put that to rest. Yeah, yeah, I can't imagine
still doubting that. Honestly, Yes, who did doubt that? That's
a good question, Brit. Nobody drove it home.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
There are a number of moments that we'll we'll talk
about that were fun and interesting and revealing. Not about
the president's policy priority, because again you hear those twenty
seven times a day. But the big moment, being a
senile old he wishes it was still the civil rights movement,
(06:00):
half non compassmentous joke of a man shaking his cane
angrily at the president. I mean, as symbols go, that
was a really good one. Yeah, Richl Green and not
the brilliant vocalist.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, if you didn't see it, and good for you
if you didn't, and you fit in with most Americans.
I'm sure when ratings come out that you didn't see it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But an old Democrat shook his cane and wouldn't stop yelling,
and they actually, you know, got the cops and ushered
him out. But Rich Lowry of the National Review tweeted,
Democrats are the party of the future, and if you
don't believe them, they have a seventy seven year old
man shaking his cane to prove it.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Well said Rich well said.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And then the other visual aspect of it that I
think was telling was the Democrats, who'd been ordered to
have a dignified presence by Hakeem Jeffries mostly did. There
is hackling and shouting in a crazed old man shaking
his cane representing the future. But the other saying that
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they decided on was they were gonna sit there stone
faced with these little signs that said elon steeles or
not true or a couple other things. And it looked
just like Wiley coyote on the old cartoons holding up
a little sign that says oopsy right exactly before a
(07:23):
rock falls on his header, he plumb us off a
cliff or something like that.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
And so as as protests go, as the resistance goes,
it was beyond silly, just just terrible.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, you know, and they're refusing to stand for anything
no matter what it was, here's a kid, that kid
that didn't die of cancer. We're not going to stand
for that, which Trump indicted with great skill. And again,
the significance of the speech very little. The snapshot of
where we are politically though, where they are stone faced
(08:01):
over curing cancer. And he says, you know, you people
won't clap over anything good that happens.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You're just you're completely phony.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
That's a trumpion calling them out for exactly what's going on.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah. I took in Mark Halprin's video cast that he
did after the speech last night, and he has his
panel of Democrats and Republicans, and the mainstream Democrats he
had on his show were horrified that the Democratic Party
sat for some of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Just horrified. The Democrat pundits were, They're like, this is
just not a good look. No average American tuning in,
you know, was happy about that. I mean, if you're
tuning in, you know that to hate on Trump, you'd
be fine with it. But if you're just kind of
an average, middle of the road American you tune in,
He's like, what is that?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
He can't clap for anything? Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm reminded of the clip of the day yesterday, which
surely you're aware of if you're into politics more than
you should be, which was a couple of dozen Democrats
all giving the same sounded like hip and I'm going
to drop an s bomb and tell you what's really
going on man about Trump. But they're reading all from
precisely the same script. And people were mocking that, and
(09:19):
it's of, you know, it's of a set of a
piece with what Jack was just describing, and that is
everything is premeditated.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Everything is top down.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And nothing reflects like real people and how they behave.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It's just so nakedly strategic.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Just it doesn't reflect Americans and how they feel and
the way they live.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, well I got one more question about that. But
we should start the show officially first before the guy
who runs the FCC, one of his five things that
he has to tell Elani does every week is make
sure the Armstrong and Getty show starts on time.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So we need to start.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
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March the fifth, the year twenty twenty five, or Armstronger
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Speaker 1 (10:05):
Let's begin then officially. According to f CC rules and regulations.
Here we go, at Mark.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
This is my fifth such speech to Congress, And once
again I look at the Democrats in front of me,
and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say
to make them happy, or to make them stand or
a smile or applaud nothing I can do.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's very sad, and it just shouldn't be this well.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Longest one of these anybody has ever given, even longer
than Bill Clinton's many decades mocked hour and a half
long address from back in ninety five or two thousand
or whatever it was. It's interesting that Trump being such
a this will make good TV sort of guy, understanding
TV and everything like that, drones on for.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So long, isn't it doesn't fit together?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Strikes me a guy who's passed the point where anybody
who can, anybody can tell him anything.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I'm just surprised. It's terrible idea.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I'm surprised at his own natural instincts as a guy
who put on TV shows. Isn't, No, we can't. We
can't talk for ninety minutes. Nobody will stick around.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Or maybe it's because he understands people aren't gonna watch this.
They're gonna get clips and I'm gonna go on and
on and on. So there are lots of clips floating
around out there that match up with everybody's.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Needs and they see it. Maybe that's his thinking.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I don't know how so he views it as like
a production session.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It's seven dimensions chests.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, that's that's the way the late night hosts do
their shows now, like Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
They know not that many people tune in. It's the
it's the different segments on YouTube that that keep them afloat.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So maybe that's all.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
But it's not four hours long, right, you know, they
still fashion it like you show. The normal performer of
any sort can feel when they're losing the room and
it feels like your life is being sucked from you
like some alien death ray.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It's the worst feeling in the world.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
One question, though, is where do we go in terms
of divisive norm breaking? So you got the Trump giving
the most divisive speech ever. Again they've been going that
direction president after president. He didn't invent this, but and
then you got the other party not standing up for anything.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You know, we've been talking about that for decades.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
It's always been kind of funny that whichever party's out
of power doesn't stand for various policy proposals.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
But now you don't stand for anything. What's the next step?
I mean, how far does this go before we've reached the.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
End of the pendulum swing? Or is there an end
before we just become a monarchy. Well, when I saw
the senile old fella shaking his cane, I thought we
might be heading for a rerun of the Brooks Sumner
affair back in eighteen fifty six, when pro slavery Democrat
Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with his cane and
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beat him into unconsciousness.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
That can't I think it's got to go that that way.
It can't happen.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
You'd have to have someone under seventy five to the beating,
and everybody's so old, I don't think anybody could hurt
anybody else. Slow motion beating. You're right, we should take
a break. They've got Katie's headlines coming up and a
bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Stay here. We're into day two of the whole tariff thing.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's the biggest story economically, maybe in the world.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I canceled my Guacamolean Medello Party just can't afford it.
I understand it's incredibly disappointing too. We're gonna eat, quawk
and drink.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Well. I guess that's self evident.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with
the doge hat wearing Katie Green, Katie, you have a
hat that says don't I do?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Where'd you get bed?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
It's from a website called Next Level Goods. It's got
a bunch of Trump and America stuff on it.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Thank you, little Maggan nut you.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
I am proud of it. NBC quote, we are just
getting started.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Trump touts his agenda to reshape America.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
As the Wall Street Yes, huge speech, Thank you from
the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Trump's Canada Mexico tariffs take effect.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, Wall Street Journal with another editorial board, Are you
really going to do this?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
What the hell editorial today?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
As a student of economics since I was a wee lad,
I'm really curious to see how this plays out and
to what extent the fears of price bumps manifest themselves,
and you know, on a more political level, whether Trump's
going to hang in there on this and for how long.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
But it's a complicated topic. Topic, no doubt.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
From the New York Times, drones now rule the battlefield
in the Ukraine Russia war.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah. I talked about that last week.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Remember some Special Forces dude saying the introduction of cheap
anybody can get them drones onto the battlefield is the
biggest change since Genghis Khan puts stirrups on a horse
in warfare.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And as I mentioned at the time, I was heartened
to hear that Pete Hegseath is making startups and and
innovative companies relationships with the Pentagon a real priority going
forward and not just relying on the big heavy arms
guys as usual.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
From Reuters, Israeli forces kill West Bank, Hama's commander good
CNN A forty day Target boycott starts today and it
couldn't come for a worse time for the company.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Is that like woke numb skulls because they ditch Dei? Okay,
Tar tar J. Yeah, I'm gonna go. I almost never
go to Target. It's just it's big, and it's crowded,
and plus my kids are grown, so I just don't
buy much. But I'm gonna go and I'm gonna find
(15:53):
stuff to buy. Whatever it takes you. Just you let
me know how much revenue they're losing, and I will
match it on the positive side every day. So the
woke side thinks they're going to attack target. Target's more
on their side than practically any other major retailer in America.
Maybe they just think they're more susceptible to their pressure
because they are woke. Yes, perhaps, and having gained way
(16:18):
more than is good and decent toward their progressive neo
Marxist goals, they're lows to give back any ground. Bring
it on, says I from.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
The New York Post. Nine students found dismembered by side
of Mexico Highway after disappearing on vacation.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Oh, that's the sort of thing that happens in Mexico.
They found nine dismembered bodies and a bag of hands
for these college kids that were on vacation. Eoh, I
want to talk more about the Mexican government and the
cartels and their recent to PR campaigns, but we don't
have the time.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Boh No, keep moving.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
From the Babylon b What was Canadian tariffs expected to
have devastating.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Impact on curling broom industry?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yes, they get me every time Seth Dylan and his crew.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You guys are great.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
We got some more news of the day. Came across
some damned interesting AI stuff yesterday. I definitely want to
get to on the show. Frightens the hell out of
me as a guy who's sending a couple of kids
into the world.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Someday.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Armstrong and Getty proames first presidential address to Congress.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
There was quite a night.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
There are about four hundred people in attendance, three hundred
members of Congress and a hundred where Elon's kids.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
We'll be talking more about the address and have some
clips for you an hour two so and we just
covered in the first half of this hour, and if
you didn't hear it, you should get the podcast Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Getty on demand. Excellent advice.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You know, an interesting thing I've learned just in the
last like two months about myself is I have some
sort of processing order in my brain that I've never
known I've had my entire life. That it's because I'm
about to read from a column by and I can't
look at it or I will say it wrong Ezracline
in the New York Times. If I look at the
word and read it I'll say, Erza, Wow, that's got
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to be something, and I.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Have no idea.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And now I know why there's so many lames, particularly
that if I read them, I get them wrong.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You know, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
We've worked together for ages and ages, and yeah, I've
noticed that many years ago that for some reason, names
just perplex you completely. Is it because you can't I
mean you as somebody who reads a ton. I mean obviously,
if you come across a word that's jumbled from context,
your brain can sort that out. Again. Maybe if there's
(18:46):
no context for Ezra no no, I wonder anyway, I
don't know, but now that I know, and it explains
a lot of things that I've had trouble with in
my life. There's all kinds of weird processing disorders you
can have in your brain. I've learned that with my son.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
That everybody knows about dyslection, but there's all kinds of
different things a minor or major, and lots of people
have some of them and you might not even know
you have them.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Really.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, I was, for instance, comforted somewhat to learn probably
six months ago that there's like a what do they
call it, a continuum of a range of abilities to
recognize faces from the spectacular to the it's actually a
phasia problem or whatever they call it, and most people
are in between. And I've always thought, why do I
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not recognize people? Well, I talked to them for like
two hours three weeks ago, and now I'm like, I've
met that person somewhere, but I have no context. And
that's just I'm not good at that, apparently.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
So.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Ezra Kleine has an article opinion piece in The New
York Times about AI that I started reading last night
and found very fascinating. The headline out of it. Nate
Silver tweeted this out. Actually, really the headline out of
it is the lack of attention to AI. Progress will
look foolish in the future in that this is going
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to be so big and hit us all so fast
and change so many things. The fact that we're not all,
like really talking about it all the time is really
quite amazing. But on the other hand, they kind of
make the point as I'm about to read, that nobody
exactly knows how you would prepare for it anyway.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, I don't know what to say. If you've been
telling yourself this isn't coming.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I really think you need to question that, he writes,
and this is after talking to a number of AI experts,
including Biden's AI expert, who's currently working somewhat with Trump's
AI expert, to try to get us all prepared for
that and try to stay ahead of China, which we're
about to get to.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I think we're on the.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Cusp of an era in human history that is unlike
any of the eras we have ever experienced before, and
we're not prepared, in part because it's not clear what
it would mean to prepare. We don't know what this
will look like, what it will feel like. We don't
know how labor markets will respond. We don't know which
country is going to get there first. We don't know
what it'll mean for war. We don't know what it'll
mean for peace. Well, okay, And while there's so much
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else going on in the world to cover, there's a
good chance when we look back on this era, we'll
realize that this was the only thing that mattered. He
uses the example Klein does in The New York Times.
I work with producers on the show. I hire incredibly
talented people to do very demanding research work to help
me prepare for books and columns.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I asked AI one of the ais, I don't know
which one he was using to.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Do a report on the tensions between the Madisonian constitutional
system and the highly polarized nationalized parties we have now,
and what it produced in a matter of minutes I
would say was at least the media of what any
of the teams I've ever hired could have produced within days.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Wow. That's a pretty complex topic.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Wow, to spit out in minutes and do as good
a job as the you know, I'm sure highly educated,
as he says, very talented people that he hires to
do that sort of thing. Yeah, complex and at least
medium on the scale of.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Subtlety.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I mean, it's not like asking what vitamins are there
in Pineapple, where that's a very straightforward query, and you
would find many references to that that would be unmistakable,
unmistakably references to that. But you yeah, there's much more
subtlety in the question he asked. That's weirdly chilling. He
goes on, I've talked to a number of people at
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firms that do high amounts of coding, and they tell
me by the end of this year, certainly by the
end of next year, they expect most code will not
be written by human beings. I do not see how
this cannot have a major impact on the labor market.
I would say, since for the past ten years, at
least the you know teacher, have your kids.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Learned the code? Learn to code, you know, and not
a coal miner anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Go to college, learn to code, and that's going to
be a worthless skill by the end of the year,
certainly by the end of next year, because it'll all
be done by AI.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, that's troubling.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And also, this AI researcher made this point which I
thought was really good.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He referenced John F.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Kennedy's famous speech in nineteen sixty two, his Moon Speech,
And everybody remembers the part where he talked about we're.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Going to go to the Moon by the end of
the decade.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Not because it's not because it's easy, but because it's hard.
And everybody remembers that part of the speech, but people
don't remember the ending of the speech where this guy writes,
I think he gives the better line for space science,
nuclear science, and all technology that has no conscience of
its own, whether it will become a force for good
or ill. This is Kennedy writing about space, but it's
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true about AI. Whether it become a force for good
or ill depends on man. And only if the United
States occupies a position of pre eminence can we help
decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of
peace or a new and terrifying fear of war. We
need to make sure we're the ones that get their first. So, yeah,
I didn't even know that was in the Moon speech,
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even though I knew what drove the space program was,
you know, trying to stay ahead of the Soviets. And
that guy gets to the point that US beating the
Chinese is of the utmost importance.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
He gets into the idea of cyber warfare. Whoever gets
to what they call general artificial intelligence AGI artificial general intelligence,
whoever gets there first is going to have such a
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dominant role on the planet on hacking or stopping hacking.
And if for instance, China gets there first, they can
hack into everything we have and we probably won't be
able to stop it, like everything, and that could I
mean imagine, just try to imagine how disruptive.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
That would be.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You can't, no, you no, you absolutely the greatest cyber
experts on Earth could probably give you a lovely speech
about it, but no, the average person can't even and
he extrapolates it from not only the ability to hack in,
but the fact that you don't need one thousand Chinese
experts in a room doing the hacking.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
The AI will figure that out and get.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Into every tire shop or school or hospital or or
you know, radio show, website or whatever it wants to
get into.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
In the blink of an eye.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
In a blink of an eye, don't mess with our
hot links, China, I'm coming in. You know. It strikes
me first of all that part of the Kennedy speech
you featured is really terrific and underappreciated. But it strikes me,
given the current state of things with China and other
countries sending probes to the Moon, that that it was
far from settled. We got there first, but we haven't
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really defended it. Remember I have been in favor of
serious Moon defense, blowing anybody else's astronauts out the sky.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It's our moon.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Secondly, the other thing that with the obvious parallel is
that if the AI dominance a g I were first in,
but that's going to be a never ending battlefield.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
For some reason, the couple expertise interviewed seem to think
that getting there first keeps you ahead.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Permanent. I'd rather try that than the other one.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
In the catch up, Yeah, the main thrust of the
article at the beginning was this guy who was advising
the Biden White House and is working with Trump's AI
person also thinks this whole artificial general intelligence thing.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Is way overblown.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
We don't need to get there to completely disrupt everything.
AI will get there someday where it is as smart
as an human being on earth and can learn on
its own, but it doesn't need to get all the
way there to be incredibly disruptive to the labor market
or hacking or everything like that.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And he says, we're going to be there in a
couple of years.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
We're going to be at the part that can disrupt
everything everybody's talking about. We won't get to know artificial
general intelligence for ten years, fifteen years, a dozen year,
twenty years, whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
We don't need to get there. It can disrupt the
entire world by getting eighty.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Ninety percent of the way there, which we're going to
get in the next couple of years. As a guy
toward the end of a mediocre career, I am not
as personally invested in fear of the upset of the
labor market, even though I fear for my children. But
something just occurred to me that made me sick to
my stomach. And that is number one target of any
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cyber attack would be the banking systems. And I don't
know about y'all. My accumulated wealth, such as it is,
is not in gold bars nor cash buried in my backyard.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Well, mine's all in NFTs, which I hope will hold
their value.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
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since it's so unpredictable, there's nothing you can do to prepare.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
So what is the point of that.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Just be afraid, be very afraid, or just well right,
or just realize whatever you've got planned for you or
your kids, it probably ain't gonna happen that way.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Maybe that's the oof.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah, be like just a couple of quick notes and
then we'll go to break because we have mail bag
a couple of other things coming up. But the Wall
Street Journal featured this dude who left open AI last
year and said, I'm going to start my own company.
His company is already worth thirty billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Because he's one of the leaders.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
And that is where the smart money quote unquote in
Silicon Valley, your capitalists that thinks it is best to
go again one year. Less than one year later, it's
worth thirty billion dollars. Second Story Bank loans two billion
dollars to build a one hundred acre AI data center
(30:15):
in Utah. It is one of the biggest construction loans
in human history, and it is for a data center.
It highlights the booming demand for artificial intelligence.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Wow, and everybody, including me, understand so little about in
what way it's actually going to unfold in our lives.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And there are a couple of voices saying this reminds
me of the dot com bubble. I don't know, Yeah, truly,
I don't know. So we'll just bring you the information
as we come across it.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
The only thing I think every time I read about
is the thing? Is there any way we cannot? Is
there any way we cannot? Can we just at an
opt out button?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah? Just can? Can anybody decide let's just not go
down this road.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
We don't need to get the mail bag next our
text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
If there was any news out last night's speech, it
was him reading Zelenski's latest letter.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
So I guess we can talk about that now or
two maybe. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And as I said earlier in the hour, perhaps you
missed it. It was entertaining his Heck, I want to
talk more about that in play some clips next hour.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Man, I'm enjoying the series from Teddy Roosevelt. Is he's
a quote machine like the late great Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Because Trump wants to put it. Today's quote, to educate.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
A man in mind and not morals is to educate
a menace to society.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Wow. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
That is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
We do none of that most in more the opposite.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, educate him in perverse philosophy. Sick
mail bag, drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
and getty dot Com fellas as someone who's initially not
a Trump guy, sat back and applauded his persuasion skill
set during the speech last night.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
The speech was.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Short on the roadmap forward, long on curb stomping the
Dems stomping an unfortunate term. Some underestimate how important it
is to keep them on the ground. They were left
with shaking canes like old man yells at cloud style
true truly lame, high school level protest signs, dressing in
colors and steeped in their sour disposition to the point
(32:21):
that they couldn't show any heart for the victims of
violence and a.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Thirteen year old cancer survivor.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
To emphasize the emphasize the absurdity the fake Indian folk.
Honess laughed at Hitler's joke, how can you be the
hit the h Man and Buddy Hackett at the same time.
I wasn't planning to watch, but OMG, Trump owns them.
That's Joe and Weymouth's mass JT and Livermore to the
(32:47):
other end of the country on the topic of friends
versus allies. To put it bluntly, this is on the
topic of Tariff's Trump is sick and tired of America
giving so many friends discounts to our allies.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
That's a great way to put it, JT.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
This is consistent with his first term, in which you
have bad mouthed NAFTA during his campaign negotiating to Madi,
I'm sorry, a modified version before ending his first term.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
It isn't just trade.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Trump is also tired of the US footing a disproportionates
sheriff costs for NATO, wto the WHO and the UN,
to say nothing of being the world's policeman, particularly on
the open seas. Yeah, there's more, and it's very good,
but I think we'll leave it there. For the longest time,
the US led World Order included, hey, we will give
you a friend's discount for you know, cooperating and because
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we're way richer and mightier than you are, and that'll
lift you up and blah blah blah. And Trump's point
of view is that era needs to end. You know,
you might debate it, but it's not crazy. Moving along,
Tariffs go both ways. Nate points out, now we're in
the tariff discussion. From y'all, did I hear anything about
tariffs on goods from the USA, the countries like Canada
(33:56):
and Mexico have. Canada has insane tariffs on US items
for decades.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
That's what needs to go away. Level the playing field
on tariffs.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
That's the next step of reciprocal tariffs that Trump's talking about.
Nothing more interesting than tariff. You know I'm gonna do
this one.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
This is going to effect every one of our lives.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Got a great note on the gender versus sex thing
coming up, But Charlotte sent along part of a homily
that's like a sermon for Catholics. It's ash Wednesday during Lent,
and his homily was about silence, and she included some
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of the quotes which I am going to read you now.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I mean, just pause in this one for a second.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
How can I ever know what I think if I'm
always putting someone else's thoughts in my mind? If I
always have to listen to a podcast, well, just listen
to ours, and you know call it good. Always have
to listen to someone else's song, someone else's music, someone
else's thoughts.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
How can I ever know what I think if.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I'm constantly listening to someone else's thoughts. If I can't
be alone with my own thoughts, then how will I
ever know what I actually think? Again, the furnace reveals,
and the furnace trains. That's the reference to something earlier.
The tribulation reveals, and the tribulation trains. The speech reveals,
but the silence reveals too, and the silence trains.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
So here's the invitation.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Saint jose Maria s Crevai in the book the way
he said it like that, he said, quote silence is
the doorkeeper of the interior life, which means I have
to actually walk through this doorway if I'm ever going
to know, if I'm ever going to become the person
I am. I wonder if that's why meditation is so
important to me. H makes sense because I've thought, how
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did I live my whole life without it? Because now
if I skip it, it's just I can absolutely tell, Well,
I didn't used to occupy my brain with a podcast
or a screen every moment of the day, So maybe
I didn't need it as bad. Now I at least
get that twenty minutes where I'm in silence. Yeah, I
believe in being quote unquote bored for a chunk of
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every day. I think it's really important. Again, if you
were enjoying a three screen experience and didn't quite catch it.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Blah blah, blah blah blah. Here's your takeaway.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Silence is the doorkeeper of the interior life. Yeah, you
had your TV on, why you were listening to us
and you were checking your phone exactly so you might
have missed that.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Highlights from the speech last night? Ooh significant? Maybe entertaining? Definitely?
Can you believe a bear got in? How did they
let that happen?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
It's amazing Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Caddy arm Strong and and he.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Arms get.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Somebody brought brownie as Michael, you see that. Yeah, I'm
avoiding played a brownie out the.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Regular kind or the pot kind, because I need to
battle out man the.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Regular kind, although I hear they're quite addictive.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I have not had one yet. You'll lose a foot
if you eat a brownie though, right, You don't want
to do that, Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, I'm trying to avoid him with the diabetes, so
I will not eat one either.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I will.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I will help, I will help help you shore up
against that. I will not eat one in front.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Of Wow Live's from Studio se. It has nothing to
do with the fact that the scale.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Laughed at me today.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I got on the scale that didn't give me a number,
just to please please just get off if you don't care,
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That's what the scale said to me. Wow, it gave
up on you. Tough love exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, I'm one to talk anyway, Live et cetera, Studio
c or Bunker under the tutelage of our general manager,
the soo tack, what's the stack?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
The big speech last night, the state of the ass
kicking address? Oooh yeah, mega, hell you like me? Now
I want you to define big for me.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Oh it was huge again? Define big. That was immense,
I mean just.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Really big in terms of my definitions of you know what,
in terms of entertainment, in terms of like enduring significance.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Please.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But as politics is our national pastime, now surpassing even
the mighty NFL, I tuned in to be entertained, and
by god, I was entertained.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I can only watch like ten minutes before I had
to take my son to Scouts, and then I watched
Echo Chamber afterwards.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But I remember you saying.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Priorities, you had it nailed down many years ago. And
this was before the internet the way it is now
and everything like that. It's just back in the day.
I can understand why these were a big deal. You
never heard from the president really, and so when they
gave a big speech, everybody gathered around the TV to
(02:39):
see what does this gentleman think about various things. But
ever since cable news, and then certainly since the Internet
and everything else, good God, you hear from whoever's president
all day, every day. You know exactly what they think
about everything. You've heard all the phrases about everything. Why
would you need to ever gather around for one more
instance of that. It's it's a relic of it's an anachronism.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
To get a clearer picture of the president's policy priorities,
right if you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Say so, No, it's just I'm trying to come up
with an answer.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I think it mostly exists because it's so pomp and circumstance. Yeah,
which is in the part that I'm the Washington power folks.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, absolutely right, crave. You're right, that's what keeps it going.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Uh, old media that like doesn't know how to break
out of this old stuff and cover news the way,
you know, faster, smarter, younger. You know, Joe Rogan's not
going to talk about the freaking this address on his
show and he gets gazillions more viewers than any of
the CNN shows that we'll talk endlessly, endlessly about it.
(03:45):
So dominant media is stuck in it. And then you're right,
the powerful in Washington, d C. This is there.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Look how important we are fast that they get to
do a couple of years and they're never gonna want
to let go of.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That, right right, Well, it's all durists fathering year children
stopped last night. I'm approaching it strictly from a point
of view of entertainment, and as I pointed out, it
was fine entertainment. Indeed, really certainly, as a snapshot of
the current state of party politics in the United States,
(04:19):
there was some significance to you just it was a
glimpse of the lay of the land, and it was
extremely favorable to Republicans. I know better than to think
that will last permanently or anything close to permanently, but
as a snapshot, it was further evidence of an utterly sapped, clueless,
(04:41):
and directionless Democratic party. Now well, britt Hume, Well, one
thing brit Hume said last night, it was in forty
years of covering, this is the most partisan one of
these he's ever seen. But that's just the direction. I'm
guessing the second most partisan was the last one. I mean,
we've just been annoying that direction for years and years
and year. It was a step in that direction virtually
(05:04):
exactly the same as the last four steps in that direction, right,
Just not surprising at all.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Which, yeah, my main takeaway from almost everything these days
is enough norm breaking?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Can we stop norm breaking for a while? Maybe not?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Bid luck with Brit Hume also said, if you ever
doubted that Donald Trump is the political colossus of our
time and our nation, this night and this speech should
have put that to rest. Yeah, yeah, I can't imagine
still doubting that. Honestly, Yes, who did doubt that? That's
a good question, Brit. Nobody drove it home.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
There are a number of moments that we'll we'll talk
about that were fun and interesting and revealing. Not about
the president's policy priority, because again you hear those twenty
seven times a day. But the big moment, being a
senile old he wishes it was still the civil rights movement,
(06:00):
half non compassmentous joke of a man shaking his cane
angrily at the president. I mean, as symbols go, that
was a really good one. Yeah, Richl Green and not
the brilliant vocalist.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, if you didn't see it, and good for you
if you didn't, and you fit in with most Americans.
I'm sure when ratings come out that you didn't see it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But an old Democrat shook his cane and wouldn't stop yelling,
and they actually, you know, got the cops and ushered
him out. But Rich Lowry of the National Review tweeted,
Democrats are the party of the future, and if you
don't believe them, they have a seventy seven year old
man shaking his cane to prove it.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Well said Rich well said.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And then the other visual aspect of it that I
think was telling was the Democrats, who'd been ordered to
have a dignified presence by Hakeem Jeffries mostly did. There
is hackling and shouting in a crazed old man shaking
his cane representing the future. But the other saying that
(07:01):
they decided on was they were gonna sit there stone
faced with these little signs that said elon steeles or
not true or a couple other things. And it looked
just like Wiley coyote on the old cartoons holding up
a little sign that says oopsy right exactly before a
(07:23):
rock falls on his header, he plumb us off a
cliff or something like that.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
And so as as protests go, as the resistance goes,
it was beyond silly, just just terrible.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, you know, and they're refusing to stand for anything
no matter what it was, here's a kid, that kid
that didn't die of cancer. We're not going to stand
for that, which Trump indicted with great skill. And again,
the significance of the speech very little. The snapshot of
where we are politically though, where they are stone faced
(08:01):
over curing cancer. And he says, you know, you people
won't clap over anything good that happens.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You're just you're completely phony.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
That's a trumpion calling them out for exactly what's going on.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah. I took in Mark Halprin's video cast that he
did after the speech last night, and he has his
panel of Democrats and Republicans, and the mainstream Democrats he
had on his show were horrified that the Democratic Party
sat for some of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Just horrified. The Democrat pundits were, They're like, this is
just not a good look. No average American tuning in,
you know, was happy about that. I mean, if you're
tuning in, you know that to hate on Trump, you'd
be fine with it. But if you're just kind of
an average, middle of the road American you tune in,
He's like, what is that?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
He can't clap for anything? Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm reminded of the clip of the day yesterday, which
surely you're aware of if you're into politics more than
you should be, which was a couple of dozen Democrats
all giving the same sounded like hip and I'm going
to drop an s bomb and tell you what's really
going on man about Trump. But they're reading all from
precisely the same script. And people were mocking that, and
(09:19):
it's of, you know, it's of a set of a
piece with what Jack was just describing, and that is
everything is premeditated.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Everything is top down.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And nothing reflects like real people and how they behave.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It's just so nakedly strategic.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Just it doesn't reflect Americans and how they feel and
the way they live.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, well I got one more question about that. But
we should start the show officially first before the guy
who runs the FCC, one of his five things that
he has to tell Elani does every week is make
sure the Armstrong and Getty show starts on time.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So we need to start.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It is Wednesday,
March the fifth, the year twenty twenty five, or Armstronger
getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Let's begin then officially. According to f CC rules and regulations.
Here we go, at Mark.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
This is my fifth such speech to Congress, And once
again I look at the Democrats in front of me,
and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say
to make them happy, or to make them stand or
a smile or applaud nothing I can do.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's very sad, and it just shouldn't be this well.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Longest one of these anybody has ever given, even longer
than Bill Clinton's many decades mocked hour and a half
long address from back in ninety five or two thousand
or whatever it was. It's interesting that Trump being such
a this will make good TV sort of guy, understanding
TV and everything like that, drones on for.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So long, isn't it doesn't fit together?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Strikes me a guy who's passed the point where anybody
who can, anybody can tell him anything.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I'm just surprised. It's terrible idea.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I'm surprised at his own natural instincts as a guy
who put on TV shows. Isn't, No, we can't. We
can't talk for ninety minutes. Nobody will stick around.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Or maybe it's because he understands people aren't gonna watch this.
They're gonna get clips and I'm gonna go on and
on and on. So there are lots of clips floating
around out there that match up with everybody's.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Needs and they see it. Maybe that's his thinking.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I don't know how so he views it as like
a production session.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It's seven dimensions chests.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, that's that's the way the late night hosts do
their shows now, like Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
They know not that many people tune in. It's the
it's the different segments on YouTube that that keep them afloat.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So maybe that's all.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
But it's not four hours long, right, you know, they
still fashion it like you show. The normal performer of
any sort can feel when they're losing the room and
it feels like your life is being sucked from you
like some alien death ray.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It's the worst feeling in the world.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
One question, though, is where do we go in terms
of divisive norm breaking? So you got the Trump giving
the most divisive speech ever. Again they've been going that
direction president after president. He didn't invent this, but and
then you got the other party not standing up for anything.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You know, we've been talking about that for decades.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
It's always been kind of funny that whichever party's out
of power doesn't stand for various policy proposals.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
But now you don't stand for anything. What's the next step?
I mean, how far does this go before we've reached the.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
End of the pendulum swing? Or is there an end
before we just become a monarchy. Well, when I saw
the senile old fella shaking his cane, I thought we
might be heading for a rerun of the Brooks Sumner
affair back in eighteen fifty six, when pro slavery Democrat
Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with his cane and
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beat him into unconsciousness.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
That can't I think it's got to go that that way.
It can't happen.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
You'd have to have someone under seventy five to the beating,
and everybody's so old, I don't think anybody could hurt
anybody else. Slow motion beating. You're right, we should take
a break. They've got Katie's headlines coming up and a
bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Stay here. We're into day two of the whole tariff thing.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's the biggest story economically, maybe in the world.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I canceled my Guacamolean Medello Party just can't afford it.
I understand it's incredibly disappointing too. We're gonna eat, quawk
and drink.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Well. I guess that's self evident.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with
the doge hat wearing Katie Green, Katie, you have a
hat that says don't I do?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Where'd you get bed?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
It's from a website called Next Level Goods. It's got
a bunch of Trump and America stuff on it.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Thank you, little Maggan nut you.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
I am proud of it. NBC quote, we are just
getting started.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Trump touts his agenda to reshape America.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
As the Wall Street Yes, huge speech, Thank you from
the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Trump's Canada Mexico tariffs take effect.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, Wall Street Journal with another editorial board, Are you
really going to do this?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
What the hell editorial today?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
As a student of economics since I was a wee lad,
I'm really curious to see how this plays out and
to what extent the fears of price bumps manifest themselves,
and you know, on a more political level, whether Trump's
going to hang in there on this and for how long.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
But it's a complicated topic. Topic, no doubt.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
From the New York Times, drones now rule the battlefield
in the Ukraine Russia war.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah. I talked about that last week.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Remember some Special Forces dude saying the introduction of cheap
anybody can get them drones onto the battlefield is the
biggest change since Genghis Khan puts stirrups on a horse
in warfare.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And as I mentioned at the time, I was heartened
to hear that Pete Hegseath is making startups and and
innovative companies relationships with the Pentagon a real priority going
forward and not just relying on the big heavy arms
guys as usual.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
From Reuters, Israeli forces kill West Bank, Hama's commander good
CNN A forty day Target boycott starts today and it
couldn't come for a worse time for the company.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Is that like woke numb skulls because they ditch Dei? Okay,
Tar tar J. Yeah, I'm gonna go. I almost never
go to Target. It's just it's big, and it's crowded,
and plus my kids are grown, so I just don't
buy much. But I'm gonna go and I'm gonna find
(15:53):
stuff to buy. Whatever it takes you. Just you let
me know how much revenue they're losing, and I will
match it on the positive side every day. So the
woke side thinks they're going to attack target. Target's more
on their side than practically any other major retailer in America.
Maybe they just think they're more susceptible to their pressure
because they are woke. Yes, perhaps, and having gained way
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more than is good and decent toward their progressive neo
Marxist goals, they're lows to give back any ground. Bring
it on, says I from.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
The New York Post. Nine students found dismembered by side
of Mexico Highway after disappearing on vacation.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Oh, that's the sort of thing that happens in Mexico.
They found nine dismembered bodies and a bag of hands
for these college kids that were on vacation. Eoh, I
want to talk more about the Mexican government and the
cartels and their recent to PR campaigns, but we don't
have the time.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Boh No, keep moving.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
From the Babylon b What was Canadian tariffs expected to
have devastating.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Impact on curling broom industry?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yes, they get me every time Seth Dylan and his crew.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You guys are great.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
We got some more news of the day. Came across
some damned interesting AI stuff yesterday. I definitely want to
get to on the show. Frightens the hell out of
me as a guy who's sending a couple of kids
into the world.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Someday.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Armstrong and Getty proames first presidential address to Congress.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
There was quite a night.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
There are about four hundred people in attendance, three hundred
members of Congress and a hundred where Elon's kids.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
We'll be talking more about the address and have some
clips for you an hour two so and we just
covered in the first half of this hour, and if
you didn't hear it, you should get the podcast Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Getty on demand. Excellent advice.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You know, an interesting thing I've learned just in the
last like two months about myself is I have some
sort of processing order in my brain that I've never
known I've had my entire life. That it's because I'm
about to read from a column by and I can't
look at it or I will say it wrong Ezracline
in the New York Times. If I look at the
word and read it I'll say, Erza, Wow, that's got
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to be something, and I.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Have no idea.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And now I know why there's so many lames, particularly
that if I read them, I get them wrong.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You know, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
We've worked together for ages and ages, and yeah, I've
noticed that many years ago that for some reason, names
just perplex you completely. Is it because you can't I
mean you as somebody who reads a ton. I mean obviously,
if you come across a word that's jumbled from context,
your brain can sort that out. Again. Maybe if there's
(18:46):
no context for Ezra no no, I wonder anyway, I
don't know, but now that I know, and it explains
a lot of things that I've had trouble with in
my life. There's all kinds of weird processing disorders you
can have in your brain. I've learned that with my son.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
That everybody knows about dyslection, but there's all kinds of
different things a minor or major, and lots of people
have some of them and you might not even know
you have them.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Really.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, I was, for instance, comforted somewhat to learn probably
six months ago that there's like a what do they
call it, a continuum of a range of abilities to
recognize faces from the spectacular to the it's actually a
phasia problem or whatever they call it, and most people
are in between. And I've always thought, why do I
(19:33):
not recognize people? Well, I talked to them for like
two hours three weeks ago, and now I'm like, I've
met that person somewhere, but I have no context. And
that's just I'm not good at that, apparently.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
So.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Ezra Kleine has an article opinion piece in The New
York Times about AI that I started reading last night
and found very fascinating. The headline out of it. Nate
Silver tweeted this out. Actually, really the headline out of
it is the lack of attention to AI. Progress will
look foolish in the future in that this is going
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to be so big and hit us all so fast
and change so many things. The fact that we're not all,
like really talking about it all the time is really
quite amazing. But on the other hand, they kind of
make the point as I'm about to read, that nobody
exactly knows how you would prepare for it anyway.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, I don't know what to say. If you've been
telling yourself this isn't coming.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I really think you need to question that, he writes,
and this is after talking to a number of AI experts,
including Biden's AI expert, who's currently working somewhat with Trump's
AI expert, to try to get us all prepared for
that and try to stay ahead of China, which we're
about to get to.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I think we're on the.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Cusp of an era in human history that is unlike
any of the eras we have ever experienced before, and
we're not prepared, in part because it's not clear what
it would mean to prepare. We don't know what this
will look like, what it will feel like. We don't
know how labor markets will respond. We don't know which
country is going to get there first. We don't know
what it'll mean for war. We don't know what it'll
mean for peace. Well, okay, And while there's so much
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else going on in the world to cover, there's a
good chance when we look back on this era, we'll
realize that this was the only thing that mattered. He
uses the example Klein does in The New York Times.
I work with producers on the show. I hire incredibly
talented people to do very demanding research work to help
me prepare for books and columns.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I asked AI one of the ais, I don't know
which one he was using to.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Do a report on the tensions between the Madisonian constitutional
system and the highly polarized nationalized parties we have now,
and what it produced in a matter of minutes I
would say was at least the media of what any
of the teams I've ever hired could have produced within days.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Wow. That's a pretty complex topic.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Wow, to spit out in minutes and do as good
a job as the you know, I'm sure highly educated,
as he says, very talented people that he hires to
do that sort of thing. Yeah, complex and at least
medium on the scale of.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Subtlety.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I mean, it's not like asking what vitamins are there
in Pineapple, where that's a very straightforward query, and you
would find many references to that that would be unmistakable,
unmistakably references to that. But you yeah, there's much more
subtlety in the question he asked. That's weirdly chilling. He
goes on, I've talked to a number of people at
(22:33):
firms that do high amounts of coding, and they tell
me by the end of this year, certainly by the
end of next year, they expect most code will not
be written by human beings. I do not see how
this cannot have a major impact on the labor market.
I would say, since for the past ten years, at
least the you know teacher, have your kids.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Learned the code? Learn to code, you know, and not
a coal miner anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Go to college, learn to code, and that's going to
be a worthless skill by the end of the year,
certainly by the end of next year, because it'll all
be done by AI.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, that's troubling.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And also, this AI researcher made this point which I
thought was really good.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He referenced John F.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Kennedy's famous speech in nineteen sixty two, his Moon Speech,
And everybody remembers the part where he talked about we're.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Going to go to the Moon by the end of
the decade.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Not because it's not because it's easy, but because it's hard.
And everybody remembers that part of the speech, but people
don't remember the ending of the speech where this guy writes,
I think he gives the better line for space science,
nuclear science, and all technology that has no conscience of
its own, whether it will become a force for good
or ill. This is Kennedy writing about space, but it's
(23:45):
true about AI. Whether it become a force for good
or ill depends on man. And only if the United
States occupies a position of pre eminence can we help
decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of
peace or a new and terrifying fear of war. We
need to make sure we're the ones that get their first. So, yeah,
I didn't even know that was in the Moon speech,
(24:07):
even though I knew what drove the space program was,
you know, trying to stay ahead of the Soviets. And
that guy gets to the point that US beating the
Chinese is of the utmost importance.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
He gets into the idea of cyber warfare. Whoever gets
to what they call general artificial intelligence AGI artificial general intelligence,
whoever gets there first is going to have such a
(24:42):
dominant role on the planet on hacking or stopping hacking.
And if for instance, China gets there first, they can
hack into everything we have and we probably won't be
able to stop it, like everything, and that could I
mean imagine, just try to imagine how disruptive.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
That would be.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You can't, no, you no, you absolutely the greatest cyber
experts on Earth could probably give you a lovely speech
about it, but no, the average person can't even and
he extrapolates it from not only the ability to hack in,
but the fact that you don't need one thousand Chinese
experts in a room doing the hacking.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
The AI will figure that out and get.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Into every tire shop or school or hospital or or
you know, radio show, website or whatever it wants to
get into.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
In the blink of an eye.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
In a blink of an eye, don't mess with our
hot links, China, I'm coming in. You know. It strikes
me first of all that part of the Kennedy speech
you featured is really terrific and underappreciated. But it strikes me,
given the current state of things with China and other
countries sending probes to the Moon, that that it was
far from settled. We got there first, but we haven't
(25:53):
really defended it. Remember I have been in favor of
serious Moon defense, blowing anybody else's astronauts out the sky.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It's our moon.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Secondly, the other thing that with the obvious parallel is
that if the AI dominance a g I were first in,
but that's going to be a never ending battlefield.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
For some reason, the couple expertise interviewed seem to think
that getting there first keeps you ahead.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Permanent. I'd rather try that than the other one.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
In the catch up, Yeah, the main thrust of the
article at the beginning was this guy who was advising
the Biden White House and is working with Trump's AI
person also thinks this whole artificial general intelligence thing.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Is way overblown.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
We don't need to get there to completely disrupt everything.
AI will get there someday where it is as smart
as an human being on earth and can learn on
its own, but it doesn't need to get all the
way there to be incredibly disruptive to the labor market
or hacking or everything like that.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And he says, we're going to be there in a
couple of years.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
We're going to be at the part that can disrupt
everything everybody's talking about. We won't get to know artificial
general intelligence for ten years, fifteen years, a dozen year,
twenty years, whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
We don't need to get there. It can disrupt the
entire world by getting eighty.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Ninety percent of the way there, which we're going to
get in the next couple of years. As a guy
toward the end of a mediocre career, I am not
as personally invested in fear of the upset of the
labor market, even though I fear for my children. But
something just occurred to me that made me sick to
my stomach. And that is number one target of any
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cyber attack would be the banking systems. And I don't
know about y'all. My accumulated wealth, such as it is,
is not in gold bars nor cash buried in my backyard.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Well, mine's all in NFTs, which I hope will hold
their value.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
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since it's so unpredictable, there's nothing you can do to prepare.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
So what is the point of that.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Just be afraid, be very afraid, or just well right,
or just realize whatever you've got planned for you or
your kids, it probably ain't gonna happen that way.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Maybe that's the oof.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah, be like just a couple of quick notes and
then we'll go to break because we have mail bag
a couple of other things coming up. But the Wall
Street Journal featured this dude who left open AI last
year and said, I'm going to start my own company.
His company is already worth thirty billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Because he's one of the leaders.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
And that is where the smart money quote unquote in
Silicon Valley, your capitalists that thinks it is best to
go again one year. Less than one year later, it's
worth thirty billion dollars. Second Story Bank loans two billion
dollars to build a one hundred acre AI data center
(30:15):
in Utah. It is one of the biggest construction loans
in human history, and it is for a data center.
It highlights the booming demand for artificial intelligence.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Wow, and everybody, including me, understand so little about in
what way it's actually going to unfold in our lives.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And there are a couple of voices saying this reminds
me of the dot com bubble. I don't know, Yeah, truly,
I don't know. So we'll just bring you the information
as we come across it.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
The only thing I think every time I read about
is the thing? Is there any way we cannot? Is
there any way we cannot? Can we just at an
opt out button?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah? Just can? Can anybody decide let's just not go
down this road.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
We don't need to get the mail bag next our
text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
If there was any news out last night's speech, it
was him reading Zelenski's latest letter.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
So I guess we can talk about that now or
two maybe. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And as I said earlier in the hour, perhaps you
missed it. It was entertaining his Heck, I want to
talk more about that in play some clips next hour.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Man, I'm enjoying the series from Teddy Roosevelt. Is he's
a quote machine like the late great Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Because Trump wants to put it. Today's quote, to educate.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
A man in mind and not morals is to educate
a menace to society.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Wow. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
That is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
We do none of that most in more the opposite.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, educate him in perverse philosophy. Sick
mail bag, drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
and getty dot Com fellas as someone who's initially not
a Trump guy, sat back and applauded his persuasion skill
set during the speech last night.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
The speech was.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Short on the roadmap forward, long on curb stomping the
Dems stomping an unfortunate term. Some underestimate how important it
is to keep them on the ground. They were left
with shaking canes like old man yells at cloud style
true truly lame, high school level protest signs, dressing in
colors and steeped in their sour disposition to the point
(32:21):
that they couldn't show any heart for the victims of
violence and a.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Thirteen year old cancer survivor.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
To emphasize the emphasize the absurdity the fake Indian folk.
Honess laughed at Hitler's joke, how can you be the
hit the h Man and Buddy Hackett at the same time.
I wasn't planning to watch, but OMG, Trump owns them.
That's Joe and Weymouth's mass JT and Livermore to the
(32:47):
other end of the country on the topic of friends
versus allies. To put it bluntly, this is on the
topic of Tariff's Trump is sick and tired of America
giving so many friends discounts to our allies.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
That's a great way to put it, JT.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
This is consistent with his first term, in which you
have bad mouthed NAFTA during his campaign negotiating to Madi,
I'm sorry, a modified version before ending his first term.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
It isn't just trade.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Trump is also tired of the US footing a disproportionates
sheriff costs for NATO, wto the WHO and the UN,
to say nothing of being the world's policeman, particularly on
the open seas. Yeah, there's more, and it's very good,
but I think we'll leave it there. For the longest time,
the US led World Order included, hey, we will give
you a friend's discount for you know, cooperating and because
(33:36):
we're way richer and mightier than you are, and that'll
lift you up and blah blah blah. And Trump's point
of view is that era needs to end. You know,
you might debate it, but it's not crazy. Moving along,
Tariffs go both ways. Nate points out, now we're in
the tariff discussion. From y'all, did I hear anything about
tariffs on goods from the USA, the countries like Canada
(33:56):
and Mexico have. Canada has insane tariffs on US items
for decades.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
That's what needs to go away. Level the playing field
on tariffs.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
That's the next step of reciprocal tariffs that Trump's talking about.
Nothing more interesting than tariff. You know I'm gonna do
this one.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
This is going to effect every one of our lives.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Got a great note on the gender versus sex thing
coming up, But Charlotte sent along part of a homily
that's like a sermon for Catholics. It's ash Wednesday during Lent,
and his homily was about silence, and she included some
(34:38):
of the quotes which I am going to read you now.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I mean, just pause in this one for a second.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
How can I ever know what I think if I'm
always putting someone else's thoughts in my mind? If I
always have to listen to a podcast, well, just listen
to ours, and you know call it good. Always have
to listen to someone else's song, someone else's music, someone
else's thoughts.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
How can I ever know what I think if.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I'm constantly listening to someone else's thoughts. If I can't
be alone with my own thoughts, then how will I
ever know what I actually think? Again, the furnace reveals,
and the furnace trains. That's the reference to something earlier.
The tribulation reveals, and the tribulation trains. The speech reveals,
but the silence reveals too, and the silence trains.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
So here's the invitation.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Saint jose Maria s Crevai in the book the way
he said it like that, he said, quote silence is
the doorkeeper of the interior life, which means I have
to actually walk through this doorway if I'm ever going
to know, if I'm ever going to become the person
I am. I wonder if that's why meditation is so
important to me. H makes sense because I've thought, how
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did I live my whole life without it? Because now
if I skip it, it's just I can absolutely tell, Well,
I didn't used to occupy my brain with a podcast
or a screen every moment of the day, So maybe
I didn't need it as bad. Now I at least
get that twenty minutes where I'm in silence. Yeah, I
believe in being quote unquote bored for a chunk of
(36:03):
every day. I think it's really important. Again, if you
were enjoying a three screen experience and didn't quite catch it.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Blah blah, blah blah blah. Here's your takeaway.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Silence is the doorkeeper of the interior life. Yeah, you
had your TV on, why you were listening to us
and you were checking your phone exactly so you might
have missed that.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Highlights from the speech last night? Ooh significant? Maybe entertaining? Definitely?
Can you believe a bear got in? How did they
let that happen?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
It's amazing Armstrong and Getty
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